) School N otes
The Joy of Membership on the School
Board.
The following paragraphs are tak
en from a newspaper article which
appeared in the Fort Collins, Colo.,
Express over the signature of ]
Mr. W. L. Watrous, a member of the
local school board. The article was
written in the midst of a campaign
for a bond issue for a new high school
building:
“I don’t suppose there is any large
number of persons in district No. 5
so imbued with the spirit of self-sacri
fice and brotherly love as to openly
covet and yearn for the honors and
emoluments attending the office of
school director. It would take a
^uflghty brave man to voluntarily col
lar that job and walk off with it,
and though in an unguarded moment
one may allow the office to attach
itself to him, the chances are that
very shortly in his sober, saner, after
thought he would gladly trade the
job for a hound pup. Over the of
fice door of school director should
be written: ‘Ye who enter here must
leave behind your peace of mind, your
own business, and your joy of life
and give your best thought, your time
and energies for the benefit of the
public.’
“Some men are born great, some
achieve greatness, but these have
greatness (?) thrust upon them. We
flatter and cajole them into working
for us; they rake our chestnuts out
of the fire and chase the niggers out
our wood piles and while they
are doing it we kick and maul and
cuss them from sinner’s retreat to
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cafeteria hash. Still we don’t want
them to feel that we are unapprecia
tive or would will them any ill, or
unecessarily harrow their finer sensi
bilities. You see we just keep things
sort of stirred up in a general way,
because we know that a certain
amount of affliction is beneficial, like
fleas to a dog. Keep him from brood
ing on other troubles. These little
difficulties are a stimulant and aid in
dissipating the common, everyday
cares and indispositions, by setting up
a counter irritant, don’t you know.
“And there are other compensa
tions—the consciousness of rectitude;
the satisfying thought of work well
done. You know Pope says ‘one
self-approving hour, whole years out
weighs, of stupid starers and of loud
huzzas.’ Then the consoling assur
ance—‘The Lord loveth whom He
chasteneth,’ and the hope that they
^ who suffer long and remain faithful
may inherit a distinguished service
<ftar to flash upon St. Peter. That
ought to help some. So here’s hop
ing.”—School Board Journal.
We join ourselves to no party tnat
does not keep step to the music of the
Union.”—Rufus Choate.
Modern education works for ex
pression; the old idea in dealing with
children was repression—“Children
should be seen and not heard.” In
stead of saying: “Don’t do this,” or
“Don’t do that,” give the child some
positive direction instead—“Do this,”
or “Do that”—at the time suggesting
something proper for him to do. It
is useless to ask a child to be still
worse, it is cruel because physically
impossible except for the briefest
space of time. He must have an
4toutlet for the energy within; hence,
when this assumes a wrong form, in
stead of saying “Don’t,” the wise pa
rent or teacher supplies him with the
suggestion for some right form of ac
tivity—and harmony reigns.
Throughout the country only 263 out
of every 1,000 pupils finish the eighth
grade, and only 56 out of every 1,000
finish the high school. Truly, the
grade school is the university of the
common people, and since so few can
have even all of the grade work,
should not the very best teachers and
equipment be supplied for lower grade
work, as well as elsewhere?
“That bad boy is not really bad at
heart. He is sick of books, books,
and books only all day long. Give him
something to do, something to find out
for himself, and he will lead the class.
He has an abundance of energy—too
^much, the teacher often thinks. Sound
pedagogy demands that this energy
be not suppressed, even if it were pos
able to suppress it. It is direction
that is wanted. Similarly with the
listless, inattentive girl; she has not
been reached. Formal methods of
study and recitation have not stirred
her. If education means what the
word says, ‘to lead one out,’ she is not
being educated.
“Visual instruction changes all this.
Once they see the picture in all the
reality of the object itself they are
projected into another world quite out
of themselves. The humdrum oj
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school is gone. They are off on a trip
to other lands, and display the enthu
siasm of a youth preparing for his
first trip from home.”—Keystone View
Company.
