THE RED CROSS IN SO. DAK.

For more than 20 years the American Red
Cross has been working to prevent needless suf-
fering and death through instruction in first aid,
water life saving, home hygiene and care of the
sick. Today its efforts are being rewarded by a
dawning public consciousness that it is easier to
retain health and whole bodies than to regain
them.

In this mission of public education the Red
Cross has had the cooperation of school teachers
and the guidance of physicians, whose influence
has helped spread these doctrines of prevention
throughout the length and breadth of the Nation.
In many smaller communities teachers have qual-
ified as first aid instructors and are conducting
classes for groups of high school girls and boys.

Marked advances in the number of persons
qualifying in first aid, water life saving, and home
hygiene and care of the sick have been made in
South Dakota during the past year.

More than 1,700 persons in this State received
training in first aid, passed examinations in the
work and were certificated in the last twelve
months as compared to less than 1,000 in the
preceding year.

Nearly twice as many adults and boys and girls
received training in water life saving and success-
fully passed the Red Cross tests which entitle
them to wear the life saving emblem as did in
the previous year. Since the beginning of this
Red Cross program nearly 2,000 persons in South
Dakota have been taught to take care of them-
selves in the water and to help those who may
need_ assistance.

Thirty-eight chapters in South Dakota which
had not previously given instruction in home
hygiene and care of the sick sponsored this pro-
gram last year with the result that eight times
as many students were enrolled in the state as
formerly.

The holders of Red Cross first aid, life saving
and home hygiene certificates, living in every
state, county and almost every community, are
safety and health sentinels, minute men and wo-
men teady to aid in emergencies.

These Red Cross safety and health services are
supported by the nation-wide annual Roll Call—
just as are its disaster, nursing, veteran and civil-
ian relief programs.

—SDEA INVITES ALL TEACHERS TO MEMBERSHIP—

Bring your membership card with you to Mit-
chell for the SDEA convention. It’s your badge
of admittance to all sessions.

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BOOK REVIEWS
Publishers’ Announcements

A Dictionary For Boys and Girls. Merriam-
Webster. (1935) $1.20. 752 pp., illustrated.
American Book Co., Chicago. This dictionary is
different. A selected vocabulary of 38,500 words
found in children’s reading are defined, simply,
clearly and accurately. Illustrations include 1,600
black-and-white pictures in the text and 162 pic-
tures in colors. Definitions are easily understood
because they have been clearly phrased, logically
grouped and tested in schools. The type is large
and readable.

Literature for the High School: Trail Breaking;
On the High Road; American Literature; English
Literature. H. G. Bennett. (1935) $1.20 each.
608-632 pages. American Book Co., Chicago. This
series of anthologies for the 9th to 12th years in
high schools presents a reading program in which
the aims are pleasure, information and culture.
The selections provide a comprehensive survey of
American and English literature.

Students’ Arithmetic Inventory. Teachers’
Arithmetic Inventory. Bernard Linn and Ervin
Peregrine. (1935) Educator Supply Co., Mit-
chell. These are complementary publications. The
students’ booklet is made up of tests of arithmetic
abilities. The teachers’ is a book of instructions
and a compilation of accomplishments and lack
of adequate knowledge of each pupil.

Eight Summers at Bonny Oaks, A Treatise on
Art and Art Appreciation. Mary Cox Florine.

_ (1935) $2.00. Educator Supply Co., Mitchell.

This book includes art materials for each of the
grades and interprets the new state art course for
teachers.

Civil Government of the United States. F. L.
Ransom. Tenth edition. $1.20. Educator Supply
Co., Mitchell. A new feature is the inclusion of
the full text of the state civics course of study
with page references to the text.

World Literature. E. A. Cross. (1935) 1396
pages. $4.00. American Book Co., Chicago. This
book is an introduction to general literature. Its
purpose is to guide young people as they make
their first hurried exploration into the body of the
literature of the world.

—SDEA Goat—100% Strate MremBersHip—

So. Dak. Historical Review
The first issue of the South Dakota Historical
Review, a new quarterly publication sponsored by

the State Historical society has been released by
State Historian L. K. Fox.

November, 1935 @ SDEA JOURNAL