A MIND'S-EYE MAP OF AMERICA 



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A FOREST GHOST ON FLATTOP MOUNTAIN, ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL 



PARK : COLORADO 



Wind, snow, and flying particles of rock have reduced this old spruce tree to a skeleton of its 



former self. 



plaint as the school teacher of the United 

 States. In that one State two or three 

 years ago the ordinary farm laborer was 

 paid more than the school teacher. 



WHAT DO WE DO FOR THE TEACHER? 



If your Americanism is founded upon 

 intelligence (and it must be if it is going 

 to live), you must have somebody who 

 can bring out of the young what is in 

 them. It is not a question of pouring ; 

 it is a question of drawing. You cannot 

 expect that from a girl who gets $40 a 



month. Moreover, you have got to treat 

 people with respect and with dignity if 

 you are going to get the best out of them. 

 What recognition do we give to the 

 teacher? What social status does she 

 have? We talk of Americanism, and 

 there is the person who is at the very 

 heart and center of Americanism. Upon 

 her depends our future. She can be 

 made the greatest instrumentality for 

 building up the right spirit within the boy 

 and girl in America — the greatest of all 

 instrumentalities for Americanization. 



