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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-05-06

At the May meeting Of educators IN
1906, a county Educational Association
vas organized With eighteen members
since that time members have been WORK
ing to arouse interest, and at Denbgh'
Mrs f. c.. Madison, Miss Lulie Jones
manual training teacher for Newport
News, and others. have put a library OF
eighty volumes in the G, II, school taught
by Miss NJ Russell Neale. Mr.. w. y,
jenkins presented the library on March
end about seventy-two, patrons, teachers
and pupils being present Mr., Jenkins for
chilly stated the needs OF the schools urg-
ing all 10 cooperate in the circulation
and reading of the books, TO he loaned
TO anyone In the district, Many books
have been read: the children raise money
each week for new books, and a Fri
day study of authors has been organized
In the school.
The association, through It's president,
Miss Helen CraTord. invited pr. Frazer
10 speak 10 the pupils and people on
April glst in Denbigh Baptist Church, The
meeting, though not large, was a good
one. DR.. Frazer, after paying tribute
Ia the old State and her statesmen Jet'
ferson In particular, gave us strrina
address In well sounded phrases on VIVA
school should be; he emphasized con
solidation. increased taxation, loNse'
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-05-06
GREAT BENEFIT OF
LOCAL ASSOCIATIONS

Surely the average citizen will be open
to this appeal.
In the second place, 1t seems to me
that the local teacher and superintendent
ire worthy OF our corporation In their
great work. They are training Our chill
dren. Shall we not have sufficient IN
terest In the career Of our own chlldren
to keep in sympathetic touch with those
who daily instruct them? It IS easy 20
criticise the teacher, but what the
teacher needs is not so much our crltl-#
cism as our sympathy and cooperation.
And so far as l have been able TO see
and to learn the Virginia school teacher
Is worthy OF our help and consideration.
They are not as perfect as we should
like to SEQ them; but they, as a class,
arc struggling to use all opportunities
that come to them for improvement. ana
greater efficiency. The attendance OF the
teacher al the summer school sul!lcichtly
attest these statements.
The work OF the neishborhood school
teacher is a. high and great work. but
1t is often a very lonely task and only
too frequently very slightly appreciated.
Our sympathy and organized co-opera.
ton would be OF value beyond our pres
ent thought to every local teacher ~
Virginia. Can we not appeal with telling
effect to the citizens OF our beloved ola
State on the grounds OF the local teacneE.
who comes so close to the klneooh' OF
childhood, and has so much 70 90 w
determining what shall be the quallties
OF that kingdom7 There Is no serves
we can render our country OF hlgher
character than a genuine Interest IN the
common school. Here Is a place Tor real
pa triotsnl. On this ground !et us ap.
peal to the people. The school-room VIII
determine the character OF our tuture
citizenship. The warfare that IS now
being waged on ignorance and poor
a pstne faeilities tor our children ought
to enlist every citizen In Virginia, There
was never larger opportunity to serve
our native State than now We must
needs awake to the situation, Virgnians
have known how to respond to the call
OF duty III the past; surely we will he
equal to the present emergency. The
past history of Virginia Is secure In the
hearts OF our countrymen; the present -
her problem, That problem will be set-
will be settled right. Let us appeal to
the people In behalf of their children
and our common schools for the sake
of the people themselves. Ours Is a CONF
mercial age, and men are In danger o.
being enslaved by their own business 1--WE
need often to be saved from ourselyes)'
We need to be less and less self-cen-
tered. The call to serve others-the.
weak, the children, the helpless--lf
oheyed, will minister greatly to our own
character. After ALL the true measure
OF greatness is service rendered to those
who need us. Let us keep before us ~
this new educational movement the
words OF the Christ. the ideal man ana
citizen; for the Son OF man came mot
to be ministered unto. but to minister.
with such n spirit as this In us, there
can be no doubt as to the future OF our
state. and the children Of the Commons
wealth will be safe.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-05-06
Social Service OF
Public High School

