The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-11-20
DECEMBER So
EDUCATION
week IN j. 5.
President Calls on State
and Local Authori-
ties to Give Their
Cooperation.
fRy Associated Press)

WASHINGTON, Noy. h19.--4PresiEent
Harding IN a proclamation made public
today at the White House sets aside the
Week of December 8 to as American
educational week. He recommends to
the appropriate national state and local
authorities that they give their cordial
support and cooperation and also calls
upon parents to enlist themselves in be-
half of closer understanding between the
school and the home.
The text of the proclamation follows:
1.-The ideals Of democratic government
and democratic education were planted
simultaneously in our country. The
fathers rightly believed that only peo-
pie trained to vision of public needs and
duties could develop and maintain the
institutions of popular government. The
system of universal education. estab-
lished in the beginning, has developed
with the country and become one OF
the characteristic features of our life.
In 1t we have laid the foundation OF that
system Of American culture which has
enabled US to absorb and assim1late MIL
lions who have come to us from many
countries bringing the TRADITIONS OF VICE
ly varying institutions.
Asks Governors To Aid
''rn order that we may keep in mind
the need constantly to improve our edu-
cational system, it is proposed that the
week of December SO, inclusive, be set
aside for special observance as Anerl-
can education week. 1t Is recommended
to the governors of the states that lhey
cooperate with the educational and CIVIC
authorities Of their commonwealths to
make the week period for reVlVal u
interest in the broad work of national
education.
.'I+ is gratifying to know that In
time when public burdens have lain very
heavy upon the people there has been
avervvhere a determined purpose to-
maintain education unimpaired, in order
that the coming generation may De
euuipped, regardless of sacrifices IN the
present. for the increasing responSlo1h-
ties which it must bear
.without vision the people perished.
.Uithout education there can be little
vision OF education it may be said that
.it ia b1est: it besseth him that gives
and hin, that takes 1t will be greatly
worth the effort if, as incident to the
ohservance of education week, we can
irnnress this thought upon the young
manhood and womanhood OF the nation |
and redirect their interest ana patrloTlc |
zeal to the ideal of making proper =.
con ontrihution to educational work. 1t Is |
that so few young men and |
1oroan equipped for such service, are
,,o,Dodavs DISPOSED to give their time |
ord talents to teaching. Education needs |
their youth, eagerness, zeal and enthust-
as,, There is no school Of discipline |
more effective than in which the teach
or goes to school. We could do greater
sarvfca than by convincing those
-,o,nq men and women who have en-
jovad educational opportunities that
thav owe a reasonable share OF their
time and energies to teachlns'
security rests On Education.
THE strength and security OF the ma
+ton will always rest in the intelligent
,lo6v of its people. Our education should
,TnnIant conceptions Of public duty and
rrivate obligation broad enough to en-
Usage the problems of a greatly dis
troueht world. More than anything else.
non and women need the capacity to see
,+.i+b clear eyes and to contemplate with
onan. unpretudiced mind, the issues Of
these times. Only through a properly
,r,o+ivated and generously inspired pro-
cess of education can this be accom-
plished. |
I'm view, then. of these and many 9TH
.r considerations, hereby proclaim the
,,-sel Of December SO as American ed /
,ca+ion week. recommending to the ap-
oriate national, state and local authori-
los that they give their cordial support
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