Chicago, Illinois

Dear Sylvia Starr: Here is a suggestion for spring. Mounted and pressed flowers used in nature study booklets may be kept in good condition by placing smooth tissue paper over them. The tissue paper may be fastened at the corners with sections of Dennison's labels. Lyndell Michener.

Sylvia Star: One of your contributors asked for seat work devices a few months ago. As I teach a country school I have to have many devices on hand and am glad to "pass them on" if they will be of service.

Each month my little folk make sewing cards. Some of the month-by-month cards

are:

September-Apple.
October-Pumpkin.
November-Wigwam.
December-Stocking.

January-Eskimo House.

February-Hatchet.

March-Rabbit.

April-Umbrella.
May-Chicken.
June-Watering-pot.

When the children are learning the days of the week I have the children write sentences suggestive of their activities on each day. For instance: "I go to church on Sunday;;" "We study flowers, plants and birds in school on Monday;" "I take my music lesson on Tuesday," etc. The children are very much interested in having something on each day that no other child does, if possible.

Colored lentils are excellent to work with. I have squares of cardboard that fit the tops of the desks. These cards have. holes punched in them in regular rows, each hole is large enough to hold one lentil. I give directions to fill the top row with yellow lentils, the next row with blue, etc. Sometimes it is a number game and perhaps four red lentils are to be placed in the top row; ten green ones in the next, etc.

If a teacher is in a neighborhood where she can get pussy willows this spring, she kill find that much use can be made of them. As the buds drop off, glue them to

THE J. M. HAHN TEACHERS AGENCY

Discriminating Service

to School Officials

Our Town and Civic Duty

The idea of service is still the dominant note. A study is made of the public servants the policeman, postman, fireman, street-cleaner, ash and rubbish collector-and those who, although employed by private individuals, are engaged in public service.

FOR GRADES 4 AND 5

CIVIC READERS
Community Interest
and Public Spirit

The question of Safety and the study of the Neighborhood and the City Beautiful afford inspiring and valuable incentives to boys and girls for good citizenship.

FOR GRADES 5 AND 6

FOR GRADES 3 AND 4 These readers aim to make intelligent, interested, practical citizens, who will know what good government is, and how to co-operate with public officials to get it. The texts are alluring and profusely illustrated. Civic activities are suggested in the stories, poems, and questions at the close of the chapters. In each book the purpose is to understand the nature of the service rendered and that the acquiring of information is but incidental. Your order or request for information will be given immediate attention W. C. HARPER, 149 New Montgomery Street, San Francisco Pacific Coast Representative, THE JOHN C. WINSTON CO.

J. W. FRICKE, A LEADER AMONG SAN FRANCISCO BUSINESS

EXECUTIVES

J. W. Fricke, president, C. F. Weber & Company, is one of the outstanding business executives of the city that "Knows How." A born optimist, always ready to meet any emergency, he combines in a rare way in business building the qualities of vision, tact and progressiveness with enough of conservatism to secure that balance so necessary for any successful business builder to have. And along with these qualities of real leadership he is a man who makes friends, even among his competitors.

Following Horace Greeley's injunction to "Go West, young man," Mr. Fricke came to San Francisco in 1895. Since that time he has been associated with C. F. Weber

J. W. Fricke, President C. F. Weber &
Co., San Francisco, Calif..

& Company and has been a rominent factor in developing the school equipment and supply business on the Coast. He has watched the development of the company's

ventions, a service department for school officials, etc.

Interested in larger movements, Mr. Fricke was one of the organizers of the National School Supply Association and since its inception, some six years ago, he has been one of the recognized leaders. His reports are business classics in their terse statement and clear logic. An address he delivered at the 1921 convention in Chicago on "How May We Stabilize Business for 1922" was quoted among business periodicals throughout the nation. He was elected president of the association for 1923 and presided over the convention held in Chicago on January 8, 9, 10 and 11 of the present year.

Although a busy man, Mr. Fricke has always found time for other activities. He is a leader in fraternal life. He has been a wide reader, especially along historical lines. His library contains many rare volumes. Always a devoted follower of Izaak Walton, he maintains a lodge in the Feather River region as headquarters for "limit catches" among the streams of the high Sierras.

Finally, we must add that he is an enthusiastic Californian, enlivening his conversation and writing by a thorough knowledge of the resources, the climate, the growth of his chosen state. Certainly the business he has helped to develop is a real asset to San Francisco and to California.From January Pacific Stationer.

ADDRESS BY J. W. FRICKE

J. W. Fricke, the president of the Na-. tional School Supply Association, and also president of the C. F. Weber & Company, in his annual address before the association at Chicago, touched upon many high s in progressive education. He advocai the passage of the bill before Con

gress which will nationalize our education, showing that it would

1-The removal of illiteracy.

2-The Americanization of the foreign born.

3-The promotion of physical education. 4-The training of teachers.

"New School Buildings in San Francisco" is the title of an article by Ruth

Thompson of the editorial staff of Western Journal of Education, which will appear in the April number of the American School Board Journal published in Mil

The article covers the disposal of the $12,COO.COO which is being spent in the Bay City on buildings and equipment. General plans and details of certain type buildings are described in the article, which will be illustrated with plans and photographs.

The enrollment of the Los Angeles schools, according to Superintendent Susan Dorsey, has increased from 154.164 to 188,663, an increase of nearly 40,000 pupils in one year. This increased enrollment will necessitate a bond issue for buildings and equipment of between twenty and thirty millions of dollars.

Professor Rowell of Martinez Union High School has been elected principal of the Lancaster Union High School and Professor Warren of Lancaster has been elected principal of the Marysville High School, vice Farris, who has been promoted to an Oakland High School.

A. R. Clifton, superintendent of Monrovia city schools, won a recent bond issue for $126,000 by a majority of 12 to 1. The money will be used to erect a twelveunit grammar school building. This will make five grammar school buildings in the Monrovia system. In the handling of manual training and household arts Mr. Clifton has excluded the duplicating of equipment by having pupils from the various schools go to one central school for this work. recent origin has been the inauguration of a monthly fire inspection trip by Mr. Clifton and the chief of the Monrovia fire department.

Of

The California School of Arts and Crafts is an incorporated College of the Arts and Crafts. It specializes in training the "Man or woman behind the pencil" along three distinctive lines:

1. For the Industrial Arts Professions as Designers, Illustrators, Poster and Commercial Artists, Interior Decorators, Draughtsmen and Craft Workers in the Metals, Wood, Textiles and Pottery.

2. For the Fine Arts Professions as Portrait, Landscape and Mural Painters.

3. For Teaching the Arts and Crafts and the Household Arts in the Elementary, High and Normal Schools and Teachers' Colleges.

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