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DAILY NEBRASKAN
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15, 1939
State education laws show
why teachers grow gray
Students curious er.ough to wade
thru the series of "whereases" in
which all law books abound,
are rewarded by the discovery of
an odd assortment of laws pertain
ing to education enacted by va
rious state legislatures.
Daily reading of the English
Bible without sectarian comment
Is required in all public schools
of eight states Alabama, Georgia,
Florida, Idaho, Massachusetts,
JIevv Jersey, Pennsylvania and
Tennessee, while eight other states
Arizona, Illinois, Louisiana, Min
nesota, Nevada, New York, Wash
ington and Wyoming expressly for
tid such reading.
In all states except Connecticut,
Maryland, Mississippi, Montana,
Nebraska, Virginia and Wisconsin
require instruction in the federal
constitution. Texas and Missouri
fidd their state constitutions to the
list of studies, while Vermont in
cludes a special course in ballot
fnarking. By a law passed in 1931
Vermont also requires instruction
In good citizenship and loyalty to
the United States and and forbids
unpatriotic teaching."
Idaho's laws require instruction
n the flag and in the words and
music of "The Star Spangled
Banner" and "America." Public
chools of Tennessee must instruct
pupils on the purposes, uses and
methods of display of the Ameri
can flag; New Jersey orders a
daily repeating of the pledge of
allegiance and salute to the flag;
Rhode Island law specifies the
form of the required salute. A
New Hampshire law of 1933 or
lers patriotic exercises to be held
during the week in which Armls
tice falls.
The effects of alcoholic bever
ages, narcotics, sedatives, and in
one state Indiana of the effects
of tobacco, too, on the human body
are required subjects in the curric
lila of five states.
Virginia, North Carolina, and
South Carolina laws have added
instruction in traffic rules to the
high school subjects, while Call
fornia requires the teaching of
public safety and accident preven
tion.
Three southern states, Virginlt
South Carolina, and Arkansas, re
quire fire drills, and Arkansas also
demands 20 minutes of study of
fire pievention a week.
A Georgia law of 1929 requires
weekly instruction on the value of
conserving wild life, and in 1935,
the Florida legislature passed
law requiring a course in conser
ration of our natural resources.
In 1927 North Dakota provided
for the placing in all classrooms
of placards containing the ten
commandments. Arkansas has for
bidden the teaching "that man
ascended or descended from a low-
er order of animals" in publicly
supported schools.
The Wisconsin legislature in
1932 objected to statements in
numerous histories laying the
blame for the World war on Ger
many and provided for sending a
copy of the objection to local
school superintendents.
In 1931 Indiana repealed a law
that forbade the teaching of Ger
man, while a Texas law permitted
the teaching of Spanish to ele
mentary school children.
Florida FiamDeau.
Toyarich
In mere chronological enumera
tion, they are as follows:
Judgment Day - You Can't
Take It With You - - Night
Must Fall - - Tonight at E:30-
Comedy of Errors - - Tovarich.
Here's to the Players of thi
year and those of next year. May
they some day achieve the finan
cial success they deserve.
Math fraternity to give
prize exams late in May
Pi Mu Epsilon, national honor
ary mathematics fraternity, nn
nounced today that the annual
prize examinations will lc given
In the latter part or May. Two ten
dollar prizes will bo given, one to
the person with the highest set :e
on the examination covering tne
freshman year algebra, trigonom
etry and analytic geometry, and
the recond to the high man in the
integral and differential calculus
division.
. Hirrrt. F.nd rl4y!
"Huckleberry Finn"
hIjIi Mickey Fuonry
SUris Htnrdy.
W. C. HHi, Brrjen, McCarthy
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SUrta Tomorrow
Dorothy Lamour
In
"St. Louis Blues"
With Lloyo No1a
Bucknell U. aids
Chinese students
Fund drive to assist
education of orientals
Lewisburg, Pa. (LP.) Eight
Chinese students will be enabled
to attend college for a year, with
both room and board provided, as
the result of a funds-raising cam
paign just completed by Bucknell
university students.
As a part of the drive, the stu
dents distributed leaflets pointing
out that "five cents means a coke,
or three meals for a Chinese stu
dent" and "fifteen cents means a
chocolate milk or one week's shel
ter." "One dollar," they added,
"means a date at the show, a sup
ply of cigarets, or three weeks'
board."
Five dollars will pay the admis
sion to the junior prom, but it will
also enable a Chinese student to
travel to the college where it has
reopened classes out of the war
zone, according to the leaders of
the drive, who volunteered the in
formation that twenty dollars will
pay room and board for a Chinese
student for a whole year.
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt has
accepted the honorary chairman
ship of the Intercollegiate Com
mittee to Aid Student Refugees.
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The Health Confection
Fresh Pop Corn
Home Made Old Fashioned.
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THE KILLER will be home safe in bed. No
living person will be a witness. The police
will even call it "suicide." And only the cry of a
Siamese cat in the night, and a woman's sudden
panic, will keep a dozen others from sharing Karen
Lunt's fate. The perfect crime? Almost! Open your
Post tonight and start hunting for clues, as Colonel
Primrose faces his strangest, most baffling case.
First of six installments.
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few Jews, end Japan, wtt 4 orrign
lead. Why? Dcmaree Bs
correspondent V'
cloaks a calculated, ty wor.
L tells ny England andj' r
for the United States
international problem.
FANNIE HURST writes In the Poet this week a
.a OTnnattieHcfttorvof abvTOneera.Stepbackinto
the year with Mamma and Her Firtt National Bank.
OWE ANY MONEY? Know anybody who but more bull
than he can handle? Lowell Brcntano reveals A New Way
to Pay Old Debit. See page 23.
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K.O. THE CHAMP? Willie Parki watching movies of the
champ's latest fight, spotted one possible way. Read On
More Round, a short story by Don Tracy.
AND . . . Caret Garrett reports on a West Coast war rone;
in Labor at the Golden Gate . . . Short stories by Octa
vus Roy Cohen and Ruth Burr Sanborn . . . Editorials,
poetry, fun and cartoons. All in the Post out this week.
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