man. Such incidents make added argument for a tenure-of-office law for teachers.

The teacher shortage should be met, not by lowering standards, but by raising salaries.

One of the needs of the times is for a greater democracy in school management and for a fuller teacher participation in school government. This thought was one of the outstanding features of the Cleveland meeting, last

February.

Hundreds of Indiana teachers must work at some remunerative employment this summer in order to be in financial condition to teach school this next year.

There have probably never been so many changes among Indiana county superintendents, from resignation,

within a year, as during the year just past. It is necessary to revise the official list practically every month. Small

salaries are the causes in almost all the cases.

"A well educated teached with many years' successful experienced employed a carpenter. When the carpenter presented his bill it took all the teacher's wages, plus one dollar a day, to pay the carpenter. While the carpenter was learning his trade he drew wages every day he was learning. The teacher spent years of work, at a heavy expense, without receiving anything in return during the period of preparation. Who is ahead, the carpenter or the teacher? Why?"-Exchange.

TEACHING HEALTH IN OUR
SCHOOLS.

In every community a large proportion of women are mothers of school children, or mothers of children who soon will be school children, or mothers of yesterday's school children. The women who do not fall within these three groups are the spiritual mothers, women who are doubly responsible for all children.

To all women today we give this

challenge: What are you doing to bring "health, strength and joy" to every child in your community?

It is suggested that the following local facts he presented at this initial health meeting:

Do your school children have only bread and coffee for breakfast?

Is 10 to 11 o'clock the average bed hour for your school children?

Is chronic constipation common to your school children?

Have you scales in your school? Are your children weighed and measured monthly?

Do your schools train children in essential health habits?

Do you have health examinations in your schools?

Do you have a school nurse service? What per cent of your children have remediable defects?

What per cent of these defects are corrected?-Exchange.

CALIFORNIA LEADS THE WAY. (Resolutions passed by the California

State Board of Education.)

Whereas, there are now resident in California sufficient numbers of persons adequately trained for the teaching service, many of whom have left

the public school service because of inadequate compensation, and

Whereas, requests have been made that the State Board of Education lower its standards for certification of teachers in order to meet the emergency caused by such qualified teachers leaving the service, and

Whereas, such lowering of standards for teaching would result in a decrease in efficiency in the public schools of the state,

Resolved, that the State Board of Education declare it to be its policy not to lower the standards for entering the teaching work, believing as it does that the proper way to meet the emergency is to make the teaching work sufficiently remunerative as to hold teachers in the service, to induce those who have left to return and to attract the best teaching talent to our training institutions.

Be it further Resolved, That this board express its conviction that the best way that the efficiency of the public schools can be restored is to provide funds sufficient to pay teachers a wage that will have a purchasing power at least equal to that of prewar times.

GOOD HOUSEKEEPING IN THE SCHOOLS.

A good housewife keeps her house. spick and span at all times. If she has electric lights, vacuum cleaners, and other modern devices so much the better, but at all events her house is neat, and clean.

The schoolroom, where many children spend many hours each day, should have the same high standards of cleanliness and the teacher is the housekeeper. She does not have to at

tend to the dusting, the washing of floors and windows, the heating and lighting, but always she is the overseer of all these details, and as "tenant" of the room she is responsible for good housekeeping in her domain. Her room should be neat and clean, with a minimum of flying dust and chalk, no smudgy windows, no cluttered desks.

In a large sense the principal and janitor are joint housekeepers for they are responsible for the heating, ventilating and general hygienic conditions of the building. They must see that the building and grounds are so kept as to avoid all unnecessary fire risk.

The following are topics for roundtable discussion.

Is the school house externally well kept, the grounds clean and safe?

Is the building well lighted? Are the windows clean; how often washed? Is the building well heated and ventilated?

Is the air in the room fresh; how often is the room aired?

How are the floors cleaned-with broom, vacuum cleaner, or cleaning fluids?

How is the dusting done-with feather duster, dry or damp cloth?

Are the blackboards washed; are the erasers beaten?

Recipe for an orderly room-a place for everything and everything in its place.

Are there plenty of exits in case of fire?

What is done with waste materialpapers, rags, etc.?

Is any combustible material, such as paint, packing material, scenery, etc., stored away in unsafe places? Are ashes placed in a ashes placed in a safe place?—Exchange.

SERMON IN CONGRESS.

The danger that threatens the United States government through the plight of the school teacher who is not getting a living wage has aroused many members of Congress. Some of them have made speeches in Congress and others are preparing to do so, upon the necessity of paying larger salaries which will attract the teaching talent of the country.

Representative John W. Rainey of Illinois preached a strong sermon on this gospel by recounting the following allegory to his colleagues:

As St. Peter was receiving a group of new arrivals at the gate of heaven he questioned what each did for a living while on earth.

The first man in line said: "I was the representative of justice between man and man. I defended the oppressed and unfortunate. I was a lawyer."

The second man said: "I brought the new-born babe into the world. I cured the sick, and when that was impossible, I lightened the pains of the dying. I was a doctor."

The third said: "I tried to have men lead good lives. In prosperity I advised them to practice self-restraint; in adversity, I bade them hope. I was a clergyman."

The fourth said: "I defended my country against her enemies, within and without. On the field of battle I faced death bravely. I was a warrior."

tired look and a subdued manner. Finally she was induced to speak: "I was the teacher who introduced these five distinguished gentlemen to Knowledge. I guided their childish footsteps up the heights of learning. When fame and wealth came to them they not

only forgot me, but they denied me a living wage.

That accounts for my

weariness. I had grown so tired through the incessant demands of teaching, I had become so worn in trying to make both ends meet on my poor salary, I had been so depressed by the long struggle against discouragement over not being appreciated on earth that death was a relief when it came, and I am glad that at last I am here."—Journal of Education.

CLEAN UP SONG. (Tune: "Marching Through Georgia") Bring the soap and water, boys, we'll have another scrub,

For we always wash ourselves before we eat our grub,

Twice a week and sometimes more, we jump into a tub,

For we are all Health Crusaders.

Chorus:

Hooray, Hooray, we're clean as we can be,

Hooray, Hooray, our teeth are shining,

see!

We are fighting for Good Health, we're out for Victory,

We're boy and girl Health Crusaders.

"They can't keep the rules we know," folks said when we began,

for the greatest good to the greatest number. I was a Congressman."

The sixth member of the group was slow to answer. She had a worn and

ran,"

For we are all Health Crusaders."