School Notes
Why This Thus-ness? jgj
Alaskans have a right to ask what
they have done or left undone to merit
the treatment accorded the territory
in the matter of national school legis
lation. In the Smith-Hughes bill,
which carries a large appropriation for
vocational training and the fitting of
teachers for carrying on this work
throughout the country, Alaska was
completely overlooked, though the
need for adequate vocational training j
fhas long since been recognized and
pointed out by Alaskan educators.
Now comes the Smith-Towner bill, |
with an appropriation of $100,000,000, j
to be used in establishing a federal
bureau of education on a par with
other departments of our government,
and directed by a secreary of educa
tion in the President’s cabinet. The
bill provides for the removal of illit
eracy, for the Americanization of our
large foreign element (and some of
our native-born also, let us hope!), for
physical education, for preparation of
teachers, for equalization of educa
tional opportunities and the partial
payment of teachers’ salaries. Each
state is required to deposit with its
state treasurer a sum equal to its
share of the money received from the
federal government, and to take the
initiative in and exercise control of
the administration of educational af
fairs within its own boundaries. But
Alaskiis not to share in the benefits
of this proposed legislation—just why,
no one seems able to say.
However, we have not been over
looked in one respect. The income
tax law provides that all teachers in
the States are exempt from payment
of such tax, but expressly stipulates
that Alaskan teachers are not subject
to such exemption and must pay the
tax, Some of us wish the powers that
be would at least practice consistency
in this little game of overlooking
which they choose to play sometimes.
If sulking in one’s tent were ever
justifiable, surely Alaskans have good
cause to indulge, but some vigorous
protests to various congressmen, espe
cially any with whom we have per
sonal acquaintance, would be much
more to the point.
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The school has paid relatively more
* attention to the backward pupils than
the superior ones, and yet the latter
will be the ones who will contribute
the most to the advancement of society
as a whole. Give the bright child his
chance. Every class is composed of
three grades of material—the very
slow or even defective children, the
mediocre, and the exceptional ones.
Trying to handle all in one class is
comparable to trying to drive a work
horse with a thoroughbred from the
race-track—it requires more skill than
the uninitiated would ever suspect in
order that each may receive his full
share of time and attention and none
be neglected. And yet in some quar
ters it is still thought that anyone can
teach school!
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Naomi Robinson found the following
poem and asks that we reprint it in
* our notes, which we are glad to do,
because it is well chosen and carries
a message for all:
^‘Courage! What if the snows are
deep,
And what if the slopes are long and
steep,
And the days are short and the nights
are long,
And the good are weak and the bad
are strong?
Courage! The snow is a field of play
And the longest hill has a well-worn
way;
There are songs that shorten the
longest night;
There’s a day when wrong shall be
ruled by right.
So courage, courage! ’Tis never far
From a plodded path to a shining
star!”
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suaine ana uon Homnger nave me
sympathy of the entire school in their
p present sorrow. Mrs. Bollinger was
one of the kindest and most loyal of
^school patrons, and she will be missed
by all of us in many ways.
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The Angle of Repose
A certain engineer, upon being asked
when slides would cease to occur in
the famous Culebra cut, replied that
they would cease whenever the dirt
reached the angle of repose.
Reaching “the angle of repose” is
very desirable in the instance cited,
but in an individual it is fatal, so far
as his own progress and his useful
ness to his employer and to the com-|
inanity are concerned. Unless we are
constantly seeking to better ourselves
in every way, we are in danger of as
* suming the much-to-be-dreaded angle
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of ^repose, which can not be long main
tained, but results in inevitable retro
gression.
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“If”
"“If I knew you and you knew me,
’Tis seldom we would disagree;
But never having yet clasped hands,
Both often fail to understand
That each intends to do what’s right,
And treat each other ‘honor bright.’
How little to complain there’d be
If I knew you and you knew me!
“Then let no doubting thoughts abide
Of firm good faith on either side;
Confidence to each other give—
Living ourselves, let others live.”
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A Child’s Right to Be Useful
To be useful is the divine right of
every child. To be repressed, pam
pered, petted, frilled and furbelowed
has ruined many a child. Blessings
on the child who longs to help father
and mother.
“But Mary will break the dishes!”
“Of course she will. Let her!”
“But John will get so dirty if he
does that work!”
“Certainly he will. Boys have an
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