New Britain herald., 1918-03-29
PLATTSBURGS FOR
 SCHOOL TEACHERS
3OO,OOO to Receive Practical Edu,
 cation in Patriotism

New York, March 29-"Teachers' Plattsburgs,' at which 300,00O public school teachers will be given practical training in patriotic education, will be held during the coming summer in practically every state in the Union l'y the National Security league. Tho league announced preliminary plans for this elaborate new division of it's Pa triotism Through Education cam paign today. The scheme is con , Ceived on tho same basic idea alOnG which the Security league has been working for some time, conccntrating on the teachers of the youth of the land and thereby reaching the chil- dren through their teachers and the people through their children. The objects of the Security league campaign arc tWo-fold-active com batting of German propaganda and awakening more responsible Amcri- can citizenship.
 At Summer Schools. The Security league will conduct these Preachers Plattsburgs'' through the medium of the summer schools for teachers that are held throughout the country every year It nAs not yet been determined how many cen ters will be used The matter is being taken up with all of the 700 summer schools of the country and probably ! between 50 and 75 of the training camps will he established. the schools selected being chosen after careful investigation as to attendance, breadth of influence and convenience of loca- ton.
 The training camps will be con- ducted by leading educators whose cooperation will be enlisted by the Security league. The actual instruc- ton will be under the direction of 1 Dr. Robert M. McEroy, educational director of the Security league, and the members of tho National Patr- ! otic Education Faculty" which he organized some time ago. The Sc Curity league already has over 1000 experienced patriotic speakers on it's speakers bureau list. A great many of these men and women will be de tailed to the Teachers Plattsburgs and their number will be augnl ented , by volunteers from the principal col leges and universities of the country whose academic duties have prevented them from taking active part in the patriotic education work outside their immediate field, but who will he free , during the summer months.
 War Spirit.
 The teachers will be given q series of vital interpretations of the war by men and women who have given care full study to the situation. Tn addition to this insulting of the War spirit in the teachers. the training camps will also afford them practical instruction in the best methods of imparting to the youth of the land the two war principles on which the National Sc curjty leagues Patriotism Through
 oi,ry, hr menace of Germany to America. alAJ the necessity of Individual service on
 the part of every man, woman and
 child in the country in order to pre- | won't defeat.
 Complete details as to the location
 of the Preachers Plattsburgs" and the
 personnel of the instructors will be | announced by the Security league in the near future. The following pre-
 lin1inary letter has been sent to the directors of all the summer schools of the country:
 "Baptism of Fire
 Our nation is to undergo q ba pti,,m
 of fire, and she needs the consecration I of a new patriotism, patriotism
 which thinks in terms not of rights
 but of duties, which sees with q world
 vision. Upon tho teachers of Am mcrica
 must devolve the task of interpreting { the new patriotism to the new gener- 1 ation; and our aim is to interpret 1t to the teachers through the mouths
 of men and women whose ways of
 life have given them a world vision.
 The teachers of America do not ncen
 to be made patriotic. They ar" patri-
 otic. but they need to be inspired
 with a senso of the dignity and bound
 less possibilities of their professlo,