The Cordova daily times., 1919-11-15

thing. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing was right would make no difference. Abraham Lincoln.
 "A new day is dawning for libraries. This generation may see the time when a community without free library will be considered back s number-as much of back number as we now consider a community without a free public school"
 It is to be hoped that the time is not far distant when Cordova may en- joy the opportunities afforded by free public library.
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 'In the purchase of education as Of any other commodity, the. city gets just what it pays for; in fact, every educational problem is fundamf ntally a financial problem. ."-Carrol R. Reed.
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 and the Larger Life" says: we please ourselves by saying that ex- perience is the best teacher, that the world is the best school house, that travel is the best educator. But in reality we prevent experience, we shut out the world, we disallow travel. We ask children to reason and reflect about a world which they do not yet know We give them small percep- tual knowledge-mainly what they get on holidays and when they play tru- ant-and spend nearly all their time in attempting to build larger struc- lures than we have material for bricks without straw
 gThe instruction that visualizes the world, it's people, industries and ac- tivities in the minds of the present day school children is indeed an i'm portant mile post in the march of progress, and today every well-in- formed teacher realizes that the pupils shortest, surest road to accu- rate knowledge is through sense ex- perience." Carl H. Hardin.
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 One of our strongest wishes for the Cordova school is to be realized soon namely, a moving picture machine all our very own. the purchase of which is made possible through the ready sympathy and support of MT L. D. Henderson, our commissioner of education, who, when the subject was preached to him recently, generously offered to pay 75 per cent of the cost of a machine out of territorial funds, provided the Cordova school board would pay the remainder of the eX- nense. AS usual, the members of the board expressed their entire willing ness to do their part in providing whatever will benefit the boys and girls of Cordova.
 Better Speech for Better Americans The first week in December will be observed as American Speech Week. The National Council of Teachers of English is responsible for this highly commendable movement. The aim is to dignify our mother tongue-to en- courage the use of clean, decent, forceful English-to use effective and refined English with correctness, dis tinctness, pleasantness
 The plan is to spend considerable time beforehand in lessons in the use of correct forms, making lists Of words often mispronounced, also lists of common grammatical errors to be avoided, the making of posters, slo- gans, etc., to call attention to com mon mistakes. The value of the noster has been conclusively proven in the national drives" of the past few years. A poster is sign in tended to attract attention, to interest and please, and to compel favorable action. To attain these ends poster should have effectiveness and beauty.
 Small cash prizes have been offered for the best two original posters, and the best one will be sent to the chair man of the national committee on American Speech, with the hope that 1t may be thought good enough to be reproduced in the bulletin sent out by this committee next year.
 Nothing has excited such feverish interest in long time as the plan ~ning of these posters. Some delight fully original ideas have already been worked out by various pupils in Rooms