The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1915-11-13
MICHIGAN ASSOCIATION SELECTS
o. r. WALDO AS NEW
PRESIDENT.
MEETING ENDS IN SAGINAW
War and Education Are Discussed at
the Final sesslon--D. s. Jordan
and p. p, CLAYTON Give
Addresses.

otdte leacnerS ASSOCIATION In sag
NAV by David Starr Jordan. president
OF Leland Stanford university; p. p.
Claxton, United States commissioner
OF education; President Harry b.
Hutchins of the University OF Michi-
gan; Mary Antin, Now York: Con-
gresham Miller. Duluth. Mimi. and
others.
Doctor Jordan declared that the Eu-
ropean war must stop to save the
world the best In modern civilization.
and asserted that There is every r@-
son to believe that this cooperative
murder will die now in the moment
of Its greatest triumph" He denied
that pacificists wanted peace at any
price,"
Commissioner Claxton urged the i'm
portance of high school education
for all young people. and advocated re-
organization of the rchool course into
six years Of elementary work and six
years of high school, This was ap-
approved by the association. He de-
Tended the large expenditures Of
money for school buildings and IA
vored plan whereby young people.
who must aid in their own support,
could attend school and be employed.
dividing their time between the two.
At the business session d. r..
Waldo. president of the Western State
Normal school. Kalamazoo. was unani-
mously chosen president.
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vice-president. Edward r. Cum
mings, Lansing. retiring president:
second vice-president. Miss Carrie
Dicken, Ann Arbor: third vice-presi-
dent, e. N. Worth. principal. Kalama-
zoo high school: secretary. John p.
Everett, Kalamazoo. reelected; treas
urer. Frank Jensen. Benton Harbor.
Executive committee: Edwin L.
Miller. Detroit. and e. T. Cameron.
school commissioner. Isabella county.
Resolutions were adopted approx
ing the plan to provide education
at public expense for those. who are
obliged to leave school early. favor
ing the wider use of the schools:
indorsing the United States govern
ment system OF instructing aliens and
commencing the legislature for estab-
fishing teachers retirement fund.
On motion of Superintendent C. e.
Chadsey of Detroit II was voted to
appoint a committee to investigate
the possibility Of reorganizing the as
sociation. It is now too large to be
adequately cared for by any city.
Doctor Jordan gave two addresses,
one on Lessons of the Great War"
and the other on THE Picked Half
Million.
THE picked half Million" Doctor
Jordan said, compose that class in
any country upon which devolved the
perpetuation of the race. the ones that
want freedom. To keep the worlds
high standard Of physical and mental
being, the war must cease"
Speaking on Lessons of the Great
War;" Doctor Jordan said:
Never were SO many men killed
and never were men killed SO cheap
ly. II costs $75.000.0 900 day to carry
on the war. but only $4,000 to kill
man. In the Boer war 1t cost
| $4,000.
Peace at any price talk is foolish.
but ascertain the price before going
| to war.
There are two main arguments
against war. II is the crime told of in
Genesis. the shedding OF a brothers
blood, and It destroys the best. It is
the survival of those who never At.
| Arguments advanced for war are:
First. that II In the foundation of all
the higher qualities OF man. This ar
/ gument II made in face of the fact
that It IL the destroyer of those vir-
tues begotten in peace and weakens
a nation.
Second. human nature does not
change. and men love to fight. This
war IL not lighting. II Ia the prosti.
tuition Of science"
Commissioner Ciaxton urged more
practical educational system.
II II possible to get q better type
Of education BY having an understand.
ing between society and manufactur
crs which VIII allow tho pupils, IN
cases where their assistance II needed
II home 10 attend school shorter hours
each day and more days each yeai
and TO spend the other time in manu-
featuring plants"
/ He also advocated the cultivation o.
gardens BY schooIchiIdren.
New Corporations.
| Groccrs Baking company. Crane
Rapids; $4,000.
Grand Rapids Fireproonng company
Grand Rapids; $4,000.
Elkiand Milling company, csss city
ss.poo.
| Swan Manufacturing company. De
troit: $4,000 Willis A. Swan. vii
liam A. Higgs. Harry J. Weber.
Dae Health Laboratories. Detroit
increased from $1,000 to $4,000.
Grand Rapids Wood Finishing com
n-ry; incronso fron, sso'coe - 600.
80.