The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1900-12-21
TEACHERS, MILW AUEEE
Decline of Sunday as Day for
Substantial Read
ing.
a LOCAL POET OF IRON RIVER
Travelling Library Gossip-What Has
Been Accomplished at Whitehall
"A Budget of Chat.

Madison, Wis. Dec. 1S.-The teach
ers of the state will meet in Milwau-
kee in state convention Dec. 26-29.
The general meeting Thursday morn
ing, Dec. q, includes a discussion OF
the relation Of the school board to the
teacher, led off by Bank Cashier Au
gustin, president Of the Milwaukee
school board. Hon. Timothy e. Ryan,
the Democratic leader, who is preSi-
dent of the Waukesha school board,
will talk of the violation Of teachers
contracts. Then comes the interest
ing discussion as to whether lay
men, who claim no expert knOWl-
edge of education, should be al
lowed to be city superintendent. The
next legislatur will be asked to take
up this matter. The address Of Presi-
dent W. n. Parker concludes the
Thursday morning exercises. Mr..
Parker, although a very young man,
has made q success of the duties OF
assistant under State Superint; ndent
Harvey, and is highly regarded
throughout the state.
In the afternoon the work Of the
WOmen's Alliance is perhaps as inter
esting as any Of the meetings Of vari-'
Gus sections. Domestic science Cook
ing, sewing, etc. in the public schools,
the claims Of iron and woodwork etc,
will be taken UP. The manual train
ing exhibit at the normal school will
attract much attention. AS President
Parker well says: manual training
is the coming great reform for cur
city systems OF schools" The meth
Cd of teaching reading in the Chicago
schools by Professor Clark will be ex-
plotted by Miss Newlin Of Chicago uni
versity.
Thursday evening will be given ever
to pleasant work, 4 welcome ~ May
or Rose; responses by superintendent
Harvey; addresses by Governor SEQ
field. Senator Stout, Ex-Governor Peck
and GOvernOr-E Elect IaFO 'l9tte.
On Friday morning the aI-impOrtant
matter of lettering the graded schools
of the state will Re discussed by many
experts from many counties. These
schools occupy a place BETWEEN the
high schools and the rural schools and
it is thought by the appointment of an
inspector (as high schools are inspect
ed0 and by giving them a bOru us if they
will conform to certain star dnl dS the
334 graded schools of the state can be
improved as the high schools have been
improved. The evening, Oh which in
past conventions some expert has de-
1ivered a thoughtful but tedious adj
dress will this year be turned over to
James Whitcomb Riley. On Saturday
Superintendent Park of the Sparta
schools for dependents talks; Profess
sOr Scott reports for the school of
commerce: and other good things hap
pen. Professor Rirgc Of the university
has an address Thursday afternoon on
characteristics Of a Good High
School Teachers" Professor r. W.
Snow of tho university talks on "Phys-
les in the High Schools" The music
section i"clufes "Johpny Smiths
Voice at the Age of Twelve" a dis
cussion led hv Frederic ". Root cS
Chicago. i. #. Doty of Sparta in the
grammar section will talk on can
Echo from the Report of President c.
X. Adams on Shortening end Enrich
ing the Course Of Study in the
Grades" Child study, of which Pro
fessor O'Shea is chairman, has two
busy afternoons, one topic being
Some Criminal Tendencies of Boy
hood" by F. J. Swift of Stevens Point.
Of course the library work has its
programme, as has every department
of the teachers work.
The Menace of SUNDAY Golf.
A fashionable rector down in Lake
Geneva, whose millionaire residents
have seven holidays in every week,
has put his approval on Sunday fish
inc. If some preacher to hard-work
ell wOnI6
command attention. Even as it is,
no one wants to sit in judgment on
ANYBODY who cares to take his fishpole
and wait for the nibble of the tooth
some perch. With, however, Sunday
golf and other relaxations thus sup
plemented with authorized Sunday
fishing, one may raise the point, not
alone of the ethics of the trend, but Of
the sacrifice of all reading along sober
lines If the contingent of the Amer
lean people. to whom we look for
Thoughtful, well-trained minds, gives
up it's Sunday wholly to diversions an
unfavorable contrast will soon be
drawn with those Americans Of few
decades ago who devoted the seventh
day to graphing with profound themes
that made philosophers, statesmen and
L
of Sunday sports. The very class of
youth from cultivated homes who
should be closeted with the best
thought of all ages on Sunday after
noon are eliminating from their lives
this powerful stimulant; for if this
reading is not done then, it will not be
done at ALL The lax Sunday may pro-
duce athletes and polished gentlemen,
but mental power and mastery cem-
mand of things eau only be had for
the price. This price is communion
with the great minds of the past and
present.
Whitehall Farmers Library.
The best library for a child is the
home library, where the cultivated ia
ther and mother teach them not only
, to love tie best books but to know all
the things about books and authors
that make them the welcome compan-
ions of genuine book lovers. The
ideal public library is the one where
a trained and cultivated librarian
afloes this work for the children from
the sordid homes. In farming COM
n11nitieS hamletS and small Villages