Fergus County Democrat. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-1919, 1915-11-18
GREAT MEETING
Of THE PARENTS
TEACHERS ALSO WELL REPRE-.
SENTED AT THE GATHERING
HELD LAST EVENING.
TALKS BY GRECO AND FRANKIE

The first regular meeting of the
Lewistown Parent-Teacher association,
which was held Tuesday, boasted
an attendance which filled the main
floor and gallery of the High school
gymnasium, where it was held. The
program was of a nature to awaken
the interest of the most lethargic who
might have attended for duty's sake,
and stimulate in him a desire to be-
come part of this great factor in
civic construction, for the Parent
Teacher association, dating from last
evening, has very firmly fixed itself
as an institution for good in the en-
tire community.
The program was just long enough
to be interesting until the last, and
seemed to contain just the right in
gradients to fulfill it's purpose Two
mastery addresses were delivered, one
by Rev. H. P. Gregg, president of the
association, and the other by A. A.
Frankie, superintendent of the city
schools Rev. G. M. Donaldson gave
the invocation and besides this there
were three musical numbers which af-
forded unusual enjoyment, first dou-
BILE number by the High School Girls
Glee club, which appeared in public
for the first time and did itself proud,
second piano solo by Mrs. Paul Trigg
which, by it's excellence, demanded an
encOrse, and last a vocal solo of ex.
ceptional beauty by Miss Edith Foley.
Vice President E. c. Russell intro
duced Mr.. Crego announcing that the
lot rr;1 IL i
dress. Mr.. Gregg was eloquently con-
vincing in what he had to say and
his address was one of the finest he
has yet given in this city. BY his
statements he showed that he is very
much in earnest in his desire to see
the Parent-Teacher movement fulfill
the purpose for which it was con-
ceived, particularly in this city, upon
which the local organization must CEN
ter it's endeavors. He spoke at first
of the great victories achieved over
Once-dreaded disease, unsanitary en-
xironments and other physical discom-
forts, of the wonderful enlightenments
which science and other branches Of
learning have given the present gen.
GRAFTON, and stated that he believed,
in spirit of optimism. that there
were greater things to come. The
greatest Of all sins is that of ignorance,
and this the cause for all sin and sub.
sequent distres. The three institu-
tions to which the power of overcom-
ing ignorance is given are the church.
the home and the school. Eliminating
the first, on account of it's limitations,
the last two should be firmly affiliated
in order to accomplish the greatest
results in the training of their COM
mon charge, the child. That the
school and the schools property should
be meeting place for social and edu-
cational activities which no lodge
church or field of public amusement
could embrace, is goal towards which
the association should strive.
Mr.. Frnazke Speaks.
1t would be difficult to review such
an address as Mr.. Frankie gave, be-
cause it dealt with the more intimate
problems which confront parents and
eachers on every hand. The child, he
asserted, is the great asset in the COM
munity and with this in mind his ply
steal, moral and educational being
should be preciously and jealously
trained, first at home and then at
school, with the vigilence of both
home and school guarding him in the
vast spaces between the two. What
Mr.. Frankie had to say to the parents
sank deep in their minds, and it is
safe to infer that great results will
be forthcoming, as time will tell.
The association meeting of next
month will be sectional, one being held
in each school houses, the second Tues
day in December. On the second Tues
day in January another mass meeting
will be held with big program.