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Evening star., 1924-07-03
WOULD EMPHASIZE
DEMOCRACY IN STUDY
Texas Educator Declares Children
Should Be Trained as
Plebeians.

Children Of America must be train
cd to be plebeian rather than aristo-
cratic, and democratic rather than
autocratic, according to S. M. N.
Marrs, superintendent of public in
struction of Austin, Tex, speaking
today before the National Council or
State Superintendents and Commits
sioners of Education at the New Will
lard Hotel. He said:
"A democracy must emphasize such
nationwide ideals with reference to
the meaning of education as Will lead
all of the people, in every nook and
corner of this great country, to re-
public must be trained to look for
ward rather than backward, to place
emphasis on life rather than on intel
lect, to be plebeian rather than aris-
tocratic, to be democratic rather than
autocratic. to be bent on kindness
and service rather than securing
pleasure or power through the ac-
emulation of wealth. and finally to
thoroughly believe in the brother
hood Of men rather than to have the
narrow provinciaIism which feeds the
fires Of racial hatred and religious
intolerance. Ignorance is the mother
of prejudice, and if all the people are
to contribute to the strength and
power Of the nation there must be an
association Of the leaders of public
thought in order that our citizenship
may be assimilated and that we may
gain the confidence and respect of
the other nations of the world by
demonstrating in our commercial,
diplomatic and social relations that
we are a Christian nation and that
our people have fully accepted the
doctrine Of the Great Master-'What-
soever We would that men should do
unto you, do ye even so to them
"In larger sense the national
problems are pressing for solution.
Conferences on interracial relation
ship disclose the fact that all the
children Of the republic are not hav-
ing equal opportunity. The oriental
in the west. the food of immigrants
from southern Europe in the east, the
African and the Mexican in the south
and southwest look to this great
government for Just treatment, and
the entire nation must realize that
their children are children of the re-
public"
Evening star., 1924-07-03
N. E. A. PROGRAM

The official program of the
closing session tomorrow of the
sixty-second annual convention OF
the National Education Associa-
tion follows:
Morning. 80 o'clock, Stadium,
Central High School.
Music by the United States
Navy Band-Charles Benter, di-
rector. Singing by 1000 Wash
ington school children.
America, the Beautiful" "Swee
and Low" "Old Folks at Home"
Battle Hymn of the Republic"
Loves Old Sweet Song" On
ward, Christian Soldiers" and THE
Star Spangled Banner"
Presiding officer-President Of
the associa ton.
Address-Calvin Coolidge, Pres
ident of the United States.
Evening star., 1924-07-03
MERRILL STRESSES
SAVING OF TIMBER
Director of Forestry PubIica.
tions Tells Teachers of
Fire Menace.

Need for preservation of the ma
tion's timber was emphasized by NJ.
c. Merrill. director of forestry pub
locations. Department of Agriculture,
at meeting of the department Of
vocational education of the N. f. A.
today, at Red Cross headquarters.
'"The United States is consuming
5000. 100000 cubic feet of timber a
year-two-f -fifths of the entire con-
sumption of the world-and growing
only 6,000,000,000 cubic feet in the
same period. That unbalanced ratio
is sending us straight and fast into
a timber famine" he declared.
Fires Caused By Cafelessness.
Eighty per cent of the forest fires
in America, Mr.. Merrill said, were
caused by human carelessness"
Two means of helping the situa-
tion were laid before the teachers
ects for school or community wood
lots, groves or forests, and their
proper care and management for both
profits, and second. study and appli-
cation by manual training classes of
proper use of woods"
Before the same meeting, D. G. Saw
yer, secretary of Sne Associated Gen
eral Contractors, made a plea for
more men in the building trades, say
ing the serious shortage of building
mechanics offered special opportu-
nifty for young men"
Success Lies With Man.
There was a time" said Mr. Saw
yer" when a man who worked with
his hands received immoderately low
wages, but through increasing rec
ognition of the important part which
he plays in life, as well as through
his associa ting himself with those
who have his particular interests in
view, his wages today are lucrative
and not only in accord with the ad-
vance in the cost of living, but a con-
siderable amount above this.
I'VE feel that success and advance
ment lie within the man and not in
the vocation which he chooses to fol-
low. The average skilled mechanic
in the building trades of twenty-five
years of age makes a yearly income
as large, if not larger, than that of
any young man of similar age in any
other trade or profession. There have
been countless men in the construc-
tion industry who have risen from
carpenters, bricklayerS, iron workers
and laborers to foremen, superinten-
dents, general managers and finally
to the head of a business of their
own"
Evening star., 1924-07-03

