Show THE RURAL SCHOOL NOT A NURSERY 1 I dont know whether they expect me to teach school or to take care of 0 babies this Is what a beginning rural teacher said whose lot fell in a dia district in which some ot of the mothers had the habit ot of sending preschool pro pre school children to school on wash days down days and other busy days this practice Is common in many rural communities it would not lie be tolerated in mosi mogi city systems it is unfair to the 1 Ce acher tor for it adds to her burdens and makes i lu la difficult tor for her effectively to follow ver her days program it Is unfair to the pupils because their at te ten aida tam la Is distracted from their work it is unfair to preschool pre school children because they are too young to be held io the restrictions of the schoolroom such children need bodily freedom and afternoon naps the whole practice amounts to a shifting of responsibility on the part paril of the parents and robbing of the of the best results of their school duties it Is tor for young teachers to handle the situation school trustees usually follow a policy of silence tor for fear ear of arousing neighborhood an would it not be well to or granges school improvement associations iati ons and other rural organizations that have all heart the belfre of 0 the school tactfully tac tully to bring the matter up for or discussion dis cusson A sympathetic understanding derst der standing landing of the extent to which the practice Is detrimental to the best interess of 0 teacher pupils and preschool children will do much to create a corrective corr etive public oln TALK TO youit YOUR many legislators will need no more than the recent rk cent election day suggestion that the countI rf wants no hair raising throat cu culling toting legislation the tremendous rebuke ol of radicalism has changed a legislative ambition over night but nowhere would it be out of place bov business organizations boards of trade granges and individuals divi duals to call their legislators into friendy councel Most legislators sincerely want to serve their people ito it is usually where the people refuse to take an interest in public affairs that they go off on their own personal tangents woolgathering wool gathering in the maze of un stabilized speculation as to what Is right 11 A little commonsense common sensa sense now like the proverbial stitch in time that saves nine bine might eliminate the nine superfluous flukus laws to every one that is really needed |