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162
234
285
278
289
264
2,289
2.150
2,271
2,306
2,321
2,295
Town of Rowley
377,700
410,800
417,400
450,100
442,000
481,900
Town Buildings
72,005
154,126
74,082
62,368
85,123
78,337
Water Dept. pumping
120,560
124,240
133,880
138,640
134,030
133,306
Street lighting
238,760
244,390
280,920
283,169
211,970
231.390
Station light and power
163.087
171,504
181,252
183,786
171,749
253.394
Commercial light
316,870
377,767
Commercial power
674,870
571,197
1.074.330
1.389,706
2,369,381
3.487.578
Domestic 'lighting
1,074.340
1.193.717
1,301,825
1,412,388
1,494.076
1,510,190
3,038,192
3,247,741
3.436,689
3.920,157
4.908.329
6.176,095
Kilowatts unaccounted for
503.935
376,658
542,299
698.543
608.220
894,305
Kilowatt hours generated
3,542.127
3,624,399
3,978,988
4,618,700
5.516,549
7,070,400
ELECTRIC LIGHT DEPARTMENT Balance Sheet as of December 31, 1943 EXHIBIT A
Assets
Liabilities and Surplus
Fixed Assets :
Notes Payable
$ 2,000.00
Plant Investment General Equipment
760.51
Interest Accrued 2.92
Current Assets :
Loans Repayment
235,000.00
Cash $32.103.08
Special Deposits
4,910.17
Profit and Loss Balance
230,895.17
Accounts Receivable
19,093.36
Material and Supplies 7,430.94
Depreciation
52,670.72
116,208.27
$474,319.32
$474,319.32
Plant Investment Accounts as of December 31, 1943
Land
$ 684.00
Structures
57,828.59
Internal Combustion Engines
148,123.09
Electric Auxiliaries
17,741.80
Transformer station and regulators
17,088.80
Poles, fixtures and overhead conductors
51.861.39
Undergound conductors 7,741.54
Consumers meters and installation
19,599.35
Line transformers and installation 28,831.72
Street Lighting equipment
7.850.26
$357,350.54
$357,350.54
Special Deposits
4,910.17
Construction Appropriation Repaid
1.511.06
STATEMENT OF INCOME AND EXPENSES Year Ending December 31, 1943 EXHIBIT B
Operating Income
$ 132,462.86
Metered sales to Private Consumers
19.007.38
Municipal revenues
$151,470.24
Operating. Expenses
Station labor
$ 16,698.46
Engine fuel
44,299.63
Lubricants
2,607.70
· Misc. station supplies & expenses
434.20
Maintenance of station structures
45.83
Maintenance of engines
1,413.60
Maintenance of electrical equipment 170.30
Maintenance of Auxiliaries 61.37
Maintenance of outside lines & meters
12,523.18
Maintenance of street light system
2,311.02
Commercial salaries
2,495.39
Salaries of Manager & commission
1,975.00
General office supplies & expenses
1,579.87
Insurance
1,563.21
Transportation expense
2,290.90
Depreciation
25,252.67
115,722.33
Gross income for the year
$ 35,747.91
Interest paid on notes
117.72
Net income transferred to profit & loss
$ 35,630.19
ELECTRIC LIGHT DEPARTMENT
EXHIBIT C
PROFIT AND LOSS STATEMENT
Dr.
Cr.
Notes paid Paid to Town Treasurer in Lieu of Taxes
$
7,000.00
13,838.32
Credit Balance Jan. 1, 1943 $216,103.30 Credit for Year 1943 as Profit (Exhibit B) 35,630.19
Balance from Exhibit A as Profit in the Liability and Surplus Account 230,895.17
$251,733.49
$251,733.49
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ELECTRIC LIGHT STATEMENT
Elwyn F. McCarthy, Treasurer
1943
Dr.
Cr.
