The Cordova daily times., 1920-07-15
TEACHERS GET ADEQUATE
 LEADER SAYS

SALT LAKE CITY, July 15 (by As- sociated Pres) ).-Adequate salaries for teachers are being obtained, Josephine Corliss Preston of Olympia, Wash, president of the National Educational Association declared in an address at the associations convention here.
 Importance of education was brought to the attention of the public by the war, Mrs. Preston declared. The National Educational Association, she added, has truly become a factor in the civic and educational life of the nation.
 "The Nation for Our Field" was Mrs. Preston's subject. She urged inn provement of conditions surrounding rural school teachers and asked the members of the association to partici- pate actively in civic affairs.
 Some one has wisely said every citizen is in politics." Mrs. Preston asserted. "The constitution of the United States puts him there and his conscience grants him no exemptions. The educators of this nation are ir a strategic position. They have a two fold responsibility-a responsibility to our children and a civic responsibility to our community, state and national life.
 "The most important problem which the National Educational Association has to face at this time is the reor- ganization of this great body. EXreri- ence has taught me that, to do the greatest work of the National Educa- tional Association as we'll as it should be done, delegate plan as an official working body is the ultimate solution. The educators of this country see clearly now as never before the neces- sity for their active participation in civic life. We can no longer sit back and leave to others the entire conduct of governmental affairs We educa- tors cannot train children for the ac- tive duties of citizenship in it's fullest sense unless we have this conception of political life. Such a conception can only be gained through actual con- tact with life problems and in actual participation in the affairs of govern ment. Let us be statesmen here in this meeting. Let us continue to build for the welfare of the greatest num- Der"
 Duties of citizens are taught Evans vile, Ind, school children by, first, studies in governmental theory in the grades, and second, application of the theories in a student self-governn"rt superintendent of Evansville schools, said in an address before the Conven- tion.
 Reduction of Halloween damage was one tangible result of the first les son which dealt with destruction of property, MT. Benezet declared. The lesson was given late in October, just before Halloween, and police records showed the loss was one-fifth that of previous years.
 Lessons in the grades deal with cur rent events, he said. One was taken from the Boston police strike, another from the Russian soviet government, while others brought out duties of citi- zens in the face of threatened epidem- 1cs, with the necessity for increased | and elimination of waste and extravaganza.
 During the first year in high school, pupils are required to take two courses, one in elementary social sci ence, involving morals and manners, and the second in the vocations.s This latter course teaches children the science of making a living
 Under the student elf-government scheme, children are given an oppOr- tunity to put into practice what they i have learned.