Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-11-27
37TH YEAR-NUMBER SO

be held Friday noon as formerly
When we arrived eager and happy to
meet all old friends, imagine our
CONSERVATION at the sea of strange
faces of dignified looking men, for
only six women were present. How
ever our luck again aided US and
Prof. NanNoris, head of the science
department at the Kansas State Nor
NAL school and one of our favorite
teachers there. greeted us heartily
and urged US to stay with the chem
istry people banquet, and seldom has
it been our opportunity TO listen Go
more delightful scientific ''tiring-"
/ DIR. G. W. Stewart of the University
of Iowa was especially brilliant. The
Fort Hays Normal banquet had been
held Thursday evening.
| And that evening, blissfully ignor-
ant of the banquet, Miss Lulu Mckee
our popular story teller of last In
stitute searched US out from the
lsurging throngs and we fastened
with her to hear DR.. Schwegler lect-
ure at the Topeka High school. Dr.
Schwegler gives two lectures a
week to the Topeka teachers the
University giving them two hours
credit for, the winters lectures
Each teacher pays $500 enrolment
We were pleased TO think our teach
ers at home were entering on some
such cultural plan with the Fort
Hays Normal school this year.
DR.. Schwegler to our mind is head
and shoulders above every other child
psychologist with whom we have
come in contact-even in person or
through his works. He endeavored
to explain how every unfulfilled wish
or desire causes a psychic pressure
which sooner or later in some form
manifests itself, the form depending
on temperament and training of the
individual. AS an example he gave
''Susan and John sitting on the front
porch on Sunday evening" John
wishes he could stay there always
but it is growing late, he thinks of
the neighbors' talk, etc, and reluct-
antly tears himself away. His unful-
filed wish to stay causes a psychic
pressure which unknown to him the
mind seeks to relieve. He despises
poetry yet as ne sits atone in his room
brooding over his Punishment, uncon-
sciously his hand begins writing po-
etry. The psychic energy had been
tdramatized, refined and transformed
The more noble and refined the in
dividual the more refined the trans
| formed energy will manifest ITSELF
DR.. Schwegler using many other IL
lustrations. Dreams also are but
dramatizations of these suppressed
wishes the mind attempting to Gre
ate that state of satisfaction which
1SubconSciouSly it realizes conditions
will not permit the waking state.
At close of the lecture question
/ period followed. The discussions
were invaluable to all students Of
child psychology. We were pleased
to hear DIR. Schwegley declare en-
phatically that all persons are highly
prone TO suggestions, regardless Of
sex, age or station. Several years
ago it was the popular theory that
only the young and ignorant. child
rem and women, were good subjects
for suggestions. Now it seems the
more highly educated, the more sem
SAbAFC CA4C AiAdA lNu udA 1AAC OoSOA A--o
capacity for acting on suggestions.
However that may be suggestion
in the hands of wise teacher is d
powerful aid to imparting knowledge
and to discipline. Our program com
mittee will attempt to secure good
lecturer on this subject for one of our
teachers meetings.
The Golden Belt district as the
banner district for attendance of
county uperintendents at the state
association. Superintendent Miss
Rose Gilbert of Wallace county.
Supt. Malcomb Peterson of Logan,
Supt. Chas. Wilson of Cove, .Supt-
Louis Christainsen of Ellis, Supt. c.
A. Bodmer of Russell, got the best to
be had out of the many excellent lee
lures, roundtables, banquets, etc,
held during the three days meeting
Out of the los county superintend-
ents in the state so were in attend
ance, probably the same sixty that
attended the county superintendents'
convention at Manhattan last sum-
mer. 1t seems the more conventions
one attends the more he wants to at
J tend.
Trego county's motion pictures of
} Common Sdhool commencement held