Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 22, Number 234, Decatur, Adams County, 1 October 1924 — Page 3

—• ' 1 Business Man Thought For Him To Think About 1 1:

■HF , Theodore Roosevelt "nee . *»» quality b“ be . K ' 0!l 're glaringly lacking In, I 'n character than any ; of all other quail- I |rX»: ■ W,iO r.. moment's hesitaton, he I ‘ MlPr efficiency born We don’t h™*’ litter (horoiifii ancestry in “9“7X"‘ h of us has our own notion as greatest deficiency in our mod- ■ I and I debt if any two men K,. instinctively name the same ■ 'which I- uppermost deplorably -KJ; .n - - A,n ‘‘ ricaD you think it over calmly, ' Hbdnot Theodore Roosevelt put his ■ _ , 'he on.- dominant and vital ■ A because that is what is really ■ :< in our American life when he said ■ ,t„n t know what thoroughness ’■’Now 'he American's lack of thor|9 Highness is not because he does not WSBI to be thorough, but because ’■thoroughness is not taught him as a |9 On the contrary, the gospel of ( ]9 quanlll y and not quality is brought ( ■ honl e to him the moment he reaches a point of understanding. He must |9 learn so many words; he must do so 9 many examples; he must be able to 9 read so many lines. It is always B quantity—quantity from the start. 9 He may learn the-e words and sums 9 and lines as a parrot learn s so long js he learns them, and the boy who 9 learns the largest number in the 9 shortest given space of time is con--19 sidered and told that he is the bright 9 hoy. The far more important fact 9 of how well and thoroughly he has 9 I MrDHI w,ial *"■ so glibly recites en--9 tersnot into the question. As he pro--19 grosses through boyhood, the same 9| lack " f thoroughness meets him ev|9 erywhere. and sinks deep into his consciousness. He sees his father 9 at >ke simple task of reading his 9 newspaper; but he sees his father 9 read not the newspaper, but the head--9 hues. Tlw magazines, the boy finds, 9 present everything in tabloid form; 9 !b e mo-: popular periodicals being 9 those where the articles are shortest. 9 and whose chief bid for public patron--9 W « that they review, digest or epi M tomize the great happenings of the 9 wor ld. We are a very busy people,” 9 he hears his father say. "we haven't time, you know, to read much. I like 9 'kc writer who hoils things down." 9 1,1 ■ The hoy sees his mother's housefl keeping also all boiled down for her ■ in predigested cereals, canned goods, and prepared foods. “All you have to do it ' i add milk and serve,” says the adveLisetnent. ‘ Pour some hot water on our preparation, and there you are." "Put our food on the stove, heat it for five minutes and your meal is ready." Whether the food is really good, she does not know. She has keen taught to believe in the integrity of advertisements. But what appeals to her most is that it saves time; it is a road to simplified housekeeping. No matter in which direction the boj looks, he sees ta nation in a hurry, everybody is rushing to do a thing, not in the best way that is can be •kme, but in the quickest way. All ar? seeking short cuts to achievement. He sees automobiles madly speeding; people crushing and pushing into subway and street ear's; long journeys annihilated on fliers; men speeding through the air and boasting of the minute and second they can cut from some previous record. s o the boy naturally falls in with the res ' He speeds through school, rushes to college, races through his four years, and approaches the business of life with every fibre in his “oing attuned to haste. IV hen he get 8 into business he finds 1 e gospel of quantity attuned to the nl 1 de B ree - Every step of manufacnre Is gauged by the amount of a « work and how far below or ■‘mve compared with the quantity If th" o "'' ° n *^ e same day last year. c room has produced more, the u* e ? tiVB * S praise d: if the output is . by r’omparison, it is either receiv- ' with silence, or he is asked why lUrelv r u U t h UOn 18 fa,lin * bphi nd. y is the question asked: “is the is r» UCt better ’ ’ A man’s efficiency ca! SS ba9ed on how much he Never mind if our cloths can belar to English our less? produce so many yards to their ton>Ah< l <lUanti ' ty ' No matter *f our aucannot stand up on the road 086 of foreign make; our boast I

