Bisbee daily review., 1914-01-10

MT. Wn1te'Si place as neau or lne school will be taken by Miss Julia R. Bateman, who came to Tucson in September to teach oral instruction exclusively. The change was effective December 20 but has not been made public Mir White is at present in Phoenix seeking other employment.
 Becauseicf this there is a good deal of stir hmong those interested in this division of instruction at the ! State University. The comment runs alr' over the state and is not lacking in the Warren district, where num- Der of nepple have occasion for. di- rect interest in the department va cated by Mir White. !, Formerly Miss Harriett T. White, now Nfrs, tw. J. Bray, was instructor in the school. but her place was taken by Miss Bateman last fall, and ever since Miss Bateman came there has been constant friction between her and Mir. White. 1t is said. White rel sented the displacement of his daush- ter by Miss Bateman, and he asserted that Miss Batemanl was no more an oral teacher than his daughter and he especially resented the statement that Miss Bateman was the first exclusive oral teacher in the southwest. The matter has been settled by the removal of Mir, White as principal and henceforth Miss Bateman will have entire charge of the school Mir White made the fol- lowing statement this week about the matter:
 The parents and friends of the children in the school have read with impatience the repeated missta,e- ments that there was no cral teaching in the school previous 10 this year. As a matter of fact such pupils ls still retained their speech were taught orally both in and out of the school Mrs. w. J Bray, and the progress Of room by Miss Harriet White, now those orally taught pupils was sucn as tc delight their parents and friends.
 The mother of one little girl, Ruth Parker, of Phoenix. wrote letter now in possession Of pr. Wilde, n which Mrs. Parker said that her little girl learned more in the eight months under Mrs Bray's instruction thai she did in six years in the public schools Superintendent Loper O Phoenix will doubtless confirm thii statement The girl was educated l wholly by the oral method al that. Again, one boy sent to this scoo by Superintendent Howard of th' | lobe public schools. who regarde, \ him as little less than non compi mentis was also taught icraily D, Mrs. Bray. If anyone wants to kno' how well, that boy was taught just le him drop a line to Superintendent N T. r. Howard, of Globe
 Both Mrs. Bray and Miss Batemal
 are as familiar with signs as the pr
 pills are, and both originally cam
 from the same school in St. John
 New Bruhswick. The new oral teaot
 CT talks to the other pupils Tn sign'
 So what difference Is there betwee
 last years methods and this years
 MT. White and his daughter, MT
 Bray are also indignant over the ns
 of the term defective applied {
 deaf and dumb children by Miss Bat man last week in an address betor
 the state teachers convention. The
 claim that by applying this term
 deaf and dumb children she insulte
 them. They claim that deaf and dun
 children are not defective, but thf
 only Predetermined children ishoul
 be called defective without dang
 of insulting them. He says:
 Such a term is never used
 other schools for the deaf and dun
 where tse officers and teachers ai
 more considerate than in this fir
 oral school in the southwest, as 1t
 wrongly called,f f3 =,
 Friends aiid relatives of White al
 indignant. over his removal. They si
 that he was removed because he VI
 deaf They claim that nine schola
 have left the school since White WI
 removed. Dr. A. II. Wilde's statemel
 made yesSerday about the matter
 as follows;
 "Mh. White has severed hi come