The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1911-02-17
FIRST PATRON-M
AN INTERESTING AFFAIR
Prof. Klemme Tells Patrons of kenne'
wick to Beware of Crowded
School Conditions

The first number OF the lecture
course for school patrons was gwen
in the Commercial Club Hall, Fri
day evening of last week, with about
A hundred and fifty in attendance.
1t was rather disappointing to the
committee in charge that more OF
the parents did not respond to the
efforts which are being made to
arouse enthusiasm in the schools
ana secure a more perfect co-opera-
ton of parents, pupils, and teach
ers, by giving evidence of their IN
terest in the movement by their pre-
sence. The excellence of the paper
given by Mrs. S. NJ. Henderson on
THE Relation of Parents and the
Community to the Schools and
Prof. Klemme's address on The
American Boy were certainly
worthy of the appreciation of the
entire community.
1t was noted by Mrs. Henderson
that parents generally expect more
of their children than others and
are in measure blinded by their
faith in them. Most teachers will
appreciate this view of the case as
all have experienced the misrepre-
sentation of children who carry
their woes to their parents and gen
| orally manage to distort the facts
so that the teacher is given undue
blame.
Near the conclusion of her paper,
Mrs. Henderson said that care
should he exercised that nothing
enter by the municipal door which
would counteract the good influence
of the home and the school.
She concluded the treatment OF
her subject with a strong plea to
the parents who spend their lives
saving and sacrificing themselves
that their children may live in lux
ury and said that the present gen
Grafton should not fear to begin
good work for their children to fin
ish, summing up her excellent pre-
fentation of this phase of the case
with Let us do our own spending
and let our children do their own
earning"
After a few words of warm COM
commentator on this excellent
paper, from Supt. Lewis, the High
School Chorus gave vocal selection
Of four parts which was we'll re.
ceived.
In leading up to his subject, Prof.
Klemme expressed his fear that
Kennewick would fail to make am.
pie provision for the exigencies OF
the future in building their new
school house, for this mistake is one
common to almost every growing
city in the West, SO apparently
bOundless are the development pos
sibilities of almost all localities. He
urged that kennewick should have
building now which will answer
for the needs Of the school twenty
years from now, and even then, he
thinks that at the end of ten years
crowded conditions will again neces-
state changes, so great is his faith
in the growth Of our city as COM
pared with others in the West.
Most Of Prof. Klemme's lecture
was devoted to plea for the old
fashioned boy, the boyish boy with
all his pranks and badness, whom
we admire and hold in awe, since
it is he who developes into the man
of stirring qualities who makes the
machinery of the world run smooth
ly and who is to be depended upon
in the present commercial age.
Among other school problems OF
the teacher which were discussed,
corporal discipline was spoken of by
Prof. Klemme. He believes that
its use should be strictly limited
and should never be resorted to by
persons who have not the power to
control the child in other ways, as
it is seldom beneficial when used as
a last resort.
One of the distinctive charms of
Prof. klemme's lectures is his use
of quotations, which are SO we'll put
that they seem to be part of the
speakers own composition. He is
an adept in the difficult art of tell
ing story effectively, and his talk
Friday evening contained many
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