Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1918 — Stories For The Schools. [ARTICLE]

Stories For The Schools.

Thrift stories prepared by an expert to be read to the school children throughout the state by the teachers is a novel and integral part of the War-Savings campaign as planned by the committee for Indiana. These stories will be sent out at the, rate of two a week so that they may be placed in the hands of the 26,000 teachers of the state. The first of these stories is called “The Thrift Arrays It is adapted to children of the first and second grades particularly and portrays vividly* before the child mind the vital part even the youngest may have is prosecuting the war against the murderers of children, the spoilers of homes and those , who would destroy democracy in the world. The second story is entitled, “Pay Our Debt to France,” and recalls to the mind of elders and presents to children of eight to twelve years the great debt the United States owes to France for the assistance given in our war for Independence by Marquis de la Fayette. < These two stories have already been distributed, the others. wiR r folJbw in order. • _ •