ACIVOS The source of this uncorrected OCR text may be viewed as a digital facsimile at: http://fax.libs.uga.edu/ BOOKS OF GOODWILL VOLUME TWO BOOKS OF GOODWILL VOLUME TWO ACROSS BORDERLINES COMPILED BY FLORENCE BREWER BOECKEL A book of 150 pages, having a designed cover in colors, and 16 full-page illustra tions, for young people of high-school age. TABLE OF CONTENTS Foreword by Dr. Augustus O. Thomas Stories and Articles Poems Pageants and Plays Tableaux and Music Songs Projects for the Observance of Goodwill Day Subjects for Discussion and the Essays Opportunities for Friends Around the World List of Books Volume One, "Through the Gateway," contains similar material for children. to ta\e from the love of country but to add to it" Our great-grandfathers lived in a world which in its external conditions was more like the world of six thousand years ago than like that of today. This book calls attention interestingly and dramati' cally to the fact that the habits of mind and habits of living which made for a happy and valuable life under the old conditions do not under the new. It suggests the adventure and opportunity which lie ahead of the young people today in making our individual, national, and international habits of life fit an interdependent world. " They are the best things of the kind yet issued. We are com mending them unreservedly."—Mrs. Jeannette W. Emrich, Com mission on International Justice and Goodwill, Federal Council of Churches, New York City. "It is a book of methods and suggestions which every worker among boys who believes in a better world should possess. "— F. B. Lenz. Foreign Committee of the Y. M. C. A., New York City. "I have used both volumes of the Books of Goodwill on many occasions and find them full of rarely fine material. They have furnished themes for my classes at school, for my work in the church school, and for help in the department of promotion of peace in the W. C. T. U. These volumes ought to be in every school for general reading, to develop the world-needed spirit of goodwill and friendship. "—Mrs. Ellen J. Haltzinger. Ridley Park, Pa. BOOKS OF GOODWILL, VOL. I AND VOL. II NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR PREVENTION OF WAR ______ _ _ _ _IQ2Q 532 SEVENTEENTH STREET N. W. WASHINGTON, D. C. For the enclosed $........................, please send ..........copies of "THROUGH THE GATEWAY" $......„..„....„„._. $33 per hundred; 50 cents a single copy ............copies of "ACROSS BORDERLINES" ........................ $5:0 per hundred; 75 cents a single copy ............sets (Vol. I and Vol. II.) $i per single set ........................ Street___________________-__-_ City_______________________State. "Sun and itflJtÜ and beat of sea, Great lands stretching endlessly— Where be bonds to bind the free? All the world 9 In England Christmas gets as hearty a welcome as anywhere in all the world and the old are as gay as the young. Every house has candles in its windows. Children and "waits" dressed in fancy costume go from door to door and sing the Christmas carols that all the world has learned to sing with them. Holly is everywhere, and plum puddings and bowls of nuts and apples, for Christmas means feasting. But the great event is bringing in the \ulelog: Come, bring with a noise, My merry, merry boys, The Christmas log to be firing: While my good dame. She bids you all be free And feast to your heart's desiring! And while the Yule log burns there are games and songs and Christmas stories! This is one of eight cards showing the Christmas customs of many lands NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR PREVENTION OF WAR, Washington, D. C. IN FRANCE THEY CALL "TOYEUXNOELl" ON CHRISTMAS MORNING Con*t»t>c« Lan« Perhaps because Santa Claus conies from Holland where wooden shoes are worn, and the children in France live near enough to know these things, or perhaps indeed because they themselves sometimes wear Dutch shoes, French children do not hang their stockings from the mantle, but set out- wooden shoes in front of the fire and find their gifts in these. Instead of Christmas trees the children make great Christmas hoops of greens and' bright berries and