The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-01-14
A TEACHERS lex +"
THEY MUST STUDY UP on PLY
SIOLOGY.
Pupils Must be Taught the Effects Of
Alcoholic Drinks and other Mar
cotics.

The school teachers have new
worry now, it is examinations in ply
siolOgy, which are to be given in con-
formity with the federal law requiring
such examinations in Territories. The
States are supposed to regulate such
matters for themselves, but Congress
passed a law, with a view of promoting
temperance by providing that pupils
should be properly educated as to the
effects of alcoholic drinks, etc, requir-
ing territorial public schools to look
after the matter,
The Department of Public Instruc-
tion is sending out the following cir
cular to teachers all over the Islands,
by way Of preparing them for the COM
ing Eek"
"The attention of teachers and other
persons interested is hereby called to
the following Act of Congress. the pro-
visions of which apply to this Terri
tory.
Temperance Education Law for
Territories. passed by U. S. Congress
May 90 1886, and extended to Hawaii
by Act of Congress January, 19OO) Be
it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representative of the United States
of America in Congress assembled:
"Section l. That the nature Of al
coholc drinks and narcotics, and spe-
cial instruction as to their effect upon
the human system, in connection with
the several divisions of the subject Of
physiology and hygiene, shall be in
cluded in the branches of study taught
in the common or public schools, and
in the military and naval schools and
shall be studied and taught as thor
oughly and in the same manner as
other like required branches are in
said schools by the use of text books
in the hands of pupils where other
branches are thus studied in said
schools, and by all pupils in all said
schools throughout the Territories, in
the military and naval academies, in
the United States, and in the District
of Columbia and in all Indian and
colored schools in the Territories of the
United States.
"Sec. 2. That it shall be the duty
of the proper officers in control of any
school described in the foregoing sec
ton to enforce the provisions Of this
act; and any such officer, school direc-
tor, committee, superintendent, or
teacher who shall refuse or neglect to
comply with the requirements of this
act or shall neglect or fail to make
proper provisions for the instruction
required and in the manner specified by
the first section of this act for all pu-
pills in each and every school under
his Jurisdiction, shall be removed from
Office, and the vacancy filled as in
other cases.
"Sec. 8. That no certificate shall be
granted to any person to teach in the
public schools of the District of Colum-
bia or Territories, after the first OF
January, Ammo Domini eighteen hun
dred and lightweight, who has not
passed a satisfactory examination in
physiology and hygiene, with special
reference to the nature and the effects
of alcoholic drinks and other narcotics
upon the human system.
"At the next examination for Teach
er's Certificates, and at all such eX'
aminations subsequent thereto, candt
dates will be examined in accordance
with the requirements of Section 3 oI
the foregoing Act.
"The work on Elementary PhysiolO
gy and Hygiene, otherwise known al
The Human Body and It's Health by
William T. Smith, NJ D., has beer
adopted as the text book on physiology
in the schools under this Department
and the examinations win be baseC
upon what is contained and taugh
therein.
by order of the Department of Pub
lie instruction.
&C. I. RODGERS, Secretary"