The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-10-30
FAILURE OFTEN
IS VALUABLE
so DECLARED REV. ELKANAH
HUXLEY YESTERDAY.

Careers Are Builded Upon Foun-
dation of Failures-superintendent
Jones on the Monroe Doctrine.
Annual Meeting of Directors As
sociation Held.
One of the most interesting features
of the county teachers institute yes
terday was an admirable address on
THE Educational Value of Failures"
delivered at the afternoon session by
Rev. Elkanah Hulley, principal of Key
stone academy, and recognized. though
still a young man, as one Of the fore
most educators of the state.
In beginning his remarks, Rev. Mr..
Hulley declared that given an almost
total failure, man possessed Of dis
elimination enough to detect the faults
which led to this failure and of ability
sufficient to put forth his efforts in an
other direction, could make q grand
success in life. He told of the numer-
Gus examples in history of men whose
success has dated from their failure
notably, Demosthenes, the great Grecian
public speaker. when he first appeared
before the Athenian populace led him
to studiously correct his faults and fin
ally placed him at the head and fore
front of all orators of all times.
A fair degree of success, he declared,
often paralyzes a man and prevents
him from putting forth his best efforts
towards attaining still greater success.
ic rt Of ho I,tc nf
teachers" he said, ito teach your chill
dren to fail, because every man and
woman must fail in this life and be-
cause success is generally the direct
result of failure. want you to always
remember that there are undiscovered
continents OF character in every child
and that it is for you to teach him to
be the Columbus of his own SOUL
A Cruel Way.
Teachers he said. sometimes have
cruel way of exposing child's failure
to him. so that all his hope for better
results in the future is crushed out. A
most important result of failure very
often, he said, is the directing of men
and women into those channels of ac-
tivity for which they are best fitted.
superintendent +. l.. Jones gave
most Illuminating and instructive ad-
dress on the Monroe doctrine. immed-
ately following Rev. Mr.. Hulley. He
described at some length the alliance
known as THE Holy Alliance formed
by a number of the great world powers
in Vienna in 1915, which had for its
real purpose the assisting of one nation
by the others in case of internal revo-
In inn Ia al 6nt t,.;,
which were parties to this alliance de-
cided in 1922 to come to the assistance
of Spain in retaking her South Ameri-
can colonies, which had rebelled and
had established themselves as inde-
pendent republics.
This led to the pronouncement of the
Monroe doctrine by President Monroe
in his message sent to congress in 1923,
in which he declared that any attempt
on the part of any foreign nation to-
establish further dominion in the Vest
ern hemisphere could be considered as
nothing more than an act hostile to the
best interests of the United States and
would be So considered by the United
States government.
He then took up at length the vari-
Gus instances in which this doctrine has
heen invoked from the time of the
signing of the Clayton Bulwer treaty
with Great Britain down to President
Cleveland's ultimatum to Great Brit
ain in 1894, which startled the world
because of its audacity but which
tanned the British lion completely.
Monroe Doctrine.
Mr.. Jones laid especial emphasis OH
1 hp ic l1n .t,,,
and not the Monroe law. Any attempt
to reduce the doctrine to a law. he said.
would almost completely rob it of it's
usefulness, because then it would not
be subject to the elastic Interpretation
which can be given il in its present
form. Superintendent Jones gave the
second of his lectures on the develop
ment of national life along natural lines
at the morning session.
Superintendent w. w. Stetson gave
two more of his inspiring talks yester-
day, speaking on "One Phase of a
Teachers Preparation, at the morn
ing session, and on 1.-THE Emotions as a
Factor in Education" in the afternoon.
In the last mentioned address he point-
ed out the wonderful influence which
the teacher can have upon the lives of
iiel pupllS II III VI Sne speaks 10 them
and reads to them in an expressive,
genuine way. He once more indulged
his hobby, which is the pleading for a
more simple course of study in the pub
lie schools.
Miss Arnold gave delightful talk on
nuts and nut-bearing trees, at the
session. The entertainment
offered included two splendid baritone
,,I.@ II, T-t...
recitation by Miss Sarah Price, OF Tay-
lor.
The annual meeting of the directors
association was held in court room No,
2, beginning at 10 O'Clock in the morn
ing. James +. McAndrews, the presi-
dent, was unable to be present, and
Thomas Johns, OF Olyphant, presided
in his place. The principal feature of
the morning session was n general dis
cussion of the compulsory education
law, read by William Repp, of Old
Forge.
Law Was Read.
The law was read and its meaning
and intent explained by Squire Cum |
mings, of Olyphant.
Superintendent Jones explained at |
length the system of the consolidation |
of township schools. which Is in oper-
alton in his home state of Indiana. and
which has been so successful there. In
stead of a number of schools aoob