hang them in the center of the room. And they build a little model scene of Christ's birthplace and put it in a window or on a table where they can stand by it and recite Christmas poems. And always near the fireplace a saucer of milk is set out so no cat need go hungry, for there is an old story, (.hough no one any longer believes it, that it is bad luck to have cats mewing on Christmas Eve ! The way their words for "Merry Christmas" are pronounced is something like this—j wah yerno ell! This is one of eight cards showing the Christmas customs of many lands. NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR PREVENTION or WAR, Washington, D. C. is the Hörne oi the CHRISTMASTREt, to it:"O HemlocKTree.O HemlocVi education, and her jpecif '• duty would be to interest the members in the school, and to solicit contribu tions for it. Should Instruct Delegates. „ n^-^mSSwK6—Phasls cannot be laid uponTHr-mpbrtance of sending dele gates instructed to the convention« They should know the amount they are expected to pledge the school fecholarships represent $100 each rmd are given usually by clubs? other oïgS- ^^"-^e^^Attrou^àS^0 of young women n,i ° "Sanizatl o given scholarships this year In numbers, the school is flourishing more than seventy-five having been en rolled in September, and the future ha.» never been more promising. luture has Your director and board of managers and two of the state school supervisors are working closely together. rvlsors A schedule for the industrial essi-y equipment, both for the school ?1 3?^,% was added- The walls of both buildings were done over On an appointed "work day" the " nntrcvnB built a small barn. One feat ^ortnv of mention was the building of a drive way up the steep mountain side from Ubl and a numner or me scholarship pupils will .remain in charge to carry on-the work. Needs of the School. A car of coal and three heating stoves for the three class rooms are imperative needs. These will cost $155. Miss Alien, the principal, urges two milch cows as one of the greatest -neeâs;——— A well, with gasoline engine to pump water, must be provided before water can be installed in the cottage. Cloak closets should be built in the 'back hall of the school, and simple §5k cases, with glass doors, should be added in the school auditorium. A library of value can never be collected until books are put in cases provided with locks and one person is placed in charge. Under the present conditions this cannot be done. Good books, subscriptions to maga zines and papers are needed, is Deeded1 laundry Properly equipped For the industrial work and for play grounds more land is a necessity, and for the latter, play apparatus. A three compartment fireless cooker and a sewing machine were purchased last month. Sewing, cooking and cabinet wood- School wok!" Part °r *** »bribed Mrs. M. A. Lipsccmib, the former di rector, turned over to me $533.36 be longing to the scholarship fund This amount, supplemented by other °-ifts provides for the eleven scholarship, pupils for th.i present school term Of this sum she and her son and daughter Mr. and Mrs. Rutherford Lipscomb' gave two scholarships. Of the maintenance fund Mrs Lips- comb gave me a balance of $162.84. LacSs of Fund«. _ In taking up the duties of «îirector I find the work seriously handicapped bv the lack of money to pay thfi running expenses From the maintenance fund the teachers' salaries oï $160 each month are paid. From this fund all improvements and repairs are made and all necessary equipment for both buildings is provided, and all incidental expenses are paid, m fact, every dof- lar spent comes from this fund except the living expenses of the scholarship pupils, which are paid out of the schol- arship fund. -Of the 246 clubs belonging to the State Federation, only 80 hav? pledged anything for the school's support. Of the number pledged, 30 have paid The Federated clubs of Savannah, without an exception, are contributors to the school. The State Association tor Education of Georgia Mountaineers, ÏÏS" *?' B- C. Morgan is presi- gressive methods of rural education " ° A number of garden tools have been purchased, as all of the childrcL are being