The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1907-07-12
EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATION EN-
DoRsEs MOVEMENT.
EDUCATORS ARE BUSY
Council Elects New officers-Take
Backward Step in simp!ified SPELL
insWiii Meet at Cleveland, Ohio,
Next Year-Many Able Addresses.

council and the board Of directors OF
the National Educational association
today took action on many important
matters bearing upon the work of the
association.
Among the important things upon
which the national council took action
was the authorization of the appoint.
ment Of a committee Of five. with VIM.
Tharris OF Washington, D. g.. as
its chairman, to work for an interna-
tiona1 association of educational work
ers to promote education and consider
the problems confronting it; the ap.
preparation of money for the use OF
committees to investigate the short
age Of teachers and for the establish
ment of national federal university
at Washington, ID. c., and the ascer-
tanning Of the best way of teaching
morals in the public schools
The election Of new officers Of the
council, headed by Joseph Swain,
president of Swathmore college,
Swathmore, Pa, were completed.
The board of directors took a back
ward step in the simplified spelling
reform by voting to resume the spell
ing of the words-through, though and
thorough-in the standard style. 1t
also reelected H. d. Brown, presi-
dent of Valparaiso university, Valpa-
raiso, Ind, member of the board of
trustees and w. Tharris of Washing
ton, D. c., a member of the executive
committee; created new department
for the benefit of the seven leading
women's organizations of the country
who desired af11liation with the asso-
citation; voted for Cleveland, Ohio, as
the place for holding the next conven-
tion in 1908, and took favorable action
upon the national university and other
projects favored by the national coun-
Gil.
At the night session general ad-
dresses were delivered by the leading
educators of the country.
The general assembly in the Tenn
pie auditorium was one OF the most
interesting Of the week. G. G. Pearse,
superintendent of the city schools of
Milwaukee, was the principal speaker,
selecting as his subject, Schools for
Detectives J. in Connection With the
Public Schools"
He was followed by J. w. Olsen,
state superintendent of public instruc-
ton, st. Paul. Mimi, who spoke upon
.The School and the Library"
J. w. Olsen of Minnesota, state SUI
perintendent of public instruction,
spoke about THE School and the Ii
brary' He said in part:
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 study Of books, but of that
which comes from the study Of things,
from communion with nature, contact
with men.
Time was when the public school
concerned itself chiefly with teaching
how to read; today the problem is
more one Of teaching what to read
how to get that out of books which
4 .E .. .
will help the individual to make liv-
ing and to live.
The work of the school should pro-
ject itself into that of the library. The
need of a fuller understanding be-
tween teachers and library workers is
becoming more and more obvious. Ii
brarians should understand the school
and the needs Of the children; a gen
eral knowledge of the library and its
methods should be one of the re-
quirements for receiving teachers
certificate.
Every school should have library
containing some of the best standard
authors, besides reference books for
the pupils studies in classroom, labo-
ratory and worshop. The library
should be truly a university Of the
people and should have the same fos.
tering care of the state as the public
school. State support and control OF
the library does not repress local mi.
tiative and interest. AS in it's aiding
Of the public school, the policy of the
state with regard to the public library
would be to help those communities
that help themselves. The free school
book system and the travelling library
are powerful allies in the library
movement. There should be a central
authority exercising such control II
the purchase OF books as would near
the getting of only the best and the
frustrating of the manipulations o.
mere book agents. All librarians, edu
Gators and philanthropists should co
operate.
a campaign for the broader culture