| Show garfield school district continued from page pabre one is tile passiveness that has lulled us is to sleep and given the attitude of indifference and made us not only blind to ou our r duties as citizens but given us a desire to shirk and to shun and to even avoid responsibility and anal in many cases we wish to hold the other fellow responsible for our own neglect and wrongdoing an effective organization in each of lour communities created for the purpose of working in conjunction with local officers could render a valuable service such an organization liza tion could very materially assist als t in the general improvement i r A a w t ww ui fc jg t of community life and see that those who disregard the school attendance law get their children into school any individual who becomes a law unto himself is apt to prove a hindrance to ao society and prevent it from accomplishing the most good to its mi members embers if the best good is to come to the most of us all of us must be interested te and vitally so in that which belongs to tho the rest of us the enumeration of school children this fall showed an in increase of nearly one hundred over last years s count we must account to state officials for our enumeration en ume ration if the boys and girls are not in school where shall we find them what reason will we be able to offer if our children of school age aro not in school the state gives us 2500 per capita for our help in int their beir education if they are arc not in school what excuse can we offer we plead with the parents and guardians of children of school age to se see e to it that their children are in school if this is neglected and disregarded an effort must be made to hove have the law enforced do you stand for the enforcement of the lawn law surely the schools will ivill help our children child reri to become better men and women we not inot only need the educational help the school is div g i ing but also its help in the way of discipline wil aluch 1 ich after all is tile the bigand bigand important tant thing it is hoped that the public will assist in every vos possible sible way to have our s schools bools serve more efficiently and enable them by our cooperation and helpful support function to cap capacity acety for the best interests of all the children of tile the district why f not give each child his just deserts in ill the matter of education and training who knows who would even attempt to guess what any child might become lif if given an opportunity to develop his possibilities why not give each in so far as such is possible an equal deduc educational advantage respectfully F G GARDi gardiner NERl supt bupt |
