THIS list of Teachers' Agencies is published for the benefit of our subscribers. It includes only those who claim to be able to secure positions for Kindergartners or Primary Teachers. We advise those in need of positions to write one or more of these agencies for particulars. Even though now employed you may be able to secure a position in a larger or better school MIDLAND TEACHERS' AGENCY 547 S. 3 E. Salt Lake City, Utah. Warrensburg. Missouri. RELIABLE TEACHERS' AGENCY Trained Primary and Kindergarten Teachers needed. Good positions. Per"Sixteen years in learning how has manent membership. Write to-day. fitted us to serve you now." Write either office. 612-613 Majestic Building, Oklahoma City, Okla. The TEACHERS' EXCHANGE of Boston SOUTHERN TEACHERS' AGENCY Recommends Teachers, Tutors and Schools, No. 120 Boylston street. Teachers each WE PLACE MANY PRIMARY year. Some Kindergartners. No charge until teacher is located by us. Send for registration blank. A. H. Campbell, American Teachers' Agency COLUMBIA, S. C. There is an increasing demand for Primary Teachers and Kindergartners throughout the South. Our agency is one of the largest and best known in this splendid territory for teachers. Ask for booklet, A LAN. W. H. JONES, Manager and Proprietor. LECTURES ON Home Occupations AND Mothers' Meetings BY Bertha Johnston Address, 389 Clinton Street, Brooklyn, N. Y Myrick Building, Springfield, MASS, WESTERN TACHERS' AGENCY Falls Earn $1,200 a Year in Spare Time The Pratt Teachers' Agency 70 Fifth Avenue New York Recommends college and normal graduates, specialists, and other teachers to colleges, public and private schools, in all parts of the country. Advises parents about schools. ALBANY TEACHERS' AGENCY Provides public and private schools with competent teachers. Assists teachers and kindergartners in obtaining positions. 81 Chapel Street, ALBANY, N Y. Mont'na Writing one moivng picture play & Week. We want Kindergarten, Primary, Rural Demand Greater Than Supply. You can and other teachers for regular or special write them. We show you how. Send for work. Highest salaries. Send for lit-free booklet, valuable information and special erature and enroll for the coming year. prize offer. Chicago Photoplaywright College, P. Wendell Murray, Manager. Box 278 J-2., Chicago The J.D.Engle Teachers' Agency Sabins' Educational Exchange MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. A Placing Agency for Teachers. Established 20 years. Register for Western Kindergarten-Primary positions. Send for circular Teachers Wanted! No enrollment fee. Positions always open. We also supply school 75 COMPOSITION OUTLINES boards with the most capable teachers. Particulars free. TEACHERS NEEDED--For the West, Northwest and Southwest for All positions from Kindergarten to University We recommend ONLY when asked to do so by employers. Nearly thirteen thousand brainy men and women placed by us. No registration fee necessary. The Western Reference & Bond Association, WESTERN POSITIONS FOR TEACHERS IN EVERY DEPARTMENT OF SCHOOL AND COLLEGE WORK Our openings come direct from school boards and superintendents who ask fo, our recommendations. Many authoritize us to select their teachers outright, year after year. We are in touch with Western schools. We publish "THE ANNUAL ROCKY MOUNTAIN TEACHERS' AGENCY SCHOOL DIRECTORIES" covering the sixteen states from the Missouri River to the Pacific. Our 96 page booklet, "How to Apply for a School and Secure Promotion, with Laws of Certification of Teachers of all the States," free to members or sent postpaid for fifty cents in stamps. Our free booklet "The Road to Good Positions," sent upon request. The Largest Teachers' Agency in the Rocky Mountain Region. WILLIAM RUFFER, Manager THE ROCKY MT TEACHERS AGENCY EMPIRE BLDG DENVER, COLONE is more. Ours recommends. The School Bulletin Agency C. W. BARDEEN, Syracuse, N. Y THE OKLAHOMA TEACHERS' AGENCY GEARY, OKLAHOMA Only Competent Teachers Enrolled. WRITE US YOUR WANTS PRIMARY PLANS A sixty page pamphlet, well illustrated and full of suggestions for the primary teacher. Send 25 cents for a copy. NEW MEXICO JOURNAL OF EDUCATION PRICE $1.00 PER YEAR Address, New Mexico Journal of Education Santa Fe, N. M. THE KINDERGARTEN PRIMARY MAGAZINE PUBLISHED ON THE FIRST OF EACH MONTH, EXCEPT JULY AND AUG- MAY, 1918. Entered at the P. O., Manistee, Mich., as Second Class Mall Matter. VOL. XXX-No. 9 "One MILLION Children are Dying in Armenia," Says the Literary Digest. We quote in part: One million children are dying in Armenia, the very cradle of Christianity-slowly, surely starving to death. Slowly? No, not so slowly. A million have already perished, while 200,000 mothers stood powerless to help, with tearless