Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-11-08

something of social organization
outside the school and its interests.
Zone example will sefve to make this
lclear. If teachers are to have in
creases in salary based on a sound
| readjustment of public finance our
educational leaders must become
| experts in their knowledge of pub
| lie finance. In this way intelligence
about~public institutions will lead
to an intelligent instruction of chill
dren in all social problems.
| President w. B. Owen of the Chi
cago Normal school told methods of
| making teachers associations eff
| Gent.
Teachers Given Credit.
THE advance ofNeducation is due
to such associations as this made
up of teachers that have enough ini-
tiative to come together and ex-
change IDEAS" he said.
The fullest homegeniety OF edit
cation comes from a thorough dis
cussion Of the pxoblems that are con-
stantly coming up and only by that
means can teachers associations be-
come efficient"
Miss Julia Lathrop of Washing
ton, D. C., arrived in the city just
Fin time to deliver her address on
National Child Welfare Standards"
She is head of the children's bureau
of the Department of Labor.
1--WE cannot do our full duty by
the American child until we have a
substantial basis for child welfare
lin the home. The child must be
prepared during the years before he
comes to school with sound basis
of health. If he comes to school
with bad eyes, bad teeth. diseased
tonsils or adenoids of other draw
backs, in health he puts burden OIL
the school which has for genera
tons weakened the power OF the
schools. The schools have been
compelled to turn from their work
of teaching for time in order to
correct the health conditions OF the
child.
"The children's bureau of the De-
partnlent of Labor has for seven
years been trying to work out
basis Of what the Child needs before
it comes to school Intensive calcu-
lations have been made as to the
cost of maintaining family with
"a study of infant mortality.
1T is in their first years that chill
dren's characters are formed. 1t is
a truisnn that the home makes the
child.
Every year 100000 children be-
tween the ages of IA and Is years
leave school to go to work. Only
about one-third of these leave
school because they are compelled
to do so by poverty.
Our problem is to find how to
keep the two-thirds who are merely
restless and also to keep the other
one-third in school. The latter
really, need the education the most
because they are faced by poverty.
We must convince, the parents that
it il to the childs abiding welfare
to keep him in school as long as
possible"
Narrow Salary Policy.
"The narrow policy of the state
of Nebraska in paying the state
superintendent of public instruc-
ton and the instructors in state
schools such meager and insignifi-
cant salaries" was deplored by the
Nebraska State Teachers associa-
ton, in a resolution adopted unani-
mousiy yesterday afternoon at
mass meeting in the City Audi
forum.
Other resolutions recommended
that the state department of educa-
ton should be controlled by board
of education selected solely on merit
and without reference to party af-
filiations. The state superintend-
ent should be chosen for education
al leadership and without regard to
residence, the resolution stated. He
is now elected.
Boost Federal Aid.
"a large program of social
sciences in the high schools would
be far more valuable than much of
the material taught today" said an.
other resolution, which also recon-
mended that the study of American
history, American institutions and
civics be made compulsory in high
schools.
Circulating libraries and equip
ment for experimental and agricul-
tural work in rural schools should
be provided by the federal and state
governments, another resolution de-
clared.
Federal aid to education in the
state was commended and an extern
sion of it asked A special cali was
made to extend education facilities
still more to the 100000 Amer
leans of foreign birth and parentage
Commend Last Legislature.
Standardization Of education and
intelligence tests were endorsed.
The action of the executive COM
nittee of the association in appoint
ing a constitutional convention conf
mission was approved and the work
of that COMM endorsed. This
commission is working toward in
cooperating educational clauses in
the constitution to be drafted by the
coming convention.
The state distributable fund for
education shou1l be increased by
taxation so as to allow $40 per pupil,
one resolution declared.
The work of the last legislature
was commended in providing for all
elementary instruction in the Eng
fish language and for all public
meetings to be conducted in Eng
fish; for the compulsory attendance
law and the health legislation.
Former Premier Of
G A AI.