The Cordova daily times., 1922-03-20

Donald Foster made perfect grade in the arith metic tests given the Eighth Grade pupils last week many adults could equal this performance? Some day, perhaps, this boy is going to be great mining engineer and will need to be expert mathemat cian Arithmetic is the basis. One who is master of this branch of learning is always in demand It is summed by lazy students because is requires thought The fatal habit of hostility to thought goes with the average through life and handicaps him at every turn. He won't think, but lets others think for him As a result he is somebody's servant, always vic tim circumstances, instead of being master of his own destiny and creator of his own circumstances.
 The Third Graders studying the life of the Hot Lands. They mustn't overlook our Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, and also the Imperial Valley of Southern California. Less than twenty years the latter barren desert, with hardly tree or shrub Only pelican could dare its terrors. Why? It carries it's irrigation system. Today the Valley is one vast farm and garden with beautiful groves of fruit and shade trees, date palms and flowers. The miracle" performed by the water from the Colorado river admitted into the owshaped valley Colonel Roosevelt said it would be worth 5000 an Think of the years piled up years that poor blind passed through and gazed that "barren waste and failed to observe the great Colorado river and the which he could rrigate the valley! Now think of the great swamps in Florida All they need is drainage.
 On the gardens in the Imperial Valley one So4iii'o toad Where did this king of toads come from? naturalists declare it is old but can only guess at it's origin. He has tongue ever so long, With almost imperceptible motion he creeps up to group flies bugs, his long tongue flashes out and down go the insects, wholesale Where was this toad when the valley desert and he could get no water? Perhaps (quien sabe? as the Mexicans say and likewise "No cari') certain desert flowers with cunning chaices which catch the dews of morning and distill them water, the lifesavers for the giant toad These toads probably goodsized fel lows when George Washington was wee boy. The Cordova students said to be good spoilers Maybe some time, they will invite the public to old fashioned spelling-be This enjoyable attrac on in other days Teams were chosen school director gave the words The old Blue Black used, Dictionary Prizes were awarded to the sur vivors.
 One good way of learning to spell, and acquiring rich vocabulary, is the of simple card system Write down every strange word found in reading, on each little card and underneath it write it's con- mon definition. On the side write sentence in which the word is used correctly Review the cards casonally, by Memory will rally. The result will be, by the end of school life, greatly increased vocabulary It is also excellent practice for persons out of school There is a general compant in business and professional life that graduates cannot spell and have limited knowledge of words.
 Ben Sherman says the pupils like penmanshp we'll that they stay after school for prac
 ce. Fine Practice makes perfect Try these sentences: John quickly extemporzed five tow bags, and the quick brown fox jumped the lazy dog. All the alphabet and Try long words, from this tumble: If
 damerica circles with octaginal periphres should collide with a centrifugal dosyncrasy, what effect would the catastrophe exert crystaized salmon suspended by the tail from the homogeneous rafters of the empyrean? Fix the image of the word in the mind and go it. That gives speed with practice. Write each figure plainly that it be read at glance and be mistaken for anything else Tel egraph operators, rule the best scrbes Their writing must be perfectly plain especially in train or dors because misreading might loss disaster Thomas Ava Edison, the worlds wsest today is wonderful penman His speed in penmanship came from practice in his youthful days, and his system writing the letters close together with ergetic free hand and finger movement combined with pen.
 The definition of "A Good Sport in Saturdays TIMES described Our Boys to T. Visitors from Outside n- varaby go back and say that the boys and girls were greatest wonders they in Alaska that they are different and superior to the children outside Such compliments mustn't make conceted but must live up reputation. Our boys and girls impress the Outlander healthy, clean minded freliant, hon. and fearless able to look squarely in the All ought be true, indeed, for this is the hand of natural healthfulness and normay. We talk most of foxes bears reindeer herds and politics, but we think the about boys and girls They the Hope of the Northand, Heirs to the Ages, Rulers of Posterty and the Destiny of America. Among them