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Show EDUCATORS MA? THRIFT COURSE FOU SCHOOLS ' 11 E. A. 1 1 3rd Urges the Need oi Savings S'cudy in Cur Schools. I San Francisco, Cal. Before the end ' oi the year there will be established -a standardized course in thrift and saving sav-ing in every publ.c school in the seven states of the Twelfth For" era! Reserve District, according to plana worked out by the state superintendents of public instruct. on of the West in co operation with the war loan organiza tion. The supei aitendent of public instruction in each state -will serve as state d. rector of thrift education. It is not at all unlikely that a9 a result re-sult of this move in the West to found a better American citizenship by the teaching and practice of thrift in the public schools that the idea will be taken up throughout the United States. In this connection, Mrs. Jo sephine Coiliss Preston, state superintendent superin-tendent of public instruction for the Btate of Washington and president oi the National Educational Association, has written a3 follows to each member of the executive committee of the association: "Here in the West we are going to put in every public school a standardized standard-ized course in thrift and attempt to teach it on a plane with the funda mentals of the common school branches. In the nature of a laboratory labora-tory in connection with the course savings societies will be organized in each school with the idea of making the course habit-forming. "I cannot too strongly recommend to you as a member of the executive committee that every state in the Union take steps immediately to introduce in-troduce similar courses in the curriculum curric-ulum of every public school in America. Amer-ica. We have reached a danger point In the American social and economic structure and it lies -with us who are charged with the public education ol our Citizens to undeitake the responsi bility of meet.ng not only" the present crisis, but the vital need for permanent perma-nent thrift as a national habit." First available reports of savings work among school pupils this term come from the San Francisco schools through Philip J. Lawler, manager ot the school savings department of the Bank of Italy, which is co-operating with the government. The report shows a total of $28,437.90 saved and invested in Thiift, War Savings and School Penny Stamps in 73 school days. The number of students investing invest-ing was 65,149. Within a short time Mr. Lawler said he would have a report on the work in 275 California schools which have an attendance of 90,000 school children. Of this total number of schools 174 are country schools. "We must have the close co-operation of the newspapers of the West and, of leaders of public opin.on in this work of turning out better citizens," citi-zens," said Mrs. Preston. "We school superintendents, principal and teachers teach-ers are undertaking this job because we think it is our job. However, it is every true American's job and we will need all the help and co-operation we can get." Attending a conference called by Governor John U. Calkins of the Federal Fed-eral Reserve Dank of San Francisco at wliich the decision ta introduce the study of thiift to school curriculaa were the following superintendents of public instruction: W. J. Hunting, Nevada. G. N. Child, Utah. Mrs. Josephine Corliss Preston, Washington. Miss Ethel E. R'edfleld, Idaho. Will C. Wood, California. t i w a sl Forty mllHon dollars' worth of egg? are destroyed in the United States each year through careless handling. Keel Cross representatives from every county in the stale will ta'-e pari in Hie .Memorial Oratorio F.xer-"i'vs F.xer-"i'vs at the Sail Lake Cily Tabernacle, October 8. County clurrincn of the various Ked Cross chapters are now appointing these 1 oprosc nlat i es who will iart icipaip in memorializing the honored (had of Utah. Invitations have been sent to the H-:-oM relatives of the 7H0 men from the stale who died in the service, to ;illend Hie Memorial Oratorio F.xercises at the Salt Lake Lily Tabernacle. October Oc-tober S. Special invitations with the name of the soldier written in gold have been sent to the various -mothers, widows, fathers, sisiers and brothers of the men wlin died in I ho sor ice. The list is unfortunately not complete. com-plete. It is not Hie wish of the Executive Exec-utive Committee to hurt anvone and if an application to this affair is not received by the closest relative of H'r man who d;ed in the service, application applica-tion should al once be made to the member of the general committee In this county. |