The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-07-12
THURSDAY, JULY ~, 1917.
The Vestibule of Tomorrow.

The school room is the vestibule Of
the great tomorrow and just on this
account the school room today is the
most important thing to be considered
in connection with the reorganization
of the human family to mcsr the new
occasions and the new duties which
have been taught to nation plunged
into war. The ''vestibule of the great
tomorrow" should be matter OF
especial solicitude in Kenosha just at
this present time. More than ever
there is reason to revise curriculums
and to provide for the practical teach
ing Of boys and girls that they may
meet changed conditions. Meeting these
changed conditions is not in any way
going to make them any less ready to
meet normal conditions when they come
again. but making them fit for life
today Is going to make them filter for
life in any other day than boys and
girls were ever made before. The
school problem is a new and greater
problem for Kenosha this year.
The milton today is learning the
economic value of thrift, but the ma
! tion of tomorrow must know the educa-
tional value of this virtue. This means
that school rooms, if they are to be
proper vestibules of the future, must
be the places where thrift is to be
taught to boys and girls. The practical
! side of life has become important in
the education of ,len and women. To
safeguard the America of tomorrow the
boys and girls must be properly edu-
Gated. Children must be given the fun
damental understanding of thrift. A
man and woman may best practice
thrift in the ideas of just what thrift
means are properly inculcated into
their minds as children.
! The school room remains as ever the
only point of contract between the
/ present and the future. 1t is through
| the school room that men and women
of today must make thei- influence felt
on posterity. 1t is wonderful oppor-
unity that is offered for the school.
Men who have joined the army and the
navy to fight in the fannels Of ship
board anC in the khaki of the army,
have responded definitely to the call
of duty But patriotism does not ex-
act her toll from the colder alone.
The duty of men left behind is to
preach the duties of thrift, to teach
the duties of economy that the men
who fight may be properly cared for.
In the past thrift courses have been
novelty fad in the schools. Now
they become as important as any
course. The Kenosha schools with the
opening OF the new year should teach
the children every day the necessity of
thrift, the way in which thrift may
be practiced. The schools must teach
individual self denial and individual
saving. The influence of such teach
lings will be reflected, not only in the
school rooms of Kenosha, but in the
homes of Kenosha The six thousand
children of the public schools of Keno
sha are the greatest agents that the
city has for the promotion of the right
rules for living. 1t would be I'M
patriotic and un-American to over
look the proper use of this great
agency for national preservation.
This education of the children can
not be accomplished by an occasional
talk on "thrift, !" but it will be accom-
plished by Systematic and carefully
followed out programs of education
The cosmopolitan population of Ke-
nosha calls upon the school officials
for the most serious consideration of
this problem. 1t must be made para
mount If we are to have special
teachers for music and drawing and
manual training and sewing and lot
of other things it is not straining the
point to suggest that an expert be en-
ployed to teach "thriftn No more in
leresting, no more valuable study could
he added to the curriculum of any
schools. To neglect such teaching at
this time would prove the greatest
breach in the duties of the school com
missioner to the children and parents