Gilpin observer., 1908-12-31
COLORADO TEACHERS ASSocIA-
TloN ONCE MORE coNvENEs
IN DENVER.
BREAKS ALL RECORDS
PRESIDENT OF PLAYGROUND AS
SOclATIoN HAS OCULAR
VIEWS OF COUNTRY LITE.

Denver.-Monday saw the largest
any of the thirty-four annual sessions
of the Colorado Teachers Association
for the first day. There were just
1,657 names on the books last night,
and today will see heavy additions.
There is no question that there will
be 2,400 in all by the end of the week.
Last year there were just 1000. F. o.
Chaves is the only representative from
the normal district comprising Lincoln,
Kit Carson and Cheyenne counties.
President B. o. Aylesworth of the
State Agricultural College at Fort Col
Inns is president of the association and
presided at last nights meeting at
East Denver high school, while W. w.
Remington of this city occupied the
secretary's chair, to which he was
elected a year ago.
The people of Denver and the men,
bers of the Colorado Teachers Associ-
alton were regaled with a splendid ad-
dress by Luther H. Gulick, president Of
the Playground Association of Amer
lea, at the auditorium OF the East Den
yer high school, the occasion being the
opening of the thirty-fourth annual ses-
sion of the association.
DIR. Gulick's address was entitled,
Higher Levels of Efficiency" and in
1t he endeavOred to relate some of the
causes which. properly applied, unite
to bring out the best that is in a man,
woman or child. The lecture was
unique in that in it the speaker at
tempted to break down the long-estab-
lished tradition that life in the country
is superior to life in the city from the
standpoint of healthfulness. DR.. Gu
lick maintained and brought forth fig
ures to prove that the child being
brought up in modern fashion in the
average city is many times better off
than the average country lad or las
sic, and beyond compare better
equipped for his battle of life. NOR
ally, physically and mentally, than
were his father and mother in either
city or country.
They talk about fresh air in the
country" said DIR. Gulick. THE worst
| ever knew was in a country school
house, or perhaps it was in farm
house in Cork, am not sure which.
Il remember the carelessness with
which milk was secured on the farm
where | spent good part of boyhood.
The care of city milk is incomparably
better than tbn of the purely country
product.
why do so many farmers wives go
crazy? 1t is from the brutalizing effect
of hard muscular work. Do you know
the effect of from 12 to 16 hours hard
work per day on the human system?
City life means a relative degree of
freedom from excessive muscular
work.
In olden times when the children
had to milk the cows, feed the horses,
split the kindling before walking two
miles to school, it was impossible for
them to do their work well. Now there
are hundreds of thousands of children
in New York who do not have to walk
over two blocks to school.
THE modern boy is better balanced
and Is better physically than the old
time boys who did a half days chores
before going to school, The manual
training that he does nowadays is as
good exercise as splitting the kindling
was then, and better. A boys hands
will blister much quicker on hoe han
die than on a baseball bat
'The Fairgrounds movement of
America means the recognition of the
right of the individual to pursue an in
dependent existence. Children must
learn to obey. They must be dsci-
pl.ned"