Arizona republican., 1911-11-07
TEACHERS IN
 CONFERENCE The Opening Day of Joint
 County Institute PRO M|NENT EDUCATORS Beside Leading Lights of the Fraternity in Arizona, Professor Pattengill and Miss Braden Are in At tendance.

The territorial teachers association opened Monday morning with an at tendance that filled the auditorium to practically it's seating capacity of 4oo- The counties of Pinal, Santa CruZ' Yuma and Maricopa are each repre- sented by large delegations. There are two educators present who are known in teachers circles throughout the United States-H. G. Pattengill of Lansing, Michigan and Jenness NJ. Braden of Chicago. Prof. Patteh- gill is the editor of Moderator Top ics." a weekly publication of Micm- gan; he is also member Of the board of library commissioners of his home state. For several terms he was state superintendent of the Michigan schools
 The institute opened with prayer and song followed by a talk rom Professor Pattengill on the importance of having a course Of Current Events" in every school curriculum He laid especial stress upon teaching children to read the newspapers training them to know which ones are 
 know a news item that is of general importance and will help him to be- come an intelligent person, from one that is Salacious and tends to ln- crease morbid curiosity.
 After lengthy paper read by Miss Braden. Mir Pattengill spoke again Tor 2 few minutes on the timely subject or Pronunciation" After quoting number of words that are frequently mispronounced, he advocated having charts in the school room with the | following conjugatiOns and others oi | like kind, written out in full ana
 practised frequently: Il did-You did He did-We did-They did; "l have done-You have done"-etc. "l ] ought-You ought instead of Il had
 ought-You had ought" and many
 other ungrammatical and incorrect eX-
 pressions which child will invari-
 ably pick up on a play ground and
 which are so very hard to correct | unless the proper manner of using | them, is constantly impressed upon | his mind
 l Professor Pattengill also spoke of | the old tests in enunciation which | have been somewhat discarded in late \ years but which he thinks should not be revived As a matter of ordinary. \ every day conversation, one may not II go about saying If Theophilus This II tie sifted a sieve full of unsifted ' thistles"-or Shave a cedar shingle
 thin but in teaching one to speak his words so that others can under ! | cellent. The speaker also said that It
 was not impossible to find sentences equally difficult of enunciation in the
 best literature of the land and sub stanciated his remarks with the fol- l lowing quotations: Against the neighboring hill, huddled along the
 stone walls shady side, the sheep
 snow white, as if a snow drift still defied the dog star." and Sea ceaseth and it sufficeth us
 Mir. Pattingill will speak before the | institute later in the week on the subject Hearts of Health" in which he will discuss certain topics that
 he thinks should be continually ham, mered on in the schools.
 Miss Jenness Braden read paper l
 extremely interesting but unfortunate
 ly Miss Braden had not the strength
 or carrying quality of voice. to make ! it easy for those in the back of the room to hear her. Among other things she said: ''Whoso loves a
 child. loves not himself but God.
 whoso delights a child labors with God in his vineyard of hearts; whoso saves a child from the fingers of evi! 1 sits in the seats with the builders of | cities and the procurers of peace.
 In speaking to teachers who have
 the training of children of foreign
 narentage. Miss Braden said that con- l tinual stress should be laid upon the
 fact that being born in America they are Americans not Frenchmen, | Swedes, Germans, Poles or what not, and as Americans should learn to
 love their country.
 | Among the prominent Arizona edu-
 cators who are attending the asso- citation are Dr. A. H. Wilde of the | University of Arizona; pr Thaddeus I L. Bolton of the Tempe normal; Dr. | S C. Newsome. superintendent of the
 Tucson schools: Prof. E. H Stover, | superintendent of the Cochise county | schools: MT. C. O. Case, principal of
 the Jerome schools: E.. Q. Snider.
 principal of the Bisbee high school: IG H Madden. superintendent Of | schools from Nogales; A. C. Smith. | principal of the high school and J. | q. Williams. principal of the gram mar schools of Yuma; Superintendent
 Robertson of the Mesa schools; Prin-