The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-11-28
PATRIOTISM
DOMINANT NOTE
Love for and Duty to C0un-
try Keynotes Of Teachers
Convention.
CHORUS OF 800 VOICES
Need for Amendments to
School Laws of State
Discussed Fully.

Butte, Nov. 27.--PatriOtism and the
sentiments. "Our country our whole
country and nothing but our country,
were the dominant notes of the second
days proceedings of the twenty ninth
annual state convention of the Mon
tana State Teachers association. The
duty of education to create and foster
n true American citizenship was in
stilled by the speakers and held al"ft
as the highest ideal of education For
the first time since the convention
started, music was heard at the general
sessions and 500 voices. in thunderous
chorus, sang the first and last verses
OF my country IT'S of Thee
The needs for amendments 70 the
present school curriculum with discus
siOns on the most practical method of
achieving these; the pressing call fer
aid from the rural districts for "A bet
ter condition for the rural tecaher, bet
ter educational facilities for the rural
teacher better educational facilities for
the rural students and more cOnSolida-
ton Of education in the country places;
the development Of the mind of the
child, in contrast to examining the
young brain, were subjects that en-
crossed the attention of the attentive
audience that knitted for the soldiers
while listening for the sake Of the chill
dren.
The Modern Family.
State Superintendent NJ. r. Shawkey
Of West Virginia opened the night ses-
sion with an address on tn. problems
presented by modern methods of life.
This is a more scientific age than
those that preceded it." he said. War
has stimulated application to devices
Of all kinds. We are today preparing
great fleet of airships. Ten years
from now travel by airship will be as
common as by automobile now. The
apprenticeship system is gone. but the
hoy must have his technical training
and the school is the place in which
10 get it. The family of half a century
ago consisted of father and mother.
four or five girls and four or five
boys, or somewhere Whereabouts. To-
day the typical family consists of u
son and "A daughter. They are spoiled
kids.
Mother and father and elder sister
or brother are very likely to be wage
earners. The family may eat break
fast together. After the meal one
PUSHES for the subway, another for the
jitney and third for the surface car
TO go to factory, office and school. -
AT noon all are too far away from
home and their time is too valuable
that they should go home for dinner
so they grab lunch at a cafeteria and
mt night they rush back home to sup
per and rush out again to the movies
or somewhere else. The moral training
OF the child is turned over To the
school"
Substitute for Competition.
I'VE are going to substitute cooper
alton for competition" declared Helen
Bennett of Chicago. "A system where
one man gets $4,000, 900 and leaves
nothing to his competitor but a pistol
with which to blow out his brains is
wrong. There is coming a new idea
Of the humanities, new tenderness to-
ward people," she affirmed. "E.duca-
ton will consider world things, not ma
tional things. We shall discover and
believe that we have an interest in
every other country, although, OF
course our own will remain the best.
We shall have a fellow feeling with
other countries
Nominations Made.
The election will be held tomorrow
morning. The nominations follow: