Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-09
AMERICAN EDUCATORS
OPEN BIG CONVENTION
At THE AUDITORIUM
PRESIDENT MAKES ANNUAL ADDRESS
Pedagogues Adopt Resolutions for Transmission
to the Hague Peace Conference Urging the
United States Representatives to
Work for Disarmament

ments at school are at this day among
my most joyous memories. | laugh
every time 1 think of one. Not so
much about the whipping as over the
| recollection of the jolly good old time
| L had earning it. / was as recklessly
happy as a man who is acquiring the
| gout for his grandsons.
| "But all that went in the curriculum,
My school days were happy, seriously
speaking. was a happy boy. All the
year round 1 was happy. And in the
loyal, tender, loving inches of my heart,
L have builded the fairest shrines my
affection can fashion, wherein 1 have
placed the image of the saints who
were my school teachers.
Some of them are living; some are
dead all are old and gray. But there,
where l alone can see them, they are
all living; they are all young, with the
morning light of love and enthusiasm
shining in their faces. Memory makes
them beautiful, and the years cluster
about their brows like stars. For their
sakes you are all young and fair and
good, and with my own dear teachers
standing in my thought for every one of
you, l bid you Welcome-welcome-
come"
Hon. w. t. Harris of Washington,
| D. c.. responded to DR.. Burdette's well
come.
Miss Blanche Ruby sang the aria
| from Mignon" and was compelled to
respond to an encore. Further down
on the program she again sang.
Peculiarly fraught with significance
was the presidents address. DR..
| Schaeffer had chosen for his subject
How Can the School Aid the Peace
i Movement?"
DR.. Schaeffer's Address
With clear, calm eloquence he
hayed the CORY worship of the war
god and besought the teachers to teach
history through it's conquests of peace.
Again and again the great audience
/, showed it's sympathy by prolonged
bursts of applause. Again and again
| the educator struck home, pratsing The
Hague conference and fiaying the
jamestown military and naval pageant.
Mr.. Schaeffer spoke, in part, as fol-
| lows:
century is the boy-with one exception
the girl. Our teaching of history is apt
to make the girl believe that everything
| great and heroic belongs to the other sex
and that it is her greatest misfortune to
| have been born girl.
1.-The boy is apt to form similar ideas
| from In6 I6XC DOOhS OH Hl5lOIJ anu IL Ollt
our methods of teaching the subject, He
| loves power and admireS every exhibition
| of personal and national strength; he ad-
mires the heroes whose names have been
| immortalfzed upon the pages of history;
| he gradually conceives the idea that life
is not worth living unless one can win
| military renown.
"The school should glorify the arts of
peace above the art of war. This can be
accomplished by instilling proper ideas OF
| life AS soon as the girl realizes that a
| living does
or fortune or office holding. nor even
upon science and literature, burt upon the
personal relations which human beings :
| Creator-aS soon as she realizes that i'll
the domain of personal relations woman
reigns as lkueen, the girl grows fond OF
| her sex and no longer wishes that She had
| been born a boy.
Patriotism should not be taught SO as
to make it the meanest OF all virtues;
| The maxim, My country, right or wrong,
may be emphasized in such way that
| the citizen will resort to anything and
everything mean and contemplate Tor tne
| sake of advancing the material interests
| of his country. Our school should de-
| velop such a sentiment for peace and fair
dealing as will make 1t impossible for
government to wage war except for the
maintenance of justice law and order
among the nations, especially the par
| TALLY civilized tribes in distant portions
of the globe.
Teach Lessons of War
| 'Ile pupil SnOulQ De leo 10 ulSllHS ulSH
the different kinds of war. Wars for tri-
| butte, booty, territorial aggrandizement or
| the qualification of personal ambition
should not be glorihed or excused on fes-
| tive days like Memorial day or the Fourth
of JHly' 90 orh,+ration &c suhst,tute
for war in the settlement of international
disputes should be taught; and the value
| of arrangements for the limitations of
armaments like that existing between
the United States and Great Britain with
| ,pf fn nIIr hnIIn6pfV
should receive as much attention as the
Monroe doctrine, which has several times
brought us to the verge of war.
THE observance of days like May Is,
the day on which the first Hague confer
ence assembled and Washington's birth
day. now observed In the schools OF
| France and America, can be made to
stimulate the sentiment for universal
| peace among the nations.
Peace has become so great a shibbo-
! lcth than even rifle practice in high
schools is advocated as peace measure,
| but since skill in the use of the rifle
among. all our people will make riots, far
more difficult to queil, one may well place
a big question mark after this suggestion.
"At this time three great meetings are
in progress, the conference at the Hague
for the promotion of peace, the. James
town exposition, which advertises the
greatest military and naval display the
world II has ever witnessed M IN in time Of peace
| largest body of educators in the world
Shall we plant ourselves on the side of
| peace or war?
perhaps for police purposes we shall
reed small army and navy during COM
| ing centuries, but as soon as the three
and half million teachers in the schools
of the civilized world shall begin to in
culcate sentiments of peace and the prin-
ciples of fair dealing in the treatment of
weaker nations we may hope for the limi-
| ations of armaments and the dawn of an
era worthy of the disciples of the Prince
| of Peace."
At the conclusion of the presidents
address, amid thunders of applause,
President Thompson of the Ohio state
university presented a series of resolu-
tions declaring the teachers to be in
favor OF the doctrines of peace, and in
structing the United states representa-
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