To amounts received :
By paid :
Domestic Light $ 53,285.46 Orders $ 91,061.84
Domestic Light- Little Neck 2,419.30
Notes
7,000.00
Interest 142.50
Refunds
1,638.05
Commercial Light 79,066.38
Town Buildings 2,076.56
Water Pumping
2,423.26
Miscellaneous 390.68
Town of Rowley 9,250.10
Refund
10.46
$148,922.20
Street Lighting Appropriation 5,200.00
$154,122.20
Balance January 1, 1943
16,914.26
$171,036.46
$ 99,842.39
Transferred to De- preciation Fund 25,252.67
Transferred to Maturing Debt by vote of Town 13,838.32
$138,933.38
Balance December 31, 1943 32,103.08
$171,036.46
ELECTRIC LIGHT DEPARTMENT
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ELECTRIC LIGHT DEPARTMENT
The Collector has the following bills for collection:
Domestic Light $4,164.62
Town Buildings
98.48
Commercial Light
1,405.08
Miscellaneous 170.71
Little Neck
210.81
Commitment December 31, 1943
$ 6.049.70
13.847.90
$19.897.60
DEPRECIATION FUND
1943
Amount of fund January 1, 1943
$27,418.05
Transferred from Operating Cash Account 1943 25,252.67
$52.670.72
SPECIAL ACCOUNTS
Electric Light Meter Deposit Account 1943
Amount deposited in Ipswich Savings Bank
January 1, 1943
$4,709.42
Meters
334.79
Income
117.91
$5,162.12
Refunds
251.95
$4,910.17
ELECTRIC LIGHT DEPARTMENT LOONS
Sold to Inst. Savings Newburyport
Amount
Rate
Date of Issues No. Notes Matures
$2,000.00
31/2 %
June 15, 1934
1 1944
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ELECTRIC LIGHT DEPARTMENT
Year
Total K. W.H.
K. W.H. used for Street lights
Town paid for Street lights
Cost per K. W.H.
output
to average Domestic Consumer
1924
584568
97445
$10,834.00
.12
1925
662012
103855
11,014.00
.12
1926
716949
115760
11,172.00
.11
1927
833290
115265
10,990.00
.10
1928
949064
156623
11,096.00
.09
1929
1093897
231550
9,700.00
.09
1930
1417658
239820
12,100.00
.071/2
1931
1634098
219140
10,000.00
.071/2
1932
1593265
222650
- 10,340.00
.071/2
1933
1718691
227300
10,000.00
.051/2
1934
1898632
225810
10,000.00
.051/2
1935
2091934
226350
8,700.00
.051/2
1936
274467
232400
8,000.00
051/2
1937
3034658
225520
7,300.00
.04
1938
3038192
238760
6,000.00
.04
1939
3247741
244390
6,200.00
.04
1940
3436689
245000
5,600.00
.04
1941
3920157
283169
6,400.00
.04
1942
4908329
211970
5,800.00
.04
1943
6176095
231390
5,200.00
.033/4
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ELECTRIC LIGHT DEPARTMENT
Returned to Town
Outstand-
Total cost
Value of
ing
of
Plant after
to Reduce Taxes
Debt
Plant
Depreciation
$
$45,000.00
$125,276.38
$107,695.59
39,150.00
133,349.10
112,010.31
33,300.00
140,657.19
113,984.44
67,450.00
195,197.57
175,581.82
58,600.00
203,922.10
179,591.43
50,750.00
215,639.52
192,304.29
78,900.00
277,451.34
269,998.22
78,550.00
282,868.58
269,805.93
66,700.00
297,997.87
278,859.17
3,000.00
54,850.00
301,529.83
272,980.19
68,000.00
301,208.27
266,375.84
55,500.00
316,605.60
273,250.96
38,000.00
332,321.40
278,620.63
8,800.00
56,500.00
404,881.65
340,363.28
10,000.00
45,000.00
409,547.26
332,882.44
11,000.00
33,500.00
418,265.14
329,313.90
11,000.00
23,000.00
428,583.67
329,355.94
11,000.00
16,000.00
485,351.82
376,990.39
8,161.68
9,000.00
505,053.48
380,034.06
13,838.32
2,000.00
505,053.48
357,350.54
76,800.00
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ELECTRIC LIGHT DEPARTMENT
ELECTRIC LIGHT DEPARTMENT
Many new records were made during the year 1943 by the Electric Light Department. There was an increase of KWH sold of 23% over the year 1942. This 23% represented over one and a half million KWH. The KWH sold in 1943 were just double the amount sold in 1938. five years before. On ac- count of the war it has not always been found easy to obtain the necessary materials and labor to keep all phases of the opera- tion of the plant running smoothly. There have been. however. very few interruptions in the supply and in most cases these interruptions have been caused by forces beyond our control. such as falling limbs of trees. etc.
