The Springdale news., 1906-09-14
W. c.C.U. Column :
TIGERS MARK WELL UNION.
How to Secure Better Temper
 anCe Teaching.

 dard, for number of years Ms. Mary H. Hunts private secretary, sends the following communication which she deSignates as the last dictated mes sage of Mrs Hunt. We give to our readers the greater part of this docu. ment:
 The removal of a cause of a great evil is more than reform; 1t is prevention of the evil itself. The cause of alcoholism and its horrors is d popular nlsapPrehen- sion as to the nature and effects of alcoholic drinks and other nar- eotics The people for genera tions have thought that alcoholic drinks moderately takes. are safe beverages, while, in point of fact, alcohol has the power to create an uncomfortable appetite for more that, indulged, may become destructive and, as Professor yon Gruber says. No one can fore tell whether or not he IS suScep- t1ble to alcohol. He finds out only by playing game of chance with his own life, which IS a dangerous experiment.
 Universal education as to these facts and the physiological req sons for obeying those which teach total abstinence from alco- hollc drinks and narcotics, ls the only preventative of this great evil, The object of such is to in- fluence the formation of right physical habits. As these are early formed, new ones each year, this education must be gwen through some institution that reaches all the children i'll the nation. The schools are manl festly the medium for conveying such instructions which must be- gin iu the earliest years where It can reach the child'S life and con- tinue, new facts added each year, as the child can comprehend them, to keep the subject fresh, until 1t Is covered at the close of the first year of the high school.
 You ask how 1t can be intro duced into the schools and how taught. reply, just as you would introduce and teach any other new subject of which the teachers are practically ignorant. For instance, if 1t were the study of arithmetic that you wished to introduce into the schools tor the first time you would go to the school board, urge its importance, and ask to have place made in the curriculum for enough lessons to cover the subject beginning with the simplest facts in num- bers for the first primary year, and to have adopted course ot study which would show what should be taught each year, the subject being developed progress sively with textbooks in arlth- metic for the help of pupils as soon as they were able to use books, usually about the fourth < school year, with books also pro- excessively adapted to the capac- ity of the pupils as the study proceeds through the grades.
 Now this is what you should do in the case of physiology. Take the International Course of Study. which shows what is to be taught i'll temperance physiology each year, 10 the SGhoot oodld and ask them to adopt it. This plan for teaching the subject oral ly i'll the three primary years with an oral lesson book for the guid- ance of the teacher containing the facts, simply told, that the little ones can understand. A primer, a simple book for the use of the pupils in this subject, should be furnished for children in the fourth school year, little more advanced book for the fifth and sixth years, one still more advanced for the seventh and eighths years, and a high school book