The log cabin Democrat., 1917-01-16
PUBLIC SCHOOL NOTES

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 Three hundred and ninety-nine pu- pills were neither absent nor 'ardy last month.
 The tide seems to be turning; one new pupil and three withdrawals. The new one is Mary Grace Grooms; the withdrawals are Shelton Office, Bolton Harris and Jesse Allinder.
 The class in civics and their teach CT, Miss Cals.i.ical, attended court Ipart of an afternoon last week. The class in advanced civics will visit the Legislature one day this week-prob- ably Friday. As the legislature meets only every other year, the jul niors will be allowed to go too. MT. Short will be in charge of the party.
 The second semester began yester- day. There were some changes in schedule Miss Maggie Denison takes one of Mir Shorts algebra classes, while MT. Short starts his class in advanced arithmetic. Classes in commercial geography will be or ganized in rooms eight and nine, and a new class will take up physiology. The eights began algebra last week.
 Parents will please remember that we serve soup on all bad days, such as yesterday, as well as on Tuesdays and Thursdays regularly. By being supplied with meal tickets, the chil- dren will always be ready for emer- gencies. Besides, there is saving in buying tickets by the quarters worth.
 And there is nothing short about the soup the girls are serving. A bowl makes a pretty fair lunch. It is rich and piping hot-just the thing for a shivery day. And then it is so much better for the children to eat warm lunch in comfort than to bolt cold one as they habitually do, or to wade the sloppy crossings home for a hot lunch there. Aside from any. thought of advantage to the cooking department, we wish all the children might have hot lunch, if nothing more than a bowl of soup.
 Rooms one and two will sing at chapel next Monday. Needless to say, they will sing well-they always do
 There is pretty good stuff in boys who will come two or three miles to school such mornings as yesterday And Emsley Stevens came four miles ] through the cold yesterday.
 There are ffty-four more pupils now than there were at the end of January last year. This shows our normal increase. To keep the work properly distributed, new room should be opened each year. It has been two and half years since We added a new teacher.
 Complimentary notices of the Con- way public school survey have re- gently appeared in both the Journal of Education, Boston, and the School Board Journal Detroit. We have a notion that our work is better known a thousand miles away than it is at home.
 The public school has been severely criticised of late years because its pupils are frequently caught stealing or gambling or doing other unworthy things. We think the time has come when friends of the school can talk back. It is utterly foolish to expect boys to be better than their surround ings. When the men of the town smoke cigarettes and swear and gamble, the boys of the town-some of them at least-will smoke and swear and gamble And when the law abiding adults of a community permit these things to go on unre- buked, when the policy of expediency outweighs the ideal of good citizen ship, it is futile to expect the moral sense of the pupil body to function in seeking out and bringing offenders to justice.
 l We are not excusing the crooked ness of school children on the grounds that others do the same things. We are simply calling attention to the inevitable results to a community of allowing it's laws broken with i'm punity and brought into disrepute If we would have good boys, we must surround them with good men. If the courts will do their duty, the school will have little trouble keep | ing itself in order,