r In that we produce ten to their one. n Naturally, the boy imblbe s the spirit < that everywhere envelops him—un- t less he thinks it out, and tew do. But t where one does. Invariably he rises c above his fellow-men. Quality has 1 always “paid" in America wherever t H has been tried. But it Is not tried > and maintained often enough. Quan- I tity is-an easier accomplishnfent, and i so we go on madly producing quanti- i ty. i v | Tbj't is why in our education we are 1 so deplorably lacking. The Ameri- I can wants to know, Jie wants to be i intelligent, but he will not dig for it; he will not go to the source of information. “Why should I read that long-winded article in an encyclopedia," he asks, "when it is all here in this article which presents the essential facts’" But in the latter ar tide it Is not "all" there. He gets a smlittering of the subject,—a smear, but that is all. The result i 8 that as a nation we have an amazing quantity of general information, with ap equal amazing amount of mislnforma tion. The fundamental Ignorance of the average American is staggering, as It must of necessity be where there is no desire to be thorough in the information acquired. We are keen to read a book we have hdard about. We rush to get it; and then we hasten to read it and get through with it, so that we can say we have read it. We are full of a desire to see a play that 'others are talking about. We rush 1 home, jump into our clothes, speed through our dinner. Isolt for the theatre, go restlessly out between the acts, look at our watches to see how date it is getting to be, grab our hats and we are out in the aisle before the curtain drops, rush home, jump into bed, impatient if we do not immediately go to sleep,—and we have gone through a day! Next day oi next week we go through exactly the same scramble to see another play or read another book —and always a new play or a new book! And this is our pace on the royal road to learning! Whlat is the result of it all? We acquire a certain facility, but it is superficial. Our knowledge does not go deep; its roots are close tc the surface. We leave ourselves nc time to think. It would seem some times as if thinking had gone out of fashion with conversation. VI But the doer of things exclaims. “Consider what we are —the greatest nation in the world.” In what respect? Let him tell us! He recites that: We htive the financial dominance of the world. We have the commercial supremacy in bulk. , We have the tallest buildings. We have the record for mass production. We vie with the bird in the air and push the eagle out of its path with the aeroplane. We dive under the water #ith the submarine and vie with the fish in sped and distance. Space is as naught to us; we annihilate it with the telephone, the wireless, and the radio. We dig under the water and run rains below the bed of the river. . We tunnel under great building? and millions ride like moles to the mart in the evenings. We pride ourselves on the fact that a man need not inhale a single breath of the oxy gen of the air from door to door. We speed over the rails sixty miles an hour and complain loudly if we are half an hour late in a journey which required a week for our forefathers. We even obliterate the stars in that we write messages in the skies with each letter miles in length. "Yes, son, marvelous,” said a visitor from “Main Street,” as he was shown tall these wonders by his son in New York City, "marvelous what man does, isn’t it? And yet, ” added i the visitor, “he cannot make a worm.” It is always difficult to preach to a j man who has made a success, and so is argument difficult with a great na- ] tion of strength land power. But, ■ after all. much depends on the interpretation of the word “great.” i When we think of a great city we i think of the number of population; not of the greatness of its people, i We pride ourselves that we are i more interested in today than in yes- < terday. “Yesterday,” we jubilantly say, i "ended last night." Which, accord- 1 ing to the almanlac, is true. But in ; our yesterdays lie our lessons. The f present can only be rightly judged by the past. Experience does count for 1 something. History is not 'bunk,' con- 1 ■trary to the maker of the Ford car, t who, while he said it, forgot that he t was making history himself, even to t the extent of changing the American < Sunday. • * Man has done marvels, but in the i doing of them his own undoing must r