The above-named company furnishes
a set of six hundred slides which sup
plement almost every phase of school
work -history, geography, literature,
etc. While films can be rented, we
hope to be able to raise money to pur
chase these educational slides and
make them a permanent part of our
school equipment. Slides may be had
to accompany the text of the Tarr-Mc
Murray Geographies, recently adopted
for use in Alaska by the text book
commission. Old methods of teaching
the various subjects of the curriculum
bid fair to be revolutionized. within
the next few years.
(Margaret Foster)
Rapid calculation is given the al
gebra class every Monday morning.
Room 4 has finished the one hun
dred drills to be sent to Palmer on
the next boat.
The algebra class had a test last
Friday.
English II wrote the story of “Hay
Foot, Straw-Foot”—the picture shown
last Saturday, when Captain Lathrop
had the school children as his guests.
A “general information” test was
given both the English classes, and
some of the answers were funny—
e. g.. the statement that a Pharisee is
a follower of Pharaoh; that a work
ing drawing is a picture of a man
working, etc.
(Edna Thawley)
The shorthand pupils made 125
words a minute in dictation this week.
Next week the bookkeeping class
will finish their work for this term of
school.
The typewriting class is busy mak
ing sixty copies of “My Tribute,” a
song written in honor of the Parent
Teacher Association.
(John Rosswog)
The after-school sessions in algebra,
penmanship and spelling are well at
tended. The freshman algebra is in
the lead, with 100 per cent attend
ance.
The freshman class has had some
drill in the use of the dictionary, both
in English and history, but Brooke
Lamprey still claims only a passing
acquaintance. The end of the term
may show less than a “passing.”
(Katherine Boyce)
Wednesday some mysterious-looking
boxes appeared in the lower hall—one
very long and the others square. Some
said the long one was a coffin, but
when the mystery was solved it proved
to contain a screen for our moving pic
ture outfit, and one of the square
boxes held the machine, which will be
put into use shortly.
Pauline De Ville is back at school
after a short absence in Katalla, where
she was called to nurse her sister,
who had the “flu.”
(Elizabeth O’Loughlen)
Several times during the year our
envy has been aroused by the good
fortune of the Juneau school. In
their school notes they tell of Juneau
lodges having made various gifts to
the school, the latest being a moving
picture machine. Our machine is here
but.useless without films. We’ve just
been thinking how nice it would be
if Cordova lodges were interested in
our school. We are not hinting—
“we’re just telling you.”
Friday morning an examination was
given the algebra class on “simple
equations.” Oh, how deceiving are
names! If what we had is an example
of simple equations, we certainly
should be glad to know what down
right hard ones would be like.
(Eugene Tibbs)
The freshmen have finished all the
history that was assigned to them and
are reviewing Egypt, Babylonia, As
syria and Persia.
(Brooke Lamprey)
The boys in Room 1 are having
good times sliding down the snow
bank in front of the school.
(Harry O’Neill)
On Wednesday morning the fresh
men wrote letters to boys and girls
in other schools. Some wrote to
schools in Texas and some to Cali
fornia.
In our general science class we are
studying topographical maps. Miss
Wright brought charts of Resurrec
tion bay and Cordova bay, showing the
surrounding country.
Miss Keever has just been distrib
uting tests called “Thompson’s Mini
' mum Essentials” in arithmetic, lan
Palm
Sunday
“Tell ye the daughter of Zion (Je- j
rusalem), behold, thy King cometh [
unto thee.—And a very great multitude \
spread their garments in the way; \
others cut down branches from the
trees and strew them in the way. And
the multitude that went before and
that followed cried, saying, Hosanna
to the Son of David: Blessed is he
that cometh in the name of the Lord;
Hosanna in the highest. And when
he was come in Jerusalem, all the city
was moved, saying, who is this? And !
the multitude said, This is Jesus the |
prophet of Nazareth of Galilee.”
We invite you to our Palm Sunday
service, Sunday evening, March 28, at
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
“The Church with a Message"
11 a. m. 8 p. m.