well, is the opinion advanced by Miss
S. Augusta Tainter of the Theodore
Roosevelt High School. New York
City, in an address on Business Eng
lish as Part of the Stenographic
Training"
The introduction o; little Some
thing new" as a means of relieving
the monotony of class recitations in
shorthand was advocated by Mrs.
Helen n. Campbell, director of the
commercial training departments of
the Elizabethtown College, Elizabeth
Pa
Discipline is often the teacher
bugbear. The mechanics Of the reci-
tar ion will control much of the dis
cipline of the class. But it is only
by thoughtful development of per-
sonality in the work and a recogni-
tion of the Joy of achievement that
the monotony of constant repetition
will be relieved" she declared.
Evening star., 1924-07-03
AMERICAN MANNERS
CALLED Hateful"
Provoke International Trouble
J. Russell Smith Tells Social
Study Group.

American manners are SO hateful
that they are cause for international
trouble, according to ]. Russell Smith
of Columbia University, speaking to-
day before the National Council for
the Social Studies at the Pan-Ameri-
can building. Prof. Smith said, in
part:
American manners, especially our
manners abroad, are a world wonder.
Get a Latin American or a Euro
pean into a frank frame OF mind, and
then ask him what he thinks of
American manners. He will tell you
that our manners are hateful. 1t is
difficult not to hate a man whose
manners are hateful.
Here is a perfectly useless, per-
fectly needless, non-prof1t- ma king
cause of international trouble. 1t
good thing that we need to develop
among the nations.
Broader Amerfcanism Favored.
"Our bad manners are a child of
igorance, child of this coekiness
expressed in this editorial remark
made last year in one of our widely
read monthly journals:
civilization in the world today. 1t is
right here in the United States. 1t
may be cocky thing to say, but
rela lively it (our civilization, is first
class, while Europe's is hardly
second-class and Asia's is about
fourth to sixth-class.) Surely the
author of that must have been one
of those who marched about France
and England in 1919 saying I'VE
(Americans) won the war
THE broader Americanism is polite
and humble, not proud and arrogant,
and the geography teacher has
great chance to give this viewpoint.
Duty of Teachers.
Every people has it's problems, it's
virtues, its skills, and it's achieve
ment, The geography teacher,
teaching about foreign peoples can
do much to create sympathy for their
problems; to create respect for their
achievement; to explain why they
differ from us.
eff once a child begins to desire
to understand other peoples rather
than to judge them. he has entered
another spiritual realm, the realm
where he will instinctively be polite.
Giving students this attitude toward
foreign peoples is the great oppor-
tunity of the geography teacher, one
Of the greatest things that can be
done for the promotion i, of world
peace and American trade"
Evening star., 1924-07-03
CARE IN TEACHING
ARITHMETIC URGED
Guard Against Inaceuracy, W. S
Maxson Tells Elementary
Principals.

The science of properly teaching
arithmetic was discussed before the
department of elementary school
principals of N. E. A. today at the
Raleigh Hotel, by William S. Maxson,
elementary school principal of White
Plains, N. Y.
1naccuracy, slolwness and difficulty
in executing the fundamental opera
tions," Mr.. Maxson said, bring to the
child dislike and discouragement, to
the teacher a sense of failure in
arithmetic teaching and to the school
system a censure from business for
turning out such weak and inefficient
products.
The remedy is to give to the fund
amental processes the thought and
time that their Importance demands.
to start the child right, keeping in
mind the ultimate object to be OBJ
tanned and never allowing a method
of procedure, mental or physical, to
be used that will need changing later
when drill practice is forming habit.
Urges Close Supervision.
Supervise closely all formative
drills to see that eye. mind and hand
are co-ordinatfng, producing right
habits of thought and action. Train
the children to harmoniZe their men
tai and physical reactions, as the
physical and mental are closely in
terwoven.
Use individual examples to increase
the childrens power and ability to
perform some particular number act
independently. Have them stop when
mistake is made and work new
example which has the possibility
OF accuracy in it. Never force or
allow drill practice to go beyond the
fatigue point nor do drill work for
the sake of being busy.
FINALLY use a system of test that
shows the steady improvement and
growth of each individual child, one
In which bright children may attain
and get credit to the limit of their
ability unhampered by the slower
ones and the slow children may work
up to their capacity, not becoming
discouraged in the vain attempt to
go beyond their preseot proficiency
condition which never drags bright
children down but brings slow ones
up.
Remember one may excel another
but ne never grows until he can ex-
eel himself"
Evening star., 1924-07-03
UNIVERSITY is URGED
IN BUSINESS CLASSES
Too Much Diversity Believed Bar
to Interest, Speaker Here
Believe.