given practical instruction in the school gardens. Strawberry plants, frost-proc cabbage plants and onions were planted in the late fall, and a hot bed has been finished. Poultry rais- "*•"-«• «.tu« u^^,ii i.j.j.j.j.».in3u.. sr u ni LI y FUIS— mg. dairying and a small apple orchard will all be added when money is pro vided for the necessary buildings and fences. It is also our plan not to close the cottage through the summer, if the finances'make it Dossible. One teacher af?PteaÄherS Wil1 have ™°re tm took after the community interests It is A'fnr1™ oreanl2e a home ~ C. The ^UJorldwide Competition A CITIZEN of New York made an offer of $1,200 to be awarded •L*- to the writers of the twelve best essays on world heroes. The competition was in no sense intended to be and in no sense was a referendum of high-school students of this country or of students in schools of comparable grade in other countries. Each school that elected to participate in the study project was allowed to choose and send to the Committee of Award a list of twelve names of those the school considered most worthy to be remembered for heroic service to humanity of a permanent character. The school was also allowed to send in an essay on each of the heroes it had chosen. It is estimated that about a thousand schools and a half-million students took some part in the study, in the selection of names of heroes, and in the essay-writing. After many eliminations because of failure to meet the conditions, 563 schools were registered as eligible to have their school votes counted. Of these schools, 195 were in the United States of America and 368 were in other countries. A total of approximately 6,800 school votes was registered. If it is assumed that the participating schools had an average of 500 students each, then these 6,800 school votes represented a total of approximately 3,400',000 student votes cast by approximately 282,000 students. The 6,800 school votes were cast for 609 different candi dates. The twelve names selected were those that received the highest number of votes. On the fourth page of the Portfolio cover the names of the heroes are arranged according to the number of school votes each character received. 'The ^Prize £ssays THE essays came from nearly all countries of Europe—England, Belgium, France, Germany, Austria, Latvia, Estonia, Finland, Spain, Italy, Rumania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Switzerland, and Greece—as well as from practically every one of the United States, from Canada, Mexico, Porto Rico, Jamaica, the Virgin Islands, Hawaii, the Philippines, Turkey, India, Persia, Morocco, and even from far- off Tasmania. Of all the essays written on the twelve characters chosen by the vote of the students, the twelve printed in the Portfolio are the ones judged to be the best by the Committee of Award composed of inter nationally known educators, editors, and publicists. "Although the members of the Committee of Award had no clue to the origin and authorship of the essays," said Doctor Thomas in announcing the results, "it was gratifying to discover that five of the twelve prizes went to students in foreign countries, and that five of the twelve winning essays were written by girls. It is an interesting and really remarkable coincidence that the prize for the best essay on David Livingstone went to a student in the High School for Girls in Pretoria, South Africa. A girl in the Roman Catholic parochial Academy of the Holy Family in Baltic, Connecticut, won the prize for her essay on Joan of Arc. The High School in Burlington, New Jersey, had the extraordinary distinction of winning two of the twelve prizes. A boy in that school received the prize for his essay on Pasteur, and a girl received the prize for her essay on Lincoln." The names of the students who won the prizes, with the names of their schools, are as follows: LOUIS PASTEUR WILLIAM SCHUYLER PETTIT, High School, Burl- • ington, New Jersey. ABRAHAM LINCOLN ALICE JANE WATSON', High School, Burlington, New Jersey. CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS ALMA KATHRINE FREDERICKSEN, Jefferson High School, Portland, Oregon. GEORGE WASHINGTON VICTOR JULIUS MIDDLETON, Central High School, Grand Rapids, Michigan. