Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1919-05-23
Clubwofnen Meet.

| "0Aieh SNiups at foOleSVllle on Thursday
OF last week. Gov. Emerson C. Harrine-
ton delivered an address on "Reconstruc-
| tion."
Inc meeting was presided over by Mrs.
George V. Chandler, of Linden, president
OF the federation. Miss Mamie Poole, of
the Poolesville club, delivered the address
OF welcome and Mrs. Chandler responded.
Reports of various kinds were submitted
by Mrs. George E. Ladd. Mrs. Willard o.
Waters, Miss Annie Wilson, Mrs. James
kirkpatrick, Mrs. E. S. Stock, Mrs. Jed
Cuttings, Mrs. Charles F. Kirk, Mrs. Lavinia
II. Enele, Mrs. Eugene E. Stevens, Mrs.
Josiah W. Jones and Mrs. Frances San
derson.
Dr. A. F. Wood. president of the Mary
land State College, delivered an address
on the work of his institution.
Resolutions were adopted pledging the
federation to use its influence to further
the disuse of intoxicants of all kinds by
upholding the law prohibiting the manu-
facture of wine or any fermented beverage,
favoring the appointment and mainte-
nance of mounted police in Montgomery
county, demanding the strict enforcement
of the law relating to vaccination in the
public schools of the county. and declar-
ing it to be the purpose of the federation
to work actively for the passage of an
amendment to make the widow-mothers'
pension law operative and to continue its
efforts to have woman appointed mem
Der of the county board of education.
REPORT Or EDUCATION COMMITTEE.
Madame President, Members and Friends
of the Federation:
Your Education Committee, in submit
ting its report for the past year, is fain to
exclaim, with one of old, verify. there is
no new thing under the sun"-for, in truth,
we are back again harping on the same
four strings, to wit, the need of higher sala-
ries for teachers, the Importance of more
supervision. the consolidation of one-room
schools. and last but not least, our age
old hobby, woman on the school board.
We feel that these continue to be the
fundamental needs of the public school
system, and that until they are filled by
the powers-that-be education committees,
backed by mothers, must continue to as
sault public opinion on the principles that
hope springs eternal in the human breast"
and that constant dropping will wear
away stone" even the stony hearts of
county commissioners and governors.
The committee feels that, in spite of
war conditions the schools have not stood
still as whole. though certain commune
ties have been hard hit by the scarcity of
teachers. At least all of our teachers have
had some sort of certificates for their
positions, and not even in the darkest days
of the teacher famine has Mr.. Broome been
put to the necessity Of taking high school
pupils out of school to put in charge of
grades, as has happened in the District of
Columbia.
Moreover, strenuous efforts have been
exerted by the school office to provide
every means for the teachers to improve.
Weekly conferences of teachers and school
officers have been held on Saturdays in
Rockville throughout the year. with an
average attendance of fifty to sixty teach
eTs. 1t speaks volumes for the devotion and
earnestness of our teachers that they have
been almost universally willing to give up
. hasr holt fnr h., s,f a.,
many of them having to leave home al
seven O'Clock in the morning in order to
attend. At these conferences school prob
lens of every kind have been taken w
and discussed, and plans for work outlined
Books on advanced teaching methods have
been read and reviewed and experience.
compared. Weekly bulletins have beer
sent on to all teachers from the schoo
office, defining and suggesting work. and 6
fine spirit of cooperation has been secured
Many instances of splendid devotion t.
the cause could be instanced. as where
teachers receiving less than $3.50 a yea
refused positions of $1,000 or more t
stand by the county schools in the emer
gency thrust upon us by the war.
The Standardization of teaching of al
subjects has been one aim of the super
intendent. and the application of all Stat
rulings on subjects of health. sanitation
school improvements and civics has beer
canstant and consistent.
Teachers have been encouraged to keel
tab on themselves and their individual
progress by tabulated system called {
progress report" with forty qualities o
merit ranging from personal appearance
to moral influence, checking themselves
up at regular intervals for the superinten
dents inspection.
The movement for the creation of {
Federal Department of Education, who's
head shall be member of the President
cabinet. has been endorsed by the com
mittee in the hope that the distressing
nation wide filiteracy disclosed by thu
drafts may be wiped out as soon as possible
The teachers of the District Of Columbif
have recently formed an association which
they have thrown open to our teachers, will
the object of securing better salaries
through Federal legislation. especially work
ing toward minimum salary of $1,000
for a properly trained. experienced ant
qualified teacher AS they shrewdly argue
when absolutely illterate negro farm hand
= and ditch-dieeers earn from four to si'
dollars day. is there any good reason
why those who are entrusted with thu
, delicate and responsible Office Of infiuenc
Y ing and training our children should re
4 ceive an average of less than half thatY
Montgomery county has heartily coop
e Grated with the health crusade inaugurateC
by the National Educational Society. AM
B, all teachers report Improvement in appear
a ance and health Of the pupils. even thousl
- ] =. 1900, ooeaa IL hoe haan m the unrOOtin