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Show America's "Smart Set." In our more pilmltive dajs the schoolmaster was counted as the "smaitest" pcisou in the community where he labored. He could teach, of couise, preach sometimes, too. He could lecture and generally could sluv Some of the fraternity could play, and all could woik outdoors In a pinch at fnrmlmr ( lllmlliM In IT. IfitCaillCtO that.the schoolmastercould thrash the Milage bully and other obstieperous grown-ups. Unless things are altogether altogeth-er out of Joint the teacher of today is relatively as "small" as in the past And howthenumboi has grown 'There are over tluee-qiiarters of a million men and women engaged in various branches of Instiuctlon In this country today in the schools alone. That makes a "smart set" woith considering. consider-ing. It is as true now a- It was In the past that in the popular mind "teacher will know" eveiy puv.llng question and "teacher can do" whatever Is woith doing. As a i nle, teachers aie not smait at money grubblng.butthat Is no evldunce tnat they fall to get great good out of life, while the public thrives on their talents. A "simple life" is their lot, but they think nobly and act well. With ambitions higher than mere nioii-y making, they may be J the superlois of those wtio suipass them In material achievements Now that the land Is rich, the standards or living and the cost or pieparatlon foi teacheis higher, they should not be oveilooked In the handing out or awards. They should not be pushed into the background b a sniaitness which Is simply audacity |