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be reckoned. We achieve alwiay H at a’ price; we specialize always at the expense of some loss. Man has created the mechanism of speed, but having created it, what is his actual gain? Has the spun of life lengthall hope for and endeavor to attain: ened? After all that Is the end we to live long Has the machinery which man created slowed up his own pace? The frightful Increase in heart-failure would not point to such a result And certainly with the missing heart-beat, rnan can scarcely be happy. Has he earned for himself more repose, more quiet, more moments of rest? His life would not bear out such a gain. What, then, has he gained by the acceleration of his goings and comings? What profits it him now that he has gained the whole world by a financial, eco"But all this,” says some one, "is nomic, and inventive dominance? national progress. Certainly ypu would not contend, would you, that wo should stop this progress? No, for the very simple reason that you cannot. But, I ask, do wo honestly realize that all progress is really not progressive,—for ourselves, our mental poise, our serenity, and our contentment? We are breaking rapidly down every citadel of leisure. We regard leisure as something for the idler. We hail the man who rushes, and look askance at the man who believes in the truth of all the ages of “forward, but not too fast.” The pressure under which a people work gives color to the national life, and certainly psychology teaches us that we cannot have ripeness of thought and mellowness of decision at a hairtrigger pace. Leisure is getting out of countenance in America, and in proportion as we permit this mistaken tendency our national thought will show the results. We must have leisure and repose in order to grow wise. It is the only soil out of which wisdom springs. If we school ourselves to go somewhere in a hurry, we naturally have a place that we want to reach, a goal. And now that we are in such a hurry as a nation, where are we going? We are certainly all dressed up, all tuned up to go somewhere. Where have we to go? Where has our hurry led to? “To our dominance,” is the answer. Very well. Now’, where? We have, this dominance, let us concede. Now what? We have certainly been up and doing: we have been and are constantly in flux. In a ceaseless •ound, we travel. The East travels West; the West travels East. We pour throngs from one end of the continent to another. Even the Ameri•an who never leaves home is constantly in transit: the city in which he lives having been made so large that the only way he can get from dt. AVe are eager; we are filled me part to another is to be in tran-, with exhilaration; we are engrossed;] we are excited so that our nerves ire at the bursting point,—even our voices are tense. We are athirst for further experiment and greater adventure. “More doing” becomes our watchword. We strive to make life what the cynic called it. “one damned thing after another.” Moreover, we insist that each' thing must be larger ‘han what went before, and must follow close on its heels, lest we grow stele and ineffectual. Precedent? We are intolerant, of it. Economy?. We have a dislike for the word. De-1 liberation? “Old stuff,” we call it! No. we must be catapulted through] our days, never taking account at the end of a day, but only eager for the next. Tomorrow, tomorrow, is our cry! Suggest that we look over what we have done, and do that better; that we solidify what has been accoin j plished: that we make permanent, what has been quickly and superfi- ( oially created.