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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-06-07
Today's Events

The Canadian Manufactures AS
ISOLATION viii begin its golden jubi-
lee convention at Quebec.
A special election is to be held to.
day in the Fourth congressional dis.
trict of Alabama to choose a success
or to the late Congressman Fred l..
Blackmon.
The International Association of
Civitan Clubs is to meet at Birming
ham, Ala, today for its annual con-
yention.
Following one Of the hardest fought
municipal campaigns IN her history
Los Angeles today will elect a mayor
and other city officials.
At Montreal today the American
Iron and Steel and Heavy Hardware
Association will meet for the first
convention it has ever held in Can.
ada
At special election in Oregon
today the voters are to pass a num-
Der of measures and proposed amend
ments 10 the const tuition including
the soldiers bonus bill the woman
Jury bill and the test bill providing
/ for physical examination of all ap-
plicants for marriage licenses.
Herbert Hoover, Secretary Of Com
merce, and Senator Frelinghuysen,
representing Congress. are to confer
in Washington today with represent
atiyes Of all phases OF the coal in
dustry on measures for extending a
degree Of federation supervision over
the production and distribution Of the
nations fuel supply.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-06-07

gloves over all others is due above
all to the perfection of skins
the kids being reared in villages BIZ
peasants who own only a few goats
and therefore take great care OF them
Oysters cannot live in the Baltic
Sea, because t is not sale enough.
They can only live in water that con-
tains at least thirty.seyen parts Of
salt to every one thousand parts of
waite;
Many of the workmen in the glass
factories OF Venice begin to lose the r.
sight after they have passed their for
tieth year, and soon become totally
blind The impairment of vision is
caused by the excessive heat mad also
by the glare of the flames from the
glass furnaces
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-06-07

Among types Of sword famous In
the past must be mentioned the great
two-handed affair swung by the Ger.
mans in lansqucnats, wh6 1gra much
mixed up in the French religious wars.
So large was IT, 1t could not be car
ried at the side In scabbard. but
had TO be swing across the hack.
When the lnnsQuenets went into ac-
ton they had to be stationed good
distance apart. in order to conline
the casualties to the enemy Each
took his stand, started the old scythe
going and developed quite sphere
Of Influence
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-06-07
4 Got Real Mad When Lost M,
Setting Hen" Mrs. Hannah.

Il went into the hen house one
morning and found my fayorite setter
dead | got real mad. Went to the
store, bought some RATSNAP and
m week got six dead rats. Every
body who raises poultry should keep
RAT-SNAP." Three sizes, 35c, csc
$125. Sold and guaranteed by B. A
Quinlan's Pharmacy, d, A, Ward and
A. II. Winslow ADV.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-06-07
Todav's BIRTHDAYS

Hon George II. Murray, premier OF
Nova Scotia for quarter Of century
born at Grand Meadows ~ S, 81
year ago today
Rt Rev Joseph H. Johnson, Epis
copal bishop OF Los Angeles, born at
Schenectady, n. Y, "A years ago today
Carl B Roden Librarian of the Chi
cago Public Library. born in Kansas
City, No. so years ago today
Albert s. Burleson, late Postmaster
General OF the United States born a
San Marcos, Texas IS years today.
Malcolm r. Patterson. former
governor CT TENNESSEE. born at Somer
vile, Ala. SO years ago today.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-06-07

Make paste Of bleaching powder
ana water and allow the paste to re-
main CA the fabric for IA day or two.
Keep the paste damp while 1t Is on
the material Finally wash the fabric
and dry in the sun.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-06-07
One Year AGO Today

L. s. Supreme Court upheld Eight,
zenith Amendment and Volstead law.
Martial law declared in Galveston,
Texas. on account Of dock strike
The New York herald., 1921-07-24
Latin and Greek as Ancestors
Of Greater Part of Our English

Latin and Greek are the ancestors of
the greater part of our English. They hold
to it radical generative relation just as
mathematics does to science or as history
does to law and economics. It's true that
all students haven't the time or taste for
both classical languages, but most of them
have time for Latin, and pupils in this
country are taking it in enormous num-
bers. Latin is now studied in the United
States by more pupils than are enrolled
in all the other foreign languages com
bined. To urge a born student to Greek
isn't necessary, for he soon comprehends
that Greek thought, as recorded in Greek
writer's is still the highest intellectual
force in the worlds history.
ITO resume. When the student has had
studies of nature of collective mankind
and ancient history he should go on to
another study which relates them all-the
elements of philosophy. This study will
enable him to think logically and any man
The New York herald., 1921-07-24
When the Study of Language
And Literature Becomes Vital

