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Show SCHOOL DAYS AGAIN School days are with us again, and some of us will be looking back over the days of childhood and recounting re-counting the precious hours frittered frit-tered away. Young people are seldom abl'3 to penetrate the veil of the future and realize the imperative need of an education. But the need is there and is becoming be-coming more insistent as time goes on and civilization progresses. In the olden days the educated class were but few in number. To day they are almost universal. Tomorrow To-morrow who knows what the requirements re-quirements will be? There i3 a training school for every trade, and even the tiller of the soil has colleges and Universities for the dissemination of knowledge necessary to a wider and more diversified di-versified field of agricultural activity. "With our, children back in the j class rooms again, it would be weil tor ur. of maiu-'e years to enlarge our interest in their welfare We should extend to the teachers a full measure of encouragement and support, and thereby add to the zest of their labors. Our duty does not end with starting start-ing the child to school in the morning. morn-ing. That !? rily the beginning An active and daily interest in its progress will lend encouragement encourage-ment to its efforts and spur it on to greater success. Parental commendation is sweet to every child. Indifference is the father of neglect. |