Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-01-30

BY County Superintendent and Teachers

factor in education in part as follows:
81 would have the newspaper read
and studied in every school in Kan
sas / would do this, why? Because
it means more education and more
intelligence. / would make the study
of current events as reflected and
mirrored in the Kansas newspaper
compulsory, and besides the books
and newspapers i would install the
tools of manual training. The news
paper takes up the thread of life
where the text book stops-just short
of coming in contact with things
which continue to happen after it
has gone to pr ess.
This is distinctively a newspaper
age. Never before in the history of
the world have they been so power
fnl as they are today. 1t is the editor
who impresses his thoughts upon the
public, who directs popular opinion,
who pleads for higher ideals and hui
man betterment, who is the potent
factor in communities, states and in
the nation.
He speaks for his locality and peo-
pie, and upon matters of grave local
interest, he is found on the side of
Justice and the common good. These
current events; these activities of a
community for higher ideals and
social betterment: are as necessary in
a chiid's education as are the lessons
in the books. The newspapers are
the life and light of today. They
should be used in the schools as
supplemental TO the reading texts,
geography, history and other studies
The day is not far away when the
Kansas teacher who is unable to sift
out the important news from a news
paper and teach the children its
significance and bearing upon gov
ernmental, business and social life,
will have TO surrender the position
and seek other fields of labor
Miss Merle Hit, vice-president of
the Banner district, writes that the
schools will hold the spelling contests
February 6. The district includes
the following schools and teachers:
District Al, Victory school. Miss
Hit, teacher.
District I, Banner school, Miss
Rogers, teacher
District SO, ckberry school, Mr..
O'Toole, teacher
District 5. Bosnia school, Miss
Shriner, teacher.
The Kansas City papers tell us that
$4,000 of the boys and girls there
signed the Peace Petition asking the
warning nations of Europe to stop
lighting. They followed much the
same plan used in our county-print-
ing blank forms of the petition and
circulating them in all their schools.
Trego county in addition to this
had sufficient number of blanks
prlnted-together with Miss Blake's
matches Peace letter. to the
children, to place a copy in each
nome where children signed the petit
tion.
TEACHERS REPORT
District No /, Wa-keeney, j. A Winchester
principal grades and g
enrolment %
1a1'ehudhCe---- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ---------- Sc
Hardness Q
Visitors -. n
Pupils perfect in attendance: sth grade
Henry Hille. Lacy Herrick' Lee Hfnshaw.
lone kraus, Mildred Phares Helen Simpson:
TIN grade = Margaret Acre, Ed HoIcomb
Margaret Hardman. Virgil Holcomb Chester
McAtee. Graydon Sellers. Bessie Simpson
Clifford Phares Eva Walker.
Grades and q, Miss Reardon teacher
ENROLMENT 2s
Attendance --.----- "a
Hardness "a
Visitors
Pupils perfect in attendance: 5th grade
Verne Belialre, Frank Basala. Ruth Bing-
ham, Hazel DeBoer, William Enix Ralph
Hendricks Raw