mari IN the fotir greatest political ques-
ton Of the past decade. Two things must
be done to re-lnstate this section IN me
privileges and burdens Of American puo-
lie life First, we must build UP that type
of institution which will stimulate ana
train leaders; End, We must develop IN
our youth and In the people OF other sec
ton that tolerance Of spirit which Is fair
and lust to all sections Of our common
country, that an equality Of opportunity
for public service may be open to south
ern youth. " {f3# i8Aftf2@; gs !.
We must educate a large group OF
white leaders who shall be saturated With
such intellectual fairness rs shall provide
the negro fair chance and shall re-
lieve the public sentiment Of the pre-
yniling pessism regarding negro educa-
ton. And vet the white leader can never
educate the colored race. The NUMBER
OF local leaders Of the coored. race must
be Immensely increased. Inc training
given in higher ms tltutions Is not trans
mitted to the elementary schools for want
OF a group of middle leaders among the
coored people. There are scarcely any
public high schools for negroes IN the
South.
schools should be directed toward the
needs Of social life. There are IN me
South. 7,44oes7 persons who are occupied
in genial occupations according to the
last census. Only lS,443 or 81 percent
OF this number are engaged IN ne pro
LESSONS. Yet our. courses Of study are
planned primarily for professional men e.
Although the Sovth Is largely an agrl-
cultural section. yet there are no pre-
naratory courses In agriculture In the
high. schools AS conseoueence', only
76a White students in agricultural col
ieces pursued such courses IN 1903, al
thm,rh there we're H,3H in attendance upon
such colleges. This Illustration suggests
thc chasm which separates the colleges
and universities from the olives OF the
neople. which chasm will$be. bridged only
by the perfection Of q secondary school :
system. &Ayse 9t,3.zsSHff%t
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-05-06

white. Child labor is the enemy, Of ed tlll
cation and Of civilization. II this con- cor,
ference shall succeed In arousing puoiic
sentiment against this abuse and
favor of the reform of compulsory eou-
cation, its labors Will be of untold beneht
to countless millions.
Not only IS there need for more COM
pulsory educational laws OF WIDER apP''-
"a ton. but there should be more atten-
tion paid to the education Of the many
instead Of expending nearly all OF our
energies on the higher education OF the
few.
The future citizens Of our country are
made good or bad In the common school
long before they reach the university
yir thew iSthere at all There has been
much discussion as$to the relative valuc
Of the university and the small college.
-rhe great institutions are too prone TO
merely educate the head. but IN tho
small colleges and In the common schools
the heart as we'll as the head Is educated.
The need Is to educate not only the lead
10 make men brilliant. but the hands to
make men useful, and the heart to make
men true and patriotic In foreign lands
ruled by kings and emperors, the child
1thattis destined to be n sovereigntis etu-
Gated with special referercehltn fitting
him for the duties that will be devolving
upon him in future years. We, too often
do not realize that with us every child
will be a sovereign and too little atten-
ton is paid In the schools to instilltng
into the minds and hearts Of the youth
Of the land the sacred duties OF sovereign
ty in free country, where every man
is a king.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-05-06
IN WARWICK COUNT Y.

school terms, better schools, competent
teachers, dwelling on the Importance or
the younger teachers, fitting themselves
for teachers, not merely hearers OF les
sons.
Virginia though first Of the States IS
tho SSth State in her educa tional facili-
ties for the masses. He said what other
States nre doing, Virginia must do, II
she would be In the front ranks the
hand and heart must be educated with
the mind then the child's moral charac.
ter Is developed; he Is made 70 see the
why Of his education, and his citizenship
will be established.
Twenty-onc new names were added TO
the association. DR.. Frazer was followed
by the Rev. Or, Childress. pastor OF the
church, in n short address, forceful and
appropriate We hope in the near future
TO have a fonr.room graded school at
Morrison's to grow out OF these meetings
Mr. Jenkins IL working to this end, and
to consolidate wherever 1t Is practicable.
Virginia needs educated homes, mothers
and fathers to Join In with teachers and
trustees for the upiift of their children.
The pulpit can be strong factor to this
end other things will follow, then our
educational system will have reached It's
fulness.
The next meeting will be held In May,
IN Newport district.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-05-06

