The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1917-07-12
High Ideals Praised
At Meeting of N. E. A.
Purposes for Which AM RIGA Entered
War Shall be Kept In Mind-0ther
Subjects Treated.
[By United Pressl

HOHlLAND JAY LINE meetings
of the National Educational associs-
ton in session here continue to excite
great interest and are ,-rgely attend
ed. The meetings close tomorrow
evening. Among the addresses today
were one on THE University as a
C~onservator of National Ideals" by
William T.. Foster, president of Reed
college; one on THE Physical Train
ing of Defective Children" by Ida M.
Manley, of the Portland Department of
Defective Children; and one on Tn
terest as a Factor in the Teaching of
Modern Languages" by Anna H. Tiet-
jen, of the high school of commerce
of San Francisco.
The eight thousand delegates at
tending the National Education asso-
citation convention here tonight VIII
see 20 aliens made citizens Of the
United States.
A special session of the Multnomah
county circuit court will be held on
the stage of the Auditorium and the
20 aliens, with their wives and fami-
lies, will occupy the center of the res
trum. Each new citizen will be pre-
scented with an American flag. Three
of the applicants for citizenship will
be publicly examined.
Following the exercises, Caroline
Hedger, Chicago; Cora Wilson Stew
art, Frankfort, Ky; Charles E. Rugh,
Berkeley, Cal; and David Starr Jorgau,
chancellor of Leland Stanford univer-
sity, will speak.
In his talk on National Ideals"
President Foster said:
Tho NOV thv,,+- -- - 5000
the need of furnishing ideals as well
as ornaments. Armies and navies and
a~eroplanes alone cannot make the
world safe for democracy. AS democ-
racy is a body of ideals, it's last cita-
del of refuge from the enemy must be
an institution dedicated to the conser-
walton of ideals. Such an institution
is the university.
Thousands of the noblest young men
OF America are now on their way from
the universities to the front trenches
of the fight for ideals. Some of them
will never return. That will be a loss
beyond the power of imagination; but
1t will be a greater tragedy if, while
they are dying at the front, we. who
stay behind fail to do our part in maxi
ing the world safe for democracy. We
snail fail unless we make our schools
I'M universities safe places for con-
~tlnuing-even under stress of war-to
the ideals for which we went
to war. For what shall it profit us if
we gain the whole world for democ-
racy and thereby lose the soul of de-
mOcracy?
Ther is always danger, through
the bitterness and sacrifice of con
thct, OF falling to lower planes, of
doing violence to the very ideals that
we started out to eXalt and defend.
we are told said Mr.. Ponsonbv
IN the house of commons, that we are
lighting for liberty and democracy
against tyranny. But, gradually. we
nave seen the very system we abomi-
nate, whose existence we detect. in
stituted in our midst and IN setting
out to destroy it in the enemy. we are
creating it at home" The danger is
no less in America.
we have declared, again and again.
by the most solemn official u%tterances
h a w have undertaken a war for
the ideals of freedom, freedom under
the law, freedom from tyranny, free
dom from injury without due process
or law, freedom from autocratic now
er, freedom from the seas. freedom 70
the seas, freedom of small nations IN
their lives without fear of sub-
JugatlOn, freedom in the pursuit of
We have declared that our
purposes are humanitarian. free from
the suspicion of selfishness. that we
ask no spoils of war, no conquest of
land nor monopolies of trade: in
snort that we ask nothing for our
selves that we do not ask for all man
KIND. 1t is the function of the uni
yersity, as the c%onservator of ideals
to Keep the vision of these, our noblest
aspirations, unblurred: for
Where there is no such vision, the peo-
pie perish.
Regarding the methods to be used
III training defective children phvsic-
ally, Miss Manley said:
h modern demand for the train
ing OF the mentally deficient child is
based on economic grounds as well as
humanitarian. The comparatively re-
cent recognition of the numbers of de-
tectives makes the need of their care
ful training an urgent matter.
Recognizing that physical education
is the foundation of all training. and
tnat even mental defects may be due
III e measure to physical disor-
oers' the need of careful physical
training is apparent both as a cor
receive as well as a means of devel-
opment.
The public schools are undoubtedly
the place where the needs of pupils
should be discovered and provided for.
IN the case of detectives, physical
raining IN the broadcast sense is the
only training that offers any hope for
IL creates an opportunity for them TO
De useful to society and themselves.
The wise teacher will first deyelop
the natural senses by games and every
which tend towards that emil.
Among the mental detectives atten-
ton is poor and will power lacking.
consequently they become the victims
OF evil disposed persons. Lack of CO.
ordination of physical powers is the
aus OF wasted energy and CALI Tor
corrective treatment.
The object is to develop intelli-
gence and will power and in these