Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-22

a similar offer of another location
| with a cash contribution of 100000
! The Boosting club met with a dele
/ cation of business men to discuss the
/ plans. The latter decided to form an
other boosting club that should repre-
sent their interests in the city, and
elected Henry Z. Huntington presi-
dent. Mr.. Huntington was notified by
| telegram and replied that he could not
! preside a t the first meeting but APP
/ proved the movement. The other Of
/ ficers elected were Mark keppel, vice
! president; Garner Curran, secretary;
r. j. Waters, treasurer. A committee
composed of Bert Kinney, j. Z. Wick
ham and L. +. Shepard was appointed
to choose an appropriate name for this
second club
Today there will be another meeting
of the Boosting club at the Temple
auditorium after the morning session
of institute. Every one interested in
the subject is urged to be present.
Both city and county institutes were
held yesterday. The session opened
with a request by Superintendent
| Francis for all the teachers to back
him up in a telegram he had formu-
lated to be sent to F.. c. Moore, former
superintendent. but now filing the
| chair of English at Yale. The tele-
gram read:
"141O Los Angeles teachers send love
and Christmas greetings"
Prof Raymond W. Alden of Stanford
university spoke on The Non-VOca-
tional Education and urged that in
this day of specialization the student
should be given a chance for a broad
education as well as a specific one.
TEACHERS AND CITIZENSHIP
Dr. Alexis f. Lange. from Berkeley.
spoke on "The Teacher as the Leading
Citizen" He urged the teacher to a
higher standard of self-respect in his
profession.
1.-THE school is the ground on which
the alien is nodded into an American,
the American nodded into a patriot" "
said the speaker. Tho leading citizen
is the one who does the mOlding, who
teaches the child his place as a cit
iZen. Lot us pray for progression
along this line of grasping social prob
lens in the precincts of the school
room. Of recognizing tho educators of
the country as the founders of the
statesmen and member of the commu-
nifty at large as well as the teacher of
mere subjects"
The county institute hold in Simpson
| auditorium consisted of musical num-
hers and addresses by Mark KeppeL
/ Or. Langc and Miss Frances Richard
| son.
In the afternoon the teachers had a
choice of intellectual entertainments
which included observation at all the
/ high schools, the chamber of COM
morce and other points Of interest in
the city.
THREE NEW LAWS DESIRED
e. ]. Lickley discussed the three new
/ laws which are to be presented to the
| legislature concerning compulsory edu-
cation and juvenile court laws. In part
he said:
1T is our intention to get the COM
pulsory age law raised from IA to IT,
/ There is no more pernicious member
Of a community than the idle boy of "A
or Is years old. At 16 he is getting be-
yond his boyhood ideas, is gaining
some idea Of manhood and looking for
ward TO assuming a mans WOrk-and,
| if he has been in school for tho last
two years his mind is pretty well de
veloped.
zone of the hardest things for the
! attendant officers to combat is the over
whellning number Of children. In this
city we have between $4,000 and 10000
school children and only three officers
TO look after them and see that they
go to school. OF course with such a
proportion about all we can do is to
look up the cases known to the prin-
cipals of the school, necessarily letting
dozens of cases go that need but time
and attention. We shall ask for q law
providing for more attendant officers
| in order to properly conduct this
work"
Industrial Education" was the topic
on which Miss Ednah A. Rich Of Santa
Barbara spoke. She quoted from the
labor commissioner, agreeing with him
in his plea for industrial training IN
the grade schools.