The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1891-12-17
IT STILL LIVES
EFFECTS TO THROTTLE THE
COUNTY INSTITUTE FAIL.
THE TEACHERS UNANIMOUS FOR IT
at the Directors Meet
ing and Institute Yesterday
-Pottsville and
Girardville Lock Horns.

Mr.. Houck addressed the dirtctors' c'r-
vention Immediately after Chairman d A.
Jones opened the afternoon session yester-
day. The older he gets he finds there is more
for him to learn. He found this especially
true with regard to the institute evening lee.
turers. There is always room for improve
ments in institutes. Improvements can be
made in all our churches. The defeating
of the resolution favoring the abolshment
Of the county institutes was an excellent
act. There are no brighter, more active,
or more industrious teachers than those in
Schuylkill county. Where is the ex.
travagance in connection with teachers
S2l8 50 and $40 for attending institute2 Be
liberal toward theiteschers and education. l
have seen work done by the children of the
Shenandoah schools that is not surpassed in
the Academy of Design in P,ttsburg.
Y ou can't measure an institute with yard
stick or measure the mind by bushels.
You haye ladies and gentlemen in this
county who can take th.ir places among
the teachers of Philadelphia. 1t is the
work of the institute. They listen to the
instructors at the county institutes and do
the work in the district institutes. You
must stand up for your teachers. You
have bright set of them. We mustn't t
ask too much of these teachers They're
not angels. Mr.. Spiese is sincere in all he
says, no doubt, but he has not studied the
institute question thoroughly, This in
stitute is q grand thing and gives the
teachers chance to hear the greatest men
born in. the country. They would never
hear them, perhaps, if it were not for the
institute. Now suppose the institute should
do this, Resolved that directors conven-
tions are failures T' Mind your own
business, eh7 T5sday Schuylkill county
has a name, and who has given it2 Why
! the teachers. Don't let the institute go.
1t is a great thing and has done too much
to be cast away. If you want to be strong
you want to meet together. If you want
to make state great you must use money.
II the teachers don't get the money some-
body else will, and the Lord knows the
teachers get little enough. 1t will never
do for us to let cur teachers go out and
say, II taught school for S24S6O year in
place where they said county institutes
are failures. Make your country great by
beiUg liberal. l have heard some men
speak in my boyhood and what L heard
inspired me throughout my whole life So
it is with the teachers at the county in
stitute. Don't be niggardly with your
teachers when the state is SO liberal with its
appropriations. Stand By the boys and
girls and young women and young men.
Make your public schools power. For
the sake of the cause and your own I am
glad you did not vote that county institutes
are failures. 1t would have been mis-
take. 1t pays to give the children the very
best in the line of education, Don't be too
harsh on the County Superintendent One
of the hardest duties to perform is to sue
cessfully conduct a county institute.
At the conclusion of Mr. Houck's sd-
dress the resolution adopted at the meeting
of the superintendents and principals on
Tuesday afternoon, limiting the number of
pupils for each teacher to fifty, was read.
DR.. Leckner novel that the resolution
be adopted as the sense of The meeting
Objection was raised that the rule would
apply well enough to graded schools, but
not to rural districts. The motion pre-
vailed, however
Peter Stanton, Schuyklll Haven Ed
ward Harris, Tremonti William Dur
kin, Girardvile; John T, Schooner,
Orwigsburg, and Frank P, Spiese
Tamaqua, were nominated and elected All
executive committee of the association.
"What is the Remedy for Desdlocks in
School Boards 2' was a paper read by
Anthony O'Donnell, of Newcastle,
On motion, the paper was accepted and
fled 1t was as follows;
"As remedy boards should consist of
seven, five, or three members, the latter
number preferred because it would give
the secretaryship to each director in sue
cession. except when two would be elected
for one pear In such case the board
should decide by vote and by having the
state law say that each director shall vote
on all questions submitted to the board,
The secretaryship would compensate each
director for his services. This should be
so, as a good discharge Of the duty calls for
time and thought. l would also recon-
mend that the tressurers of school districts
be elected by the citizens, thus removing
another bone of contention. l would have
the law require the treasurer to make a
monthly statement"
Terrence Ginley, of Girardville was
elected vice president to succeed Mr.. Jones'
Of Minersvile,