eyes and desolate hearts and watched their dearest treasures die before their eyes-their own children, for whom they would gladly have given their lives. In Lebanon alone each day 1,000 little bodies, newly dead, await a burial that never comes. Words cannot paint nor imagination picture these scenes in Armenia. It is a story so tragic, so filled with heart-break and horror that it leaves the mind numb with the awfulness and immensity of it all. It is the story of a nation that has fallen before the fury of the Turk and has been left for dead. It is the story of 2,000,000 defenseless women and children who are perishing miserably. It is the story of Armenian homes uprooted, Armenian families torn apart, Armenian women and children subjected to the most beastly and diabolical cruelties ever before perpetrated or imagined in the world's history. It is the story of the persecuted and scattered remnants of this once great Christian nation which have been left to the ravages of starvation. But it is a story chiefly of children who have forgotten how to smile and mothers who have lost even the solace of tears. Never in all the tragedies of history has motherhood been in such dire need; never has the cry of childhood's distress been more painfully heartrending; and never have the people of America been endowed with a more solemn opportunity and Godgiven privilege. America is rich, America is blest with food and plenty, and America must hear these baby voices that cry for bread. American motherhood must hear and heed the anguished call of Armenian motherhood for help-for quick help for a swift, im mediate, bountiful help; for a help that counts neither cost nor sacrifice, else Armenians-mothers and children-will perish from the earth. Perhaps a slight idea, a faint, inadequate conception of the appalling hunger of the children may be gained from one incident told by Ambassador Elkus: A little boy brought into one of the hospitals continually cried and begged for bread, but he could not be given solid food in his condition. When the physician explained this to him he replied that he didn't want to eat the bread, he just wanted to put it under his pillow so that he could feel that food was near. Little wonder that an American mother wrote: "After reading your Armenian article in The Digest and after comparing the faces of those emaciated little children in the picture with those of my own plump little girls, I simply had to send 'my bit.' We are poor, but they are destitute." Your sympathy has been stirred many times during these dark and tragic months. A score of worthy and merciful causes have claimed and received your bounty. But you are here called upon in the name of humanity, in the name of all you hold most dear, in the name of God the Father, to give again. The need is so imperative-the circumstances so desperate that it is not even possible to wait for ships to carry the food. The money is cabled direct to Armenia, the food is bought there and is distributed personally by the American Relief Administrators. Therefore you can feel and know, wherever you live that within a very short time after your remittance reaches us it will be saving lives in Armenia. You will not-you can not-refuse. You will give ungrudgingly, generously, with a heart full of thanksgiving that your own beloved children are safe, happy and well fed, and with a prayer perhaps Who will adopt one of these children for three months, for six months, for a year, or more, at a total cost of five dollars per month? This illustration shows a family of orphans, the first of a number of Armenian orphan families which the Kindergarten Primary Magazine, with the aid of its friends and subscribers, hopes to be able to support for the coming year, or until provisions are made for these people, ample at least to keep them from starvation. The story of this family is a pathetic one. The father was massacred and the mother died in one of the terrible deportations across the desert. The oldest girl dragged the two little boys and carried the little babe in her arms until they met an aunt. The little girl's name is Nouvart Seropia. The little and the lives of thousands and tens of thousands depend upon relief from America. Nouvart Seropia is certainly entitled to any cross of honor that might be bestowed upon the soldiers at the front. Her success in keeping the family, in keeping the life in their little bodies at her age of thirteen years is indeed wonderful. We sincerely hope to find one of our subscribers willing to consent to support one of these little children for the coming year. As fast as they are provided for our magazine will undertake to support another family and thus continue so far as means will provide until the terrible conditions are alleviated. In all the wide world there has never been a more pitiable case than that of these people. CONTRIBUTIONS SINCE OUR LAST REPORT A Kindergartner, St. Clair, Michigan, .