Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-21
CORRECT SPEECH
Is AIM OF ALL
EDUCATORS
Conference Discusses Plans
to Eliminate Alien Accents
From Americans

dertaken to drive out incorrect Eng
lish and foreign accents and teachers
can assist materially by using cor
rect speaking in all intercourse with
pupils according to speakers at sec
| tional meetings of the State Educa-
tional Congress to-day. Miss Olive
| Hart. of Philadelphia, said that the
steps to correct English should start
| in kindergartens, not in advanced
| schools.
! At the school support section sec
I ton Superintendent Eli NJ. Rapp.
of Reading, advocated paying rural
teachers more than city teachers so
that they will stay in the rural dis
tricts where they are needed, while
Superintendent Ira r. Bush, of Erie,
presented an idea for national as
well as State appropriations because
of stress being placed upon the fact
that pupils of both sexes are the citi-
Zens of the republic. Much time was
spent in discussing new methods of
distribution of appropriations and
collection of taxes. the conference
receiving numerous and diverse sug-
gestions.
Education is needed in this coun-
try now more than ever" declared
Hugh Frayne, of New York. general
organizer of the American Fedora
ton of Labor, in his address on the
relation of education and industry at
the general meeting of the State
Educational Congress in the Capitol
7 last night. Mr.. Frayne's address
was heard by one of the largest audi
ences of the whole congress, and he
came out squarely in support of edu-
cation as means of saving this
country from the chaos which has
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| threatens other lands.
Commissioner of Labor G. IS. Con-
nelley, the chairman for the evening.
! called for a greater measure of CO.
| operation between the corporations
apd the school people in the formu-
lating of such courses as are re-
F! quired to train men for industry.
He spoke of what has been accom-
plished in the way of special train
ing under the stress of war and de-
clared that the lessons should be
sought by mutual understanding.
Message From Sick Room
| Just after the meeting began a
message was received from the sick
room of DR.. Thomas L. F'inegan. the
! State superintendent of Public In
struction, who expressed his graft
tude for the interest taken in the
sessions. The. message was as
( follows: .t.
7 cannot tell YOU how grievouslv
! disappointed | am in not being able
to attend a single conference ut this
congress. l had anticipated that it
would be one of the greatest educa-
tional meetings ever held in America
/ / knew that the great educational
workers in this Commonwealth and
their friends who came from adioin-
ing and other states would make It
such. You have my profound ap-
probation and gratitude for the cor
dial cooperation you have given me
in organizing it and in determinin"
/ that you would put forth your besS
fefforts to make it a success when
you knew of the impossibility of my
being present. While it has been ..
keen disappointment TO me not to be
able to meet the large number of
my Pennsylvania friends this week,
| shall hope to meet YOU in the
coming months.
Il am much improved and | eX-
pect in a short time, in cooperation
with committees composed of lead
ers in educational work who nave
been here this week, TO begin TO put
into constructive form the courses OF
study. the syllabi and the general
school procedure OF the State. which
your deliberations of this week shall
determine wise
Mr.. Fra,ne's Ideas
In lis address, Mr.. Frayne said:
1T appears to me that the world
needs education now more than ever
before. The great World War has
left the peoples of many countries
in a state of unrest, and in at least
one country anarchy and bolsh eVism
I ia.
own country education of the right
kind seems to he needed to save as
from that which threatens the very
existence of other nations. We must
promote education of all kinds
founded upon social justice and right
to all Especially must we educate
I the foreign-speaking peoples who are
within our borders and make them
understand what our Government
really means and stands for and that
only by becoming loyal and law
abiding citizens can they expect to
progress and be successful. We
must all be educated to understand
that if the United States is to be the
greatest Nation on earth and lead
all others it must be just to all OF
its citizens and the rest of the world
We have saved the world for democ-
racy, now let us save democracy for
the world"
Arthur f. Holder. of the National
Board for Vocational Education,
spoke on what the Government is
endeavoring to do for extension Of
industrial training.
For City Farms
War garden work so stimulated
| the interest of city dwellers in farm
! ing that there is a demand for agFi-
, cultural instruction for the pupils in
most of the cities of the State, and
such training. instead of being a
! purely rural problem. is one which
! will confront the school administra-
tors in urban communities. This
| situation was unexpectedly brought
out at the Agricultural sectional
meeting of the State Educational
| Congress as the result of a talk by
| Orton Lowe, an Allegheny county
assistant superintendent, who gave
experience in Pittsburgh. 1t was one
| of the big themes among tke people
| here for the conference, surpassing
even the presentation of the % points
of morally perfect man by Milton
Fairchild of the National Institution
| for Moral instruction at Washing
ton, and the vigorous discussion cf
the Woodruff teachers salary law.
The sessions of the congress. which
! has been very successful in opinion
of the 900 persons attending it. VIII
end tomorrow, and there was a
gloom cast over it late yesterday
vixen it was made known that DR..
Thomas T.. Finegan, the State Super
intendent of Public instruction, who