The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1920-01-22
COUNTY TEACHERS
IN SESSION
AT ACADEMY
Nearly 200 Attending Fifth
Annual Convention at
the Academy

Nearly 200 teachers are attending
the fifth annual gathering of the
Caledonia County Teachers associaA
ton which opened at the st. Johns
bury Academy Thursday afternoon
and closes with spelling match Sat-
urday morning. A rich program has
been provided and on Friday among
the specially interesting features will
be an address at 0 o'clock by Miss
Florence Hale on "The Schools, an
Interpretation of Democracy" an
address on characterization" at 2.45
by Rev. Fraser Metzger of Randolph; /;
an address at 3.45 by DR.. Edmunds
of the U. V. M. on keeping Fit"
and an address Friday evening by
Commissioner Hillegas on 'Educa-
tional Conditions in Vermont. ~ The
county spelling contest will be held
in Academy hall Friday Afternoon at
1.15.
The program Thursday afternoon
opened with a selection by the
Academy Boys Glee Club, followed
by prayer by Rev. A. S. Woodworth.
The address of welcome was given
by Harry H. Carr Of the st. Johns
bury school board Mr.. Carr urged
correct thinking and suggested that
the teacher should not strive as much
to make the child study as to study
the child. He believed that educa-
ton would settle the problems OF
reconstruction and that education
was the only answer to BolsheVlsm.
"Americani3m is opportunity we
!i' are engaged in a struggle between
animality and humanity. You hear
a good deal about luck, but the lucky
man is the one who keeps his eyes
and ears open, his mouth pretty well
closed, and his brain alert and recep-
tive. We hear. much, too, about et-
hciency, but we must have coopera-
ton with efficiency Cooperation IS
efficiency plus brains. Education VIII
put the world right. People are at
last waking up to the fact that you
have been grossly underpaid. In your
hands are the future citizens OF AM
erica and we know that your ann As
Amoricanism for all of them"
After another selection by lne
Rows Glee club the president Of the
association, Harvey A. Burbank OF
Danville gave the response ana anhu,
n address. Mr.. Burbank said he hoped
the conference would result in stan
dard school. particularly as if applied
to the rural school. He emphasized
the duty of the teachers to sun teach
tomnerance instruction notwlthstanu'
ing the adoption of the 18th amend
ment. because in too many homes the
child was taught that this amendment
was an infringement of personal I'D
eltv and there was sometimes the
nublic sentiment antagoniSuc TO 'he
new law. He said that woman's SUI
fracc would come as soon as the leg
;slatures of the United States would
permit, and urged all teachers 10
study citizenship and teach 1t to al
their pupils. He touched upon Am
cricanization by pleading for broad
human sympathy for strangers IN
strange land, and urged all to hear
the address on this subject by MI.
Metzger Friday afternoon.
Throughout Thursday afternoon
there were departmental conferences
and at $50 George Wiley, assistant
commissioner of education of the
State of New York, was on the pro-
gram for an address.
This evening the convention ad-
iourns that the teachers may attend
the concert by the Academy musical
organizations at the Colonial.