The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-04-26
Miss Ennis Tells It's Princi-
pies, Objects and.
Efforts.
PREFERS STATE RESIDENTS
When Other Things Are Equal,
She Says, Daughters of
Citizens Should Get
the Appointments.

1GdcltGIS SAQ0 ni2 ASAo 1870 "
| Foye Hall. The hall was filled to over
flowing. The opening number on the pro-
gramme was:-A piano solo. Pilgrims
| Chorus" played by Miss Rita Smith. The
President, Miss Leydia K Ennis fol-
lowed with an interesting address. she
said in part
1.-THE Jersey City Teachers Club was orr
ganized January 81, 1898, incorporated June
q, 1894, and Joined the New Jersey State
Federation of Woman's Clubs May 10,
1898. 1t was one of the frst-if not the
frst-teachers' club incorporated in the
| United States, and, thanks to a generous
public, who enabled us to create a fuha
| for the purpose, was the first in the state
of New Jersey to pay a sick benefit.
eOur club, as it's name indicates, is a
teachers club; a point on which l wish
to lay some stress, as there is a tendency
nowadays to admit almost everybody into
clubs organized supposedly for the bene-
fit of teachers. The Jersey City Teach
| ers' Club admits to it's membership only
public school teacher
some Of the principles advocated by
the Jersey City Teachers Club are:-That,
! all things being equal, the daughters OF
citizens and taxpayers, and not applicants
from other States, should be preferred IN
| public school appointments; that women
| we're divinely ordained for the care ana
education of children; that women by ma
ture are best fitted to develop the young
| character and intellect. The club believes
| that. given equal character, experience
| and culture. women are equally entitled
! with men to the best positions of the pro-
fession. This principle the club will con-
| tinue to advocate strenuously, conhdent
! that the innate sense of justice OF TIE
| American people will eventually concede
| this righteous claim.
at considers that the American public
school system, as conceived ih the Wis
dom of the fathers, means a{sound, prac-
tical education for the children of the
| people. Let it be clearly understood that
| we unaualifedly indorse the kindergarten
! and the high school when properly con-
| Quoted without menace to the health OF
| infants; without e~xtravagant demands on
the pockets OF taxpayers; nor at the ex-
| pense Of the primary and grammar de-
! partraents. which must complete the edu-
| cation of the great mass of our youth.
! The Jersey City Teachers Club desires
IldC EL6 pEOplSS tIUtSy Sldil 10 OApSioNN
| in genuinely fitting their children for the
| actual duties of life and for the intelligent
| exercise of American citizenship.
This club was the first organization
| of teachers to respond to the call from
| Hoboken in October, 1893, for a conference
| on the question of teachers pensions.
ITO the various eachers association of
| our city is due the fact hat the rank
| and file of the teaching force of the State
has been admitted into the administra-
| ton of the State Teachers Association.
The Jersey City Teachers Club has
| stood and ever will stand for the best
| interests of the people and the teachers
| alike. 1t stands for all that is good and
sound in our educational system and for
all real reform and genuine educational
| progress; it stands for esprit du corps in
| the profession of teaching; it stand for all
| that is best in American manhood n
w~omanhood; it recalls it's past with pride
| and views it's future with ardent hope"
Miss Katherine Brady CAV a solo,
because" after which Louis Quinn rem
| dered a violin solo, "Cavatina."
Director Thomas higgins of the Board
| of Education spoke on Education" He
| thanked the teachers for their invitation
to speak on such ar suspicious occasion.
| He said that through his official duties
he had become greatly attached to the
| teachers in this city and their methods of
| training the rising generation. He added
| that he would soon sever his connection
| with the Board of Education, but would
still endeavor to assist them and act as
| a safeguard against the willy and secret
| Vaccinations and movements of societies
| and combinations. The speaker referred
| to the recently erected schools in this city
| and said the city occupied a proud po-
| sition in the educational world.
Mr.. higgins then drifted back hundreds
| of years, and told of education in the
! years gone by, and then compared the
methods used then with the up-to-date
system of today.
Director John J. Mulvaney also spoke on
| the school question. He advised the
| teachers to go to the front when they
wanted anything and not be timid about
it. He eulogized the corps of teachers in
this city and praised their work.
The closing numbers on the programme
| were:-Solo, Promise of life" Miss
| katherine D. Griffith; violin solo, "a
| Hird,'' Louis Quinn; Browning reading by
Miss Marion Leland, and a piano solo,
1.-THE Trout" by Miss Rita Smith. Re-
freshments were served and dancing fol-
| lowed. Miss Alice Whitaker and Miss
Adele 0 were in charge of the social.