The Cordova daily times., 1919-12-06
Notice to Parents

until they have reported to their pa rents. After that they are free to do whatever the parents see fit to allow.
 In the past this rule has been much more honored in the breach than in the observance, largely because pa rents have failed to inform them selves as to how and where their chil- dren spend the time intervening be- tween the dismissal from school and the family dinner hour
 Hereafter any child who is detained at school over fifteen minutes for work of any kind will be given de- tenton slip, properly dated and signed by the teacher who detains him or her, and showing the exact time of leaving school.
 It will require no more than fifteen minutes for those pupils who live farthest away to report at home. Ex- cept in special cases, in which the parent has asked the child to run an errand or has given him special per mission to visit with friends without first reporting at home, the child who does not report promptly should be asked for his detention slip in case the excuse is made that he has been kept after school.
 Cases may be cited in which pupils have told parents they remained at school to do certain work, when as a matter of fact they have not done so, but have spent the time after school hours in ways and in places of which no sane parents would approve if they knew.
 Parents, this is a vital matter con- corning the welfare of your children. But it is just one more case in which school authorities can do little with out your cooperation. May we not count upon your assistance? If upon inquiry your child gives you a de- tention slip kindly sign it and see that it is returned to the teacher the fol- lowing morning.
 The United States is not alone in her interest in character education Tn schools. Professor w. F. Osborne. of Manitoba University was in Washing +0, I,,pt1 cIlt r. ests of national conference in Can ada to be held in October. A sum of $50O0 has been raised for the confer ence, and the Rotary Clubs of Canada have subscribed $70,000 to back up the establishment of a Canadian bu- reau of character education for citi- zenship. General approval of the project has been expressed by educa- tional church and government lead CTS, and the conference program will emphasize the necessity for character education of all children, in order to secure general reliability of charac- ter and loyalty to Canadian ideals"
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 Once some little slum children with whom Alice Freeman Palmer was working begged her to tell them how to be happy. So she gave them three rules, admonishing them that these rules must be kept every day, not skipping a single day, else they would not work. The rules were these:
 1. Commit something to memory every day-something good. It needn't be much; three or four words will do, just a pretty bit of a poem or a Bible verse.
 2. Look for something pretty every day; and don't skip day, or it won't work A leaf, a flower, cloud-you can all find something.
 8. Do something for somebody ev- cry day-now mind, don't skip a day"
 The motion picture-"the universal language, the greatest story-teller of the ages, the apostle of kindness, the orator of tolerance, the minstrel of love-"
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 1t All Rests with You It's all up to you to succeed or to fail To sit down and grumble or take to
 the trail;
 To climb to the heights or to sit down
 supine
 Far below where the rays of the v morning sun shine on the steeps. It isn't genius or talent at all That takes a man up where the
 morn's voices call;
 It's just work and more work and