There is little uniformity in the
courses offered in bookkeeping in the
present day high schools" declared
Lloyd l. Jones of the West High
School of Commerce. Cleveland. who.
in an address at the City Club today
before the department of business
education of the National Education
Association declared that ''it often
happens that two high schools in the
same county or even town do not
pa rallel their courses in bokkeep-
ing" He urged uniformity in book
keeping courses.
Students preparing for Nasiness
should be required by their t~aceers
to talk well, write we'll and think
Evening star., 1924-07-03
SOUTHERN BUSINESS
TEACHERS TO MEET
Conference to Be Held at Bowling
Green, KY, July IL and 12-Dr.
Swiggett to Preside.

Southern teachers of business sub
jects will meet in conference July
II and 12 at Bowling Green. Ky, to be
held in cooperation with the summer
school of Bowling Green Business
University. DIR. Glen Levin Swiggett
is chairman of the conference, which
has been called to discuss problems
relating to teaching of secondary
business subjects and student prepa- :
ration in relation to placement in
commercial positions.
Among the speakers will be Arthur
II. Carver of Swift & CO., w. H.
Minton of the American Rolling
Mills Company, II. II. Smith of the
Gregg Publishing Company, ]. y. Nc
kinsey of the University of Chicago
and Edward West of the University
of Kentucky.
Evening star., 1924-07-03
BROKER GETS RETRIAL,

NEW YORK. jury S-George Gra-
ham Rice. stockbroker, who was
sentenced to three years in Sing Sing
in 1922 for grand larceny in stock
transactions, has been granted a new
trial by the appellate division Of the
supreme court. He has been at lib
erty on a certificate of reasonable
doubt. He has had a spectacular
career as stock promoter and race
track tipSter
Evening star., 1924-07-03
QUEEN VISITS LONDON.
Spanish Royal Party Greeted by
Mary of England.

LONDON, July 3.-The Queen of
Spain. with the Infantas Beatrice and
Christine, arrived last night They
were greeted by Queen Mary, the
other royal princesses and the Span
ish ambassador, Signor Alfonso.
Merry de Val and members of the
Spanish embassy. The Spanish queen
will nay a visit to the Queen Mother
Alexandra and the Princess Beatrice.
Evening star., 1924-07-03
10 MORE PATROL BOATS
FOR SOUTHERN WATERS
Will Be Used in Effort to Stop
Liquor Smuggling From
West Indies.
Nv the Associated Press.

JACKSONVILLE. Fla, July g.
Contracts for the construction of ten
United States coast guard patrol boats.
totaling approximately $350,000. have
been awarded to the Gibbs Gas Engine
Company at Jacksonville, 1t is an
nounced here. The boats will augment
the equipment of federal officials in
South Atlantic waters. Five picket
boats, to be used in an attempt to
stop smuggling of liquor, narcotics and
aliens, will be completed within
the next few days, 1t was announced,
and will be assigned to duty following
trial trips. Omcers and crews for the
picket boats have arrived here,
Evening star., 1924-07-03

With the addition of six electric
generating units, each of $1,000 kilo-
watts capacity. three of which are
now being set up, the electric serv-
ice company of Paris, France, will
have a total generating capa city OF
400, 900 kilowattS
Evening star., 1924-07-03

The recent celebration Of the cen
tenary of Lord Kelvin, the scientist
and inventor, has recalled the fact
that Mrs. Ramsay Macdonald, the
late wife of the new British prime
minister. was niece of the great
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1924-04-03
(From Another COrrespondent1

Anna Matson is on the sick list.
.Alva Linn Of Cumberland, Wis,
was at Duxbury Thursday.
Mr.. Knudson and son, Lyle,
were in Cloverton Wednesday TO
see DR.. Freymiller
Violet Matson spent Thursday
with Mrs. Jens Anderson, the
occasion being Mrs. Anderson's
birthday.
Mrs. Andy Anderson received
telegram to the effect that her
aged father who lives near Will
mar is seriously i'll. Mrs. Ander-
son left for Willmar Tuesday.
There wasn't any Lutheran
church services Friday evening
as nobody turned out on account
of the weather. The instruction
class was held at Carl Glienke's.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1924-04-03
KERRICK

