The Wrangell sentinel., 1922-10-19
P. T. A. Meets

l lin; a round table discussion on the subject, How can the P. T. A. help the school }" led by Rev. H. P. Cor ser. In this discussion a number of helpful suggestions were given as to how the members of the P. T. A. act 1 ing both as an organization and indi- yidually asparents could be of great help to ehschool. A suggestion was made by Miss Chetta Wheeler that parents see that the pupils prepare the home work that is assigned them. Miss Neva Dodge expressed her will ingness that the primary pupils take their books home and read recited lessons to their parents, but asked that the parents would not read ad- vance lessons to the children. Miss Evelyn Bidwell spoke briefly on her work in the kindergarten and asked that parents and patrons visit the kindergarten and see the work that is being accomplished there.
 Louis NJ. Royal solicited the inter- est of the P.T.A. in behalf of the bas- ketball team. He said that the school board pays for the rental one night week of the Rink for an hours prac- tice, but that the boys have to pay for the other two practice nights. A motion prevailed that the P.T.A. pay for the rental of the Rink two nights week for the coming month. The matter will be taken up again at the next meeting. Preceding this motion brief discussion disclosed that while the rental of the Rink calls for one hours use, the boys in reality use it for one and one-quarter hours, or from 6:45 to 8 o'clock on Monday, Wednesday and Friday evenings. Su- psrintendent Gross reported that hereafter a boy who falls below a passing grade will be suspended from basketball practice until he has sat lisfactorily made up the work in which he is deficient. It was sug- gested that a small charge be made for the refreshments served at the close of P.T.A. meetings the pro- ceeds of which would be applied to the rental of the Rink. A motion prevailed that this matter be left to committee on athletics which would act as an intermediary be- tween the basketball team and the P.T.A. The president appointed J. G. Grant as chairman of this com mittee.
 H. W. Gartley spoke forcibly and to the point regarding the need of playground for the children aside from the playshed on the school grounds. MT. Gartley's talk met with enthusiastic approval, and he was asked to act as chairman of a play grounds committee to look into the matter and report at the next meet ing on available sites for a public playground where the boys can play baseball with no fear of breaking windows, with view to the P.T A. backing such project and working toward it's accomplishment.
 The Inter school Meet to be held again at Juneau next spring was dis cussed briefly. Though there was gen eral regret that the Meet was not to be held at Wrangelll it was decided to again participate in the Meet and the PIT A. would again foster the undertaking
 The resignation of the president, Mrs. J. w. Pritchett, was accepted and PC Mccormack was unanimous ly elected to fill the unexpired term.
 Superintendent Gross on request read a paper on Better Homes, which he had prepared with a view to having mimeographed copies sent to each patron of the school, When the paper came to the attention of the program committee, MT. Gross was prevailed upon to read it at the PIT. A. meeting. The paper was so we'll received that there was more than one request that it be published. It was as follows l:
 "The home is the foundation of gov ernment. We have many different classes of homes as well as many diff ferent forms of government. Howev- CT, if we were to visit a country where the laws are very strict and the people obedient to the laws we would find the children obedient both in the homes and schools.
 Tt is a fact that the American people are good hearted and sympa- thetic and as a rule, want their chil- dren to be obedient but neglect to i'm press their minds with sense of duty and obedience until it is too late to make it success.
 Children will form bad habits of their own accord but they must be taught good habits. The base of character is habit. If a person pos sesses good habits he is said to nave