The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-01-02

DOUBTLESS act CD the euSRcoliOu VI 4Icsi-
dent Garfield, and make the question Of
EDUCATION NATIONAL,
and in the van of national subjects and
achievements, education will be made the
first. Our standing army is small-we
need only q small one-snd when the noble
red man disappears, or rather becomes a
good and quiet Indian, We will need none.
Let the money spent for standing armies
here and in Europe be spent in the cause
of education. Let the millions spent in
the bloody and dismal strife, designated
and falsely eulogized as honorable war, }"
he lavished in the cause of education.
Then war shall no longer be a necessity,
and the occupation of standing armies
shall be gone.
The wstchword of our nation and of all
the nations of Christendom should be
"LEr THERE BIZ LIGHT"
Let the education, intelligence, culture
and refinement be universal. Let ignO-
rance, illiteracy and stupidity be swept
away. Too long the people have hesitated
in tie march and conquest of the mind.
The fields are already white with the har-
vest.
The laborers are too few-not appre-
cisted. Yet. to-day, We sand in advance
of any former ag', and the future is all
radiant with promise. Before the age :
cies of enlightened education the errors,
the miseries and crimes Of this world must
disappear and disappear forever.
/ congratulate you on the success that
has crowned your efforts in the past, pre-
diet pleasant and profitable session, and
have only words of encouragement to of,
fer. Weary not in your efforts, NOBLE
cause is and should be
MIGHTY INSPIRATION.
You have the appreciation Of the noblest
when all shall appreciate and approve
The mind makes the man. The mind
makes the immortal. 1t must be soon
when each one shall realize
INV mind 10 me kingdom is:
Such perfect joys therein fnd,
That it excels all other bliss,
That God and nature hath assigned"
Ladies and gentlemen, may the Missouri
Valley State Teachers Association, at Sc
daIia. in the year OF 1881, be one long and
happily remembered. as real feast of
reason and social reunion.
The address of welcole was responded
20 by Prvf. w. +. Bahlinan, of Warreus-
burg in his usual happy style, which
made everybody feel good to Be present.
Prof. Hendrix. of Fsyette, then read
paper entitled, arnold Rugby" which was
replete with good thought aud Instructive
lessons.
To-DAY's SESSION.
The exercises opened with PRAYER, by
Prof. Parsons. Resolutions OF greeting
was ex tended 10 the Kansas State Teachers
Association, now in S. -son at Topeka, and
to the Illinois Sale Association, in session
at Springfield
Prof L. A. Thompson OF Boonville. read
a lengthy article, cilIng his views of disci-
pine in The school room, also his mode oil
punishment. The professor stated point
ed ly that he was in favor of mild punish
ment, that Of keeping scholar in ai,er
school hours if he be tardy or disobedint,
and also to keep a record OF a pupils con
duct during The entire ierm, SO il c0uid be
shown up ON examination. This
he thought was the best aud
only ssre way OF puD.shing
refractory scholars, and he favored The
sbolishment of the rod. This brought
A heated discussion. The first enc 10 dis |
cuss the subject was Prof. G. w. Baldwin,
,col'd). He was in favor OF mild psnisa-
ment but il necessary he was in favor of |
he rod.
Prof Parsons followed in lengthy ar
yument against the mode, as did Messrs. |
smith, Bohlman and others.
The president here stated that the al |
Gifted time for the discussion had expired. |
Mr.. w. ID. Dobson, who was 10 read |
Production, Transportation and Con |
SUMPTION" was absent, and ihis part OF !
he programme was passed.
Mr.. j. NJ. Gress was next on the pro. /
,ramme to read Schools in the Future" |
His name was called, and he failed 10 re- |
pond. and that part OF the program me |
vas also passed over.
1t was then moved that the discussion on |
discipline" be taken up and di-cussed. fer
10 Indefinite time The motion prevailed. !
nd the president, Mr.. Wolf, stated tia,
be association was at liberty to discuss the |
natter, as there was nothing else 10 do.
Aiier which, Messrs Lsmplon, Haynes.
Turner and Parsons, discussed the ma, .er
Q a great length. Prof HAYNES made tke
best discussion in the morning on The sub
ect, he stated for the success OF a school, 1T |
depended altogether on the school, he fur
her stated the discipline that he would es.
ablish at Bonneville. Prof. Parsons might
ry the same me:hsd some
where else and fail, and it made
10 material difference with him,
or when he had charge of a school be iD-
ended to establish his own mode Of dis
iplne, and he advised the teachers pres
mt not 10 do as he did but make their own
uies, and as for himself he intended 10
ollow his own nose in the school room
President Wolfe, after intermissiOn,
allied the house to order and the following
omufttees were appointed:
On Oficers-J. G. Mcneil, Upton; ID.
& Gully, Sedaiis; s. S. Simpson, Nevada
|. HAYNES, BosnvilIe; Mrs. Meet, Sedalia
Hiss Emisss and Prof. Smith, Washing
On.
On Time and Place for Next Meeting
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