The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1891-11-14

| Educators Talk.
DR.. Geo. NJ. Phillips struck cord SO
popularity responsive. at the Teachers
Institute yesterday, that nearly every
subsequent speaker approved and em-
| rhasized his theme to have Whining
ton establish school Savings Banks"
Ii 1t is done the pupils can carry their
spare change to their teacher, who
gives receipt, and at the end Of one
month pays all over to the superin-
tendent, taking his receipt, while he
deposits all In bank on interest. Each
pupil, on accommodating a specified
amount, may have bank book When
a pupil wants to draw by check the
parent also signs. Modification of
this general plan may be made to suit
law and circumstances.
IN .PottStown with 4 population of
$4,000, during ~ months, 20OO pupils
deposited Sl5,744.6S and drew $500,
leaving a balance OF sll, 4i4. IS plus in
terest, Every week Increases the de-
POSTS by about $500. Much, If not
the most, OF this money would have
been spent foolishly, il mot iuiuriously,
had 1t not been laid up. When drawn
IL is generally Tor something needed,
as suit of clothes.
| He gave the success of half dozen
public school organizations In this new
line who in the aggregate, in from one
TO twenty-five months respectively,
had deposited $50, 000
He thought it just the thing for an
Industrial city like ours There had
been opposition talk before 1t was
tried but none utter. Mr. Jones, of
Vest Chester Pa. has blanks and J.
II. Thirty. Of Long Island City N. Y.
who introduced the system into this
country from Germany and France,
gives his time and money to spread it.
MISS Mary 4. Ihielnan sang when
the Heart is Young"
President Charles Baird was glad
the Institute had been so great sue
cess He thought the savings bank a
good thing He congratulated the
teachers on the prosperity of the
schools.
:. Redmond Smith. Esq, believed
| the public schools INDISPENSABLE to
the safety, prosperity and progress OF
the nation. This institute reminded
him OF the Inventors Convention in
Washington, d. c.. with this differ.
ence: They patented and sold the bene.
hts OF their ideas while the pupils of
all these teachers received their
thoughts free OF cost.
Joseph Pyle imitation OF the beau.
tiful, Scrlptural CLEANER made his
tirat few pennies from selling tho
wheat and corn he CLEANED after har.
yeat. He also boughta stick of candy,
broke IL in ths middle and sold it
doubling his money. He next bought
Il live dollar watch and sold that at a
profit. Hewas therefore most heartily
in favor of School Savings Banks
AN AMERICAN PATRIOTIC SPEECH.
At the request of of the Superinten-
dent Of Public Schools, Daniel Ross,
merchant, and member OF tho Board
of Edacation Of the Second Ward, be-
ing called on. said in purport that he
| llaped his desire to encourage the
teachers would obYlate any possible
to the seyerer circumstances under
which his career began.
lilo owed what success he had at
tained to joining the Herkimer County
N. Y. Teachers Institute in 1857, and
as Il result of education in Fairfield
Academy, receiving Il teachers certiti-
cate after passing the examination,
| He remarked incidentally that our own
Governor, Robert Reynolds, was u
student of the same Academy.
His first school of three winter
months contained Is pupils from to
81 years OF age, from IS to 200 lbs.
L.
geometry. He was expected to. and
did, enforce tho rules of discipline
without any assistance from the trus-
tees. His salary Was sl4 per month
and board around"
This experience followed for five
successive winters, and was terIni-
mated by the breaking out of THE war
OF secession when he was promoted
to the position of high private in the
rear ranks of the Union volunteer
army,iil WHICH he served for years at
a salafy ranging from 81 to $50 per
month and rati0Hs. He was on duty
50 to ii days per month and "a hours
per day" Yet during his last year. as
orderly sergeant of l25 men, his du-
tlts We're not SO arduons aud vexa-
lions as when teaching his pupils.
He congratulated the teachers upon
their more favorable circumstances,
especially their graded schools and
the Intelligent selection of gentlemen
who meet twice per month to formll-
late rules for the management of
their pupils, assist THEM and keep
their rooms comfortable. He pro.
ceeded to say:
1T would be impossible for You to
realize the immense influence that the
teachers of this country us class ex-
ert oSer the future welfare and pros
pcrity of our united land.
When pass by or visit school
and hear the voices of the scholars
united ia singing patriotic songs, such
as Cur country It's of Thee, 1.-The
star Spangled Banner, "golum5la. the
Gem or the Ocean," and Comrades,
Comrades. when you and | were boys |
l cannot help but think t
that the teachers of our land of Is
millions OF people are taking the place !
of the millions of men in the large
standing armies which are necessary
for the support of the thrones oecn-
pied by the monarchs and despotip
rulers OF foreign lands.
10 give yon Il slight idea of the
vast extent of the count y that Is
practically interested, you may imag-
inc ono school with all the scholars |
drawn up in line or massed in front of |
the school to the numtier of 300 or 400, |
and remember that we have % such I
schools in our city, giving US nearly |
1000 scholars; also that our country |
contains population Quo Thousand
times as great as the city of Winning
ton, comprising vast army OF more !
than ten millions OF children who are /
being educated without regard to their !
religious denomination In the prinel-