The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1916-10-21
ROusing Annual Convention Of Grady
County Instructors Goes Out in
Blaze Of Glory
SAGE CONTRIBUTIONS
OFFERED AT MEETING
0rvilIe S. Davidson Of POcassel, Elected
President for Coming Year, Guy M.WOOd
Vice-Pres. and Miss Griffith Sec-Treas

The closing sessions of the annua
convention of the Grady County Teach
ers association are being held in
Chickasha today, concluding one oil
the most profitable and interesting
meetings ever held by that associa.
tion. Until the very last interest has
been sustained and the scores of coun.
ty teachers who have been in regular
attendance have felt amply repaid for
their fidelity.
Morning Session.
The numbers on the program yes
terday morning were all strong ones,
calculated to inspire the instructors
to greater and nobler effort Di-sin-
guished visitors in the persons Of
President Grant B, Crumbine OF the
Central State Normal and Miss Helen
Caperton of Oklahoma City and Dallas
who has gained distinction In prima'
rv work, commanded the undivided at
tention OF their audience as did asso
the local speakers, o. G. Cooper, coun-
ty agent on what our schools can do
in the organization Of boys and girls
clubs and Miss Anna Smith Of the Ok
lahoma College for Women who spoke
on the relation of art to the needs Of
the rural and village teacher.
President Grumbine's Address.
President Grumbine delivered a
forceful address in which he spoke of
the qualifications OF a good teacher
in part as follows:
"The teacher to be a good citizen
must be a qualified teacher. On the
child, whether it lives until ten or
twenty or longer, its Influence goes on
and on and there islno telling when it
viii end.
The teacher must be trained. You
can't afford to experiment. The teach
er spends more time with the pupil
than with the parent. The require
ments should be increased instead of
leveling off. The teacher is our com
munity assistant
"Too many teachers only go into
the work at $3.50 o'clock in the morn
ing and quit at o'clock in the after
noon and take few minutes * the
end of the month to draw their pay
check
"You must study the child. You
must inspire the child to succeed and
to grow. You can do it by community
service, influencing the home, by
knowing something of the child's life.
The child needs sympathy. So many
parents are opposed to the child being
educated.
"The boys and girls should be in
terested in canning clubs, etc. The
teacher should cooperate with the A,
& NJ. You should be interested in gar
dening. You must live with your peo-
pie. You must be a social factor in
your community The teachers must
work for civic improvements, for the
child who is raised in beautiful sur
roundings becomes a better boy or
girl than one who does not. In rela-
ton to the religion or christian move.
ments in the community. Every
teacher should be member OF some
religious or christian organization in
order to do good teaching. If you do
these things you will be the teacher
that is a success, the one in demand.
In order to make a success the main
thing is stick
Miss caperton's Advice.
One of the most interesting events
Of the meeting was the address on pri-
mary work which was made by Miss
Caperton. Prefacing her copiously il
lustrated dissertation with the quota
ton from c. Stanley Hall, the educa-
tor, "When unhealthy bodies. mis-
chievous tendencies. dull mental pow
ers and divers and sundry kinds OF
wrong doing are present in the school
room 1t is safe to say that monotony
or repression OF expression is com.
mon state Of affairs" the speaker
launched into the following topics on