The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-03-22
PUPILS MUST Do IT
EXHIBIT AT ST. LOUIS A
WINNER
SAYS STATE SUPERINTENDENT
Committee Preparing to Get Mime
sofa Teachers Interested When
N. e. A. Meets-Past Exhibits
Will BE Outdone.

The Minnesota committee on prepara-
ton of an educational exhibit for the
Louisiana Purchase exposition at St
Louis, is busy making preliminary ar
rangements, and planning to get the
matter before all the schools and teach
ers of the state. One reason why moth
ing public has been done thus far is be-
cause of the forthcoming National Edu-
cat1ona1 association convention in Min
neapolis in July. The committee believes
that it will be we'll to wait until the
convention before springing it's plans on
the educators of the state. 1t figures
that the convention will draw thousands
of Minnesota teachers together and inn
bue them with great enthusiasm, so that
they will not only be willing, but eager
to plunge into the work of producing a
Minnesota exhibit for the st. Louis ex-
position, which will be a credit to the
state.
When the convention meets the Mime
sofa teachers will hold a special session
to discuss the question for a state ex-
hibit, and to make plans for arranging
for its collection in their respective To-
caities. 1t is desired to make the ex-
hibit far more representative of the
states educational work than any pre-
vious exhibit has been. Although the
Minnesota exhibit at Buffalo achieved
COIlSlOSIdOIS prominence ana received
much praise, it is felt that it was not
on the whole representative of the best,
or least not as creditable an exhibit
as can he arranged, if every teacher and
scholar in the state participates.
I'VE want every pupil in Minnesota to
know about this exposition and to take
a personal interest in Minnesota's share
in it. Every pupil should have a chance
to contribute something" says State Su-
perintendent Olsen.
Gov. Van SAINT says: minnesota, has
always done we'll at national and inter
national expositions, but we ought to
make an especially good record at St,
Louis In a certain sense this exposi-
ton belongs to the West, and Minnesota
has from the first been greatly interested
in it. We want to have the very best
exhibit in every department of production
that it is possible for our state to offer.
We expect to be at the top with our
flour, with our butter and cheese, and
we can be at the top in education, ! am
sure. think every pupil in the schools
should be interested in the educational
exhibit which this great state is to send
to the exposition. If the children of
Minnesota are given a chance we need
not fear for the result. With their en-
thusiasm and determination enlisted, we
may be sure that Minnesota's display in
the educational building at ST. Louis will
be one of the very best"
It is especially desired to have the ru-
raj schools contribute largely to this ex-
hibit. County superintendent will be
asked to urge upon their rural teachers
the advantage of getting the scholars
interested.
William c. Smith, the we'll known ed
itor of the Minnesota school journal,
has started the project of offering month
ly prizes for the best papers sent in by
rural school pupils on various subjects
BY getting the pupils interested in the
competition, he believes that an especi-
ally crelitable lot of papers can be secur-
ed to constitute a representative Minne-
sofa rural school exhibit at ST. Louis.