The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-10-24
COUNTY INSTITUTE
STARTS
Eleventh Annual Session
Being Held in High
School Building.

SCHOOL bu1lQlng.
The eleventh annual session of the
Chelan county teachers opened this
morning in the high school building
with about one hundred teachers
present.
The institute is divided into the
following sections: High school,
grammar, intermediate and primary.
Part Of the time all of the sections
are thrown together into one general
assembly.
The tuning up" for the coming
weeks work was done by Prof E. J.
Klemme, of the department of psy-
chology and education of the Ellens-
burg State Normal School. He took
for his subject, Work and Cheerful
ness" He pointed out to the teach
ers. that cheerfulness is one of the
greatest assets that a person can
have.
Prof. Klemme's Address.
Some interesting figures were CIV
en- by Prof. Klemme in his address
to the high school section this morn
ing. He pointed out the fact that
according to statistics gathered by
DR.. Dewey, of Columbia University.
that of 100 pupils entering the first
grade only fifty enter the fifth grade
and only ten enter the high school
and only one enters the university.
According to figures gathered by
the United States Commissioner of
Education only 1.13 per cent of the
whole population of the United States
enter the high school and only one
in 800 of the whole population en-
ter the university.
The subject OF music in the schools
is being discussed in the several sec
lions by Miss TOnette Benson. of the
Wenatchee high school.
J. NJ. Layhue. assistant superin-
tendent of public instruction of
Olympia, addressed the general as
sembly this afternoon on The New
Teachers Manual"
the Bellingham State Normal School,
is on the program for many of the
numbers in the intermediate and pri-
mary sections during the week
TrumbIe's Lecture.
r. E. Tumble. Wenatchee's ex-
pert codling moth expert, gave an
address before the grammar school
section on The Fruit Growers In
sect Friends Following is an out
line of his talk:
Encourage the introduction of
more horticultural work in the rural
and grammar schools.
Develop a line of horticultural
work which can be introduced in the
schools, which is practical and will
lead into more difficult horticultural
work, and which is at the same time
very interesting and educational.
Emphasize the fact that pupils
should be taught TO recognize insect
friends and not consider all insects
enemies.
He took up the interesting story
OF the Golden-eyed Lace Wing which
in the larvae or worm stage kills
millions of red spiders, thus doing
the fruit growers a great service.
Also the lady bug was discussed,
This in the larva or worm stage
kills multitudes of aphis.
Thesolitary wasp Ammophila was
discussed and its interesting life his
tory explained, how it took injurious
cutwOrms and various pests to its
burrows in the ground fer the young
to feed on.
The mud dauber is wasp that
makes mud nests and puts injurious
insects in these nests for its young.
These insects were explained by aid
of large wall charts on which were
drawn the insect friends in their war;
ious stages of development.
The icheuman fly was discussed.
This bores holes into the burrows
or tree boring insects and lays eggs
which hatch into worms which fol-
low up the harmful borers and kill
them; then come out of the hole and
become a mature ichneuman.
Insects that cross-fertilize Or
chards were taken up and their prac-
teal services emphasized.
Tomorrow's Program.
Following is the program for to-
morrow:
General Assembly.
9:00-Opening exercises.
9:30-"Educatio for Efficiency"
Mr.. Colicott.