The Pensacola journal., 1920-04-05
START SCHOOLS
FOR AMERICANS
EXTENSION DIVISION OF UNI
VERSITY OF FLORIDA PLANS
COURSE FOR TEACHING CIVIcS.

Arnericanization schools will be con-
Quoted at Pensacola, Orlando, West
Palm Beach and Live Oak, beginning
April 26, by the general extension di-
vision Of Florida to train men and
women who will encourage and assist
classes and clubs in their own COM
munities in the study of American
government and civics throughout the
state.
An excellent program carrying the
names of many prominent men in the
state and nation is being prepared and
special lecturers have been procured
to conduct classes throughout the
course in American history and ideals
in American literature and in Amer
lean government and civics which will
be featured by Charles f Davis, Amer
icanization specialist.
- Each short course will open Mon
day evening and close Friday evening.
Glasses will be conducted from IL a m.
TO D. m. but the evening programs
will be of general interest.
The dates for the four courses are:
Orlando, April 26 to April 80; West
Palm Beach, May 3 to May z; Live
Oak, May 10 to May Ia; and Pensacola,
May IL to May 81.
"A sense of self-sacrificing respon-
lean ideas and ideals is evident among
men and women everywhere, and in
order that they may discharge their
responsibility most effectively and eff
ficiently they want to know more
about the organization, operation and
underlying principles of government
in the United States; consequently, the
division will teach American govern
ment and civics as a part of it's state
5Americanization program" says Direc-
tor 3. c. Riley.
Already the women Of the state are
taking a great interest in this move
ment, because they feel responsibility
not only for themselves but also for
their children. Realizing that they
must be able to teach the younger gem
Grafton the principles of good govern
ment if they are to be prepared to
recognize and put down the Bolshe-
vistic tendencies which they will meet.
AS a result, the federated clubs of
the state will take UP the work next
year and they are encouraging and
sponsoring the movement. Mrs. J. w.
McCollum, state president, is assisting
and Mrs. Edgar Lewis, former presi-
dent, is field organizer for the ex-
tension division in getting things ready
for these schools.
The same subjects covered by Pro-
fessor Davis in the short courses will
be offered to everyone by correspon-
dence-study. This will include a study
Of the national, state and local gov
ernments and the home town will be
used as a laboratory in the study of
questions concerning local government
and the citizen as a social factor in
education, entertainment and recrea-
ton and general uplift. Special en-
phasis will be placed on the interests
of the state as a whole in order to
promote state unification.
To show the necessity for every good
citizen to know more about Ameri-
can government and civics, Professor
Davis says: In representative re-
public like our own, indifferent to
duty to the state is nearly criminal
in the citizen. We need not only a
citizenry well informed in the princi-
pies of our government, but one that
is also alive to the necessity of doing
by every citizen actively and lawfully
all in his power to make those prin-
ciples apply to the daily conduct of
affairs
Professor Davis also thinks that the
state should be more closely united
If the best results are to be procured
in carrying on every progressive move
ment and says:
The spirit that showed itself so
nobly IN the late war, the spirit that
led old men to leave the comforts that
a long life of industry had procured,
young men to give up ambitions they
had cherished, women to take up duties
it had been thought they We're unfit
ted for and that aroused in the very
children in the land a feeling of pat
riotiSm the spirit. L saw. that led to
all this disturbance of the even tenor
of society and the joining of all por-
tions of our citizenry in the accom-
plshing of one common purpose, is the
kind of cooperation that must be Sc
cured in times of peace if we are to
have a united, peaceful, progressive
state