Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-12-19
sTArE TO COMPETE FOR PRIZE
DIFFERED ~ MORAL INsTRue-
ton INSTITUTE.
MINE EDUCATORS FROM
EACH STATE TO STUDY
wit Then ssss to Devise Best Plan
20 Neral instruction in Schools and
bSst suggestions Will share ia $2o,.
200 ia Prixes-Year to Complete
Work.
specia, to Times Republican.

s.s. Des Moines, Dec. 19.-State- Superin-
tendent Of Public Instruction A. M.
Deyoe has completed the plans Tor
Jowa entering the contest being con-
& uctsd by the National Institution for
Moral Instruction. This organization,
with headquarters at Washington, D.
c.. is offering $4,000 in prizes for the
best method OF character education III
public schools suggested by especially
selected educators.
-Four hundred and thirty-two selected
sprJfessional educators, nine to each
slate, Will study for a year to discov-
Set, II possible, improved methods for
Educating the character Of children in
the public schools. Each Of the
states has commission which will Of
fer code and the prizes go to the
i.aenabers or the commission, or col
lxbDrators as they are called, who Of
Ter the best code.
Each state has committee Of which
the state superintendent is the chair
man known as the committee Of Sc
lection, which committee in turn
chooses the cola borators who are to
work out the morals code.
\ Committee and ColIaborators.
In addition to the state superintend-
eat the other two members Of the com
nlittee OF selection in Iowa are Presi-
dent Walter A. Jesup. state university,
Iowa City, and Hon. John Hammill.
Britt. The list Of collaborators for
iowa. as chosen by the state commit :
tee Of selection, includes the follow
ing: DR.. Chauncey o. Colgrove, presi-
dent Upper Iowa University, Fayette;
Right Rev. Daniel M. German, presi-
dent Dubuque College; Dubuque; DR..
Edwin Diller Starbuck, professor OF
philosophy, State University Of Iowa,
Iowa City: Rabbi Emanuel Stemheim,
Sioux City; DR.. Edward Alfred Stein
er, professor of applied christianity,
Grinnell College; Mrs. Anna L. Bur-
dick, director Of. vocational guidance.
Des Motnes public schools: "A. T. HUI
kill. city superintendent, West Water
loo: H. e. .Blackmar, city superintend-
.ent,. Ottumwa; A. @. fuller, Jr, pro-
fessor OF rural education, Iowa State
Teachers College. Cedar Falls.
The collaborators are given year
TO work out their plans beginning With
Washington's birthday, 1918.
In outlining the contest the National
institution for Moral Instruct which
Is promoting the affair, states that the
following are typical Of the questions
which it viii be proper for them to
consider in preparation for their con-
clusions as to the best methods OF
character education:
How to get children to understand
and appreciate the, wisdom Of moral
experience. How to develop personal
convictions in matters of morality in
the minds, Of the children themselves,
and the will to live up to these con-
victions. How to help children from
character habits. How to correlate
school aud home life so as to influence
character development together. What
Character education should be given
teachers themselves as preparation
Tor personal influence over character
development of children. How shall
teachers be enlightened as to the moral
ideas to be inculcated and how trained
to efficiency in the use Of the methods
Of character education"