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« ^3 EDITORIAL AND COMMENT
tfBTEBIlTES- INVERTEBR4TE8
Amo ig,the m\ny nauseating things
, ^i^yi^tcied, the most sickening is
the fellow who grasps yon, hv rtlie
^ hand, agrees with you endorses you,
” ,,aj}ii,la^r j^.ftiid that the same chap
*¥U1(^S °f a ,iUU1 >vit h
i^y^ijdi,pnetrj,caIJ>• differnt to you,
and,.vpjh. ljim lie has also agreed,
acquiesced.anjl endorsed. Not man
, ennf to stand^jup am^ say "no" with
an emphasis or,/‘yes”with determ
ination,as he should, because o! liis
tp^prte^pit^.^ent’.em es. li thrown
with a nun of real caliber he agrees to
a” f in every thing even tho it may
cotitradict the mite «f conviction 1 e
m’iy have had o ! the subject IJke
the jelly fish lie travels with the tide,
lie feels the pulse of the other man
and shapes his 'o.irse to the smooth
and popular water. Indeed he is mu< h
like the rivers of the plains,crooked,
wide.lengthy, and—six inches deep.
Consequently all the excitement pos
sible for him to originate are ripples
on the surface.
la co ttradistinction to the above
picture is the little fellow with con
viction and a back bone big ennf to
support it.The man who has taken a
careful inventory of himself and a
sensible view of surroundings.
The man who will look you squarely
in the face and honestlty tell you
his views, and if he finds he is wrong
will continue to look you squarely in
the face and acknowledge that lie is
wrong. That is what we call back bone
There is another class that we must
not confound with this; he is the fel
low that when he is convinced he is
wrong still is too backboneless to
acknowledge the corn. No Sir! that
fellow hasn't backbone. What he has
is an aimot inal ossification, wholly
at the upper extremity.which makes
him merely haul headed.
PRESIDENT WILSON
S,\ VS I'iiACMUKS SHOULD
, SHOW i'kOOF OF G1TJZHNSHIF
/pells Hoard of Education lit is
Surprised Proof of American Citizen
ship ilas Not I’een Required of
Teachers
"Every person appointed as a teach
er in our schools should furnish proof
of,American citizenship as one of
the required qualifications. I had
assn nel that this was already the
rule, and I am surprised that it had
not been the rule.’’This was the re
ply tint President Woodrow Wilson
made to an inquiry made by a comm
ittee of the lirookyn board of super
intendents. It embodied in a report
of that board to the board of educati
on,recommending that every person
hereafter ipj>oiated to any teaching
or supervisory position in the public
schools,shall in writing, declare his
belief in the principals of the consti
tution and his intention to promote
the good order and happiness of the
United States. Should this recom
mendation l>e adopted it would af
fect many teachers in the system.