MEMBERS OF THE AMERICAN EDUCATIONAL PRESS. INTERNATIONAL KINDERGARTEN UNION The twenty-fifth annual convention of the International Kindergarten Union was truly a "silver" anniversary, the silver offering collected in silver trays by young girls in training, amounting to fifteen hundred dollars. The chairman of the committee who arranged the celebration was Mrs. Amalie Hofer Jerome, who for many years edited our magazine. The center of interest was Miss Curtis who was on the eve of her departure to France as Director of the Kindergarten Unit for France and her refugee children. The silver offerings were presented by Mrs. Jerome to Miss Curtis in a silver urn. Miss Curtis accepted the offering in the name of the children and mothers of France. The pretty grouping of children on the platform makes a happy memory for those who witnessed it. Froebel once said that the beautiful is one of the best means of elevating the race. We as kindergartners are indebted to our musical and artistic co-workers who study to make this pleasing pageant in connection with the presentation of the silver offering in Chicago. Children of all ages accompanied by young mothers all dressed in white and bearing garlands marched thru the aisles to the music of flute and piano. Then many of the little ones sat in happy groups on the platform, two holding the silver urn ready for the silver offering. In the evening of the same day seven hundred and fifty delegates and visitors were present at the supper given in the Auditorium Hotel. There Miss Curtis announced the full amount raised for the kindergarten unit to be $25,000. Following the true kindergarten spirit of spontaniety, various alumnae groups in different parts of the great dining hall burst out in patriotic songs. A valuable thought in one of the after dinner speeches was given by Mr. George W. Eggers, Director of the Art Institute. It related to what "Art" has been doing to rouse and quicken the sentiment of patriotism and its mission in time of war. Those of us who have seen collections of the wonderful war posters of England, France and America which have urged our people more powerfully than words to feel and to do the present duty in Food Conservation, in Red Cross work, in enlisting in army and navy, in caring for the children of other nations, realize Mr. Eggers was right when he said that "Art is being recognized as never before as an eзsential to civilization, and as a helper in war.” THE OCTOBER MAN 32 Ford Place, Bridgeport, Conn. I met a little man Clothed in garments gray. A funny little name had he, Just Cloudy Weather, Cloudy Weather. President.... Henry G. Williams, Columbus, Ohio Vice-Pres.....H. R. Pattengill, Lansing, Michigan Secretary.. ...G. L. Towne, Lincoln, Nebraska Treasurer....S. Y. Gillan, Milwaukee, Wisconsin Executive Committee..O. T. Corson, Columbus, Ohio H. T. 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Reagan Utah Educational Review, Salt Lake City, H. R. Driggs. Western Teacher, Milwaukee, Wis., S. Y. Gillan Wisconsin Journal of Education, Madison, W. N. Parker What It Means - Help Destroy It By RUDYARD KIPLING NOTHING else under Heaven matters today except that the war shall go on to Victory. The money we lend to the Government helps to set our land and our world free. Our security is the whole of civilization, which has pooled its resources in men, money and material to carry on this war to Victory. What is the personal aspect of the case for you and me? We are fighting for our lives and the lives of every man, woman and child here and everywhere else. We are fighting that we may not be herded into actual slavery, such as the Germans have established by force of their arms in large parts of Europe. We are fighting against 18 hours a day forced labor under lash or at the point of the bayonet, with a dog's death and a dog's burial at the end of it. We are fighting that men, women and children may not be tortured, burned and mutilated in the public streets. And we will go on fighting till the race which has done these things is in no position to continue or repeat its offense. If, for any reason whatever, we fall short of Victory—and there is no halfway house between victory and defeat-what happens to us? This: Every relation, every understanding, every decency upon which civilization has been so anxiously built up will go, will be washed out, because it will have been proved unable to endure. The whole idea of democracy-which at bottom is what the Hun fights against—will be dis missed from men's minds, because it will have been shown incapable of maintain. ing itself against the Hun. It will die, and it will die discredited, together with every belief and practice that is based on it. The Hun ideal, the Hun's root notion of life, will take its place throughout the world. Under that dispensation man will become once more the natural prey, body and goods, of the better armed neighbor. Women will be the mere instrument for continuing the breed-the vessel of man's lust and man's crueltyand labor will become a thing to be knocked on the head if it dares to give trouble and worked to death if it does not. And from this order of life there will be no appeal, no possibility of any escape. This is what the Hun means when he says he intends to impose German kultur-which is the German religion-upon the world. This is precisely what the world has banded itself together to resist. It will take every ounce in us; it will try us out to the naked soul. Our trial will not be made less by the earnest advice and suggestions that we should accept some sort of compromise, which means defeat, put forward by Hun agents and confederates among us. But be sure of this: Nothing, nothing we may have to endure now, will weigh one featherweight compared with what we shall most certainly have to suffer if for any cause we fail of Victory Buy Liberty Bonds and Make VICTORY Sure! This space contributed to winning the War by THE KINDERGARTEN-PRIMARY MAGAZINE THIS HIS 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 RELIABLE TEACHERS' AGENCY 547 S. 3 E. Salt Lake City, Utah. Warrensburg. Missouri. 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 year. Some Kindergartners. No charge until teacher is located by us. Send for registration blank. A. H. Campbell, American Teachers' Agency Myrick Building, Springfield, MASS. 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. 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 for booklet, A this splendid territory for teachers. Ask LAN. W. H. JONES, Manager and Proprietor. LECTURES ON Home Occupations AND Mothers' Meetings BY Bertha Johnston Address, 389 Clinton Street, Brooklyn, N. Y Northwestern Teachers' Agency and Earn $1,200 a Year in Spare Time Supply Co. Great Falls, Moutana We want Kindergarten. Primary, Rural and other teachers for regular or special work. Highest salaries. Send for lit. erature and enroll for the coming year. P. Wendell Murray, Manager. WM. O. PRATT, Manager The J.D.Engle Teachers' Agency ALBANY TEACHERS' AGENCY Provides public and private schools with competent teachers. Assists teachers and kindergartners in obtaining positions. 81 Chapel Street, ALBANY, N Y. MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. A Placing Agency for Teachers. Established 20 years. Register for Western Kindergarten-Primary positions. Send for circular Teachers Wanted! Sabins' Educational Exchange (Inc.) DES MOINES, IOWA. Wants to hear from kindergarten or primary teachers desiring places west of Mississippi river. Write fully. Will answer frankly. AN AGENCY is valuable in No en- THAT 75 COMPOSITION OUTLINES always open. We also supply school but if it is asked to recommend a teach 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. any 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 S cure Promotion, with Laws of Certification of The Largest Teachers' Agency in the Rocky Mountain Region. WILLIAM RUFFER, Manager THE ROCKY MT TEACHERS AGENCY RECOMMENDS you that 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. |