Show Visit Your Schools Schools- I Its It's Education Week This is the week when the eyes of all Americans are directed to the schools In whose care the education of American children has beep placed This is Ameri Ameri- American American American can Education Week so proclaimed by bythe bythe bythe the President of our country and the Governor of our state How appropriate it Is mat we spend a week perhaps even longer In studying our schools American education long has been recognized as having a deci deci- decisive decisive decisive sive role ole to play in helping our country hold the line for tor freedom The very basis of our democratic government is 15 an alert well-informed well public A good education one which truly meets all the needs of the population is one of our best weapons for fighting the attacks of foreign ideologies ideologies ideologies ogies which seek to destroy the foundation foundation foundation tion of our republic Our schools stand as a constant reminder of the Import Import- Importance Importance ance of popular education in the sur sur- survival survival vival and growth of our form of govern govern- ment There Is another good reason for good citizens to turn their attention to the schools this week With Increasing de de- demands demands de- de demands mands being made on American incomes to provide for an extended military pro pro- program program program gram we are faced with reducing ex expenditures ex- ex expenditures expenditures In other areas Can school programs already having been hampered by a depression and a war and further complicated by a rapidly rising birth birth- birthrate birthrate birthrate rate face many more curtailments Citi Citi- Citizens Citizens Citizens zens may well begin to find the answer to this and other questions by visiting their schools this week and evaluating the he program they find there in light of the tho needs of school children |