Mrs. James Caldwell spent
Wednesday in Superior.
Miss Hildur l.. Westlund spent
the week end in Duluth.
Mrs. f. v. Matson was on the
sick list few days last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Van Guilder of
Holyoke, were Kerrick callers
Tuesday.
Willie Gellatly is driving g
new Ford car purchased from
Hogan Bros.
Mrs. G.. F.. Nelson and children
are spending a few weeks with
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. j. P.
West of St. Paul
The Misses Althea and Helen
Gellatly of Bruno, are spending
a few days with their sister,
Mrs. Arthur Land.
Miss Viola Carlson of Mime
apolis, spent a few days here
last week with her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. C. J. Carlson.
Mrs. Arthur Lund spent Sun
day with her husband who is in
the st. Luke's hospital at Duluth.
He is much better at this writing.
The Union Ladies Aid will
meet at the home of Mrs. G.. e.
Ferguson, near Oak Lake, on
Saturday, April 18th. Everybody
welcome.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1924-04-03
NORMAN TOWNSHIP

Mrs. Ed Peterson called at the
Arthur Sangren home Monday.
Gerald Martin spent the week
end at Hinckley visiting friends.
Lilly PuruIl visited with her
aunt, Mrs. Geo. Hyatt, Tuesday.
Earl and Bernice Bonnin
visited at the Purull home Sun
day.
Mr.. Gault of Bruno, was a
visitor at the Bert Forsyth home
Friday.
Frank Devall was saving fire.
wood for several of the neigh
bors last week.
Helmer Tingesdal was down to
Sandstone Tuesday TO have some
dental work done.
Mrs. Geo. Hagen, from Duluth,
VISITED at Jne nome OF her latner,
Chas. Sangren, a few days last
week.
Paul Kelly left for Duluth Fri
day to accept a position with the
Canadian Northern r. r. Com
pany
Mrs. Leo Forsyth and little
daughter, Ethel, from Duluth,
visited at the Bert Forsyth home
a few days last week.
Geo, NJ. Hyatt has been APP
pointed township fire warden
for the season by District Ranger
Swedberg of Moose Lake.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1924-04-03
WINDEMERE TOWNSHIP

Elmer Mossberg and family
called at Theodore Anderson's
Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hanson from
Duluth, visited at Gust Johnson's
over Friday and Saturday.
Some of Wilma Erickson's
friends helped her celebrate her
9Th birthday last Friday evening.
George and Vivian Nystrom
came home Thursday. George
remained a few days but Vivian
expects TO spend a month at
home.
Word has been received that
Mrs. S. Dahlin underwent another
operation Wednesday of last
week. She is in the Fairview
hospital, Minneapolis, and is as
we'll as can be expected.
Mr.. and Mrs. Rapp from Grand
Rapids, visited at Sigfrid Lar
sons from Thursday till Monday
Raymond left with them and ex-
poets to be employed at Kelly
Lake with his uncle this summer.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1924-04-03
Oak Lake Neighborhood

Nels Nelson spent Tuesday
afternoon with John Miller.
John Miller visited at Alfred
Anderson's Tuesday evening.
Mrs. Ole BeckstDm went to
Minneapolis Tuesday TO take
treatments.
Several young people were
entertained at Andrew Johnson's
Sunday evening.
Andrew Bornhoft called on
Victor Swenson and Henry
Anderson Sunday.
Norine Barnett was taken to
Duluth to consult a doctor She
is suffering with a mastoid in one
Of her ears.
VIM. Asst left Tuesday for st.
Paul where he will undergo a
government examination with
regard TO compensation.
Miss Selma Anderson spent a
few days last week with her
sister, Mrs. Gilbert Johnson, and
also visited with Miss Lillian
Johnson.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1924-04-03

st. Louis and Ramsey counties
exceed the aggregate apportion-
ments to those counties by nearly
100000 this year. That sum is
divided among the other counties,
plus the amounts they pay in,
with the result that y receive
more than they pay and the re-
twelve break about even.
Andrew P. Edin, county audi
tor, received the notice from
Charles M. Babcock, state high
way commissioner. who with
Henry Rines, state treasurer, and
R. P. Chase, state auditor, made
the apportionments. The state
money Will be available for use
this year by the county on the
designated roads.
The fund is made up of 81, $780,
GOO Of taxes from the state 1-mill
levy, 5000 of U, S. government
land receipts, $500 Of Babcock
cream test license fees and
$4,000 of internal improvement
lands interest.
Hennepin, Ramsey and St.
Louis counties pay S834,9lS Of
state road aid taxes, including
those collected in Minneapolis,
st. Paul and Duluth, and their
appointments are only $4,000.
The difference of about $685., 600
is divided among other counties
with the result that the large
majority receive considerably
more than they pay into the fund
for Improvements on county
roads.
The state aid plan is another
feature Of Minnesota highway
laws framed to hasten "a good
road to every farm gate in the
state. More than a third of the
motor vehicle tax, it is generally
known, is paid in the three large
counties, but all expended on the
most used rural highways of
Minnesota.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1924-04-03
FLEMING TOWNSHIP

