The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-12-09
Miss Sarah FndIey Rice Stresses
These Two Agencies in Her Lee
ture on Whole Body Fifty.
Joined Together.
SPEAKS TO TEACHERS
Miss Rice Appeared Before Elemen-
taSy Club in Afternoon and Be-
fore Parents and Teachers
In Evening.


gether'-the home, the school, as
pillars on which the arch of christian
democracy rests, was the general
theme of Miss Sarah Findey Rice's
lecture which she gave last night
before an audience of teachers and
parents in the high school assembly.
Miss Carrie B. Gilmore introduced
the speaker and representative
from each school was on the recep-
ton committee to greet the guests.
The lecture was inspirational in
character and full of sane, homely
philosophy Miss Rice speaks with
authority on a great many subjects
and from knowledge which she has
gained through many years of per-
sonal experiences in the teaching
profession She sees the viewpoint
and problems of the parent and again
of the teacher and she pleads for a
closer cooperation between the two.
Miss Rice deplored the fact that
the parents know so little about the
teachers to whom they sent their
children, when they should really be
well acquainted with them in order
that the two influences, the home
and the school, could work effec-
lively in shaping. the lives of the
children. |
| The Parent-Teachers association |
Is a big asset to a community, the |
speaker said, and she suggested that
the word parent apply to father and |
mother both. "In too many in
stances, the parent means only the
mother" she said 1.-The fathers and
all other men in the community
should be aroused as to their duty
toward the school Children" she in
sisted.
THE need to stress religious in
struction in the schools is greater to
day than it has ever BEEN" Miss
Rice declared. mot denominational
nor secterian creeds and doctrines,
but religion" 1t is the only thing
which will stabilize life and it is
losing it's hold in the United States
today. 1t is the duty of the parents
and teachers to put the idea OF God
into the minds of the children-it
belongs there, Miss Rice said, and
she quoted the scripture, aye shall
cause them to know"
! "The American people are Gods
chosen people and they are here for
ia purpose, to establish a christian
democracy in the world" Miss Rice
God for a purpose"
Value Of Association.
In enumerating the values Of
real parent-teachers' association
where every mother and father and
teacher in the school was a member.
Miss Rice explained TO her audience
how such an organization was the
place where the people met for a
unified purpose. 1t is the place where
everyone present is interested in the
same results, Child welfare" and it
is an opportunity to establish COM
mon minded people who are all in
terested in the same things.
Miss Rices lecture was enhanced
with the true stories which she told
from her own experiences and which
were narrated last night to illustrate
point she desired to make. She
told the parents to instill within
their children's minds high ideals
"for they will stick" she said, land
make them broad minded men and
women" Previous to this statement
she had told them the STORY of her
seven year old nephew whose sympa-
thies were aroused for the poor
little orphan children and how he re-
sponded to the unselfishness in his
heart to help those children. THE
ideal is still with him. Miss Rice
said, land he's twenty-five years old
today"