Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-12-03

Theory Ell have sometimes regard
Ncrsustt dlGt as Il fortunate cir
Practice cumstance that L never
studied pedagogy. II +
had done so, every timef1 attempted
to do anything In a new way should
have felt compelled to reckon with
all the past dnd in my case that would
have taken 30 much time that | should
never have got Anywhere. AS an IL
lustratton ofnthe way In which too
much learning willihamper q man who
finds himself In the presence of n new
problem--one not In the books--I re-
call the fate of Il young Harvard
graduate who was teacher at Tuskc-
gee for one or two sessions several
Years ago. This young man had very
little practical experience us
steachcrtibut'Ahe had made 4 special
study of thessul'jecttofSe education while
he was in college; largely because of
his high scholarship he was given n
position as teacheraof education. at
Tuskegee. | am afraid that. until he
arrived. we knew very little about
pedagogy at Tuskegec He proceeded
to enlighten us, however. He lectur-
ed and preached to us about Comenius,
Rousseau. Pestalozzi. and all the
others and Mlh1at!h he said was very
Interesting Observation-Disclosures that he
made a IGem pletei failure in his ..own
lassesjvTBookeI eli r. washington, in5the
Worlds Work. for December.
Spirit Will Kansas please take
or The notice? They are going to
South. hold Corn Exposition
this year CDcc. h-S)--not In
Iowa, or Nebraska. or Illinois, or Kan
sas, but In Columbia. South Carolina.
And one South Carolina farmer Will en-
ter the trr .
moro than two hundred bushels to the
acre. Can Kansas beat that? How
many people know that the worlds
corn iecord--2o4 bushels and 40 pounds
raised on n single acre--is held by Cap
tain Drake of Marlborough County.
south Carolina? In this matter of corn,
as well as In many other respects, the
south is just coming into It's own and
is taking n, just pride In its achieve
ments. Every boy III South Carolina
who raised seventy-tlve bushels of corn
to the acre this year viii receive n Ger
tificate of merit signed by the governor
ana the state superintendent of cduc;i-
ton. You can't beat that spirit. It's
a wholesome change FROM keeping all
the prizes solely for proficiency In rhet-
oric and other purely academic sub
Jects. The dominant note Of tho new
South Is recognition of the dignity of
practical usefulness and the Inspiring
spectacle. of, the South's best nan,s--
men who. a generation ago, would have
scorned any other profession than law
and any other accomplishment than
oratory-now on the faculty lists in
trade and technical schools, IL Toombs
teaching boys how to handle 4 black
smiths sedge efficiently. 1t would bc
hard to count tho ways in which o.
n n rrtyor n IN t,a L.. = t..
nation is going to be affected by the in
dustrial rise of the South and its new
spirit. VIII Massachusetts be able 10
keep her cotton-miil supremacy after
South Carolina gets her labor trained?
Iowa is shown by the recant census to
have suffered a net loss OF populations
probably most of Kansas also aud
many many other sections of the middle
west have lost since 1900. Why pay Il
hundred dollars an acre IN Iowa when
land that will raise Just rs much corn
can be bought In South Carolina for
twenty nntacre? Probably the Middle
West will answer something about the
heat: but has the Weather Rugnau eyer
made an official comparison of summer
temperatures In Wichita. Kansas, for
example, and the higher attitudes of
the South. the Piedmont section of the
Carolinns. n Georgia.. and sAlabamn?-
EDITORIAL In Golfers for Nov. a6.
Unioue Eight years ago group
iIospital of soeial-mindcd medical
At Milan. mer in Milan united In
a demand for systematic
study of diseases OF occuptaion. Four
Years ago they called together from
many nations the first International
Congress on Industrial Diseases. Last
March they saw the hopes of years
eliminate in the dedication OF the
first labor clinic. For the scientific
study and prevention of occuputional
diseases is tho inscription IN letters
of gold bn ajbnclt. ground of white
marble. over the entrance of this
unique hospital. Three large four
story buildings, new and well-equip-
ped with the latest scientific appa-
ratus in laboratories. hospital wards,