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"AS NECESSARY TO A TEACHER AS A MEDICAL JOURNAL TO A PHYSICIAN." HOME STUDY (28th Year) Courses for High-School Teachers of English, History, Mathematics, Address The University of Chicago (Div.12) Chicago, Illinois Our Little Citizens Etta V. Leighton Civic Secretary, National Security League (Book rights reserved) January, 1920, must be more than "Happy New Year" month for teachers and children. There can hardly be a teacher anywhere who is not seriously impressed by the need of teaching even to the little tots the ideals of our government assailed now on every hand. These children now in our classrooms are as much to be pitied as the little children in France and Belgium were while battle was raging about them. Some of the little French and Belgian children will never be anything but feebleminded, so great was the mental strain under which they lived and tried to grow. Some of our children will never be mentally normal unless we can take special pains to counteract the terribly dangerous atmosphere of unrest in which they are trying to live. We have the child five hours a day, he sleeps about eight, leaving eleven hours when he is exposed to other than scho ol influences. In his five hours with us, we must develop strong concepts of growth, of building, of individual ownership to negative the doctrines of destruction and revolution that are part of the atmosphere to-day in every community. Stock-Taking The children will know that January is "stock-taking" month that business men know that they must keep track of what they own if they intend to do a profitable business. By schoolroom attempts at stock-taking, by playing store. counteract the wicked and foolish notion now gaining currency that there is something wrong in seeking profit. The wild agitators are demanding that all industry be run for "service not profit" nine-tenths of them don't know what they mean, the remaining tenth know that human nature and human honesty require that people shall profit by their work or by their investment. The agitators want to make profits all right, but they want to divide these profits among themselves and they are building up in the public mind an idea that makes a robber of every man who, through saving, investment, or business, makes a profit on what he does. Splendid exercises in drawing, penmanship and arithmetic can be made of this stock-taking in the schoolroom. Its value as civics is to build up several ideas: 1 "Counting our blessings, remembering our joys" as a counteractant of rest and discontent. 3 Teaching the making of inventories and their use in obtaining insurance or loans. 4 Creating a sense of ownership, interest and pride in one's possessions and desire to get the best use of them. 5 Teaching the distinction between real estate and personal property and noting the community tax on real estate and the tax on personal property. 6 Teaching the difference between luxuries and necessities. Showing that books, pictures, etc., ought not be classed as luxuries. 7 Creating a feeling of gratitude towards parents and community for advantages given. 8 Creating a respect for property, the feeling that personal and private property must not be harmed or wasted. This feeling is most important. It has been said that no truly sane person can destroy property. The firebug, who sets fire to property, is clearly insane. The person who preaches destruction of property is likewise mentally unbalanced. One of our greatest tasks is to prevent wanton destruction by young people. The destructive instinct can be cured by cultivating the imagina.ion so that the child can put himself in the owner's place, and this can be done only when the child has himself a strong property feeling for his own possessions. School Property Think of the pleasant counting and writing lessons in making out a school property stock sheet. The third and fourth grades might make the inventory sheets for the entire building as a drawing lesson. A triplicate set of sheets for each teacher might be lettered as an upper grade drawing lesson, but the sheets used in the lower grades could have the names of the articles written. Grades I and II can count their possessions and put the figures down; perhaps Grade II can add all the totals. It would be a splendid demonstration of the value if the teacher could show the children an amount in bills and coin equal to the value of the furnishings, and the property they are using. This is a thrift lesson and if the sum were large, the teacher could no doubt get some business man to show the children the amount of money and talk to them for a few minutes of how many other things that money could buy if anyone did not realize that it should be spent to help the children to become good, wise Americans. Teach Definition of Capital Whether you demonstrate the value by using the actual money or not, make the children understand that this furniture and these materials are the tools with which they work, that they are "Capital," because through their use certain products in the way of written lessons, etc., and knowledge are produced. Above all, make everyone know that "Capital" is not just money. It is not something that a few rich men have. It is not something taken away from the poor man. Capital in its money form is accumulated savings invested in production and everyone of us who has money in a savings bank or in life insurance, everyone of us who has tools and material to work with, is a capitalist. Don't say, "My children are too small to understand." Your children are not too small to hear, and in their homes and on the street they are hearing the words "capital" and "capitalist" used as something that menaces their lives and that must be destroyed. If you don't try to simplify the truth for even small children, you are a left-handed emissary of the Reds. Plain Living and High Thinking Let us return to this slogan of the good old Americans. No nation was ever more prosperous than this. If the truth were told about the High Cost of Living, it would be seen that profligate spending and under production due to strikes are the cause of the greater part of the increase in prices. Use stories of the Pilgrim children to teach thrift. Cooperate with the Government in all its thrift activities. Above all, show how cheap and degrading, how vulgar, profligate spending is. No good American is paying extravagant prices for luxuries. The good Americans are trying to save, to make their earnings last as long as possible to live decently, not extravagantly. It is the cheap, ignorant, flashy type that is engaged in an orgy of spending. No class is suffering more from this than the teacher. Surely we can put our hearts into teaching a refined, cultured standard of living. Let us make an inventory of Personal Property toys and Let the children put in everything they possess all. The idea is to build up in the them concepts of possession and contentment and thrift. Tell them to list damaged toys and then see if these damaged toys can be repaired as a manual training exercise and donated to other children or to hospitals. It is said that the aliens among us who wish to overthrow our Government get more money in a week now than they used to be able to save in several years. They were contented until the agitators preached to them against our country and now, though some of them make over a hundred dollars a week, they call themselves wage slaves and want to take over the factories for themselves. Their discontent was artificially created by agitators. Uncle Sam's Census Tell the children that Uncle Sam takes stock of his people every ten years, and that 1920 is a census year. Tell them the first census bill was passed in 1790-let them find out how many times the census has been taken. Let them take a census of their own family (fine opportunity for spelling, reading, writing fine opportunity for teacher to become better acquainted). Tell them that Uncle Sam wants to know everyone's name, place of birth, age, occupation, whether the children are in school or at work, and whether everyone can read and write English. Stress on this last part may increase interest in Americanization work. We don't realize our power. What we put into the minds of the children reacts powerfully on their parents. It is a moving and pathetic sight to see little children bring their mothers to evening school to learn English, because some teacher has been inspired to make explain the census, especially if the chil- DOMESTIC An appropriate gift to pupils at close of school. Samples free ILLINOIS TRAINING SCHOOL FOR NURSES Founded 1880 RHEUMATISM Thousands Have Found Relief Rheumatism is a constitutional disease It cannot be cured by local or external applications. It must have constitutional treatment. 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