—and we are told that such a method is going antiquated. "What we have done is good enough” or “it will do." “Does it sell?” said a merchant to his son in a lesson in merchandising. “That’s the only point there is: that is the acid test.” “But suppose it isn’t well made, and < it won’t stand up?” asked the son. I “The buyer buys again, and that keeps up the market,” was the advice. “Shouldn’t an article, be made the best it can be made?” sisted the son. “So far as it scost will allow and there is a market for it. But the final : test is ‘Does it sell?’ If it does, that] ends it.” That does end it and has ended it ( i in the case of many an American i business man whose affairs have not ] gone according to his plans and who i fails to understand why. 11 We have succeeded a 8 a nation not : because of our lack of thoroughness, ] i but in spite of it. Here and there I stand out evidences of how much far- I ther we could go if the idea of quality nationally took first instead of sec- ] ond place with us. Naturally, the i fundamental basis .of engineering 1 must be the most minute thorough- i ness and accuracy, but see the rank I

List of Teachers and School Officials of Adams County School Year 1924-1925

UNION TOWNSHIP J Trustee—Rudolph Weiland, Decatur, Ind. I (Rural Route 8) < 1— 110 C. Johnson, Convoy, Ohio. R. 3. ‘ 2— May Jewell Fall, Monroeville, Ind., R. 3. » 3— Marie M. Brodbeck, Decatur, Ind., R. !» 6—Xurlffu Barkley, Monroeville, Ind., R. 3 Parochial—G. J. Schmidt, Decatur, Ind. R 8. ROOT TOWNSHIP Trustee—A. J. Lewton, Decatur, Ind. (Rural Route 7) 1 Gladys Suman Crownover, Pleasant Mills, Ind. 2 —Lois Fuhrman. Decatur, Ind., R. 1 6 —Root Township High School Pau) Graham, Principal. Monroe, Ind. English, History & Social Sciences, Sciences and Agriculture. Liona L'ira Leach, Assistant, Ft. Wayhe, Ind., 2516 Caroline St. English, Latin. Mathematics, History & Social Sciences and Home Economics. Mary Kenney, Grammar Grades. Decatur. Ind , R. 7. Dora Marie Magley, Primary, Decatur, Ind. R. 7. 7 Hi B—Florence8 —Florence Rice, Grammar Grades, Decatur, Ind. R. 1, Oscar Fuelling, Primary, Decatur, Ind. It 7. Parochial —Paul' Dorn, Decatur, Ind. PREBLE TOWNSHIP Trustee—August Scheumann, Decatur, Ind. t Rural Route 1) 4— Ella M. Worthman. Magley, Ind. 5— Edward F. Jaberg. Magley, Ind. 6— Milton C. Werling. Gramar Grades, Preble, Ind. Frances Borne, Primary Grades, Magley. Ind. Parochial—H. F. Nielson. Decatur. Ind., R. 1. Parochial —Rudolph Stolp. Decatur, Ind. R. 4. Parochial —A. W. Rossman, Grammar Grades, Decatur, Ind. R. 1. Ida Gunsett, Primary Grades, Decatur, Ind. KIRKLAND TOWNSHIP Trustee —W. H. Dettinger. Magley, Ind. (Rural Route 1) 1 — R. M. Houck, Decatur, Ind., R. 2. 2— Emma Dettinger. Magley, Ind., R. 1. 3— Mildred McCray, Magley. Ind. R. 1. 4 — Vernon Arnold, Magley. Ind. R 1. 5— Catherine R. Ernst. Peterson, Ind. 6— Beatrice Dettinger, Magley, Ind. Central High School Charles O. Johnson, Principal, History & Social Sciences. Sciences, Industrial Arts, I Decatur, Ind. R. 2. F. M. Null. Latin, Mathematics, Music, Decatur, Ind. R. 2. Lois Byerly, History & Social Sciences, Home Economics, Geography, Decatur, Ind. R 2. Louise Hastings, English. Art, Sciences, Decatur, Ind.. R. 2. WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP Trustee —Glen Cowan, Decatur, Ind. 3—Kathryn Dorwin, Decatur, Ind. 5— Vera Owens. Decatur, Ind. 6— Nellia McGath, Grammar Grades. Decatur. Ind. R. 10. Mary Thomas, Primary Grades, Monroe, Ind. 7— Thelma Bulkhead, Monroe, Ind. 8 — Albert Coppess. Monroe, Ind. ST. MARY’S TOWNSHIP Trustee —Mrs. S. R. Bowen, Decatur, Ind. (Rural Route 6) s—Pleasant Mills School E. V. Shierling, Principal, Mathamatics and Sciences, Pleasant Mills. Ind. L. C. Wisner, English, Latin. History and Social Sciences, Decatur. Ind. Madge Stucky, Home Economics, Music, Art. Pleasant Mills, Ind. H. M. Crownover. Grammar Grades, Pleasant Mills, Ind. Bernice Masters, Fifth and Sixth Grades, Pleasant Mills, Ind. Flossie Everett, Third and Fourth Grades, Pleasant Mills, Ind. Lelah Steele, First and Second Grades, Pleasant Mills, Ind. I 4 —Bobo School. Jerome Morrison, Principal, Grammar Grades, Willshire’, Ohio. R. 1. Bessie Carter, Intermediate, Decatur, Ind. R. 6. Della Longenberger, Primary, Pleasant Mills, Ind. BLUE CREEK TOWNSHIP Trustee—H. L. Sipe, Berne Ind. (Rural Route 1) I—Catherine1 —Catherine Fravel, Geneva, Ind.

