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The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1910-01-21
school, HYGIENE AND EFFICIENCY.
Read before the Randall County Teachers
Institute, Dec. q, 1909 by +. N. Wilson,
Pre,.. Canyon City Public School Board.


GHconserving the child's powers
For appropriate reactions in the
development of his potential
ties. This involves the consid-
Grafton of both physical and
mental hygiene. While they
are correlates, both need to be
studied that these relations may
be harmoniously continued.
The mind must not be forced at
the expense of the vegetative
processes. The hygiene of the
body has received more atten-
tion than the hygiene of the
mind. In a practical way it
has been demonstrated that the
efficiency of the school largely
depends upon the character of
the school plant. The location
and the structure of the school
house; it's seating, heating, light
ing, equipment, sanitation and
care have received attention in
our more progressive cOmmunl-
mites. This is one of the Sanest
steps of advancement in the ed
ucational progress of the last
few years. Courses in school
hygiene are being offered in
teachers colleges and the ply
sical welfare of the child is re-
ceiving consideration commen-
surate to its demands.
These courses in hygiene
should be so extended as to in.
clude the study of children
diseases; the symptoms, period
of incubation, duration and
methods of dealing with school
infections; spread of contagious
should be given attention.
Time may also be we'll spent in
covering the field of the preven
.tion of accidents and the appli-
cation of first aids in injuries
and accidents. In brief, all that
bears upon the individual physi-
cal well being of the student,
contributing toward his growth,
development and resisting
Ipower belong to such courses.
This implies, also, an acquain-
tance with the value and forms
of physical training; the place of
play, manual training, gymnas-
tics and athletics in the field of
education. Physical health is a
good asset, and all that con-
tributes toward efficiency.
There is a growing interest in
the study of mental hygiene as
an economic consideration in
school work. This has been
Weakened by the study of over
pressure and fatigue. These in
{ (vestigations have given US in
sight into the compleXity of the
problem involved in the educa-
. tion of human being. Pedago-
ey has been advanced to a
science. The study move
ment aroused interest every
where, in that concrete thing,
the child. Parents took up the
discussion and teachers have
profited in the criticisms made
upon the work of the school.
1t has been found that school
conditions, rather than over
study are responsible for the
child's diminishing returns.
The steps are unhygienic con
ditions, overfatigue, strain, dis
ease or organic defect.
Mental hygiene involves the
hygienes of school control. The
government may contribute
toward thinking efficience or it
may retard, if not quite prevent,
thinking. The factor which de-
termines wholesomeness or un-
> Sholesomeness is the personal
ity of the teacher. The worth
of the school is measured by the
worth of the teacher. His per-
sonality dominates its spirit, in
The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1910-01-21

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His quality of voice, his mental,
emotional and physical move
ments are interpreted and felt
by the school. DR.. Ludwig S
experiment in the Teachers
Training College at Dumstardt
led him to conclude that it is not
! the instruction but the instruct
or which produces the burden
ing of school hour.
An authority implied, not self
imposed; an attitude of express
i've endeavor instead of repress-
i've effort; the feeling of a friend
ly, sympathetic, personally in
terested helpfulness go far
toward producing working eff
fectiveness. The school is a
working organism, and the less
the friction between it's parts,
the greater it's potentiality. 1t
is spiritual as we'll as a tempo
raj democracy. Its government
and control should be participa-
tive rather than prescribed. 1t
must be set up in the hearts of
the pupils. The child must be
brought into right relations,
when it is found that he lacks
the free, spontaneous attitude
so essential for good work. In
so doing the process should be
orderly, naturally and sympa-
thetically carried out. Threat
ening the promised and post
poned punishment add insult to
injury, arousing base contem-
plations, poisoning the mind and
the body, diverting channels of
energy from work to worry.
from the spirit which quickens
into life to the spirit which ran
kles and kills. Working eff
cheney implies harmonious
schoolroom activity.
School efficiency is promoted
by the adaptation of the curricu
lum to the needs and capacity
of the pupil. Causes of break
down are found in the tendency
to push children through
school prescription for which by
nature and training they are
mentally untitled. The subject
matter should be neither too
hard nor too easy. The former
confuses; the latter stultities.
But the mind should be stimu-
lated to activity by the next ap-
propriate object of thought, diff
fering in content in that it
should require effort, and yet so
related to past thinking that
useless confusion and eXDendi-
ture of energy is not lost upon
it. Activities should be eXer
cised in the order of their de-
velopment. In nerve impulse,
from lower to higher levels of
functioning; from fundamental
to accessory, in motor activity:
from sense perception through
memory and imagination up to
reason, in mentation. Genetical-
ly considered, the educational
value of the curriculum depends
upon the degree to which it
ministers to the growth of the
child's activities in keeping
within the order of their evo-
luton.
Maximal working effective
ness is secured through effort
with interest. Imitation, in
terest and effort are the three
impelling forces which direct
the energies in the successive
stages of the maturing process.
They are supplemental and com
Elemental forces. Imitation with
out interest is blind, non-select'
i've. Effort without interest is
wasteful. Interest without eff
fort is playful. Interested eff
fort is economic efficiency.
The method of presentation,
The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1910-01-21

