CRUSADE FOR THE COUNTRY SCHOOL 



schoolhouses and costlier apparatus are 

 desirable. In common with other teachers, 

 only more justly and louder than most of 

 them, we appeal for higher wages. Then, 

 when adequately remunerated, we agree to 

 change our positions less frequently, our- 

 selves insisting on that permanency which 

 we know is so much to be desired. Our 

 game ought to be winnable by making safe 

 hits without running bases. 



While there are some advantages in the 

 fact that so large a proportion of our teach- 

 ers are young, this meaning on their part 

 faith in things and in the future, without 

 which good teaching is not possible yet 

 we should like encouragement in the way 

 of salaries and of public esteem making it 

 worth our while to grow old in our profes- 

 sion. 



But good school literature, proper school- 

 house facilities, high pay and permanency, 

 even consolidation, important as they cer- 

 tainly are, are not exactly central in our 

 problem and might all be present without 

 bringing the triumph we crave. The chief, 



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