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Through it you can best work in the great cause of freedom to which we have all pledged ourselves. Our Junior Red Cross will bring to you opportunities of service to your community and to other communities all over the world, and guide your service with high and religious ideals. It will teach you how to save in order that suffering children elsewhere may have the chance to live. It will teach you how to prepare some of the supplies which wounded soldiers and homeless families lack. It will send to you, through the Red Cross bulletins, the thrilling stories of relief and rescue. And, best of all, more perfectly than through any of your other school lessons, you will learn by doing those kind things, under your teachers' direction, to be the future good citizens of this great country which we all love. And I commend to all school teachers in the country the simple plan which the American Red Cross has worked out to provide for your co-operation, knowing as I do that school children will give their best service under the direct guidance and instruction of their teachers. Is not this perhaps the chance for which you have been looking to give your time and efforts in some measure to meet our national needs? WOODROW WILSON, President. "THANKSGIVING, 1917. By the President of the United States of America. "A PROCLAMATION: It has long been the honored custom of our people to turn in the fruitful autumn of the year in praise and thanksgiving to Almighty God for His many blessings and mercies to us as a nation. That custom we can follow now, even in the midst of the tragedy of a world shaken by war and immeasurable disaster, in the midst of sorrow and great peril, because even amidst the darkness that has gathered about us we can see the great blessings God has bestowed upon us, blessings that are better than mere peace of mind and prosperity of enterprise. "We have been given the opportunity to serve mankind as we once served ourselves in the great day of our Declaration of Independence, by taking up arms against a tyranny that threatened to master and debase men everywhere and join ing with other free peoples in demanding for all the nations of the world what we then de manded and obtained for ourselves. In this day of the revelation of our duty not only to defend our own rights as a nation but to defend also the rights of free men throughout the world, there has been vouchsafed to us in full and inspiring measure the resolution and spirit of united action. We have been brought to one mind and purpose. A new vigor of common counsel and common action has been revealed in us. We should especially thank God that in such circumstances, in the midst of the greatest enterprise the spirits of men have ever entered upon, we have, if we but observe a reasonable and practicable economy, abundance with which to supply the needs of those associated with us as well as our own. A new light shines about us. The greatest duties of a new day awaken a new and greater national spirit in us. We shall never again be divided or wonder what stuff we are made of. "And while we render thanks for these things, let us pray Almighty God that in all humbleness of spirit we may look always to Him for guidance; that we may be kept constant in the spirit and purpose of service; that by His grace our minds may be directed and hands strengthened; and that in His good time liberty and security and peace and the comradeship of a common justice may be vouchsafed all the nations of the earth. our "Wherefore, I, Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States of America, do hereby designate Thursday, the twenty-ninth day of November next, as a day of thanksgiving and prayer, and invite the people throughout the land to cease upon that day from their ordinary occupations and in their several homes and places of worship to render thanks to God, the Great Ruler of nations. "In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. .."Done in the District of Columbia this seventh day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seventeen and of the independence of the United States of America the one hundred and forty-second. "WOODROW WILSON." OPPORTUNITIES TEACHERS How the lessons of the great war may be taught in the school room is told in Teachers' Leaflet No. 1, on "Opportunities for History Teachers," just issued by the United States Bureau of Education of the Department of the Interior, for distribution to teachers of history throughout the United States. In its appeal to teachers the Bureau says: "First of all comes the duty of keeping, for teacher and pupil, the habit of at least trying to see things as they really were and It is are. This is not easy at any time. peculiarly difficult at such a time as this, when too many people believe a slight distortion of facts may be a patriotic duty. In the long run loyalty to the country as well as loyalty to history are best served by looking facts squarely in the face. "The training of young people and of the parents through the pupils to take an intelligent part in the decision of public questions is important enough at any time, but it is peculiarly so in this war whose meaning for the individual citizen is not so easily brought home. In 1822 and 1827, when the Monroe Doctrine was under discussion, Daniel Webster referred to the people who thought that Americans had no interest in the European system of mutual insurance for hereditary rulers. against popular movements. What, they said, have we to do with Europe? The thunder, it may be said, rolls at a distance. The wide Atlantic rolls between us and danger; and, however others may suffer, we shall remain safe. Webster's answer to this question was strikingly similar to some of the utterances of President Wilson: 'I think it is a sufficient answer to this to say, that we are one of the nations of the earth. . We have as clear an interest in international law as individuals have in the laws of society.' That was said long before the steamship, the submarine, and the wireless had broken down still further our 'splendid isolation." Today we fighting for our own rights, but over and above those special rights of own we are fighting for alw itself, por Mation can be afe, least AROT are without governments which of all tho are less effectively organized for war than for peace. 1917 democacy "No one caaks an intelli a great conflict for the AMFORD part in law unless lander LAND MINISTERS International erested in and knows something about other nations than his own about the difference between a republican government like our own or that of France or the scarcely less democratic constitution of Great Britain on the one side, and, in sharp contrast to all of these, a strongly monarchial system like that of the German Empire, in which the most important measures affecting the national welfare may be practically determined by a single hereditary sovereign or a small group of such sovereigns," 2 ITEMS OF PUBLIC INTEREST FROM PROCEEDINGS OF STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION By C. S. Pixley The regular quarterly meeting of the State Board of Education was held at Sacramento, October 15-20, 1917. It was the sense of the Board that no condensation of the minutes could be prepared which could properly be termed a "summary of proceedings" and that henceforth such information as might be sent out for publication should be issued under the caption "Items of Public Interest from Proceedings of State Board of Education." Official announcement was made of the formal acceptance by Prof. Clark W. Hetherington of Madison, Wisconsin, of the position of State Supervisor of Physical Education. Announcement was made of the resignation of T. S. Montgomery as a member of the State Board of Education. The State High School Credential granted to Claude G. Miner on November 8, 1910, was revoked. Mr. J. B. Lillard of Gardena, Cal., was appointed to the position of Director of Agricultural Education under the SmithHughes law. Pending applications for life diplomas, health and development certificates, High School Credentials and Credentials in Special Subjects were disposed of by the Board. The Board formally adopted as the State text in music for the elementary schools the Progressive Series, Books One, Two and Three, with the manuals accompanying the same, published by Silver, Burdett & Co. These books will not be ready for distribution until the summer of 1918. The Board approved the course in Chinese offered by the Oakland High School, and authorized the issuance of special certificates in Chinese as a commercial subject. The date of accreditation of the Indianapolis Normal School was changed from 1913 to 1912, as an emergency war measure to provide for the certification of a teacher whose husband had been drafted in the national army. The following resolution was adopted in response to a request from one of the State normal schools: "Resolved, that until the year beginning July 1, 1921, students entering normal schools and not presenting the required credits in music, drawing, household arts, or agriculture, may be permitted, with the consent of the normal school faculties, to be granted one unit of credit in each of these subjects upon completing a course of study in such subject covering a period of two terms aggregating at least six months, if recommended by the faculty as meeting the requirement of one unit." Bids received for texts in spelling were opened and further consideration postponed until the next meeting, which was set for January 7, 1918. Considerable time was given to discussion of the Smith-Hughes law, the consideration of a plan for the training of Vocational teachers and the application of the special state and federal vocational funds. 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