Alberta Freshman, Interviews with Jews in Utah, Accn 998

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~a+ew alberta freshman 2 inter. p.16 L A L A L A L A soldiers were stationed here. For awhile. Was the atDmpshere different during that time. • .. '1. Yes. We were all more careful of material things. I remember wheny,Q.get a run in your stocking, you wouldn't think of throwing it away. 1 They'd fix them. They had little hand machines)~ that worked by hand, that would fix those stockings,so that you couldn't see the runs. Where now, they don't ~o things like that. They throw j everything away. And school, paper was short--we were short on pape~so wed go to different business concerns and ask if we may have paper that they used·ea one side and didn't want any more. We used that in s~hool; because we couldn't afford to get all the paper we needed. Was the morale good. Yes it was. Everyone pitching in and helping. Right. Yes, it ' really was. The fll mora 1 e. How was it good .. _ I think in our teaching organization~nd that was a great part of my life 1 Teaching, I took it seriously. And so when teach€rs didn't get a raise for sever~J~ears, they didn't complain as much as they do now;when they do. And~~ had much /~11 -htrol/~1i ~at that time. They didn't have enough teachers to do oth~rwise. But I had aSJ many as 46 in ~ math class. They were at tables arwifilled the room. But you didn't hear any complaints. But now I think our teachers assoc. is much more of a union than it used to be.~o teachers don't put up with what we did and didn't think anything of it. It • just had to be that way to help out. L Over the years, moraiity has changed so much. A Our values have changed. What we think is important. The family's changed. WOmen have to go to work. They can't be home with the children as much. And I think it's made quite a difference in families and in discipline and respect for authority of any kind. Has made teaching~ much more difficult. I~donbt no~ ~ if I could get by with teaching the way I did when I taught math; tj I J M I keep them in to corredtheir errors so they'd understand what they missed on ~t the same day they missed, parents would complain now. Where in those days, they were glad. So it's very different and Jf children behav~quite diffire~tly. We always had some that were troublesome;but not the way they became later on. I helped my sister in law;who's younger than I by 6 years.Jnd she retired just 4 years ago,so I used to go once a week to the Uintah school to help her in the library,Jnd I could see great changest then. And through the y~ars, I could see things changing as to what was important in school. And also the quality of work that the childrenwere expected to do. Our standards~re lowered and that's one of the treasons I felt unhappy the last part of my career and changed to hPrnmP ~ r.PrtifiP.d librarian. fstands lower?l ~~wer€n't expected to come forth