Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-10-06
SCHOOL SYSTEM
WRONG SAYS HOARD
PRESIDENT OF UNIVERSITY RE-
GENTS SPEAKS PLAINLY TO
STATE EDUCATORS.
HIGH SCHOOL TOO MUCH A RE-
cRUITING STATION FOR THE
UNIVERSITY.

SeoeiOho VI the SIdt6 university, fOF-
mer Governor w. d. Hoard delivered
a Torceful address to the educators
assembled in the first annual conven-
ton of city superintendent of schools
held according 10 law under the di-
reciion of State Superintendent c. P.
Cary. Mr.. Hoard is president of the
board of regents of the university
ana has been for many years a stu
dent of the problem of education. The
address was delivered in the waiting
room of the assembly chamber which
because of its newness and non-use
was somewhat stuffy, the air a little
sitting.
Mr.. Hoard's Address.
word in regard to tuberculosis. |
can't see why we don't have caese
doors open. 1t is quite essential in
this world that oxygen have a chance
to circulate freely, have great room
and be glorified. A dead condition
of oxygen, or its equivalent of air, is
a very serious proposition. Oxygen
is food. Food for the body and food
for the mind AS Huxley says, 1T
is a physical basis to everything"
We sometimes get intellectually dis
associated with the body. We have
an idea that somehow or other we
are in a domain of mentality, but
twinge Of rheumatism will bring ev-
cry man down to the proper level.
Ha will ,1ndarctoOa +bot fbora ic =
physical basis to love and to hate
and to religion and to faith and to
everything else and when once the
body is ignored all the highest aspir,
ations of humanity are as so much
thin air. Consequently, it looks to
me as though il was intensely con-
structive as well as protective, this
movement with regard TO tuberculo-
sis. I am man of affairs. I am
farmer. l am a breeder of valua-
bic cattle. l must conserve the
health of those cattle. | was about
the first man in the state, | think. to
put in the King system of ventilation.
An old German said to me, You can
not afford that, no, you can't spend
$3.50 for air. Mein Gott that is all
about" Yes I said, 81 know It is
all about, but it doesn't happen to be
where l want it." And l said, Christ,
now wait minute. | have spent
$3.50 extra on this stable to give
these COWS just as pure air in the
winter as they have in the summer
and they produce food for the people
of this city. Now, what does it cost
me? $3.50? No, it costs me the inter
est of $3.50 at 6 per cent, which Is
about $21. | can borrow it of you
can't I, Christ, if I don't happen to
have the money!" Sure" Every
well, don't happen to have that need.
There are fifty animals involved and
that is about 40 cents. Can l not
afford 40 cents apiece on these ami
mails to see they have pure air?"
Sure, l think not on that business
that way before" At once he saw it.
say l am constantly confront
ed with this thought. 1t is said that
Raphael was asked to define art in a
single sentence. He spent a couple
of wears tying to corral it and finally
said. Art consist of the ability to
see" Do you know of single rela-
ton in life of which that isn't true?
If the eye doesn't see the picture the
hand never paints it. If man con-
structing an ak helye. who is sculp-
tor, doesn't see that ak helve all the
while he very soon will spoil good
timber. Teachers are in the same
fix They are doing the same work.
The ability to see the work, to see
and understand the pupil, is to see his
limitations, to see his aspirations, to
see what he is good for, what can
be made of him. o, when | think of
the marvellous wonderful scope of
the teachers function in the future
of every man and woman, I wonder
that the state and the nation at large
doesn't take a more comprehensive
view and exercise a more comprehen-
sive judgment as to the Importance
of teaching, I wonder. | am con-
fronted with a great many questions.
In my function as an editor OF an
agricultural paper it becomes the
duty of that Office every week to an
Swer from twenty-five 10 seventv-five
questions. In that particular | am
a teacher, and those of you who may
have read Hoard's Dairyman will note
that very important portion of it is
given 10 questions and answers. An
swers must be made that shall not
mislead If we have a conscience in
our work we are confronted with the
terror of misleading people. It is a
fearful proposition to mislead men
and so trying to exercise that con-
science I sometimes find OURSELVES
confronted with weeks work TO
answer question of half dozen
lines ATTORNEY General Gilbert
said to me Yesterday that men fire
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