Extracts from n paper read before 'ne
American Association for the AnVanee-
ment of Science, Mt Its New orleH'''
meeting December cSth
Z (Bruce r. Payne, Professor OF Secondary
q Education University OF Virgnn)
The title of this paper would sugses.
three topics OF discussion. First. what
contribution the public high schooi IN me
South does and should make ~ 10 local
and national leadership; (2) toward ole
selection Of the negro problem; () TO
The Southern industrial problem.
The function of the high school Is to
select from the public elementary school
youths of genius and train their excep-
tlonal powers for leadership.
Participation by Southern men as leaders
IN the affairs OF the nation has varied
during the last fifty years in direct ratio
with the number of high schools and col
leges and attendance upon them. Is "
rot probable that the shifting OF national
leadership from the South to the Noruh
and West, has had causal relation OF
some sort with the decline Of SECONDARY
schools In the South from 1880 to 1871 !!
The population Of the eleven states OF
the Confederacy is over three times MS
great as that Of Iowa, California. ana
indiana. and yet there are nearly s'Mo
more school students i'll the three western
than there are in the eleven southern
states. 1t Is also probable that the voices
and influences of leading men from me
three are more potential than oil OF tnose
from the eleven. At least president
nominated from one of the three, stands
2 chance of election while one from the
South has not in many years.
AS result Of the absence OF TINS
agency Of selection, the South has neen
reduced to a state of national isolation
and impotence. 25onO,ot0 people have no
representation among the % chairmen OF
House committees, no representation IN
the Presidents Cabinet, no repres entatloh
among the ambassadors to the first courts
of Europe, and only one of the assistant
secretaries at Washington is OF Southern
birth. The South took no constructive
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-05-06
THE BENEFITS OF
TEACHERS INSTITUTES

of the counties in the western, northern
OF southern part OF the State to n normal
al the University Of Virginia or at Hamp-
Ton or Petersburg,
There are many who live much nearer
some of these normals than the distances
Indicated, hut their meager salaries keep
them at home,
AS matter OF fact those who are In
most need Of the benefits to lie derived
from these normals are the rural tcach-
ers-lhose who can least afford the ex-
pcnse such "Trip would incur.
Some of these teachers have not had
the advantages OF high school educa-
ton? but they are doing good work
Now what can be done for our rural
teachers that they may become more eiii-
Gent ppu do better work?
our children in the country need as
good teachers as do the children in The
city, Under the law each ana every
locality Is permitted 10 levy special tax
b supplement- the fund received FROM TIE
state ana 10 he used to increase the Ell.
e.Gaey Of the loca! schools.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-05-06

IAN address delivered at the Harrisburg
District meeting Of the State Teachers,
B Association by Prof. j. f. Messenger Oh
The State Normal School at Farmville.)
Virginia is now awake to the need or
better educational advantages Tor her
+ children, and it may not be out OF pace
10 consider briefly the economic slde OIL
the case. The most practical economists
are the managers of great Industries.
VIVA, can we learn from them? me
captains of industry pay more for skilled
@lahor because they know that 1t brings
rre;ter returns on the investment.
The nan who receives $500 per day, did
not bring to his employer as great OF
greater returns than ten men VINO can
4 b. had for fifty cents apiece,-woula tie
4 & a, man be employed? Certainly not
y Z. naysTto employ skilled workmen. That
q, the reason business men do IT. The
cost Of Dor is measured by It's products.
Eaw material is always cheap. y dla-
4 nond would be worth no more IMAM
brick if there were no lapidary TO pollsh
III. AS with jewels, so with chlldleh--
1T Is the forming and polishing that
gives them value The skilled teacher.
will increase the value OF ch'io as 'he
skilled lapidary will increase the value OF
jewel,
The child is the raw material out OF
which humanity is made, and the school
/. is the factory in which the work IS
done. In a commercial factory unskilleel
hands make the cheap articles. ana
skilled hands make the ones of higher
grade What sort of product do we en-
pect from the human factory when we
call the school system of Virginia? II
we wish the hes, possible product we
must send the raw material to the hest
workman we can get.
A man has money value, and ms
money value may be increased by proper
7: training. The increase In actual value
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-05-06
Editor of The Ttmes-pIspatch;

