Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1922-12-02
A PROCLAMATION
BY The President OF The United
States OF America


try The fathers rightly believed
that only people trained to vision
Of public needs and duties could de-
velop and maintain the institutions
of popular government. The system
of universal education, established
in the beginning has developed with
the country and become one Of the
characteristic features Of our life.
In it we have laid the foundation Of
that system of American culture
which has enabled US to absorb and
assimilate millions who have come to
US from many countries, bringing the
traditions of widely varying institu-
tons.
In order that we may keep in
mind the need constantly to improve
our education system, it is proposed
that the week of December 80, in
elusive, be set aside for special OBJ
servance as American Education
Week 1t is recommended to the
Governors Of the States that they
cooperate with the educational and
civic authorities of their common
wealths to make the week a period
for revival of interest in the broad
work of national education.
1t is gratifying to know that in a
time when public burdens have lain
very heavy upon the people there
has been everywhere a determined
purpose to maintain education unim-
paired, in order that the coming gen
Grafton may be equipped, regardless
of sacrifices in the present, for the
increasing responsibilities which it
must bear
Without vision the people per
ish." Without education, there can
be little vision. OF education it may
be said that at is twice blest; it
blesseth him that gives and him that
takes" 1t will be greatly worth the
effort if, as an incident to the obser-
ance of Education Week, we can i'm
press this thought upon the young
manhood and womanhood of the Ma
ton and redirect their interest and
patriotic zeal to the idea of making
proper contribution to educational
work 1t is regretable that so few
/ young men and women, equipped
for such service, are nowadays dis
posed to give their time and talents
to teaching. Education needs their
| young eagerness, zeal and enthusi-
asm. There is no school of disci-
/ pine more effective than that in
which the teacher goes to school
We could do no greater service than
by convincing these young men and
women who have enjoyed education
al opportunities, that they owe a rea-
sonable share of their time and ener-
gies to teaching.
The strength and security of the
Nation will always rest in the intelh-
gent body of its people, Our educa-
ton should implant conceptions of
public duty and private obligation
broad enough to envisage the prob
lens of a greatly distraught world.
More than anything else. men and
women need the capacity to see with
clear eye and to contemplate with
open, unprecedented mind, the issues
of these times Only through a
properly motivated and generously
inspired process of education can
this be accomplished.
In view, then, of these and many
other considerations, l hereby pro-
claim the week Of December SO as
American Education Week, recon-
mending to the appropriate national
state and local authorities that they
give their cordial support and coop
Grafton to making its Observance in
splrational and beneficial Civic or
carnations and religious bodies may
render special service by then CO.
! operation; and particularly il is rec
commended that parents enlist them-
selves in behalf of closer understand
ing between the school and the home.
with the purpose of mutual helpful
ness.
+ In consideration and witness where
of. have hereuuto set my hand and
caused the seal of the United States
TO be affixed.
Done in the City Of Washington.
this 10th day Of November. in the
year of our Lord, One Thousand Nine
Hundred and Twenty-Five, ana Of the
independence Of the United States
the One Hundred and Forty-seyenth
Warren G Harding
+ (Sean
BY the President
Charles F. Hughes.