"The one vital study at this point in the
youths education is language and litera-
ture. These are essentially the core of all
the child will need from the time he begins
to speak to the end of his life Without
language and literature civilization would
be arrested, if not destroyed.
"Yet, here at the point on which all
knowledge of ourselves and of the arts
and sciences endure is the weakest point,
It is this place that most needs strength
ering. English, then, is the paramount
subject in study-for every English speak
ing child in primary and secondary and
high school and in college and university
But is this all the knowledge of lam
guage an American student is to have?
No, he should understand his language
in it's source and beginnings. He should
appreciate that the majority of all our
English words are of classical origin. Es-
pecially is his appreciation of this neces-
sary owing to the increasing Latin and
Greek nomenclature of all modern studies
in art, science and industry.
The New York herald., 1921-07-24

at once bettered Everything in the vari-
Gus levels of the schools is in confusion.
There are no standards in the proper sense
of the term
"This confusion" explained the Dean, "is
due to the vast extent of our country, to
lack of common understanding, to per-
mitting pupils whimsically to choose what
they will study (the elective system) and
to various loose arrangements Of curriculi
in shifting groups"
These criticisms of educational methods
il was urged on Dean West have fire.
quently been made, but less frequently had
there been any concrete statement of what
studies should be stressed that would af-
ford to the average person that desirable
"all round" education. He smiled while he
answered at once:
First, there should be made selection
of few studies of most general value for
the whole Of life These few should be
used as basis for all general education.
Second, these studies are to be pursued
long enough so that each shall be fully de-
veloped and mastery of them assured.
Third, these studies are to be organized
together to form a coherent body of educa-
tion or things known, running parallel.
After this foundation has been carefully
laid elective studies in accordance with
the ascertained aptitude of student for
a special field may be wisely added to
them, but not in accordance with imma-
ture caprice as is now the rule.
what are these fundamental studies?
First of all our national language ando
national history These, with elementary
work in arithmetic and geography and
similar things of universal use, constitute
the true core of primary instruction. A
valuable adjunct is music.
Secondary and higher education should
be based on the following required studies:
Those relating to the universe; that is. ma
ture These are mathematics, physiology.
chemistry, biology-the big four OF
The New York herald., 1921-07-24
Finds the Best Work Is Done
On Basis of General Education

Experience shows that the best educa-
tional work is done on the basis of a large
general education. The pupil who is
trained in a special education. in the
widest sense vocational, is cut off from
great range of interests which would min
lister to his happiness in life. An all round
education is comparatively simple in its
aim, which is to secure the highest end
for each pupil To push vocational train
ing to the extreme is to reduce the pupil
to the condition of an animate tool This
tends to industrial and economic slavery
and fosters discomfort, both social and
political, of all so trained. II cuts them
off from their chance to rise. All prizes
are forbidden them, and this is the situa-
tion that has provoked the extreme and
angry answer of Socialism Remove this
dfference-give to all the chance to know
about other things than the way to make
living-and you remove the basis of social
discomfort
ANY system of education is human
thing; it cannot be perfect, but the present
condition. of education in America, both
general and specific combined. ought to be
The New York herald., 1921-07-24

"Why? Because in Greek and Roman
history is to be found the one fontal
source of modern civilization. From there
came the ideas of democracy. freedom, law
and justice. The Greeks gave us democ-
racy and literature, the Romans gave us
law and justice. Let the boy read a story
of the origin of these ideas and he will
understand their meaning
"'To every man his due is maxim of
Roman law. To read such sentiments there
is why ancient history, as Bryce has said,
is the key to all history The step from
these to political science and economy and
to an understanding of the fundamental
laws of government and business is not a
long step.
Therefore the student should master the
studies which have their centre in himself.
Here is the true centre of all his education.
here is his awakening to self-expression,
here he will get the ability to think and
to utter what he thinks and to do it
straight!
The New York herald., 1921-07-24
Judge Chides Parents for Sparing the Rod