Editor OF The Times Dispatch:
sir,-As an old subscriber, ard as one
deeply interested in The cause of educa-
ticn, want 10 say word through your
Weekly Times Dispatch in behalf Of
county teachers Institutes, which used, 10
be held all over the State. few years
ago, hui from sons cause are almost
a thing OF the pas, now In this part of
the state. But the bad part OF II ls.
nothing as good and pract!cable has
taken their place.
The summer normals are doing a good
work for the schoolt through the teachers
Who receive instruction and set inspra-
ron at such normals
Such normdis as the Virginia Sum-
mer School of Methods, the normais held
al Hampton, Petersburg and other places
arc real necessity. But they are too
far apart for the rural teacher, mspy Of
,gl,.m dc no, get over s25 a month, and
some get less Think Of teacher with
a salary OF SIS a month, for a term OF
five or SIX months travelling from anS
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-05-06
|" Economy in Education

which a good school brings to communi-
ty. is many times greater than the
amount 1t costs to maintain the school;
hence every dollar paid to good teacher
Is a good investment. because IT brings
large returns
A compulsory education law is q good
thing under some circumstances, put
when every school Is SO we'll taught that
both parents and children feel that every
da yof school missed, Is bargain lost,
there will be little trouble about school
attendance. The problems we are facing
to-day will never be solved until they are
solved BY the teacher; but the teacher
must not only find the solution, she must
be the solution
It has been said that with Mark Hop
kins on ono end Of a log. and q student
on the other, there is university. Just
give us the Mark Hopkinses and We shall
have a university In every district It
takes the whole world a century or more
to produce q genius like Hopkins or
Pestaozzi, but we have q very effective
substitute for genius; that is training. II
we cannot have a Pestalozzi. or HOP
kins in every district, we can have
young man or young woman who is
qualified by having the best training
available This training should include
the equivalent of a four years course IN
high school and some professional train
ing beside The high school work Is IN
tended to give that knowledge which
the world In its experience has found to
be most essential for the individual who
wishes to understand the world about
him, to get along with his fellowmcn and
to be a useful citizen. Professional train
ing aims at the understanding OF our
doing, It stands for fair knowledge
of the mental processes involved In learn
ing. and OF the forms OF presentation
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-05-06
School Closes,
Especial to The Times -Disnatch,)

BUCHANAN, VA, May 5.--The clos
Ing exercises OF tho Buchanan High
school was held In the Town Hall We'd
-nesday night, and reflected great credit
on both the teachers and scholars. Five
young lady graduates, Miss Jessie Sex
ton, Miss Clare Schultz Miss Mary
swartz, Miss Eva Store and Miss Laura
Thompson, and four medalists, Miss
Gladys Fariss. Miss Hester stinnett, Eva
Eramh!ett and Philip Cohen, speaks well
for the. diligent work during the past
season. This school Is very large and
well conducted BY Miss Resale Cooke
and her able corps Of assistants, Miss
.Carlotta Lewis. Miss Angie Wyatt and
Miss Lila Harlan,
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-05-06