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MRS. SWANBERG
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And Factory Representative
High-Grade Pianos
Will be in ordova in the near
future
guage and geography, so the different
grades can measure the work aceorn
plished.
(Barth O’Loughlen)
The freshman English class art
using some of their time in writing
letters to school children in the Unit
ed States. The letters are addressee
to pupils in the freshman class, ii
care of the superintendent of schook
in each city. Perhaps they will cleat
up some of the misunderstanding tha:
exists about life in Alaska.
(Pauline de Ville)
The general science class has re
cently been studying about the cause
and effect of earthquakes.
(Dorris Adams)
The new motion picture machine ar
rived on the last boat. It will be i
great help to the pupils in their les
sons—when we get some films!
A Little Nonsense
Dear Teacher: Please exc,us<
Johnny’s not going to scoole yestrday
the reeson is becaus i wanted to was!
his stocins.
P. S. This wont happiin agin this
yere.—Yours much obliged—Mrs. J.
Dear Teacher—Please excuse Min
nie for being absent from school yes
terday, as she fell in the mud. Bj
doing the same you will oblige hei
mother.
The Flower of the Family.—The
first grade teacher sent Johnny home
with a request to his mother to please
wash him. Johnny returned in ar
hour with a note from his mothei
which read: “Pleas teacher, Johnnj
aint no rose—dont smell him, larr
him.”
Chapter One—Maid one.
Chapter Two—Maid won.
Chapter Three—Made one.
English Teacher: Who wrote “The
Merchant of Venice”?
• | Student: Julius Caesar,
Helen, a Fifth grade girl: “Why,
Miss Edelbrock, Margaret said a funny
thing; she said ‘Avenue Ziegler talked
! to the school,’ and I knew all the time
i she meant to say ‘Revenue Ziegler.’
j When I told mamma and papa they
| laughed and laughed, but I don’t see
why.”
Some information gleaned from
school examination papers (not in
Cordova):
Bimonthly means the installment
plan.
Things which are impossible are
equal to one another.
A man who looks on the bright side
. is called an optimist, but a pianist
looks on the dark side.
A blizzard is the inside of a hen.
The Pharisees were people who j
! liked to show' off their goodness by'
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praying in synonyms.
The Boxers were Corbett. Fitzsim
’ mons and Bill Johnson.
A brute is a perfect beast; man is
a perfect beast.
1 Conscription is what is written on
a tombstone.
An ibex is where you look in the
' back part of a book when you want
' to find anything that is printed in the
front part of the book.
A hyphenated American is one that
talks in short sentences.
In India a man out of a cask may
not marry a wronian out of another
cask.
Mr. Newton invented gravity with
1 the aid of an apple.
A deacon is the lowest kind of a
Christian.
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TO THE
REPUBLICAN
VOTERS
WHAT I STAND FOR:
I am a candidate for National Com
mitteeman of the Republican party, to
be elected April 27, and I stand for
the following principles:
I am not a politician, and never ran
for office before. I belong to no po
litical machine or combine, and am
under obligations to no clique or fac
tion.
I am opposed to machine domina
tion in Alaska, and if you elect me I
will take my orders from the people
and nobody else.
While my home is in Anchorage,
where I received the unanimous in
dorsement of the Anchorage Repub
lican Club, composed of over one hun
dred and fifty members, I will work
for the entire Territory of Alaska
first, last and all the time.
If you elect me I will do my utmost
to see that each locality or division
shall name the officers of that locality
or division, and I will fight bitterly
the appointment of anyone outside of
Alaska to an Alaska office.
Alaska has been my home for 23
years, winter and summer, and I feel
sure I know what Alaska needs.
The time has come to put an end
to outside dictation in our affairs, and
I believe what Alaska needs is more
firesides and fewer carpetbaggers.
The only way to rid Alaska of ma
chine politicians is to vote against
them. People of Alaska, I am making
this fight for these principles, and I
want your help. You deliver the votes
and I will deliver the goods.
JACK CHOVIN.