Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-01-22

the right home life, our daughters ap
preciate all knowledge which makes
for the home, make both our boys and
girls understand the value of good
health moral and physical as assets
toward the right home, we shall have
less young people going wrong. There
will be fewer blind babies, less need
of reformatories, less need of efforts
to reform the debauched youth or to
rescue the fallen woman.
The only justification for a de-
partment Of civics in the Federation
OF Women's Clubs is the result it
shoWs-not only arousing the women
to think on these things but in arous
ing them TO action. Still this COM
mfttee is powerless to achieve results
unless the 5000 women belonging to
this organization arouse themselves to
the need of action for civic better
ment If we 5000 women do unite for
this betterment we shall see a civic re-
vival that shall reach from one end of
our State to the other. We shall see
a generation born into a new light
Shall we unite in this effort | am
right to live in the best sense, our
young people a better right TO develop
in the right direction. Shall we
unite to show the people the dangers
from the gilded vice centres? Shall
We unite to spread abroad in our
State an appreciation of the home
Maine has been noted for these. Let
US sustain her reputation and as our
population changes work the harder
for these things that make the best
! citizenship. The slogan for this COM
mittee for civic advancement in Maine
for 1914 is, The home the centre for
civic betterment'"
The president announced the recent
death of the husband of Mrs. Frank
L. Powers, of Madison, chairman of
the committee on conservation, because
of which she was not present at this
meeting; also the critical illness of the
former chairman of the arts and
| crafts committee, Mrs. Harry Quinn
by of Saco, and it was voted to send
letters of sympathy from the FEEDER
alton.
Mrs. J. Palmer Merrill.
Mrs. j. Palmer Merrill of Skowhegan.
| chairman of the educational commit
tee, took for her topic the educational
needs of the children. as follows:
Tho education given in our public
schools should relate itself to the whole
child, or to the physical mental, and
moral child. Education should exist
| for only one purpose, that purpose
the making of healthy, capable. upright
| human beings beings that shall be able
wi col
| life. That human beings should be
well bred, and able to breed others
well, that their figures, hands, voices.
manners, should carry conviction on
| this point-this is the great debt of
/ life.
Froebel says Union of the soul with
! God is the end and aim of all True
| Education. These words state a truth
to which present day methods of eda-
| cation HAVE NOT AWAKENED.
Amid the stress and turmoil of a ma
terial civilization embracing differing
| ideals, and involving rapidly shifting
conditions, both home and school find
themselves beset by many perplexing
problems.
The greatest of these problems is the
moral problem, embracing the living
and teaching of morality in home and
school. Many times l have asked my
self Why do our public schools $50
admirable in many respects) neglect
the physical and moral nature Of the
beings intrusted to their care?
I believe that physical training
should begin with a chlld's first en-
trance into our public schools and be
continued until school life is ended.
l also believe that moral training (di-
rect and indirectly should begin with a
childs first lesson, and end only with
his last lesson. / do not refer to re-
ligious training. but to those great
truths and precepts of morality that
underlie all life. Religion must come
from the church.
LAS chairman of the Educational COM
rnittee I shall ask the members of the
committee to work upon these three
points: First, that our schools teach
pupils to sit, stand. and walk correct
ly; second, that rank be given for ply
steal improvement; third, that moral
training be given through teachers,
lecturers, biographies, and pictures of
men and women who have stood for
the great moral truths of life.
These subjects / shall always speak
and work for because they mean so
much to succeeding generations. 1
would have teachers instruct pupils
in all things that go to make up holy,
or whole life. The great trinity en-
braces: The making of a body, the
training of mind, the culture of a
SOUL.
In place of the report of the chair
man of the committee on conservation,
Mrs. Frank l.. Powers, who was not
present, the president of the Fedora
ton introduced Hon. J. w. Blunt,
State insurance commissioner who
spoke on the subject of fire protection,
appealing for the endorsement and
support of the Federation.
j. w. Blunt.
Mr. Blunt said in part:
"Those of us interested in this work
of fire prevention are especially de-
sirous of securing the support and CO.
operation in this campaign of the
Maine Federation of Women's Clubs
Why? From the past record of the