The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1885-05-20
AN ADDRESS


Il ISHEESsshSA21 DssifkTt
As vice president of the state teacher
association for the Tenth congressiona
district of Kentucky, it becomes my du
" 10 issue an address 90 the teachers an6
friends Of common school education in
my district.
THE STATE TEACHERS ASSOCIATION.
Upon the call of the state board of ed
acation which viii be published, the s
| L. A. will hold its next meeting at Lex.
ington, the 8th day of July, little oyel
two months from this time. 1t is desired
that every county in the state be repre-
scented by st least one delegate who shall
attend with written reports framed from
previous discussions of as many topics tG
come before the S. T. A. rs possible
which discussions shall have been had al
his county teachers associations. The
teachers of the most experience, ability
and scholarship ought to take the lead
with the assurance that others will fol-
low If the proper effort be made. Don'l
wait for your county superintendent Il
make the start, very large majority oil
whom, in this district, are lamentably
indifferent to every appeal made to them
to do something for the good OF the cause
of common school education. In proof OF
/ this | have to state that out of repeated
! written requests sent 80 these legal guar
dians of the common school interests OF
each county in my district to send me
/ the names and addresses of few of the
leading citizens and teachers in their re-
/ spective counties who would most likely
take an interest in the cause, in order
that might give them work TO do in
connection with the s. T. A not one re
ply have yet received This address il
published in circular form, several OF
which are sent to each county in the dis
trict 20 be placed into the hands of the
proper persons. They are sent in stamped
envelopes to the postmaster of each coun-
ty seat with the request that he address
and mail them 10 teachers and others
who are most deeply interested in com
mon school education in his county. My
experience with county superintendent
teaches me that this address would never
reach the desired persons if dependence
were placed upon them TO send il out.
30, teachers, please take steps yourselves
for immediate organization. Two or
three of you can form yourselves into a
committee and publish call in your
county paper upon teachers and citizens
10 meet at O certain time and place to
discuss topics of Importance connected
with the improvement and advancement
of common school education. In addi-
ton to the call, send an urgent postal
card invitation to each teacher i'm your
county to attend himself and bring his
neighbors with him. Let teachers and
people attend with the expectation and
determination of being mutually bene-
fitted and there will be no disappointment.
Let the proceedings of your meetings be
published with names of teachers and
citizens In attendance, and thus show
who are encouraging the cause by their
presence and cooperation.
It Is the duty of teachers especially to
attend associations and to study and dis
cnss topics directly connected with the
efficiency OF our common schools if they
have enough real interest in the bust
ness to prompt them TO do so; If not
it is their duty TO quit the business and
find something to do that is more con-
genial TO their tastes. Upon request, your
vice president viii take pleasure in send
ing you list of topics that will come
mp before the S. I. A. at its next meet
ing, and you can select therefrom topics
to be discussed that you regard as being
the most important. You can reduce
the substance of your discussions to writ
ing. Then appoint delegate to convey
your report to the S. I. A You ought,
by all means, TO be represented by dele
by mail to Col. Robt. ID. Allen, president
of S. I. A., Farnidale, XIV. They will
be put into the hands of the proper COM
mittees for consideration with a view TO
formulating them into final reports to
be considered and adopted by the s. T.
A. as body. Let every county in this
district be represented. Fayette county,
the place of the next meeting, adjoins
this district, and it would not be show
ing the S. I. A. proper respect for our
representation to be small. Col. Robt.
ID. Allen, president of s. Z. A. ut large,
says in the Kentucky department of
the Southwestern Journal of Education
western Kentucky is far in advance of
Eastern Kentucky in the healthful prog
ress of her moral schools. The blue grass
region has permitted the west to take the
lead. The teachers out i'm Western Ken
lucky are live men and women. If East
ern Kentucky teachers do not wake up,
they will find themselves distanced In
the race" Let as "wake up fellow
teachers, and give more of our time and
money 30 the good of the cause It will
be good investment eventually for
teachers and people There will be re-
ductions of railroad fare and hotel ex-
penses which will be announced In due
time.
The proceedings of the last meeting of
the s. 7. A. have been published and
ready for distribution for some time. Re
quests have been sent to the county su-
perintendents of this district TO secure
clubs among the teachers and school OFF,
GERS at eighteen cents per copy to defray
expenses of publication. But these re-
quests too have been ignored with char
actristic indifference. The efforts to dis
tribute the proceedings among the teach
ers and people in this district have thus
been thwarted. The proceedings should
be read and studied by every teacher
and citizen i'm order that he might know
the actions and sentiments of the s. Z.
A The pamphlet contains verbatim re-
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