The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-12-29
MINORITY Wins
Squabble Over Nominations
at State Teachers
Associations.
INsINUATlONS ALL AROUND
Mr.. Benny's Right to the
Floor Challenged Senate
Bill 1877 Revision.


There were no less than three meetings
of the Teachers Convention all going on
at once yesterday afternoon. the high,
grammar and primary sections The lat
ter was held in the auditorium of School
No. /. where the principal sessions have
been held thus far.
This particular session opened at two
o'clock with an address by Miss Sarah
Louise Arnold, Supervisor Of Schools IN
Boston on Reading and Its Allies She
spoke very strongly upon the Importance
of giving a child when reading true PIC
ture of the reading. To do this she ex-
planned the child must be made to under
stand every word, not merely the idea.
but the embodiment of the idea. There
are many of us here said she, who will
go home tonight, take up the paper and
find many a word that will stand for
nothing to us.
1T is utterly void,'' continued she, to
teach word pronunciation without teach
ing the understanding of the idea. One
way to present the new idea is not by
words but by actual scene. We must shut
away all reading beyond the child or we
must give them full instruction. In pre-
pairing children for reading. the first thing
is the study of real life. else the work is
absolutely useless. Reading is getting the
thought, the message of the writer
The speaker then decried the old method
Of teaching spelling. making the child
write the word twenty times, because it
would keep him quiet for a time, with the
result that probably the last word was
written worst of all. The children, she
said, should be taught to try with all their
might to shit the nail the first time.
Mrs w. e. Marvin, who presided, then
called for a discussion upon the subject,
and several questions were asked and
answered.
The round table, session adjourned
promptly at four o'clock to make way for
the business session, which opened with
the report of the nominating committee.
over this report, or rather reports. there
was no end of disturbance. The chairman
of the nominating committee stepped upon
the platform and read what he termed a
unanimous report, setting forth the Off
GERS as follows:-President, Charles B.
Boyer; First Vice President, D. B. Carson;
Second Vice President: l. vanderbeek;
Treasurer, Henry Harris; Retirement
Fund. three year member, Miss Elizabeth
Allen; two year member, George B.
Crater; one year member, Thomas White;
Railroad Secretary, B. G. Gregory; Chair
man Executive Committee, " L. Dayey.
Scarcely had the chairman finished read
Ing this report, however, before Mss Eliza
f. Jaquett was on the platform with an
other report. She said there had been a
mistake made, the first report was not
unanimous, but simply a majority report.
She wished to submit the minority re-
port. A dozen men were on their feet at
once moving that no other report be ac-
cepted. The chair ruled that he had moth
ing to do but accept the so-called unani-
nous report.
But two of the committee claim it is
not unanimous" objected some one, and
appealed from the ruling of the chair. The
chairman put the question and was not
sustained in his ruling.
Then the vote was put as to whether
the minority report should be read. The
ayes were strong-the nays were strong
rising vote was called for.
1.-THE ayes have it" announced the
chairman. tThunderous applause unaf-
fected by gavel) All this time Miss
Jaquett had been standing on the plat
form. She now read the following:
1--WE, the members of your Nominating
Committee, hereby present the minority
report: President, Charles A. Hoyt First
Vice President, A. G.. Balloon; Second
Vice President, Miss Louise e. Van der
Beck; Secretary, L. C. Wooley; Treasur-
er. H. E. Harris; Railroad Secretary, B.
c. Gregory; Executive Committee EN-
ma Cattell; Members OF the Teachers Re-
tirement Fund. one year, Thomas M
White; two years, Mrs. S. B. Crater;
three years, Miss Elizabeth Allen.
Mr.. James Mackey then rose and said
he owed the committee chairman an
apology. He had voted to make the
nominations unanimous and he supposed
they were.
The Constitution was called for. but
that document had never expected such
an emergency 'sThe unanimous report
had been given and nobody had any au-
thority to submit another" said some
one. It was moved that the minority
be substituted for the majority report
ton.
Somebody appealed from the ruling of:
the chair. with We don't propose to be.
bull-dozed here"
We believe IN the little State Of Jer-
sey that majority rules" came from
another quarter.
Then everybody talked at once The
President brought down the gavel thump,
thump, thump! Principal Lilsley looked