Bulletins.  Send to the Bureau for List of Available Publications.  These bulletins relate to every important aspect of education, school organization and administration, etc.  Many of them are of special application to rural education.

Teachers of civics will find the following helpful: 

1915, No. 17, Civic education in elementary schools as illustrated in Indianapolis (Government Printing Office, 5 cents).

1915, No. 23, The teaching of community civics (Government Printing Office, 10 cents).

1916, No. 28, The social studies in secondary education (Government Printing Office, 10 cents).

1917, No. 46, The public school system of San Francisco, chapter on civic education.

1917, No. 51, Moral values in secondary education.

1918, No. 15, Educational survey of Elyria, Ohio, chapter on civic education (Government Printing Office, 30 cents).

1919, No. 50, Part 3, Civic education in the public school system of Memphis.  Write to the U.S.  Bureau of Education for list of references on pupil self-government.  Also write to the School Citizens’ Committee, 2 Wall St., New York City, for material on the same subject.

Earle, Alice Morse, child life in colonial days (Macmillan).

Dewey, John, the school and society and schools of to-morrow.

Quick, Herbert, the brown Mouse (Bobbs-Merrill Co., Indianapolis).

Foght, H. W., The rural teacher and his work.

Jackson, Henry E., A community center—­what it is and how to
organize it.  Bulletin, 1918, No. 11, U. S. Bureau of Education.

CHAPTER XX

THE COMMUNITY’S HEALTH

PHYSICAL DEFECTS AND THE NATIONAL DEFENSE

There is nothing else that concerns the community or the nation so much as the health of its citizens.  Of more than three million men between the ages of 21 and 31 examined for military service in 1918, only about 65 per cent were passed as physically fit to fight for their country. [Footnote:  Public Health Reports, U. S. Public Health Service, vol. 34, No. 13, p. 633 (March 28, 1919).]

The remaining 35 per cent were either totally unfit for any kind of service, or were capable only of the less strenuous activities connected with warfare.  Most of the defects found could have been remedied, or prevented altogether, if proper care had been taken in earlier years.

PHYSICAL DEFECTS AND THE NATION’S INDUSTRY

The nation loses by this physical unfitness in other ways than in fighting power.  Investigations have shown that wage earners lose from their work an average of from six to nine days each year on account of sickness.