The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1920-01-23
WOMEN TOLD FUTURE OF
MAUI RESTS WITH THEM
Very Interesting Discussion Follows Address By
Superintendent MacCaughey Last Week---GOOd
Ideas Brought Out---PeOple Must Really Realize
Needs Before Schools Can be Improved Much.
Continued From Last Week.

hey before the members Of the Maui Womans Cmb m under the auspices
of the American Citizenship committee of the Maui Aid Association, m Mon
day afternoon of last week, an interesting discussion took place as fonows)
MIR JUDD: The womens Club this last week appointed committees
are here this afternoon. 1t is a wonderful chance to ask Mr. MacCaughey
how to do these things, and to get suggestions iron n source you can
ton las. 10 NOT think hat is goiug TO banne Mr. Maccansbay looked
over the papers and said he would be glad to help the organizations that these
women are working upo and make them enecuve-You have the floor
MR.. MacCAUGHEY: While someone is thinking of a question, al
going to make M constructive suggestion regarding Maui teachers as ON
munty workers. Now a teacher does not finish her work when the gong
rings At 2 O'Clock. A good teacher has community aniaton; a good teach
er does not desire merely to be entertained by the community, does not
simply desire to go to dinner parties and functions, afternoon teas and that
sort of thing. That is very desirable don't misunderstood me, and be
heve in the full, free expression of social life and jolly good times but
we are not butterflies; W e re workers; the old butterfly idea is fading
very rapidly from human life. We are workers, and want to do u part
in the community. If live in Kohala, 1 want a community job in Kohaa
for whatever ,e LIMA may be "s, fitted If l a u p at MHE'T T%o l want sometime Jon thn
are nam things can do to build nv life into that community The ON.
munites too al be of great assistance in finding things for the teachers.
Attaching the right person to the right kind of work that is the right kind
of skfnful community leadership.
MRS. A. c. BowD1sH: have had an opportunity of teaching in one
of the big schools during the last few days. I wish everyone had the ex
psrisnG Tn I had trying to to leach til, thirty ryo little s,t children n1ren.D who don't know much uSn
almost die" And that is about the extent of their English. I wish every
could just go around for a day or So and SCI what the problems of
teaching really are.
AT this point Mrs. F. E. Sawyer told of her appointment n the educa
tonal committee of the woman's club and asked for further constructive sg-
gestons as to how o go about her work to which MI. MacCaughey answered
as follows:
MR. MaccAUGHnY: There are two essentials o have n every type
against the rural background. If the industry supports the school the
n oS t sm oonoo u .honld . mo nv t thstt - Im " Nus n, pa so . atvantna a m um
tural life, and not lazny drifting into the tenemens in Honolulu. think
a good many of you when the e course offs study is printed will not recognize
it, I speak to you women about attaining economic independence, that is,
that she should pay her way; and no boy is worth much to himself or to
anybody else until he sees that he ca aid and pay his way 1t makes no
difference whether it is in assisting at one of the pumps here, or if he is
a doctor or in n of the learned professions, he must pay his way. That
is the basis of human lfe-economic ability And the second, which is even
more important In som aspects is uanm IN nome making; training the
girls in all the activities that have to do with the normal wholesome, Chris
academic work given in the schools. A girl should know how to make her
clothes not to read stories about it, but to do it with needle and thread and
the sewing machine.
Another thing is the simple problems of buying food. Very few women
know how o buy food economically That is due to lack of training, though
coo Ava "a so oopo S tu "a riabt " h~t t n~ mo %i im VI nnUtM tMn n w TO TO m now hw w to
COO plain ant bStanti OOd to De ready for III MAJ When he comes
from work. They must learn too how to take caeo Of children. The average
young woman today goes into married life with only the remotest ideas of
the responsibilities Of the basic biological facts that confront her We need
som very plain teaching in the schools, for SOL of rfes problems for men
and women re too confused. Who is going to establish the ideal home?
If they don't get the knowledge to do that in the schools, where ire they
going to get it? And that needs a new type of teacher, with very different
training from the type W have now. I suspect that in the schools of 1850
am safe in going into the dstance!-most of the teaching will not be done
the class Don Life does not exist in the class rooms, but in the mill, at
the pump. in the irrigation bitches and on the waterfront; and in til. future
that is where re will do a great deal of or teaching 1t will be where
reality is. A great deal of our teaching is and has been make-beieve. In
a school on the slopes of Halakala the blackboard ws covered with bushels
and pecks. I won't point out the school, not wishing to hurt 1 pointed out
to the teacher that we didn't ave bushels n pecks in Hawaii, lat they
belonged to the middle west among tn farmers there W e should have
an arithmetic dealing with pineappes and sugar and with our problems here
MRS. F. BALDWIN: You spoke of reforms in the way of teaching
which ma probably come in 1850. That is 10 far distant, and % many
reforms have to come. How are they to be accomplished; what ire the
women in Maui to do; they have but little voice n affairs now. What are
we to do to be of service o There is n o money. a you say, to bring
teachers here to do the work which is necessary to be done.
MR. MaocAUGHEY: The most important thing at present is direct
and intelligent action and you may depend the funds will be Forthcoming
for whatever is needed Let m e say in passing that this Territory has &C
compnshed whatever it has recognized a necessary whenever a thing has
been presented Ito the Territory it has not failed in doing it, You cannot
point to a failure in the Territory of Hawaii when a appeal has been pre-
sented. (Applause) l say that as a CIentn TACT In all the drives during
the war Hawaii always went over the top When thu people really under
stand the rockbouom facts regarding the things required to be done and
necessary for the community, the money will be forthcoming. How are
we to bring about these changes you ask? One of the elements of American
life is that we are in too much OF a hurry. We are filled with a vision of
what might be, and are hrnated because we cannot reach the goal as rapid
y al W desire. We cannot bring ABOUT these great changes in NJ month
or one year or two years. In the second place, you say what shall we dc
right now suggest that some committee, a small number representing
the larger group, meet with the representatives of the school group For
example: the Maui Principals Club. l suggest that a number of Maui school
teachers get together with the Maui Principals Club, and Mr.. Wells and
others and talk owe matters. But what is chiefly needed is in the way OF
local improvements. l confne my attention purposely to the larger phases
of the movement. For example, W e are going to give Miss LeeI think
she is here this afternoons cottage 1t Khei, which is very necessary there;