Show FEWER SCHOOL HOUSES once americas ande the little red school house with its bam ake single room and primitive equipment is slowly but surely passing more than of these small district school building were abandoned n the past few years their places being taken by the modem consolidated school with the rapid extension of good roads and the employment of motor busses for the transportation of children to these larger institutions it seems inevitable that the one room school with its many handicaps will eventually disappear while the district school must thus give place to a new and better system it has filled a paramount role in tha advancement of the nation to the self sacrificing labors of faithful teachers in these rural schools many famous men and women owe early education and inspiration but the demands of progress must be met in education as well as in all other phases of our increasingly complex civilization the new and larger consolidated school with its staff of bestir prepared teachers its improved organization and its modern equipment will mark an advance over the little red school house which must make for a more enlightened and efficient citizenship |