Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1921-06-09
COUNTY SCHOOL NOTES

COUNTY SCHOOL NOTES
Nine Month Diplomas of Honor
were issued to Macy La Rose Briggs,
Buchanan; Clifford Korupp, Winches-
ter; Adelma Person, Lincoln; Marie
Van Houte, Strasburg, and Peter
Nieuwsma, Baker.
The following pupils received Punct-
,uality Buttons this week: Bertha and
Agatha Mitzel, Exeter; Stanley and
Cora Parham, Omio; Archie and Ed,
die Stadema, Baker; Mildred Sea-
quist and Ray Saville, Cherry Grove;
Sylvia and Elna Nylund and Ruth
Lee, Lincoln; Harry Boschker and
John STAN, Union.
Payday and Eighth Grade Gradu-
alton today.
Teachers in South Dakota schools
net year will be able to compete with
bricklayers and janitors in the matter
Of salaries. Such is the conclusion
to be drawn from statement by Fred
L. Shaw, state superintendent of Pub
lie instruction, who was in Mitchell
to confer with the county superinten-
dents.
II do not believe teachers salaries
arc going to come down ii other sala-
ries do fall," was the statement of
Mr.. Shaw "We want the cream of
the young people of the state to en-
ter the teaching profession, and then
we are not wiling to pay them. There
is no way to get the best young peo-
pie from our own state nor to attract
teachers from other states, if we do
not give them enough money!
Throughout the country teachers
are now being selected and salaries
fixed for the coming year. Hundreds
of thousands of public school teachers
will be employed during the next few
weeks. In recognition of the mo-
mentous Importance of this fact, the
National Education Association today
gave out the following appeal to
school boards and citizens:
This is no time for extravaganza
in governmental expenditures. Ap-
preparations should be carefully scru-
tinized and all unnecessary items elm
mated. The times demand the appli-
cation of the best business principles
in the conduct of public affairs.
However, there can be no retrench-
ment in the support of education.
Money wisely expended for this pur-
pose is an investment in citizenship,
and an insurance against the revolu-
tioary conditions which exist in coun-
tries whose peoples are ignorant and
illiterate.
Our free public school system is an
integral part of our free government,
essential to its life and prosperity.
The only secure foundation for democ-
racy is an enlightened and intelligent
electorate. A government of the peo-
pie and by the people can be no bet
ter and no stronger than the COM
posite citizenship of which it is con-
situated.
The greatest need Of our country
today is competent, well-qualifed
teachers to train the future citizens of
the nation. We must get rid of the
incompetent and unprepared lin our
public schools. The schools Of to-
morrow should be taught only by the
best, and the profession of teaching
must be made so inviting that it will
attract and hold the best. Any re-
Eduction in the salaries Of teachers
or any failure properly to appreciate
the Importance Of education will turn
from the teaching profession those
young men and women now preparing
for their life's work who should be
secured for this most important field
Of public service.
Let US cut down expenditures for
luxuries. Let us reduce appropria-
tions wherever it can be done with
safety, but for the perpetuity of those
ideals and principles which are near
est to the hearts of the American peo-
lple, there can be no backward step in
the development Of a strong, intelli-
gent, patriotic citizenry, upon whom
must depend the preservation Of the
things for which we have made such
sacrifice in blood and treasure. The
home Of America is in her free public
schools. To elevate their standards
land promote their efficiency should be
the purpose Of every American states
man and citizen. n.
Army Reduction Opposed.
Opposition tJ reduc.