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The Hardin Tribune Herald
Hardin, Big Horn County, Montana
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A letter commends the trustees of District No. 17-H for increasing the school week to six days to end school around May 1, praising teachers and public cooperation. It emphasizes that public schools depend on constitutional government and tax support, urging priority to the war effort as young men enlist and enter war industries, with the president calling for four (incomplete).
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Dear Mr. Editor,
May I take this opportunity to commend through your column the farsightedness, courage and patriotism exhibited by the Trustees of District No. 17-H in increasing the school week to six days, thereby bringing the school year to a close about a month earlier or about May 1, and to commend the teaching force and the public for their fine cooperation in carrying out the wishes of the school board.
We Americans are firm believers in the public school system and giving freely toward its support, but our school system is dependent on the continuance of our constitutional form of government and the ability of our tax-paying public to support it. Without either of these our school system will fail. Therefore those two conditions must exist if our free public school system is to continue.
Today we are at war to defend our government and its people. This is our first duty, and to do it millions of the young men are going in the service, and millions more are going into war industries.
Our president has called for four
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Mr. Editor
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commends the school board's decision to extend the school week for an earlier closure to support the war effort, stressing that defending constitutional government is essential for the survival of public schools.
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