The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-08-22
Appears Before the Teachers
Friday Morning.
OFFICERS ARE ELECTED
At the Final Session of the
Institute.
The Meeting Held by the Teachers
was One Of the Most Profitable on
Record.

The final session of the joint
Marion County and City Teachers
Institute was opened Friday morning
with devotional exercises conducted
by Rev. c., Il. Rowley, of Wesley M.
Il. Church.
Judge A. u. Blair, of Portsmouth,
one of the leading temperance ar
vocates, occupied the first hour.
Judge Blair first spoke of the great
influence which Is possessed by the
teachers of the public schools in
molding and forming public sentl-
ment. against the great curse that
is underminding our homes and
running our manhood.
''The greatest danger, said the
speaker, els that America does not
know of the great truths and facts
of the liquor triffic. Brewers send
forth their literature, testifying TO
the advantages of wAt town, and
quoting great men on the subject.
In the first place 1t has been proven
by statistics and records taken from
the wet towns that their prosperity
is not because of the liquor traffic
but despite it, In the second place
the testimonials they give are these
OF dead men, who aren't living to
deny them. Can you imagine our
great Roosevelt or Bryan giving tes-
timonials for the benefit OF the
brefers in our country?' asked the
speaker.
Judge Blair then gave statistics
taken from the records In every
country. in which It is proven that
the creator number OF saloons TO
/ the hundred thousand people, the
greater the unmber of crimes, and
divorces; the higher the taxes the
more criminals there are in the pen
and the more children there are IN
the reformatories. Speaking of the
present conditions in the city of
Cincinnati, the judge said, ut is
time that the Democratic legislature
! Is investigating the condition of Gin
cinnah, IL the Republicans won't do
lit"
II "In Marion" said the speaker.
"twenty-six children out OF every
hundred are kept out OF school be-
cause of the liquor traffic. The
teachers must come to their rescue
they must teach the evils more in
their schools, and try to vote Marion
dry"
Following an intermisslon Prof
essors Albert and OShea gave in
teresting lectures. The former con-
| tinued his talks on Geography, while
the latter spoke on tests and exper-
iments OF the will.
LAST SESSION
Friday afternoon, the first hour
of the local Teachers institute was
occupied by Prof. Albert. who talk
ed on Education and Manual
Training He said;
| Each school should have some
manual training although 1t is often
| difficult for the country school
teacher to decide Just what kind OF
manual training can be practiced.
Booker It. Washington has said,
"We must learn the head to train
the hand and the hand to train the
head" This Is wholly true. We do
not learn to coordinate the muscle
OF the arm with that of the eye. One
of the best schools has now adopted
the plan OF having school one half
day and shop work the other half
BY this method every boy can learn
a trade and be prepared to make
his own way in the world. This
world Is one great school. Every liv-
ing person is daily attending this
school and every doy is his great
teacher. Some are learning one
trade and some another but our life
Is our own school and we are maxi
ing our own lives. 1nvse VINO are
happy, are those who have gone
Properly TO this great school, those
who have done their duty, their
best and bavc learned the one great
fundamently idea of life-obedience.
"What is obedience? Why is it
essential? Obedience is the love OF
freedom. To be free we must learn
to obey, obey law, obev nature, and
conscience. Every child has some
freedom but as long as he disobeys
he forfeits his freedom,
"Hard work is never fatal, worry
Ia. And why do we worry? We wor-
rv beNause we are not free we have
injured some one and our conscience
holds us bound A child's errors
AGAINST one another nre fundament-
lel; they teach him consideration
thew teach him also TO be patiently
humble"