New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1918-08-09
TEACHERS RISE TO EMERGENCY
Clsssrooms of Public Schools OF
Country Turned Into
Second Line Trench

How the public school teachers o.
the country have risen to the unusua
opportunity and responsibility put
upon them by the war and turned the
classrooms of the nation into a VERT.
able second-line trench is set forth
in a statement by the National Sc
curity league upon the completion OF
the first six months work of it,
Committee on Citizenship in Ele.
mentary Schools"
Powerful Affiliations
This committee, which was organ
lied by the Security league in order
to carry knowledge of the true mean
ings of the war into the lower grade
school of the country and lay the
foundation for better methods Of in
struction in American citizenship, re-
ports that it has enlisted the CO.
operation of thousands of public
school teachers in every state in the
union. This has been done through
the affiliation with the work of the
National Security league of the Fed
eral bureau of education, state de-
partments of education, county and
city superintendent and the facu'-
ties of the leading universities and
colleges. DR.. Philander P. Claxton.
Z. s. commissioner of education, is
a member of the Security league S
committee on patriotism through
education" and a large number Of
the most prominent men and womc>
educators of the country are actively
affiliated with the committee.
In addition to the facilities pro-
vided by these connection, Miss Eta
V. Leighton, civic secretary of the
Security league and chairman of the
committee on citizenship and ele-
mentary schools" instituted an Ella
borate Correspondence course for
teachers" by means of which the
committee has gotten in personal
touch with public school teachers in
every nook and corner of the coun-
try.
500 Superintendent
In the Security leagues statement
the results of this work, Miss
Leighton says:
THE advice and assistance of the
committee have been requested by
agencies of every character, from the
Effort league of the Westchester
county ~penitentiary to state colleges
in the far west. The committee has
become a veritable clearing house of
methods in teaching patriotism.
write to us for a solution
of their individual classroom pro-
blems.
after conducting an inquiry, which
included over 1000 state, county and
city superintendent, we are able to
pass on to teachers everywhere the
result of the experience of
the entire country in the teaching
of %civics, history and patriotism. The
in this way solving its
war problems and became
to advise on any ques-
lion which might arise.
Rural Schools
THE rural schools, in which 81
per cent of the children of the Unit
ed States are taught, for the most !
part by young, inadequately trained
teachers, present a peculiar problem.
The committee has given especial
to their needs and has pre-
pared for their use elementary charts
iealing with the reasons for our en-
rance into the war and the neces-
'ity for victory, which have been
in great quantities. These
.harts bear suggestions for their use
~ teachers and give in simple form
Material for actual lessons in civics
md patriotism.
I'VE have based our propaganda
m giving to General Pershing's ap-
zeal, We will smash the German
inc in France, if you will smash the
Hun propaganda at home" the ans
yer, for every Hun lie uttered we
will utter an American truth We