The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1910-05-13
The City School.

On Friday afternoon there was large
and appreciative assemblage at the pub
lie school to hear an address by State
Superintendent Jones and to, enjoy the
annual exhibit of class room, and ar
work.
Superintendent Mute introduced Prof
Jones, who spoke conyineingly Of >tht
necessity of popular education. The
old system, benefting, as it did, the
five per cent destined for the profes-
sions and ignoring the ninety-fve per
cent who would earn living as labor
ers, merchants, etc, had passed or was
passing away. This led up to plea
for domestic science and manual train
ing, and especially for agricultural train
ing. Great stress was laid on the dig
nifty OF work - intelligent work that
would make the laborer factor in the
upbuilding of finer civilization, and
not mere ignorant plodder
Prof. Jones concluded his interesting
talk by compimenting our exception
able superintendent, our progressive
school board and the high standing Of
the school
Mr.. Mute then invited those present
TO repair to the gymnasium, where the
work of the upper hall was on display.
To the right as one entered the gym
nasium was the work of the sixth and
seventh grade geography.
Besides the ordinary maps with which
we are all familiar, were product maps:
Mineral, with the small bits of mineral
or their limitations showing the where
abouts of such deposits; vegetable, with
corn, wheat, cotton, ETC., marking the
areas of their production. In connec-
ton with the product maps, were pic
lures Of different industries. For in
stance, there was one depicting the SOW
ing, harvesting and milling of wheat,
with the resultant product, flour, being
being made into bread.
There we're fauna maps Of every coun-
try on the globe, showing each animal
in its own habitat.
The chronological maps were we'll done,
and their interest enhanced by short es-
says on life in the different countries.
These were accompanied by illustrations
which, though ever SO small, would inn
press the lesson on the mind-a bunch
Of grapes for wine-growing France, a
tulip or a windmill for sea-girt Hol-
land.
Add to all this, large maps of ocean
currents, trade and travel routes and
winds, and you have some idea of the
work done by the sixth grade pupils
under Mrs. Mary g. Adams.
In the seventh grade we found much
the same in the way of maps, but in
addition there were very fine illustra-
tons of astronomical geography, show
ing causes of change of seasons, longi-
tude and time Chat bugbear Of former
generations, proofs of the rotundity of
the earth, in fact everything to help the
child to an understanding of this diff
cult portion of geography.
The west wall was covered with speci-
mems of writing-a sample of the pupils
work in September, and another near
the close of the term - all showing
marked progress. Union City is evil
IDENTIFY not cultivating Horace Greedy
variety of writing.
There was time when the patrons
Of the public school had reason to COM
plain of lack of English in the lower
grades; when the children came up to
that peerless teacher, Mrs. Carter, more
of applied grammar than the
average kindergarten pupil and with
quite as meagre vocabulary To any
one attending the primary exhibit few
weeks ago, the change wrought by the
present methods must have been appa-
.ent. And understanding the easy, $
steady steps by which the students have
been led, the fine papers showing the
lnalyzing and diagramming of senten-
,es were no surprise. These in turn
proved to be foundations for the really
rood, illustrated reproductions to be i
ound in the sixth, seventh and eighth t
grades Nor was letter-writing, that \
most important branch of literature, d
orgotten. There were business letters,
descriptive letters and purely friendly
etters, well written, well expressed and
spelled. E
A comment made by some one who :
vas examining the illustrated arithme-
ic was: why, children couldn't help
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