Illinois News Index

Highland Park Press, 29 May 1930, p. 8

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ELM PLACE Will school laws written in The Elm Place schol district is headed by a board of men second to. none in the state. The Elm Place and Green Bay Road schools are headed by a principal educator and a group of 42 instructors second to none. A set of school laws that we have inherited from the horse-and-buggy era will not do for our chil- dren in the age of the aeroplane. arse-and-Buggy School Laws in an Aeroplane Age Will Not Do for Our Children P Goodman MAS-S CITIZENS AND PARENTS COMMITTE THE PRESS MONDAY, JUNE 2 The above in not a rumplete list of the chin-nu and parents committee Other names will be udded. Seller Bullard, Chairman Russell T. Gray Hon. S. M. Hastings Mrs. Ray Herman , George R. Jones Mrs, Sidney W, Karger Rev. ChristophReller Mrs. H. L. Kennicott Lloyd L. Larson Mrs. W. 1). Mann Few citizens probably realize that our children are attending schools that operate under laws that have not been changed since 1870. Laws that were passed when" We were still recovering from the effects of the Civil War and before the great Chi- cago fire, are hard for an enlightened and thor- oughly modern community to justify. V . The education that our children receive at Elm Place, as It. Arthur Wood has so aptly said, is not merely the traditional three R's of the seventies (readin', writin' and Yithmetie). Rather, it is a comparatively liberal education. Mrs. Marc A. Law, Co-Chairman Edward Maroney T Alfred Meyer Roderick MacPherson Mrs. Geo, A, Mason Morton R. Mavor Mrs. Everett L. Millard Geo. E. Moore John Nizzi Carl Odell " Thursday, May 29, 1980

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