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Only few more days Until the
school election. In o COMMUNICATION
to the Texas Federation of Womens
Clubs Miss Annie Webb Blanton.
State Superintendent OF schools
makes these requests.
/. Garry the amendment remov.
ing the limit on the amount OF local
tax which may be voted for school
q Increase the salaries Of teach
crs, as there Is already shortage
OF 1000. due to insufficient sal
aries
3. Pay sufficient salaries TO coun-
ty superintendents to secure persons
Of ability and training, furnishing
them office assistants and allowing
them adequate travelling expenses.
Have them elected by county board
and abolish the Office Of ex ofiicio
county superintendent.
4. Put home nursing in all high
schools.
5. Spread the doctrine Of simple
dress for high school girls
6. GET SOME WOMAN ON ALL
SCHOOL BOARDS.
The placing of one or more women
on the 5000 school boards in Texas
will be very new and interesting
experiment, one that will require
several years TO be put to thorough
test. To understand the simple phil
osophy Of such a movement one need
only recall the old motto that used
to hang in so many of our homes
what is Home Without a Mother
How our human hearts ache for lit
tie children when the mother in the
home is taken away. We hear folks
say. "That home will never be the
same" How the children will miss
her love, her care, her company, her
planning and work for them" And
il is all so true, for there is no other
being who thinks and works and
plans so much for the children as
their mother. It is her life to live for
them. II is her joy TO sacrifice for
them. No one will admit that a home
is complete without the influence of
mother love and without the safe
guard of mother instinct.
But when our little children are 7
years old we buy them a primer and
a dinner pail and start them off 20
their second home-a home where,
under normal conditions, they will
spend nine months Of each of the
next eleven years of their lives; a
home where their mind, heart and
character will be nodded fer life;
a home where their social and moral
nature will be made more beautiful
or ruined: a home, the sanitation
of which is by far more important
than the home in which they dwell at
night, for in this home they must
sit five hours of every day for l.
$50 days, If they complete the high
school course. But until this day a
mother has ever been invited or per
mitted to have any place in this home
OF her own children. The only par
ent that has ever had any official ca
pacity, any authority, any control
anything to say about the manage
ment of this new home for children.
has ever been the father. Father
would not think Of such a thing as
going downtown 70 select n dress
maker or milliner to design and d.
rect the construction Of the chill
dren's clothes. He would just natural
ly say, "Why, don't know anything
about that; I've never had any ex-
perience making clothes for children;
don't know what they need"
Yet the average father has had
about as much experience in making
children's clothes as he has had in
educating children. Almost 80 per
cent of the teachers in this State have
been women. Scattered throughout
the length and breadth Of our State
are women who have taught school
in every kind Of school room and
under every kind Of circumstances.
They know the social, moral and
mental problems of the one-room ru-
raj school. They know the tempta-
tions that hover around the boys and
girls who are verging into manhood
and womanhood. They know the
trials of the new and inexperienced
teachers They know childhood. boy
hood and grlhood as they appear in
the different grades, and these teach |
ers Of the past could be such help, I!
such an inspiration, such a comfort |
TO the discouraged beginners in our
schools If the voters of Texas would |
only allow them a place in the affairs
Of the schools. The most perplexing |
problems in our public schools are
usually kept covered up and quiet
until they reach an unbearable statee
because our young girl teachers
shrink from going to some stern,
busy, disinterested school trustee
with her troubles. And when she does
20 to him. he has never been in her
place and does not know how to help |
her This is just one of the reasons
why woman with real school eX-
perience should be on that new school /