The Press., 1918-11-14

especially items of any length. w , cannot put in type all the news iron cOrrespOn>e >ents if it is held | ack un i til Wednesday,.
 STAFFORD SPRINGS
 Mrs, c. P. Bard was in Norwicl Thursday and Friday.
 a4r, and Mrs. Fred Wildey have beel 1 New York for few days. iIr. and Mrs. Fayette Bennett O Newton Center have been guests o their daughter, Mrs. C. R. Newton.
 ..t the regular meeting of Myria, I;cI ckah lodge next Wednesday even ing there will be initiation, and a re hearsal will e held on Friday even 1 ing.
 On account of the celebration O | signing the armistice the town busi nesSS meeting was postponed on Mon day until Monday, the 25th, at 1.3' D. m.
 Mrs. Fralk Keefe of Ashleyville, S 1 C., Mrs. Howard Walker and MT. anC Mrs. CorI cit of Glastonbury were guests Monday of MT. and Mrs. R. L l Quinley.
 Mrs. F. A. Chapman, with her sis Ger, Miss Mcclure, her daughter, Mrs k. H. Valentine, and two grandchil uren, Virginia and Carol, have gone tt Miami, Florida for the cold months.
 At the last meeting of the Stafford Business Mems association l.. G. Luce was elected treasurer in place of H E. Jones, resigned. It was voted tC hold a social on Friday evening, th' 18th, to be in charge of the executive committee.
 The following books have beer added to the public library and are ii circulation: Over periscOpe pond E. s. Root and Marjorie Crocker; The Kaiser as I know him, A. N. Davis Donald Thompson in Russia, Donald c. Thompson; Out to win, c. w. Daw son; A minstrel in France, Harry Lauder; The fighting fleets, R. D Paine; Life in a tank, R. Haigh Little journeys toward Paris, 1914. 1918, Simeon Strunsky.
 H. c. Morrison, assistant secretary of the Connecticut State Board oi Education, spoke before the Current Events club Monday evening, the 4th Education was the subject and the important part it is to take as key to the great problem now confronting the United States was explained. MT Morrison believes ignorance far more dangerous than smallpox, Spanish influenza or yellow fever. Statistics show that a very large per cent. of people in Connecticut can neither read nor write. In 1910 there were 1000 and the number has increased in proportion to the immigration Night schools were strongly advOcat- ed and the strengthening of the day schools to meet the present day needs was urged. Better paid teachers better equipment and new school system was agitated. The same school system organized from 1900 to 1920, which admirably met the re- quirements of that time, is in service to-day, an entirely different time with entirely different needs. A new plan to meet requirements is in view with out the everlasting raising of taxes A few weeks ago, for the first time in the country's history,a bill went before the house at Washington to have the Federal government make an apprO- priation to adequately support more efficient schools. Since efficiency is based on health we should see that the fundamental health laws be ob- served. Sanitation, bodily cleanliness and physical exercise should be given their place in the child's instruction and defective vision, poor teeth, ade- holds which cause deafness and all remedial ailments should be given the closest attention. A school nurse and In0uICdI eAdIHlH0T, IOE at IOdSI d part of the time, is what schools are really coming to, but it will take time as it does in everything else to educate the community at large to see the need. Several cities and towns in the state and one town of only 1000 inhabitants were cited as showing the effective ness of the forward movement. It is blot on old New England that two thirds of her draftees were rejected as unfit for army service, and about eighty-four per cent. of these were for defects that taken in time could have been remedied The speaker, after a large experince in school work, believes that every boy and girl should be trained to practical hand work. Beginning with the seventh grade, at least, something along the line of domestic science for girls and vocational work for boys should be offered. The lecture was thoroughly enjoyed and the speaker heartily ap- plauded. Mrs. c. H. Moore, accom- panied by Miss Ethel Moore, sang Dear Lad of Mine." Mrs. R. w Ellis, Miss F. B. Washburn and Mrs F. F. Patten were the hostesses.