The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1920-05-07

$3.50 49,
per cent while the demand has in
creased at least thirty per cent:
that Sc, 1000 teachers are below the
standard of efficiency, and Of
these, $4,000 have less than a high
school training. The only remedy
is better salaries and better liv-
ing conditions for teachers.
In rural America the child's
right to play is one problem that
needs our earnest attention. Coun-
try life needs the spirit of play in
jected into it. Mr.. Slettedahl quot
ed several authorities on the SUBJ
ject Of play such al Josiah Strong,
Charles Evans Hughes and Theo-
dore Roosevelt. Following are
some of the quotations:
"The universal impulse to play
is a Divinely ordered thing. If
God gives the instinct, man ought
to provide the playground"
There is no better way to
teach a boy to be honorable and
straight than to give him an OPP
%portunity to play normally with
his fellows:
Mr.. Curtis says, Rural life has
become overserious and oversord-
ed. 1t must %preceive that life,
love and happiness, not wealth,
r the objects of living. There
must be injected into it the spirit
of play"
The late Theodore Roosevelt was
much interested in children's play
and was quoted by Mr.. Slettedahl
as saying at one time, Il hope that
soon all our public schools will
provide in connection with the
school hours the place. and time
for recreation as we'll as the duty
of the children"
We are glad to know that some
of u Grant County teachers are
making an effort to secure play
ground equipment, and have also
succeeded in getting their school
boards interested in the project.
Another problem that threatens
to become serious at this time is
the disintegration Of our cum
munities and the Sitting of COM
munity spirit, which can only be
revived and kept alive thru an eff
ficient, active community school.
1t must be remembered that the
community does not consist of a
plated town, or a group of towns
folks, but includes the surround
ing territory and the people who
live there as we'll. No community
unit is complete if there is not a
little village, or market pace in
it's midst. On the other hand, no
town can exist without the sur
rounding country, and the country
cannot prosper without the town.
Take away the farmer for fifteen
miles from a town, or take away
the towns for fifty miles, and you
can readily imagine the disastrous
effects upon the locality thus af-
fected. Any development or fos-
tering of class and class hatred,
cannot be tolerated in a democra-
cy like our own. We must break
down this imaginary antipathy of
business man against farmer, cap
italist against laborer, protestant
against catholic, and Jew against
Gentle. The general welfare Of
the community and nation is at
stake, and nothing but better ac-
quaintance, understanding, COOP
Grafton and good will will insure
teamwork, which is absolutely nec-
essary if the excellent institutions
under our present form of govern
ment shall remain intact.
After Mr.. Slettedahl's lecture,
a rope contest took place between
the pupils of the various schools
teaching vitalized agriculture. The
team from Madison No. / School
only participated inthe first Of
the contest, owing to the absence
Of one of it's members. The other
schools in the contest were Marvin
Stockholm, Kilborn No. 2, and
Twin Brooks. In the whipping
and relaying contest, Adolph OLE
son from Marvin received first
prize and Margaret Hanson from
Stockholm second prize. Kilborn
No. 2 came out first and Twin
Brooks second in the tying OF
knots. In making the long splice,
Albert Konstant from the Kilborn
school came out first, while Reu-
ben Anderson Of Marvin made sec
ond nlacp We are much indebted