The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1910-11-17
COUNTY INSTITUTE.
Teachers All Present But One, and a
Splendid Corps Of Instructors and
Entertainers.
LECTURES EXCEEDINGLY FINE.


auditorium of the Public Scho VI
building IN this place at 1:30
O'Clock, Monday afternoon, when
County Superintendent, B. q.
Lamberson "tCuched the button"
that set in motion the machinery
of the Forty fourth Annual Coun.
ty Teachers Institute.
In the quiet of his Office, Mr..
Lam mberson, weeks ago, had work.
ed out every detail of the organi.
zation, even down to the appoint.
ment of door keepers and ushers;
consequently, when the power"
was turned on, the wheels began
to turn without a creak, and the
whole machinery started off as
smoothly as the motor Of new
automobile.
A wholly new outfit of lectur.
ers, entertainers and day instruct.
ors had oeen provided, and the
work that has been done thus far
shows that Mr.. Lambersan made
no mistake in judgment when he
selected them.
OF the eighty.two teachers,
forty.seven are ladies, and thirty.
five gentlemen. The instructors
are delighted with the splendid
personel of the teachers, their
dress, gentlemanly and ladylike
bearing, and the intelligent
interest taken IN the subjects
discussed.
The lecture given on Monday
night by DR.. Z. G Ellis on "The
Biggest Word in the Dictionary" "
and that given Tuesday night by
DR.. Byron G. Platt, on "American
Morals" were both unusually
fine, and were highly appreciated
by the large audience IN attend.
ance. While the price of admls.
sion IS trlfle higher than in
former years, half dollar man
Is usually cheaper than twenty
five center.
We have made no attempt to
give even an abstract of the lect.
ures gwen by the day instructors
every talk of which was full of
practical thought, for the reason
that a sentence here and there
from a talk takes up space In a
newspaper and does very little
to convey to the minds of the
readers anything like an lntelli-
gent conception of the thought
contained in the talk.
To this we make just one excep
tion; and that is, to give somewhat
fully the talk of State Superin.
tendent N. @. Scheaffer, one of
the foremost educators IN Amer.
ica to-day. DR.. Scheaffer was
introduced to the institute at IL
o'clock Wednesday morning and
spoke on the "Voice OF Conserva.
tlon," as follows:
"At the meeting held in the
city of Washington, a little more
than year ago, May 13, 1908,
there was gathered In the White
House, the members of the Presi.
dents Cabinet, the Governors
of all of the States and the Cap
tains of the great Industries.
For what purpose had these men
come together from all parts of
the Union? 1t was to discuss
the conservation of our national
resources.
snow that same question had
been discussed by the Scientists
at their annual association meet.
lngs, but the voice of Scientists
was like the voice of one crying
In the wilderness. No one paid
any attention to this noise; but In
the voice of the best advertised
man in the United States, Theo,
dore Roosevelt, 1t was heard from
the Atlantic to the Pacific, and
also by the Governors of Canada
and Mexico. President Roose-
velt drew attention to the fact
that our nation started out with
a large supply OF forests; but,
that today, one half of our forests
had been ou done. The experts
say that in twenty years the
American people viii begin to
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