The Sunday Oregonian., June 18, 1916, SECTION SIX, Image 71

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PORTLAND, ORE., SUNDAY, JUNE 18, 1916.
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row that American Indian Day has established a recognition of something
more than an indefinite sentiment with regard to the red man, it is in
teresting to note the development of the Woodcraft League throughout
the United States. This league seems to have taken a real hold on the
imagination of Young America. Ernest Thompson Seton, who has been devot
ing himself to the development of the league, says that 'it was woodcraft that
made men out of brutish material, and woodcraft in its highest form may save
him from decay."
The model for woodcraft is the Indian at his best. Manhood and woman
hood, and not mere scholarship that is, book-learning are set up as the ideals,
of woodcraft. Notably the idea has been taken up by various schools arid made
practically supplementary to conventional study. At the Wabanki School, Green
wich. Ct., for example, woodcraft is proving a vital and profitable feature. Mrs.
Chas. Tarball Dudley, a daughter of Indiana, saw in woodcraft a great opportunity
and has established it in this school with gratifying results. The combination
of woodcraft with academic training is proving not only feasible but an enthusi
astic success. One result has been the practical elimination of illness from the
life of the pupils. Both boys and girls make their own Indian clothes. . Head
leathers each represent a reward of merit. Every woodcrafter learns all about
nature, learns to respect the life and comfort of birds and beasts and to know
nd love the trees and. flowers, it is said of the pupils that they don't want a
"vacation " The school life itself is so full of interest, the fascination of out
doors ts so real a part of every day-s school, learning from books and from
nature are so happily alternated, that the quality of healthy play is imparted to
tbmgs that under other circumstances too often seem like intolerable drudgery.
The oodcralt idea is quite in harmony with many of the newer educa
tional movements, such as the "organic education" pioneered by Marietta John
ion in Alabama It has helped to prove that all children love to "do things" as
well as to read things or to commit words, figures or ideas to memory, its
triumph lies in making books and memorizing more palatable, and Interesting,
and above all. in developing toenail around'! individual li(ev
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