A UNIQUE CLASS MEMORIAL
A Unique Class Memorial AN UNIQUE memorial has been selected by the graduating class of the University of Wisconsin. Members of this class will take out life insurance policies, each for the sum of...
...What Not to Do Whether or not the English suffragists are right about militancy, there is just one way to insure their continuing in their present attitude...
...Then put in an inch layer of coarse gravel, pieces of coal or broken crockery...
...A Bushel for a Home" The boys attending the North Dakota Agricultural College have made a unique appeal for a home on the college campus...
...I'm sure no microbe could live on my salary...
...The soil should contain a good deal of organic matter—1/3 leaf mould and 2/3 soil makes a good mixture...
...In other words, the State ought to make it possible for children to receive in the public schools instruction that will fit them directly for productive employment in any of these useful occupations, instead of sending them out with little or no training for the real work they are going to do...
...Members of this class will take out life insurance policies, each for the sum of one hundred dollars, in the newly created life fund of the State of Wisconsin...
...The insurgents have become the regulars, for they have won their fight and the former regulars have surrendered to them...
...The stock of the Pullman Car Company, presumably, would decline in value if the investors did not get a reasonable return on the money invested...
...The regular flower pot has a hole in it but put in the gravel, etc...
...This condition is indicated when the roots come out through the holes in the bottom...
...Well, I don't know just how many tons," said Lincoln carelessly, "but my men stacked all they could outdoors and then stored the rest in the barn...
...When the plants become root bound they should be put Copyrighted, Keppler & Schwartzraann...
...Their wages have been retrenched from $1.98 a day to $1.40 a day...
...It urges State aid to the local communities...
...Moonlight" Schools HOW illiteracy is about to be banished from a Kentucky county through the "moonlight schools" is interestingly told in a statement by Mrs...
...So, when business is slack, the retrenching is not done at this end of the line unless it is unavoidable...
...How many tons...
...Proofreaders' Mistakes An Englishman who had been for a tour round the world wag much annoyed with a report of his return which appeared in a local paper...
...One appearing in the New York Tribune, however, seems good enough to be Lincoln's own...
...Next year, there is good reason to believe, Congress will largely increase the amount allowed for the spread of instruction and suggestion as to farm management...
...Such expenditure has been assured by a provision in the agricultural appropriation bill which allows $300,000 for farm-management purposes...
...That means that they must cut out some of the things they have been used to buying, though on a maximum wage of $1.98 a clay one does not purchase many luxuries...
...Maintaining a Microbe A country school teacher was cashing her monthly check at the bank...
...and similar evening schools or classes in household arts...
...The policy chosen is of the twenty payment life type...
...commercial education for clerks, salesmen, etc...
...Good crop...
...The teller apologized for the filthy condition of the bills, saying: "I hope you're not afraid of microbes...
...The people at the top sacrifice nothing at all, or at most a few figures which mean little to them...
...The one measure for which he has most persistently fought is physical valuation of railroads...
...A good way is to set the fern in a jardinier containing some water, place a block of wood or something similar for the pot to sit on to keep it out of the water...
...Why shouldn't they also skip a meal or two and go slow with the butter and sugar...
...He has not stepped back, but the formerly controlling element has moved forward in line with him...
...One by one the illiterates are interested in the work of such schools as the "Moonlight School on Old House Creek...
...They won't though...
...It isn't the pleasant-est work, but that is beside the question...
...That is to prosecute them...
...This report ended: "His numerous friends are surprised that he is unhanged...
...There is no excuse for the Progressive party, so-called, to exist...
...and it is believed that the last vestiges of illiteracy will be wiped out by the close of the present year...
...This has been made law with the united support of the Republican party...
...filled the outdoors first Not every tale credited to Lincoln, the great storyteller, is to be accepted in these days without several of the proverbial grains of salt...
...He did not know that the offender was the compositor, who, in setting up the report, had omitted a letter "c," thus substituting the word "unhanged" for "unchanged," which the reporter had written.—Pathfinder...
