Arizona republican., 1913-11-08
CLOSING DAY IF
 TEACHERS MEET
Most Successful Weeks In stitute Yet Conceived Closes Amid Regret and Hope That Another Will Be Held Next Year

pression and personal culture of the Arizona School of Music, read herself into the hearts of the eight hundred teachers who gathered yesterday morning in the high school auditorium for the last session of the joint county teachers institute. Miss Styles read KipIings If" so effect lively that everyone present resolved that Miss Styles should encore. Very graciousIy, indeed, Miss Styles read The Little Dutch Garden" and there IS no doubt that hereafter the teach CTS, instead of seeking for the blue bird or the white lotus or the max imum bonum, will make the object of their search that little Dutch gar den" Miss Styles read about. One is tempted to say that here is one who has found The Lost Art of Oral Reading the subject of pr. Chas H. Reyes address.
 The speaker said that it is not the business of the public school to train public speakers. It is a subject that can't and shouldn't be taught to all pupils Most people have not the taste, aptitude or temperament ne cessary for success in public speak
 
 the simple reading, the art of carry ing to a company ideas gathered from the printed page. Although he apolo- gized, Dr. Reyes, who on Thursday night came out strong for the study of Latin. yesterday morning denOunc- ed in unmistakable terms the profes- 1 SiOnal elOcutiOniSt "men who roll their r's and trill their is. or roll l friH re Dr. Reyes said in part:
 Reading is an art ever so much 1 more precious to the school teacher | than the art of accompaniment is to the singer. Much of our failure to insull a love for good literature is due to the fact that the teacher cannot interpret with her voice for | the students who have to be reached by special methods. As a means of discipline, it is one of the most eff fectiVe in the world. Failure to pre- serve in our school this simple art is due to two influences: the over emphasis that it put at all stages upon getting thought from the print ed page and the influence of quack elocution.''
 Dr. Muerman, of the education de- partment at Washington D. C., and | who spoke on History" gave the most practical address of the insti- ute. Dr. Muerman may be termed an efficiency engineer applied to school problems. He is short on the spread-eagle thing but long on good horse sense. One of the things with which hc brought down the house was Stop raising the price of land, hut raise something on the land and let it not be mortgag ge'' Dr. Muerman button-holed the visiting county superintendents. gave them a few valuable hints. said that Arizona is a great state, that woman suffrage is good. and that the Phoenix union high school is the finest in the great sOuthwest-and he knows what he is talking about. About History" he said:
 'Knovledge of history should be based upon a thorough understanding of the political and industrial move ments that have influenced our na- ton and made it great Wars. inn portant dates, battles and great men are to be studied, but our entire knowledge should not depend upon the Tupils ability to recite upon them solely. It is more necessary tor q child 10 l.nOw who are the great can tains of industry than to know who were the captains under Packenhan1 al New Orleans. Of the greatest in!- rortance is local history, especially any lart touching economic ccndi- tions''
 pr. A. J. Matthews, president of the Tempe normal, disappointed the huge gathering by saying that he did #
 ness was demanding his presence elsewhere the very moment he was on the platform and it was a high sense of duty that accounted even for his appearance. However, Dr. Matthews said he was diligently in vestigating teachers salaries and hoped soon to formulate a bill for the legislature having for it's object the increase of teachers salaries. He said that teachers had a right to earn enough to live well on. dress ell and lay away bit against a rainy day. He said that Arizona sal aries are attractive to Eastern teach CTS but the ability to save from this salary is not as great because ex- penses are very high
 The last address of the morning and one perhaps that made every teacher regret the close of this splen- did institute, a veritable intellectual feast where learning vied with wit to instruct and stimulate, was Making Boys Manly by Dr. A. E. Winship This genial scholar of Boston stirred the audience as it had not been all week. His speech bristIed with anh- orisms such as
 The greatest curse of the coun+r1, is, the father sometimes is and some times isn't"
 You cannot develop by negation Don't never developed a seintilIa of power; taking responsibility does"
 'Oh, the wit and wisdom of tho child is sublime"
 III oIlhglng up children" the doc ,or saiu' the first six years should be allowed Ia cncl1,.. .-l.-.-:--,