Milford chronicle., 1913-11-21
EDUCATING MEMBERS OF The
GRANGE.

Pressing home to a delegation of about
ninety representatives of the grange at
the meeting of the Sussex County Po-
mona, which met in the Peoples The
ater, Georgetown, on Thursday, October
Both, the potency of the press and the
influence it has on the public State
Commissioner Of Education, DR.. Charles
a. Wagner, of Wilmington, placed the
schools of the country second in the
educational agencies and stated that
| the press composed of monthly periodi-
Gals Of all kinds, the daily and weekly
papers, ranked first, in his estimation,
as the greatest of all agencies. His ad-
dress was received with rapt attention
by the grangers and visitors who were
permitted to enter the hall to hear DR..
Wagner speak, which followed the
routine Of the business session.
Throughout. the address was to the
point and was considered one of the most
fOrcible ever delivered before a body of
Representatives Of the several oranges of
the county, such as the Pomona was.
In his opening remarks, DR.. Wagner
stated that his mission was ''to see if
there can't be a closer relation between
the body Of grangers throughout the |
State and one of the departments of |
education of which he is the head, in
order that higher citizenship might |
be developed in Delaware.
He expressed the belief that by the |
two working in q cooperative way that /
good results will be obtained. 1t is his |
desire that in the near future that all
of the grangers of the State map out a
policy and in the meanwhile the State
Board will do the same, and then the
two bodies will get together and see if
they can work in harmony in the ad-
vancement Of the educational interests
throughout the Commonwealth. "The
schools OF modern times is not the school
for greatest potency, said DR.. Wagner,
but It is the press and when / say the
press wish to convey the idea that
mean the periodicals, magazines on
agriculture and mechanical devices, and
The daily and weekly papers," " ''The
tally and weekly papers" he said kept
he public informed of what was going
IN, or in other words chronicled the his
.ory that was being made.
The school in his opinion comes second
n the education agencies, but when Z
he courses are completed he stated I
hat the education was far from being I
as the school was merely a Z
'lace to learn the Rlphebets upon which I
ould be based the education that is to
e acquired after the prescribed courses
we're finished. Observation, strict ap- 4
lication of what was acquired, and the Z
eeping pace with the times by reading Z
lakes up mans after education. +
In the list of secondary educational (
gencies he placed the home first, and 4
the prediction that within the +
ext twenty years that a better solution Z
5 TO the duties that are required of the n
ONE and those of the schools toward +
le children will be reached. Parents Z
later days are not giving the attention n
their children that they should, but r
e looking to the school teacher to do Z,
me of the things that should be taught n
the homes. 3
Organization, such as the oranges (;
Id lodges, he classed as the second in n
e secondary lines of education, and fs
en- briefly gave his ideas of what the Z,
anges stand for. At the conclusion n
his adddess, the State Master made r
few remarks and expressed the desire e
at Dr. Wagner become affiliated with n
e great organization in order that he r
ay more fully understand what a great e
)rk is being done and accomplished -
ing several lines.