The Arizona copper camp., 1919-11-15
EDUCATORS MAP
THRIFT COURSE
FOR SCHOOLS
N. E. A. Head Urges the Need
Of Savings Study in
Our Schools.

San Francisco, Cal-Before the end
OF the year there will be established 4
standardized course in thrift and say.
ing in every public school in the seven
states of the Twelfth Federal Reserve
District, according to plans worked
| out by the state superintendents of
public instruction of the West in CO.
operation with the war loan organiza-
ton. The superintendent of public
instruction in each state will serve as
state director of thrift education.
1t is not at all unlikely that as re-
| suit of this move in the West to found
better American citizenship by the
teaching and practice Of thrift in the
| public schools that the idea will be
taken up throughout the United
States. In this connection, Mrs. Jo-
sephine Corliss Preston, state superin-
tendent of public instruction for the
state of Washington and president Of
! the National Educational Association,
has written as follows to each member
| of the executive committee of the as
sociation:
Here in the West we are going to
put in every public school a standard
lied course in thrift and attempt to
| teach it on plane with the funda-
mentals of the common school
branches In the nature of labora-
! tory in connection with the course,
| savings societies will be organized in
, each school with the idea of making
| the course transforming
Il cannot too strongly recommend
to you as a member of the executive
committee that every state in the
! Union take steps Immediately to in
/ troduce similar courses in the curric-
ulum of every public school in Amer
| ica. We have reached danger point
| in the American social and economic
structure and it lies with us who are
charged with the public education Of
our citizens to undertake the RESPONSE
bility of meeting not only the present
crisis, but the vital need for perma-
nent thrift as national habit"
First available reports of savings
work among school pupils this term
come from the San Francisco schools
through Philip J. I.awler, manager Of
the school savings department of the
Bank of Italy, which is cooperating
with the government. The report
shows total Of $28, 1890 saved and
invested in Thrift, War Savings and
School Penny Stamps in 73 school
days The number of students invest.
ing was 65,149.
Within a short time Mr.. Lawler said
he would have report on the work in
275 California schools which have an
| attendance of $4,000 school children.
I Of this total number of schools 174
are country schools.
eve must have the close co-opera.
ton of the newspapers of the West
and of leaders of public opinion in
this work Of turning out better citi.
zens," said Mrs. Preston. eve school
| uperintendents, principals and teach.
ers are undertaking this job because
we think it is our job. However, it is
every true Americans job and we will
need all the help and cooperation we
can get"
Attending a conference called by
Governor John U. Call1ins of the Fed
eral Reserve Bank Of San Francisco
at which the decision to introduce the
study of thrift TO school curriculae
were the following superintendents
| of public instruction.:
w. ]. Hunting, Nevada
G. N. Child, Utah.
Mrs. Josephine CorIiss Preston,
{ Washington.
Miss Ethel E. Redfeld, Idaho.
Will c. Wood, California.