Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1910-06-06
FARMER AND
TEACHER FIRST
Their Sphere Higher Than
Doctors or Lawyers, Says
Mayor Seligman
INSTITUTE OPENED TODAY
Superintendent Conway Pro-
mises Position to Every
Pedagogue.

Declaring that the hayseed and the
school marin are OF greater import.
ance to the commonwealth than are
the physician and the lawyer, and
that while Santa Fe has no steel mills
or factories to boast of it has some
thing better in the way of a superb To-
cation and peerless climate with every
breath of a air a free tonic, Mayor
Seligman this morning opened the
Santa Fe County Teachers Institute
in the high school auditorium.
There were Al teachers, holding
third grade certificates at the open,
ing and by this evening ten more are
expected to arrive. The institute will
probably have an attendance of 70
teachers before it closes this summer.
Mayor Seligman was asked to ad-
dress the teachers by County Superin-
tendent of Schools John v Conway,
and by Mrs Dixon, who is directress
of the institute. The mayor said in
substance:
Ladies and Gentlemen: 1t gives
me the greatest OF pleasure to offer
you the freedom of our city in behalf
of the city council and the people of
Santa Fe. 1t is with regret, however,
that | cannot welcome you in a city
filled with factories and mills and
steel plants, which are always of in
terest to the strange and which seem
to spell progress along commercial
and industrial lines. But we can show
you something that is more beautiful
than a huge factory and offer you air
that is purer than that which comes
from a smoky city. We have city of
mate is unrivalled. There is ozone in
the air that comes down from those
mountain pines nearby and there is
oxygen in this altitude of 1000 reer.
This climate is bracing. 1t invigorates
mind and body and we are proud OF
natures gifts.
Harmony and Hard Work.
Il see stamped on your faces the
traces of harmony and hard work. You
have had both to attain the success
which has been yours and it is neces-
sary to combine harmony and hard
work to achieve success anywhere.
Life is a constant struggle and per
sOnally | have no great use for the
tailor made woman nor for the custom
made man. Oaughter.) There are
those in the world who are constantly
perpetrating jokes at the expense OF
the rough shod farmer and who is
called a hayseed and also jests at the
teacher who is termed the schoo
marm.' From what | have been able
to learn by experience, the farmer
really gives us the staff of life ant
! the teacher the government tha
makes that life a useful one. Next II
! the parent stands the teacher and the
life of our government would be shor
indeed were it not for the teacher
guiding hand training the youth o
the land to become a useful citizen.
place the farmer and the school teach
er on even a higher plane than tha
of the doctor and of the lawyer. NJ
one, it seems to me, can fail to see
that teaching morality, sobriety ane
correct thinking occupies any but the
highest sphere in life
The mayor concluded wishing th'
teachers a profitable and enjoyable SO
jcurn in the city during the institut,
and concluded by paying a tribute t.
both Mr.. Conway and to Mrs. DiXol
for the work they have accomplishe'
along educational lines.
Mr.. Conway's Promise.
Mr.. Conway delivered a brief at
dress to the teachers this mornin
telling them that he means to find
place for every teacher attending tn
institute, either in Santa Fe count
or somewhere in the territory an
said that the date for holding the il
stitute had purposely been place
early SO that these positions might b
properly filled.
The Santa Fe county teachers inst
tute convened this morning at
O'Clock at the Santa Fe high scho(
building, under the direction of Coul
ty Superintendent John V. Conwa.
conductor, Mrs. George Dixon, and II
structor J. A. Wood.
Forty-four teachers are enrolled fo
the first day and it is expected tha
this number will be increased to Z!
County School superintendent Coz
way and Mrs. Dixon addressed tn
teachers, followed by Hon. Arthu
Se,igman, mayor of the city, VIII
made the address of welcome Profes
sor J. A. Wood who is absent fror
the city, is expected home the latte
part of the week, when he will assum
his duties in the institute.
Inclinations point to the most sut