fective, however, school conditions should be satisfactory,
and teachers should be familiar with the best ways of living, or at
least in active sympathy with the medical inspector and the school
nurse.

No more revolting revelations have ever been made than those usually
locked in the hearts of these faithful servants of the people. How
they can have courage to go on in face of parental and community
indifference is a marvel. We shall consider in the next chapter how
the average parent is to be aroused.

But the leaders in educational and scientific thought--what of them?
The school is the pride of the community and measures the progress of
the community toward ideals. Alas, how is pride laid low in most
public school buildings in the inability of most of the teachers to
see the relations between mental stupidity and bad air.

The awakening has begun, however, and thousands of teachers have
responded and are urging authorities to burn more coal, to employ more
help, to keep the house clean, to make it more beautiful, to make the
curriculum more helpful, to make provision for good food to be
purchased, and the hundred ways in which the school may be the most
powerful civilizing factor the nation has. _But civilization must not
spell disease and ruin._

The economic factor must not be lost sight of. To tell the boy and
girl that they are as good as any does not give them the right to the
most expensive food and clothing they see. How shall they choose
wisely in the multitude of new things? They wish the best, naturally,
and all America is honeycombed with the wrong idea that the best costs
the most. An Alaska Indian came into the store in Juneau one day to
buy some canned peas. The storekeeper said, "I am out of the brand you
want." "No peas?" asked the Indian. "No, only some small cans of
French peas at forty cents a can. You don't want those." "Why not? Me
want the best."

The schools of domestic economy, the classes in all grade schools,
will have to attack and conquer these prejudices as to values, or,
rather, will need to substitute right estimates of value before our
people will choose wisely in distributing their income, for that is
what right living means. The division of the income according to the
necessities of health and efficiency, not according to whim or selfish
desire, is sometimes estimated as

20 to 25 per cent for rent
25 to 30 per cent for food
10 to 15 per cent for clothing

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