(Continued from page A-263) SUPERINTENDENT Jesse H. Newlon, Denver, Colorado, writes:

Our Board of Education has just unanimously approved salary increases for the fifth time under the Denver salary schedule. One more time will put the schedule into complete operation. By that time practically all the older teachers will have reached their maximums.

GRACE ABBOTT, chief of the Children's Bureau, in commenting upon the report of work done under the Federal Maternity and Infancy Act, said:

The provisional figures for 1924 of the vital-statistics division of the Bureau of the Census indicate a substantial drop in the infant death rate for both urban and rural communities in the United States birth-registration area, but even with this improvement the United States cannot afford to slacken its interest or reduce in any way the intelligent expenditure of funds to lower the death rate among babies. A very high percentage of the losses are due to preventable causes. Demonstrations of successful methods of conducting prenatal clinics have been made in many places. A beginning has been made in getting a State program of work understood and actually under way in some communities. On the basis of this experience an expansion of the work can economically be undertaken. The United States Government is expending at the present time less than $1,000,000 a year in subsidies to the States for the promotion of a health program for mothers and babies.

makes the teaching of the wars that have been as out of place as teaching boys of today how to yoke oxen and "break"

steers.

Even the World War story should be deleted. It should be regarded as disloyal to the Locarno compact to have any children study about any battle between 1914 and 1918. In the same way the Revolutionary War and the Civil War should be eliminated. What would be thought of a school that would teach young Americans the code of ethics in dueling?

Let us all rise to the emergency of the hour and demonstrate by our courses of study that the days of warfare are over. It is probably too much to ask politicians to reduce the army to a police basis and turn the navy into commercial service after it has completed its anti-liquor campaign.-A. E. Winship, in Journal of Education.

JOHN H. LOGAN, formerly professor of history and political science in Rutgers College, has been appointed Commissioner of Education of New Jersey, by Governor Silzer for a term of five years. His appointment was confirmed by the Senate at a special session on September 22.

SECRETARY F. E. REYNOLDS, of the Ohio State Teachers' Association, writes: "Ohio will have more members in her State Association this year than ever before." Secretary Reynolds is also working for a greatly increased enrolment in the National Education Association. He has recently been reëlected for another three-year term at a substantial increase in salary.

OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, Department of Oratory, conducts an annual State high school extempore speaking contest open to any high school in Ohio. Ten prizes, totaling $465, are offered. The contest for 1926 will be held in April. Contestants must be familiar with any five of the seven general topics which have been selected by the contest committee. Contestants will draw specific subjects by lot the morning preceding the contest and will have the afternoon for the preparation of their speeches. Subjects selected for this year's contest afford a wide variety of interest: Consolidated schools in rural communities, conservation of our natural resources, the English language, polar expeditions, air navigation in National defense, women in politics, and physical education.

REGIONAL conferences have recently been held by the Department of Classroom Teachers in the following places: Tacoma, Wash.; Denver and Pueblo, Colo.; Norfolk and Cape Charles, Va.; and St. Louis, Mo. A conference will be held in Portland, Oregon, during Christmas week at the time of the meeting of the State Teachers' Association. Others are being planned by the Department officers and will be announced later.

BOOKS on Education in the Grand Rapids Public Library is published jointly by the Library Board and the Board of Education of Grand Rapids, Michigan. A committee of the Teachers' Club helped in the preparation of the booklet. This is an attractive volume of eighty-eight pages, printed by the students of the Grand Rapids Vocational School.

ENOUGH LOTS have been completed and staked out for sale in Florida and enough acreage sold to be subdivided to amount to approximately twenty million lots, according to a report in The Literary Digest. If a house were built on each of these lots to accommodate six people, the entire population of the United States could be housed.

per cent.

J. J. MELVIN, Principal, Dixon High School, Dixon, Mississippi, writes: "Our teachers are enrolled one hundred Dixon is a large country school, clear out of hearing of railroad and factory whistles, in the heart of rural Mississippi. There are nearly four ral Mississippi. There are nearly four hundred children here and we are striving to give them practical rural-life education, having agriculture and home science departments under the provisions of the Smith-Hughes Bill."