In some localities this privilege Is not
made much use of.
II is hoped that the, appropriation OF
s40O, 600 by the last Legislature for
schools, means better pay for teachers,
as we'll as longer terms for the schools
But can It be expected that the in
crease, from any source, OF the pay OF
rural teachers will enable many sof them
to attend the summer normals to much
advantage? l think not
Then let us have the next best thing
thu county teachers institute
These Institutes can be held at each
county seat two or. three days each
year,
Twenty years ago institutes OF the kind
u-t:er discussion, were regularly held IN
this (New KENT and adjacent counties.
well remember hearing teachers ana
others speak of the help such meetings
were to them.
These institutes can be held with out
little cost to teacher or any one else.
The school oniclals could make such
meetings success by having well ar
ranged programme properly notifying ana
interesting teachers and people generally.
TO assist each school superintendent n
his institute, the State or the county IN
which the institute may be held, should
furnish one or two educators from the
nearest point to the place Of meeting
II, would be better and cheaper u two
or three counties were to unite IN hold-
Ing such Institutes.
These meetings would te a necessity
even If the teachers could AFFORD 10 AZ
tend the summer normals.
The school officials because OF their con-
nec,ion with the schools, would a7te1la
these Institutes, where the teachers ShouHl
express their views on methods OF 1eacil-
ing.
These methods should be freely DISCUSS
ed and criticised II necessary, by winch
oflclals could better understand the KIND OF
teachers they were employing. ana Inc
patrons get a better idea as TO how the'r
c, ldren were being taught. whet her ne
teachers were teaching or nearing 1853
sons bi,ff
II is conceded that q majority OF me
patrons of the public schools, especlallS
ia the rural districts, do not know whether
| their children arc properly ta4ght OF
! not. since they do not. as q rule' pls't
| the schools, and sven V they gig, tney
could not find out there what 4 hey Z n1ls ~
ascertain in gathering where views on
| methods of teaching were gwen py me
teachers and otherH. ard these 5metnoas
| discussed u fs3 TIKI tfs
| think that when We shall become q
little more interested In the intellectual
welfare Of our children ard the State,
the necessity OF these Institutes VIII ha
more apparent aud their importance more
kcenly felt.
A. II. cUMpER,
| Ks. F.. j.. 4 \
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-05-06
SHAKESPEARE DAY,
Beyy Of Pretty Girls Present "A
Midsummer Nights Dream"

FAR9IYILI.E, VA. May 5,-The Argus
and Cunningham Literary Societies cele-
brated their second annual Shakespeare
Day In the auditorium Saturday evening"
April 18th. at half-past eight. o'clock
Scenes from "a Midsummer NIGHTS
Urean were charmingly presented under
The direction OF Miss Marie Louise WHIT
Ing, chairman OF the advisory committee
Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1906-06-29
SEVEN WERE QUALIFIED
OF FORTY-ONE EXAMINED.

Washington, ID. c., June 29.-Arm!
medical officers are somewhat disap-
pointed over the fact that only seven
candidates for appointment as assist
ant surgeons have been found quail
fed in the preliminary examinations.
These seven will attend a session of
special instruction at the Army Medi-
cal School, in Washington, after
which they will be finally examined
for commission One Of these proyis-
ional candidates is Dr.. Arthur c.
Christie of New York In the pre-
liminary examination ffty-seven can
didates were invited TO appear, OF
whom fOrty-one were examined, and
OF the latter seven qualified. Eleven
were found physically untitled. one
withdrew and twenty three were re-
jeCted. There are twenty seven va
cancies in the junior grade of the
army medical corps, and if the seven
now Professionally qualifId were ap-
pointed, there would still be more va
cancies than are desirable. The sit
uation is a serious one, involving as il
does extraordinary duty on the part
of officers who must take the place
of those represented by vacancies Il
is felt that the situation would be-
much relieved if congress were 10 en-
act pending legislation.
Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1906-06-29
House 0bstinateIy Stands
By Packing House
People.
RATE BILL PASSED AT LAST
Pure Food Bill Goes to the
President for His Sig.
nature Thereto.

Washington, June 29-When the
conferees on the agricultural appropri-
alton bill met today the house of rep
resentatives announced that under the
instructions voted by the house they
would be compelled to insist upon the
house provision in regard to meat in
spection, without compromise of any
kind. The senate conferees stood out
for the compromise proposition offered
by Senator Proctor, TO divide the ex-
pense of inspection between the pack
ers and the government by retaining
$3O00,000 of appropriation and taxing
cattle FIVE cents and hogs, sheep and
goats three cents. which would afford
a revenue of about 81 500, 600 annually.
The conference broke up at 11;15.
Proctor announced that he would ask
the senate for instruction
Beveridge Withdraws Objection.
Senator Beveridge, who introduced
the original meat inspection amend
ment to the agricultural appropriation
bill, has withdrawn his objections to
the house substitute and this is taken
as an indication that the senate viii
today instruct its conferees to accept
the house provision. The Indiana SEN
ator said he was in favor of compell-
ing the packers to pay for the cost OF
inspection and to place the date of in
spection on canned meat. but in the
interest of practical legislation to pur-
ify meat products he would not stand
in the way because the government
is required to pay the cost of inspec-
ton. The senate leaders believe the
outcome must be concession to the
| house.