ESTABLISHED 1869 TEN MONTHS OF HARD USAGE Will Be Given Every Text Book in Your Schools HOLDEN BOOK COVERS THE ONLY ONE-PIECE, DURABLE, WATER- THE HOLDEN PATENT BOOK COVER COMPANY SPRINGFIELD, MILES C. HOLDEN, President MASSACHUSETTS and bigheadness thoughtlessness Edward Crandall, an instructor at Washington Irving High School, who was appointed chairman of the committee to arrange for a meeting, said: "We believe that it is the highest duty of every teacher, whether he teaches mathematics, German, English or any other subject, to teach good citizenship. We are not prepared to tolerate anything else." John W. Rafferty, president of the federation, said: the when "The time has come teachers who in any way oppose the policies of the government in this war should be kicked out of the system." ITHACA. Cornell University has decided to shorten and eliminate vacations so as to shorten the college year and release men by four weeks earlier than usual in the spring for war service. PENNSYLVANIA. will JOHNSTOWN. The Pennsylvania State Educational Association hold its next meeting at Johnstown December 26, 27, 28 and 29. Because of existing conditions, state and national, the general program will have strong trend toward efficiency through the practical or vocational phases of educational work. a Among the practical questions to be discussed are: "The Home School," by Superintendent L. E. McGinnes of Steelton; "History and Present Status of Agricultural Education in Pennsylvania," by L. H. Dennis, agricultural expert of the Department of Public Instruction: "History and Present Status of Commercial Education in America," by Cheesman A. Herrick, president of Girard College and author of commercial books of high merit. The movement toward more general physical training in Pennsylvania schools will be discussed by J. George Becht. secretary of the State Board of Education. HOMESTEAD. The $160,000 bond issue for the erection of a Junior High School building was voted at the November election. The Vocational School has taken up commercial shop problems with the boys who are learning the machinist's trade. The Homestead Steel Com-pany and the Mesta Machine Company are furnishing materials and the projects. The girls in the home-making de partment have canned and preserved fruits for a number of the homes of the district. A special drive is being made this year to secure greater proficiency in the fundamentals reading, writing ciphering-in the Homestead and schools. In the second Liberty Loan bonds to the number of 303, valuation $17,800, were purchased by pupils and teachers. Bonds to the number of 129, value $9,950, were sold by pupils and teachers. The schools are organizing in the Junior Red Cross work. The home-making department has organized a class to meet once a week to do Red Cross sewing. The hopeful feature is that the children are learning the art of knitting during the leisure time they have. Practically all the boys of the High School are obligating themselves to earn money for the National Y. M. C. A. war work fund, and the whole system is feeling the inspiration of war sacrifice, under the leadership of Superintendent Landis Tanger. ALLEGHENY COUNTY. Each principal and school board in Allegheny County has received a letter Dr. from Dr. Samuel Hamilton, county superintendent of schools, calling for a continuation of the war garden movement, stressing the use of the domestic science equipment in the preservation of food and in community use, and soliciting the support of the schools in the interest of the Junior Red Cross, the organization of the Boys' Working Reserve and the Soldiers' Library Fund. Hamilton adds: "The high schools may well take some time to study the classic English, the square deal, the unselfish national purpose, the spirit of universal brotherhood and the high moral tone that breathe in every paragraph of our great state papers. The masterly phrasing, the purity of diction and the lucid expression are possibly unsurpassed by any English classic now studied in our schools." JOHNSTOWN. Actual operations are now being carried on structing the Vocational Education in conSchool by the students in that deSchool. More than one hundred boys partment of the Johnstown High are working on the project every day. This building, which is of frame construction, one story high, 111 feet long and 42 feet wide, will house, among others, a mechanical drawing electrical shop, brick, concrete room, print shop, metal work shop, plastering shop, machine wood-workand ing shop and a tin shop. Each class will spend two hours a operate with their instruction in the day here and the teachers will coacademic subjects. making a study of the local school system. DANVILLE. John W. Laird, president of Central Normal College, has resigned and has accepted a