Production costs have risen very materially. especially the cost of fuel oil. for which we paid 412 cents per gallon in 1938 and for which the cost in 1943 was 734 cents per gallon. However. the increased amount of electricity sold has enabled the department to not only meet these increased costs but also to allow a reduction in the cost of electricity to certain types of consumers. It is our hope in the near future to make other adjustments in the rate schedules. especially to the commercial consumers.
The department returned to the Town for the reduction of taxes for 1943 the sum of $13.838.32 which was the equivalent of a reduction in the tax rate of $2.00 per $1.000.00. During the last seven years a total of $70.000.00 has been re- turned to the Town for this purpose.
The net value of the electric plant after depreciation is $357.350.54 and the outstanding debt is $2.000.00 which is payable in June 1944. The cash in the depreciation account has been increased to $52.670. 72.
So the Town has an electric department with a value of $357,350.54 practically free of debt with one of the lowest
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sets of rates in the State, with a cash depreciation reserve of $52,670.72 and as of December 31, 1943 a cash balance of $32,103.08.
We make the following recommendation in regard to this balance:
$18,000.00 for the purchase of War Bonds to be used after the war for rehabilitation work.
11,000.00 for the reduction of the 1944 tax levy.
3,103.08 to be returned to the Electric Depart- ment for construction purposes.
WATER DEPARTMENT
The new water supply from the underground wells was ready for operation and turned into the system in April 1943. Both the quantity and quality of this new water has far ex- ceeded our hopes. Even in the middle of the summer season when there is the greatest demand for water the supply remain- ing in the wells would indicate that we could have used double the amount and still the wells would not have been exhausted.
We have been unable to make any new extensions to the water system and very few new services on account of the restrictions placed on the use of materials by the War Pro- duction Board. The department has several extensions in mind which will have to wait until the end of the war and which might well be used in connection with rehabilitation work.
JAMES EDWIN COLE, JR. ALEXANDER B. C. MULHOLLAND GEORGE E. HODGKINS Water and Light Commission.
CHARLES A. MALLARD, Manager.
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ELECTRIC LIGHT DEPARTMENT
RATES IN EFFECT JANUARY 1. 1944
Domestic Service
5 c per KWH for the first 25 KWH per month
4 c per KWH for the next 25 KWH per month
3 c per KWH for the next 100 KWH per month
2 c per KWH for all over 150 KWH per month
Minimum charge 50c per month.
10 per cent discount, except on minimum bills, if payment is received on or before the 20th day of the month. No discount allowed when arrears are due.
Commercial Service
5 c per KWH for the first 50 KWH per month
4 c per KWH for the next 300 KWH per month
3 c per KWH for the next 500 KWH per month
21/2 c per KWH for the next 1000 KWH per month
21/4 c per KWH for the next 10000 KWH per month
2 c per KWH for all over 11850 KWH per month
Minimum charge $1.00 per month for the first H.P. or fraction thereof of connected load and 50c per month for each additional H.P.
10 per cent discount, except on minimum bills, if pay- ment is received on or before the 20th day of the month.
No discount allowed when arrears are due.
