The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-12-05

LOcGJ COI'3'csDC
LOcGI Correspondence,
THE JOHNSTOWN TEACHERS INSTITUTE.
A RACY LsTTER-THE HFATHEN CaISEE OUT
AGAIN.

DEAR FEEEMAY-We had 4 great Teachers
Institute hcTe-ETca in numb bcrS, great i'll ia
tclIgeECC, great in the case ms torCi .u clement.
Oar own native tcacaGrS acquitted themselves
hInCs alCly--.na!e and icnaie aged and youth
tuI-aEI am Iroid TO say th,it the sons and
Hd-lG"'rts or Iaiotd cotiii iiItd NOT be u!ihid
to meet the hosts of the l.h.lIsJines at any time
or i'll any place. Some CT thc UctTdlCss youth
who stu think that tue carth may turn from
east 10 west over just as wei as from west TO
east over, and who believe tnut SEHIciiiHRS was
Il queen or Egypt. did noe display thst dcut.ei
that WAS expected, and they disappointed their
triC-ds To- ;hc great chigriu OF some OF the az:
NOcaTtS OF Spcctdt training. burns ldea OF col
IcEc graduates was more than verified at the
Institute exercises Nhen Il discussion arose
our native teachers piled "PclGod on OSsa' anu
always triAU piIed, whiic, III any tuiug scientific,
they went 50 far ahead tuHt the Atlantic cable
could not have measured their distance upar IT.
We had lecturer from rIttshurg named Cur
ry whol is Il. gentleman 81 Grc3ii ao!lItS, but
whose subject, special Educauon," was 100
tan To veil the minds OF free tnInkers. y Mr..
Boyd, from Chester, was au exceedingly intel
gent gentleman and Il pleasing speaker, but he
forgot that we have gas works of our own lat re.
The hOl Jw-sk tun-CUrIiSe- ghOSt-Uf BauquO
speaker who tried TO spring tpe '-SpuuiSh Iu-
GuisitiGu' question upon the laStItute failed,
hut '.Po Yang, sprung apnther Inquisition
question. viz: '.NOrtaul Schools" Nhicn ne nam
GlCd without gloves. He showed that thcy had
cost the State S9St COO already, and would iiual-
IL cost the State millions OF dollars withputauy
corresponding benefit. They had only grdIu-
ated forIy-SeyGn students in the classical and
scientific branches in thirteen wears. Miilers-
vile graduated one last year. According to
this ratio, it VIII take that institution 5000
years to supply the state with teachers lie
Isr. 1t is unjust 10 give one corporation mo-
nopUlv over several counties.
~. K is an Ist to give the money Of the State
to these private corporation ANA refuse II to
others
Sd. 1t is unjust to exempt their graduates
from further examination and require other
graduates 10 be examined.
4Th. 1t is unjust to give them posts at the
head Of committees over all the other teachers
i'll any given county. many oil whom are Tar
better scholars ana better teachers.
lie Denounced this as ayyOrse luqulSitiOn than
the one referred To 10y the ghuStlS speaker. He
did not object To Normal schools n thty went
Ion their own hook" bat be was opposed to
The State had Tong ago divorced itself from ali
connection With private enterprise and IL
should not now make the Normal Schools a mo-
nOpuiy.
cecGingS l. not correct in many pdrtIcniars-
This, however, was not the fault of the Tribune
reporter, but or the secretary. who, Ike C<e-
SlI 5 wife, is not above suspicion
n e!ccting Il committee ON permanent certl-
ficatcs, the law Was not complied with as ap-
pears in II letter published in last Saturday $
jJi6dHe. The vote should hlV- been by ballot
So SAYS the author of that letter.
Harry Wayne, of the firm OF DlOert u wayne,
a ri ware meti, made the best speech at the In
stitute He said he would cbIIe lob Roy be-
cause Dibert & Wayne had four warehouses
flledysitiI hardware and Il stOre-rnoln one hun
drt.,i and twenty feet long filled with the same
materials. One cane, he said, wouldn't cost
ware line, lac wanted people 10 know 1t. SO
mote il he. i OK CHASE.
n b. Po Yang thinks that the ltsJicdil people
shn ke their fists too much when they talk. lie
a declaration of war. He declares that if they
shake their fists aud fling their arms so much
Mt another meeting, he viii leave Tor CalifOr-
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