The Springfield schedule crystallizes into form the ideal which has long been preached by the most enlightened school men and laymen, who recognize that the important thing in the teacher's work is the teaching she does. whether of little children or high school students. A different training is required by elementary teachers from that needed by teachers of young men and women, but it must be no less extensive and thorough; the elementary classroom teacher has more numerous and varied duties than the high school teacher of botany or algebra or Spanish.

It may be that some other city with an equally statesmanlike salary schedule will come forward and show that it adopted this plan before Springfield did, but unless this occurs, Springfield is entitled to march at the head of the procession.

This action of the Illinois city will do more than anything which has ever happened to bring to realization the plans which the most enlightened normal school leaders and heads of teachers' colleges have long been advocating-courses of study equal in exten: and thoroughness for teachers in the elementary schools and for the high schools. The American School.

Said the bank teller to a teacher who had presented her salary check to be cashed, "I am really sorry to hand you these old, soiled bills. They are unhygienic and possibly dangerous." "Oh. never mind," replied the cheerful teacher. "Really and truly there is no danger. A microbe couldn't live on my salary."-Exchange.

WARNING TO HIGH SCHOOLS.

Commissioner of Education Calls Attention to Plan for Selling Gradua

tion Essays.

That high-school principals, teachers, and senior class officers should be on their guard against attempts to sell graduation essays to students is suggested by the Bureau of Education.

"Canned Graduation Essays." Circular matter now in the possession of the Bureau of Education shows a fairly widespread effort to suggest to high-school seniors an easier way to prepare for commencement exercises than by doing their own workthe easier way being to pay the advertiser $1 (three for $2.70) for "canned" essays on―

"1. 'Our Flag' (red, the blood of our heroes; white, America's purity of motive; blue, loyalty and steadfastness of purpose).

"2. The Triumph of Democracy.' "3. "The Onward March of Civilization.'

"4. 'America's Immortal Trio (Washington, Lincoln, and Wilson). and 32 others."

The Easier Way.

The letter is rather cleverly worded. to encourage the prospective purchaser who may hesitate about dishonesty in this matter. Class loyalty and other motives are appealed to

"Why invite failure in your school work or the humiliation of a nervous breakdown before an audience by trying to write, memorize, and rehearse. your own speeches-and keep up with regular studies at the same time? Why not make sure of success by getting top notch speeches to start with, and devoting your spare time, free from anxieties, to practicing? To expect an overworked teacher to do this work for you is an imposition upon good nature, and to ask assistance from your friends is to put yourself under an undesirable obligation. Get speeches written by a man who has been doing commencement work for years, and your class

will be assured of presenting a program of which the school and the faculty will be proud."

To cap the climax the writer of this delicious bit of encouragement to dishonesty in composition adds that, "high school and college graduates have been using this service for years, and we have never received a single complaint or letter expressing dissatisfaction."

A little care on the part of teachers, combined with a wholesome public sentiment on the part of the officers of the senior class ought to make this sort of business unprofitable.-School Life.

Miss Kate Worley, of Hartford City, who has been teaching in Ft. Wayne has resigned and has accepted a position as dean of girls and teacher of English in the Bluffton high school.

The pupils and teachers of the West Baden high school are priding themselves on the sanitary condition of their building.

The Valparaiso high school athletic authorities have issued a booklet announcing the season's games of the basketball team. Principal H. M. Jessee is manager of the team.

Supt: Lee Driver, of Randolph county, recently delivered a lecture on "Better Rural Schools," before the North Carolina Teachers' Assembly, at Raleigh.

Supt. R. E. Eckert, Dubois county, recently made an address before his Boone township teachers' institute on "Co-operation between Parents and Teachers." He spoke in favor of consolidated schools and better roads, as being things that will come with a better day in education.

Complaints are being made that some schools are not complying with the law in the matter of using the new copy books recently adopted for use in the schools of the state.

The School Lunch Association has been recently organized in Indianapolis.

Hygiene and Health may now be taught in the Indiana schools by regularly qualified nurses who may pass the state examinations provided for that purpose. The first examination will be given the last Saturday in this month. Others will follow at the regular examination times.

Soot from factories and office buildings falls on the streets of Indianapolis at the rate of nineteen tons to the city block for every twelve months.

The annual meeting of the Hancock County Teachers' Association was held at Greenfield, Nov. 22. Prof. Elmer Andrews, of Greenfield, presided, B. F. Brumfield, M. S. Mahan, W. W. Black and State Superintendent L. N. Hines were on the program.

Eight fire extinguishers have been placed in the Zionsville schools.

The Rush County Teachers' Association held its annual meeting at Rushville on Nov. 22. The topic of better rural schools was discussed.

Four hundred and thirty-two Indiana teachers hold certificates, provisional or life, under the new life license law. Additional life certificates are being granted continually.