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN JOHN E. LAKE, JR., High School, Oskaloosa, Iowa. WOODROW WILSON ALFRED BENNIS JACOB, George School, Bucks Co., Pennsylvania. FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE PRUDENCIA MARIA BRYAN, High School, Agua- dilla, Porto Rico. JOAN OF ARC FLORENCE MILDRED CONNELD, Academy of the Holy Family, Baltic, Connecticut. SOCRATES JACQUES REYNALD, Ecole des Roches, Verneuil- sur-Avre, Eure, France. JOHANN GUTENBERG PAUL EDOUARD PULH, Ecole de la rue Hugo-de- Senger, Plainpalais, Geneva, Switzerland. DAVID LIVINGSTONE KATHLEEN MONTGOMERY, High School for Girls, Pretoria, South Africa. GEORGE STEPHENSON GARABED H. ASSARLUKIAN, American School for Boys, Samokov, Bulgaria. Remarkable Collection of Portraits THE twelve portraits selected to accompany the essays are prob ably the most suitable of all the pictures extant and will be a great inspiration in any home or schoolroom. They were chosen with the expert advice of Mr. DAVID E. ROBERTS, Division of Prints, Library of Congress, Washington, D. C. The engraving was executed in halftone under the personal direction of Mr. J. BENTON WEBB, of Washington, D. C. The origin and history of each picture is given below. Lotus Pasteur—From an etching by Leopold Flameng (1831-1911) after a painting by Albert Edelfeldt (1854-1905). Abraham Lincoln—From a wood-engraving by Thomas Johnson (contemporary), after a photo graph taken by Alexander Hesler in Springfield, 111., June, 1860. Christopher Columbus — From an etching by Henri Emile Lefort (1852—), after an anony mous portrait in the Naval Museum at Madrid, Spain. George Washington — From a lithograph by Rembrandt Peale (1787-1860). Benjamin Franklin — From a photograph of the painting by Joseph Sifrède Duplessis (1725- 1802). By courtesy of Norman T. A. Munder & Co., Baltimore, Md. Woodrow Wilson—From a photograph taken by Harris & Ewing in Washington, D. C., 1912. Florence Nightingale—From a wood-engraving by Timothy Cole (1852—), after a photograph. Joan of Arc—From a photograph of the statue (1863—). The inset is from an old Mainz copy by Henri Michel Antoine Chapu (1833-1891) in of the Strassburg portrait. the Luxembourg Museum. By courtesy of Norman David Lhnngstane—Yrom a wood-engraving, T. A. Munder & Co., Baltimore, Md. after a photograph taken by Thomas Annan, Glas- Socrates—From a photograph of the bust in gow, Scotland, the Louvre in Paris. George Step/iensan—From a mezzotint engrav- Johann Gutenberg—From a photogravure of ing by Charles Turner (1773-1857), after a the painting by Jean Léon Gérome Ferris painting by Henry Perronet Briggs (1791-1844). Two Forms -^ Calendar and ^Portfolio THE Calendar was composed of a cover page and 12 sheets, 11x18 inches, each with the portrait of one of the heroes, the winning essay on that hero, and a calendar plate for the month. All of these sheets, printed in black with a border in color, were held together by a stout binding at the top and provided with a cord for suspending the Calendar against the wall. During the two years, 1927 and 1928, 20,000 copies of this Calendar were sold. It is no longer in print. The Portfolio is composed of 12 separate sheets or posters, 10x15 inches, each with a portrait and essay, beautifully printed in black, and all contained within a heavy brown cover printed in brown ink. The Portfolio pages are exactly like the Calendar pages except for the colored border and calendar plate. All who helped to prepare the Portfolio have cooperated to reduce the price so low as to make this valuable work available to every boy and girl, every Church and public school, every library, every home, every office, in America and in every other country that partici pated in the contest. Single copies of this dignified and beautiful Portfolio may be had at the absurdly low price of 50 cents ; three copies in one -package or multiples of three, at the very special rate of 3 for $1. IJJ/iaf Educational jTeaders Have Said of the Calendar "You are to be congratulated upon issuing such a splendid Calendar which carries a direct visual appeal and should prove an inspiration wherever it can be seen."