Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1907-07-10
Brief Interviews and
N. E. A. Personals

| A. G. Mathews is the superintendent of the
Indian department of the government school
at Phoenix, Ariz He is accompanied by his
wife, who assists him in his work
| I'VE have 800 Indian pupils over IS years of
age in our school, said Superintendent
| Mathews land they compare favorably with
the same number of white pupils with equal
! educational advantages.
/ 1--WE have thirty different tribes represented
| in school, with thirty different languages,
| AL pupils are becoming proficient in Eng
| lish, the only language they allowed to
speak. Ours is the third largest Indian school
| in the United States.
| There is occasionally bad Indian who
| breaks away and shows fight but the
| older die off and the younger ones are
educated up in the right way, there will be
but few outbreaks if any, in few years.
1t is well. however, to put into the minds
of the Indians that, with their education, they
must go to work and earn their living. and
not be dependent upon the government.
good common school education is the best for
the majority of them which answers all prac-
teal purposes for their happiness and livelt-
hood"
A. l.. Brewer Is the superintendent of the
schools in Tallapoosa Ga, and thought yes
terday that he was the lone DELEGATE from his
state.
"a movement is on foot" said Superintendent
Brewer, ito revolutionize the state educa-
tional system by raising the standard and
placing better professional men at the head
of departments One moveemnt is being in
augurated to increase the taxation for the
raise of salaries of the teachers and to
lengthen the school terms. We have founded
eleven agricultural schools one in each con-
gressonal district, the past year.
II have just arrived in Los Angeles but
what L have of it 1 like very much"
S. p Eggertsen is a Mormon principal of
one of the four large public schools of Provo
Utah, fifty miles south of Salt Lake City.
II have a wife and seven children said
Principal Eggertsen, and do not oeheve
in polygamy, That is mostly dying out IN
my part of the state 1 belong to the Latter
Day Saints
I'VE have one Mormon and several Protest
ant schools and the work is progressing. Car
negie has promised us SIT 900 for a library
building and will have d library property
worth $50, 900 soon.
"Thornly Pratt a policeman of Los An
geles, was formerly pupil of mine in Provo. ="
T. A. Mott superintendent of schools at
Richmond, Ind, IL one of the sixty delegates
from his state He is director of the N. e.
A. of Indiana and has been superintendent
there for twelve years.
I'VE have three large state colleges SAID
Superintendent Mott "one of which is
Quaker college, the largest this side OF Phila-
delphia.
by passing a law which enables our teachers
to receive higher salaries which are quite
satisfactory"
G. E. Kimbel is the superintendent of city
shcools of Bisbee, Ariz
I'VE have 2375 pupils occupying six build
fngs and are progressing finely. 1t would only
be the right thing for the teachers to have
higher salaries, for their school terms cover
only about ten months a year.
This is my first visit to Los Angeles and
your city is one of the cleanest L ever saw
1t reminds me of Minneapolis
At nearly all of the sessions of the N d. A.
black robed sisters, members of the teach
ing sisterhoods of the diocese OF Monterey and
Los Angeles, to be seen studlously taxing
notes. The sisters have an annual institute OF
their own, to open July q, but they are tax
ing advantage of the sessions OF the N H. a.
f. H. Haserot president of the board of
education of Cleveland Ohio, is great
worker in the cause of education.
How do / like Los Angeles? Why, 1t is
simply delightful, 1t is out of sight! as peo-
pie say
G. E. Maxwell, president of the state normal
school at Winona Mimi, is one or the en-
thusiastic delegates.
1--WE have five normal schools" said Mr..
MAXWELL and our educational facilities are
excellent.
rounding country"
Miss Emma E. Mckinley, supervisor Of do
nestle science in the Dayton, ONO, schools,
is a delegate to the convention. she is the
guest of Mrs. w. F. Kern, 9n west sixth
street Miss Mckinley succeeded Mrs Kern
in the eastern school.