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EDUCATIONAL AIDS

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Department of Agriculture

Cooperation for Rural Health

By Helen L. Johnston, Cooperative Research and Service Division, Farm Credit Administration. Washington, Farm Credit Administration, 1948. 55 p. Processed. (Miscellaneous Report 123) Free from the Director of Information and Extension, Farm Credit Administration.

Home Tanning of Leather and
Small Fur Skins

Washington, U. S. Government Printing Office,
1947. 24 p.
(Farmers' Bulletin No. 1334) 10

cents.

The Mexican Bean Beetle in the East and its Control

Washington, U. S. Government Printing Office, 1948. 18 p. (Farmers' Bulletin No. 1624) 10

cents.

Strawberry Culture, South Atlantic and Gulf Coast Regions

Washington, U. S. Government Printing Office, 1948. 40 p. (Farmers' Bulletin No. 1026) 15

cents.

Tree Breeding at the Institute

of Forest Genetics

Prepared in the Forest Service. Washington, U. S. Government Printing Office, 1948. 14 p. (Miscel laneous Publication No. 659) 10 cents.

The Use of Logs and Poles in
Farm Construction

Washington, U. S. Government Printing Office, 1948. 26 p. (Farmers' Bulletin No. 1660) 10

cents.

Department of the Interior

Lincoln Museum and the House
Where Lincoln Died

Washington, U. S. Government Printing Office, 1948. [5] p. (Folder) Free from the National Park Service.

Statue of Liberty

Washington, U. S. Government Printing Office, 1947. [5] p. (Folder) Free from the National Park Service.

Free publications listed on this page should be ordered directly from the agency issuing them. Publications to be purchased should be ordered from the Superintendent of Documents, U. S. Government Printing Office, Washington 25, D. C.

Thomas Jefferson Memorial

Washington, U. S. Government Printing Office, 1947. [5] p. (Folder) Free from the National Park Service.

Department of Labor

The Political and Civil Status of Women in the United States of America; Summary including the Principal Sex Distinctions as of January 1, 1948

(Preliminary) Prepared by the Women's Bureau. Washington, U. S. Government Printing Office, 1948. 6 p. 5 cents.

Department of State

The United Nations-Three
Years of Achievement

Washington, U. S. Government Printing Office, 1948. 19 p. (Publication 3255.) 10 cents.

National Archives

United States Government Manual1948

Revised through June 30, 1948.

Prepared by the Division of the Federal Register. Washington, U. S. Government Printing Office, 1948. 722 p. $1.

Tariff Commission

Plastic Products

Washington, U. S. Government Printing Office, 1948. 58 p. (War Changes in Industry Series Report No. 28.) 25 cents.

Treasury Department School Savings in Action (Prepared by Education Section, U. S. Savings Bonds Division. Washington, Treasury Department, 1948. 13 p. Processed. Free.

Office of Education

Printed Bulletins

Education for Freedom (Bulletin 1948, No. 11) 20

cents.

Federal Funds for Education 1946-47 and 1947-48 (Leaflet No. 79) 15 cents.

Crippled Children in School (Bulletin 1948, No. 5) In press.

Intellectual Abilities in the Adolescent Period (Bulletin 1948, No. 6) In press.

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Published each month of the school year, October through June. To order SCHOOL LIFE send your check, money order, or a dollar bill (no stamps) with your subscription request to the Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, Washington 25, D. C. SCHOOL LIFE service comes to you at a school-year subscription price of $1.00. Yearly fee to countries in which the frank of the U. S. Government is not recognized is $1.50. A discount of 25 percent is allowed on orders for 100 copies or more sent to one address within the United States. Printing of SCHOOL LIFE has been approved by the Director of the Bureau of the Budget.