—MARIE E. GOODENOUGH, Associate Editor, The Educational Screen, Chicago, 111. "The Calendar is beautiful and a very valuable acquisition for anyone. These copies I intend to distribute in the schools of my town."—Senor JÖRGE BIRD ARIAS, Fajardo, Porto Rico. "It is very attractive indeed."—Dr. AUGUSTUS O. THOMAS, former Commissioner of Education of the State of Maine, Augusta, Maine. "It is a very fine Calendar."—FRANCIS G. BLAIR, Superintendent of Public Instruction of the State of Illinois, Springfield, 111., and former President of the National Education Association. "It is a most interesting and valuable document, unique in its inception and a happy carrying out of the idea which it embodies. That it represents the choice of students in so many countries in the world, as to world heroes, indicates a remarkably happy judgment as to their opinion of real heroes. The mechanical execution of the Calendar is most commendable."—Dr. FRANCIS E. CLARK, former President, The World's Christian Endeavor Union, Boston, Mass. "It is very fine."—T. P. HILL, Assistant Superintendent of Education of the State of West Virginia, Charleston, W. Va. "I am delighted with the Calendars of World Heroes. They are splendidly done in every way and I do not see how you manage to sell them at so low a price. They are a credit to your organization and should be a great help to the cause. Please accept my hearty congratulations."—Rt. Rev. G. ASHTON OLDHAM, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Albany, N. Y. A PORTFOLIO OF WORLD HEROES "prepared ty ARTHUR CHARLES WATKINS COMPRISING PORTRAITS OF THE TWELVE HEROIC FIGURES CHOSEN BY STUDENTS FROM SCHOOLS IN MORE THAN THIRTY COUNTRIES AND THE ESSAY ON EACH THAT WON THE PRIZE IN THE COMPETITION OF 1925-1926, INSTITUTED BY CLEMENT M. BIDDLE OF NEW YORK ."$ COMMITTEE OF AWARD AUGUSTUS O. THOMAS, LL.D. Commissioner of Education of the State of Maine and President of the / World Federation of Education Associations Chairman RICHARD BARTHOLDT Former member of the I1 S. Cngrcis -" Former President of the Interparliamentary Union for Pron.j n of International Arbitration ALBERT F.-COYLE Editor of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engine rs' Journal JAMES WILLIAM CRABTREE, M.A. Secretary of ihe National Education Association GLENN FRANK, LL.D. President of the University of Wisconsin DAVID STARR JORDAN, PH.D., LL.D. Chancellor Emeritus of Leland Stanford, Jr., University HENRY NOBLE MAcCRACKEN, PH.D., LL.D. President of Vassar College FRANCIS JOHN McCONNELL, D.D., LL.D. Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church PARKER THOMAS MOON, PH.D. Professor of Political Science in Columbia University JOHN AUGUSTINE RYAN, D.D. Professor of Moral Theology and Industrial Ethics in the Catholic University of America MRS. WILLIAM TILTON Chairman of the Legislative Committee of the National Congress of Parents and Teachers STEPHEN SAMUEL WISE, PH. D., LL.D. Acring President of the Jewish Institute of Religion and Kabbi of the Free Synagogue, New York City Both the writers ana the judges of the essays gave due consideration to the following THREE ESSENTIALS OF HEROISM: NOBILITY or CHARACTER FEARLESS AND SELF-SACRIFICING DEVO TION TO A GREAT CAUSE CONSTRUCTIVE WORK FOR HUMANITY or A PERMANENT CHARACTER Founders of religions atid persons now-Using were excluded from the competition «, — «as» — *• PUBLISHED BV THE WORLD HERO CALENDAR DEPARTMENT ournil for 'Prevention of War 532 SEVENTEENTH STREET, N.W., WASHINGTON, D. C, U. S. A. Composition anj Prtsswork ty NORMAN T. A. MUNDER & Co., INC., Baltimore, Ma. Engraving unser the personal direction of 3. BENTON WEBB of WlLLlAMS-WeBB Co., Washington, D. C. Portrait! sittctta ifith the tooptralion of DAVID E. ROBERTS, Division of Prints, Library of Congress, Ir'aihintton, D. C fJiotografJisfurnisfitJ by UNDERWOOD & UNDERWOOD and HARRIS & EWING, H'aitiinilon, D. C. Story of the cUJorldwide Competition A CITIZEN of New York made an offer of $1,200 to be awarded to the writers of the twelve best essays on world heroes. The competition was in no sense intended to be and in no sense was a referendum of