The news & observer., 1905-12-15

tendent with the Board Of Education
should offer a premium Of some kind.
I'VE have just gone through an cleo
ton at Goldsboro against the estab-
lishment of saloons and we had meet
ingS in which there were contests for
a medal by the young pupils in the
school and several men who attended
some of these meetings intended to
vote for the saloons. but after hearing
uhe little ones speak they did not.
There should be scientific instruction
in the school The teachers should
give instructions in hygiene. and these
lessons should be oral. The small
children should know what effect alco-
hol has on the human s"Stem. The
upbuild of the morals is of vital inn
portance to the success of the schools.
There is being miserable senti-
mental stuff sent throughout the
homes in the country through the ru-
raj free delivery. The county teach
ers IN the institutes should be warned
against this literature, and the teach
ers should carry the warning into the
homes 1t is a direful evil, and will
have fearful effect upon the pure
youth Of the country if the evil is not
rooted out.
in the betterment association We
have had the hearty cooperation of
the County superintendent every
where. There are some places in the
extreme western counties for example
that our organizers cannot reach. In
these places the City Superintendents
should organize the Botterment ASSo-
citation for the women"
President JOINER said there are
great possibilities in the Betterment
Association, and that it was the most
practical means Of keeping together
the school and the home, the two di-
vine agencies for the uplift of woman
kind.
PRINCIPAL John E. Ray. of the State
lInsttution for the Blind, addressed
the Association on his work. He
urged that the County Superintend-
ents report the cases of blind children
to him as the law required them to do
this. Heretofore. he said, from six to
eight County Superintendents have re-
ported He told them il should be
their pleasure as Well as duty. Mr..
Ray said North Carolina is providing
for more blind children than any
other State in the Union with the ex-
ception of two. North Carolina. he
said. stands third in the education of
its blind children.
Prof. n w. Walker. ot the Univcr-
sity of North Carolina. addressed the
Association briefly on the chair of the
University established for the promo
ton and investigation Of the high
schools of the state.
Mr.. Chas l.. Coon delivered an in
teresting address on the Teachers
Manuals and the Course of Studies
for Teachers Institutes.
Night Session.
The county superintendents met
promptly at eight o'clock in the Sem
M.
Scy spoke Of the need of an educa-
tional journal as suggested at the
morning session by the State super
intendent and offered a resolution TO
the effect that a committee of five
be appointed to canvass the matter
and in their discretion, to procure
the establishment of such a journal,
such committee to have as chairman
State superintendent Joyner and four
others to be appointed by him from
the body of county superintendents.
Several of the members of the aSsO-
citation spoke to the resolution and
emphasized the Importance of a means
of communication between the teach
ers and of information dealing par
ticularly with North Carolina educa-
tional progress and needs. Several
of these spoke of the eagerneSS OF
teachers, generally, to subscribe TO
paper devoted to 6uucallOllai affairs
and of the insufficiency of the foreign
journals to supply the information
which they particularly needed and
their failure to discuss the questions
and problems with which North Car
oina teachers are forced to deal. The
wide difference of conditions prevail
ing in this State and those in which
the general educational journals were
published rendered the latter useless
except as they dealt with more or less
abstract educational affairs.
In speaking to the resolution, Su-
perintendent Ragsdafe stated that the
fact of former failures in conducting
such journals could not properly be
taken to doom a new effort in that
direction to failure, since the educa-
tional conditions had greatly chang
ed and improved since the days when
the former journals We're published
The new journal. he said, ought to
start with at least four or five thous-
and subscribers and he pledged him.
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