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Show ADEQUATE WAGE I FOR TEACHERS BEINGSECURED President of N. E. A. Reviews Educational Situation Before Be-fore Convention. WOULD IMPROVE RURAL SCHOOL SURROUNDINGS (Thrift Movement Important: United States Saves Less Per Capita Than Other Nations. SALT LAKE CITV, July 5.- Adfc- Quats salaries u 1 teachers are ir obtained, Josephine Corliss Ptv -toe of Olympla, Wash , president f the National Na-tional I.dttentlonnl Association. declared de-clared In an address at the aSSOCla tlon's convention hero tonight. Importance of education was brought to the attention of the public bP the war, Mrs. Preston declared. The Nation.:! Kd ueji t lona I association, she added, has truly becoflll a f.tetor In the OiVlc and educational life of the natlona. , "The Nation For Our Field," was Mrs. Preston's subject. She urged Improvement of conditions surrounding surround-ing rural school teachers and asked the members of the association to participate actively n civic affair i v h crnzEs in politics. Some one has wisely said, 'Every citizen Is In politics," Mrs. Preston asserted. "The constitution of the United States puts him there and hie conscience grants him no exemption. The educators of this nation are In a strategic position They have a twofold two-fold responsibility n responsibility to our children and a civic respons!-1 blllty to our community, state and! national life. Thrift education is an Important ' movement launched throughout the nation by the gov 'ermnoent. It has I been said of us that we are a spend-I spend-I thrift nation. Statistic show tint what wo save per capita Is much lo-s than the per capita savings of most other countries. The vehool's pari in, the national thrift program l to ,' tack the problem In Its broadest sense. ' and to recognize that thrift Is In th ?avlnc of four things, time, talent, I money and health. A National Education Edu-cation assoeiation thrift commission eras appointed this year "Rural education problems need the earnest consideration cf the whole I country. Our food supply comes from I the eountry. Mow shall we hoop ouri I farm men and women In the country coun-try rnlslnc the nation's food stuffs :f we fall to provide good schools for them and unless wo give them good1 toichers. touchers with Initiative, leadership, lead-ership, tjxperlsno, high Ideals, charac- tor. broad sympathies and eduoatlonal qualification "The country schools have too long j been the teacher training Centers for . city sehools. Three outstanding causes ! operate to hurt the rural schools. I I They are low salaries, poor housing' eonditlons of rural teachers ai d thi I loneliness of rural life. The housing I conditions for teachers In rural font-' I mulntles have been a serious problem. I The 'tracherage' comes to a partial I solution There Is no teacher shortage . where rural districts furnish a teach- J era go LONELINESS Ol "I VTRY LI I "The loneliness of country life and isolation that Is stagnation of soul was' I well as of mind furnish us with th' I great need for the socialization of our! rural communities. The cqnsolldn- I tlon of schools is bringing nitieh to rural life. Rural folk need to be' brought aeross all lines of neighbor- hood feeling, personal opinion, rellg- lous creed, partisan politics, and in- j I come to a common ground of interest inter-est and duty. "The colonists of early American I j history did not merely try' to live I with each other They met to dls-I dls-I CUSS common problems so that they might get together upon common I ground, to disagree agreeably their ' rules which guaranteed each an op- portunity to be heard "The most important problem Which thi- National Dduoatlonal association h.'is so face at this time Is the reorganization reor-ganization of this great body. Experience Ex-perience ha taught me that, to do tin greatest Stark of the National Edu- lOiitlon assiieia tlon, as well as It should be done, a ib legale plan as ail Official working body Is the ultimate solution. The educators of this country see Clearly now as never before the necessity neces-sity for their octlve partlelpntlon In I Civic life. Wo can no longer sit back and leave to others the entire condUc) of governmental affairs. W( educators educa-tors cannol train children for the active ac-tive iluiloh of citizenship in Its fullest i :ense unless we have this conception of political life. Huch aconceition can only bs gained through actual contact with life problems and In actual par- I tlelpatlon In the affairs of government. I Let us bo statesmen hero in this meeting. meet-ing. Eet us continue to build for the weir.ire of the greatest numboi |