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YEAR.
CHRURISTIENSTIED
V.
1L
1
8
A,
ITUESDAY.
17
JULY
194
child in a demoeracy
must
be
so
trained
that when
he
graows
up he wili be
able
to fuifill a eitizen's
duty
in that
demoe-
l
racy.
We are educated
pot that
we
may
i
get
mora
money
and
more
fun
out of life.
.
but tha:
we may beuble
to gire more
to our
|
couniry.
Os
eourse,
waen
we
serve
nur
i
country
we
serve
ourselves.
Qur schouls
{
try to teach
us
those
subjects
which
will
!
show
usour
relation
to
all other
things
|
inthe world.
Civies and history show
us
'
how
men
behave
ard
how
they
should
i
behave,
and
so
does
litera
ure,
mathe-
t
maties
and
general
scicnee.
Qur
sehool
|
tries
to
train
us
Fow
to
‘hink ciearly,
and
how
to
act
as
becomes
American
citizens,
:
How do2s
schonl
teain
us?
Well,
have
-
you
read
how experiment
s.rain
rats
1o
{
run tinough
a
muze.
{
A
maze
in this
case
is
a
eage
with
a
num-
ber
ol corrvidors
having
false
turns
and
.
paths
which
leacg
ff
1o biind
alleys.
It
I
is the problem
o
the rat
to find his
way
theoush
the
maze,
and
then
to learn
this
way
so
well
that
it becomes
a habit
with
|
him
to
run
through
the
maze
without
once
turning off into
a false
path.
i
Rats
acouive
this knowiege of the
maze
and
tke habit
of going
straight
thiough
|
without
a mistake
by being
turned
loose
|
again
and
again
in
the
puzzie.
Repeti-
L
tion or practice
is the principle
behind
a
rat’s
lcarning;
and
prepetition— practice
i
1s the principie
behind
our iearning.
’
In school
we
are made
accustomed
to
{
the
same
cunditions
we.
shall
find
later
|
oninlilte.
We
find
in school,
children
i
of all Rinds: ehiidren
who have
had
many
|
opportunities
and
chi:dren
who have
had
|
none
at all.
However
in schoo!l
we
are
all
|
given the
saine
chanes
to show
what
we
‘
are
made
of.
Greater
thap
that,
we
are
taught
that
when
peopie
are gathered
to-
|
gether
in
a
cowmunity
responsibiiily
i
rests
vpon
each
member.
Lo our school
eonimunity
we are
taught
|
and
we
praiice
the
samwe
principles
.
which shouid
govern
cur lives
after
we
i
leave
school.
We
are
taugnt
that
tle
|
greatest
good
for
the
greatest
num-
.
ber
ils
the
goal
we:
should
seek
und
|
that
each
of
usis
responsible
for
the
|
bappiness
of
ail.
For
that
reason
it
{ls
a
wrong
to
other
chiidren
to
make
|
unnecessary
noise
in the
school
and
dis-
|
turb every one
within
hearing
distance
¢
ltis wrong
to eome
to
school
day
after
i
day wih unprepared
lessons,
for then the
|
whole class
1s kept back
by
one person’s
.
leziress.
In
ocur school
ciubs rnd
school
o
ogulLes
we practice
fairness
and quick
ace-
THE
ST. CROIX AViS
18 pri{i’(land
published
duily (Sundys
and [@days excepted)
by G. Johansen
ct
the Avis Olfice.
TERMS:--50
cents monthly in advance,
2 cents
per single
copy.
Entered
as
second-class
matier
May
26th
1917 at the
Post
Office ot Christiun-
sted.
St Croix,
V. L. of the
U. 5. A.
un-
der the Act of March
3.
1879.
-
Contribution
to this naper
will be glad-
lg received
when
the
same
deals wilh mat-
ters of general interest,
and
8. accompa-
nied with the
author’s
name,
as
o guar-
antee
of good faith
The editor
cannnt
be
responsiole for tie
views of his correspon-
lonts nor does he necessarily
endorse
thom.
