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"I do the very best I know how—
the very best I can; and I mean to
keep doing so until the end. If the
end brings me out all right, what is
said against me won't amount to any
thing. If the end brings me out
wrong, ten angels swearing I was right
would make no difference."—Abraham
Lincoln.
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"A new day is dawning for libraries.
This generation may see the time
when a community without a free
library will be considered a back
^ number-—as much of a back number
^ as we now consider a community
without a free public school.”
It is to be hoped that the time is
not far distant when Cordova may en
joy the opportunities afforded by a
free public library.
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“In the purchase of education as of
any other commodity, the_ city gets
just what it pays for; in fact, every
educational problem is fundamentally
a financial problem.”—Carrol R. Reed.
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C. L. Henderson in his “Education
and the Larger Life,” says: “We
please ourseWtes by saying that ex
perience is the best teacher, that the
world is the best school house, that
travel is the best educator. But in
reality we prevent experience, we
shut out the world, we disallow travel.
We ask children to reason and reflect
about a world which they do not yet
know. We give them small percep
tual knowledge—mainly what they get
on holidays and when they play tru
ant—and spend nearly all their time
in attempting to build larger struc
tures than we have material for—
bricks without straw.
jAsChe instruction that visualizes the
world, its people, industries and ac
tivities in the minds of the present
day school children is indeed an im
portant mile post in the march of
progress, and today every well-in
formed teacher realizes that the
pupils’ shortest, surest road to accu
rate knowledge is through sense ex
perience.”—Carl H. Hardin.
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One of our strongest wishes for the
Cordova school is to be realized soon
—namely, a moving picture machine
all our very own, the purchase of
* which is made possible through the
ready sympathy and support of Mr.
L. D. Henderson, our commissioner of
education, who, when the subject was
broached to him recently, generously
* offered to pay 75 per cent of the cost
of a machine out of territorial funds,
provided the Cordova school board
would pay the remainder of the ex
pense. As usual, the members of the
board expressed their entire willing
ness to do their part in providing
whatever will benefit the boys and
girls of Cordova.
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Better speecn tot nener «mcrn.ano
The first week in December will be
observed as "American Speech Week."
The National Council of Teachers of
English is responsible for this highly
commendable movement. The aim is
to dignify our mother tongue—to en
courage the use of clean, decent,
forceful English—to use effective and
refined English with correctness, dis
tinctness, pleasantness.
The plan is to spend considerable
time beforehand in lessons in the use
of correct forms, making lists of
V words often mispronounced, also lists
of common grammatical errors to be
avoided, the making of posters, slo
gans, etc., to call attention to com
mon mistakes. The value of the
poster has been conclusively proven
in the national "drives” of the past
few years. A poster is a sign in
tended to attract attention, to interest
and please, and to compel favorable
action. To attain these ends a poster
should have effectiveness and beauty.
Small cash prizes have been offered
for the best two original posters, and
the best one will be sent to the chair
man of the national committee on
American Speech, with the hope that
it may be thought good enough to be
reproduced in the bulletin sent out by
this committee next year.
Nothing has excited such feverish
# interest in a long time as the plan
-•ning of these posters. Some delight
fully original ideas have already been
worked out by various pupils in Rooms
3 and 4, and the end is not yet.
The pupils are also being encour
aged to think of good slogans for use
on blackboards and signs, such as
"Better speech for better Americans,”
and “Show your patriotism by im
proving your English.”
Later the pupils are to write essays
telling how we observed American
Speech week in Cordova. Cash prizes
will be awarded the writers of the
best two papers. In a circular letter
Mr. Hendersc.i has asked that the
best paper from each school be sent
to him.
Probably a fine of one cent will be
imposed for every grammatical error
or slang expression used in school
during this week. Pupils will be ex
pected to correct in a courteous way
any mistakes they may recognize in
the speech of their fellow-pupils or
teachers.
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Thrift is shorthand for "Waste not,
want not” Through thrift alone can
the rebuilding come—the rebuilding
of America, the rebuilding of the
world.—S. W. Strauss.
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“It is better to follow even the
shadow of the best than to remain
content with the worst. And those
who would see wonderful things must
often be ready to travel alone.”—Van
Dyke.
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"There should be a minimum stand
ard of square feet of play space for
every school building. The maximum
should be without limit. The mini
mum, perhaps, should not be leiss
than thirty square feet for each child,
although in the state of Washington
this minimum was sought to be set
at one hundred square feet.”—L». H.
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