Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 156, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 July 1914 — HOME TOWN HELPS [ARTICLE]

HOME TOWN HELPS

CO-OPERATE FOR MODEL CITY Civic Organization* and High School Boys Doing Splendid Work at Reading, Pa.

Reading, Pa., has a number of civic organizations, such as the Woman’s club, Cific league, civic division of the Woman’s club and the Reading Kindergarten association, and all have accomplished noble work. But the youngest workers, and probably the most enthusiastic in this sphere, are the members of the high school for boys, who belong to the civic classes, and who are under the instruction and direction of Prof. S. H. Ziegler, one of the city’s greatest enthusiasts for a more beautiful Reading, a cleaner, better, larger city been teaching and preaching at almost every recitation civic pride, uhtil the noble work of the boys has been recognized by the former board of trade, and the state board of education has taken an interest in what they have accoqaplished and set out to accomplish. City officials and the chamber of commerce give them encouragement, so that there are almost 100 boys from freshman to seniors who are peeping into every nook and corner of the city, Into alleys and byways and around corners and over, fences to see If they can find something that ought to be removed.

Practically every member has a paper pad in his Inside coat frocket and a kodak in the outer pocket when they make their trips of investigation, and as things appear before their eyes they are noted in the book or pictured on the film, so that they have a twofold record which will bear them out when they make reports as to the necessity for immediate remedies or Improvements.