The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-07-12
COMMITTEE is APPOINTED TO
WORK FOR INTERNATIONAL
ASSOCIATION.
ELECTION OF NEW OFFICERS
Board of Directors Votes to Resume
Standard Style of
Spelling.
(By the Associated Press. }

LOS ANGELES, July 1.-THE ma
tiOnal council and the board of direc-
tors of the National Educational
association today took action upon
many important matters bearing
upon the work of the association.
Among the important things which
the national council took up was
the authorizing of the appointment of
committee of five, with WilliamT.
Harris of Washington, D. c., as it's
chairman. to work for an. interna-
tional association of educational
workers to promote education and
consider the problems confronting it,
The appropriation of money for
the use of the committee and investi-
eating the shortage of teachers, and
foe the establishment of national
Federal university at Washington, D.
c., and the ascertaining of the best
way of teaching morals in the pub
lie school"
The election of new officers of the
council, headed by Joseph Schwain,
president of Swarthmore college
(Pennsylvania) was completed.
The board of directors took back
ward step in the simplified spelling
reform by voting to resume the
spelling of the words through"
though" and thorough in the
standard style. 1t also re elected HI,
B. Brown, president of Valparaiso
university, Valparaiso, Ind, mem
her of the board of trustees and w.
T.. Harris of Washington, d. c., a
member of the executive committee;
created "A new department for the
benefit of the seven leading women 8
organizations of the country, who de-
sired affiliation with the association;
voted for Cleveland as the place tor
holding the next convention in 1898,
and took favorable action upon the
national university and other pro-
jects favored by the national council
At the night session addresses were
delivered by the leading educators of
the country.
J. w. Olsen, state superintendent
of public instruction. st. Paul, Mimi,
addressed the general session in the
Temple Auditorium upon "Phe
School and the Library in part as
follows:
To be true teacher one must be
able to see education in its finished
entirety-must recognize the value
of not only that education which
comes from the stdy of books, but OF
that which comes from the study of
things. from communion with nature,
contact with men. II Time
was when the public school con-
cerned itself chiefly with teaching
how to read; today the problem Is
more one of teachiag what tc read
how to get that out of books which
will help the individual to make a
1t.xs~.
work of the school should project it
self into that of the library The
need of fuller understanding be-
tween teachers and library workers
n becoming more and more Obvious.
Librarians should understand the
school and the needs of the children;
a general knowledge of the library
and it's methods shoull be one OF the
requirements for receiving teach
er's certificate. = : Every
school should have library contain
inr some of the best standard au-
thors. besides reference hooks for
the pupils studies in classroom, lab
oratory and workshop. :"
The library should be truly uni
yersity of the people, and should
have the same fostering care of the
state as the public school. State sup
port and control of the library does
not repress local initiative and inter-
est. AS in it's aiding in the public
school, the policy of the state in re-
gard to the public library would be
to help those communities that help
themselves. y The free
school book system and the travel
ing library are powerful allies in the
library movement. There
should be certain authority exercis-
ing such control in the purchase OF
books as would mean the getting OF
only the best and the frustrating OF
the maniplations of mere book
agents. - All librarians,
educators and philanthropists should
cooperate. A campaign for the
broader culture should be carried on
from legislature to remotest district.
This is the time-saving
age. How will all the time saved
advantage us if we are ignorant OF
Its value and unable to spend 1t
profitably.? The school must teach
how to save time in getting the gist
OF the newspaper. Although valu-
able, newspapers canot take the
place of the more purposeful and
larger literature. IL is
ours by use of present opportunity
to open highways to fullness OF life
in the future.