The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1915-03-12
AN ADDRESS GIVEN
At THE AUDITORIUM

Last Friday evening some Of the
parents of this district and good
number of the pupils assembled in
the High School Auditorium to
hear an address on pedagogy. The
exercises opened at eight o'clock.
Prof. Knepper acted as chairman.
The exercises were opened with
prayer by DR.. Smith. Next Prof.
Knepper explained the lack of mu-
sic, saying that it was due to the
fact that the school is not furnished
with suitable musical instrument.
DR.. Smith was then introduced as
the first speaker.
He said it was natural for peo-
pie to gather all the information
they could to develop their intel
lects, that the present was the time
to develop the brain. He said the
best speech he ever heard was
prayer given by two country boys.
1t was best because they put their
whole life into it. This, he said,
was the key to success: When you do
thing do it with all your might
as those boys did.
The next speaker was Prof. Lewis,
a commercial school teacher, who
said the education of the boys and
girls cannot be over estimated be-
cause they must be fitted out to
carry on affairs, public and private,
of the coming generations. To do
this he said, the parents must en-
courage their children to work for
high goal in life. He stated that
it was a good thing for boys and girls
to go to the market places and be
able to chose that which is best.
He ended by saying what you know
does not count as much as what
you can do.
Miss Dryden, County Superintend-
ent Of Schools, followed. She called
attention to the great contrast be-
tween the old and the new education.
She said things were taught in the
schools of today that pupil would
have been whipped for if caught do
ing the same thing in school years
ago. She encouraged the forming
of clubs for the raising of farm pro-
ducts and for doing domestic work.
Prof. Soulen of the University of
Idaho was the principal speaker OF
the evening. He said the parents
should give the most careful atten-
ton to the education of their boys
and girls; that they needed the best
of education and training to keep
up with the speed of modern civil
lization. He said the people of to-
day must look forward and learn
how to become efficient. They must
look for better things and thus make
this the most progressive country in
the world. He also stated that
many of the farmers of today know
more about and care more for their
cattle, horses and hogs than they dc
for the education of their boys and
girls. Every boy and girl has right
to be we'll born and well educated
and they must learn to do work in
proportion to the energy set forth
The reason why many of the boys
and girls of today do not receive g
good education is because the paren
is think what was good enough fol
them is good enough for their chill
dren. That these same old people
would not go back to the day of tht
wax-candle and ox-team for love or
money. But it is impossible tt
make man out of two cent DO!
by giving him two thousand dollar
education.
The environment of boy has ;
great effect upon his becoming ineffi
Client and a non-producer. Thi
also, he said, has great effect upol
many of the girls of today, VIII
have sunk to a minus efficiency
The duty of the present age is tt
raise these young people from thi
depth to a plus efficiency. Tn
chief agents to accomplish this worl
are the home, the church and tn
school. He ended his address b.
telling the parents that the best in
vestment they could make was t
educate their boys and girls.
The audience was delighted wit
what they had heard. 1t was some
thing that none of the parents 0
this district could afford to miss
altho many of them did miss this ir
tellectual feast. The Kendrick Hig
School scored another point in giN
ing to our citizens first class ever
ing's entertainment. Henry Meyer
DR.. and Mrs. Hoyt received an il
vitation to the wedding Of Mi.
Pearl Leona Jones, niece Of Mr.
L e H.