Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1901-01-17

spelling, called the dumb language.
In 1880 an international congress Of
instructors Of the deaf was held at Mil
an, the result Of which was that the
French government ordered the adop-
ton OF the oral method in the schools
Of France and the discontinuance of
the manual method.
In the United States the first school
for deaf mutes, established in 1917,
adopted the manual method as it had
been developed in the French republic,
and this method prevailed in u
try for so years. In 1867 various causes
led to the Introduction of the teaching
of speech into American schools for the
deaf, and since that date a goodnmany
persons, instructors and others, have
urged the adoption of the oral method
Of Germany to the exclusion of the
French manual method. A spirited and
earnest controversy in the schools has
grown out Of this, those formerly prac-
ticing the manual method, while will
ing t. attempt the teaching of speech
with all deaf children, being generally
in favor of giving it up in the case Of
those whose ability to speak and to
read the lips Of others proved to be
NCAJ A1AuAIcOs IL HAS illus COu1V dOOuL
that a large majority Of American
schools for the deaf are today working
under a combined system In which all
methods are made use of, their applica-
ton being varied according to the ca
pability and the adaptability Of the pu.
pill.
From all which it is not difficult to
conclude that the deaf mutes of the
twentieth century ought not to be edu-
Gated under the pure oral method,
which the educated deaf of the nine
teenth century condemn, but under the
American combined system, which they
approve.
My hope and belief are that the negro
in this country will make himself so
valuable in all the industries at his
door that he will become an indispen-
sable voter, that he will learn to do
things so we'll that he will make com
mon labor uncommon, says Booker T.
Washington. My further hope is hat
in every straightforward, honorable
way that be will seek to cement friend
ship between himself and the white
people in his community, that he will
appreciate more and more that the in
terests of the two races are Of equal
importance.
On the other hand, I pray that the
white people in every part of this III
try will bear in mind that they cannot
Cypress Of take opportunities from
thcm-the negroes-wfthout the white
rae becoming degraded. Every ace
that Expresses another rae Injuries tt
self and in the end must pay the price
for it's sin. In connection with thor
ough education, Industrial development
and friendship between the races there
must go that high moral and religious
conduct which will make a black skin
respected.
The elite among writer's and speak
ers, more than ever in the past, are Gull
tivating simplicity, conciseness and es-
pecially exactitude in their diction,
says Edward Payson Jackson. The
young writer of today who yearns for
admission to the best publications and
the orator who demands a hearing be-
fore the most cultured audiences must
be sparing of their superlatives. Given
grammatical integrity and freedom
from v~ulgarity, nothing will be more
fatal to them than the use Of words
which overstate. And as popular edu-
cation advances the more general will
be the demand for a higher standard of
linguistic strength and purity, for the
more clearly will it be seen that ver
statement is really dilution.
Slang, American or Anglican, is
doomed to ultimate extinction. It is in
language what the criminal class is
among men, and criminals are notori-
ously short lived, the soonest forgotten.
Before the close Of the next century,
says Webster Merrifield, president Of
the University Of North Dakota, our re-
1igious denominations will have discov-
cred the economy, religious as well as
financial, Of erecting church homes
about u great public schools, thus
availing themselves of the instruction
and the scientific collections of the lat
ter while giving through these church
homes such special moral and religious
instruction to their youth as each de-
nomination desires.
h Future of Shipbui1ding.
The future of s~hipbuilding almost
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