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Show Teachers and Youth Honored It is fitting that representatives of the youth and teachers teach-ers of America should participate in the celebration of 150 years of American Independence. The decision of the directors di-rectors of the Sesqui-Centennial International Exposition to arrange for this is to be commended. The method adopted was well calculated to produce the desired results, and evidently evi-dently is working out most satisfactorily. In some states selections already have been made for the awards, the boys and girls being chosen by the representative repre-sentative youth and the teachers by the State Committees of Award. Throughout the conduct of the proceedings emphasis em-phasis has been placed upon the specific purpose of the plan. This is the paying of a tribute to the entire youth and teacherhood of the country, and not merely to provide a reward of merit for the individuals chosen as the representatives repre-sentatives who will make the patriotic pilgrimage to the cradle of American liberty and the National Capitol during American Independence Week, June 28 to July 5. Under the plan of the awards, each state and the District Dis-trict of Columbia were invited to choose a boy and a girl of the highest American ideals and the woman school teacher who lias achieved the greatest good for the children of her state. Those chosen will be the guests of the Exposition Ex-position directors for American Independence Week, in Philadelphia Phila-delphia and at Washington, where President Coolidge will confer gold medals upon them in commemoration of the Sesqui-Centennial and in recognition of the importance of American youth and teacherhood in the growth and progress of the nation. |