Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-02-24
SEND OUT WORD ON
TEMPERANCE DAY
OBSERVANCE MAR. z

DR.. Augustus O. Thomas, State SUI
perintendent of public schools, Fri
day, sent out a communication call
ing attention to the act passed by
the last Legislature providing that
the first Friday in March shall be
designated as Temperance Day in
the public schools.
Gov. Baxter
DR.. Thomas circular contains the
following announcement addressed
to the school children Of Maine by
Gov. Baxter:
TO the School Children Of the State
of Maine:
The State of Maine has the honor
of having been the first State to
adopt laws against the manufacture
and sale of Intoxicating liquor. The
earnest men and women who, in the
early days, had the courage to stand
out against the liquor interests will
ever be honorcd and remembered by
the law abiding citizens, not only of
our own State but of our entire
country.
The inheritance which these early
pioneers in moral reform have hand
cd down to us must be preserved in
tact ard passed along to succeeding
generations.
The people of the State of Maine
are better mentally, morally and
physically on account of our temper
ance laws and l call upon all citizens,
men. women and children, to observe
the law and by doing so to set an eX-
ample to their fellow citizens.
Our freedom is built upon law and
once the people of u nation disregard
its laws the foundations of good gov
eminent are undermined, and no one
can prellc. the disasters that will
follow.
| want the school children OF Maine
to dedicate themselves to the cause
OF prohibition.
(SiSnedD
pERClVAL p. BANTER.
Governor of Maine.
To the Teachers
DR.. Thomas addresses the teach
ers rs follows on Temperance day:
only one period Of the day once
each week is to be devoted. in our
schools. to the teaching of lessons
of sobriety and obedience to the law.
one advantage of the present day
school over the school "a generation
ago is the attitude of education to-
and the use of life material in teach
ing. If the mission or purpose of the
school is to help the boys and girls
to do better the DESTROYS things Of
life which they do any way. it s9ni-
tieS the stunning of evil as well as
the Development of right habits and
1deals.
1T is not our purpose to give full
detailed program of the advantages
OF Temperance Day but to present a
suggestive outline which teachers
may modify to suit their own needs.
No teacher who is interested in de-
velopinS Il state citiZenry capable of
dealing with the problems of the
future should neglect the teaching
of that group of virtues which clus-
tiers around sobriety and obedience
To School Children
To the School Children Of Maine.
My dear Friends:
AS State superintendent of schools
Of the State of Maine, I am inter-
ested in every one of you. / want
you to get a good education such as
will fit you for the work you are to
do. to build fine bodies, alert minds
and strong characters, to become good
citizens, Industrious. painstaking and
thrifty. Good habits are your most
valuable possessions.
Your work and conduct in school
and among your classmates tell how
you will conduct yourselves in later
years. If you do what will make a
good school. you will do in later
years what will make a strong coun-
try. which will protect you and your
interests.