El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-09-10

perVlSOrS can be traced 10 their Iall-
ure to transplant their budding ideas
and nurtured TO this western foreign
soil.
New Country, New Methods.
As the eastern farmer must learn
new methods on coming to this new
country, so must the educator. The
failure of immigrant farmers is not
totally unlike that of the immigrant
educators. They only succeed in pro-
portion TO their ability TO adapt them
selves and their theories to the new
conditions. Therefore I say as our
agricultural schools Of the southwest
must differ materially from those of
the east or fail. so will our teacher
training schools: and this difficulty
would be materially Obviated by nor
NAL school located in the very midst OF
the problems to be solved.
Imparting Ideas.
If we must have foreign, eastern, or
northern ideas in our schools what
better method can be conceived than
10 import them in the person of tai
ented educators as instructors and try
them out in our local normal where
they Cthe ideas) may be worked over
and in a manner tested before taking
into the school room. 1t would be
economy in two ways First. it will
be cheaper to import two or three
such instructors than TO send out 10
or 100 teachers TO various eastern
points. Second, our education viii not
suffer from the many mistakes of un-
tried and unadapted theories and too.
mistakes once made can be more speed
lily remedied by the local normal than
a far distant one A normal at Cloud
croft would not only interest teachers
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schools while sojourning in Cloud
croft and a contact established that
would give the patrons an understand
ing of their own child's welfare and
how the teacher is laboring TO provide
for IL also in professional training. and
thus stimulate much needed coopera-
ton There are many Ell Paso people
who do not know where the buildings
are located that their children attend
they are too busy TO care and let it
pass But in their vacation if they see
normal school operating for their
benefit just over in the next grove,
idle curiosity will enlist their interest
in their time of leisure that would
never touch them otherwise.
Unity OF instruction.
Likewise the association of the
teachers in the normal that will not
be broken when they go TO teaching
as is the case where few go to San
Marcos. a few to Austin, q few 10
Boulder, or Chicago. or Chautauoua.
This think is well worth considering.
So there are small advantages, too
numerous to mention IN detail, thai
when put together, make up a big bal
ance in favor OF local normal The
danger Of narrOwness in a local nor
NAL that some think would prevail,
is reduced TO zero when We see how
outside ideas may be imported in the
form of live inspiring Instructors And
too, we must remember, that we al
ready have talent in our teaching
corps so cosmopolitan as to represent
every idea and section of this country
Our teachers represent the scholar
ship and professional training of the
whole country as possibly no other
place in the United States. So we have
nothing to fear upon that score even
though we recruited for the first sea
son Or two solely from our own i'm
mediate section the entire student body
and faculty alike.
Weather Important Factor
Finally, the thing to be considers
most in undertaking an enterprise OF
this sort. IS the weather conditions
as to studying. Those familiar with
Cloudcroft tell US in eloquent, if not
convincing tones, that no place on the
continent is better. Rising out of the
burning sands of the great American
desert is a garden spot that is des-
tined to be the summer haven of the
southwest as the Alps make the sum
mer playground of Europe Resting
there in the shade of the pines one
may look of to desert mirages of the
west One may quench his thirst from
mountain springs as cooling as Elm
and at the same time look away to the
white sands writhing as If to escape
the pitiless scorching Of the sun. Ali
as pure and cool and sweet as ever
stimulated the brain Of Greek phiIoso-
pher; scenery as beautiful as ever
charmed the poetic orient; wild flow
ers as prolific and beautiful as ever
graced the bower of a maiden's fancy
Babies, they say, are made to blossom
and grow as the rose; the lame arc
made TO walk and leap for joy; the
vigor Of the climate develops noun
tain poonies that can beat the light
ming express though handicapped by
being piloted by an FL Paso high
school girl; those blinded by the desert
glare are restored TO sight; spinsters
Of mature life and professional years
have been known to become so intOxi-
Gated with the elixir of life as they
stroll down the aisles OF the forest as
to chant
o waving trees. o murmuring
breeze;
0 waving, whispering pines;
How long to be again with the
My love Of olden times.
Shall we neglect this Eden as we
have been doing? Is it the good bust
ness man TO hesitate and See the ideal
townsite bought by another for a song
and then after corner lots are selling
for a fortune try to break into the
deal when he could have got in on
the ground floor?
The ideal summer resorts are fas:
being preempted all over this country,
not only for Fairgrounds but for sum
mer workshops. Shall we remain idle
till some foreigner more far sighted
and energetic than We develops the
thing right under our very noses?
Makers of Chautauquas.
What were the factors that made
Chautauqua? There are only two and
we have them in even more pronounced
! degree right here in the southwest In
the first place was the need of sum
mer Misunderstanding, and the mem
(, bers that go out from here and still
1 larger numbers that want TO go and
can't show that we have that need
In the second place was the beautiful