Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-12-28
MILLIONS OF CHILDREN
BOTH BOYS AND GIRLS
Reached by Federal Government
Machine Industry and Com
munity Life. 7"
WHAT LESSONS ARE ABOUT
How They May Be Obtained The Bu-
reau Series Of Lessons Sent
By Federal Government

by Federal Government
Machine industry and community
life" is the special theme for Decem-
Der in the series of lessons on the
war. issued by the United States Bu-
reau of Education. Department of the
| Interior, and now being studied by a
million or more school boys and girls
of all grade throughout the nation.
The Bureaus series of lessons on
Community and National Life as
they were termed by President Wilson
| in his original announcement to the
schools, have now reached their third
issue. October and November issues
! dealt with the organization of modern
! industrial life as compared with pion-
eer days, the effect of war on COM
merce in nitrate, the war and aero
planes, production and wise consump-
tion, and similar topics The idea of
teaching the principles of conserva-
tion underlying successful prosecu-
ton of the war originated with the
Food Administration, but the plan
has now been taken over by the Bu-
reau of Education. Professor Charles
II. Judd, of the University of Chicago,
with the assistance of a corps of writ
ers in the various fields, is preparing
these government texts for the pupils
in the elementary and high schools
What The Lessons Are About.
Parents as we'll as pupils will be
interested in the December lessons
The older high school students will
learn of the rise of the machine in
dustry, from the day of the hand loom
and the spinning jenny through the
changes wrought bEa. the industrial
revolution, to the laf8e-scale produc-
tion, world markets. and social prob
lens of modern industry. The vari
Gus elements of cost in factory opera
ton education as encouraged by in
|dustry the cantribution Of tlss press,
are also treated in this lesson for
older pupils.
In the section intended for the first
class of the high school and the up
per grades of the elementary school
the subject is How men made heat
to work. The lesson reviews the
use of animals, wind and water as
sources of power This is followed by
accounts OF Sayery's pumping device,
the first steam engine, of 1898; New
comen's piston engine of 1905; Hum
phrey Potter's automatic pumping en-
gine, and James Watts steam engine
which replaced the alternating hea:
and cold method of earlier types by
the separate condenser. Telephones
and telegraph are also described as
machines for overcoming space" and
their part in modern industry is en-
phasized The work OF women is con-
sidered, with special reference to the
production from home to factory. In
der the. heading "The impersonality
OF modern life" this section of the
| lesson compares modern city life with
the more intimate life as the small
village, analyses the large business
corporation of the present day, and
suggests the need of new standards
of conduct and new point of contact
/ between human beings.
For pupils in the intermediate
grades of the elementary schools "in-
ventions" is the subject taken up
The roll of inventions is called from
the simple traps and weapons of
primitive man to the printing and
telegraphy of today Iron and steel
are treated historically, and the mod
ern processes are described whereby
smelling is made easier and cheaper
than ever before. Other lessons in
this section have to do with the "ef-
fects of machinery on rural life," and
patents and inventions Special at.
tention is given to the farm tractor.
hich, besides its use in increasing
production, makes possible the move
ment of heavy trench guns and fur
nished the principle from which have
been developed the famous tanks
use by the British Army in France
How The Lessons May Be Obtained.
The Lessons in Community and
National Life" are sold to schools az
| cost by the government In all eight
numbers OF each section will be is
sued. one number appearing on the
| first OF each calendar month through
May The government printing Office
is able to furnish these texts in large
quantitis for school use, the cost in
quantities Of a thousand or more
amounting to less than cent month
for each pupil. or eight cents for the
entire series.
| These lessons are not yet being used
by the local schools.