to teach the school. Nineteen boys and girls from grades one to eight are enrolled.

THE frigate Constitution, the subject of Oliver Wendell Holmes' poem "Old Ironsides," is to be used in a screen picture of her famous history. Once more, for a "movie" audience this time, she will battle with the pirates of Tripoli, manned by sailors of a younger generation who will doubtless gain added respect for their seafaring forebears as they struggle with her yards.

THE voters of Sharon on November 3 approved by a vote of almost two to one a bond issue of $200,000 to be used in building an elementary school. This action coming within three years after the erection of a $640,000 high school building bespeaks a citizenry progressive in educational matters.

THE Rostraver Township Junior High School was dedicated on October 30. The afternoon program consisted of readings, pantomimes and choruses by the children. In the evening Ex-Governor John K. Tener spoke on "Athletics in the Schools." Deputy Superintendent Robert C. Shaw and Superintendent Bela B. Smith of the Connellsville school system gave short addresses.

PHILADELPHIA has opened an evening high school which will prepare its students for college in six years. Students attend from seven to ten, four nights a week, ard accomplish all their work, both study and recitation, during that time.

THREE plays effective in teaching safety principles to children may be secured from the National Safety Council, 120 West 42nd Street, New York City. They are "Bill's Christmas Fright" by Frances Stuart, "Bruin's Inn" by Anne Townsend and "The Runaway Ball" by Mary Foote. Each, 25c.

UNDERGRADUATES attending the intercollegiate conference on the World Court at Amherst College on December 5 reported indorsement of the World Court and American adherence to the Harding-Hughes-Collidge reservations. Yale cast the heaviest ballot of any school represented at the conference-1,323 ballots, all but 129 favoring American adherence.

IN the November JOURNAL under "Notes and News" on page 206 appeared an item on school savings. Under class D enrollment Downingtown was listed 100 per cent. The report should have read "Downingtown Industrial and Agricultural School 100 per cent" instead of "Downingtown 100 per cent."

THE Sophomore class at Cheltenham Township High School publishes a bi-weekly mimeographed newspaper with interesting cartoons, editorials and class news items.

FOURTH graders at the Indiana State Normal School publish a typewritten newspaper, The Lookout. James Hess informs us in the school news that the class make airplanes.

Jack Steetle acclaims "We are going to have rules in our Athletic Club." Jane V. gives rein to her poetic muse with

I like the spring, I like the fall,
I like the dull November

But which of these I do not know
Is better than September.
Evidently the opening of school has no terrors
for Jane.

THE Owl and Nightingale Dramatic Club of Gettysburg College carried off the first prize cup in the first Pennsylvania Intercollegiate Dramatic Association contest held at Penn State on December 5. The prize winning play was "The Pot Boiler." The Cup and Dagger Club of Bucknell University won second prize with "The Major and the Manicure." Drexel Institute won honorable mention with "Suppressed Desires." Next year's contest will be held at Drexel Institute, Philadelphia. A. C. Cloetinge of Pennsylvania State College is president of the Association.

LOCK HAVEN High School, Lock Haven, won the Pennsylvania High School Football Championship this year but was defeated in the Middlewest Interscholastic Contest. Englewood High School, Chicago, won the Middlewest Championship.

SEVENTY seniors from the Kensington High School for Girls, Philadelphia, accompanied by Principal Beulah Fenimore and two faculty members, Rose Kauffman and Mary Waesche, visited Washington, D. C., during December to visit historic places and observe Congress in session.

NINE Pennsylvania boys, who have distinguished themselves in work with live stock, were guests at the International Live Stock Exposition at Chicago, November 28-December 5. Four of the boys-Gracio Delarco, Ebensburg; John Woods, Mercer; Harry Friedline, Boswell and Joseph Klunk, Hanover-were the guests of an agricultural foundation. Fayette County boys-Jay Dunn, Smock; Paul Brown and Bert Lewin, Vanderbilt-were the guests of the Pennsylvania State Chamber of Commerce. Two Lawrence County boys, Herman Patton and Alvin McFarland, were the guests of the New Castle Board of Trade and the Chicago Union Stock Yards Company.

Three

THE Roosevelt Junior High School, Erie, of which C. F. Brockway is principal, gives each pupil a Roosevelt Home Bulletin to be taken home with the report card. Bulletin No. 1

bore the following message for pupils: "Today is card day, your first 'pay day.' Your 'check' represents quite accurately the quality and the amount of work you have done. If your check is too small, do not sulk, but grit your teeth and resolve to make yourself worth more. A co-operative spirit and a consistent desire to work will increase your wages on next card day."

ALLOW us to introduce Vol. 1, No. 1 of the Milton School News, published by the students

of the Milton Public Schools, a promising fourpage newspaper issued every third Wednesday during the school year.

THE Allentown School Board has let the contract for a new combination junior high and elementary school building which will cost $288,385.

THE Music League of Philadelphia distributed among the Christmas carolers 60,000 song sheets. One hundred fifty song leaders under the direction of Robert Lawrence rehearsed the carolers. A special "remembrance carol" was sung where two candles in the window indicated that a member of the family was absent.

