The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1899-01-04
THE TEACHERS.
Resolutions Adopted and OH.cers
Elected by the Various State
Associations.


perintendent of Public Instruction
Barrett delivered his annual address
before the general session of the Iowa
State Teachers association Thur sday.
Its principal feature was the urgent
recommendation for an educational
platform upon which the associations
or educational societies may stand for
unison in work. Mr.. Barrett said the
platform should contain, among
others, the following planks:
Movement for economical training of
teachers, to be brought about by a thor
ough system of legislative enactment. own
ership of school books by districts, af-
fcrding equality in education among pu-
pills.
Industrial expositions in each school, in
which work of pupils in cooking, wood
be shown.
Compulsory attendance of pupils al
school.
More careful attention to rural schools.
through legally created bodies.
Passage of an act creating the office of
inspector of high schools
Greater attention should be given public
Libraries in school districts.
Superintendent Barrett also urged the
formation of clubs for the care of school
houses ana GROUNDS.
In the afternoon F. H. Bloodgood, of
West Union, was elected president; w.
A. Clifford, of Council Bluffs. first vice
president, and A. E. Stuart, of Ottum-
wa, and Amy Boggs, of Waterloo, mem
bers of the education council.
The resolutions adopted in the after
noon urge that the townships be made
by the legisla 1lre the unit of school or
ganiza ton; that steps be taken TO
make education compulsory, and pro-
viding for free transportation; recon-
mended industrial education, and urged
the immediate establishment of normal
schools in the three quarters of the
state where there are now none.
Springfield, ILL.,, Dec. 30.-At Thurs
days session of the State Teachers as
ISOLATION officers were elected as fol-
lows: Albert G. Lane, of Chicago,
president; Joel Nj. Bowlby, of Metrop-
oils, secretary; w. R. Hatfield, of Pitts
adopted favoring law permitting
school authorities to provide free text
books to all teachers, but opposing the
uniformity of textbooks; favoring
state supervision of degree-conferring
institutions as made by North Central
Associa ton of Colleges and Secondary
School April 1, 1898; declaring that in
the deaths of John N. Gregory, Samuel
NJ. Ingles, William E. jenkins and E.
C. Smith the state has suffered irrep-
arabic loss. The committee on free
textbooks was continued and $125 ap-
propriated for expenses.
The association adjourned Thursday
night. The last numbers on the pro-
gramme were a memorial address on
the late State Superintendent S. NJ
Inglis, by his successor, Hon. Joseph
n. Freeman, and an address on "Abra-
ham Lincoln" by Hon. Isaac n. Phil
lips, reporter of the Illinois supreme
court.
Milwaukee, Dec. 3O.-At the closing
general session of the Wisconsin Teach
ers' association Thursday the follow
ing officers were elected: President,
John T. Flayin, superintendent of
Dodge county schools; secretary, 81. A.
Whipple, of Whitewater; treasurer, H.
L. Morrison, of Merrill.
St. Paul, Mimi, Dec. 80. = The clos
ing day of the Minnesota Educational
association heard addresses from
Mayor Keifer, of ST. Paul; Mayo elect
Gray, of Minneapolis, and Gov.-elect
Lind. Uniformity in state exsmina-
tons, higher standard for teachers
and better supervision of rural schools
were the principal points in the resolu-
tons adopted. The election Of of
fcers resulted as follows: President
j. D. Bond. ST. Paul; general secretary
W. F. Webster, Minneapolis; recording
secretary, Miss Jessie Stevens. Man
kato; treasurer. W. 81. Angus. Warren.
Lansing, Mich, Dec. 30.-The State
Teachers associatio on Thursday de-
nounced the Graham-Forsyth uniform
textbook law passed by the last legis-
lature as an ill-considered and incom-
plete measure and asked for its repeal
The resolutions declare it to be the
opinion of the association that the next
legislature should enact a compulsory
free textbook law. The association de-
sires to have the state board of educa-
ton as far removed from politics as
possible, and asks the legislature to
provide for the election of members of
this board at the April election, when
justices of the supreme court are
chosen; to increase the membership of
the board from three to six, and 10
make provision for continuous sessions
of the two state normal schools.
DON'T WANT PENSIONS.