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Show FGLDEBGL OF 1F-DAY 1F-DAY PROPOSED BY SUPT. MILLS Editor Standard: In reading tho many articles published in the Standard, Stand-ard, it causes a person to think and to wonder what will be the outcome of this half-day school subject. While we are about it, why not give the students stu-dents the other half day, and make their lives one great round of pleasure, pleas-ure, in not only furnishing them with shooting galleries! bowling alleys, pool rooms and picture shows, but furnish a complete outfit of sports, such as roulette tables, poker, high five, and other card games, with suf-I suf-I ficient money to make it interesting, not forgetting the gun with which every ev-ery one of that class has-to enforce fair play. Be sports and have done with it! : - N6V; -laying- all jokes" 'aside, ! believe be-lieve the American boys of today are not far different from what they were when I was a boy, and I can assure you that, if we could have had a half-day off, there would not have been much good learned the other half, for during the half school 'day we would be figuring on how best we could enjoy the other half. A great many young people do not realize the value of an education until it is too late, and unless there is something to Induce them to work for a higher and greater object, they will most assuredly as-suredly lag In their studies. In my school days, we had six hours In the school room with the exception of 15 minutes recess twice a day, when we had all the exercise needed. Again, if one is fitting himself Tor a position in the commercial world, he should be eager to qualify nB soon as possible, but under the present system sys-tem he is 18 or 20 at graduation. If I change this to only half the time in study, how old will the boy be when prepared to assume a responsible respon-sible position in business? I say, have tho child attend school and cut out all of this folderol. (Signed) ENOCH PARR. |