I that American engineering lias taken in the world. Wherever thoroughness has entered into the production of any article, it has opened for itself la market and maintained it. It is constantly argued in extenuation that as we grow older as a nation the lesson of thoroughness and its resultant efficiency will be borne more strongly upon us. But is it not time that we should begin to think of ourselves as a nation no longer in its infancy? America has outlived its period of swaddling clothes. It may not have reached its point of maturity, but it will reach that point with a far better reputation for solidity it, at this time of its history, it begins to think oY how well instead of how fast a thing can be done. XII I have been very successful in placing in the minds of a number of young people the kernel of thoroughness by the very simple method of teaching them the avoidence of all abbrevia-

2— Iva D. King, Willshire, Ohio. 3 — Dan O. Roop, Monroe, Ind. 4 Russe] Steiner. Geneva, Ind. 5 Wildus Vance, Pleasant Mills, Ind. 6 Eldon E. Sprunger, Berne, Ind 7 — Chulmer Edwards, Pleasant Mills, Ind. MONROE TOWNSHIP TruMee —Vance Mattax, Berne, Ind. (Rural Route 2) 1— Dennis Moser, Berne, Ind. 2— Josephine Heffner, Monroe, Ind. 3 — Don Essex. Monroe, Ind. 4— Sylvester Everhart, Monroe, Ind. 5— Electa Oliver. Monroe. Ind. 6— Gertrude Sprunger, Berne, Ind. 7 Ray Duff. Grammar Grades, Berne, Ind. Cora Habegger, Primary Grades Berne, Ind 8 — Estu Fleming, Grammar Grades, Berne, Ind R. 4. Helen Gilliom, Primary Grades. Berne, Ind 9— E. Snyder Berne, Ind. 10 — Monroe Schools. Clifton Striker, Principal, Hiistory anil Social Sciences, Monroe, Ind. H. L. Grider, Mathematics, Sciences, Commercial, Agriculture. Monroe, Ind. Iva Glunt, English, Home Economics, Monroe, Ind. Velma Hilyard, Music and Art, Willshire, Ohio Mary McCullough, Grammar Grades, Monroe, Ind. Harvey Haggard. Intermediate, Monroe, Ind Ruth Gilbert, Primary, Monroe, Ind. Parochial—J. D. R. Schwartz, Grammar Grades, Berne, Ind. D. D. Mazelin, Primary, Berne, Ind. FRENCH TOWNSHIP Trustee —Martin Moeschberger. Berne, Ind. (Rural Route 4) 1 — G. O. Runyon. Bluffton. Ind. R. 6. 2— -Louise Hilty. Berne, Ind. 3— Veda Andrews. Monroe. Ind. 4— Arvi'Ja E. Sprunger, Monroe, Ind. R. 1. 5— Robert Meyer, Monroe. Ind. R. 3. 6— Lydia Boergcr, Monroe, Ind. R. 3. HARTFORD TOWNSHIP Trustee —D. A. Studler, Geneva, Ind. (Rural Route 4) 2 —Linn Grove School Victor 11. Eicher, Principal, Seventh and Eighth Grades. Geneva. Ind. Lester Reynolds, Fifth and Sixth Grades, Geneva, Ind. Lecra M. Pusey, Third and Fourth Grades. Geneva, Ind. Wilma F. Spichiger, First and Second Graces, Geneva. Ind. 7 — W, O. Shoemaker. Geneva, Ind. Central School A. B. Oswalt. Principal. Mathematics and Sciences, Geneva, Ind. Chas. Kizer, English, Latin, Industrial Subjects and Sciences, Geneva, Ind. Esther JVlunro. English. History and Social Sciences, Geneva. Ind. Geraldine Baker. History and Social Scien ces, Music and Art, Geneva, Ind. June Steiner, Grammar Grades. Linn Grove, Ind. Mary Schlagenhauf. Primary, Geneva. Ind. WABASH TOWNSHIP Trustee —J. F. FeMy, Geneva, Ind. 1— Andrew