TOWN OF IPSWICH
Annual Report of the
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
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THE BIRTHPLACE OF AMERICAN INBIPDOENCE
For The Year
1943
STANLEY A. HULL PRINTING COMPANY
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SCHOOL COMMITTEE
Term Expires
WILLIAM F. HAYES
1946
GEORGE H. BOUCHARD
1946
PAUL R. RAUPACH
1945
DR. FREDERICK C. WILDER
1945
JAMES R. MARSH 1944
HERMAN W. KYES 1944
WILLIAM F. HAYES . Chairman FRANK L. COLLINS, M.D. School Physician
MURIEL E. RILEY, R.N. School Nurse
Sub-Committees of School Committee
Playground . Dr. Wilder
Athletics Mr. Marsh and Mr. Raupach Finance Mr. Marsh and Mr. Kyes
Textbooks and Teachers. Mr. Raupach and Dr. Wilder Supplies Mr. Bouchard and Mr. Kyes
Buildings and Grounds. Mr. Bouchard and Mr. Kyes
Transportation
Mr. Raupach and Dr. Wilder
Insurance
Mr. Marsh and Mr. Bouchard
The Chairman of the School Committee is ex-officio a member of all sub-committees.
.
HARRY S. MERSON. . Superintendent and Purchasing Agent ELIZABETH WITHAM Secretary OFFICE Manning School Building
OFFICE HOURS School Days from 3:30 to 5:00 and by appointment
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SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT
To the School Committee of Ipswich :
I have the honor to present to you, and through you to the citizens of Ipswich, this annual report on the schools of Ipswich for the calendar year 1943.
In our annual report for 1942, we listed seven changes in the teaching staff. Since that time the following teachers have left the service permanently or for the duration of their service in the armed forces :
Mrs. Alice (Yagjian) Der Hagopian, teacher of commer- cial subjects in the high school, resigned in February to make her home in Chelsea.
Miss Margaret Phelan, for ten years a teacher in the upper elementary grades, left the School Department in March to enter the W.A.V.E.S.
Mr. Charles Motyka, instructor in industrial arts, resigned at the close of school in June.
Mrs. Katherine (Blood) Hills, for nineteen years a teacher in the high school, resigned in August to be married.
Miss Helen Brown, teacher of commercial subjects in the high school, received a military leave of absence in July to enter the W.A.V.E.S.
Miss Florence Robbins, teacher in the high school, having accepted a commission in the W.A.V.E.S., did not renegoti- ate her contract with the School Department in June.
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Mr. Robert D. Conary, who had served for twenty-one years as teacher of science and coach of athletics in the high school, left on military leave in June to accept a commission in the Army Air Force.
Mr. James Burke, who for fourteen years had taught science and algebra and assisted in athletics in the high school, resigned to accept a teaching position in Torrington, Connecticut.
Miss Corrinne Paine, who substituted in the School De- partment during the second half of the school year 1942-1943, is now teaching in Brookline.
Mrs. Miriam (Hayman) Donegan, teacher in the primary grades as a war-time substitute since her marriage, left the School Department in October to move to California.
Mrs. Nellie (Sojka) Johnston resigned in October to be married. On her return to Ipswich, however, she was re- engaged as a war-time substitute.
As a result of these resignations, the following appoint- ments have been made :
Mrs. Sophie Pszenny, a former teacher in the Ipswich schools, was engaged as a war-time substitute and assigned to Grade VII.
Mr. Richard Blake, who took his Bachelor's degree at Massachusetts State College, and his master's at Boston Uni- versity, and who had taught for two years at Wells River, Vermont, was engaged to teach the sciences in the high school.
Mr. Robert Burgess, who had taught industrial arts for fifteen years at Mansfield, Massachusetts, was engaged to direct the activities in the high school shop.
Miss Josephine Connor, graduate of Boston University, class of 1942, who had taught English for one year at Win- chester, New Hampshire, was engaged and assigned to the high school.
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Miss Florence Machaj, a graduate of the local schools, and Miss Rosa Lee Hajinlian, both of the class of 1943 of the commercial teachers department of the State Teachers' Col- lege at Salem, were engaged to teach commercial subjects in the high school.
Mr. John Heiden, graduate of Springfield College, whose experience had been in Boys' Club work in Springfield and in Boston, was engaged in October to take charge of the pro- gram of physical education and athletics in the high school.
