The sun., 1918-09-15
EACH SCHOOL GIRL DOEc
HEa RED cROco BIT.


w THAT change has come over our
w American girls Only yesterday
multitudes of them seemed
without purpose or aim in life other
than pleasure. Ease. eats" fancy ap-
paTel, a madeup complication. a downy
bed and a 9 o'clock rising hour. an I'M
broken round Of theatre engagements.
dinners. dances and weekend parties,
seemed to be the chief end of existence.
And even yet some of them make me
think OF John wesleys quaint old lines:
There is n number Of US creep
Into this world to eat and sleep,
And know no reason why we're born
But only 10 consume the corn.
pevour the cattle, flesh and fish
And leave behind-an empty dish
Been't taught to fiatter TO lie.
There's nothing better can be said
Than that he's eat up all his bread.
Drunk up his drink, and gone to bed.
To-day Enthusia site Patriots.
But when once confronted by a serious
situation and given a real opportunity
,riotism. They bought bonds and stamps.
they began to practise conservation and
economy. they enlisted In this service
and that. and they were eager to take
courses OF study that would enable them
70 help win the war;. The right stuff was
IN them after all
And these same girls must share In
ne responsibility of the long years Of
reconstruction after the war. and since
hey are TO be voters as well as workers
they must be trained for coming duties.
Herein lies the responsibility of our
schools.
Newer Education Needed.
Be II remembered that a world in ira
vail has no room for incompetents. The
desire to live in "innocuou5 desuetude"
In an idler's paradise cannot be toler-
ated in any one hereafter. Capable
women as well as capable men are
needed. and everything must bend to
their production. Thus tomorrow chal-
lsnges to-day, and 30 far as the training
OF our youth Is concerned newer edu-
cation must rise as one Of the champions
Of democracy-perhaps the most power
~ champion OF all.
For schools of the traditional type
thinking parents and sensible girls have
little use. The war has settled that.
And tho kneil of the old time finishing"
school has also been sounded. This old
fashored idea of schooling may have
met . old fashioned demand. We will
rot stop TO discuss that, but we know
this; that a world which is undergoing
momentous changes calls for . system
Of education that. is fundamentally dif-
ferent Fancy finishing courses and
other traditional courses whose founda-
tons were laid 200 years ago that land
their victims in the quicksands OF inef-
hc!ency and helplessness must give way
10 the newer education Of the quick eye.
the obedient muscle, the will to work
and the character capable OF self-sac-
rice
Say, Young Lady!
What do you think a school should do
for you? Teach you a little Latin.
Ittls English, a little algebra, smat-
ter!ng Of this and . smattering OF that
20 that when you leave you are superoly
helpless? Or should a school so train
You that after graduation you are capa-
be OF making your own way In the
world and OF rendering a good account
OF your stewardship whether in home.
church or community? Tho war IL de-
veloping new problems Many OF these
must be solved by our girls and women.
Do you know anything about them? Has
your education been pertinent. concrete
ard satisfactory? What can you do?
Are you prepared for self-support? to
manage home? to help in relief work?
10 use the ballot intelligently?
Could you answer yes to even 90 per
cent. Of the questions that our State
government asked women between 16
and IS after war was declared and there
vas need OF finding out to what extent
women could be depended on for worth
while help? As a matter OF fact that
QUESTIONABLE bowled over most Of our
supposedly educated women and re-
vealed TO their diAnay that their school,
irg had left them all but useless and
helpless IN the present emergency and
'ha, they sadly needed further training
before they could be OF real value to the
country.
The Seven Points of super-effi-
cheney.
y must be evident that schedules or
'eu alton suited to the times must be
evolved. Teachers and parents must
see 70 II that the education OF our girls
AS well as OF our boys Is in no way
abridged. We must persistently oppose
'"e lure OF the short course, whose out
come is mediocrity, and firmly demand
hat every girl shsll be trained in the
seven points OF supereftlciency--the
Lta.;Ny body. the def hand. the we'll
informed mind, the senses that function
N'i7 accuracy, the willing disposition.
Ich sense OF civic responsibility and
."" genuinely religious character.
Educational DabbIinS should he
tnatbema.
H.au.nG here and there at a curricu-
.'1 must be dIscountenanced. Many
a." guilty OF this. Schoolmen are
amazed that so many parents and so
many young women independent OF pa
Fonts seem to think that few special