Best Schoolmaster

The Soviet Commissariat for Public Instruction has set out to find the best schoolmaster in Russia. Accordingly it has designed an examination of which the most important feature would seem to be reports to be submitted by all Russian schools dealing with the personal, pedagogical, cultural and political capacities of each individual. The winners of this adapted army efficiency test will receive prizes as follows, in addition to the somewhat embarrassing distinction of having their names engraved upon red tablets of honor. First Prize -- One overcoat, one suit of clothes, one pair of boots, one watch and 1,000 this year's rubles for buying books (or a book). Second Prize --Delete the watch. Third Prize-Delete the watch and the suit of clothes. It is rumored that other prize winners will receive books on "Communistic Ideology." What the Soviet is going to do with the best teacher in Russia when it finds him was not divulged. It seems reasonably clear, however, that he will not be permitted to teach.