...But a new order of things is at hand...
...Following is an extract: "The federal government will expend about $125,000 this fiscal year in promoting the cause of better management, through the medium of county agents, who will impart instruction directly to the farmers and to farmers' organizations...
...It is significant that students of the state university should be the first to make use of this new undertaking of the commonwealth...
...to give training for a specific employment in addition to the regular schooling, so that the boys and girls may be more efficient and willing workers, as well as better educated individuals* * * Flowers in the Home By W. R. LANXON A FEW PLANTS do much to make a house homelike...
...Cora Wilson Stewart, superintendent of Rowan County, addressed to the United States Commissioner of Education...
...Because when something happens like the disgraceful treatment of the Washington parade, an immediate investigation is started, apologies pour in from all sides, and every paper in the country expresses indignation...
...The plan is for the federal government to pay half the salary and expenses of the agent for each county...
...There are no suffrage outrages in this country...
...Experience has already been sufficient to indicate in what kind of schools this vocational training can be given...
...Ferns require the same soil and drainage but are shade-loving plants...
...A part of this sum will be used in pursuing the farm-management investigations of which William J. Spillman has charge...
...In the Pullman shops in West Oakland forty or fifty women are employed in cleaning cars...
...Selected...
...Treat malcontents with justice, with mercy when possible, with gentleness always, and the fanatics on a given subject will be reduced to inconsiderable numbers...
...They are asking the farmers of the state each to donate a bushel of wheat toward the building of a dormitory...
...What are the essentials of a State system of practical education...
...and "household arts education" for non-wage-earning occupations connected with the home...
...The circular cites a number of types of schools, some based on European models, others on American practice, among them the following: The all-day vocational schools, where the pupils can spend at least one year in all-day attendance...
...The school workers have on record the name, location, and history of every illiterate in the mountain county, and are able to make a special study of each individual case...
...the farmer asked...
...But why have all the sacrifice at the bot-tom...
...Lincoln, smiling his melancholy smile, drawled: "I've been cutting hay, too...
...The Republican party is now the progressive party, with the real father of the progressive movement among its leaders...
...Farm-management efforts of the Department of Agriculture have thus far not been of a nature to bring the farmers of the country and the farm-management experts of the Department in close touch...
...Uncle Sam's Plans for Teaching Farmers This Year IN Farm and Fireside is an account of the plans of the United States government for advancing agricultural interests throughout the country, in the coming year...
...That means, in this instance, that it is shaving expenses at the bottom in order to maintain profit at the top...
...Reprinted by permission from "Puck...
...That the government will soon be paying out a million dollars a year for this purpose is not only possible but probable...
...In a few short nontechnical paragraphs it sums up certain of the fundamental policies of vocational education as this society sees it...
...In order to aid in the movement the National Society for the Promotion of Industrial Education has issued a brief, explicit statement of what it considers the main principles that should underlie the proposed legislation, and the United States Bureau of Education, while not giving official indorsement to the program as a whole, is sending copies of the pamphlets to those who apply for it...
...If the Pullman company wants to retrench, why, let it...
...agricultural education for the farmers...
...THEY BELONG TOGETHER The Starvation-Wage factory and the "Red Light" Hotel In this cartoon "Puck" suggests graphically the relation between commercialized vice and insufficient wages which has been shown to exist by the Illinois Welfare Commission, and other investigating committees in several states...
...The other half is to be raised locally...
...If placed near a window they will do better if there is a curtain, scrim for instance, to shut off part of the light...
...Plants like geraniums, begonias, flowering maple, fuschias and dwarf roses are very satisfactory...
...In the past two years the thousand and more illiterates have been reduced to a few hundred...
...Training Boys and Girls for Useful Occupations THE MOVEMENT for vocational education in this country is now in full swing...
...Public Health Day" The Governor of Georgia sets aside one day in the year as "Public Health Day," to be observed in every school in the State...
