School Notes!
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Co-operation Between Home and
School
In the great task of making educa
tion universal, the home must accept
its share of the responsibility. Our
school can never rise above the level
of our homes, and that which elevates
the one will enrich the other. Educa
tional effort is not confined to the
school room. There are numberless
problems in education which must
be solved in the home—many more
must be solved by the united wisdom
of home and school. We must inter
est the people before we can expect
them to be alert and enthusiastic.
The child is the center around which
the whole educational system resolves.
Upon the proper education of the child
in home and school.depend the safety
and perpetuity of the republic itself.
Whatever affects the child in the
school room or in the home affects
the welfare of all the people. Parent
and teacher and the state alike have
an interest in the future citizen.
The child is the great educational
problem. Uuon the proper understand
ing of the child depends the character
of the education given, and the kind
of manhood and womanhood which
will be developed. If parent and
teacher do not co-operate in that edu
cation it will be one-sided and incom
plete. Who can tell of the lives gone
wrong because the child was not un
derstood? What mistakes have been
made and never corrected because pa
rents, children, teachers had not op
portunity or courage or encourage
ment to tell each other in confidence
wital facts affecting the health, the
comfort and the spirit of the child!
Teachers have been obliged to study
the parents through the children. They
have looked into the wrong end of the
telescope. Parents, in the same man
ner, have gained little of acquaintance
with teachers.
What can be done to draw all these
influences together—to bring the pa
rent and teacher into closer relation
ship with the child as interpreter, in
order that children may be better un
derstood at home and in school, and
that education may be made simpler
and more effective? The organization
of a Parent-Teacher Association is the_
first great step in the accomplish
ment of this worthy aim for the bet
terment of the condition of the child.
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Judge Hoffman of the juvenile court |
of Cincinnati evidently knows how to
appeal to young offenders and get re
sults. A certain 15-year-old boy was
brought before him for window-ston
ing, and after a talk the boy was re
quired to write an essay setting forth
his idea of “Civic Pride.” A part of
this essay follows, and it has some- j
thing in it for all of us:
“Civic pride means being proud of
your city; and the real way to be
proud of it is not going around brag
ging about it, but to do everything
you can to make it a city everyone
else will brag about. Everyone ought'
to have civic pride; because we all
really want to have a nice city, and
we ourselves are the ones who can
make it so. Everyone must do his
share. Each school child can be im
portant and useful to his city by try
ing to keep it as clean as possible and
not carelessly doing damage to public
improvements.”
Americanism is more than a sys
tem of government; it is the spirit of
a national life. The American people
believe in self-government tempered
with wisdom. They believe also that
a nation has a right to live its own
life without interference by other na
tions. The teacher of American his
tory should remember that she is not
merely teaching American history,
but is attempting to show how that
history illustrates the development
and application of these principles.
We need to teach a pride in our coun
try and a consciousness of our obli
gation to it in return for the privileges
of American citizenship.
The purposes of the Almighty are
perfect and must prevail, though we
erring mortals may fail accurately to
perceive them in advance. A. Lin
coln.
Boy Scouts
There are 1,300,000 Scouts in the
•world, 1,000,000 of whom were
trained in this country. This month
marks the tenth anniversary of the
Boy Scouts of America. This organ
ization of boys rendered a special serv
ice to our government during the war.
Every Boy Scout is required to do
a good turn daily. An effort is being
made to bring the spirit of scouting
to the whole country, to have America
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observed, emulate these boys and do
“a good turn daily.” It is believed
that this will have a tendency to di
rect attention from the present strife
to helping other people, thereby turn
ing the thought of the country back
to service.
“What is the real good?” I ask in
musing mood.
“Order,” said the law court;
“Knowledge,” said the school;
“Truth,” said the wise man;
“Pleasure,” said the fool;
“Love,” said a maiden;
“Beauty,” said a page;
“Freedom,” said the dreamer;
“Home,” said the sage;
“Fame,” said the soldier;
“Equity,” said the seer.
Spake my heart full sadly, “The an
swer is not here.”
Then within my bosom
Softly this I heard:
“Each holds the secret:
Kindness is the word.’*
A spirit of equal liberty appears to
be gaining ground everywhere, which
must afford satisfaction to every
friend of mankind.—George Washfhg
ton.
A patriotic program was given Fri
day afternoon by the pupils of the
first and second grades. Visitors for
the afternoon were: Mrs. Roy Walker,
Mrs. Nels Anderson, Mrs. Smith, Mrs.
Date, Mrs. J. McCarthy, Mrs. Horace
Leach, Mrs. C. Scheffler, Mrs. W. W.
Council, Mrs. Miller, Mrs. F. Schaupp,
Mrs. E. P. Ziegler, Mrs. C. Corser and
Mrs. J. V. Lydick. ,
Notes by Elizabeth O’Loughlen
If you wish to prove you are a real I
friend of the school, “have a heart”
for the library fund.
An examination in algebra was
given to the beginning class Tuesday
morning.
Mr. Frank Jones was kind enough
to donate a large packet of blotters
and metal-edged rulers to the school,
and we wish to express our apprecia
tion of this useful gift.
Miss Keever has announced that the j
room which has the most parents and |
friends attending the meetings of the j
Parent-Teacher Association will be J
granted either a quarter holiday or a
large picture for the room. Some
what to her surprise, a majority voted
for the picture. (Most likely if we
did get a holiday it would snow!)
The eighth grade history class has
memorized the preamble of the con
stitution of the United States the past
week.
The class in general science has '
been studying electricity, magnetism
and how matter changes, including
ixidization, combustion and explosions.
A large copy of the Commandments *
has been placed in the upper hall.
The pupils have shown much interest
in this, and a few have been heard
to remark that they “didn’t know that
was in the Bible,” etc.
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Notes by Brook Lamprey
The High School has a new framed
picture, “The Dance of the Nymphs.”
The English class memorized Marc
Antony’s speech over Caesar’s dead
body.
Leona Churchill, Margaret Foster
and Katherine Boyce have been ab
sent for a few days.
Miss Wright was absent last Mon
day.
PUBLIC HEALTH NOTICE
As the “flu”' exists in all Alaska
coast towns, the general public is
hereby warned to take every neces
sary precaution to prevent the spread
of the disease. Any person who is
taken suddenly ill, suffering with a
frontal headache, high temperature or
pains throughout the body, should re
pair to their rooms at once and call
a physician. In all places where sus
picious cases may exist a strict quar
antine must be maintained. \ny per
son desiring inoculation against the
“flu” may be vaccinated free of charge |
at my office from 8 to 5 p. m. each |
day. DR. W. H. CHASE,
16-6t City Health Officer.
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drug store. Phone 140—3 rings.
Your eyes fitted. Compound and
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