Bisbee daily review., 1910-12-31

1e was easily recognized. as he took Bis chsx of tobacco, shcn he vas equally pleasing in the character of the ht.le boy Y-ho had eaten red rasp- perry pie, cherry pie. blackberry pie. ippie pie. punpkin pie, mince pie, f ill on one thanksgiving day, and strange to say he no longer cared fo- pie.
 Then he Fecited one of Kipling's poems-'The Artist in . manner that was charming and restful to ais hearers.
 Prof. McMurry then delivered his fine address.
 He said: ''The industrial world aas gotten into the schools: the Sorkshcp and the kitchen have a .iiace in the best schools. When ore makes a taing one must first thia., 1t. Correct thinking Is basis ior correct doing. Many of the strong features of industrial arts have been Incorporated in the schools. The children have much natural and phys. seai activity. At first it was thought necessary to suppress this activity. eet of late years it has been learned how to turn this activity to a desired end. First words were used. .bea pictures and lastly objects, then it was found there must be something realistic and the teacher must use na ture study: then the lesson was car ried still farther and now shop work is used
 It took England, France, German, and America, three hundred years to pass from verbalism to realism. but we have come to believe in the ad. justment of the child's activities to his environment. We believe in sen. sory motor art
 The actual doing of things reacts upon the thought and gives skin. The assembling of people in the large cities and towns has hindered the child in it's physical activities: the boy on the farm has far better on, portunities for development.
 zBy industrial art is meant:
 l. Wood construction. ?. Spinning.
 3. Book binding and printing. 4. Domestic sciSnce.
 5. Gardening, and working in clay.
 Some peopse think manual training ! l. Tf with other studies.
 The gre9t industrial world is thought world. In all this great in. dustrial world of today, they are em- ploy,ng scholars, men of brains, and brains thst he knows how to use. It is world that calls for Intelligent. well trained thinkers.
 Intellectual backbone is one of the things r'eeded in this day. There is an esthetic toach in the industrial arts. Ii is not every child that is interes-ed in music, yet many believe m teaching music in the schools and II believe in teaching it thoroughly. One always wants things that are et. tractive and teautiful, so far as one is capable of knowing. The artistic icea has taken possession of the ia. dustrial world. France. Germany and England are sending to this country thousands of art products today: America is sending to them immense quantities of food products. Europe is proud of her products and America IS proud of ters, yet we are paying much more for these finished prod uets than they for our crude articles. tecause the children in the sehnnl. Of Europe are Icing trained in the industrial arts, while the children here lack that training; but the American people are progressive and nill see to 1t chat the children as the land receive the necessary education. 1 Industrial life of today is lacking in beauty. Wherever a person be comes artistic in his or her work, he or she finds delight in that work. When a man becomes an artist in his labor he is no longer drudge. Every artisan should become an art ist