The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1892-04-30
CULU BUS DAY, OCT, IL.
Message From the Executive Com-
mittee Appointed by the SuperIn-
tendents Of Education p .

From the Executive Conn.,
mittee Appointed by the SuperIn-
tendents Of Education p II
To the Scholars of the Public Schools OF
the United States, the Executive Commit
tee ofthe Columbian Public School Cele.
bration sends the following Message:
THE SCHOOLS MAY LEAD
The 10Th Of October, 1892, the 4Oo.h Ami.
versary ofthe Discovery OF America, ought
to be observed everywhere in America.
The day will be marked in Chicago by
the dedication of the Columbian EXPOSE
ton grounds. The day also may be sigma
lized in every own and village in the Re-
pubic by a local celebration Of which the
Public School is the centre.
The Public Schools ofthe Republic will
form the most fitting centres for all these
local celebrations. A national Public
School observance simultaneous with the
Chicago exercises will awaken a popular
interest i'll the coming Exposition. Far
more important is the fact that the Public
School has a right to occupy the most
prominent place in the celebration. The
Public school is the one characteris;icinsti-
tuition which links all neighborhoods to-
getller, and can thus furnish q common
bond for a national celebration. The Public
School is the ripe fruit of the four centuries
Of American civilization. The Public
School ofto-day sways the hundred years
to come.
APPEAL TO THE
This Executive Committee now appea Is
to the scholars themselves to be the first to
move. Iii for You, scholars ofthe American
Public Schools, to arOu>e a sentiment in
C0nr SrhnOlS avid in x-oJip 1,nirl1,0 ~ ri,
tor this grand way Of celebrating the Find
ing Of America. Educators and teachers
will meet you from their side. But it is
for YOU to begin.
You will make it succeed if you unite to
say that it ought to b.. done. The interest
OF the public will be awakened if the
scholars join in the earnest request that the
school be allowed to be the centre Of the
daysis observance.
There are Thirteen Millions now in the
Public Schools. You have the chance to
conduct a patriotic movement which will
have a place in history, and will strengthen
the Republic through the coming century.
WHAT TO DO.
The first thing to do is to determine,
when you rea this Message, that you will
do all you can to induce your school to en-
ter the celebration. Then show this Mes
sage to your teachers; every patriotic teach
er will be glad to help you if you. show
yourselves in earnest. Take the Message
to the School Committee and the Superin.
tendent; their consent II aid are indis-
pensable.
After you secure the support of all these,
then let the school vote that it will enter
the celebration.
The next thing after this public vote will
be the appointment of a strong committee
to take the charge. This committee should
he made ny inint1y from, Srhn1ara fooohorc
and friends of the school. The committee
should in all cases be made up of those who
are most in earnest, so that the work may
not be checked by any possible change of
teachers during the summer.
TIE PROGRAMME.
A programme of exercises will be furnish
ed by the Executive Committee. 1t will
be simple and adopted to any school, yet SO
arranged that more elaborate exercises may
be added wherever desired. The aim of
this Official Programme will be that certain
school in the Republic; and that at least in
feature the Chicago Programme and
the School programme may be identical.
in due time this Executive Committee
will make more definite suggestions on
methods of celebration through the Super
intendcnts of Education and through the
press.
TIE LOCAL COMMITTEE.
The duty of your commit ,e will first be
to interest the .itizens and ~ prepare the
school. Proc ions may J. arranged. The
veterans, both North and South, will glad
Iy be escorts for the schools. The other
military, civic and religious organizations
OF each town will lend their aid if they see
that the schools are determined that the
celebration shall be worthy ofthe day. The
local press will be The most. valuable of all
supports; and the earliest effort of your To-
cal committee should be to e Hist its SYM
patty and request its co-ol cratic IL.
On October 18th the Stars and Stripes
should be floating from every Schoolhouse
in the Republic.
1t is the hope of the frierds of Common
School Education that not one Public
School in the United States will allow it.
sell to be left out in this most memorable
celebration.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
FRANCIS Bethany, Chairman, representing
The Youths Companion, Boston, Mass.
JOHN W. DICK1NsoN, Secretary of Massa-
chusetts Board of Education.
THOMAS B. SToCKwELL, Commissioner OF
Public Schools of Rhode Island.
w. II, GARRETT, Superintendent Of Pub
lie Instruction Of Tennessee.
w. G. HEWITT, Superintendent of Mich.
gan Educational Exhibit at Worlds
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