C. Cook, Grammar Grades, Berne, Ind. R. 3. Gfadys Long, Primary, Geneva. Ind. 2 — Alva Fenstermaker, Geneva, Ind. 3— Helen Atz, Geneva. Ind. 4 — Mildred Wood, Geneva, Ind. 5 — Ada Hall. Geneva. Ind. 6— James E. Mann. Geneva, Ind. 7 — Dorothy Sprunger, Geneva, Ind. 11 —C. F. Fink, Geneva, Ind. JEFFERSON TOWNSHIP Trustee —J. M. Bol'.enbaucher, Geneva, Ind. (Rural Route 2) Central School R. H. Glenn, Principal, History and Social Sciences, Sciences, Industrial Arts, Geneva, Ind. Mary Godfrey, English, Home. Economics, Geneva. Ind. R. 2. Chas. F. L. Reed, Latin. Mathematics, Geography, History and Social Sciences, Bryant, Ind. A. J. B iss, Music. Geneva, Ind Amos Ketchum, Grammar Grades. Berne, Ind. Jesse W. Snyder, Intermediate Grades, Geneva. Ind. R. 2. Helen Kenney, Intermediate Grades, Geneva. Ind. R. 2. Madeline Robin, Primary, Bryant, Ind. R. 2.

tions in their letters, compositions or; anything written by them. I have urged that each letter Should be complete in and of itself, and that it should give out to the recipient the, feeling that it had received careful thought and not, as many a letter now indicate, that lit was “dashed off.”' For this reason, I have impressed, upon them that there are not such' states as “N. Y.” “Penna,” "Mass”; “Md.” “Ill.,” etc.; no such cities as "N. Y. City,” “Kas. City,” “Phila,” etc.; that they do not live on a “St.”j or “Ave.”! that they do not live in a year “'24”; that there are no such months as “Jan.” “Feb.” of "Dec. ;|t that there is no such holiday as ( 1 “Xmas”; that a professor is not a < “prof.”; a president not a “Prest 1 and that they are not “Y’rs resp'y." < Invariably wherever I have forgotten the lesson home, the young people, 1 having had instilled into their minds the idea of thoroughness in what we I call little things, have

' thoroughness in their larger affairs. , But there is not use of preaching this | doctrine of thoroughness in writing to a son or daughter if the son sees ' abbreviations rampant on his father's i business letter heads and practiced I by him in his letters, or if the dattghI tor sees her mother’s letters riddled ! with similar abbreviations. We must ! practice ourselves what we preach to | <mr children. The feeling will arise, 1 particularly with the nian of affairs, I that a business house has no time for these "frills,” forgetting that care-' lessness in correspondence is never, a godo advertisement for any business house and that one of the strongest commendations for a commercial house i s the physical appearance and care shown in its correspondence. The letter emanating from a business house can be its surest advertisement of care and accuracy; but it can also be its surest revelation of haste and condemnation. Because an idea is

