The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1920-04-15


are we'll rid of the man who is cap
able of so acting-We don't want such
a man to lead our boys and girls out
i into Life, and an example of breaking
his word for selfish reason.
The aftermath? Well, there is
surely a Power that shapes our ends,
rough hew them how we will. For
that board, much to its surprise found
a fine man who had just missed a
college appointment in this state, no
doubt because Of divided counsels in
the upper regions and they have new.
er had such service, such team work
and they have a highmindedness, like
that of j. H. Cotton, who is getting
merited promotion and is going to
serve Minot the coming year under
the gifted L. A. White.
Like the old Scottish song, AT a
word be aye your dealing. Truth will
stand when all things falling" As
to the rewards, when you do keep
your word, are they all momentary
What if the bricklayer does get
pay equal to your? Higher maybe,
if he does honest work and you don't.
For many year saw the hired man
6CC Je1y LlAdIl OdhOId,
but he looked up to me.
And let me tell you of teacher
down in your rank and file who was
surprised one Christmas Day by let
ter written by the clerk of the board
she served. 1t was not very well
written, tho he was studying machin-
cry at the A. c., nor was it we'll SPELL
ed for he was a foreign born citizen,
Graded in another language, but it
was a Pearl of Great Price for it
thanked her, by resolution cf the
school board not only for her eight
months in the school, but for her stand
in the community and that community
had come from Ohio and Indiana, from
good schools and stalwart citizenship.
Reward? Priceless.
Again one of your rank and file,
found on stepping off train at the
county seat, stalwart young lawyer
greeting her with a car, and an invi-
tation to dinner. His wife had been
a high school teacher near her home
and he desired to show his abiding
sense of respect and esteem for the
teacher who had helped him, 13 years
before, to overcome condition in
grammar, fatal stumbling block to his
passing for the eighth grade certif-
cate and during that long summer,
in "a quiet rural school, helped him
from four o'clock to six o'clock p. M,
to break ground in some heavy, but
indispensable high school subjects so
that in winter, he went away to Grand
Forks;s to the Preparatory hign at the
"U" and there he worked his way thru
high, thru the arts classes, and then
the law classes, until Judge of the
Supreme Court said one day, to the
said teacher, ~ have this day admitted
your old pupil to the bar, and he will
be mighty solid, sensible hitching
post for Icelanders to tie to. For
he was born in Iceland in the middle
of a big family and he worked sum.
mers !atterly on his own homestead.
Such abiding gratitude is a very
real reward. Try it. Work for it.
Now l have suggestion to make.
In early May, Mothers Day has grown
up to be a fine custom. Maybe this
year May Day may occupy the fore
ground for Americanizing, and you
teachers are our greatest, our best
Americanizing force. First and fore
most. Be Good Americans yourselves
loyal, aw-abiding, honest and true,
unselfish in service.
Then, as to Mothers Day whether
you hold it about the 18th, not on a
Sunday, but on a school Friday, or
you hold it on May Day, a
remember to Honor
thy father and thy mother. You are
honoring your own dear parents in
helping your pupils to honor theirs.
And this command has promise at
tached to it and / have often during
my long life of 81 years watched it's
fulfillment. Thy days will be long in
Lord, thy God giveth thee: Begin
mothers near you. Enlist the friend
ly helps of their sons and daughters.
Use the map. Study their corners,
and see how many good things can
come out of Nazareth. Help boys
and girls to honor and respect the
parents whose tongue may halt in
the English they are acquiring so
late in life. Ask to see curios they
may have brought over, shawls to
wear on their heads, no doubt, but all
wool and a yard wide-fligree silver
showing craftsmanship for
a hundred lears. Cooking of cakes
toothsome and wholesome and maybe
a family discipline Of priceless value
to the teacher and to the older Amer
can families who have given young
America it's head and they have near
" bowled over the Apple Cart. If
you are fortunate enough to have
Young America with a back ground
ask them for New England, stories
Of George Washington and his times
,r fisherman stories from Gloucester,
Mass, or even witch stories from Sal
an or political stories from Tyler and
or old Virginia and it's
handsome madams and gloriously
cured hams or the burning of Chicago
or frontier stories of pioneers, even
mere in the early SOS and help each
boy and girl to have little nosegay
IF flowers to pin on mothers breast
that day. A cup of coffee with real
cream will warm everybody's heart
and help the school board to eppre-
:iate serving their neighbors for the
good Of the people even when it takes
time and effort. And best of all you
will be helping to answer the fine
American poets prayer. Gcd give us