n PAIRING the rod has spoiled the
- American boy. That is the solemn
conclusion of a good many persons
who have had unfortunate experiences
with our young hopefuls. 1t is true these
good many belong to the grandfather
generation; they are old and have entirely
forgotten that they were fathers. Strange
but t-septuagenarians do forget
things so important as these.
An Englishman once wrote a book on
"The American Boy" He published it in
1870, and it is curious to observe that the
harsh things he said about the little tyrant
in the American home are being repeated
almost to the letter by critics of the boy of
the present day. He is noisy, irreverent,
wlful, undisciplined. He wants his own
way and gets it always because his parents
for their part want to keep out of lunatic
asylum. The English writer attributed
these dire things to the same cause-ab-
sence of birch behind the door.
This is a sad picture, and most parents
will think IL is overdrawn. other people
who are not parents will cap IL by in
stances of Juvenile misbehavior they see
every day. The conditions which furnished
the critic of 1870 with his facts haven't
improved indeed, they have grown worse
The cause is Just what II was fifty years
ago-sparing the rod.
There Is just one kind Of discipline that
The New York herald., 1921-07-24

does work" said Judge Alfred J. Talley of
the Court of General Sessions in discussing
a speech of his delivered on last Fourth of
July wherein he analyzed the causes of
youthful crime, "and that is corporal pun
ishment. Lax parents make boy criminals,
and IL is general truth that modern
American children are not brought up with
the proper respect for parents, law and
order or constituted authority The parents
are to blame
What ! said in my speech on Tndepend-
once Day was strictly impromptu, although
the idea previously had occurred to me to
give my views on this subject / stand by
all that said, however, and | should like
to see the stern discipline our forefathers
enforced restored to the American home.
1t would kill a great deal Of crime at the
source.
This derogation Of parental authority.
which is general and increasing, Is a cancer
on the body polite Whatever a boy does,
provided he escapes the police, may be cen
sured at home. but he is not punished for
it. Moral suasion has taken the place Of
a whipping What does one OF the little
fellows care about moral suasion? He
would care a good deal about sound
thrashing
"It is one thing TO encourage a good un.
derstandng between the boy and his father
and quite another thing for the father to
give up all authority over his son at an
The New York herald., 1921-07-24

"Rigorously to simplify a course
of study instead of widening it by
permitting a loose choice; to select
the proper fundamental studies, use
these as basis and then build on
that base, is the way to produce
literally educated generation.
What are these fundamental
studies? Our national language and
our national history, elementary
work in arithmetic and geography
constitute the true core of primary
instruction.
"The classically trained students
in our schools and colleges show the
best results. They are to-day the
chief stabilizing force and together
with the mathematically trained stu
dents are the main stabilizing force
in our liberal education"
The New York herald., 1921-07-24

early age. It's just the difference between
liberty and license. My experience in the
criminal courts of New York has made this
difference very plain to me, and | feel
strongly on this as being great American
failing.
IF boy isn't taught to obey at home be-
fore he is years old he will never learn
obedience TO law and order in after life.
and without this ingraned knowledge he
is weak before temptation. why fathers
should be willing to wait and let the law
teach this lesson by degrading punish
ment Is thing | cannot understand
II see the results of this wrong way of
bringing up children every day. Youths
under 21 are brought before me on criminal
charges who feel toward the law like hard
ened criminals They began by doing what
they liked az home, staying out nights until
their mates went home and defying their
parents to keep them in. Yes IL even be-
gan earlier. At Ia they tell their parents
they are not going TO school any more and
they don't 20.
What happens? These boys become
loungers on street corners. There they
loiter from supper time to 10 or II at night
and even later. mixing. as they must sooner
or later with older boys who are further
on the way 10 becoming criminals and
the fathers say they cannot do anything to
----.
The New York herald., 1921-07-24

(ETHE revelations regarding the
four million men enlisted for
service in the world war show
that nearly one-fourth of them were
illiterate, in the primitive. simple
sense of the word.
eff we add to them anothe- fourt.l,
that lying nearest to the illiterate
belt. persons of slight and insult
6cient education, we shall have one
half of the whole population of the
land either illiterate or very insuf-
fciently educated.
''It is in this half of the population
the agitator of discomfort finds his
opportunity. Here is the breeding
ground of the ignorant discomfort
which is the natural enemy of our
institutions.
The New York herald., 1921-07-24

