The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-11-07

state in the North Dakota Educational
association. s t
The dean felt two of those points
were entirely too drastic and tended
toward the interference of the per-
sonal liberties Of the school teachers,
that they were undemocratic.
About the instruction Of sex hygiene
in the public schools under reasonable
| safeguards, he said he did not believe
the, time had. vet come when such a
course should be given. In his paper
before the, association this morning.
Dean Kennedy had much to say on
this point, and thought a course in
sex-hygiene was more in keeping for
the parents than the school children.
The resolutions offered by the com :
mittee, comprising some of the most
prominent instructors in the state,
advocated in this particular that the
association. should favor the teachft &
ip the public schools Of sex-hggiene
undef. reasonable safeguards and when
we are sure the Particular teacher
is qualified, to give such instruction.
S iSuperlntendent Berg supported Dean
Kennedy Iii f1is corTtentiotl.s The lat
ter's motion prevailed and the reso :
buttons were adopted as reproduced in
this. issue of The Forum.
The members of the committee on
resolutions were Fred E. Smith. T..
Henry Wolfe, G. +. N Nelson, M.
Helen Davies and Minnie ]. Mel
son, - :. -. - =. .. .o..
'' Dean kennsdy's Paper, Is.
Following the transaction of the final
business of the convention this morn
ing, Dean Joseph Kennedy of the
University of North Dakota. read per-
haps the most powerful paper of the
conventions programme on Educa-
ttonal Craftsmanship.
= Dean Kennedy touched upon many
Things, but what he advocated was in
keeping with the educational spirit OF
the times. His advocacy of, self as
surance among North Dakota educat-
ors was we'll taken,
+. In this respect Dean Kennedy felt
that the North Dakotan intuitiyeIy
felt q certain inferiority to the east
ern educator, which naturally engen-
dered feeling of superiority in the
latter toward the westerner. He even
cited as an illustration Michigan
man he once met on the streets of
Port Huron, Mich, of whom he asked,
the name of a certain building. The
Fort huron man asked from whence
he came and when the dean told him
from North Dakota, the other man
looked sad and replied. God help
you."
Against Uniform Books.
Dean Kennedy stood emphatically
against uniform textbooks in this
state He was not altogether favor
able to the instruction of SEX hygiene
in the public schools though he felt
the time had arrived when parents
should themselves give serious atten-
tion to this great problem in the rear
ing of the young -s~
PattanniIi Alec SnnLn
Henry r. Pattengill delivered the
concluding address Of the morning.
His topic today was Schools and the
Labor Problem.
This was perhaps the greatest effort
of the distinguished wolverine edu-
cato at the flickertail convention.
To this particular phase of the edu-
cational problem, regarding child Ia
bor and other vexations, Mr.. Patten-
gill has given much study and was
prepared to give the North Dakota.
educators the results of his obserya.
tfons first hand Regarding some of
the newly enacted laws in various
states. the speaker went into detail
giving the North Dakotans the advan-
tage of his study.
The great convention closed with
the the : introduction IT., OF the new president.
Prof. Clyde r. Travis, Of the MayviIIe
Normal school and former secretary
Of the association.
Work of the Sections.
N While the convention proper closed
at noon at the Masonic temple. there
were still some very interesting ses-
sions Of various sections of the asso-
citation this afternoon at the high
school and at Agassiz school building.
These were the secondary school