The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-02-08
STATE NORMAL
TRAINING SCHOOL-PATRIOTISM
AND THE SCHOOLS-PARENT-
TEACHERS MEETING.

The weekly seminar held in the
training school building last Tuesday
was especially interesting. The
theme was arithmetic. Excellent pa
pers were given by Miss Boyce, Miss
Reed, Prof. Bell and Prof. Lawrence.
Elimination of subject matter, time
allotment, method and drill and rea-
soning tests were the sub-topics un-
der consideration. The next meet
ing will be February IL. The theme
will be Subject Matter and Time AL
lotment in a Four-Year Curriculum
in a Secondary School for Training
Teachers"
Miss Beyer's pupils are making pa
per from cloth and from wood pulp.
The results are very commendable.
Miss Reeds pupils had charge of
general assembly today. Note pro-
gram for Parent-Teachers' club for
next Monday night.
AS delegates to the state Y. w. G..
A. meeting which is to be held in
Sioux Falls February 1918, Miss
Ruth McKibbin, the president of the
local organization was selected to
represent the senior class and Miss
Florence Northrup for the juniors.
The big theme for this meeting is
World Religious Problems"
Patriotism and the Schools.
We as a country have stood for a
government "of the people, for the
people and by the people," and it is
to be hoped that we will stand for
this principle in our fight for liberty
and democracy. If we do we will
stand by our public schools. Teach
ers alone cannot uphold the standard,
all classes must rally to keep u pub
lie schools to, at least, what they
were before the war began, and as
much better as we al possibly make
them. We are sending our best to
Europe to fight for our ideals, but il
we in the. second line of defense, al
low them to trail in the dust then il
is all without avail. A democracy
means an educated people and yet e
cry campaign for retrenchment would
hit the public schools first. Some To-
calities are clamoring for children to
leave the school and work; some are
closing the school to save fuel as a
first resort; some are retrenching on
school funds; few are approaching
what the school mean to the real
significance of the war.
1t is said THE ballot in the hands
of an ignorant voter is more to be
dreaded than a musket in the hands
of a foreign soldier" If there is any
grain of truth in this. u duty is
plain. We cannot send millions of
men to France to fight that the peo-
pie may rule and then by u neglect
and shortsightedness make the COM
ing generation unfit to rule because
they have no training, no vision, and
Without vision the people perish"
There is also another thing to con-
slider in the number of our best train
ed young men who are at the front.
My own alma mater has sent over a
thousand young men; these have not
all gone from the classroom; many
had completed their course and were
in their life work, active leaders in
their communities; who shall take
their places? Unless the schools
maintain their standards, the places
must stand vacant. Everywhere we
hear the cry Make the world safe
for democracy" If we cripple our
schools it cannot be done.-Candis
Nelson, Madison State Normal.
Parent-Teachers Meeting
Program to be held In the audito-
rum of the training school February
IL, 1918:
Three Folk Dances, Klopdans.
Swedish; Blocking, Swedish; Grief
Dance, Hungarian - Fifth Grade
Girls.
Reading, The Little Jackal and
the Alligator"-Agnes Berther.
Vocal Solo, Little Pink Rose
Carrie Observation-Disclosures Carr.
The Minuet-Danced by pupils OF
fifth and sixth grades.
Address, "Malnutrition"-Dr. f.
v. lyman.
Address, "Lincoln"--Prof. F. A.
Buechel.