Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-01-12
WIELDERS OF BIRCH.
TEACHERS OF THE STATE MEET
IN MIL WAUkEE.
Large Attendance and Profitable Ses-
sious-HiGher Wages and Spelling
Reform Are Objects that Educators
Wish to Promote-omcer. Chosen.
Milwaukee correspondence:

Milwaukee correspondence:
The fifty annual meeting of the
Wisconsin State Teachers Association
opened in Milwaukee Tuesday with 1000
superintendent, principals and teachers !.
in attendance. Superintendent f. G.
Cooley, of Chicago, who gave one of the
strongest addresses, spoke on "Supervis-
DRY Work in Small Cities" He referred
70 the existence of graft as connected
with public schools, saying that home
talent graft. the hiring of residents of
the city in preference to others better
qualified, is the most dangerous form
of the spoils system in small cities.
The association elected officers on
Wednesday as follows, President. e.
W. Walker. Delayan; First Vice Presi-
dent, j. \. Hazelwood Second Vice
President, A. H. Sanford Stevens Point.
Third Vice President, Julius III. Pratt,
Jr., Milwaukee; Treasurer L. A. Lowell,
Superintendent of Schools, Rhinelander;
Railroad Manager, William II. Sell, prin-
cipal, Milwaukee. Secretary I. w.
Boyce, Milwaukee, holds over for two
years, being elected for term OF three
years.
\ resolution was adopted providing for
cure If possible legislation on higher
wages. j, w. Stesms, of the University
of Wisconsin, addressed the convention
on Some Lines of Educational Prog
ress." and State Superintendent G. p.
Cary spoke on The Value of the Study
OF English"
w. q. Bruce chairman of the Wiscon-
sin committee on the Louisiana Purchase
Exposition, reported that the committee
had secured $1,000 for Wisconsin's e3u-
cational exhibit at the fair.
Speak Out for Spelling Reforms.
The subject of spelling reform was the
feature of the closing day OF the con-
vention. Opinion was divided on the
question, but the report OF Il. III. Hal
sey, of Oshkosh, recommending the APP
pointment OF committee on ameliora-
ton Of spelling was adopted. A resolu-
ton asking the National Educational
Association to appoint committee OF
thirty citizens from various parts of the
country and to appropriate $1,000 year
for the purpose of advancing simplifed
spelling was carried
The resolutions as recommended by
the committee, consisting OF NJ. $. Fraw-
ley, Mary ID. Bradford and Anthony ].
Ingli. included the following, besides
those mentioned above and the usual res
olutions of thanks to the pupils of the
schools for singing, the stores and hotels
for paying the convention expenses, the
persons from outside the State who took
part i'll the program, the press of Mil
waukee and the officers of the associa-
ton:
Resolved, That we hereby express
our hearty approval OF the compulsory
education in the child labor laws passed
by the last Legislature, and urge upon
teachers and others the necessity of
bringing these laws to the attention of
parents and school officers. to the end
that no child in Wisconsin will be de-
prived of the opportunity of getting ut
least an elementary education.
Resolved, That as the normal school
graduates are largely absorbed by the
high and graded schools, the establish
ment of county training schools for teach
ers is a step in the right direction in
that it furnishes trained teachers for
our rural Schools but we believe that adj
ditional schools of this kind should be
established
"Resolved. That inasmucl as Wiscon-
sin is primarily an agricultural State.
deriving from this source large proper
ton of its wealth, it is the opinion OF
this meeting that special instruction
should be offered to the boys and girls
OF the State in agriculture and domestic
economy will best provide for this in
struction and training. and that provision
should be made for increasing the num-
Der of such schools.
Resolved, That it is the sense of this
association that the movement toward
the consolidation of rural schools and the
transportation of pupils is an excellent
and vital step toward the educational
progress of our State and that such
movement has the unqualified indorse
ment of the Wisconsin State Teachers
Association"
President Birge's annual address on
the University and the Schools was
plea for the betterment Of educational
facilities and better pay for the teachers.
w o. Krohn. of Chicago, gave an adj
dress on the effect OF physical training
on the mind.