Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1918 — Government Lessons Reach Millions of the Boys and Girls in United States [ARTICLE]

Government Lessons Reach Millions of the Boys and Girls in United States

“Machine industry and community life are the special themes in the series of lessons on the war, recently issued by the United States bureau of education, department of the Interior, and now being studied by a million or more school boys and girls of all grades throughout the nation. “"The bureau’s series of lessons on “Community and National Life,” as they were termed by President Wilson, in his original announcement to the schools, have now reached their third issue. Recent issues dealt. with the organization of modern industrial life as compared with pioneer days, the effect of war on commerce in nitrate, the war and airplanes, production and wise consumption, and similar topics. The idea of teaching the principles of conservation underlying successful prosecution of the war originated with the food administration, but the plan has now been taken over by the bureau of education. Prof. Charles H. Judd of the University of Chicago, with the assistance of a corps of writers in the various fields, is preparing these government texts for the pupils in the elpmentary and high schools. Parents as well as pupils will be interested in the lessons. The older highschool students will learn of the rise of the machine industry, from the day of the hand loom and the spinning Jenny through the chances wrought by the industrial revolution, to the large-scale productions, world markets, and social problems of modern industry. The various elements of cost in factory operating, education as encouraged by Industry, the contribution of the press, are also treated in the lesson for older pupils.