Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-12-29
POLICY
IS DISCONTINUED.
ANNOUNCEMENT COMES SINFUL
TANEoUsLY WITH REPORT
OF COMMISSION
Majority Report is Not in Favor of
Prohibiting It-council Bluffs News,
paper Man Reads Paper on Manual
Training.

Des Moines, Dec. 2S.The Des
Moines Life Insurance Company gave
the Legislative committee quite a
Jolt by Its announcement that volun-
tarily it had abandoned the practice
Of writing deferred dividend policies.
cluded in its report an elaborate de-
Tense of the policy. pointed. out few
of it's evils only, and declined to re-
commend legislation prohibitive of its
issuance. The report was no sooner
In the hands of the public pri0ter than
the Des Moines Life issued state
ment repudiating the policy, explain
good business policy and announced
its discontinuance on December 81,
1906.
The commission reported adverse
ly to prohibitive legislation by ma
jority only. The majority which stood
for the continuance of the policy was
composed Of Senators Jamison and
The minority of the commission, Re-
presentatives Kendall and Jones, nre
against the deferred dividend policy
and will urge in minority report that
restrictive legislation be enacted.
For Manual Training.
On of the most interesting and val
liable papers given at the meeting. OF
the state teachers association today
was that. of O. j. McMannus of the
Council Bluffs schools on> the need of
manual training and more of it in
the rural and other school OF the
state. In part he SAID:
This is an age of industrialism.
Never before have the forces Of ma
ture been so marvelously used to con
tribute to mans comfort. Man has
explored the entire world-the earth,
sea and sky-to procure those things
that make for happiness and complete
living. The humblest citizen now en-
| Joys what was considered luxuries in
application of mental power and In
ventiye genus in solving the great
problems of human existence. In
achieving these stupendous. results
carefully complied statistics show that
4 I1inety-two per cent of all our people
make their living by some form OF
manuel labor Surely no one will con-
tend that this is not an industrial
age in which we find ourselves striving
| to live completely.
System oout Of Joint.
'In view Of what has been said, is
it not evident that our educational
system is out of Joint when It allows
ninety-two per cent of all our people
to go out into the world with no
specific preparation whatever to en-
able them to solve the problems of the
practical age Is it not strange that
so many years should pass before an
enlightened people came to realize
the necessity for industrial training
in order that the individual may be
prepared to discharge the duties OF
complete living in an industrial age.
The failure Of our people to recognize
doctrine that is by no means modern
the doctrine of formal discipline.
Exercise for General Power.
4 cit has been held by psychologists
until recently that specific exercise
gves general power; that well dis
4 |ciplined mind would be ready to cope
4 with all the situations of life. This
fallacy grew out Of a comparison OF
4 the manner of mental and physical
4 strength. 1t was easily seen that ply
steal strength was acquired by exer
{, else. The body was regarded as
!. kind of storehouse of energy that
might be drawn off as the exigencies
of the situation required. However
this conception has been shown to be
false. The pugilist cannot use with
out loss the Drawn gained in his train
ing Neither can one use the mus
cular strength derived by the, use O
dumb-bells in the gymnasium in what
ever way he chooses pitching hay
batting a ball, or in puglistic events
without great loss. Examples of this
fact are not wanting. Special exer
else does not give general power Like
wise it has been shown that genera
mental power is not acquired by specia
. exercise. The adherents of this doc
i trine held that any kind of menta
gymnastics would give mental pow
!, fer, that would enable the ,possessoi
: to solve generally the problems o
existence.