Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1918-11-22
SECURITY LEAGUE
AR0USES PUBLIC
SCHOOL SYSTEM
Its Great Campaign of Patriot
ism Through Education" Being
Pushed in All States With
Signal Success.

The great campaign of Patriotism
Through Education inaugurated sew
eral months ago by the National Sc
curity League to arouse the people or
the country to q realization of the
true meanings of the war and at the
same time lay the foundations for a
permanent system Of patriotic educa-
ton in the public schools, has now
been extended into nearly every state
in the Union. The League is rapidly
completing arrangements, through the
various organized educational agen-
cies of the country, by means of which
its message Of militant patriotism will
be carried into every nook and corner
of the land.
This effort of the National Security
League, which has the Endorsement OF
all the leading American educational
authorities and has enlisted the active
cooperation Of educators of prcm1-
nence in every part of the country, is
being promoted under the direction of
a notable committee, headed by DR..
Robert M McElroy of the Department
of History and Politics in Princeton
University, who is serving as Educa-
tional Director Of the National Sc
curity League under leave Of absence.
Mrs. Thomas j. Preston, Jr. formerly
Mrs. Grover Cleveland), is Secretary
of the committee.
The Security Leagues objective is,
in addition to giving exact informa-
ton on the meanings Of the war and
its causes, to create more responsive
American citizenship through the me-
dunn Of better methods of permanent
patriotic instruction In the public
schools.
Twenty-eight Tons Of Literature.
In order to reach the greatest num-
Der of public school teachers direct,
the League conducted classes in pa
triotic education and distributed Its
literature giving practical suggestions
on patriotic instruction at 254 Of the
principal Summer Schools for Teach
ers throughout the country during the
past few weeks. The literature dis
tributed by the League as the result of
the work at these schools has reached
bulk of % tons. The League esti-
mates that it obtained immediate con-
tact with approximately 100000 pub
lie school teachers, who will carry the
message home to classes totalling over
100000 pupils.
The Security League is now prepar-
ing to follow up these results with
definite plan of organized promotion
among the Teachers Institutes held in
the various states every fall and uni
fed direction. of the spreading of the
propaganda in the separate states.
The methods followed in the different
states vary according to local condi-
lions and facilities. In some states
the direct cooperation of the State De-
partments of Education has already
been obtained by the Security League.
In other states the propaganda is ham
died through the County Superintend-
ents, State Universities and by sending
workers into the state from the head
quarters of the League.
Some of the more prominent educa-
tors of the country who are actively
engaged in the promotion Of the Sc
curity Leagues idea are:
DR.. c. A. Richmond, President Of
Union College; Albert Shiels, Superin-
tendent of Schools of Los Angeles;
DR.. NJ f. Libby, of the University Of
Colorado; DR.. Liberty Hyde Bailey,
arboricultural and horticultural expert
and author.
Examples of Operation.
ID c<x@2,nleAo9 the ccaration- of the