Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-11-17
To Stress A Particular Phase
of National Education Each
Day-Monday is Constitu-
ton Day-Parents Urged to
Visit Schools During Cur
rent Week to Observe Class
room Methods-Best Essays
Submitted In Contest

This week. Nov. 1922. is being OBJ
served throughout the United States
as Educational Week. Special sig
nificance will be given to the week in
the public schools of Augusta, and
the general program as outlined for
the week will be closely followed in
the class room work.
The parents and friends are cordi-
ally invited and urged to make spec
ial efforts to visit the schools during
this week. On Monday the Smith
grammar school will observe visitors
day. Tuesday the Webster school.
Wednesday, Lincoln; Thursday. the
Nash. and Friday the Williams
school.
Attention is called to the posters
made by the school children. Some
OF these will be seen in store windows
and others will be on exhibition in
the classrooms. They are credit to
the art department OF the Augusta
schools and to the studnets who eX-
ecuted them.
A new plan has been inaugurated
this year. which Will give the pupils
an opportunity to actively engage in
the dissemination of propaganda on
Educational Week, its aims, purposes
and results. Eacn day will be destg-
mated for the study of a particular
subject in connection with national
education and the pupils of the upper
three grades will prepare compost
lions or essays upon these topics.
The best essay selected from all
those submitted in the city schools
will be published in the kennebec
Journal.
Monday has been designated as
Constitution Day and the essays
which were regarded as the best by
the judges were written by Sewall
Packard, Grade s. Smith school:
Richard Howe. Grade s. Harrington
school: and Harriet Pease. Grade Z,
Williams school. Robert Ripley of
Grade s. Farrirg ton school explains
"Why We Have Schools" Tuesday
will be observed as Flag Day. and
the best essay on this subject will be
printed in tomorrow mornings pa
per.
The best essays pertaining to the
Constitution are as follows:
"The Constitution of the United
States Of America" by Sewall
Packard, Smith School Grade 8.
The period after the Revolution
was as sad as the Revolution had
been glorious. England still chung to
some of the western posts. contrary
to the treaty of peace, with no power
on this side to do anything but pro-
test; the debt of the late war still
piled up it's unpaid interest; the land
was flooded with paper money. which
could not be redeemed; and the con-
federacy's laws were tranpled upon
everywhere.
Dal q
in Massachusetts. Solid money was
very scarce and paper money all bu!
worthless, yet many debts made on a
paper basis were pressed for pay
ment in hard money. AL this period
men We're imprisoned for debt, and
the prisons We're a frightful place
| which one would as Willingly die q:
enter. Meetings were held and Otter
grew violent.
After groups of armed men hai
| seized several public buildings il
Northampton, Worcester. Springfield
and Concord, Governor Bowdoin fin.
| ally called for volunteers to suppress.
the rebellion and placed General Lin
coin in command. After a few minor
! battles they defeated the rebels de.
cisively at Petersham.
| This rebellion, which for a Ion;
time shook one of the stronges
states in the Union. was an exampl,
of the feeling throughout the country
/ at the time and showed the need of &
stronger central government than thu
old one was or ever could he made
There was danger. toe, that som.
of the states might be brought under
the control of either England OF
Spain. for the latter was hoping t.
join Georgia and South Carolina t.
Florida. and also had refused to al.
low American boats float down tn,
Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico
They hoped that the people in wha,
Is now Tennessee and Kentuck,
would join them. in order to get tht
right to use the Mississippi.
1t was seen that something mus
be done quickly. Men who had me,
! to talk about changes IN the laws
published plan for convention tc
be held to change the Articles o.
Confederation. and early in 1877
Congress decided that the Convention
should be held
! In May. 1887, the Convention me,
!