position as principal of Union High School at Willcox, Arizona. The change in residence was necessitated by the healtn of an invalid daughter. INDIANAPOLIS. The Indiana State Teachers Association voted against the teaching of any foreign language in the elementary grades, and decided that French and Spanish should be offered on equal terms with Latin and German in the secondary grades. The following were chosen as officers of the association: President, Horace Ellis, state superintendent of public instruction; recording secretary, Miss Harriet McClellan, Muncie; secretary-treasurer, Charles O. Williams, state high school inspector. The newly-elected Indianapolis school board consists of the following five members: Charles L. Barry, C. E. Crippen, Bert Gadd, William D. Allison and Mrs. Julia B. Tutewiler. The last named is a member of the present board. Herbert Folz was elected to fill an unexpired term. ILLINOIS. CHICAGO. Victor P. Arnold, judge of the Juvenile Court of Chicago, has made a point of marking the relation between truancy and the delinquency that brings boys and girls before him. He says: "Truancy is a form of delinquency. As a rule both parents and teachers are too indulgent with the truant. They wait till he has formed habits difficult to break beforc giving much attention to the case. I have never had a single truant brought to court who did not properly belong there. "Our case records, which include a history both of the child and of the home conditions, are convincing. In every case where Juvenile Court children have reached the point that makes it necessary to commit them to an institution they began as truants. The boys and girls who are moving steadily on in school seldom get into the kind of trouble that brings them to court." Two hundred Harrison Technical High School boys, at the first boys working reserve rally of this season, last week, pledged to do farm service during 1918. SPRINGFIELD. Prior to 1917 the affairs of each of the Illinois State Normal Schools were administered by a board of trustees. Under Governor Lowden's consolidation scheme which was adopted by the Illinois Legislature all of the State Normal Schools have been placed under the control of one normal school board which consists of nine officers appointed by the governor together with the director of the Department of Registration and Education and the Superintendent of Public Instruction, who are members ex-officio and chairman and secretary, respectively. Governor Lowden appointed the nine members as follows: Roland STATE Bridges, Carbondale; Charles L. SCHOOLS and COLLEGES B. F. W. Shepardson is chairman ex-officio and Francis G. Blair, secretary ex-officio. This board will exercise the rights, powers and duties vested by law in the various old boards.School News. URBANA. As a likely method to furnish labor to the farms, the state high school conference here last week named a committee to rearrange the high school curriculum so that a short practical agricultural course can be established. If necessary ten months' work will be put in nine. The committee will also arrange with the universities for credit for boys high school who devote their time to farming. J. E. Armstrong of Chicago is chairman and John D. Shoop and E. J. Tobin, Chicago; W. L. Steele, Galesburg; Ray Moore, Eureka, are members of the committee. Dean Davenport of the Illinois College of Agriculture was selected as chairman of a committee which will look after the welfare of the boys when they go to the farms for service. The wood Mother-Daughter Canning Club is providing free hot lunches to the pupils of five rural schools this winter. Two members of the club go to each school two or three times a week. HAYS. The Business Men's Association has voted to guarantee $500 to the State Teachers' Association of the Fourth District of Kansas, to bring its biennial meeting to Hays. TOPEKA. NORMAL SCHOOL, BRIDGEWATER, MASS. Course for teachers in Junior High Schools. A. C. BOYDEN, Principal. ATHENS. The State Normal College of the Ohio University, Alston Ellis, president, is dealing with the problem of teaching young people co teach rural children to learn what is most wholesome and inspiring for them to learn in a gratifying way. It has put the entire problem in the hands of Samuel Mardis, who knows the school problems of the state as few men know them, and he has for skilful practice for the student-teachers three one-room rural schools and a two-teacher rural school, so that each student-teacher deals with the real thing in practice. More and more do the normal schools appreciate that this is the time to magnify rural education. WILBERFORCE. By recent decision of the court Wilberforce University has come into possession of $30,000 of the Charles Avery estate in Pittsburgh. The fund is to be