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THE Office of Education was established in 1867 "for the purpose of collecting such statistics and facts as shall show the condition and progress of education in the several States and Territories, and of diffusing such information respecting the organization and management of schools and school systems and methods of teaching, as shall aid the people of the United States in the establishment and maintenance of efficient school systems, and otherwise promote the cause of education

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ONE of every TWENTY children may be destined to spend time in a mental hospital

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ANY school administrators can well remember when epidemics of scarlet fever, measles, or whooping cough brought the community's physicians into the schools for mass preventive check-ups. There are no statistics to prove how much serious illness was avoided by these precautionary measures; the point is that American medicine and American education, in getting together, helped to achieve brilliant results in routing the old scourges of the communicable childhood diseases. Not even the newly developed vaccines, serums, and powerful drugs could have done this alone. Cooperation and education were both needed, and as science marched triumphantly forward our schools continued to give assistance-generally in two

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significant ways: First of all, since teachers are housed with children relatively many hours of each day, they stand as the physician's first line of defense against disease. Second, teachers give children the precious all-important principles of staying healthy.

Today, thanks in no small part to the Nation's schools, American physicians can put more and more emphasis on preventive medicine.

Such attacks as the schools helped to make against the contagious diseases give us stout heart today in tackling what now amounts to America's number one health problem, the problem of mental health.

Mental health is fast becoming understood as a positive quality, which is all to the good. For too many years, of course,

we were considered to have sound mental health if we got through our youth without any outright delinquency and managed our adulthood without neighbor trouble, alcoholism, or divorce. Today, fortunately, we know that mental health can and should be as robust as physical health. Further, most of us know that the signs of questionable mental health are signs that literally flag our attention, sometimes over a period of years. If only we give them our attention!

Be Alert to Symptoms

Here are such typical early symptoms

in a group of average school children.

Harry, age 14, looks as if he'll be a chronic liar all his life; he is also aggressive and

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symptoms that may mean later trouble, must be a matter for the everyday understanding of the classroom teacher.

Since early diagnosis is of the utmost importance, the chief responsibility for the prevention of mental ill health actually rests with the public at large rather than with the psychiatrist. People such as teachers, the clergy, social workers, and public health personnel who, by the nature of their work, are constantly presented with opportunities for recognizing and helping to some extent with emotional problems are in a position to observe such problems long before the specialists or even the fam

ily doctor see them.

It seems to me that of all these workers who are in wide contact with the public, however, teachers hold the key observation post. I say this for two reasons. First, they deal with children in their formative and impressionable years and they deal with them over a highly significant stretch of time, singly as well as in groups. Second, teachers have a golden opportunity to work together with parents and other teachers in learning about each new child, his past history, and his present personality. Recognizing the unique role that the school situation plays in the emotional de

14 Questions on Elementary School Organization

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ITH ELEMENTARY school enrollments at a record peak, and further increases predicted for years to come, today's school administrator views the organization of the elementary schools with serious concern. He has seen the elementary school increase in size and complexity over the years, and now faces new problems which must be solved as efficiently and expeditiously as possible.

In its effort to help the Nation's administrators and teachers of elementary education answer some of their most current and pressing questions today, the Office of Education detailed six members of its Elementary Education Division staff to work with a selected group of superintendents and other designated school officials during the past year. Superintendents or their representatives in 52 cities of varying population sizes were interviewed by the Office specialists-Effie G. Bathurst, Mary Dabney Davis, Jane Franseth, Hazel Gabbard, Helen K. Mackintosh, and Don S. Patterson.

Facts were gathered by these Office of Education specialists to help answer the questions most frequently asked by people in the field about elementary school organization. Findings of their study are reported in an Office of Education pamphlet titled "14 Questions on Elementary School Organization."

For SCHOOL LIFE readers there are listed 14 questions which are asked frequently in the field about elementary school organization. Pamphlet No. 105 helps answer these questions, presenting information gathered by Office of Education specialists from educators in many communities. You may wish to ask the same questions regarding the organization of elementary schools in your community. Order copies of Pamphlet No. 105, price

SEDERAL SECURITY AGENCY Offer of Edwat

10 cents each, from the Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, Washington 25, D. C.

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