Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1919-12-04
EDUCATIONAL MEET.

ers had paid enrolment ICES, ei'nS
direct To treasurer Sanders or through
the various round table organizations
;ncludinq that of the Potomac ValIey
which met in Shepherdstown late IN
october, and from every section calIe
reports of attendance plans. ohep
nerd College sent its proportlon VI
conservatives in President mos. y;
Miller, Miss Ireland. MISS lrotter anu
Miss Turner, and MeSSrs. kenamoho'
Morrow and Muldoon. 60,
Possibly several forces contributed
n brinp together the $500 teachers IN
attendance. superintendent ShaWN.S
had called a conference OF county
superintendents for Wednesday anu
the greater number OF them reilialneu
over till Saturday, among lueHl oene
SUPERINTENDENT Croweli, OF berkeley'
TYSON. of Morgan, Hause, OF Haray
and Slonaker of Hampshire. Inc as
Sociation had been unable to nave
nrooram for more than two years,
hence this meeting assumed unusua,
Importance TO all teachers lnteres!eu
in the general educational awakening
and appTeciative of the educational pro-
Dress achieved in West Virginia through
ehe activity of their leaders. NoiAe
the less effective in attracting m
teachers was a certain footoall gam
70 be played few miles furtier wv Wv
the Monongahela Valley on the ai'e'
noon of Thanksgiving day. ,.-od
Several hundred teachers snppeu
away from the Thursday afternoon
session as cleverly and skillfully as the
school bow most practised IN the ar,
Of cutting class and gleefully rusnea
nm the streets of Morgantown toward
the scene of the great conflict between
w v. u. and w. & ]. Frequently
thew stopped to congratulate each
other on being good fellows or to IN
ouire whether school kept at FAR
mont. In Justice to the members OF
the Shepherd College faculty, it Should
be stated that only five OF them yieia-
ed to the pull of alma mater, FRATERNITY
or football hero friend. 1t was great
day for West Virginia and the pres,
ence of several thousand alumni and
former students paid tribute to the
great and growing State University.
The palatal agriculture building
known as Oglebay Hall and the mag
nificent woman's dormitory were visit
ed bv many before the game, old
| friends and professors met, and on
all sides il was agreed that just ABOUT
the biggest thing in education in the
whole country, even football, can now
be had within the State for all our
young people.
This fact is becoming more and more
generally recognized as is shown by
| the big enrolment from every county
| in the State The Eastern Panhandle
| section is well represented, and mum
Der of our young people were seer
Justify cheering from the stands or
mingling with the vast stream OF stu.
dents and visitors on the streets OF
| Morgantown. Jack Snyder and Eos
ter Hedrick were especially active in
a display of school spirit, and Bob
| Hartman, Miller Moler, Roy Bell
Harold Rice, Mike Armstrong, Ada
| May, Lester Ours, Hobart and Gar
| ence Robey, Stuart VanMetre, Homer
Shobe and others were doing their
part in unfolding the glory Of Shep-
herd College and the Eastern Pan
handle in the higher institution OF
learning.
During this time another section of
| the association, in all 500 faithful,
| either Intentional or unavoidably so.
were considering at Fairmont the chief
aims in our educational readjustment.
By night the big convention was on
with a vengeance. The auditorium OF
the First Presbyterian Church was
able to take care of only part OF the
crowd, and an overflow meeting was
quickly arranged under the leader
| ship of Vice-PreSident L. B. Hill.
Thus everyone was able 10 hear the
program, though TO one group II was
given in the reverse order. RABBI
Israel Bettan, OF Charleston, member
of the School Code Commission, by
way of introduction suggested that the
people of West Virginia, though in a
prohibition State, still saw double. He
mad been asked to make one speech,
but the program makers saw two in it
Rabbi Bettan's subject was Education
al Reimbursement and Better Salaries.
| The latter part of the subject was ia
ken up first and touched off very
quickly, as it was declared that the
salary question is a ffty-fifty PROPOSE
tion in which fifty per cent is given to
the teacher and fifty per cent with
leld. In a very powerful address, DR.
3ettan pointed out clearly the part OF
he teacher in realizing for the peo
pie of West Virginia the new defini
ion of patriotism, nationalism and in
| tcrnationalism.
Dr.. Watman Barbe, president Of the
association, delivered an address on
Education for Leadership, which for
| 5oundneSS Of thought and beauty of
expression was unsurpassed by any OF
he great educators from distant parts
Of our country who had been invited
take part on the program. He de-
clared that great leaders are always
men and women Of great native ability
| If they have been educated properly
they lead wisely; if improperly, they
lead dangerously. The world is not
so much in danger from stupidity as
from Smartness leading stupidity the
wrong way. According to DR.. Barbe,
we must give more attention to the eX-
ceptonally gifted youth, gifted with
unusual ability, whether it be for bust
ness or art or letters or Statecraft or
philosophy or organization; and he
made this plea not so much for the
sake of the boys and girls themselves
as for the sake Of civilization itself.
Therefore, he said, we should have in
West Virginia a system of State sup
ported scholarships which would en-
able a certain number of the most
competent and worthy from every
county, no matter how poor they are, to
pursue a course in some normal school
or college.
In subsequent programs addresses
were made by DR.. w. A. Jessup, pres
dent Of the University of Iowa, DR.
Henry S. Curtis, of Oberlin, the
apostle of play, Miss Adelaide Baylor,
President John H. Keith, of the Nor
NAL School at Indiana, Pa, DR.. Otis
w. Caldwell, of Columbia, and by John
w. Withers, a former West Virginian
now city superintendent of the St.
Louis schools. On Friday afternoon