used for endowment purposes. DELAWARE. Subscriptions to Ohio Wesleyan's Diamond Jubilee Million are coming at the rate of over a thousand dollars a day. The total now exceeds $300,000. school system SAN FRANCISCO. Vital readin San Francisco's are recommended in the final summary of the inquiry popularly known as the Claxton School Survey Report. The report suggests: justments The amount of bonds voted by Kansas counties during the year ending November 1, 1917, totals $2,750,000. Reno County leads, with Sedgwick a good second. Improvement bonds were voted by seventyeight counties. WILSON. The principal of the High School here has resigned his position to take effect at once. He will volunteer in one of the branches of the national army. He was drawn in the draft last summer, but claimed exemption, which was allowed. He was criticized for asking for exemption and was called a "slacker." His resignation was voluntary. ent 1. That the school superintendbe appointed, not elected. He should be a highly trained and widely experienced educator, wholly responsible for the proper conduct of the school system and answerable to the board of education, from which he shall receive his appointment. 2. The members of the board of education, nine in number, or ap should be either elected 3. The burden of the detail of school management should devolve directly upon the school superintendent, who should be allowed a staff of highly trained assistants to be in charge of various branches of school work. 4. The board of education should make up its own budget for school work without regard to the board of supervisors, and decide the amount of the school tax levy under the limitation of the state law. 5. The creation of a new department to handle the school buildings and grounds and direct the planning, erection, maintenance and repair of school builaings. This department should control the janitor and engineer staffs. as LOS ANGELES. Among the first responses to requests for increased salaries made by employees of the Board of Education will be enjoyed by members of Dr. Arthur H. Sutherland's psychological staff, sistant supervisors and individual experts in school research. Dr. Sutherland's aides will receive $1,000 more annually, while the supervisors are to be granted increases of $120 each per annum. J. B. Lillard, supervisor of agricultural education for the Los Angeles schools, has been named to fill that post for the state. The position will carry an annual salary of $3.600, half of which will be paid by the state and half by the Federal Government, according to the requirements of the Smith-Hughes act providing for governmental appropriation for vocational training. Superintendent Shiels issues "war circulars" periodically, to keep principals and teachers posted on work done in the schools to advance the nation's cause. ΡΟΜΟΝΑ. Principal H. P. Reynolds has collected data showing that there had been earned by students of the high school since the beginning of the vacation in June $18,374. tically every student was at work of some kind, and the great majority worked during the entire summer. COLORADO. Prac other vegetables. G. Hummell; industry, Benjamin Atlanta-Agriculture, C. H. Lane and H. O. Sargent; industry, Roy Dimmitt. The agents at New York, and that for the women's trades who is to be stationed at Washington, have not yet been announced. Misses Ella Loomis and Anna Richardson have been appointed agents for home economics and are assigned to headquarters here. They will travel to the various regions. the ad The total cost of plowing, ditch work, supervision, implements and harvesting was approximately $1,560. This includes permanent The agents are to act as adminisimprovements of ditches, imple- trative representatives of the Fedments, poultry, and eral board in the field to gather poultry house amounting to an estimated information regarding methods value of $1,395. As all of the crop adopted by the state boards for of potatoes has not been sold, only vocational education for the market value at present can be ministration of the act in each reconsidered. After selecting the gion and to inspect the work of seed potatoes for the coming these boards. year and subtracting what has already been sold, there are yet thirty tons of the forty-five harvested left for sale. The yield from the grain will supply the needs of the poultry through the winter. All of the small vegetables were sold in their season. Considering the fact that the ground had never been cultivated before, the yield was much better than expected. Ten acres of the ground has been put in order for rotation of crops, and the rest is being fertilized, where necessary, and plowed for the coming year. made last The Week in Review according to what seem to be authentic reports, he was escaping in