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"Have the elder races halted over

there beyond the seas?

We take up the task eternal, Pioneers! O pioneers!"

--Walt Whitman (Adapted.) The official Historical Commission for the Statehood Centennial Celebration have up to this time issued three bulletins which can be had by addressing the Secretary, Mr. Harlow Lindly, State Library, Indianapolis. Significant quotations from these bulletins carry their own message here.

Bulletin No. 1. "The Objects in the Celebration Are: "1. To do honor to the founders of our Commonwealth; to reveal the history of the State to the people of the State, and the people to themselves, by stopping to consider what has been done in a hundred years.

"2. To show the resources in natural wealth, the advance in industry and agriculture, and the progress made in science, art, and letters, and most important of all, the wealth of human life that has gone to the making of what we have today.

"3. To create in the minds of the young an historic consciousness, by helping them to learn and re-live the past in our history in as vital and concrete a way as possible.

"4. To emphasize to the people the importance of historic archives, of which our State is so scant, and to urge them to collect valuable documents and articles that bear upon the history of Indiana.

"5. To foster through a study of our State's honor roll of character in every line of achievement, a patriotism that means local, state-wide, nation-wide, and international interest; a patriotism that means unstinted, honest public and social service; and a patriotism that engages the interest of all the people in the upbuilding of the State and shows what it means to live for one's country and to make it a country worth dying for."

Bulletin No. 2.

"The Objects of the Centennial May Be Realized:

"1. By following the study of the resources and achievements concerned in the history of our State, with a series of community festivals centering around the rural schools no matter how remotely situated; with civic parades and pageants in the larger places; and with a still more inclusive celebration embodying the distinctive. elements in the various local districts

to be held in Indianapolis, as a climax of the celebrations.

"2. By beginning now to write the local history of the respective school communities, laying stress upon the lives that have been connected with

the building up of that community, and to collect material of historic value that shall represent the corporate interests and life of the entire vicinity.

"3. By encouraging the setting free of latent powers in all the members of the community, both young and old, so that the celebration have co-operative significance and a deeper meaning be attached to the occasion.

"4. By encouraging a state-wide exchange of documents, papers, letters, posters, book plates and reports of memorial dedications of historical spots, all to be kept in the Centennial scrap-books that will be a part of the work in unifying the interests in making the celebration more than a local occasion."

This is addressed to the County Superintendents, and recommends:

"1. That County Superintendents set apart ample time at their respective county institutes for the discussion and instruction regarding the Centennial Celebration, so that all teachers may know what is to be done and how to take hold of the work immediately upon entering their schools in September.

"2. That all schools rural and otherwise, make and preserve in permanent place. records of their school communities, and also gather all available historic documents and material. This will awaken an historical consciousness in the minds of the young by helping them to realize the steps over which we have come in a hun

dred years. It will also help to give value to historic archives of which our State is so scant and which from. this time must be carefully collected.

"3. That all civic, social, patriotic, fraternal and religious bodies in every community be called upon to aid the schools both in preparing and presenting the Celebration so that it may be a means of civic uplift, of community pride; an occasion in which latent forces are freed; in which the old may be reminiscent, the adult realize a deeper sense of civic obligation, and the young be awakened to a desire for good citizenship. Though local at first, as the preparation for the Celebration increases the interest should become state-wide, nation-wide and international, through a study of the people who have made Indiana.

"4. That all celebrations in rural districts be held in the early part of 1916, so that the festivals in the larger places may be attended and there be no overlapping. (In districts where there are only six months of school an early celebration will be necessary.)"

From Bulletin No. 3. "Suggestions for Guidance in Local Celebrations.

"The chief function of the Commission is to arouse interest in the centennial observance, to suggest and coordinate the work throughout the State. Funds are not available for developing or staging local celebrations. The major part of the labor and expense must be borne by the respective communities. The Commission most earnestly desires the cooperation of all those undertaking this work and will be glad to provide ex

'Suggestive Plans for Indiana's Cen

Indianapolis

A distinctive feature of the commencement exercises of the Lebanon high school was introduced by Supt. Henry Grant Brown, when he had the commencement address delivered by a former Lebanon graduate, Honorable Frederick Van Nuys, '94. Mr. Van Nuys' subject was "Education, Our Strength." He was introduced by Mrs. B. F. Coombs, also a member of the class of '94.

Mr. Esmond P. Hershberger, principal of the commissioned high school at Hamilton, Ind., has spent the Summer as a student in Chicago University.

Miss Jean Bernard, who has been the Primary Superintendent of the Evansville schools for the past two years, has succeeded Miss Adelaide Steele Baylor as General Assistant in the Indiana Department of Public Instruction, Miss Baylor having gone to the Department of Domestic Science. Miss Bernard is a native of Minnesota, where for several years she filled the position of critic teacher. She is a graduate of Columbia University and has been in Indiana only two years.

Miss Grace L. King, who is in charge of the home economics work in the Hanover College summer school, has been selected as county supervisor of home economics work in the schools of Wayne county. County Superintend

ent C. O. Williams is expecting to accomplish excellent things along this line.

The following teachers in the Edinburg public schools are attending school during the summer vacation: The principal of the high school, Everett R. Phillips, and Misses Ada Wright and Gertrude Graham are at the Indiana University. Miss Lenore M. Burham is in the University of Chicago. Miss Fannie H. Cochran is in Cornell University. Miss Aline Beck is studying in Franklin College. Misses

Hazel and Lorel Pruitt are at the Indiana State Normal. Miss Mabel Ives is a student in the University of Pennsylvania. Miss Ives, who is to have charge of the Edinburg "special room" the coming year is a graduate bachelor of arts from Indiana University, and has been a teacher in the Frankfort city schools for four years. She has taken courses in experimental psychology, mental pathology and orthogenics at the Indiana University.

Thirty-nine pupils were graduated from the township high schools of Henry county this year, and 188 from the eighth grade. Five more of the high schools expect to commission next year. Supt. H. B. Roberts, on invitation of President R. L. Kelly, gave a series of addresses before the students of the department of education of Earlham College during the spring term.

The public school is the greatest discovery ever made by man.-Horace Mann.

it is easy to see that it comes from Supt. Henry Hemmer. Mr. Hemmer has lived near Holland his entire life and knows all of the families in that community. He ,therefore, is deeply interested in the progress of the boys and girls there. He is also connected and financially interested in most of the business of the place. The high school boys built a school poultry house. The chickens were brought from various homes and the most improved methods of handling poultry is being taught at the school. We take pleasure in showing here the pictures of the high school, the poultry house and the poultry show.

It was a great pleasure to attend a community meeting at the new consolidated school at Holland, Ind. Their fine new assembly room would not accommodate the large number of friends and patrons, who assembled for the meeting. The exhibit was made almost entirely by the boys and girls of the community. There was sewing, cooking and canning, vegetable and farm produce and a most wonderful poultry show. In looking about to find the inspiration of this community.