The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-02-06
James w. Fish Succeeds Su-
perintendent William Aid
rich of This City as Head
of the Association.
MEET HERE YESTERDAY
Teachers Are Given Opportun-
ity to Test COURTS System
-McGlade Gives Inter-
esting Talk.


Fort Madison high school, was cleo
ted the new president of the Lee
County Teachers association to sue
coed William Aldrich of this city, at
the business session held in the high
school auditorium Saturday after
noon.
Miss Louise Helwig, principal Of
the Lincoln school here, was elected
secretary and treasurer to succeed
Margaret Frailey. These two officers
with e. G. Lynn, county superinten-
dent will constitute the executive
committee.
The Keokuk high school orchestra
opened the Saturday afternoon ses-
sion with music. Following the short
musical program the business of the
association was conducted. One of
the interesting features of the after
noon was the practical demonstration
Of dramatizatiOn by the youthful stu
dents of Mary Culkin of the Wash
ington school. A certain recitation
would be given entire by one OF the
pupils and then 1t would be acted.
Those who took part in the demon
stration were Mabel Keiser, Vernon
Thomas, Raymond Wenking, Clarence
Mullikin, Margaret Gumbel, Harold
Bork, Howard Ingold, Willard Sutlive,
Leroy Steele, Frances Sheets, Melvin
Morris and Horace Washburn. The
children acted in an unabashed and
natural style and their work was
warmly applauded.
Uses Test on Teachers.
Next on the program came a prac.
1x,s
test by Prof. e. j. Ashbaugh of Iowa
City. This test is to measure the eff
cheney of an entire school or body in
addition, subtraction, division and
multiplication through a new method.
Prof. Ashbaugh demonstrated the
working idea by testing the teachers.
Leaflets containing the tests were
given out and the process explained
Eight minutes were given for the add
ing Of number of columns Of figures
and four to the subtracting. Here is
the result:
Out of twenty-four problems in ad-
dition, the average number attempted
by the hundred teachers present was
fifteen and the average number right
was thirteen. OF the same number of
problems in subtraction, the average
number attempted was nineteen and
the average number correct was sew
enteen.
The processes and computations Of
the tests were simple, and quickly
done. The tests are for the purpose
Of showing which branch of arith-
metic an entire school or class is
weakest in SO that that branch may
be emphasized.
McGIade's Address.
The association program closed
with an address by j. G. McG1ade on
The Five Fundamental Factors in a
Teachers Life"
These five were given by the speak
er, as follows:
Take into your lives as many
simple pleasures as possible.
Eliminate causes of all unneces-
sary grief and worry.
3-Have life apart from the daily
routine, where things are happy and
free.
keep due proportion in all
things you do with reserve power for
those most worthy to be held.
5-Put yourselves into the lives of
those you serve and with whom you
work.
The speaker elaborated on each of
these points in turn. His idea was
that a teacher must follow all of
these points to have personality for
1t was personality that made for sue
cess. Mr.. McGlade said that success
as a teacher could not be accounted
Tor on scholarship alone or want of
success by lack of scholarship. This
personality, he explained, was more
than the outward ljfo IF tho teacher
II included the subtitle Influences OF
environment, emotions, and decisions
Of the inner life. He said that per-