Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-02-05
EXEDUCAT|ONA AND
DOMESTIC SCIENCE

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health in orde rto crafty paternal
pride in their attainments. We Ameri-
cans have been too much in the habit
of regarding our children as solid
Jumps Of intellect and have forgotten
their nature Is a two-fold one. that
they have bodies as well as minds. and
that IL we would have them grow up
to perfect manhood and womanhood
we must educate their dual nature,
not one at the expense of the other.
Our school laws contain many pro-
visions for protecting the health of
our children. but these are far too
often overlooked by the teachers or
by those who arrange the overloaded
curriculums.
Sex Teaching
"There should be time i'm school
life when the danger of sexual disease
should be pointed out. This should
not be left to the public theaters
where there is mixed audience. 1t
too often attracts those with morbid
minds. We should require the highest
models of morality for our instructors
of youth, for they learn much from
example. The day is upon us when as
a nation we must conserve. We must
produce more from our soil and we
must be more economical; therefore,
economy should be taught in our
schools. We must educate mothers
who will know what foodstuffs are
necessary to satisfy the growing bodies
of their children. We must teach
them how to select and prepare these
foods. In our tuberculosis work we
find mothers who have graduated
from high schools trying to rear their
little children on molasses and white
bread and wondering why their off
spring are stunted and emaciated.
Children should be taught the value
of fresh air, cleanliness and physician
exercise. Many people who have
hailed as a blessing the invention of
the wireless method of communication
which has resulted in the saving of
thousands of lives at sea have arrayed
| themselves against or failed to make
| pI actical application of the scientific
! discoveries of modern medicine which
| could save the lives and strengthen
| the bodies of thousands of children.
Our work of medical inspection in the
| schools is but in its infancy. When
| the results become widely known it
will be universally demanded"
Against Oyercrowding
Much of the talk made by j. c..
Brown, of Bloomsbury, president of
the directors department, was along
the line of dissatisfaction with modern
| tendencies in the overcrowding of
| study courses. Mr.. Brown advised the
directors to remember when they se-
| lect their teachers to pick the teacher
| for personality rather than for schol-
arship. His opinion in regard to study
| courses was that too many facts are
being taught the children without any
attempt to teach them to classify their
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ter arranged courses of study.
President Brown made his lecture
at the opening session this afternoon.
During the morning the delegates
registered. The Rev. William n.
Yates. a member of the Harrisburg
School Board, made the invocation.
D. D. Hammelbaugh, secretary of the
| Harrisburg School Board, In welcom-
ing the delegates called attention to
the good points of the city and the
city's schools and asked the directors
to make a tour of inspection during
their stay here.
In his response S. R. Mcclure, of
i Pittsburgh, told the directors that the
board of directors Is the business end
of the school system and that the
teachers and educators should not be
allowed to interfere with the business
part He urged greater school eff
cheney
Boyer Tells of Conference
Harry A. Boyer, president Of the
Harrisburg School Board, gave an in
teresting review of the work done at
the Fourth International Congress on
School Hygiene in Buffalo last sum-
mer. Two committees were appointed
this morning. They were: Nomi-
mating committee, H. M. Lessig, Potts
| town: DIR. e. d. Schaeffer, Reading;
James E. Smith, Columbia; ]. Milton
Lutz. Delaware; ]. r. Wulie, Wilkins
burg, and resolutions committee, ]. r.
Stottler, Williamsburg; c. Howard
| McCarter, Narberth; William E.
Mckee, Altoona; s. H. Bomberger
Lebanon. and James s. Lowery, Brad
dock.
Senator E. e. Beidleman and Speak.
ler Alter appeared in behalf of the
railroad men before the Public Ser
vice Commission when the pass mat.
ter was argued, Senator Beidlemar
representing a majority of the brother.
hoods. The Senator said this after.
noon that he was very much pleased
with the decision and that 1t was ex.
actly what he expected II would be
The commission has not announced
when it will decide the matter ot
ministerial rates and other subjects
of controversy before 1t.