Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-11-28

Who never to himself hath said
| This is my own my native land?'
and LongfellOw's
ssThou too sail on o ship of State
are good for concert recitations-
| Efficiency is the watchword of to-
day. 1t is pity for any boy to in
jure his health and handicap himself
for life by forming filthy and expen-
pensive habits. Do not let your pu-
pills be ignorant of the dangers and
| tendencies of the tobacco habit And
still greater is the peril from alcohol
/ We read with horror of the war in
Europe, but think little OF the dis
grace, poverty, sin and death OF the
victims of death of alcohol in our
| own country
| Mythology tells us of a ship laden
with youths and maideDs who were
sent annually TO the alcohol dragon.
| The liquor business cannot exist
without men any more than saw
mill can without logs. Stop the sup
ply of men and you destroy the traffic.
| Stop the traffic and you save the
men.
Talk of licensing and regulating
ter, license and regulate plain MUIR
der.
sit is better to mourn DER pulse
less form
Than the wreck of a living soul.''
Do not let any of the bright-eyed
boys in our school become its victims.
You can help make the public opinion
what will stay the dragon.
The worst punishment for sin will
always be, being sinful. The ugly,
deformed, real self is sure penalty.
Professor Opp once asked us at
teachers meeting if we ever talked
with our pupils about being beautiful.
They can all be beautifu-every one.
He told of lady he admired when
boy. She was lOvely-So bright and
unselfish and interested in every one,
even the small boys.
He heard an older woman speaking
of her say she thought it wonderful
such homely little girl had grown
up into such decent LOOKING wo-
man.
He was very angry. Decent looking
indeed! She was beautiful
She never could have been homely
he was older before he realized it
was her lovely character that made
her so beautiful. This is the beauty
that is free to all and that is beyond
the power of age or disease-the
beauty of pure, loving, unselfish
character.
Children have a natural love for
justice. If you should ever make a
mistake land who does not?) and
through misunderstanding be guilty
of injustice, be prompt to acknowl-
edge it, make it right as far as posi-
BILE. You will gain much in the love
and respect of your pupils and no
fear to do ito acknowledge when
he is wrong.
Every act leaves as its permanent
result an increased power to act and
increased tendency TO repeat the ac-
tion. So habits are formed that are
like wings or weights Moral train
ing should secure right habit of
thought and action.
Insist that all work be done well.
The habit thus formed will be of in
culculable value. That is the reason
1 never allowed beginners in writing
to scrawl. While they are learning to
form the letters they can learn to
make them right, saving valuable
time later and forming habits of
neatneSS and accuracy that will be
useful in other work.
Be happy in your work. 1t is sun
shine in your school room, and.
children, like plants, cannot grow
right without it. When you enter
the school-room leave behind you all
erSonal cares and worries and be
busy and happy with the children. /
will give you a Golden Rule for
teachers that 1 found helpful in MAX
ing the work easy and pleasant
y
ly; when you refuse, refuse finally. |
When you punish, punish good |
naturally. Commend often; never |
scold.' !
II hold in memory says ex-Presi- |
dent Elliot of Harvard University, |
bits of poetry learned in childhood
which have stood by me through life |
in the struggle to keep true TO just |
ideals of love and duty" 1t is well |
to enrich your pupils memories with |
such valuable treasurer. Other !
things being equal, it is best TO select |
thoughts of truth and duty and |
crystaliZed into verse by our best
authors, as Tennyson's:
= lis only noble TO be good.
Kind hearts are more than coronets, |
And simple faith than Norman
blood.''
and Longfellow:
In the Older days of Art,
Builders wrought with greatest
care
Each minute and unseen part;
For the Gods see everywhere.
Let us do our work as well
Both the unseen and the seen:
Make the house where Gods may
dwell
Beautiful, entire and clean"
All moral training, all cultivation
of right habits should be through
the training of the will. Our aim is
self-governmen5 through high ideals
Kansas teachers are privileged to
use the highest incentives TO moral
wol THO teach loyalty and love TO a