The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-07-11
BEST MEETING
THEY EVER HAD
Say the Instructors of the
Blind Now Here.
PlNER'S SPLENDID PAPER
Brief Addresses by DR.. Daniel, Mr..
Pesle, and Prof. Morson.
TIE PUBLIC RECEPTION LAST NIGHT
A Variety Of Interesting Topics Discussed al
The Two Sessions Yesterday. Altogth-
er Inc Day Was Most
Successful One.

Successful One.
The second days session of the Amer
lean Association of Instructors of the
Blind held yesterday were very success
full and most interesting. The delegates
from all parts of the country all say that
this is the best meeting the Association
has ever had Great interest is mani
tested in the discussions, the papers are
all of a marked degree of excellence, and
the representatives seem one and all to
be pleased with the reception the Raj
eigh people have accorded them.
Perhaps the most notable thing yes
terday was the paper of Mr.. II. l.. Piner,
of Texas, on The moral, corrective and
economic value of physical training.
Mr.. Piner was unfortunately absent, and
the paper was read by the Secretary,
Supt. b. B. Huntoon, of Louisville, Ky.
The paper was profound in thought, rich
in suggestion, chaste in diction. 1t was
received with the greatest enthusiasm.
Last night Mr.. and Mrs. Ray rendered
public reception to the people of Raj
eigh, in order that they might meet the
distinguished teachers who selected our
city to hold their deliberations 1t was
delightful affair. Beautiful music was
rendered, and there was a goodly COM
pany to enjoy the society of the vstors
for a few hours.
Today, in the morning, Mr.. James j..
Dow will read a paper on THE higher
education of the blind" The topic for
10 ho od, inn
of the blind in music to be curtailed or
limited on the ground that the time and
means given to this purpose are vested?"
In the afternoon there will be bust
ness meeting, when officers for the COM
inc year will be elected.
MORNING SESSION.
The morning session was opened with
prayer by. Rev e. S. Smeed. Supt. Ohio
Institute for the Blind.
After some routine business the meet
ing was resolved into an Institute under
the direction of Mr.. Andrew ]. Hutton,
of Wisconsin.
The paper by Mr. H. l.. Piner, of
Texas. 1.-The moral corrective and eco
monte value of physical training" was
read by Secretary Huntoon in the alb
SCDce Oh MT. Lie paper w do StH-
orally pronounced the finest of it's kind
ever heard. The following paragraphs
give some of the thoughts brought out:
THE reflex action of soul upon body
is nowhere more manifest than among
the blind. Nor is the educational value
of physical training anywhere more APP
parent. With the finest avenue of sense
perception closed, ordinarily unable to
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bodies except by physical contact, with
IDEAS of dia;a1ce and relation confined
to touch and hearing, with an ever
present danger of collision and injury.
our sightless children contract habits of
inactivity from which it is difficult to
move them. STOPPED shoulders, hollow
chests, narrow lungs, atrophied nostrils.
incomplete oxidation, spinal curvature.
poor bodily carriage, neurasthenic and
neurotic conditions are all common.
Abnormal appetite the concimitant OF
inferior digestion is followed by an en-
gOrgcd and sluggish condition, and this
by mal-assimilation and consequent
anaemic state of the blood. To the some
times terrible and always insistent force
of heredity, spiritually and physically,
is added the Indulgence of the child by
the parent in every whim and caprice,
so that the sins of ancestry join with
false parental sympathy to infiict the
child. These things have done much to
misshape the character of the child, and
whatever msshapes the character must
also misshare the body. Manned by
heredity, misguided by domestic indul-
gence, encouraged to the whimsical, ex-
acting, imperious, the wonder is that We
have so many sweet-spirited children
among the blind.
" Health is the first wealth for our
children. Physical uprightness suggests
spiritual uprightness. A manly attitude,
Though assumed under command. sug-
gests to the pupils mind the conception
of manliEess. The mind takes I'D this
idea, enlarges it, idealizes it, and pro-
jects it into and throughout the body
from the thinking centers. Here is the
only true physical development for
moral, Corrective and economic values in
life and character. Give the mind a pro-
per conception of the performance
create the desire for physical excellence,
put a strong personality into your teach
ing hold before the children INCREASINGLY
the highest ideals fer both soul and
body, instill love for the PROJECTIONS
of form and feature. and the work of the
physical trainer is done.
'Dr. William Anderson, associate
director of gymnastics at Yale holds to
the doctrine that degenerate mental
states create correspondingly degenerate
conditions throughout the body. Physl-
cal perfection is somehow inseparably
linked with moral perfection. They rise
and sink together. Their sensitiveness
is mutual Reciprocity is the law of their
union Integrity of muscle leads in the
direction of integrity of mind. Integrity
OF mind is the strongest support to in
tegfity of body. Integrity of both is the
ann OF the true physical director. Who
ever has charge of this sacred work ought
TO De profound psychologist. He ought
TO Know anatomy like a surgeon He
ought to be acquainted with the pro-
cesses and functions of all the bodily
agents and organs, and to understand all