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mand higher qualifications for the teacher — that will make a compulsory 

 educational law — compel irresponsible parents to give their children an 

 elementary education, that will do away with the public drinking cup, 

 that will permit women to vote on school questions and be eligible to 

 membership on school boards — in short, all measures looking to the en- 

 largement of the school's usefulness in the community should be fol- 

 lowed by parents and all good citizens, and their legislators promptly in- 

 structed to work for their passage. 



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I have suggested several phases of the country school problem with 

 sufficient frankness, I hope, to cause each one of you to investigate con- 

 ditions in your respective locality, and to encourage j^our activity in 

 making needed improvements to tlie end that boys and girls all over 

 Missouri shall have equal advantages; that at least they shall have a 

 sound foundation upon which to rest high school and college training. 



Let our elementary schools in the country be made as efficient as 

 possible, and take them to the door of every hoy and girl in Missouri. 



THE RELATION OF THE HOME MAKER TO THE SCHOOL. 



(Mrs. Cora A. Chapin, Appleton City, Mo.) 



This is the first time I have had the pleasure 



^^^^ of attending the Home Makers' Conference. I am 



J^^^Km certainly enjoying every moment. The talks, papers, 



mm^^^^%' discussions and lectures have indeed been very 

 '. -^ IP interesting. When Miss Bailey wrote asking me if 



I would give a few minutes talk I replied that I 

 would try. My husband says it is no trouble for 

 me to talk, but I found trouble in thinking of some- 

 thing to say that was worth while. 



Having visited our district school the day be- 

 fore I received Miss Bailey's letter, I decided to 

 make a plea for the Home Makers to visit our schools, as I found I was 

 the first visitor the teacher had had this year, and I am not a patron 

 of the school for I have no children. As I taught in Missouri and in 

 Colorado before I was married, you may be sure my sympathies are with 

 the teacher. I hope you will excuse this personal introduction. 



I do not believe our Home Makers realize the importance of our 

 public schools. I believe ignorance to be the main cause of most of 

 the troubles that we have in this world, therefore we must do all that 



Mrs. Chapin. 



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