The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-07-12
TEACHERS GATHER
At Los ANGELES
CabIegram of Congratu|ation
to Peace Conference.
PRES. LYTE'S ADDRESS
DECLARES WE NEED NO GREAT
STANDING ARMY.
SCHOOL NUnS;kI:S OF PATRIOTISM
Republic Higher Form of Government Than
Monarchy. Our Moral Tone Would be :.
Lowered Were Standing
Army Nee ssiry.

Los Angeles CAL July 1.-THE city
is en- fcte today and music of bands Is
heard ON every hand. The delegates
arriving today will number fully 1900
When the last special arrived from Chi
cago tomorrow it is estimated that there
will be over $4,000 teachers in the city.
The Board of Directors of the \. f.. A,
at their meeting today unanimously
passed the following resolution, offered
by DR.. Nicholas Murray Butler. of New
York
''Resolved That the Pre- dent of the
National Educational Association be re-
ouested to send the following telegram
of congratulation on behalf of the Asso-
citation to the American delegates to the
Peace Conference now in session at The
Hague:
ANDREW ID. White. chairman of the
American Delegation to Peace Confer
ence. The Hague, Holland:
THE National Educational Ass0cia-
ton in convention assembled. tenders to
the Peace Conference heartieSt congrat-
ulatlms Oh success which has attended
the ntble e.ort in behalf of the principle
Of arbitration.
After the orchestra had played
Mozart's overture to Don Juan Pres
ident ELEPHANT Dram Lyte. OF Miller
Vile. Pa. delivered his address. Refer
ring to the late war he said:
Our history has demonstrated that We
have no need of Il great standing army
1t has demonstrated that in every State
may be found an army ready ut a mo-
lnent's notice to defend our flag against
every foe. And the army is not mar
shalled by military chieftains but by
educational chieftains. \ strong nation
is made. not by barracks for troops, hut
by school houses for children; not by re-
cruiting officers. hut by school masters
not by rified cannon and Mauser bullets
and war vessels. but by books and news
paper and churches.
THAT nation is strong whose citizens
obey the law without seeing a standing
army behind the law. That nation is
strongest whose laws are based ON civil
law and whose citizens obey both divine
and human laws. because they are right
a child obeys his teacher, who to him
is the law. The child's law must be
concrete. as Uile aDSttdcl IL lut TeSuIl vi
higher form of thought than the con
crete: so a republic is a higher type OF
government than a monarchy. We may
need an army to subiugate the Philip
nes nut the United States would he
distinctly lowered i'm moral tone if it
should ever become necessary TO main
tain permanently within the United
States a great stnding army to secure to
its inhabitants the blessings of peace. Ii
this is true how great is the RESPONSE
bility of the American school teacher.
Patriotism is in the air; il is the normal
condition of living under our flag
This evenings session was as largely
attended as had been the one in the
afternoon. DIR. w. II. Harris, L. 5.
Commissioner of Education. delivered an
appropriate and interesting address on
AN Educational Policy Of our New Pos
sessions Henry s. Townsend. Inspec-
tor General of Schools. of Hawaii, made
a thoughtfnlly conceived address on the
snbiect "The Educational Problem in
Hawaii"