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The State board of education has issued a manifesto fixing December 10 as "Mississippi Day," and announced an official program for the celebration of the event.

Believing that one of the most important functions of the public school is to inculcate a thorough local patriotism and to stimulate a genuine State pride, the State board of education has fixed the 10th day of December, the anniversary of the admission of the State into the Federated Union, as Mississippi Day, to be celebrated by such suitable exercises as the teachers may consider appropriate to the commemoration of that important event and the most prominent epochs in the history of the State. Speeches, recitations and songs calculated to acquaint the children with a knowledge of the State's splendid resources and to perpetuate the memory of the general material progress of the State: the patriotism, trials and sufferings of her people, their triumphs and reverses. Especial attention, in the judgment of this board, should be given to the motives which actuated the heroism and sacrifices of the last generation in order that in the young and growing generation the integrity and truth of history may be preserved, and that they may gather therefrom the inspiration and lofty principles which taught the civilized world its greatest lessons as to the real moral strength and intellectual power of modern times.