Rock Island daily Argus., 1888-04-18
EDUCATIONAL.
A Column of Interest to Every
body.
Items OF General Interest Concern
ing Our PubIIe schools and Colleges
and the People Who Conduct and
Compose Them.

The lady teachers of central illinon
have organized School Mis'resses
Club They say that the men do no
give them a fair chance in the association
and they propose to have a chance 10
talk. Success 20 you, ladies.
Arbor Day was quite well observed in
many parts of the state on last Friday,
in accordance with the suggestion OF
| State Superintendent of Schools Richard
! Edwards. Trees were planted In the
capital grounds at Springfield for Lin
coin, Douglas, Grant and many Other
notables.
OF the / ,4O6 students in the Michigan
university at Ann Arbor, President An
gell finds that the parents of 5O2 are far
mers; III, merchants; 90, lawyers; S3,
physicians; SO. manufacturers, and 81
clergymen. He estimates that as many
as forty-fve per cent belong to the class
who gain their living by manual toll.
The Northern Illinois Teachers asso>
citation meets in Sterling. April eth and
2sth. The subjects to be considered are
Examinations" aud Records and Res
ports" Geo, Rowland, superintendent
of the Chicago schools, will deliver an
address. Superintendents Kemble and
Mack will attend.
More school board men from Iowa
were in the city last Saturday TO inspect
our new High school building, They
were from Creston and were shown
around by Superintendent Kemble. All
expressed themselves as highly pleased.
They had visited numerous other cities,
but had found nothing to compare with
what they saw here.
We are pleased TO learn that Principal
Hatch has arranged to have Prof jerks,
of Knox college, deliver lecture on
'Politica. Economy" before the high
school on next Friday afternoon at 2
o'clock. The study of the science of
government, and especially of the princi-
is of the utmost Importance, and one
that appears to be gaining marked recog-
milton in our schools and colleges. The
state educates for citizenship and has a
right to demand of its teachers that the
pupils shall know something of the prin-
ciples upon which our social pOlity rests
The child of both capitalist and laborer
should be instructed in the relation of
capital and labor, the mutual interests of
employer and employed, the difference
between producers and nOn-produCers.
Why are men banded together in cons
munities for the purpose of government
Upon what rests the right of taxation ?
What are its just limits2 These and
many other questions that rarely present
to the average mind are of
deep importance, and the student should |
be shown that many things that he may |
conclude to be mere matters of exped. |
iency, depend upon fixed principles that
may be understood. 1t is not q matter of |
Importance that the student know that
value arises only as result of labor,
direct or indirect, and that he who would
profit by the thrift of others only, is a
trone in the hive. and not true friend
Of the st ate. viii it not tend to add
Lightly to that labor of the hands by
which the majority must live and lessen
he number of those who struggle so
lard to make living without work.
Mr.. Hatch informs US that he will be
pleased to see all interested in the sub
ect present at the time of the lecture
leXt Friday at . p. M, in the assembly
oom of the high school.