Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-01-11

pal business to see to it that we have
an educated electora e. Next TO the
home school is the cornerstone of So
ciety. / am with YOU in all your eff
forts TO better our system of educa-
ton. | am with you when you ask for
better remuneration FOR the school
teacher. However, The teacher who
has no other object in life than merely
to hold his job and draw his salary
is misfit
The teachers should be at least as
much as that of the man who works
with the pick and shovel. | am going
to ask the legislature to increase the
school tax so as to enable school dis
tricts to pay better salaries, SO that
teachers get not only enough to live
but can also lay aside something for a
rainy day"
Governor Larrozolo then spoke of
preparing the statute that provides
for scholarships at the normal schools
for boys and girls who are ambitious
to teach, and told of his own expert
ence as a school teacher in FL Paso
when he had hard time to convince
the school trustees that money was
needed for school desks and books.
There were then three Englishs speak
ing people in his school district and
some seventy-five to 100 pupils in his
school, none of whom knew even the
Spanish much less the English alpha
, bet.
There is only one method to teach
English in Spanish speaking eommun-
ities,' he said. Il never permitted
/ pupil to speak a word of English that
he did not understand in Spanish;
never to recite lesson in English
/ that he did not also know in Spanish,
If | had my way there would not be
a Spanish-speaking child who did not
! also speak English But wouldn't it
also be well for every Spanish-speak-
| ing child also to know English ?"
| The governor then drew d glowing
| picture of trade expansion to the south
! of US, of better understanding of our
| Latin neighbors only to be gained 10y
understanding his language. He said
! that as rule, all we'll educated Mexi-
cans speaking English, that well-to-do
| parents in Mexico now look to the
| United States rather than to Paris to
| educate their boys.
| Every resident of this country"
| said the governor, SHOULD speak the
language of this country, English
| Your legislative program is being in
] Guided in my message to the legisla-
| ture and ] will recommend even more
than what you ask. favor night
schools. in fact. everything that will
strengthen Americanism and will
! make the coming generation fit to
cope with the problems that it must
solve" The governor was applauded
again and again.
Superintendent of Public 1nstruc-
| J. II. Wagner, who had called the
meeting to order and had introduced
| Governor I.arrazolo with graceful
terms, referring to the governors five
years experience as a teacher, then
asked Miss Isabel Eckles of Silver City
TO take the chair. Miss Eckles eX-
| pressed her regret over conditions that
| compelled the calling off the con-
vention of the state teachers associa-
ton for last year and made a plea for
renewal of mem berships. There were
immediate and many responses by
| heads of institutions and bureaus as
! well as by county, superintendent
pledGing 100 per cent membership
from their departments or counties.
Superintendent Wagner suggested that
inasmuch as most of the counties had
set aside sums up to SIS per teacher
to enable teachers to attend the con-
convention, the county board would
be justified in paying the membership
fee for each teacher in the county.
Funds are needed for the association
| legislative committee, which consists
of Superintendent Wagner, r. f. AS
plund, Miss Eckles, +. l.. Enloe and
John Milne.
The discussions were of intense in
| terest and brought out many defects
| and facts about New Mexico's schools
| that are not well known or under
stood, but the knowledge of which at
| once suggests the remedy. Practically
| every one of the two score or more
! educators present took part in the de-
bate which at times was quite ami
mated.