Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 169, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 July 1916 — WOULD CUT SCHOOL HOLIDAY [ARTICLE]

WOULD CUT SCHOOL HOLIDAY

Berlin. Newspaper Objects to Tims Lost by Pupils in Celebrating Victories. Berlin. —Vorwaerts publishes the text of a regulation issued by the Hessian ministry of public instruction ordering a school holiday for the children as a reward, for their services during the period when subscriptions for the fourth war loan were being collected. The Socialist Journal does not like the idea, and writes: “As a rule, even the announcement of a victory should not be celebrated by the suspension of school work on the following day. When a victory of importance Is announced during the school hours its significance may immediately be explained to the children, who then may be dismissed for the rest of the day. That should be enough for the cultivation of patriotic sentiments in an educationally unobjectionable Way. Only very great and decisive events would justify a whole holiday.