THE CALL OF THE LAND 



where a little larger salary is paid than you 

 are getting, you are apt to receive a letter 

 from the bureau suggesting that for a con- 

 sideration your name will be put in at the 

 better paying place, and that your election 

 will be forthcoming. Though you may be 

 well situated and paid and would not think 

 of changing were it not for this outside 

 temptation, off you start, breaking invalua- 

 ble ties, all for $100 or $200 extra salary. 

 Teacher friends, if you want to be influen- 

 tial in teaching, don't move until you are as 

 good as forced to. Generally, young teach- 

 ers should remain where they are and 

 become powers for good in their schools, get 

 well acquainted with citizens and parents, 

 interested in church work, in community 

 enterprises, in the growth of their munic- 

 ipalities. The influence of such teachers 

 over communities and the blessedness they 

 put into human lives is incalculable. 



The country school ought to have country 

 air. There is not a school in the state that 

 does not suffer from bad air. Arithmetic 

 examples, spelling exercises, the literary 



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