The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-03-05

CThis essay received $50 in gold in
the teachers prize essay contest OF
methods OF teaching tcmperancC.l
Temperance means, FIRST, modcra'
ton In hcalthful indulgence; and sec.
ondly, abstinence from things danger.
Gus, as tho use of Intoxicating wines. >
With this definition given by ZcnophOn
in his Memorabilia" US basis. Tho
teachers in the grades. high schools,
colleges, universities, arc searching To
know how such temperance instruc-
ton can best be impaired TO thciI
students.
With almost prophetic sight. Frances!
Willard wrote: In tho school OF the
future, carefully trained hygicnstN
will be steadily at work studying the
habits OF the children and teaching;
them on scientific grounds how they
may form those upon which physical
sanity is conditional. The decaloEuc
OF health must be learned in our pub.
lie schools" Today every stale has
a law requiring scientific temperance
to BIO taught in its schools; many have
special teachers OF temperance. and
the teaching profession Is in the fore
front Of the battle against the use OF
alcoholic beverages.
The first requirement in teaching
temperance is for tho instructor 10
be on fire! no lukcwarm luCkudai3
ical, sermoniZing. canting man or wOm-
an should presume to handle such
tools, with which character IL being
built. The teacher must not only
know the history OF the Liquor instl-
tuition; the effect OF alcohol OIL
health; its startling toll OF insanity,
disease and death: its Ubiquitous drain
on national resources; its burden laid
upon labor; It's grasp on social, polit-
ical and governmental institutions;
and its insIduOus opposition to GduCa-
tlon-this knowledge alone is insult
ficient. He who would teach must
come, az did the prophet of old. fresh
from an altar where the live coal has
touched his lips and when all was Il
tremble at the presence OF the living
God. For, like Isaiahs, this message,
too, Is for people who hear without
understanding and see without per-
ceiving.
Is it possible for every teacher to
be thus .'fired?" Yes. knowledge be-
gets enthusiasm, and knowledge is
pressing its acceptance through books
magazines. bulletins, charts. pnmph-
lets, and the daily press. eager to be
transmitted by the living voice. the
animated face the sparkling eye of
an intelligent sympathetic teacher.
His library Is incomplete without sew
eral standard books on the subject of
temperance, and his mail should bring
him reports from the most recent VIC
tories for prohibition.
AS in all teaching, that on temper
ance should be graded. In the pri-I
mary classes the story form is ac-
cepted by educators as the best. Lit
erature abounds with material which
may readily be adapted for the lower
grades. Bible stories, OF course, come
first. Tennysons "Idylls of the King
that treasure Housewives King Ar
thur, whose only fault was that he had
no fault; Sir Galahad, whose strength
was as the strength of ten because his
heart was pure; Sir Garet. who hum
bled himself that he might be exalted.
In "Iyanhoe" come pictures of the
Saxon serf who drowned the sense of
his half years hunger and thirst in
one day of gluttony and drunkenness"
1.-The King and His Wonderful Castle"
furnishes suggestions for whole
series Of lessons. History and biogra-
ply, as we'll as mythology, are rich
with lessons for temperance teaching,
and illustrative lesson manuals are
ready for the teachers use. But III
these were exhausted, the daily pa
pers furnish items disable in the
school room during the temperance
lessons. The re-telling OF the story
by the child and, later, the reproduc-
ton writing impresses the lesson.
Memorlzlng poems and singing songs
full OF temperance truth will bear
fruits for sobriety and right living
in other ways.
Children use their eyes more than
their ears, hence an exhibit appealing
to sight will be most effective for them
and their parents. Charts, pictures,
stereopticons and various object les
sons will occur to the we'll informed
teacher. and the children themselves
will invent ways to illustrate the sub
ject. One school bought a panto-
graph and enlarged some OF the best
pictures for posters. These were used
not only in the school, but in the
churches, and hung in conspicuous
places to help forward temperance
sentiment in campaign for prohibit
ton. The prepared charts are splen-
did, but for few cents the teacher can
make his own charts enlisting the pu-
pills aid and interests. in noting the
effect of alcohol and tobacco on plant
and animal life.
One poster compares the figures Civ
en- by Professor Demme. Of Stuttgart,
in his study OF the history OF ten fam
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