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The firm of Kiger & Company, 43-47 N. Capitol Ave., Indianapolis, has the only stock of general primary supplies in Indiana. We also keep and sell a general stock of school supplies for Grade and High Schools. Domestic Science and Manual Training equipment. Laboratory Supplies.

Write us for list of primary supplies or catalog covering all equipment.

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A. J. Nystrom and Co., the school map publishers of Chicago, announce with deep

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PRIMARY N regret the sudden death of their

salesman, Mr. W. J. Hanna, on December 30, 1919.

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He was buried in Lincoln, Nebraska, his old home. A very active and useful life thus came to an abrupt close and his loss will be keenly felt, not only by his family, but by his business associates and friends. He will be missed by a large circle of scool people with whom he had come in personal contact during his many years of activity in the map business, and who had learned to regard him very highly.

The Williamsport schools have had the full six-six plan for four years with departmentalized teaching, promotion by subject, and for the last two years, supervised study in the Junior High school department.

Miss Dorothy Archer, teacher of Home Economics in the Williamsport schools has been released to accept a similar position in the Evansville schools.

The Parent-Teachers' Association of Williamsport has been reorganized this year after a two year's lapse on account of wartime activities, and is now actively engaged upon health inspection in all of the grades of the common and high schools.

Miss Jane Cameron, who has been for ten years the Northwestern representative of Milton Bradley Company, has recently become the Pacific Coast representative of The Prang Company. Miss Cameron has made a high place for herself in the regard of the school people of the Northwest and this promotion and larger opportunity is fully deserved. Miss Cameron's address for the present will be, 133 Third Street, Portland, Oregon.

Several new classes have been added to the night school in Richmond.

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Our Indianapolis Home

For the convenience of our many customers in Indiana and the West, and in order to maintain the prompt and efficient service that Dobson-Evans standards demand, we have opened a branch store and warehouse in Indianapolis where any and all articles of our immense line may be obtained at all times.

For the benefit of those whom we have not before had the pleasure of serving, we may add that the house of Dobson-Evans is among the largest in America and that we manufacture and publish the most varied and complete line of school supplies and teachers' needs to be found anywhere.

All orders sent to our Indianapolis store will receive the same prompt and careful attention as is given them at our main office in Columbus. We invite you to take advantage of the saving of time and money this new service will afford. You will find our prices always right.

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AN EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM
FOR INDIANA.

Points discussed by L. N. Hines, state superintendent of public instruction, before the Indiana Schoolmen's Club, Indianapolis, Friday, January 16, 1920.

The entire Americanization of our whole population.

The extermination of illiteracy. Much higher salaries for teachers. A revision of our retirement law to the end that it may be made entirely safe perpetually..

Improvements in our system of high school inspectors.

The appointment of a staff of grade school inspectors.

The installing of rural school experts in the office of the state superintendent of public instruction for work among the rural schools.

The creation of a department of statistics and measurements under the direction of the State Board of Education.

A reorganization of our county institute system to the end that there may be organization of the work of

fered and co-operation among county superintendents in putting on institute programs as well as in passing on the qualifications of institute instructors.

A continued interest in vocational education, with a special emphasis on the education of those that have quit the regular day schools, and with emphasis on the agricultural phases of this subject.

Improvements in our text-book laws. An entire revision of our attendance laws.

The extension of our health and physical training laws to the end that they may be made compulsory in all schools in the state.

Improvements in the system of training teachers in service.

Increased support for the three state institutions for higher education.

Increased qualifications for certain classes of our public school employes notably city superintendents.

And a general overhauling of our rural school situation, not so much by changes in the laws as by deepening of the vision and an increasing of the energy of those that have the administration of the rural schools.

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Logansport, Ind-The city school board today announced a plan to open a night school next Monday night. The purpose of the school is to offer the opportunity to the foreign-born of the city to acquire the rudiments of an education and to learn the basic principles which underlie the constitution and institutions of America. Logansport has a relatively large foreign population, including Italians, Greeks and Macedonians. Less than 25 per cent of these residents speak English.

A summer session of eight weeks, will be conducted, as usual, this year in the East Chicago schools. Supt. E. N. Canine believes in this type of school as a means of helping to reduce to a minimum the amount or retardation in his system.

