Show I t i CO COMMUNICATION OIT 4 Editor Echtor Standard Examiner I cannot retrain refrain from answering Mr Stanleys Stanley's communication to 1 Friday evenings evening's Issue of ot The Examiner Standard Examiner I 1 was much surprised as I thought the tho day past when any any- anyone anyone anyone one considered the teaching of ot the three Rs R's education Mr Stanley speaks of ot the recent advertising ad campaign conducted In our schools during Home Products week eek as wasted asted time When the tha children were through with that campaIgn they knew what Ogden produced and why Then they I r knew why cities clUes similarly situated I produced similar products why loers I produced other products what hat brings people to the cities how the surrounding county keeps up the tho and city and so o we might go goon goon goon on Space will not permit one to outline the geography lessons alone made possible In a campaign of that sort not to mention the art lan lan- language lan guage literature lan lan-I And I drives drives I have hava been out ot off the school room a few years butt but was fetching te when hen we had so I many drives I 1 will just lust mention the one the Roosevelt Memorial drive e When we were ere through with that drive our bobs bos and girls knew what hat Theodore Roosevelt stands for In AmerIcan historY In a wa way they never could know by byI studying a a textbook Why should 1 Roosevelt have a memorial What had ho he done that American people I should wish to honor him And when hen they discussed what he had done dont how proud they were to each have a a penny In that memorial Real live h history lessons Then they can enn see that even en Columbus and the crusaders lived which Wt w did did not see nor care caro about la In the theold theold theold old textbook days And boys week eek Did the men meno ot of tomorrow learn nothing from their contact with the men ot of to toI I day Those lessons In tho tha reI responsibilities re- re they must enlist assume I some day could not be so ISO well learned In textbooks Most surprising ot of all was as the criticism on the 0 G A R parade Wasted time No Nol Those Thosa boys bon and girls will never forget torget what r O 0 A R means The Civil war Is IsI Isnow Isnow now something besides dry read read- I ing lug reading Nothing patriotic about It- It It That lesson In patriotism Is ie In- In Instilled In stilled In their bosoms forever My son eight years old was so proud to carry the AmerIcan na nag Education Is not mere memos lung Izing as we wo used to think What Whatever ever broadens the mind enlarges the perception In educational and tho those things to which Mr Stanley objects are the very cry ery things that are bringing the school life lite In touch with Ith the outside life The I Ii i thing which 1 our schools have so BOlong I long d our prism da day methods More and more may mayi I our schools touch the dally lit of ot our community so that our boy and girls can clin use their edu- edu atlon after graduation Signed MRS HAZEL VON LASTOWICKA I Twenty-eighth Twenty street 1 |