3. Do you belong to the same church as your parents? YES 143, NO 52.

4. Do you take an active part in the work of the church? YES 128, NO 87.

5. Has the church influenced your conduct? YES 181, NO 24.

6. Do you attend church because you (think that you should, 24) of (think it worth while, 182)?

7. What do you consider the purpose of the church? (Religious teaching so as to live better lives, influences people to be better morally, makes for higher ideals, and makes better citizens.)

8. Are you religious? YES 177, NO 39.

9. Do you believe in sects, denominations, creeds, etc? YES 104, NO 104.

10. Do you believe in prayer? YES 193, NO 18.

11. Do you believe in a hereafter? YES 203, NO 8. 12. Would you like to be a minister or a minister's wife? YES 24, NO 193.

AMUSEMENTS OR RECREATIONS

1. How do you spend your leisure time? (Reading, music, recreation, swimming, movies, sewing, dancing, social affairs, outdoor sports.)

2. Do you like to read? YES 209, NO 11.

3. Books read this year were: (Ben Hur, Main Street, Rim of the Prairie, Covered Wagon, Thundering Herd, Keeper of the Bees, Brown Mouse, Helen of the Old House.) 4. The magazines read were: (American, McCall's, Literary Digest, Good Housekeeping, Ladies Home Journal.) 5. Do you read the newspapers? YES 200, NO 22. 6. What part of the paper are you most interested in? (Sports 54, society 63, funnies 78, markets 28, crime 52, politics 40, social 54, industrial 88.)

7. Do you like music? YES 221, NO 5.

8.

Do you attend the movies? YES 189, NO 22.

9. How often? (From once a week to once a month.)

10. Do you dance? YES 128, NO 90.

11.

Why? (Recreation, rhythm of music, associating

with friends.) NO. (Parents don't approve, never learned.)

12. How often do you go to dances?

week to once a month.)

13. Do you pet? YES 99, NO 131.

POLITICS-VOCATION

(Average is once a

1. Would you like to be a politician? politician? YES 34, NO 187. 2. Why or why not? (Why: Know more about my country and make better living conditions. Why not: Does not appeal. Am not interested. Too deep. Dishonest work done.)

3. If you could have a good start in any of the following vocations, which would you prefer? (Preacher, teacher 1st, nurse 2nd, stenographer 3rd, physician 4th, lawyer 5th, farmer, clerk, dentist, merchant.)

MISCELLANEOUS

1. Who is your ideal woman? (Mother, Florence Nightingale, Joan of Arc, a teacher.)

2. Who is your ideal man? (Father, Lincoln, Roosevelt, Washington, a minister.)

3. What one person has influenced your life more than any one else? (Mother, father, a teacher, Helen Keller.) 4. Who is your favorite author? (Harold Bell Wright, Zane Grey, Gene Stratton Porter, Kathleen Norris, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Edgar Allen Poe.)

SUMMARY

1. The home seems to be more potent in inculcating ideals and ideas of health, vocation, honesty, justice, service, religion and morals than the school.

2. The larger portion of these students attended high school because they desired to do so and not because they were compelled to attend.

3. Most of the teachers felt some obligation to that community which made an education possible for them.

4. Better citizenship and a higher standard of living were given as the purposes of education.

5. To prepare for a vocation and to broaden life's horizon seems to be the purpose of the college.

6. Contrary to a common fallacy existing among laymen, education will not relieve one from work.

7. The large percent of these teachers expect to have a home of their own.

8. They prefer a home to either a business or professional

career.

9. A majority indicated their desire to rear a family. 10. They attend church and most of them belong to some church.

11. Approximately two-thirds belong to same church as do their parents.

12. A goodly number are active in the program of the church. 13. Many of the teachers feel that the church has influenced their conduct.

14. Four-fifths of those answering the questionnaire feel that the church is worthwhile.

15. The group was evenly divided as to belief in sects, creeds and denominations.

16. Belief in prayer is accepted by all but a negligible minority.

17. Most of them believe in a future life.

18. The movies, reading, and sports seemed to be the most common ways of spending leisure time.

20. The newspapers are read by teachers. There was no preference shown for any particular section of the paper. 21. There was almost an unanimous agreement in expressing a desire for music.

22. Frequent attendance at the movies is not uncommon among members of the teaching profession.

23. The majority dance for the recreation, the rhythm of music and opportunity to associate with friends.

24. A majority of the teachers admit that they pet.

25. Harold Bell Wright, Zane Grey, Gene Stratton Porter, Kathleen Norris, Oliver Wendell Holmes and Edgar Allen Poe were the favorite authors.

GENERAL CONCLUSIONS

1. Unless it becomes more common for boards of education to employ married women as teachers, there will continue to be a transient personnel in the ranks of the teaching profession, for the reason that so many of these women express a desire to have homes of their own and a further desire of rearing a family.

2. Teachers as a group seem to be a religious folk. This religious ideal may be rather dogmatic, traditional and sterile, but it is in keeping with the thinking of the

masses.

3. Teachers are not different from other classes in their choice of amusement and recreation.

4. They belong to "the great middle class," if the most popular magazines and favorite authors are any indication.

The foregoing summary and conclusions tend to show that teachers resemble the folk in "Main Street" in their ideas and ideals of amusement, recreation, religion, education, home and literature. While these ideals are probably moral and many times wholesome, they are not analytical or profound in thought.

It may be true that the lack of maturity of many of the persons answering this questionnaire would explain in part the commonplace thinking, in as much as the ideas of young teachers may not be definitely and permanently formed. However, many of the teachers going into the public schools are young and inexperienced and will exercise either a positive or negative influence over boys and girls. In lieu of this the citizenry of the morrow is not destined to rise far in advance of the citizenry of today.

World Production and Consumption of Rubber

OLIVE NOLAN, DEARBORN SCHOOL, BOSTON, MASS.

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USES OF RUBBER,

IFTY years ago the uses of rubber were few, but now the civilized world depends on rubber for its comfort, its health, its safety, its necessities, and its luxuries. There is scarcely an industry that does not use rubber products of some kind. Pneumatic riveting machines for construction work; valves for dynamos; hose for fires; derricks for mines, quarries and oil fields; and belts for machinery in mills and factories, are all dependent on rubber. No less important are rubber coats, shoes and hats for all people obliged to brave stormy weather; rubber sheets, mattresses, gloves, ice bags, hot-water bags and pillows for the sick room; parts of washing machines, vacuum cleaners, bathroom equipment, and fruit-jar rings for the home, typewriter parts, stamps, erasers, bands and elevator parts for the office, hard rubber for radios and telephones, insulation for electric wires everywhere, and above all, automobile tires. All these, especially the latter, have created an enormous demand for rubber. Transportation as an industry causes a huge demand for rubber. The automobile uses rubber for tires, battery cells, generators, insulation, door checks and weather strips. Trains use rubber for steam hose, insulation, lighting, belts and air-brakes. Insulation, some flooring, plumbing, valves and safety appliances on ocean liners require much rubber. Airplanes use rubber for wings, tires, inflated boats for forced landings, and rubber hose covering of copper tubes.

IMPORTANCE OF RUBBER.

Rubber is distinctly an American product, despite its successful transplanting elsewhere; rubber manufacture is largely