disguise. Meanwhile, there is no glimmer of hope of a stable government, and, if the Bolsheviki remain on top, they will lose no time in quitting the war, and distributing all lands and other property upon which they can lay their hands. THE LOYALTY OF LABOR. to the The group of pacifists, who had DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. hoped to secure the passage by the WASHINGTON. Allotments to- convention of the American Federataling $423,532, the first Federal tion of Labor of some sort of a grants of money to the states un- resolution looking toward peace, was der the Smith-Hughes vocational disappointed. They showed up, a education act, were handful of them, in disapproval of week by the Federal board for President Gompers's attitude toward vocational education to the war; but, when it came seven states which have complied with resolution reaffirming the unswerving the law by submitting plans for loyalty of the Federation to the the promotion of vocational edu- stand behind the Administration uncountry, and its determination to cation and agreeing to match every Federal dollar with money til peace comes, it was adopted withpublicly raised by the state or lo- tion of the Federation will be of out a dissenting vote. This declaracal community. great value in checking strikes and in penalizing local leaders and councils who venture upon them. One immediate result of the action of the Federation was the calling off of the Government activities at the Boston strikes which had seriously impeded is Navy Yard, the Watertown Arsenal an equal amount and the Chelsea Naval Hospital. must be raised by the Thirty-five states have HOW NORWAY IS PAYING SO far submitted plans to the Federal TOLL. board for androval. The grant to Texas is $29,974. Texas has complied with the The total available for use dur- states. and the Voca marines. Of all the neutral countries, Norway is paying the heaviest toll to the Designation of five regions for ruthless warfare of the German subthe administration of the According to official retional education act ports, German spies apat Norwegian pointment of eleven agents to es- ports send word of the sailing of vestablish regional headquarters have sels and the submarines hovering been announced by the Federal about outside lie in wait for them. board for vocational education. Un to October 1 660 Norwegian New York City will be headquar- 000 tons, had been sunk, and with ships, with a total capacity of 1,020.ters for the eastern states, Indian- them were lost 713 men, and sevenapolis for the east-central states, teen more are missing. One-third of Kansas City for the west-central Norway's merchant tonnage has thus states, San Francisco for the Pa- been destroyed, and the official recific states and Atlanta southern states. for the Agents named were:- ports show that many sailors were murdered by gunfire while they were in lifeboats. Seven vessels were sent A. to the bottom "without trace," which means that the submarines killed all who were on board. The Norwegian Government has complained of these TEACHERS' AGENCIES of domestic science; a central New losses to Berlin-especially the recent JANUARY Yooking for two district superintendents; a Canadian city asks for a man for vacancies on file ask for teachers to fill good places. A nearby state is sinking of a fleet of Norwegian mer-penmanship and book-keeping, with the demand now becoming con mon that he shall be either chantmen by German raiders-but beyond the draft age or exempt; a New with a mildness which shows how im-York normal school needs a supervisor VACANCIES or high cheol a teacher of music portant it is felt to be to avoid giv-and drawing; a Connecticut city seventh and eighth grade teachers, and so on indefinitely. ing offence. vacant at the Holidays, and it is not now too early to find these places ON FILE. German in the Schools Only nineteen cities out of 163 of 25,000 population or over reporting to the United States Bureau of Teachers who are on the alert know that excellent positions become THE SCHOOL BULLETIN TEACHERS AGENCY, C. W. BARDEEN, Manager 313-321 East Washington Street, Syracuse, New York OUR BOOKLET Education teach foreign languages The Albert Teachers' Agency "TEACHING AS A BUSINESS" below the seventh grade of the elementary school. In twelve of these cities German is the foreign language taught; in three cities German, French and Spanish are all Estallished 1885 623 South Wabash Avenue, Chicago, Illinois with new chapters, suggestive letters, etc. Used as text in Schools of Education and Normal Schools. Free to any address. taught in the elementary grades The Pratt Teachers' Agency are 70 Fifth Avenue New York WM.O. PRATT, Mgr. Recommends teachers to colleges, public and private schools. in one city German, Italian and Polish; while