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Title: Crayon and character : truth made clear through eye and ear or ten-minute talks with colored chalks
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Griswold, B. J. (Bert Joseph), 1873-1927 Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) DLC
Subjects: Chalk-talks Moral education Religious education
Publisher: Indianapolis, Ind. : Meigs Publishing Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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nded to the paving ofour streets. We would have had no public library but for him. Therewould have been no public schools here, and no church spires wouldbe pointing heavenward, if he had not sanctioned them. We wouldnever have had our water works system, our sewerage system or ourelectric lights. In short, we never would have had any of the greatpublic benefactions but for him. And I am sorry to add, too, that wewould never have had any saloons but for him.* (Draw the letterscomposing the words, Public Sentiment, completing Fig. 77.) Yes, this is Public Sentiment. And what is public sentiment?I think it may be described best as the expression of the will of thegreatest number of people in a community. It is the voice of the ma-jority. It is only when people want things that they get them. As theyears go by, the people themselves are becoming more and moremighty in directing the work of those whom they have chosen to rep-resent them. * Substitute words describing local conditions. 124
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125 «, *A contractor is not the builder of a public library or a publicschool. These are built by the people who are united in sentiment fora library or a school; the contractor is only the hired man who doesthe bidding of the people. The residents of a city themselves bringinto existence beautiful streets, magnificent public buildings and idealhealth conditions; or else they bring to themselves the saloon andother degrading institutions, all depending upon public sentiment. And so it is with the church and the Sunday School. The humanfactor which keeps this school prosperous comes not from the superin-tendent or the officers or the teachers alone. Its success is due largelyto the public sentiment outside of the school. It is the sentiment ofthe fathers and mothers of these boys and girls, many of whom, whiletheir hearts are with us, cannot attend the sessions regularly. It isthe sentiment of you who are so loyal to us and whose prayers for theschool have been so effective. It is the

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