The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-11-23

If boy or girl is going wrong, try
to see if you can't straighten them
out. The saddest thing | have had
to do is to send a fourteen-year-ol
boy to the House of Correction.
Teach the boys the value of time,
teach them to do something-to
work.
Il would have every boy taught to
do some work, not that he may
make money, but because idleness
is sin.
"A boy oughtnt to be paid for
everything. If he does fifty cents
worth of work pay him Just that
much. The value of 81 and of a
81 worth of services is the best
thing for any boy to learn.
Times are not as good as they
used to be- people sometimes say.
Before every election the country is
going to the demnition bows. After
the election we find out that there
are a whole lot of pretty good fell
lows.
Judge Searle read an interesting
poem on Bethany in 1920" Beth
any is improving" he continued;
Wayne county is improving. Our
schools, farms and roads are improv-
ing. With the telegraph and the
telephone and rural free delivery,
home life in Wayne county is i'm
proving. The country is growing
better. 1t is for you directors to aid
In the good work.
The rarest kind of good citizen
shipis that which goes along, willing
to do their duty every day Make
your boys contented so that they
will not be running away to the city.
Make this county, with her farms and
lakes and babbling brooks, and
mountain tops, one of the finest and
( best places, one of the happiest and
| best counties in the whole State of
Pennsylvania.
F. p. Kimble, Esq, delivered a
strong address in which he made
some startling statements
General discussion was opened by
the president, and after a free ex-
preston of views, the convention ad-
journed at noon.
Mr.. Kimble's Address.
Directors of Wayne County:
When your chairman asked me, q
few days ago, to speak for a few
minutes to the directors, l readily
assented; not that / have any new
theory to offer, but because of my
interest in the good cause of public
education. If we rightly appreciate
the enormous consequences that re,
suit from combined efforts of those
in charge of the public school sys
TEN, even for single year, none ol
us can fail to be impressed with the
responsibility of the Office of direc
tor. With school property in the
state exceeding $96, 100000 in value
with 34,62S schools to be supplied
with teachers, and with the annua
payment to these teachers of oVel
$l9, 500, 900, we can scarcely compre
hend the great burden resting OF
those in charge of running the pub
lie educational system of our state.
Having taught in my early days
and since served as school director
for over fifteen years, / have Learned
to appreciate the services of direc
tors and always gain inspiration
!. from this collective body.
: No question for solution to-day Il
, fraught with greater consequence
than the question of education of ou
, future citizens. Any discussion
| among educators, of ways and means
and of intelligent methods for th
promotion of the efficiency of tn
, educational system, is worthy of ou
, earnest consideration.
, Chiefly then we should enquire in
= to the motive that actuates us as di
rectors Have we broad conception
of the responsibility and dignity o
! the office? And are we all keepin
) before our vision high ideals of tn
results to be attained?
= DR.. j. p. Wickersham, late Super
5 intendent of Public instruction 4
Y Pennsylvania, in the latter part @
e his career, was elected to the ofiic
I of school director, and was wont I
: say to his friends, that he had jus
e been elected to the highest office
the gift of his constituents. Tn
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