TOWN OF BERNE All addresses —Berne, Indiana School Board Dr. R. Reuaser, President; E. A. Luginblll, Secretary; C. E. Stucky, Treasurer. W. A. Amstutz, Civics. Physiology, Vocations J. D. French, Biology, Physics, History J. J. Dlltz, English, Botany Edison Sprunger, Manual Training, Arlth metic H. O. McLaughlin, Shorthand, Typewriting, Bookkeeping Cora Adler, English, Latin Caroline Hirschey, Mathematics Elsie Arno.il, Domestic Science B—H. B. Hoffman 7 —Dale Braun 6—Pearl Atz s—Salome Schug 4—Esther Eichenberger 3—Hilda Lehman 2 —Rose Sprunger I—Mrs.1 —Mrs. R. L Butcher TOWN OF GENEVA All Addresses —Geneva, Indiana School Board —Vernon Pontius, Adam Egley. Earl Shepherd. Don Collom, Superintendent O. A. Klendworth. Principal Alma Roscoe Milliman A. J. Bliss. Music 1 — Blanch Aspy 2 — Gatnet Cooper 3 — Addie Hoskinson 4 — Iva Miller 5— Ruth Linton 6 — Irpeel Hall CITY OF DECATUR All Addresses —Decatur, Indiana School Board —Dr. Burt Mangold, President; Carrie T. Haubold. Secretary; M. E. Hower,. Treasurer. M. F. Worthman, Superintendent NORTH WARD— Elizabeth Peterson. First grade. Della Sellemeyer, Second grade Serena Hornada, Third grade John Parrish. Principal, Fourth grade. SOI'TH WARD— Eva Acker, Principal, First grade Carolyn Acker. Second grade Effie Fatten, Third grade Mary Callow, Fourth grade. RILEY BUILDING— Ruth Vizard, First grade Nell Winnes, Principal, Second grade Florence Haney, Third grade Naomi Gilbert, Fourth CENTRAL BUILDING— Bertha Bunner, First grade Helen Meyer. Second grade Neva Brandyberry, Fifth grade Margaret Moran, Fifth grade Zelna Stevens, Sixth grade Iva Spangler, Sixth grade 7th and Bth Matilda Sellemeyer, History, Grammar Ella Mutschler, Geography, Physiology W. Guy Brown, Principal, Arithmetic Herbert Foreman. Arithmetic, Reading Grace Coffee. Writing, Grammar. HIGH SCHOOL— Walter J Krick. Principal, Biology June Ossenberg. Science Blanche McCrory, Commercial Segurd Anderson, Commercial Josephine Myers. History, English Raipu Tyndall, History Glenn Jackson. Latin Maude Anderson. English Naomi Christen. Domestic Science Flo d T .Gibson, Manual Training 1 Mau e Kennedy, Physical Training Helen Dugan. Physical Training, Spanish Cordelia Riesen. Music , Agnes Sellemeyer, Mathematics Angie Firks, secretary. E. Howard Marshall, Science & Mathematic i, St. Joseph Catholic Schools—Sister Vera. Principal, Decatur. Ind. German Lutheran School —Mrs. Dorothy ■, Meyer. Decatur. Ind. Attendance Officer —F. S. Armantrout. Phones, Office 572 or Residence 559 Green. Decatur, Ind. E. S. Christen, County Superintendent of Schools. Decatur, Ind. Phones. Office 572 or Residence 865-L.

simple we sometimes dismiss is as inconsequential; we forget what it signifies, and how great it can be in its potentiality. We flick a snowfake from our coat and yet, multiplied, that little atom can render helpless the most powerful engine conceived by the mind of man. We see U bird and think of it as but an atom in the sky, overlooking the fact that a bird, multiplied, constitutes the most important economic factor in our lives and hat without the birds the people of the United States would, in a space 1 of five to seven yeiars, starve to death 1 and be affaced from the earth. So the seemingly small lesson of an avoidance of abbreviation may well be the harbinger of a system of thoroughness which would alter the entire fabric of Ameriaan life and make of the United States within a generation a nation known for that quality i of thoroughness which today it so 1 (Continued On Page Four! I