Tho Mountain Trail
December 23, 1938
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THE VALTJE OF AN EDUCATION
Frank IV, Thomas in The Principle of
Teaching says, "Modern educators have
agreed that the expression which best
sets forth the aims of education is
social efficiency.”
The school library should be closely
related to the course of study. The
school library is essential as a teach
ing force, since through the use of the
library pupils can be taught to enjoy
reading, to develop judgment in select
ing worthwhile books, to respect the
property of the library and of others
who may be kind enough to lend to them,
to comprehend quickly what they read,
to develop the ability to express ideas
offectively in both writing and conver
sation.
Dr. Harris says, "A boy with high
school training has one chance in four
hundred; that is, he has twenty-tivo
times the opportunity of the boy v;ho
stopped at the end of the eighth grade,"
Education increases the opportunities
for greater success, for higher enjoy
ment, and for a richer, fuller life. A
high school education is not for the
loafer, not for the shirk, but for the
boy or girl who will work that he may
achieve the richest rewards for himself
and the greatest good for others*
Success in school depends upon the
parent, the teacher,and the child. If
the child does not want to learn, he
should first be taught the value of an
education.
Get a high school education at least.
It is the foundation of success. Without
it you will be everlastingly handicapped;
with it you vrill be better prepared to
make your mark.
You must learn if you wish to earn.
Rewards are paid for knowledge* The
high school is your opportunity to get
a fair start tovrards success#
-Senior
TTJBERCULOSIS
Of all diseases known to man Tuber
culosis has been most far-reaching in
its devastation. Cholera, yellow fever,
and smallpox have been more terrible in
their ravages but have been periodical
only. Leprosy, the only disease compar»-
able with tuberculosis in its damage
to the human race, has been practically
extinct in the civilized counti‘ies for
at least tv/o centuries. Indeed the
humcoi mind cannot grasp the full sig
nificance and scope of tuberculosis in
sorrov/, suffering and deprivation.
Some think it is a modern affliction
vrhich has come upon us because of the
degenerating influences of civiliza
tion. This is not true. Moses knew it
as we know it;he had seen its deplor
able work among the Egyptians, Even
in that day it was looked upon as a
plague. Back in the days of Moses we
can trace its bone-strewn path to the
Assyrians and we can see shadows of it
in the dim vista of the unrecorded
past. The truth is tho.t tuberculosis
is less prevalent now than at any time
within the preview of its history. But
it is still a monster.
Few know v/hat tuberculosis really
is. Even some physicians overlook it
in some of its forms other than full-
fledged consumption. In the latter
form the victim has a bad cough, is
emaciated, and dies from what seems to
be starvation. In some forms of the
disease the patient dies v;ith acute
symptoms pointing to a disease of or
gans other than the lungs, and the
death appears on tlie records under a
name other than tuberculosis.
The features of tuberculosis which
are of greatest interest to the public
at large are its contagious nature,its
curability, and its prevention. Care
fully interwoven with these are cer
tain error.! vrhich remain to be blotted
out of the public mind and intelli
gence. These errors relate to heredity.