East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-11-06
EDUCATORS MAP
THRIFT COURSE
FOR SCHOOLS
N. E. A. Head Urges the Need
Of Savings Study in
Our Schools.

san Francisco. Cal.-Bsfore the end
OF the year there will be established i
standardized course in thrift and saw.
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 rc-
suit of this move in the West to found
a 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 supern-
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 standard
ICED course in thrift and attempt to
teach 1t 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 habit-forming.
Il cannot too strongly recommend
to you as a member of the executive
committee that every state in zoe
Union take steps Immediately to in
troduce similar courses in the curric-
ulum of every public school in Amer
lea. We have reached a danger point
in the American social and economic
structure and il lies with us who are
charged with the public education Of
our citizens to undeitak the RESPONSE
bility of meeting not only the present
crisis, but the vital need for perma-
nent thrift as a national habit"
First available reports of savings
work among school pupils this term
come from the San Francisco schools !
through Philip J. Lawler. manager Of |
the school savings department of the
with the government. The report !
shows a total of SIS, 437 90 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 short time Mr.. Lawler said |
he would have report on the work in
215 California schools which have an
attendance of 10000 school children. |
OF this total number of schools 174
are country schools.
We must have the close co-opera-
tion of the newspapers of the West
and of leaders of public opinion in
this work OF turning out better citi.
zens,' said Mrs. Preston 1--WE school
superintendents, principa and teach
ers are undertaking this job because
we think it is our .ob. However, it is
every true America is job and we will
need all the help and cooperation we
can get"
Attending a conference called by
Governor John U. Calkins of the Fed
eral Reserve Bank of San Fran cisco
at which the decision to introduce the
study of thrift 10 school curriculae
we're the following superintendent
of public instruction:
w j. Hunting, Nevada.
G. N. Child. Utah.
Mrs Josephine Corliss Preston,
Miss Ethel E. Redfield, Idaho.
VIII c. Wood, California.