Show The Birth of 8 4 Clubs Cubs in America A Ae e ica By fly D Dal pile Carnegie Carnegie c I like to to io tell in forum tories stories of people who have help help- helped ed human who have bave made the world richer rieber by having lived in It it And today's Is 18 about abou a woman who lives in Clarinda Iowa Her name Mrs Jesse Field Shambaugh The chances are that ou never heard of her h i yet fet she had d Influenced your litre we for she is the woman who originated the idea of the H 4 Clubs Homer Croy the arthor arthof is the one who discovered her and hes he's the one who has hag ba passed this Information along to me m me Thanks MC Me It shows how tremendously important an idea can be Tot For 10 that's all ail you have to start with lust Just Just an idea She was a teacher In a one one- room room country school in Iowa vey much like the one I guess that I went to in Missouri The farm lann boys lead a dreary hum bum humdrum drum life life she got lot the idea of wanting to do something for something them That was all Just that simple idea She wanted wante Just them to help themselves She got them to stay after school and study Judging corn Ordinarily as soon as school dismissed the boys raced away as If pursued by Sitting Bull Bull But now now so so o interesting did she make ed sa and the studied study that study like that a seniors they stay stay- stayed at West Point trying to pass their final exams She became superintendent te with room one o one roo schools under her direction And each one had what she called Country Boys Club She arranged a contest In which the three winning boys should be able to go to the Iowa State college to take a short course in agriculture fancy name for farming fanning I Fourteen townships were to compete the day arrived and so did the boys all boys all except one The judges were there but one of ot the boys wasn't Finally they decided to go ahead with the Judging corn-Judging contest Then the boy arrived and the boy came In breathless and apologetic Im sorry to be late he said sald I hurried all I could but it takes a little time to walk eleven miles mlles And that's exactly what hed he'd done A three-leaf three clover was select select- selected ed as th emblem of the club andon and andon on each leaf was the leter H for forHead forHead Head Hand and Heart Later somebody got the idea that a leaf four-leaf clover was better so another H was added which means Health But she doesn't know who thought up that other H From this humble beginning the H 4 Club has grown to a membership of two millions a strange thing is that there are more girls in it than boys Thus from a country school schoolteacher's schoolteacher's teachers teacher's idea has grown an ex ex- ex extraordinarily fine from a simple idea of want want- wantIng wanting ing to help other people |