high-school students of this country or of students in schools of comparable grade in other countries. Each school that elected to participate in the study project was allowed to choose and send to the Committee of Award a list of twelve names of those the school considered most worthy to be remembered for heroic service to humanity of a permanent character. The school was also allowed to send in an essay on each of the heroes it had chosen. It is estimated that about a thousand schools and a half-million students took some part in the study, in the selection of names of heroes, and in the essay-writing. After many eliminations because of failure to meet the conditions, 563 schools were registered as eligible to have their school votes counted. Of these schools, 195 were in the United States of America and 368 were in other countries. A total of approximately 6,800 school votes was registered. If it is assumed that the participating schools had an average of 500 students each, then these 6,800 school votes represented a total of approximately 3,400,000 student votes cast by approximately 282,000 students. The 6,800 school votes were cast for 609 different candi dates. The twelve names selected were those that received the highest number of votes. • On the fourth page of the Portfolio cover the names of the heroes are arranged according to the number of school votes each character received. The Twelve "Prize essays THE essays came from nearly all countries of Europe—England, Belgium, France, Germany, Austria, Latvia, Estonia, Finland, Spain, Italy, Rumania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Switzerland, and Greece—as well as from practically every one of the United States, from Canada, Mexico, Porto Rico, Jamaica, the Virgin Islands, Hawaii, the Philippines, Turkey, India, Persia, Morocco, and even from far- off Tasmania; • • • • • Of all the essays written on the twelve characters chosen by the vote of the students, the twelve printed in the Portfolio are the ones judged to be the best by the Committee of Award composed of inter nationally known educators, editors, and publicists. "Although the. members of the Committee of Award had no clue to the origin and authorship of the essays," said Doctor Thomas in announcing the results, "it was gratifying to discover that five of the twelve prizes went to students in foreign countries, and that five of the twelve winning essays were written by girls. It is an interesting and really remarkable coincidence that the prize for the best essay on David Livingstone went to a student in the High School for Girls in Pretoria, South Africa. A girl in the Roman Catholic parochial Academy of the Holy Family in Baltic, Connecticut, won the prize for her essay on Joan of Arc. The High School in Burlington, New Jersey, had the extraordinary distinction of winning two of the twelve prizes. A boy in that school received the prize for his essay on Pasteur, and a girl received the prize for her essay on Lincoln." The names of the students who won the prizes, with the names of their schools, are as follows: LOUIS PASTEUR WILLIAM SCHUYLER PETTIT, High School, Burl ington, New Jersey. ABRAHAM LINCOLN ALICE JANE WATSON, High School, Burlington, New Jersey. CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS ALMA KATHRINE FREDERICKSEN, Jefferson High School, Portland, Oregon. GEORGE WASHINGTON VICTOR JULIUS MIDDLETOX, Central High School, Grand Rapids, Michigan. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN JOHN E. LAKE, TR-J High School, Oskaloosa, Iowa. WOODROW WILSON ALFRED BENNIS JACOB, George School, Bucks Co., Pennsylvania. FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE PRUDENCIA MARIA BRYAN, High School, Agua- dilla, Porto Rico. JOAN OF ARC FLORENCE MILDRED CONNELL, Academy of the Holy Family, Baltic, Connecticut. SOCRATES JACQUES REYNALD, Ecole des Roches, Verneuil- sur-Avre, Eure, France. JOHANN GUTENBERG PAUL EDOUARD PULH, Ecole de la rue Hugo-de- Senger, Plainpalaïs, Geneva, Switzerland. DAVID LIVINGSTOXE KATHLEEN MONTGOMERY, High School for Girls, Pretoria, South Africa. GEORGE STEPHENSON GARABED H. ASSARLUKIAN, American School for Boys, Samokov, Bulgaria.