Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1918-09-26
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SECURITY LEAGUE
| AROUSES PUBLIC
| SCHOOL SYSTEM
Its Great Campaign Of "Patriot.
F.. ism Through Education" Being
Pushed in All States With
! Signal Success.

leral months ago by the National Sc
scurity League to arouse the people OF
the country to a realization OF the
true meanings of the war and at the
.9sme time lay the foundations for a
permanent system Of patriotic educa-
.tiOn in the public schools, has now
been extended into nearly every state
i'm the Union. The League is rapidly
completing arrangements, through the
various organized educational agen-
tcies of the country, by means Of which
Its message of militant patriotism will
be carried into every nook and corner
iof the land.
This effort of the National Security
League, which has the Endorsement OF
iall the leading American educational
authorities and has enlisted the active
Incorporation of educators of promi-
snence in every part of the country, is
being promoted under the direction Of
"a notable committee, headed by DR..
Robert NJ. McElroy of the Department
lof History and Politics in Princeton
university, who is serving as Educa-
tional Director of the National Sc
eurity League under leave of absence.
Mrs. Thomas J. Preston, Jr. formerly
Mrs. Grover Cleveland), is Secretary
Of the committee.
The Security Leagues objective is,
in addition to giving exact informa-
ton on the meanings of the war and
it's causes, to create more responsive
American citizenship through tie me-
dunn of better methods of permanent
patriotic instruction in the public
schools.
Twenty-eight Tons Of Literature.
In order to reach the greatest num-
Der of public school teachers direct
the League conducted classes in pa
srlotic education and distributed its
literature giving practical suggestions
on patriotic instruction at 254 of the
principal Summer Schools for Teach
iers throughout the country during the
past few weeks. The literature dis
tributed by the League as the result OF
ithe work at these schools has reached
q bulk of % tons. The League esti-
mates that it obtained immediate con
tact with approximately 100000 pub
INC school teachers, who will carry the
message home to classes totalling oveI
i2,500,000 pupils.
The Security League is now prepar
ing to follow up these results with 8
definite plan of organized promotion
among the Teachers Institutes held il
THE various states every fall and uni
fed direction of the spreading of thu
propaganda in the separate states
The methods followed in the differen
states svary according to local cOndi
,rfons and facilities. In some states
the direct cooperation of the State De
apartments of Education has alread.
been obtained by the Security League
In other states the propaganda is han
saled through the County Superintend
:ents, State Universities and by sending
workers into the state from the head
quarters of the League.
Some of the more prominent educa
tors of the country who are activel,
engaged in the promotion Of the Sc
eurity Leagues idea are:
DR.. G. A. Richmond, President o
Union College; Albert Shiels, Superin
tendent of Schools of Los Angeles
DIR. NJ. f. Libby, of the University G
Colorado; DIR. Liberty Hyde Bale,
horticultural and horticultural expel
and author.
Examples of Operation.
An example of the operation of tn
plan under state supervision is give
in Minnesota where State Superin
,sendent of Education Schulz prepare
the itinerary to be followed by d.
William A. Prayer, of the Universit
Of Michigan, in charge of the work I
chat state for the Security League. /
Colorado DR.. Libby found it more Ell
fective and convenient to work direct
Iy with the County Superintendent
but this with the heartiest approve
of the State Superintendent and tn
Governor.
An important division of the can
paign is being devoted to negro teacf
ers and schools. Among the men VIII
have been conducting the patriot
missionary work in this field for tn
Security League are: DR.. Hollan
Thompson, of the College of the Cit
Of New York; DR.. L. B. Moor
Dean of Howard University; DIR. Isaa
J. Lansing, of Ridgewood, N. j.; D.
NJ. S. Davage, President of Samut
Houston College. They have delivere
patriotic addresses and conducte
actual classes for teachers in the M
gro Summer Schools ofVirginia, Mort
Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, Lol
isiana and Texas. Dean Moore, hin
self negro. has obtained the organ
zation of more than 400 patriotic edl
cation classes among negro adults /
Louisiana and Mississippi.
Laboratory Experiments.
The Security League also has in OF
Grafton at Lawrence, Mass, in co-ol
Grafton with the local educational al
thorities, an Experimental School, 9
which methods of patriotic instructio
are beiBg worked out on the labor;
tory plan. The League is about to e.
fabIish similar school under tn
auspices of the State Department {