The New Way of Teaching Children to Read

Summers Manual for use in teaching children to read. published by Lloyd Adams Noble, 31 West 15th Street. New York, which costs only 50 cents, deserves a place on every Primary Teacher's desk, no matter what method of teaching reading may be in use in the school. Its sound pedagogic principles, helpful suggestions about planning the work and correlating blackboard sentences and dramatizations of the lessons with the regular text and the useful Phonic Lessons arranged for the first three years, make a study of the book worth every teacher's while. It will be still more valuable if used in connection with the Summers Primer, First, Second and Third Readers which embody this new way of teaching children to read. Please mention this magazine.

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Four former Hoosiers spoke at the recent week's institute in Fayette county, Pennsylvannia. They were: Dr. E. C. Perisho, South Dakota; Dr. E. D. Starbuck, Iowa; Dr. James M. Callahan, West Virginia; Bishop Edwin H. Hughes, Boston.

The Indiana School Men's Club held a meeting at the Claypool Hotel, Indianapolis, Jan. 16. The merits of the Smith-Towner Bill, were fully discussed and an educational program for Indiana was outlined.

The following members of the Southern Indiana Superintendents' Club, attended the recent meeting in Huntingburg: J. C. Webb, Franklin; J. B. Fagan, Princeton; Emmet Taylor, Jeffersonville; W. S. Painter, Mt. Vernon; J. H. Diehl, Rockport; W. F. Vogel, Boonville; H. A. Buerk, New Albany and N. F. Hutchison, Huntingburg.

A Mathematics club has been organized in the Goshen high school.

The Gas City schools are badly crowded. Supt. N. J. Lasher is making every effort to relieve the situation.

Supt. Homer Long, of the Madison schools, died recently. He was one of the successful school men of the state. He had been in charge of the Madison schools for several years.

The Salem schools have Bible study.

The grade teachers in the South Bend schools have asked for increases in salaries.

Lebanon is to have a new high school building.

J. S. Johnson, Evansville grade school principal, was the special guest at a recent reunion of the class of '17 of the Shelbyville high school. Prof. Johnson formerly taught in the Shelbyville high school.

J. E. Wolfe, of New York, retirement law expert, who is in the employ of the state Teachers' Retirement Board, was in Indianapolis, last month rounding up details preparatory to making his recommendations for changes in the Retirement Law.

Capt. Luther Ellis, formerly a teacher In the Hammond high school, has been given the Distinguished Service Cross, because of extraordinary heroism in the World War.

The Morocco schools have been united with the schools of Beaver township.

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State Board Questions for January With Answers.

ARITHMETIC.

1. Prepare a check form with stub, and then write the check. What are the essential parts of a check?

2. What are the chief functions of banks? 3. What is the value of a farm one quarter of a mile long by 60 rods wide at $212.50 per acre?

4. What will the material cost to fence around the farm, mentioned in third question, with posts at $.37 and wire at $.90 per rod if the posts are set every 16 feet and the corner posts with braces cost $6.50 each?

5. A man is able to set one corner post every four and one-half hours and one small post every 25 minutes. If the stretching of the fence represents twenty-five hours of labor, what will the building of the fence mentioned in fourth question cost at $.45 per hour? 6. A cow averages 40 pounds of milk for each of the 365 days in the year. If the butter fat tests 44%, what will its value be at $.45 per pound?

7. A builder does the following concrete work about his house at $.195 per square foot; a six foot walk along a forty foot front, an eight-foot drive to a garage located sixty feet back of the front sidewalk, and the floor of a garage fourteen by twenty feet. What is the cost? 8. Write a paragraph or two on the values of arithmetic to the average citizen. 9. How much arithmetic should a child know by the end of the third grade? 10. Which type of problem does the child enjoy most-form or reason? Why? 11. Which should have the chief consideration in the first two grades of school life; reading or aritmetic? Why?

Answers.

1. See any check book. (1) the date. 2) the amount to be paid. (3) signature of the payer. 4) name of the payee.

2. To loan money; to keep the money of its customers on deposit; to collect money on notes, bonds, checks, etc., for its customers; to act as a clearing house, collecting checks drawn on other banks for those who do business with it.

3. mile 80 rods, length of the farm. A farm 80 rods, long and 60 rods wide contains

4,800 square rods. 4,800÷160-30, the number of acres in the farm. $212.50 × 30-$6,375, the value of the farm.