The First National Bank mov-
ed into it's new bank building
Wednesday afternoon and the
boys were so anxious to get into
their new commodious quarters
that they worked nearly all night
to get their books, furniture and
fixtures in position so that their
large business may not be inter
rupted. Some of the old fixtures
The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1910-01-21

were installed on accout of the
manufacturers falling to place
the elegant new fixtures and fur
niture contracted for. So it was
concluded that it would be better
to occupy the elegant new build
ing with part of their old fixtures
than to wait for the contractor
indefinitely to install the same.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1910-03-13
MINERS Do NOT
WANT A STRIKE
PRESIDENT LEWIS MAKES SUP
ELEMENTARY STATEMENT
WILL STRIKE IF DEMANDS
ARE NOT MET.

Cincinnati, March 12,-"The min
ers are not talking strike and don't
want a strike, but If strike must
follow the failure by this conference
to agree upon new wage scale
100000 men and every industry de-
pendent upon coal will be affected
This was the explanation offered
tonight by T. l.. Lewis, president of
the United Mine Workers of Amer,
lea, of the statement credited to him
earlier that strike was sure to fol
low the refusal Of the coal miners Of
the central competitive field to meet
the demands of the men. Coming
upon the heels Of the failure Of the
scale committee conference to reach
an understanding and the reference
Of the entire dispute to a sub-com.
mittee, the alleged threat Of the min
ers' execrtive caused furry among
workers and operators alike that
lasted until Lewis made the supple
mentary statement
The sub-scale committee will meet
for the first time Monday afternoon.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1910-03-13
cuMMlNS AND DoLLlVER TALK
OF THEIR OPPOSITION
IN THE STATE.
NO FEAR or RESULTS
Think the Fight viii Afford Then
Long Desired Opportunity to
Show Their Course
is Right.

Washington, March l2.- Senators
'Cummins and Dolliyer were in CON
ference today relative to the politi-
cal situation in Iowa as affected by
the recent Des Moines conference of
administration Republicans. 1t was
announced that the purpose OF ire
Des Moines meeting was to arrange
q campaign In the interest of the adj
mnistration. The Iowa senators in-
tepret this to mean that there Is 10
be a systematic effort to discredit
them in the state and especially be-
fore the next state Republican con-
ference, some time during the SUM
mer.
They understood that the state is
to be canvassed with view to nomi'
mating delegates to the convention
who will be willing to censure them
for their course in the senate They
have antHgonized the administration
not only ON the tariff, but on the pos
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1910-03-13
STAR NESSES
ON The STAND
FOR PROSECUTION IN THE
TRIAL or SPORTING EVENT
SWlNDLERS AT COUNCIL
BLUFFS, IOWA.

Council Bluffs, Iowa, March 12-
The government placed some Of its
star Witnesses on the stand In the
prosecution Of John G. Maybray III
the fedarl court today The govern
ment seeks to establish its charge of
Illegal use Of the mails.
Aside from the mas Of documen.
tary evidence in the way Of letters
alleged to have been sent and re,
ceived by the defendants. applications
for post Office boxes at Council Bluffs,
Omaha, and San Francisco were In,
troduced and identified. The one
made at Council Bluffs was accom-.
panied by the Identification OF May.
bray as the person applying.
Special Assistant Attorney General
Rush called several victims who re-
cited the story Of their losses oi
sums ranging from $4,000 to $4,000
The aggregate Of the sums alleged te
have been lost by the victims wing
testified today exceeds 10000.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1910-03-13
Will. ATTACK
BALDWIN WILL
CHILD OF LUCKY BALDWlN'S
COMMON LAW MARRIAGE
WITH LILLIAN ASHLEY
WANTS A SHARE IN ESTATE.

