The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1915-07-23
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| In which both members OF the facui-
/ ty ana students rejoiced. The hour
was 1890 o'clock, at which time
tho normal and summer school stu
dents were called into the audito-
rum for the last time during the
session of the normal. Examina-
tons begin next week so the normal
students and members of the faculty
made the most of the opportunity 10
! say and do things that will give last
| ing impression.
| First the Christian Association
Tas in charge of the service witt
Paul Baker presiding. After a song.
q PRAYER and a talk by Prof. Ford
the meeting was turned over to Dean
! Gordon, director of the normal. Mr..
| Ford spoke on the subject "As a
Teacher How MaysI. Raise tie Moral
| Standards He said il was really
&. problem which every teacher
| should solve for himself, but that ore
1 thing was sure and that was that 1t
/ would require quite little teaching.
! Most of all 1t would require the
/ teacher to be moral himself or her
/ self, as the case may be. He said
/ the use of slang oftentimes ,essencl
. teachers power for doing good, re-
cause slang is only mild form Of
! cussing. He said it was impossible
to teach pupils to be moral when the
/ teacher is not moral One of trc
/ hest ways of raising the Standard
/ Of morals he said was to live n moral
/ life before the pupils. To raise
/ TIE moral standards he said it was
4 necessary for the teachers to De
/ honest, keep all promises ana instill
/ honesty, chaste language into the
students by living the part He saii
/ the only sure source of help came
/ from clinging close to the Lord.
/ AT the close of this talk Dean
| Gordon took charge of the meeting
1 ard said ii would be interesting to
many students to give some iaforma-
tion about the Waxahachie cotton
factory, visited by the students on
Thursday. He said the mill employ
&C something like $50 people, sixty
Il per cent of whom were men and boys
end the remaining forty per cent
/ women and girls. These er,ployees
/ work ten hours a day The average
/ wages paid are s1e0 for the men
and boys and si40 for the women
ard girls. The maximum wsge paid
/ is $3.50 for men. All employees
work ten hours a day, but the law
4 requires that the COMPANY mus.
/ pay the women double wages for all
over nine hours per day. 500
pound bale of cotton will work W
into AS pounds of cloth. The fae
/ tory here uses 5000 bales OF cotton
/ annually. All this cotton is bought
in Waxahachie and is grown in Ellis
1 county.
Mr.. Gordon said in rs much as that
| would be the last chapel service he
/! would ask 4 few of the students ami:
| faculty members to make shor,
talks during which they would state
frankly the most impressive things
OF the normal work to them. yer.
large number made interesting ta,ns
in which they assured the faculty
and fellow students that the time in
the summer normal had been well
/ end profitably spent, and further
| thGt the hospitality of the people al
/ WaAahachie was unsurpassed Each
and every speaker said If would 70.
the source OF much pleasure to so
out into the world and spread the
good news OF successful Normal al
| in Texas. Some declared they had
not met stranger in all RE city
and that people could not haze
| treated them better
Or. Hornbeak in short talk said
there were three things which must
| be understood ii they would succeed
| in teaching as a profession These
| three things were first the subject
| second the method and third the
child itself. He said he felt that
each and every teacher should be a
deNout christian, because the aim in
the profession is to develop boys
and girls and that without christian
| itS you cannot be successful
Dean Gordon also in a short talk
expressed delight that the summer
normal had been such a big success.
He said be could not help but feel
sad because the end was drawing
near
A report OF the resolution com
mittee was made as follows which
We're read and adopted by unani-
NOUS vote,
VtharaaS tho s.ay,pn,nr normal Il.