Mr.. and Mrs. E. l.. Bailey have
been on the sick list. Mr. Bailey
received medical attention.
March it appears, does not
want us to forget the old saying
about the lamb and the hon.
Nels Breiland who has the
agency for the Furst-McNess
Company, was calling in this
vicinity last Thursday.
Saturday our mail carrier made
an attempt TO cover his route,
but on account of the storm and
snow drifts was forced to give
it up.
Louie Larson has gone to Min
neapohs to work at his trade for
few months. Teddy Rydberg
will look after his stock while he
is away. Mrs. Larson remains
here.
Little Doris Pearson, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. J. w. Pearson,
had the misfortune to break her
arm last week, and was taken to
Duluth to have it set. She is
getting along as good as can be
expected.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1924-04-03
Duxbury Neighborhood

r. ]. Shute sawed wood for C.
fIanstad Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. Shute took
their title son, Norman, to Sand
stone Tuesday for treatment.
Lyle Knudson was in Cloverton
last Wednesday TO see DR.. Frey
miller. 1t was thought an abscess
had formed on the back of his
head.
Wilbert Glienke hurt his arm
while playing last Sunday. He
was taken 70 Sandstone where
they found a bone in his elbow
had been DISCOUNTED.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1924-04-03
NOTES SCHOOL e"

Ernest Nelson is in charge of
the library work since Arne left.
The fifth grade girls are max
ing raffia hammocks and reed
button boxes.
Jimmy Johnson and Dorothy
Hammerquist are still ahead in
the arithmetic work.
With the exception of Vern
and Rudolph Anderson, Alice
Larson and Doris Mossherg all
the pupils had perfect attend
ance during the month.
Irene Mossberg and Laura
Erickson are cooks and dish
washers this week. Hot lunches
viii be continued three times a
week until the Easter vacation.
A beginners class will be
started the first Monday in May.
Any pupils who win be six be-
fore next September, and are
planning on entering school next
fall are asked to come.
Raymond Larson and Arne
Jacobson passed the state exams
in all the subjects they were TAX
ing. The lowest mark was 76es
and the highest 90fS. Raymond
is now employed at Kelly Lake
and Arne is working at home.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1924-04-03

at the work, having appeared
before the local audience. in var
ious plays. The local community
has every reason to look ahead
to the local performance with
anticipation and zest. Under the
able dictatorship of our coach,
Glenn Ferguson, nothing but the
best could be tolerated. The
caste plays at Duquette May 3,
and at Askov, May 9th.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1924-04-03
SPEEDING GOOD ROAD
TO EACH FARM GATE
State Apportions $1,000. 900 OF
Aid Among Counties for Inn
proyemeRts ON Local
Roads.

Pine county this week received
notice of its 1924 state road aid
allotment of $4,000, against
Sl0.172 paid in state aid taxes.
The state aid law operates TO
compel counties Of high assessed
valuation totals to contribute
toward the public road funds of
counties with less taxable wealth.
State road aid taxes in Hennepin,
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1924-04-03
JUDGE COULDN'T SEE POINT
Legal Lurinsry Had Eis Own Idea az
to what Really Should Be Con-
sidered Distance.

An old Judge had grown tired Of the
petty interests and conventions Of a
small city. Desiring to live closer to
nature, he had built his home on the
outskirts OF the town.
One day he met a number OF the
younger legs! lights who were inclined
TO think the old Judge rather eccen-
trio, and he, in turn, did not agree
with them as to their Importance on
earth.
"But. judge" one Of the leading
lights said. -you live so far out"
$50 far outl SO far out7' the judge
spouted. $50 far from where, from
whom, you? am just as close to the
sun, moon and stars as you are
Judge.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1924-04-03

j. Ludwig made a business trip
TO Sandstone last Wednesday.
Frances and Victor Ludwig
visited with their sister, Miss
Verona Ludwig, in Webster, Wis,
week ago