The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1925-11-05
Sank Centre Schools Will
Observe Educational Week
Every Department Will Take Part
In Movement-Local Speakers
Will Address Pupils

American Educational Week will
be a nation wide movement starting
Monday, Nov. 16. The Sank Cen
tire Schools are planning to take an
active part in this movement. The
schools are among the mightiest of
forces which make for good in the
nation. The need of education was
clearly demonstrated to the Ameri-
can Legion during the World War.
Addresses will be delivered on live
topics for better Americanism by
competent local speakers.
The American Legion is sponsor
ing the movement to its utmost abil-
ity. In discussing the Importance of
American Educational week, James
A. Drain, national commander Amer
lean Legion, says: s..-5>-
To the American Legion the answer
is plain and positive. Education, as
the fathers of the Republic pointed out
from the very first is the great bull
such as we have, the first essential to
national well-being is an intelligent
citizenry, itself passing upon questions
Of national policy and charting the
, Nations course.
You can not have an intelligent
citizenry without ali informed citizen
~, nor an informed citizenry without
an educated citizenry. In that view
our schools are among the mightiest
of all the mighty forces which make
Tor good in the Nation. They take
questionable lad Of to-day and mold
him to the Nation'e need and the Ma
tion's ideal.
1.-The need and the value of educa-
the American Legion and to the Ma
ton generally by the World War as
they had never been before There is
no demonstration so effective and con-
for very life, as the Nation found it.
self dependent in that titanic strug-
gle, upon the education of it's sons and
daughters, the education which gave
them tools to make their capacities
for service and devotion available and
effective.
The startling. disclosures of the
tests given in the armed forces of
this Nation in that war also brought
home as never before the need of ed
ncation. Fifteen million illiterates in
the country, on the basis of Army fig
ures; and the United States, despite the
pride which we had felt in our school
system, eleventh among the nations in
illiteracy. Those disclosures struck
home to us as nothing else could how
absolutely necessary it is that the Ma
tlon look to it's schools. y.
=, 1t is not strangs, then, that we of
the Legion, recognizing the value of
actively in our schools, their needs,
and their problems. The Legion in
the very-moment Of it's organization,
set up as one of it's chief aims work
toward better citizenship and a bet
ter preparation for It..
Nor is it from that angle alone that
legionaires are interested in education.
Proud of our Nations history, we be- |
neve that our schools should inspire
IN future generations a lofty spirit of |
devotion to, country and inculcate a |
sacrifcial conservation which would |
not stint in labor to make America in
the finest sense a leader. aamong the
nations in all things for human good |
Honoring- the, flag and the Constitu-
ton we fought to defend, we desire |
that our schools should teach rever-
ence for Old Glory as the purchase of |
untold suffering and sacrifice. and the |
symbol of Nations aspiration; and
resolve to uphold the |
Constitution; real, Fundamental, |
broad horizoned patriotism a patrio-
fism that does as well as talks, an
abiding patriotism of the spirit and
only. G.. - w. -
:. American Education Week turns
the peoples thoughts to these things |
which are basic in the Nations life :.