Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1919-10-22

SCHOOL 1ox11.
j Mr.. K x. odden Of the Minnesota
i Department OF Labor and Industries
made US q pleasant call last week Mr.
fMr. Odden is Minnesota factory tnspec.
tor part Of the year and the rest OF hii
time he devotes to enforcement Of thu
Child Labor law. The latter was his
work while in Willmar He Impressed
| upon us the necessity for parents to
| keep their children in school and the
| Importance of keeping careful check
upon all violations of the state laws II
this regard. He also made It clear that
no one can employ q child under sixteen
years of age even tho that child has
| completed the eighth grade unless q
labor permit is first obtained from the
local superintendent of schools. But
why should it be necessary to threaten
| anyone in these United States with the
law in order to get regular school at
| tendance and child-labor law enforce
| ment? Every good citizen should take
| 1t upon himself to assist the authort-
ties in matters of this sort. Il"
Many people fail to realize the import
| ance of regular school attendance. We
have large percent of retarded and
hence average pupils in our schools
which condition is due in large measure
to frequent absences. A days absence
cannot easily be made up; weeks alb
sence may so break the continuity of
the mental development that the pupil
| will feel the gap thru life. The wound
may heal but the scar will be painfully
apparent A months absence is in many
cases fatal and the pupil would do well
to repeat the whole semester's work
rather than try to struggle thru with
the handicap. This injury is just as
great whether the absence comes all in
one large block or is scattered along
thru the semester a day Or half q day
at a time. Not only is the steady mental
development of the pupil interrupted
but he sustains great injury because of
the irregular habits of work he gets
into. If anything, this weakening of
the habit Of continuous application is
more injurious to the pupil than is the
damage to the continuity of his mental
development.
Aside from the loss to the individual,
one must consider the loss to society
and to the States. Nearly every state
in the Union has a compulsory-attend-
ance law, and it may be assumed that
the State and society regard a common
school education as vital to their inter-
ests else they would not be so insist
ent on enacting laws rendering it COM
pulsory and in some cases actually writ
ing in into the constitution. The State
regards an educated voting population
as necessary to the perpetutty Of a dem
ocratic government. Many of the evils
that have befallen popular government
are traceable to the lack of common
school education on the part of the vot-
ers. Regular attendance on the part of
every pupil every day that school is in
session is essential to the welfare of
the individual and Of society.
The teachers of the fifth grade of the
Library Building, after ransacktnF the
city, have acquired an organ for use in
their music work.
A Parent's-Teachers' Association
Meeting will be held on Wednesday,
October 18th at the Lafayette school.
All members are requested to be pres
emit
The Garfield school hopes that the
pulley on the flag pole will soon be in
order so that the flag may be raised
each day.
The seventh grades at the Central
building are making a study of World
Winds. In order to get a better under
standing of the origin of winds, an ex-
pertinent showing correctional move
ment was performed as beginning
lesson.
Leland and volney Raleigh entered
school at the Lincoln building Monday,
thus making the enrolment forty in the
fourth grade and forty-eight In the
third.
All the grades are working on Halo
we en- decorations.
The first grade Garfield school, began
work in their readers last week.
The United States Government is
offering free to schools colored maps of
The New Europe. The maps are in
co1ors showing as accurately as posi-
Die the war made boundaries of the Old
World. The Government hasn't enough
them out one for every seven school
rooms. In order to determine which
school room shall receive a map, the
pupils are having a prize writing con-
test. The prize winning essays are to
contain material which will be valuable
in promoting the cause of Thrift in
schools.
ALI the desks in the new first grade
room in the Industrial building are &C.
cup1ed. These desks are Of the latest
type built to fit the student. are adjust
able and made of steel throughout,
hence they are comfortable and will last
lifetime. The blackboards In this
room are too high for the little tots so
the boys In the manual training room
built benches for them to stand on.
The pupils in this grade are now at
tending school day for the first time
this year.
The football game with Glencoe High
School played last Saturday resulted in
another victory for the local team.
clean but hard fought throughout, the
Glencoe boys refusing to admit that
they were defeated until the last whistle
blew. Our opponents stated that the
Willmar boys played the cleanest game
of any team that they had been up
against this year. We would rather
have this said of US than to win every
game on our schedule by dirty tactics
We are pleased to say that the Glencoe
boys and their coach are fine fellows
and we look forward to the return game
with them next year.
Spelling classes were organized in the
high school last week.
The second grade, Central building
has spelling contest Friday afternoon
Those who were still standing at the
end of the time were John Walker, Fern
Peterson, and Armita Rosby.