The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-04-15
gov. BALDWIN and
MAYOR BUCKINGHAM
TEACHERS GUESTS
Annual Banquet of Eastern
Commercial Teachers AS
ISOLATION Held at The
Stratfeld.


Enthusiastic over the great success
OF their convention, and in no way
| dampened in spirit by the heavy rain
which fell yesterday afternoon, the
members CT the Eastern Commercial
Teachers Association gathered last
evening at the Stratf1eld for their an
| nual banquet. About 400 sat down
to the tables, and the guests included
Edward 7. Buckingham, the chief ex-
ecutive Of the city, and the Hon. ST.
| neon e. Baldwin, the chief executive
of the State.
e. M. Huntsinger of Hartford, pres
| ident of the association, opened the
post prandial exercises with a high
compliment to Bridgeport and it's vir-
tues as a convention city. He then
| introduced j. E. Gill of the Rider
| Moore Business College of Trenton, N.
j.. as the POSTMASTER.
Mr.. Gill made some very entertain
ing remarks which kept the audience
In merriment, concerning some Of his
experiences in reaching Bridgeport,
| and poked fun at some of the we'll
known members of the association
He then introduced the first speaker
of the evening, Governor Baldwin.
Mr.. Gill remarked that he had recent
| ly dined with Champ Clark, Speaker
| of the National House of Representa-
tives and with Gov. Wilson of New
| Jersey. The conversation turning up
| on Governor Baldwin of Connecticut,
both men had accorded the highest
| praise to the chief executive of the
Nutmeg State
Governor Baldwin was given an
ovation when arose to speak and was
received by all rising. After addressing
| the POSTMASTER and thanking him for
the compliment, he spoke as follows:
Governors Address.
We meet tonight on day set
apart by the custom and authority of
| this commonwealth, and by the COM
mon consent of all Chistiandom. for
| the serious consideration of human
| hopes and human duties.
Il know few duties comparable
in Importance to thuse attaching to
re vocation of teacher; and I
know few hopes of humanity more
| ! .>~-~ ur,ng than those founded on the
| general advances of popular educa-
| ton; on those already made, and on
those certain to follow
| II am told that there are 400,-
| 600 pupils now in the business schools
of the United States. A branch Of
education that engages the attention
| and ambitions of so many proves,
merely by their numbers, it's own i'm
portance. They are not spending
their time and money for nothing.
You. whom I address. part of the
| charge they come, are not devoting
your lives and energies to give them
a business training, without feeling
that you can teach them things that
: it would either be in vain for them
to try to gain elsewhere, or things
that they can learn In far shorter
! time from you than from the rough
lessons OF practical experience.
| Knocks are Teachers.
II regard, in everything of prac-
teal, every day kind. the struggles Of
life and the hard knocks of the
world as the great teachers. We are
! often tempted to overvalue, as to
them, the results of scientific educa-
ton. Life and the world will not
teach us science. They will indeed
have had some scientific instruction
| in the nature of the work to which
they are looking forward. than to
those who have had none. But it is
| from life and the world, when well
introduced, that we all find that We
learn most of what we know. that is
best worth knowing.
The teacher gives the introduce
ton, and must then stop. His duty
| is done. It is now for the bearer of
the schools letter of introduction to
prove that he deserves success in his
CHOSEN Calling, anu mas Inc dplllty,
under favorable circumstances, to
command it.
Great Lessons.
What are the great lessons that
you, as teachers, can hope to stamp
in upon the minds of your scholars,
at this time of their lives. when
| minds are readiest to receive and take
permanent impressions?
1 should say there were especially
these:
1, The worth Of simplifcation.
2. The worth Of system and CO.
ordination.
8. The worth of clear apprehen-
~. The worth of mechanical
agencies of the best Kind.
81. Simplifcatior
''It is not the most complicated BUSH
ness that pays best. 1t is rot the most
elaborate and complete kind OF in
struction that teaches most.
Teachers are too ait to assume that
their pupils know more than they do.
They are too apt to try to fill UP their
minds with more than they can hold.
THE business man is too apt to
multiply channels OF activity. A few
than twice as many that are half emp
ty.
Ability to Write Well.
80. System and Coordination.
'The business tina. IL not systematic
cally handled will be either small
one or a losing one. Every branch OF
it must be kept in proper proportion
to the other branches. They must all
be related together, so as to form one
consistent whole.
80. Clear apprehension and express
sion.
IF I were to name the most i'm
portant one thing for a business man.
it would be his possession OF the
faculty of taking in situation. and
expressing his view of it. Every bar
gain he malles--and his work is sue
cession of bargains-calls for just that.
Every letter he writes calls for just
that. The clerk who can write a
good business letter will soon be found
out by his employer, and will be
valued accordingly.
"a Mechanical helps.
"Why is the American manufacturer