Los Angeles, Cal, March t2.-Prep-
atory to an attack on the $4,000 600
estate Of the late II. j. (Lucky) Bald
win, the Arcadia turfman, who diel
year ago, petition was filed in the
probate court today asking that a
guardian be appointed for Beatrice
Anita Baldwin, otherwise known as
Beatrice Anita Turnbull, declared to
be the daughter Of Baldwin and LII.
Ian J. Ashley,
The share claimed by the petition.
er would make about s5,000,00o. The
basis Of the claim is the alleged corn
mon law marriage between Baldwin
and Lillian Ashley That marriage,
it Is acknowledged, has since become
void, but the contestants are relying
upon the statute which declares that
all children of void marriages are leg.
itimate.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1910-03-13
PARIS STIRRED
BY new SCANDAL
EM5EZZLEMENT OF DuEZ TALK.
ED IN CHAMBER OF DEPu-
TIES -- PREMlER'S REslGNA-
TloN WILL BE DEMANDED.

Paris, March ia scandal in con.
nection with the liquidation Of the
property Of religious orders has
aroused political passions In France
TO pitch only comparable with the
Panama, Dreyfus and Boulanger af-
fails. The entire country Is shockei.
but as Is customary In France, the
moral is oyershadowed by the politi-
cal side. The government opposition
may try to overthrow Premier Bri.
and Monday when the debate on the
Interpolation concerning the emf
be2zlement Of Duez Is resumed by
the chamber Of deputies.
The premier personally has come
out Of the fray with flying colors.
as lie dil everything In his power ID
bring Duez to book two years ago.
The developments in the affair are
amazing, The authorities have not
as yet been able to confirm the stats
ment by Duez that he lost millIoa
In stock gambling, but they have dis.
covered shaky enterprises In which
he was engaged. Much money was
apparently squandered by Duez in
riotous living.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1910-03-13
RAILROAD BILL
CHANGED AGAIN
HOUSE 5coMMtTTEE ON INTER
STATE COMMERCE STILL
WORKING ON THE ADMINS
TRATIoN's MEASURE.

Washington, March 12.-The al
ministration railroad bill was amenI-
led NY the house committee on inter
state commerce today 50 as to make
the commercial or market valuation
|of railroad properties by the inter
state commerce commission con-
|dition precedent to the merging, con-
so'idation or reorganization Of roads
|subiect to Interstate commerce law.
This change, one Of the most tlras-
tic yet made, opens the doors only to
the valuation Of properties whose
merger is contemplated The com.
lmittee has not By this action endors-
ed the various schemes for the ply
steal valuation of all railroad prof
| erty in accordance with many h,h
introduced In both houses of e0s4-
gress
1 The amendment proposes a handi
cap on such consultations as tha
Hartman merger Of the Union and
Southern Pacific lines
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1910-03-13
THRILLING WITH
The COMMITTEE
CHAIRMAN NELSON MAKES THIS
cAARc- : AGAINST TiNcaoIs
ATTORNEY.
HAD A LIVELY CLASH
Engineer Davis Of Reclamation Ser
vice Was on Stand--TeI!s
Of aBlack Tent
Campaiun.

Washington, March IA SHARP
cla:h occurred between senatoI --a.7
son, chairman Of the BalliagcrPln-
chot committee, ald Attorney Pep,
per, counsel for Clifford Plnchot, near
the close Of todays ses ion Of the
inquiry when Nelson accused the
lawyer Of "triiing' with the commit.
tee.
White with anger Pepper demand
ed to know If that was the Judge
ment Of the committee and whel
several members exclaimed, let Il
pass" he said he que toned the sen
ator's right to make such an aceusa-
tion.
Pepper was referring to several
letters in the record in an endeavor
to have Chief Engineer Davis. Of the
reclamation service, refute seyera
statements attributed to Secretary
Ballinger, that the restorations oi
certain lands in the west to public
entry after they had been withdrawn
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1910-03-13
MANY INVITATIONS
BEING REFUSED
ROOSEVELT WANTS HIS STAY IN
LONDON TO BE AS QUIET AND.
uNosTENTATloUs AS PossE
BILE.

London, March 12.-Fomer Pres
ident Roosevelt purposes to make his
stay in England as quiet and unos-
tentatious as possible He has re-
fused hundreds of invitations from
public and also private sources, in
cuding those for banquets by the
Pilgrims Society and the American
Society, both of which organlzarlon
confidently counted upon entertain
ms, him.
The American embassy Is receiving
a mass OF correspondence regarding
Roosevelt's visit. Many of the most
prominent people are exceedingly
anxious to secure the distinguished
American as guest.
Ambassador Reid has been com
PEELED to decline in Roo evelt's name
practically all Of these insistent In
vitations.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1910-03-13
THE MINE WORKERS DECIDED
AGAINST IN APPEAL FROM U.
s. CIRCUIT COURT.
PERMANENT INJUNC TON
Practically Put in Force--unIon Men
Cannot Picket Around Prop
erty Of Hickman Coal
Company.