4. 80 rods +80 rods+60 rods+60 rods 280 rods, the length of the fence. Since the posts are set 16 feet apart (1 rod) it will require 280 posts. 4 the number of corner posts; which, with braces cost $6.50 each. 280 posts-4 posts=276 posts, the number of line

posts which cost $.37 each. 4 posts at $6.50 each $26.00. 276 posts at $.37 each $102.12. $26.00 +$102.12 $128.12, cost of posts. 280 rods of wire at $.90 a rod-$252.00. $128.12+$252.00, cost of wire=$380.12, cost of material.

5. 4 hrs. x 4-18 hrs., time required to set corner posts. 276 X 25 minutes-115 hrs., time to set small posts. Stretching wire 25 hrs. 18 hrs. +115 hrs. +25 hrs.=158 hrs., entire amount of labor. 158 hrs. at $.45-$71.10, cost of labor.

6. 365 X 40 14,600, number of pounds milk produced. 4% of 14,600 lbs.-657 lbs., amount of butter fat. 657 lbs. at 45c=$295.65.

7. A walk 40 ft.x.6 ft. contains 240 square feet. A drive 60 ft.x8 ft. contains 480 square feet. A floor 14x20 ft. contains 280 square feet. 240 square feet +480+280 square feet= 1,000 square feet, the amount of cement laid. 1,000 sq. ft. at .195-$195.00, total cost.

8. In the sense of using arithmetic there is no such an individual as an average citizen. But to the citizen who labors or employs labor; buys or sells, or both; who loans or borrows money; who is an intelligent mechanic of any kind; who pays taxes and insurance and who takes part in the affairs of life, a knowledge of arithmetic is essential. It not only protects him in his dealing, but it gives him an intelligent idea of values and measurements essential to all intelligent people.

9. He should know how to read and write numbers, know the multiplication table and how to solve simple problems in all the fundamental principles or rules.

10. Children in the primary grade enjoy form most because they have not had sufficient experience to be able to reason much.

11. Reading; because the child cannot interpret problems until he learns to read and have some understanding of language.

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SCIENCE OF EDUCATION.

1. Mention several school activities that have been brought about by the war.

2. What should the teacher do to safeguard the health of pupils with reference to light and seating?

3. What is the value of pupils' records carefully kept by the teacher?

4. Justify industrial training as a part of regular school work.

5. (a) What is the teachers' professional book adopted for use this school year (1919-1920) by the Reading Circle Board? (b) Who is the author?

6. Make an assignment for an advance lesson in arithmetic to a 5th grade class. (Any other subject and grade may be substituted for those named.)

7. Frame a good definition of Education. 8. Tell something about Horace Mann and what he did for education.

9. Why is the play period of so much importance to the primary teacher?

10. (a) What is meant by "sense training"? (b) What is its importance in the primary grades?

11. What should be the essential characteristics of supplementary reading for the primary grades?

Answers.

1. Military training, physical exercise, health examinations, interest in French, democracy in education, and Americanization have all been intensified by the war.

2. The teacher should see to it, so far as possible, that seats and light are so arranged that the light in proper amount comes from the pupils' left.

3. Correct records give the pupils the right estimate of his work, help the teacher in correct habits, and prevent lost motion on the part of the successor.

4. Industrial training has two fundamental uses: It utilizes the hand as a sense and motor organ in general culture, and it aids in making a living.

5. (a) "What Is Education?" (b) Moore. 6. Subject, Long Measure. Material, a yardstick or measuring line. Assignment, how long a fence will it require to surround the school yard. Make a table for long measure. Commit the table to memory.

7. Education is the conscious adaptation of an individual to a higher ideal.

8. Horace Mann was the first secretary of the State Board of Education in Massachusetts. In his work he encouraged better school equipment, higher teachers' qualifications, normal schools, institutes, public support for schools, and he established Antioch College on new wetsern ideals.

9. Play is educative. It converts instincts into habits and emotionalizes habits into ideals.

10. "Sense training." though not a psychological expression usually means the formation of correct percepts through sensation and experience. It is of vital importance in the primary grades because the material out of which knowledge is made is the meaning of things.

11. Supplementary reading should be suited to the age and advancement of the child; it should appeal to his interests, and it should without ostentation lead to a higher ideal.

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