Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-05-12
WHAT. SCHOOLS ARE DOING
TO TEACH PATRIOTISM
DR.. Chandler Summarizes Activities
to Help Nation in War
Work.
TWENTY-FIVE ITEMS LISTED
Contract Just Closed With War De.
partment to Give 500 Soldiers
Special Vocational Training Dur
ing the Summer Months.

For the Information Of the City
School Board and the public generally.
particularly the patrons OF the city
schools. list OF the twenty-five pa
;riotic activities OF the public schools
Of Richmond has been prepared in the
Office OF Superintendent }. y. c. Chand-
Ter. which is most interesting. The list
IS headed "Wha, the Schools OF Rich
mond Are Doing TO Help the Nation
In War" and the text OF il is as fol-
lows:
/. National draft day. June 5. 1917.
holiday. On the preceding day patriotic
assemblies were held In all the schools
and $4,000 children carried home cir
culars explaining the provisions Of the
draft law
2. Red Cross campaign. Speeches by
prominent citizens in all the schools;
the schools participate In the Red Cross
parade; pupils and teachers solicit
funds. securing 4,6s2 subscriptions.
3. Firs. Liberty loan. Speakers In
all the schools; schools participate In
parade Liberty bonds in 5000 homes OF
the children.
4. Weekly assemblies OF a patriotic
nature in all schools with special en-
phasis upon the patriotic songs OF the
entente allies.
8. Extracts OF speeches OF President
Wilson and Secretary Of the Treasury
McAdoo read and explained IN all city
schools.
6. Patriotic booklets. showing the
progress OF the war. being made by
every class in the city.
7. Lessons in arithmetic and history
changed 50 az 10 use material sent from
Washington and dealing with food and
fuel conservation and war savings.
s. Lessons in nature study based on
garden work. United states garden
army clubs formed in every school.
g. French war orphans adopted by
French classes in John Marshall and
all junior high schools. Patriotic club
organized in John Marshall High
School.
10 Democracy OF To-day" contain
inE the war addresses of President
Wilson and other allied teachers intro
duced into high school English classes.
II. Junior four-nlinu.c contests held
In schools. Children make four-minute
speeches on war topics and diplomas
awarded 10 winners.
~. All sewing classes in the city do
ing Red Cross work: hundreds OF gar
men,s made.
49, Boys in manual training classes
will raise food crops on vacant lots
near the schools in lieu OF the bench
work heretofore done by them.
II. Poster contest under direction OF
State food administration to encour-
age and promote the conservation Of
food.
IS Collection takm IN all schools for
soldiers library fund. The high
schools collected over 1900 books for
soldiers libraries. High school boys
subscrib, to 7. NJ. c. a. prisoners fund.
l6. Tag -Your-Shovel-D observed by
all pupils carrying homo the govern
ment tags.
II. Schools carry on big drive for
war savings stamps. selling 100000
worth in two weeks; now selling over
$4,000 worth OF these stamps q week.
is. Organized woman's working re-
serve classes In John Marshall High
School and in the Binford Junior High
School
ls. Radio. gas engine. and French
classes organized in night schools for
soldiers at the aviation camp or for
men about to be drafted.
20. Canning clubs organized in ten
schools last summer; war cooking
demonstrations given in fifteen differ
ent school buildings during the past
winter.
Fl. Lessons in food conservation now
oeins given in all schools OF the city
with children carrying homo recipes.
-. schools now assisting in third
10" s"'HPaiSh with cach pupil
carrying nome subscription cards and
government circulars
%. over 500 teachers assisting the
local draft boards by performing clcri
cal work.
"a. Night vocational classes being
organized for men in class A OF the
draft In order TO equip them to do sne-
cial work for the army and navy and
In the aviation service.
20. Contract just closed with The
united States War Department to give
special vocational training during the
summer months to 500 men of the Ma
t,onal army these men to be sent to
School Board to give them tbo naoaa
sary instruction.