Miss Antoinette Pepe, primary department major in the class of 1943 at the State Teachers' College at Bridgewater, was engaged by the School Department in November and was assigned to the primary department at the Winthrop School.
MILITARY LEAVES OF ABSENCE
At date of the writing of this report, the following five teachers are serving in the armed services on military leaves of absence from their positions in the School Department :
Mr. Bertram Bennett Mr. Frederick Pickard Mr. Robert D. Conary Miss Margaret Phelan Miss Helen Brown
In order to comply with the terms of the General Laws, it is necessary for the committee to plan against the day when these teachers, discharged from the service, may request reinstatement in active service in the School Department. To meet this contingency the Department has established a policy of placing in service military substitutes, wherever suitable appointments can be made within the limitations of our salary schedule.
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THE HIGH SCHOOL
In our annual report for 1943, we outlined the steps which the school had taken to adjust its offerings to the needs of pupils in a nation at war. Though we listed new courses in the curriculum, we pointed out that the changes were mostly in emphasis in courses that have been tradi- tionally offered, rather than in the setting up of courses with new names. That policy is still being pursued.
Since that report was submitted, however, a number of factors have conspired to complicate the problem of main- taining continuity in the school program. The most har- rassing of these is the change in teaching personnel. For a variety of reasons there has been a turn-over in teachers in the high school of fifty per cent since September 1942. Each of these changes has entailed some readjustment in the school program, and with each there has been an inevitable lag in the effectiveness of the school during the period of the teacher's adjustment of his methods to the objectives of the school and to the background of his pupils.
This difficulty has been countered first by the favorable ratio of pupils to teachers which a declining enrollment has made possible; second, to the elimination from the enrollment, through natural causes, of the majority of those who were but marking time until they could find jobs in a depressed indus- try; third, to the sincere effort which each teacher, without exception, is exerting, beyond the scope even of duty, toward the cooperative solution of problems as they arise.
Since the law on universal military service was extended to include boys eighteen years of age or over, a number of our pupils have entered the Service before completing their
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high school course. Toward such cases the school has felt a real obligation, to provide not only credit for completed academic work, but also stimulus for the continuance of study after the pupil has been admitted into the armed services. A policy has been formulated therefore,to cover this condi- tion. A boy who is a regularly enrolled senior in good stand- ing at the time of his admission into the service will be awarded his diploma at the time of the graduation of his class. Last June eight boys were awarded their diplomas under the terms of this arrangement.
In the case of other boys, who for any reason have failed to complete work which would entitle them to enter the senior class, arrangements can be made, and have been, to have work completed at Army or Navy Study Institutes applied as credit toward the completion of high school courses. A system is also being devised for the translation of work in certain spe- cialized fields in the Army or Navy into academic credit toward graduation.
In addition to those entering the armed services before completing their course, two of our senior boys were admitted into New England colleges in January last year. Both did creditable work; one made the college honor roll. Each was duly awarded his high school diploma in June.
Though a number of our high school pupils have left school to go to work, the vast majority of those who are over sixteen are attempting to carry some regular employment in addition to their school work. The accompanying table, show- ing the number of work certificates issued from the Super- intendent's office during the year, indicates this graphically. This is an admirable thing and we have no desire to do any- thing but encourage it. We cannot but be aware, however, of the tendency of the young to overestimate their physical endurance, sometimes to the detriment of their health. We
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submit that the attendance at schools and the successful ac- complishment of the work consequent thereto, is itself a job of reasonable proportions. To carry twenty-four hours of outside work a week in addition requires of the average ado- lescent a thorough and well supervised budgeting of time for recreation, for study, and for work.
The school has been concerned to provide some guidance in these matters, adjusting courses where it seemed feasible, and providing study periods in school time. It should be added, that in its efforts in this direction, the school has received nothing but the most active cooperation from the employing firms in the community.
