Alamogordo news-advertiser. (Alamogordo, Otero County, N.M.) 1912-1914, 1913-04-12
By j. II. Frnsfrons

pdFeHLdl preJuulco anu plrLldllJy,
has been started ON the road to be
come a criminal in the state instead
of being guided to become a noble
citizen. Combine firmness and i'm
plicit obedience with wise love at
home, and your children will be
; your joy and pride in the school and
and state.
4. Financial. Well-born, we'll
fed, well-trained, well-supplied. SUI
ficient funds must be given TO our
schools in order to secure the best
advantages. Proper buildings should
be constructed. If Education be
the chief business of republic, :"
let this high aim reflect itself in a
becoming educational architecture.
Let the architect of our schools so
construct our buildings that our ar
chitects of coming citizenship may
have every help rendered them from
the standpoints of heat, light, seat
ing, ventilation. What monstrous
mistakes are made, especially in
ventilation. What headaches are
engendered because some one didn
know enough TO connect Gods fresh
mir outdoors with active lungs in
side. How many children have tired
of school, lost all interest in their
I own culturing because of ls1lessness
brought on by a vitrated atmosphere
end correspondingly made more or
less vicious teacher, the result of
impure air. We know OF persons
| occupying splendid positions today
who had given up all thought of
Ifurther attainment because of con-
stant headaches, caused by teachers
whose affinity for the bottom of
chair was remarkable, started to
lives of great usefulness by simply
correcting ventilation Can we no.
help also the matter of proper re-
creation Our children should be
supplied for all ages and grades
with proper sports. Let children
work off their surplus animal ma
ture at the proper periods of play,
just as important as anything on
our curricula, and the teacher will
have delight in leading their men
tai makeup in the room See to it
that every teacher in every grade
has the necessary supplies for best
work possible. Especially in the
primary grades should ample equip
ment be furnished. Those mites
of active humanity under seven
years, how can a teacher dc any
thing Hike adequate justice, poorly.t
furnished and overtaxed numerical |
ly. Parents who transgress right |
here should be made pay a fine of a |
dollar a week and the returns there
from utilizde in equipping the
room to entertain them, until they
have attained such raional age tc |
enter into proper study. Common
sense in clothing our scholars prop
eTly is very necessary. Overdress-
ing or embarrassing are both |
wrong. The one begets pride and /
snobberys in many cases, the other /.
engenders jealousy and separation.
Nowhere else can proper supervis-
ion and ccmmingling Of our boys
and girls accomplish more TO ce-
mening healthy friendships and 4
respect for each other, and oonse-
lquent welfare of the state, than in .
Our schools. Salaries, Adequate |
salaries! Competent instructors, AT
there's the rub. Ontario, Canada. /
pays her male teachers $767, and
female teachers S517 per annum re-
spectively. Hon. A. N. White says
in his report for 1911 that as a
state we invested only S732,125.51
in cur teachers and scholars. Last /
year we drank up aboutS12, 900, 900.
In other words the parents of this
state believe in the doctrine of Is
IN that II, 10 al 4n 4
SIG for damnation as over against
81 for education. Has the time
not come when we ought to cease
legislating for the bottle and the
barrel and begin to legislate for the
boy? When the average for our
teachers here, excepting the super
intendent is S731a and for the en-
ire state less than $50 per month
respectively, how can we expect
them to do all they could do had
they better returns financially to
secure magazines. able books on
their respective lines? Starye the
teachers Intellectually and you
undermine the foundations CT our
homes and our country. Let us cut
loose from our bottles and barrels.
and strengthen financially as well
rs mentally, our brains and our
Boards. What shall We say concern
ing cur school text books? Do our
parents realize that, more or less.
we are at the mercy of agents and
subagents OF mercenary publishing
houses7 Politics has introduced
more or less graft into our eduea-
tional system, so that we are being
exploited by these bookpublishing
concerns. How is IL that In Canada
4 parent can secure a primer for
four cents, whereas here ten cents
Is the price? In other words the
U. 8. parent has TO pay $50 per
cent Ttore for his child's text book
than the Canadian parent. How
comes this? In Canada, when q
new text book ib needed. the De-
partment OF Education through It's
able committee announces the char
acter of the text required. From
the texts thus formulated they se-
lect the one that most accurately
meets the need. Then they permit
the various publishing houses TO bid
for Its publishing. and the one Of
ferlng best return in paper. type.
etc. secures the right