Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-12-30
STATE TEACHERS
ELECT OFFICERS:
HEAR ADDRESSES
]. +. Turner, superintendent
OF Schools at Payette,
Named as President of AS
ISOLATION for the Year.

its endorsement of the report of the
nominating committee. The officers of
the association for the ensuing year
are as follows: President, ]. E. Tur-
ner, superintendent of the schools at
Payette; first vice president, Fl. S.
Stevenson, superintendent of schools
at Montpelier; second vice president,
Mrs. Laura Butt of Wardner- Kellogg
secretary, Miss Ivy Wilson Of Ada
county, reelected; treasurer. ]. Fred
Williams of Boise. reelected; mem
Der OF executive committee, c. K. Rose,
superintendent of schools Of Boise.
Miss Bernice Mccoy. retiring super
intendent Of public instruction for Ida
no, made an address dealing with the
educational problems confronting the
state board Of education, speaking of
the work done by the board during it's
existence OF four years and predicting
that it's work in the future would be
felt throughout the nation, and Idaho
would stand at the head of all the
commonwealth in its educational
progress.
Professor c. e. Rugh gave another
Of his lectures. the address dealing
with matters pertaining to the high
school course.
Miss Ethel Redfield, state superin-
tendent Of public instruction, extended
her greetings to the teachers and ex-
pressed her loyalty to the state board
of education and the commissioner Of
education.
LAST NIGHTS SESSION.
The session LAT night of the Idaho
State Teachers association was
notable one. The program consisted
of musical numbers and three address,
es and while the auditorium of the
high school was several degrees below
comfortable, the crowd which attend
ed was so interested in what the
speakers had to say that none left the
hall.
The program opened with piano
solo by Miss Smith, a former Boise
high school girl, who delighted her au-
dience, and when recalled. played a
selection of her own composition,
The Plot" Professor Ward French
sang two numbers and was recalled.
The address OF the evening was
made by Professor C. E. Rugh of the
University of California, who spoke
on Religion and Education" He
opened his remarks and stated that
We're their ancestry, politics and re-
iigion, and declared in handling his
subject he wanted his audience to bear
in mind that he was speaking upon
the subject to teachers for their view
point. only the best is good enough
for the child" said DIR. Rugh, and de-
clared that that motto should be writ
ten over the doorway of every school
IN, he la,,
Lincoln said, a nation could not be
half free and half slave so it could
be said today that a nation could not
remain half wet and half dry, and
neither could it remain half religious
and half not religious. He pointed out
that within the past 40 years that the
number of apprehended criminals has
increased $50 per cent and that during
the same period the number of pupils
passing the elementary grades had in
creased from one to SO per cent and
the number passing through high
school from nine to AZ per cent. Thus,
he stated, 1t was shown that education
hlone was not lessening crime. Figures
compiled, he stated. showed that there
was one person in the penitentiaries of
this nation for every 1867 inhabitants
SAOSG Of JHIME.
Taking up the cause for the in
crease in crime, he stated that there
had been more wonderful rapid
Transformation in conditions of living
since 1850 than in a thousand years
before that time. Industrial revolu-
ton. he stated. had taken away work
which has formerly been done at the
home to the factories. thus taking away
children from their elders to a con-
siderable degree. Children, formerly
born In the home are now born in a
maternity hospital, and funerals which
were once always held at the home
are now held in chapels. Formerly,
he said, everything conferred about
the home. but with the breaking away
from the home, the wonderful social
transformation, the cause of the in
crease in crime is explained. The dan
gerous citizen Of Chicago, he stated,
was said to be the youth of Is years
of age, and reports show that the
greatest number OF hold-ups have been
committed by youths Of II years of
age.
With these conditions. the speaker
pointed out, the teachers were face to |
face with the religious problem in the !
schools. He declared they must look |
into the nature Of a child for educa-
tional problems and he declared that |
the teacher of any school had a right !
to inspire youth by religion and in SO |
doing made the school religious in
stitution. He stated 1t was not a |
question of whether or not there shall |
be religion or no religion in the |
schools, but rather, shall there be a
good or bad religion. He then pointed