Graduation
Oraiion
{iF J B 8]
“OUR DiEBT'
By
AXEL E.
SCHADE
Officials of the Virgin Islands,
parents,
teachers,
and
all others
who
are
gathor-
e} here
tonight——we
have
met
to
recog-
nize
wih fittine eeremony
the
nine years
of special
privileges
we
children
of
St,
Croix
have
received
from
the
muniei-
paliry.
‘
Fo- nina
vears
during
ten
monihs
of
each
vear
we have
gone
to school.
Dur-
ing that
time teachers
have
worked
with
us trying
to make
us
see
the
logie
in the
fact that
two and
two
make
four.
We
have siudicd spelling, geography,
history
the simplest
laws
of hvgine:
We
know
that it is wrong
to say
[ is and
you
ws;
Greatest
of all
we
realize
that what
we
_have
studied
is just the
smallest
part
of
* what there
is still to learn.
Now that
we have
received
this special
privilege ol going
to school
and
ree=iv-
e
all the benefits
of eiementary
school-
jrg without
the
cost
of one
cert
to
us,
w may ask,
""Why is
it that
the
United
S ates
government
1S
anxious
to give
esch
child the
enance
to leara
to read
and
write
and
think?
Way
is
it
that
the
4 nount appropriated
to the eduecation
de-
partment
in 3t Croix is greater
than
the
amouat
appropriated
to any other
pubiie
department?’’
.n the
United States
stat-
isties
srate
that
in the years
1911
and
12
the
cost of ihe nation
for
eaeh
child
ea-
roiled
in the
pubiic
school
was
$26
and
the
eost
for each
child
in
a high
school
was SSO.
Since
1911 it is
common
know-
Jedge
that the
enst
of living has
2one
up.
The American
prioeiple
which has
in
public
educat*’on
is
briefly this:
each
No
149
tion. In short justas the rat oarns'by
repe-
tition how to find his
way through
puzzlo
we learn by repitition how
to conduet
ou:-
s:lvesin
that larger
community
outside
0!
school called
the
world.
And
we recoiv
this lear
ing b cause
the Ameriean theoy
is—train
the
child
tfor
good
citizenship
in
a democracy.
Friends
for nire vears
we
have
bene-
fited
by
this
theorv,
and
now
we
are
about
to leave
forever
the
schoolhouse
Some
of us
it
is true,
intend
to
continne
with our siudies,
but for most of
us
this
night
means
the
end
of
that period
in
which sehonl
was
our chief interest.
We
wust praciize
in earnest
now those-prin-
ciples
of right
living and
right
thinkine
whieh
our teachers
have
tried
to
make
habituil
to
us,
and
in doing
so
we
must
give back
to St, (toix
the
full
value
of
the
eift she
has
given
us,
We
are
all blessed
with the
burden
of
a tremendous
debt
to St. Croix.
Blessed,
say—Kirst
of
all,
beeause
our
school
trainingz
bas
been
good
for
nothing
if
it
has
not
fostered
our
iove
for
this
is-
fand
on which
we
kave
been
born
and
ralsed.
Second,
because
it
is
such
an
extraordirary
debt.
If
we
owe
a
man
money,
we
must
make
ourselves
the
poorerin order
to
pay
him:
but
when
we
pay
our
debt
to
St.
Croix
we
our-
selves
profit, for
we
are
part of St. Croix
and her prosperity
is our prosperity.
It is hard
to b-lieve
bur
there
are
pro-
pable
some
of us
here
tonight
who
are
thinking
of leaving St.
Croix.
St.
Croix
is
not what
it used
to
be
‘they
mutter’
We
are
goirg
to
a
ecountry
where
the
sireets
are paved
with
cold
and
where
the peop!
do nothin =ho
eat
and
sleep
and
sp
nd
a great deal
- f money,
o be concluded.
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OF
LONDON
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Agent for Frederilsted’s
District.
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Agent for Christiansted’s
District.
Policies issued
are
not subjeet
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