Richmond. Va, March 78.-By dis
missing an appeal Of the United Mine
Workers Of America, the United
States circuit court of appeals prac-
tically perpetuated temporary in,
junction of sweeping character.
The case Is that Of President Lewis
of the mine workers. as individual
and yice.president OF the Union
against the Hickman Coal and Coke
Company Of West Virginia. and is
an appeal from the decision of the
United States circuit court OF the
northern district of West Virginia.
The injunction restrains the union
frCm interfering with employees OF the
company for the purpose of union
izing the mine; from interfering and
eonspiring to interfere with employees
of the plaintiff; from trespassing on
the company's property; from COM
pelling by threats any employe to
leaye from establishing pickets.
The sole excuse, says the decision,
is alleged to be that some of the
plaintiffs rival coal operators refused
to comply with the unions demands
and exactions.
The opinion also says: They have
said to the plaintiff, Notwithstanding
you have complied with the require
ments of the organization (miners'
union), have agreed to all its terms
and conditions, have employed only
union men, have secured nearly $1,000
to union funds in the way Of dues
from your miners, We propose to stop
gouE onerations. sssslt. dawn Your nine
and in accordanc& With the purpose
to injure, have actually carried out
these declarations, with no promise
of let up before the plaintiffs final
rCfn should be accomplished
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1910-03-13
IN PHILADELPHIA STRIKE BE-
CAUSE iT Is TOO MUCH
A LOCAL AFFAIR.
PHILADELPHIA BANKERS
Had Been Looked to for Aid, But
They Also Refuse-Bakers Le-
eide to Strike - More
Cars Running.

Philadelphia, March 1.-TWO OF
the four mediums through which the
people Of the city hoped strike set
tlement might be reached, were to-
day practically eliminated as OF pcs
sible assistance in bringing an end
to Philadelphia labor troubles. Yes
terday IT. was hoped that either Taft,
the bankers of Philadelphia, the
National Civic Federation or the local
councilman bodies would find way
to stop the strife. the hrt two me-
dirms have been virtually ahan-
doncd.
The word from Washington, seem,
ingly on good authority is that the
president could not see his way clear
to intervene. because the trouble is
OF local character.
The president Of the Philadelphia
Clearing House Association took the
stand against interfering unless the
Amalgamated Association Of Street
and Electric Railway Employees agree
to recde from their stand on the
question of exclusive recognition Of
their organization.
There was no change in the gen
eral strike situation. The transit
company placed a few more cars in
operation and with the exception of
the Kensington district they met with
little trouble.
Several hundred ioprneymen bak.
ela met and agreed to strike untll
the street car men get what they
want.
The cnployers pralset that Monday
will see the beginning of a general
break among the sympathetic strik-
ers, ana dozens of local unions held
meetings today and tonight to lay
plans to hold the men together,
There was the usual number Of dis
tutbances in the Kensington district
this afternoon. Many cars were
stoned, but only in one case did the
police have much trouble,
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1910-03-13
COMMENT BY eoMpERs.

Washington, March 12--The pre-
dictions that the courts in their de-
cisions against labor would touch the
pubIic conscience and precipitate q
revulsion of feeling in this country,
was made tonight by Samuel Com
pers, president of the American Fed
eTattion of Labor, when he read the
decision of the United States circuit
court of appeals at Richmond, Va,
in the Hickman strice case.
Gompers asserted that the de-
cision of the court declaring uplayful
a sympathetic strike meant nothing
less than recognition of human slay-
cry.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1910-03-13
Cl|f0 VS.. PADUCAH.
HIGH SCHOOL TEAMS OF TWO
CITIES MEET IN BASKET
BALL CONTEST.
Cairo Won Both Games by Hand.
some Scores-Good Game at
Night-Dance and Recep-
ton in Conclusion.

