The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1910-10-27
The SCHOOL BOARD CONVENTION.

Compulsory Education Law.
Need of male teachers.
Ventilation of schools.
Better and larger buildings.
Helpfulness of school board meet
| ings.
These were some of the important
subjects discussed at the annual
school board convention of Manito-
woe county held in the city Wednesday
and attended by more than $50 mem
bers of boards of the county. The
meeting was declared by outside
speakers to be one of the best and
most representative of the year in the
state.
That the cigarette evil may have
bearing upon non-attendance of child
ren in school and that school boards
should support teachers in an effort
to curb the evil was the declaration of
| Deputy State Factory Inspector Peter
son of Superior who with Deputy In
spector Kaems of Sheboygan was a
| speaker at the morning session of the
convention. Mr.. Peterson said that
the cigarette evil was one of the
| things which should receive especial
attention from the teachers and
school boards. With Mr.. Kaems he de-
voted most of his address to the com
pulsory attendance law and the
work which is being done to enforce
| it. The last Legislature amended the
law to give the state factory inspec
| tors force authority as truant officers
and both Messers. Peterson and
Kaems said it had brought results be
cause the officials travel extensively
in the state and reach people the sher-
| if would be unable to get at. Both
| speakers complimented Manitowoc
county upon its excellent school sys
TEN and Co. Supt Meisnest for his
work to enforce the law.
MEN TEACHER is STATES NEED
More male teachers in Wisconsin
county schools was theory of State
Rural Inspector w e. Larson who
spoke at the afternoon session and
said the State should encourage the
employment of male teachers because
they give greater dignity to educa-
tional work. The speaker compli
mented Manitowoc county because of
| tbo ,,n,b of man FOO oh arc am plovod
in its schools and he praised the coun
| ty for it's excellent buildings, declaring
| that the county had the advantage
overmany counties in the state in
| this direction. Mr.. Larson spoke of
the growing interest taken in these
school board conventions, citing the
| fact that last year there were 80
school board conventions in the state
with total attendance of 10000.
Such an assembly of interested men
would bring an uplift in country life.
Home and school must work together
and the future of the state rests on
this Another thing which Mr. Larson
said favorable to this county was that
it paid about the best salaries to teach
ers of any county in the state. Dis
criminate beteem good and poor teach
ers and the district that is paying
good wages to their teachers should in
sist upon getting comptent and inter
ested teachers fortheir schools.
WERNECkE IN HELPFUL TALK.
One of the interesting addresses of
the session which was made helpful
by its valuable suggestions was that
of Henry Wernecke of this city on the
subject of ventilation of the country
is hardware man, and has had years
of practical experience offered many
suggestions to the school board de-
legates and outlined the proper plan
of ventilation of schools and he inn
pressed upon his audience the need of
this to secure the best results in the
work of the school and to safeguard
the health of the children, Mr.. Wer-
necke said Manitowoc county was in
the lead in this direction and he com
plimented school boards for their in
terest and progressiveness in provid
ing for ventilation in schools.
Co. Supt. Meisnest made brief ad-
dress thanking the school boards for
interest in the meeting and for aid to
the department in furthering the in
terests of the school. The conven-
ton continued in session all day at
Turner hall