Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 229, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1919 — HER EDUCATIONAL IDEAS ANNOUNCED [ARTICLE]

HER EDUCATIONAL IDEAS ANNOUNCED

WITH the opening of the school term this fall the Junior Red Cross will be concerned with two new phases of education. The first is the internationalization of general education. The other is the providing of scholarships for children of disabled soldiers, sailors and marines who wish to attend schools of the Federal Board for Vocational Education. The closer inter-relationship of nations, resulting from the war, is making necessary, among children everywhere an understanding of the social, Industrial and commercial situations as they exist now and as they will be apt to develop. The teacher who keeps in touch with Junior Red Cross activities will hnv«. tTils’ fall, a monthly bulletin that will contain true stories of conditions and incidents oyer the world and will make her geography and history lessons as live and interesting as a motion picture. These bulletin stories and articles are specially prepared to give a basic understanding of the world as it is in the process of change today. In order that fatherless boys and gms may have an education that will fit them for taking care of the family dependent upon them, the Juniors will far to provide a scholarship for have flieo in service. An innovation in school courses this year is First Aid, which will be taught by physical directors and other teachers who have taken the course and have qualified as an ii^tAictor.