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With reference to the general organization of the school. I submit the following data showing the subjects taught and the number of pupils enrolled in each subject for the school year of 1943:
Number of Pupils Enrolled
Subject
Number of Pupils Enrolled 143
Subject Music History and
English I
76
Appreciation
40
English III
8.5
Band
30
English IV
64
Orchestra
14
General Science
68
Freehand Drawing 38
Biology
43
Foods I 46
21
College Preparatory
24
Foods III
8
Chemistry-General
18
Nutrition
6
Aeronautics
18
Clothing I
46
Ancient History
21
Clothing II
21
Medieval and Modern History
20
Child Care
12
U. S. History and Civics
92
Bookkeeping I
50
Economics
21
Bookkeeping II
11
Algebra I
148
Typewriting I
51
Algebra II
62
Typewriting II
21
Plane Geometry
61
Typewriting III
22
Solid Geometry
12
Stenography I
27
Trigonometry
16
Stenography II
17
Latin I
21
Secretarial Practice
11
Caesar-Latin II
10
Commercial Arithmetic I
42
Cicero-Latin III and IV
6
Commercial Geography
63
French I
40
Mechanical Drawing
60
French II
25
Woodworking
70
French III
S
Printing
16
Physical Education
369
Physics-
Choral Music
60
College Preparatory 12
·
Foods II
Chemistry --
Home Decoration
12
English II
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THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS
In the elementary schools the year's work has progressed without major interruption, for in this department the changes in the teaching staff have been relatively few. The major adjustment has been in the upper elementary grades, where Mr. Pickard's entrance into the armed services left the school without a man to direct the athletic activities of the boys. This work, which is now limited to participation in basket- ball, has been taken over by Miss Reilly and Miss Ciolek, teachers in the junior high school. It is a task that demands of a woman experience and consummate tact. That six teams of boys from grades seven and eight are participating with enthusiasm three afternoons a week in the Manning Hall, is evidence of the skill with which the assignment is being handled.
Last year, it will be remembered, the schools were organ- ized to provide a complete elementary school program, com- prising Grades I through VI, in each of three sections of the town. The table accompanying this report, showing the num- ber of pupils in the town by school and grade, reveals an equitable distribution of pupils between teachers in the several sections of the town.
Some of the teaching techniques which are being em- ployed in the classrooms, I have described in previous reports. These techniques, judging from scores on standardized tests, appear to be producing satisfactory results toward the mastery of so-called tool subjects. To produce these results there is on every level in the schools, of course, inevitable drill and repetitious practice without which a skill, physical or mental. can never be perfected. But there is something more. Most of our teachers are acting on the philosophy that education is
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more than a process of absorbing information passively and by rote. Its starting point is rather an experience; its end, the opening of a door to a new world which the pupil is better able to explore because of his familiarity with the world of his previous experience.
All the results of the application of such philosophy are not measurable by scores on a given standardized test - though some of them are. You see evidences of its effects rather in a youngster's obvious physical delight in the cadence and imagery of a simple poem: his wonder at the effect of the coming of spring on what was yesterday a barren hillside ; his awe in the presence of the controlled power of a great machine ; his satisfaction in his molding of obdurate materials cunningly to the form of his design: his humility in the pres- ence of an heroic human action. Such experiences are the real beginnings of education, and their result is reflected in the changes that occur in the child's interests. attitudes, and enthusiasms.
The best evidence we have. for example, that our reading program is successful is the fact that the circulation of chil- dren's books from the Ipswich Public Library exceeds the circulation of any other category of books. Our children ap- parently not only learn to read, but to like reading.
To provide opportunities for such experiences on the level of the child's development is the highest function of the teacher, and most of the mechanics of organization, usually associated with a school, are but measures for bringing the teacher and pupil together.
Certainly if familiar experiences be the starting point of education, a school misses an opportunity if it does not use the community in which a person lives as a mine of educational materials. It is our contention that to be a proper citizen of the world, a man should know intimately at least one small section of the earth. He should know it, from having walked
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over it and slept on it, and dug into it in play and in work. He should have learned the mystery of its streams, the romance of its beaches, and the odd historic names of its islands and its coves. The trees that are indigenous to his land should be as familiar to him as are the habits of the wild life that inhabit its woodlands.
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