Omaha daily bee., 1910-05-27
SCHOOL MANAGERS TALK SHOP
Opening Session of Association Con-
vention Held in Boyles Building.
PRESIDENT MAKES A SPEECH
"Day of Intensity IL Here-One Acre
Produces Today as Much ms Ten
Acres of Yesterday" the
Speaker Declared.

The opening session OF the Western Com
mercial School Managers association con-
vention was held Thursday morning at
Boyles Business college, and the first thing
on the program was the address OF G. w.
Weatherly OF Joplin, Mo, the president of
the association. The gathering was large
and members from the entire west were
present. Colonel George Soule Of New Or
leans and Mr.. and Mrs. George Stewart
OF skerry's college, Glasgow, Scotland. were
among the far away visitors.
Time was" said President Weatherly,
when business colleges were few and far
between, and students In those days went
hundreds Of miles to seek wisdom at the
doors. II is not SO now. The day OF the
roaring lion and the soaring eagle in pen
manship has gone-likewise the day of the
sipshod methods OF the old-time professor
| 1t was the day OF chtap things, but all
that has been changed. The day OF inten
silly In every line il here and is here to
stay. Ono acre now produces as much as
ten acres of the long ago. Our schools
have changed for the better. 1t costs more
now to start and maintain a school than II
cost under the old days-and 1t will cost
more tomorrow than it costs today.
Code of Ethics.
THE school man is not responsible for
this change 1t has simply come about as
a part of the onward march of progress.
1t Is now high time for cooperation among
/ school men. We need a code of ethics to
which each member should subscribe and
which he agrees to follow out to the let
ter, under penalty of losing his member
ship in the association. This code should
be based on tho square deal plan and not
on the gum shoe method now in vogue.
1t should touch on the relationship of one
school to another, to business education in
general, tuition rates. in the broad fellow
ship of man.
II recommend that a reading circle be
established and committee or three be
appointed to select source of reading for
teachers who may wish to improve their
professional training. This course might
be similar to the chatauqua circle estab-
lished by the state public school teachers
A two or four year course should be Of
fered, and should pertain more to the pro-
fessional training side than to facts.
THE middle west is blessed with two
good live associations the Missouri valley
and the Central Each has its own terri.
tory and it is my firm belief that each
should be carefully kept to that territory
Let each do the work and cater to the
teachers for which 1t was organized. Let's
} not as members of both associations, cause
unnecessary competition-its bad enough
for schools to compete without association.
doing the same thing.
High school commercial departments ar,
here to stay, and the only way to compel,
with them is to deliver better goods In
shorter time, and. then perhaps, find
buyer for the goods and pay the freight
The high school, as it is so far, hurts n,
good school, nor will it do so until thei
system is changed"
Urges Cooperation.
Almon F. Gates of Waterloo, Ia, secre
tary Of, the association. readssa report II
Which he emphasized the importance O
Cooperating and exchanging information
concerning the cost of supplies. He toll
that the present membership of the bod
is 1O6 and that the association is but tw
years old. He read lists of figures relativ
to the cost of supplies and pointed out tn
!, way for saving considerable money b
I, purchasing supplies at the lowest prices.
w. N. Watson of Lincoln read a pape
: on THE Advertising Campaign" He sal
:, that advertising is the wonder of the pre-.
i sent century and that it dates back to tn
days Of Noah and Jonah, and that 1t is a
b DOunuleSS as the dmDltlOnS' or Napoleon
/, He spoke of newspaper advertising b
means of electrotypes. with a key to tie
the paper in which the advertisement al
e peared. He said that he thought the be-
plan was to advertise the good points
the school and not the fact that 1t is poss
BILE to get certain reductions in the prlC
T. Of tuition, etc The best thing for schoc
/, he said, was to have an alumni who
,e proud of its college and who will give
ID plenty of free advertising by the quallt
is of work after graduation.
w. N. Ferris of Big Rapids, Micf
,r spoke on Human Nature IN the Schoo
d, room" Colonel George Soule of Ne
to Orleans gave a talk on the general prime
Id pies connected with educational instit
tions and gave many pointers to the ma
er ayers relative to methods in use in Anne
r lean schools. Robert Spencer of Mllwauk
OF and r. f. Williams of Des Molnes al
lit spoke. There were number of fiv
nd minute talks on matters relating to bus
ness colleges.
an The opening session of tho Central Cor
ne merclal Teachers association will Ia
place Friday morning at 9 o'clock, with
lie address of welcome by Mayor Dahlma
n An elaborate program has been arrange