3aducah high school went down In
Overwhelming defeat yesterday af-
ternoon and night in basketball, at
the hands Of Cairo high school. The
girls game, which was played in the
afternoon, came OUT 2G to . in favor
Of G. II. S., and the bovs' game at
night. % to IL for the local high
school.
The game in the afternoon be
tween the two girls teams Of Pa
sducah and Cairo was an uninterest-
ing exhibition Of the game, because
Paducah simply had no snow at all
C. Fl. s. had them outclassel IN
everything, and even from the fir t
victory was certain for c. Fl. s.
The night game was exceedingly
interesting. The frs; half cesed af.
ter hard fghting Sy .oth teens. In
the second half G. H. s. put in fast
work and ran up score after score.
The stellar performer for G. H. S,
was Hill, playing lelt forward, he
threw FIVE baskets anu one foul.
However, the rest of the Cairo team
put up fine playing.
Paducah's individual star was
Browning. playing forward, he having
four baskets and one foul throw TO
his credit.
At both games fine crowds We're on
hand. showing their support finan.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1910-03-13
tai savings bank bill.

tai savings bank bill.
I'VE are ready to meet the issue, !"
said Senator Cummins. I'VE cannot,
on the other hand, leave our duties
here for the present, but we don't
doubt that our friends will take care
Of our interests. We deprecate the
effect of the conflict upon the party,
but 50 far as our personal interests
are concerned we would have hoped
for nothing better, as it will give us
an opportunity to make a fight and
show why we have pursued the
course we have in Washington. we
don't fear the results"
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1910-03-13

under Secretary Garfield, had been
made on the recommendation Of the
reclamation service. Nelson thought
it was a waste of time to go over the
ground already covered In each In.
stance in whcih the question wa put.
the witness replied that Ba,linger had
made a misstatement
Davis said he merely meant to lis
claim any intmation that BallingeI
had done wrong. He referred only
to his acts, he continued. and not to
statements, for many of them were
wrong.
The socalled black tent" affair
figured conspicrousIy in Davis testi-
mony. He said that H. r. Perkins,
purchasing agent for the reclamation
service went through the west lee.
turing in a black tent to advertise
the reclamation work under oruers
or Balinger, Officials Of the service
wero subsequently informed, he sad,
that Perkins was getting an allow
ance Of $500 q month from the Har-
riman railway lines In addition to his
$1,000 salary.
Davis said Perkins proved his
fidelity to the Hartman lines hy
hipping So per cent ot the material
from Chicago to Meza, Ariz., where
the reclamation service had been en-
gagged in a project, by way of their
lines which made the longest and
most extern live route.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1910-03-13
COMPULSORY PUBLICITY
OF Election and Campaign contribu.
tons and Expenses Nearly
Accomplished.

Washington, March ,12.--Compul
sorry publicity of election and cam.
paign contributions and expenses
came great way nearer being ac-
complished in fact today when the
house committee on election Of pres
ident and memhers OF congress, re-
ported out, with favorable recommen-
dation, the bin introduced by Repre-
sentative Mccall, Republican mem
bel from Massachusetts, which had
been reposing in that committee al
most since the present session be-
gan.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1910-03-13
GREATER THAN NATION
Thomas Hisgen VIII Oppose the
Proposed Rockefeller Founda-
ton for Charity.

Springfield, Mass, March 12.-The
federal Incorporation Of the prposed
Rockefeller aoundation will be OPP
posed in Washington by Thomas L.
Hisgen of West Springfield the In.
dependence party candidate for jresi.
dent in 1908. Hisgen has always
been the enemy Of the Standard OH
Company. He stated that he had en-
gagged counsel. His opposition is
based on the allegation that under
the charter proposed the Rockefeller
foundation will be come corpora
tlon greater than the government
which created it,
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1910-03-13
MAN AND MONEY GONE.

Boston, March l2,--An alleged de-
falcation Of more than $4,000 by an
official of a bonding company, who
disappeared, was made known today
as the result of the investigation Of
a statement in a circular by the treas
ury department at Washington. The
official is o. M. Wheelock, auditor Of
the Massachusetts Bonding and Sure.
ty company, and the exact amount of
the shortage is given as $9,gi1.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1910-03-13
TAFT'S BROTHER -IN-LAW
DIED BY HIS OWN HAND

Pittsburg, Marvh 12.-Suicide by
shooting caused the death of Thomas
Mex, Laughlin. assistant treasurer OF
the Jones & Laughlin Steel Company.
and brotherln,law of President and
Mrs TAFT Confirmation Of many ra-
nors was made by Coroner Jamison
litter a visit TO Iaughlin's home this
afternoon. The physician's certiii-
cate stated that the cause was cere-
hral apoplexy
The coroner, after his visit to the
Laughin home, said the physicians
return was technically correct, al
though cerebral hemorrhage has been