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Show WOULD CUT SCHOOL HOLIDAY Berlin Newspaper Objects to Time Lost by P'ipils in Celebrating Victories. Berlin. Vorwaerts publishes the text of a regulation issued by the Hessian Hes-sian ministry of public instruction ordering or-dering a school holiday for the children chil-dren as a reward for their services during the period when subscriptions for the fourth war loan were being collected. The Socialist journal does not like the Idea, and writes: "As a rule, even the announcement of a victory should not be celebrated by the suspension of school work on the following day. When a victory of Importance Is announced during the school hours Its significance may Immediately Im-mediately be explained to the children, who then may be dismissed for the rest of the day. That should be enough for the cultivation of patriotic sentiments senti-ments In an educationally unobjectionable unobjec-tionable way. Only very great and decisive de-cisive events would justify a whoI holiday. I |