Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-09-13
CHURCHILL IN favor
MORE NORMAL Schools
Is Most Important Of Matters
Next To Winning OF
The War.

''Next to the winning of the war,
the most Important problem before the
people Of Oregon is the establishment
OF suttlelent normal schools to train an
adequate supply of teachers for service
in its rural schools,1 said Super;ntends
ent of Public instruction Churchill 10.
day, in urging the people to vote at
the coming general election for a hin
establishing two additional normal
schools in the state-one in eastern
Oregon and one in southern Oregon.
The necessity of having normal
schools for the training of teachers for
the elementary grades in our schools
Is second only to that of having our
army and navy produce sufficient de.
tenders OF the nations ideals, con-
tinued Superintendent Churchill.
when the war is over the world Is
going to be rebuilt. That world is eo-
ing to be the highest conception of
men and women who have been spirit-
ualized through sorrow, through suffer
ing and through sacrifice. The present
boys and girls who are being educated
will be called upon for the leadership
In all the necessary readiustments that
are to come in this new and related
world that is going to rise out of the
ruins of the old. America will be at
the head of the Council Table of ma
tions and will be called upon to do
more than ever before. All forms of
public education must be maintained.
the most important of which is the
normal school, where teachers are rain.
edit for efficient rural school service.
The establishing of two more normal
schools in Oregon will bring returns
thousand fold, as the generation educa.
ted now under trained teachers can
give such q service as citizens as the
responsibilities resting upon the next
generation will demand.
"The allied countries let down eduea-
tional safeguards at the beginning of
the war. 1t was not long before each
suffered disastrous effects from low
ering of its educational standards and
England and France in the midst of
war are both nerving themselves TO
undertake a reconstruction of their ed
ueational systems.
America should profit by their
ns n,i' ''aAes eai ana see 10 It that the work
~ euuoaiioh DC maintained to the end
that there will be still more glorious
and patr!otic devotion to the ideals
of democracy.
me experience OF the south follow
lng the civil war and for thirty years
aLo.r aL shouid also De warning to us
ena1 we cannot allow teachers in our
iuiai schools whose general education
anu a training Is inadequate. Failure to
6ive special training for rurol school
setvnee means low standards of general
ana a material loss in in
Tl Tus'rlai ana economic effectiveness.
nc hatlen sutfers at the fountain
neau e wheh tnere is not high quality
~ ~, 1eacherS :, Tor the elementary schools.
opon tn9se teachers the nation must de-
Penu lor leadership. III the teachers
aie lnsulllclent or poo rim quality the
scnoVlS Pioduet Will be poorly fitted
iol 'he "'rk OF llfe. An obligation rests
upon every community to take such
measures as VIII adequatelyprovidethe
measures ~ as will adequately provide
.he youth or today for the duties of
'oniorroW. In power IN the nation most
potent Tor good or evil resides in the
pupilc school. The power is not in the
suervlsory group, but rests in the hands |
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