$ .25 2.00 2.00 1.25 By Dr.Jenny B. Merrill Kathryn Butterfield, Bichey, Montana A kindergartner from St. Clair, Michigan, enclosing $2.00 for the Armenians, says: "This amount by no means expresses what I should like to do, but the many demands just now, make it impossible to send more at present." Verily, she hath done what she could. Cannot you, dear kindergartner, do something to help these dying Christian people? Goldie Reed, a kindergartner at Attica, Indiana, in inclosing a draft for $2.00 for the Armenians said: "The kindergarten children brought a few pennies as they wanted to help the hungry children in another country." Why cannot the children in your school or kindergarten do likewise. It would prove not only helpful to the starving Armenians but a blessing likewise to the little children who gave their pennies. Two little girls from Union City, Indiana, joined in sending $1.00 for the Armenians and here are the letters which accompanied their contribution. We wish there were thousands of children who would respond in this way at this critical time in the history of these suffering people. Union City, Indiana, April the 1st, 1918. Dear Armenians: We are going to send the little Armenians some money I know you will be very glad. I wish you could come to America and come to our school, don't you? Well I guess that will be all for this time. Good bye, From Eula Mikesell. Union City, Ind., April 1, 1918. Dear Little Armenians:-We love you. And we are going to send you some money. And we know you will be glad. We all had to turn our clocks up one hour. And I am in the second grade. I guess this is all. Good bye Bernice T. I have been reading in a kindergartner's diary written in the month of May. Let me cull a leaf for you and draw a hint or two from it: "It was too cool to remain long in the garden this morning, but we had time to see the tiny leaves on the two trees and we watched several birds that flew fearlessly into our own little garden bed. 'I'm a bird too!' cried Elizabeth as she stretched out her arms and flew away. "It did not take many seconds before we were all birdies flying around the yard. My 'newcomers' must be looked after very especially, with careful beginnings. They are quite unable to handle any work at all. I shall have to work with them as tho it were the early days in September. Had the weather been less inclement, these little ones would have tripped into my kindergarten early in the year instead of waiting for May." This page from a genuine diary brings us face to face with an earnest, motherly kindergartner who first of all makes us feel her interest is in the children more than in balls and blocks. There are disappointments to be met even in May time! The sun does not shine but still there is a short run in the garden. Little Elizabeth shows us the spirit of the kindergartner who encourages freedom, for how free she was to follow her own inner impulse to fly! The others show us their impulse to imitate and are free to do so. Evidently May was a trying month this particular year for the diary continues: "We seem really to have more wet days than fine ones, and my attendance which was beginning to pick up so nicely is poor when the sun is hidden behind the clouds. "A few little girls wanted so badly to see the garden and whether the seeds we had planted were growing that to satisfy them, we stood in the doorway and looked! We did not see much of our own Won't small plot, but our hyacinths were plainly visible Look at the picture again. you decide to take Nouvart, Aram, Hosep or Hermine for a short time, at least? You may begin when you like and quit when you like; even if you adopt for a certain time you will be released upon request. Address The J. H. Shults Co., Manistee, Mich. Margaret P. Roach, Zanesville, Ohio, has sent us a fine contribution of scrap books for children in France. Same has been turned over to the Red Cross. and the young trees that are growing green leaves so fast!" Surely we have a fine lesson here in noting that it doesn't take much to satisfy a child's longings just to look! It was a wise kindergartner who knew that it would be worth while "to stand in the doorway" and let the children "look." Evidently upon returning to the kindergarten room, the children's minds were on water for the diary next speaks of "the bridges" built with blocks. Hedwig exclaims, "We went over the bridge yesterday in the train." The kindergartner is again alert to use Hedwig's experience for she writes, "Hed |