...The rivalry between Republicans and Democrats during the Wilson Administration promises to be a rivalry as to which can best gratify the desires of the people for progress...
...What is going to be done by the government this year is only a beginning...
...La Follette's Fight Is Won Senator La Follette, pioneer of the progressive Republicans, leader of the insurgents, is now a regular...
...The society's circular endeavors to answer this question...
...The class of 1913 believes that by leaving a memorial of this kind they can best give expression to their gratitude for the education they have received and at the same time give fitting expression to the ideals of service so manifest in Wisconsin...
...It might exhibit a noble example of self-sacrifice...
...That is not the way modern "retrenching" is done.— San Francisco Bulletin...
...If tin cans are used to grow them in, punch the bottom full of holes with a spike...
...That is, while the government will have about $125,000 to spend for this purpose between now and next June 30th, the end of the fiscal year, the fact that an equal sum will be raised in the different counties that want agents will bring the total expenditure for the promotion of farm-management advice and instruction up to $250,000...
...Not a bit of it," the school teacher replied...
...the evening schools in industry or agriculture, for persons over 16 years of age who work during the day...
...These insurance policies will be the first to be written by the state under the recently established life fund...
...into a larger pot...
...School Hygiene Ail the states in the Union except Nevada and Arkansas have definitely organized State committees for the Fourth International Congress on School Hygiene, to be held in Buffalo, August 25-30, 1913...
...There never was, for the fight which that party made could have been made and easily won within the party...
...Camp Fire Girls The foreign interest in American physical education movements is shown by the fact that a German periodical recently devoted its leading article to "The Camp Fire Girls of America...
...State Insurance Commissioner Herman L. Ekern and Secretary to the Board of Regents M. C. McCaffery conferred with the committee of the senior class regarding the feasibility of this memorial...
...He has been elected a member of the steering committee of the Senate, which once relegated him to an obscure committee room in the basement of the Capitol and let him talk to empty benches...
...The Senator has not abandoned his progressive principles, but the Republican party in the Senate has adopted them...
...Both expressed the opinion that the project is practicable and that it lends itself to the simplest administration...
...Portland Oregonian...
...Spill-man, under whose division in the Bureau of Plant Industry the direction of farm-management matters falls, estimates that about $125,000 will be available for the employment of agents in various counties and for the organization needed to make the work of these agents effective...
...the part-time schools, where boys and girls regularly employed may come for a few hours each week...
...The newer education which they are introducing is not intended to replace the old, but to supplement it...
...They can be easily raised...
...Well-rotted manure can be used in place of the leaf mould...
...Big Corporation Retrenches, as Usual, by Cutting Wages The Pullman Company is retrenching...
...It is significant that the six States that have already set up systems of vocational education — Massachusetts, New York, Connecticut, New Jersey, Wisconsin, and Indiana—have long had excellent schools...
...Six States already have more or less complete systems of vocational training, and a number of others are considering legislation to Introduce into the public schools work that will fit boys and girls more directly for earning a living...
...A farmer is said to have told Lincoln a whopping story about his hay crop...
...It recognizes four fields of vocational training as the kind the State ought to furnish its boys and girls: Industrial education for workers in the trades and industries and in the household...
...The money that has accumulated in these policies at the end of the twenty year period will be turned over to the University to be used as a loan fund for the assistance of needy students...
...Plans are being perfected that will eventually result in the best expert advice of the Department on practical problems of farm-management being given to farmers in many counties directly...
...Fine, very fine," said Lincoln...
...The surest way for the English Government and the police to keep anger alive and outrages constantly on the increase is to abrogate their policy of tolerance and make martyrs of the suffragists.—Collier's Weekly...
...One of the most important things is drainage...
...Every cause, •right or wrong, since the world began has had for its best friends those foolish persons who believe that violent physical suppression can kill an idea...
Vol. 5 • May 1913 • No. 20
