The Newtown bee., 1909-12-10

the Ice, he decided that would be just the spot, so he said Farewell, cruel world" But just before the final leap he said, Let me see," and taking a thermometer out of his pocket tested the temperature of the water. Wow! 96 degrees below! Guess I'll wait till next July for this suicide!" Well, so 1t was with the school board, they kept putting of and off their decision about adopting the airships as mode of conveyance until one of the Aviation companies located in town, gave them greatly reduced rates and 1t was then immediately decided to buy airships and lay out routes through the air. Some farmers in town at first opposed,sto seeing the ships fly ing over their land fearful of their sudden dropping on some crop and running it, but they soon got used to them.
 What an interesting sight 1t is to be on the school ground at 9 o'clock in the morning and see the children alighting in the airship stations and then lowered in buckets to the ground, the only relics left in Wash ineton of the old oaken buckets. We also see pupils brought to school by timid parents in automobiles because the school board would not issue written guarantee that their chil- dren sho Id never be injured when any of the air ships, through an im- perfect motor of break of some kind, crashed to the ground. Such catas- prophies had happened when the routes were first started and many had been injured. However, the majority of the pupils enjoyed inn mensely the whizzing through the air on their daily trips.
 Before closing, let us consider once more he Home and School As sociation starting in 1909 with membership of 46. 1t has grown to membership of 2000 and repre- sents nearly all of the families in the school as well as influential out siders. This association made a thorough study of the conditions of both home and school life, how they bear on the moral welfare of the child, how the adoption to surround ings, to nature, to the universe. That the business of education is to lead the young human being on the sur est and shortest road to this adap- tation. The mind should learn to rely implicitly upon it's powers to see, say, and do. A calm sense of power, firm conviction of master ship are acquired by seeing, saying and doing. By manual training in the schools can this success be brought about. Manual training has entered into the school life of the largest schools of the country, and Washington, that has never been indifferent to development tion have co-operated with those faithful teachers of the school and aided them in every way to build up character structures of which the world may be proud. They both labored to impress upon pupils the grand work and taught them how to direct the faculties of the mind, love of home, patriotism, hope, reverence, generosity, kindness, firmness, ambi- tion, dignity, self-esteem and purity.
 It is not to be wondered at that our school board had to employ clerk to answer the correspondence from towns and cities all over the United States requesting to know the methods used to accomplish the grand results in the educational field, testified to by graduates of the schools in the honest lawyers, de- vout ministers, and men and women in every profession who excelled. A letter from Superintendent Arthur