The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1922-12-01
EDUCATION WEEK
DECEMBER 3 TO 10
PRESIDENT ISSUES PROCLAMA-
TION URGING NATIONAL IN
TEREST IN EDUCATION.

The ideals Of a democratic govern
nent and democratic education were
PLANTED simultaneously in our country.
The fathers rightly believed that only
a people trained to vision of public
needs and duties could develop 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 fea-
lures 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 coun-
tries, bringing the traditions of widely
varying institutions.
In order that we may keep in mind
the need constantly to improve our
educational system, it is proposed that
the week of December 3-9, inclusive,
be set aside for special observance as
American Education week. It is re-
commended to the governors of the
states that they cooperate with the ed
ucational and civic authorities Of their
commonwealths 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
1%o
pose to maintain education unimpared
in order that the coming generation
may be equipped, regardless of sacri-
fices in the present. for the increasing
responsibilities which it must bear.
without vision the people perish
Without education, there can be little
Ision. Of education it may be sale
that "It is twice blest; it blesseth him
that gives and him that takes" II
will be greatly worth the effort if, as
an incident to the observance of Edu
cation Week, we can impress this
thought upon the young manhood ant
womanhood of the nation and redirec
their interest and patriotic zeal to th'
iuCn VI IAdhiIS q PIopCI SolCI iDuCloi
to educational work. 1t is regrettabl'
that so few young men and women
equipped for such service are nova
davs disposed to give their time AM
talents to teaching. Education need
their young eagerness, zeal and en-
thusiasm,. There is no school of dis
cipline more effective than that i
which the teacher goes to school. w
could do no greater service than b
convincing those young men and VIC
men who have enjoyed educational op
portunities, that they owe reason
able share of their time and energie
to teaching.
The strength and security of the ma
tion will always rest in the intelli
gent body of it's people. Our educa
tion should implant conceptions %
public duty and private obligatio
broad enough to envisage the prof.
lens of greatly distraught worlt
More than anything else, men an
women need the capacity to see wit
clear eye and to contemplate wit
open, unprejudiced mind, the issues {
these times. Only through proper
ly motivated and generously inspire
process of education can this be al
complished.
In view, then, of these and man
other considerations, I hereby prt
claim the week of December SO E
American Education Week, recon
mending to the appropriate nationa
state and local authorities that the
give their cordial support and coo]
Grafton to making it's observance il
spirational and beneficial. Civic o
ganizations and religious bodies ma
render special service by their COO
GRAFTON; and particularly it is recon
mended that parents enlist themselv'
in behalf of closer understanding b
tween the school and the home, vii
the purpose of mutual helpfulness.
In consideration and witness wher
Of, I have hereunto set my hand al
caused the seal of the United Stat
to be affixed.
Done in the City of Washingto
this Goth day of November, in Il
year of our Lord, One Thousand Mi
Hundred and Twenty-Five, and of Il
Independence of the United States Il
One Hundred and Forty-seventh.
WARREN G. HARDING.
(SeaD
By the President:
CHARLES E. HUGHES,
Secretary Of State.