Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-05-14
EDITOR

was finished. but thousand OF the children
voluntarily came together on one of the capita
Fairgrounds in the city, anil under the direc
toflSof certain Of their .teachers, gave a first
'IaS<sdriI for our benefit. Nearly half Of then
were girls They drilled on the football field
for football is played with much enthusiasm.
THE playground included, by the way. il large
Swimmingpoo The Governor, who was seated
with me during the drill. told me that they wert
now making ready to build provincial uni
and universities,4in which technical training o
the most practical type will he given This il
The type of United States university attended
Ivy the large majority of Argentine students who
cGme To the United States, and it is the ONT
which, very wisely, they are using as the mode
for their own institutions. Technical training
for large number rather than cultural edu
caticn for the few should he the goal OF state
educators | also went out to the very beautlfu
grounds Of the agricultural college in which
special training is being given TO the boys who
are engaged in the planting of sugar-cane.
Before leaving Tucuman We visited a couple
If industrial schools for girls. Most of tht
teaching was in home science, asst is called
that Il, lin housekeeping. But there was a class
Itir teIeeraphers. and another class for etnbrold
dry, Theschief instruction was in the domestic
arts, cooking, plain sewing, and also weaving
which is still habitual in the country. 1t is a
fine thing to see the way in which the modern
Educational movement in the Argentine has beer
extended to include the women. Fifty years
ago, in South America, almost nothing was done
for women and their position was one Of utter
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being made to give the girl no less than the
hoy an education, and, as far as / could see
there is not only an intelligent following d
what is wise in the methods of education fol
women in the United States and northern Ell
rope, but also an intelligent avoidance of What
is unwise. FL s:S
I'm short, felt that the showing from tht
educational standpoint was really remarkable
In this sub-tropieal interior city of northern
Argentina the devotion of the teachers and tlleil
intelligent appreciation of modern methods, thu
of education for the children, the
type of higher education which is. being held
up as a realizahle ideal, and also the types Of
physical training and sport-all are such as
would reflect credit on the most progressive
cities of our own country"
There is no doubt of the very cordial feeling
that exists between our people and representa-
.tives of the Argentine. Cur countries are now
engaged in q work, associated with the Mexican
situation, which should and we believe will unite
the stable and wellgoyerned nations of tn,
American hemisphere in the good work Of paei
flying people who are inclined to anarchy Il
lis, therefore, well for us to become as well ac
Iquainted as possible with our fellow Americans
With the opening of the canal, the distance be
tween the Argentine and this outpost of Amer
lea will be far less than in the past years W.
can really think of them and they of us as neigh
bors.