Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-12-21
| STATE GRANGE
Complete Review Of Pro-
ceedings on Thursday.
Woman Suffrage Endorsed
Direct Election OF U. S.
Senator's.
Reports OF Educational and Other
Committees pomona Grange
Recommendation.

| a review OF thursday proceedings
of the State Grange as supplied by
Friday mornings Press. will furnish
Kennebec Journal readers with COM
plete transcript of proceedings.
The forenoon session opened with a
large attendance, and after the routine
business a telegram of greeting was
read from the New Hampshire state
lGrange, now in session The follow
ling telegram was ordered sent in re-
lply:
Hon. Richard Patten, Manchester n.
| H:
Greetings from New Hampshire pa
irons received. Maine patrons join in
lsending best wishes to your members.
Success to you and yours for 1913.
&C. s. STETSON, Master,
Committee on Telephones.
Z. A. Rogers of Brunswick read the
report for the committee on tele-
Iphones. and this was in the nature of
an appeal for law TO help the small
Telephone companies in the State The
speaker said that these companies are
disseminated against by the New
| England company
The report urged that the Legisla-
ture create telephone commission
whose duties would be similar to those
lot the railroad commissioners. An in
Ivestigation, it stated, should be made
lof the books of the telephone compa-
mics to regulate their methods of year.
| " charges and toll rates The report
was adopted.
| The Rev. j. H. Little, in calling for
the regulation of the telephone COM
4 l.
nothing better than highway robbers
G.. H. Foster got the floor and said:
| "Do as we have in Somerset county;
we have organized a farmers COM
pany with 1860 subscribers. What rate
do YOU think we pay? Eight dollars a
year. Kennebec county has COM
pany with 900 subscribers, and Frank
| lin county has 600 subscribers on the
farmers lines. We can talk with any
subscriber in any of these three coun-
ties without a cent of expense for tolls.
Don't talk about this any more. Go
home and organize Il company in your
county, and when the counties are all
organized. then the New England COM
pany cannot squeeze us any more"
". H Douglass of Lisbon Falls
claimed that the telephone company
had been unfair to him. ul
a L. Clifford offered a resolution in
4 favor of the water supply of the
State being conserved for the benefit
of all the people. aas r5sa
The Educational Committee.
The report of the educational COM
Imittee was read by Kate B. Ellis, and
it was in substance as follows:
/ believe one of the best things
Taught in schools is that children learn
Ito governor themselves. l have not
lyet reached the point, and Heaven for
bid that l ever do, that one of our
great educators has, who forbade his
Ichildren being crossed in any way,
lest the workings of their nature be
changed and their natural develop
Iment retarded.
To regard the rights of others must
come into the education of every
lchild. Nor should he, on the other
hand, be so hampered by laws and
rules, that his mind is filled with their
lpetty requirements, and little room
and inclination left to accept and APP
lply broader knowledge when presented
to him.
To me perfect education includes
these heads, psychic education, physi-
cal education and natural education.
/ shall have 10 pass by physic and
physical development as much as L
should enjoy discussing them-psychol-
logg in the broader sense in which it
is now taught, the sciences, the Lam
guages and their influences on eduea-
tion-physical culture of interest to
everyone who has the welfare of the
lchld at heart--but already / trangress
by taking valuable time.
| still put psychic education first, for
/ if our brain is taught to work Alright.
we shall learn to choose that natural
science for which we are best fitted.
And our youths will soon be able to
set their sails and steer not only for
the lard of the ancient Greeks and
Latins, but to the enchanted land
where they learn by chemistry and
other sciences to make ten blades of
grass grow where grew one before
for while New England has been called
| a little slow in trying new education
ventures, she is stepping into the
broad road and giving to her young
sons and daughters as far as now
practicable some chance fer vocational
education, and from the attention and
support vocational education is re-
ceiving, we feel sure that the future
will see more of it, and we are par
ticularly glad, that not only we, who
are personally interested, but the
foremost educators of our land are adj
vocating courses of agriculture to be-
come part of school work.
And just a word about the home in
the great scheme of education, for the
schoolroom can never take the place
of the home in government, discipline
or education, without detriment to the
child. The home maker and the school
maker should work in unity, and there
is much that the home maker can dc
toward the making of the school into
a school home.
You have been told many times OF
your duties in regard to beautifyine
the schooiroom, and in helping te
. make the school grounds attractive
and if | We're to reiterate, it would be-
only from the principle that continue
dripping Wearath away a stone--so
will say to you, give that which il
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