Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 March 1920 — A PROCLAMATION. [ARTICLE]

A PROCLAMATION.

A grave emergency threatens the schools. The supply of trained and competent teachers is everywhere decreasing. Teachers are leaving the ranks of a noble but underpaid profession. New recruits are not coming forward to fill the gaps. Nearly ' seven hundred thousand children are in the schools of Indiana. They are the citizens of tomorrow. The world problems of the new times ahead demand that these children receive even better school training than the children of yesterday. We must act today to save the schools. ■ , • It is proper and fitting, therefore that our people unite in striving to create a finer spirit toward the work of the teachers in promoting a deeper sympathy and regard for. school work, to the end that the best of our young people may be drawn and held to the great service of teaching. JAS. P. GOODRICH, Governor.