The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-12-27
TEACHERS IN SESSION
-Four Hundred Pedagogues At
tend State Meeting.
ADDRESS OF WELCOME
PRESIDENT VAN CoTT'S ADVICE
TO SCHOOL BOARD.

Inc seventh annual meeting u the
Utah State Teachers association
opened in Assembly hall last night with
some 4oO in attendance. AS was feared,
the prevalence Of smallpox caused a
perceptible falling off in the represen-
tation of Out-of-town teachers.
County superintendent of Schools
Oscar Van Colt, as president Of the as
ISOLATION, presided and delivered an adj
dress to the teachers. Brigham S.
Young of the board of education babe
the teachers welcome to the city. Mrs.
William Igleheart was also TO have
welcomed the pedagogues in behalf of
the mothers and club women of Salt
Lake, but illness prevented her at
tendance Mrs. Z. +. Shepard ap-
peared as Mrs Iglehearts representa-
tive. and read her address There were
responses from George Christensen. su-
perlntendent OF schools of Sanpete
county, on behalf of the teachers from
the south, and from Nephi Anderson,
superintendent Of schools of Box Elder
county, speaking for the teachers from
the north. Music by the Best Brothers
Guitar and Mandolin club ballads sung
by Nat NJ. Brigham and a solo by Al
fred Best were tnterspersed in the pro-
gramme.
After an instrumental number by the
Best Brothers and an opening prayer
by DR.. Paden of the First Presbyterian
church, Brigham s. Young was intro
duced. In the olden times. he said, it
was the custom to welcome the heroes
Of the battlefelds by presenting them
with the keys of the city. Though this
was impractical in these days, the
speaker assured the teachers that they
were none the less welcome and that
our institutions of learning were as
wide open to them as though they had
the keys dangling at their belts.
He spoke Of the responsibility rest
ing with the teachers, who had under
their care 10000 of the inha bitants of
Utah. He exalted the teachers calling
as the nOblest of all, and paid high
tribute to the memory Of the late John
r. Park whom he looked upon as the
ideal teacher. In speaking of the adj
vance made in the educational system
of Utah, Mr.. Young said he hoped to
see the time when graduates of the
schools of this state would be found to
be the peers of any in the land. In
concluding, the speaker rendered the
teachers welcome as a citizen of the
parent city of the state, as a father and
in behalf of the children Of the city.
Welcome from Club Women.
Mrs. Z. E. Shepard was then intro
duced as the representative of Mrs.
Igleheart. she proffered the teachers
a cordial welcome from the mothers
and club women of Salt Lake. She
said that the club women mothers were 3
taking themselves very seriously in
these strenuous days, and that it was
from the mothers standpoint that she +
would speak. The technical side of /
teaching the mothers could afford to
leave to The teachers, but they could
meet on the common ground of the
ends to be attained, which was not 50
much the requirement Of information
as the development Of character.
AS to the sort Of character to be de-
velOped, the speaker said the best an
5Wer to be found was in the famous
article by Ebert Hubbard, "A mess
age to Garcia" Extracts from the ar
-icle were read, showing how Rowan
had set out and delivered the message
without a question or a moments hest
tatiOn, and how the habit of too many
young men of the present day was
never to do anything they were called
upon to do until they had delivered
themselves Of aslot of fool questions
Mrs. Shepard then went on to say
that the need CT the times was for men
ana women who can do things, rather
than think about doing them. Sys-
-ematic physical culture, ethics and
training would do much to
achieve this end. but until these were .
Incorporated in the local school sys-
-tEl IlluCu might De QOue DE breeding
q spirit Of independence in children
Instead Of helping children over hard /
places, they should be encouraged to /
worry across by their own efforts.
Responses from Teachers.
IN behalf of the. teachers of the south
Mr.. George Christensen returned sin /
eere thanks for the hearty welcome
hat had been extended. He said he
5elt great pride and was deeply i'm
pressed with the Importance of the
holy calling whereunto he had been
allied He was proud, he said. of the
parent city of the state and he believed
al the teachers of the south shared in
hat pride. He was also proud of the
people in the southern part
IF the state, of the edifices they had
erected for the teaching of the young
and Of the efforts OF the teachers.
In conclusion, Mr.. Christensen said
hat he believed, with the preceding
speaker, that the sort of men that were
needed were the ones who could carry
4 message to Garcia and he was of the
opinion that this was the sort of men
md women the schools of Utah were
striving to turn out
Nephi Anderson returned thanks for
he welcomes rendered in behalf of the
eachers of the northern part of the
state. He then went on to inquire into
What was the fundamental need of a