in the three remaining cities the languages taught to elementary school children French and Spanish, alone or in combination. In a few cities the foreign language is taught in all grades, from the first to the eighth; in others the instruction does not begin until the fifth or sixth grade. Governesses, for every department of instruction; recommends good Schools The number of elementary school to parents. Call on or address children taking German ranges from forty in one city to 22,000 in another. Few of the superintendents who replied to the bureau's inquiry favor the teaching of German or any other foreign language in the lower elementary school, though many of A MERICAN ::: TEACHERS' AGENCY introduces to Colleges, and FOREIGN Schools and Families superior Professors, Principals, Assistants, Tutors and Mrs. M. J. YOUNG-FULTON, 23 Union Square, New York. Kellogg's Agency recommends teachers and has filled bun dreds of high grade positions (up to $5,000) with excellent teachers. Established 1889. No charge to employers, none for registration. If you need a A teacher for any desirable place or know them believe thoroughly in foreign where a teacher may be wanted, address H. S. Kellogg, 31 Union Square, New York. language study for students in higher schools. A California superintendent says: "I was in doubt before the war. I am becoming convinced now that our public schools should teach 'one nation, one language, one flag.' The teaching of a foreign language below the seventh grade is a sentimental hold of the old country on Americans of S PECIALISTS with good general education wanted for aepartn ent work in High, Preparatory and Normal Schools and College in Pennsylvania and other States. Grade teachers with ability to teach some approved system of music and drawing secure positions paying $70 to $90 per month. For further information address THE TEACHERS' AGENCY, R. L. MYERS & CO., Lemoyne Trust Building, Harrisburg, Pa. Co-operating Agencies in Denver and Atlanta. C. A. SCOTT & CO. Proprietors the second generation." An Illi- THE BRIDGE TEACHERS' AGENCY 442 Tremont Building, Boston. nois superintendent says: "The public schools should not assist in perpetuating a foreign language in the home and foreign viewpoints in the community." An Iowa superintendent is careful to explain that German is taught in the elementary grades in his schools because "German-American grandparents and many parents demand it." SCHERMERHORN Established 1855 TEACHERS' AGENCY 353 Fifth Ave. NEW YORK CHARLES W. MULFORD, Prop. A superior agency for superior people. We register only reliable candidates. Services free to school officials. A typical condition is that in Bal- THE CORLEW TEACHERS' AGENCY timore, Md., where the introduction of German as a subject of instruction in elementary schools in 1874 was partly due to the fact that there was a large number of German private schools in which the atmosphere was entirely German. In its statement regarding the sit RUFUS E. CORLEW, Proprietor Telephone Beach 6606 uation the bureau makes the fol- ALBANY TEACHERS' AGENCY, Inc. lowing suggestions: "There is gen eral agreement among educators Supplies Schools and Colleges with Competent Teachers. Assists Teachers and public men, both in this coun- in Obtaining Positions. Send for Bulletin. JANUARY 26, 27 OR 28, 1918 If you intend to observe Child Labor Day, write to the National Child Labor Committee, 105 East 22d Street, New York City, and the following pamphlets will be sent you: No. 276-What shall we do for the children in time of war? 277-A war measure-Children in farm work and school gardens. 278-Safeguarding childhood in peace and war. A speech by Owen R. Lovejoy. 267-Child Labor in your state-A study outline. Condensed facts on child labor in the United States. Contains suggested program for Child Labor Day. THE FOLLOWING PAMPHLETS WILL BE SENT ONLY ON SPECIFIC REQUEST CHILDREN IN STREET TRADES No. 246-Street Workers. Illustrated. 264-Unregulated street trading-Based on a study of Detroit newsboys. CHILDREN IN FARM WORK No. 215 People who go to tomatoes. H. M. Bremer. A study of 400 families of cannery workers. 259-Child labor in the sugar-beet fields of Colorado. Edward N. Clopper and Lewis W. Hine. 274-Farm work and schools in Kentucky. E. N. Clopper. 279 The rural child labor problem. Speech by A. C. Monahan, specialist in rural school administration, United States Bureau of Education. 281-Causes of absence from rural schools in Oklahoma. Edward N. Clopper. MISCELLANEOUS No. 271-Enforcement of child labor laws. F. I. Taylor. 275-How one juvenile court helps to make child labor legislation effective. M. B. Ellis. 263-Experiments in industrial education in New York City S. D. White. 260-Federal aid to elementary education. Speeches by P. P. Claxton and John Dewey. |