Show r- THE GARLAND Page 6 TIMES GARLAND UTAH JUNE 23 FRIDAY 1ZZZ THE GARLAND TIMES PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY Subscriptions: $200 Per Year Ventald Wm Johns ACCUSATION DISPROVED - DRUMMER DOYS MORNING Class Mail Matter August Post Office at Garland Utah Entered as Second $250 Outside Editor 1928 at the of County and Publisher BUT A recent survey by the National Education Association and theUtah Education has demonstrated to the satisfaction of its sponsors that children are receiving training in the three R’s that is just as good or better than they ever received The Association dug up some tests that were used in schools 25 and 50 years ago and found that the school kids of today read write and figure a little better on the average than they ever did in spite of the fact that compulsory attendance brings to school many children of a type who in earlier days would never have stayed there It is good to have this question authoritatively settled Who is there who has not said at some time or other that youngsters aren’t learning to read spell write and figure as well as they did beeducation came along? fore all this - The tests conducted seem to show that students now put answers to problms and questions in their own words while in the schools of yesterday an swers would all be given alike — in the almost exact words of the text Educators see in his an indication that present day students tend to think rather That too is all to the good than to memorize But we hope that the educators won’t expect now that- all of us will quit saying that youngsters don't learn the fundamentals as well as they used to do Every once in a while some particular situation is going to come up which will call forth just that same remark In the particular instance at hand it may be a fact that that the student would have done better under an earlier plan of study That is not inconceivable Yes teachers are going to continue to hear this old comment about the modern school for a long time yet and we hope it continues as a challenge to their efficiency a challenge to ever improved school methods a reminder of the constant need of self examination because there are still coming out of school many who cannot spell read memorize or figure very well and probably there always new-fangl- will lywvgri HONEYMOON IN LAS VEGAS Mr and Mrs 'Earl Hess (Ila Limb) have been spending their honeymoon in Las Vegas Nevada They were married June 7 Mr family Mrs Gaylen Hansen and of Austin Texas visited R Capener home SaturGaylen is here to attend teach at the USAC -LYTLE DULL successfully practiced the d strategy of swaying the minds of the masses by constant repetition Stalin Is finding the same practice very useful as Is exemplified by recent occurrences such as the Red demonstrations In Paris against "Rldgway the Poisoner’ Why don’t we use the same technique In a more constructive and honorable way? From all reports the Voice of America broadcasts to the Iron Curtain countries have changed In the last year or considerably IS ALWAYS tempted to two At one time these broadcasts envy those who have achieved great things But greatness In any appeared to be doing more harm than good to our cause The reasons field is always hardly won Even stm provide a fertile fields for the skill of tiie athlete has Then later partisan discussion acquired through long and faithful they seemed fo go through an practice There Is no royal road to period which conveyed-nothinfame o success to the listeners But of late Nor Is there any royal road to these broadcasts are reportedly heaven If drudgery Is the main much Improved ingredient of temporal success it Now If the constant repetition of is even more fundamental to the lie can Influence Russians Gerattainment of spiritual perfection mans French etc why could not Whoever wishes to enjoy the ultithe same effect be obtained mate reward reserved for God’s constant repetition of the by the truth? faithful must expect to win it the Why might It not bear fruit to hard way He may find that there drum into the miftds of the Slav Is no drudgery so hard as the fight masses the truth that the only way to overcome the No 1 enemy— his they can liberate themselves from own weaknesses the misery of constant fear Is to The fact that a man has to work destroy the brutes who hold them In out his salvation In humility hardbondage Why not point out to them should not constantly that no government has ship or discomfort ever been so strong that It can rehowever dampen bis spiritual ardor It should rather make him sist the determined masses for long Why not hammer hammer more ready to seek God’s help in hammer “revolt” until the Slavs do rethe struggle He should bear In volt A successful revolt Is not an mind that although God may not if the people can be spare His followers from trials and Impossibility made to realize that It is possible griefs In their quest for final happiToday the Iron Curtain peoples ness He never imposes a burden live In perpetual fear of the “knock that Is too heavy on the door” Before It was only More encouraging still Is the fact certain elements which had to that God Is always with Ills willing fear the terrible sound of the midsouls friends Infusing into their a night It Is everyfootsteps: Today joy and contentment that sustains one The slave quotas must be them In their progress toward the kept filled or the Russian economy great final goal would collape If a mechanic dies his place must be filled: A stenogPrayer steadfast devotion to the rapher a laborer a leacher a cook laws of God charity and patient —it is all the same There are no goodwill toward other! — these are more political “enemies” to fill the elements that constitute man’s those places — they must come spiritual from aR the people How long can drudgery They are a for burden and rebellious human heavy nature stand it? 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