THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN
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Plan is just what we need in our county." The teachers at once voted
to adopt the Oregon plan, and the Oregon standard card is now in every
rural school in Monterey County.
Superintendent Harriett S. Lee of Yolo County writes: "I am work
ing to make your Standard School Plan fit Yolo County, and wish to
thank you for the many excellent pamphlets and cards I have received
through the medium of your delightful representative at the P. P. I. E."
Of the club work, it is conceded that no other state has the work so
well organized. The local and county school fairs with the club win-,
ner's work shown at the State Fair, making a logical culmination of
the year's work, the organizing and directing of the work by the State
School Superintendent with the expert bulletins prepared by the State
Agricultural College for the children, telling them how to select seed
and to do their work, are features which are raising the club work of
Oregon boys and girls to a high standard. The judges of the State
Fair this year declared that the corn exhibited by the boys was fully
one hundred per cent better than last year, while the vegetables and
other products were a much higher grade than ever before.
Hundreds of requests have, come from all parts of the United States
for the Recreation Manual, issued by the State Department of Educa
tion, and every playground expert pronounces it to be the best one
published. Every teacher in Oregon is furnished with a copy of this
manual, and the attention given this problem in Oregon during the
past two years is developing a happier, healthier lot of school children.
Commissioners from a number of the foreign countries have sent their
secretaries to the Oregon Education Exhibit with instructions to copy
every chart shown in order that they may have the material for a
special report to their countries on our rural schools.
What the county and city superintendents of other states say of our
work is well summarized by G. E. Wolfing, Superintendent of Voca
tional Education, Gary, Indiana, who said:
"in Oregon, through your standard for rural schools, your Boys' and
Girls' Industrial Clubs, and your Playgrounds, you are doing a work
equal to that which the Federal Government is doing for the schools in
the Philippine Islands, and this work is attracting the attention of edu
cators in all parts of the world."