A SCHUYLKILL County Schoolmen's Club was organized on November 18 at Blythe Township High School. Superintendent E. W. Taylor of Ashland was elected president and G. A. Eichler, supervising principal of Pine Grove, secretary. The membership comprises superintendents, supervising principals and principals of the high schools of the county.

THE Commercial Teacher Training Department of the State Normal School at Indiana, Pa. publishes a mimeographed bulletin, The Commercial Exchange, of which G. G. Hill, director of the department, is Editor-in-chief. It should be suggestive to commercial teachers and students.

The Red and White is a six-page newspaper published by the Kittanning Senior-Junior High School, of which Denton M. Albright is principal. The paper is well balanced with school news, editorials, sports and humor, all in evidence.

"THROUGH OIL LANDS OF EUROPE AND AFRICA," is the title of a new educational motion picture film in three parts of three reels each. The first part features the oil industries of Germany, France, Spain, Morocco and Algeria; the second deals with the oil fields of Italy, Hungary, the Danube and Roumania and the third part with the Polish and Egyptian fields. Any of the three parts may be obtained for exhibition to schools by addressing the Bureau of Mines, Department of Commerce, Pittsburgh.

TRINITY COLLEGE, Dublin, Ireland is planning to provide a course of instruction, July 15 to August 31, 1926, for American graduates and undergraduates. The twelve courses of lectures offered will deal with political economy and social science, history and literature and languages. The program will be assured by entries for 275 single courses being definitely registered before June 1, 1926. Further information can be secured from The Provost, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.

A SUMMER Vacation Course, for American women teachers and graduates, organized by the Women's Colleges and the Society of Oxford Home-Students, will be held at the University of Oxford July 10-July 28, 1926. The

lectures will be on English literature and English history. A fee of $125 includes board, residence, lectures and classes and one or two excursions. Make application before March 1, 1926 to Secretary of the Committee on International Relations, American Association of University Women, 2 West 45th Street. New York City.

THE Henry Houck elementary school building at Lebanon was dedicated on November 20. Addresses were made by Ex-Governor Brumbaugh, H. G. Moyer and Henry Houck, grandson and nephew of the educator whose name the building bears. The new building contains nineteen classrooms and an auditorium in addition to offices, library and playrooms. total cost of construction approximates $265,000.

The

THE 24th Carnegie Institute International Exhibition of Art closed on December 6 after having been viewed by 150,000 visitors. Thirteen nations were represented in the exhibit. America had 122 artists of whom 32 were Pennsylvanians. The foreign countries presented the works of 366 artists. The first prize of $1,500 was awarded to Henry Eugene LeSidaner of France for his painting “Window On the Bay of Villafranche"; an Italian, Ubaldo Oppi, was awarded second prize, $1.000. for his painting "Nude"; Charles W. Hawthorne of New York received the third prize of $500 for his picture "The Captain, The Cook and The Mate." The popular prize of $200 was won by Malcolm Parcell of Washington, Pennsylvania, for his painting "Portrait Group." The exhibit will be shown at the Philadelphia Art Club from January 2 to February 15.

AN educational function worthy of imitation was held at Elkton, Maryland, November 16, in the form of a county-wide educational rally. At 1:30 a meeting of special interest to teachers was held in the Community Play House. At 2:30, the meeting was made public. School trustees, patrons, taxpayers, members of boards of trade, school improvement associations, women's clubs, mothers' clubs, farmers' clubs and the American Legion attended in large numbers. The meeting was featured by community singing under the direction of Thomas L. Gibson formerly of this State and an illustrated address on consolidated schools by Lee L. Driver of the Pennsylvania Department of Public Instruction. The affair was a pronounced success.

NECROLOGY

Dr. Russell H. Conwell, founder of Temple University and the Samaritan Hospital, Philadelphia, pastor of the Baptist Temple, recipient of the Philadelphia Award in 1923 as the citizen contributing most to the city's welfare, died on December 6 at his home in Philadelphia at the age of eighty-two. Dr. Conwell was widely known as a lecturer and had delivered the lecture "Acres of Diamonds" thousands of times.

Miss Nan P. Wenzel died at her home in Verona on November 13. Miss Wenzel gave the services of her life to the children of Verona. She began teaching in Verona in 1896 and retired in 1923, owing to poor health. Miss Wenzel taught many children of her former pupils. A thousand boys and girls visited her home to pay final tribute to her memory.

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come to the doors and windows and watch as the parade, moving in order, passes. The thrill of the occasion! The children catch it; the passers-by catch it; the teachers have already caught it. We march for about twelve minutes and then return to the schoolhouse in the same good order as we set out.

I firmly believe that the children get more keen enjoyment, more idea of what it's all about, more satisfaction in their service in taking part than in any other kind of exercise. Everyone from the smallest to the largest has a part and that means so much to the little lad or little lassie. When the silence was observed around the flagpole how impressive it made the whole thing when the cars stopped. Through the medium of our little group those rushing individuals were made to feel the necessity of paying tribute and so the impressiveness of those moments was immeasurably enhanced.

Each year the children look forward to Armistice Day as a red letter day even as they watch for the glorious Fourth. But their joy is because of Peace. Their expression is not found in uproarous demonstration, but in silent tribute.