IN A CAMPAIGN to reduce illiteracy in the United States, a complete census of illiterates will be taken within the next year by the General Federation of Women's Clubs, in coöperation with the U. S. Bureau of Education and other agencies, including the American Federation of Labor, the Chamber of Com

merce of the United States of America, the American Red Cross.

TOBACCO and Scholarship is the title of a pamphlet issued by Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio. It is based on an objective study of smoking among men students at Antioch. "The Antioch purpose is to bring about a balanced development of character, intelligence, and power. Any novelty in its program is due to the endeavor to correct prevailing disproportionate emphasis upon elements of personality or of environment. Antioch combines in six years a liberal college education, vocational training, and apprenticeship to practical life. Required courses include widely varied liberal subjects, and training for physical health and economic sense. Vocational courses help students decide upon their vocations and prepare for callings such as engineering, business administration, journalism, home and institutional management, and education. Administrative ability is emphasized, rather than specialized technique. Half-time practical work in alternate five-week periods develops responsibility and helps students decide upon and prepare for vocations." (Continued on page 266)

SMALLPOX, a preventable disease, is
a 20-page edition of the new smallpox
pamphlet issued by the American Asso-
ciation for Medical Progress. The
United States had 55,538 cases of small-
pox during the past year, the largest
number of any country in the world.
Copies of the pamphlet will be sent on
request to interested persons. Address
B. C. Gruenberg, managing director,
American Association for Medical Prog-
ress, 370 Seventh Avenue, New York
City.

THAT IT is not necessary that one
become peevish and childish in the de-
clining years of their life, is well dem-
onstrated by A. C. Herford, aged 78, of
Hugart, Greenbrier County, West Vir-
ginia, who is the oldest teacher in the
State. Though having taught for 57
years and closed successfully 72 terms
of school, he is still strong and stalwart,
with a clear and active mind, and is very
much interested in all educational ad-
vancements. Recently Mr. Herford
gave up his pedagogical career and went
to Omaha, Nebraska, where he had ac-
cepted a position as manager of a branch
office of the National School and Educa-
tional Society of Cincinnati.

HIGHER EDUCATION in Kansas
will be administered in future by a
board of regents, consisting of nine per-
sons, appointed by the governor without
restriction as to political affiliation, resi-
dence, or connection with educational
institutions. This plan is practically
that suggested three years ago by the
Bureau of Education of the Department
of the Interior in its survey of higher
institutions of Kansas. Previously the
control of the 27 State institutions
penal, eleemosynary, and educational
has been in a board of administration, of
which the governor was chairman.

A NUMBER of English and French
teachers of secondary schools have
changed places for a year of exchange
work, each taking over the entire work
of the other. An English teacher, to be
eligible for this assignment, must be 25
years of age or over, a graduate of a
British university, and must have been
an instructor for at least two years in
a secondary school in England or Wales,
with experience in teaching French.
Teachers will continue to be paid by
their own school authorities, and the ex-
change service will be recognized for
pension purposes.

TEACHERS of home economics will
be especially interested in a bibliography
on Art in Home Economics compiled by
Mary A. Clark and others and pub-
lished by the University of Chicago
Press, price postpaid $1.60. Among the
topics treated in detail are. costume
design, history of design, interior decora-
tion, history of furniture, architecture.

THE OFFICIAL Information Bureau
of Switzerland, 241 Fifth Avenue, New
York City, extends a cordial invitation
to all lecturers, educators, and other
persons contemplating to lecture about
Switzerland, before public audiences, to
avail themselves of the attractive lantern
slides and motion picture films which
the Bureau loans entirely free of charge
to such parties. Descriptive and illus-
trated literature about the land of the
Alps is also at the disposal of persons
desirous of gathering additional material.

A SAVING of $300 a day to a manu-
facturer of a wooden part for automo-
biles is said to have resulted from three
days' attendance by one of the company's
technical representatives upon the forest
products laboratory course in gluing
wood at the University of Wisconsin.