~ NE has not to keep his ear long to
g the ground to hear sounds Of ois.at.
isfaction coming from every point
of the compass about the results of edu-
cation in America. They have attained
such thunderous volume that teachers
of every degree, from the Kindergarten to
the college president, advocate theories of
change Few of them agree, for each one
has his own experience to draw from, and
that is not like any of the others. The
result is confusion.
Andrew Fleming West, dean of the Grad
uate School, Princeton University, whose
experience of teaching in every grade
covers forty years, has been openly critical
OF ways and results, and when invited to
speak at commencements dedications and
lesser school functions he has responded
with a candor which was not likely to
endear him to self-satisfied principals and
complacent school boards. In his published
articles, also, he has not hesitated to point
out faults in the courses of study pursued
in school and college.
The New York herald., 1921-07-24

science, from which all sciences are either
combined or derived
Then should follow studies relating to
collective mankind. The mother study in
the highest sense is history. The history
of America-every boy and girl must learn
it. and then the fundamental history of
our own civilization. This is to be studied
in it's origin in Greece and Rome.
The New York herald., 1921-07-24
Figures Half of Population
Is IViterate or Nearly So

CAS- for the general illiteracy of the
United States, the revelations regarding
the 100000 men enlisted for service in
the world war show that nearly one-fourth
OF them were illiterate, in the primitive,
simple sense OF the word.
'It is fair to presume this represents a
cross section of the whole population and
that approximately one-fourth of the peo-
pie of the United States are illiterate
"If we add to them another fourth. that
lying nearest to the illiterate belt, persons
Of slight and insufficient education we shall
have onehalf of the whole population of
the land either illiterate or very insufTl-
ciently educated.
mo matter where the blame for this be-
longs the peril to free institutions is so
great that our duty to remedy promptly the
situation by thoroughgoing primary edu-
cation is imperative 1t can't be safely
neglected much longer.
ut is in this half of the population the
agitator of discomfort finds his opportunity.
The New York herald., 1921-07-24
Says Present System Neglects
Training in the Fundamentals

"The Importance of extended training in
the fundamental studies is what is re-
quired. Our present system of education
neglects this and there is the root OF the
difficulty.
81 do not believe the people know fully
how bad product our schools are produc-
ing. They know something of it, COM
plants of the product are too frequent to
permit of total ignorance, but if the facts
were known change in system would be
demanded.
"The nineteenth century was the boast
full century. We were perfect; our schools
we're perfect. No other country could COM
pare with ours in what was done here for
education. Schoolhouses everywhere with
every modern improvement. Yes, on the
outside. It was the age when we were
counselled not to knock If we couldn't
praise.
"Now, in the twentieth century we have
begun to Knock High time, too What
are the facts? Are we literate people?
The New York herald., 1921-07-24
He Holds the CIassicalIy Trained
Students to Be the Mainstays


Dean West is not to be classed with the
advocates of the classical studies in Amer
ican secondary schools and colleges who
adopt an apologetic or defensive attitude
On Gthe contrary, he boldly asserts that
these studies are our main dependence
against existing educational mistakes and
points to results to confirm the statement.
saying:
with all our faults the classically
trained students in our schools and col
leges show the best results beyond all
others, in the various fields of knowledge.
They are to-day the chief stabilizing force,
and together with mathematically trained
students the main stabilizing force in our
liberal education"
Actuated by this abiding faith in the
classics he was willing to put it to the test,
even eager to do so, and a test there is to
be- The General Education Board has ap-
propriated 100000 to provide for an in
vestigation of classical education in the
secondary schools of the United States.
The investigation will be conducted by the
American Classical League and will re-
quire three years for it's completion. 1t
will be in the general charge of an ad-
visory committee, with the cooperation of
eight regional committees for the follow
ing districts: New England, Middle States,
the South, Central West, Southwest, North
west, Rocky Mountain States and Pacific
coast.
When the work has been definitely
mapped out three expert investigators are
to be appointed The investigation will
have three stages: First, finding the ac-
tual facts, so that the existing situation
may be clearly known; second, analysis
and criticism of these ascertained facts:
third, preparation of a progressive con-
structive plan for the teaching of classics
in the secondary schools of the United
States. Advisers in other subjects, such
as English, modern languages and his
tory, may be specially appointed later.
The important question of the spirit and
method of the teaching and the better
training of classical teachers and practi-
cable agencies for securing good teachers
meets the committee at the outset The
dearth of good teachers in all branches is
appalling. Dean West said on this point
that while the natural product of teachers
of all kinds was annually from 16. 900 to
$4,000, reports from Washington said that
there would be needed next September
10000 new teachers.
The New York herald., 1921-07-24
Dean Tells What He Means by
Educational Lunch Counters

The deans remark that too many Ameri-
can schools furnish educational lunch
counters" to their pupils spread further
than few educational experts and reached
the great public, who want to know what
he meant by it.
Dean West made this statement recently
at the annual meeting of the American
Classical League, of which he is president.
Through THE New York HERALD he will
ingly expounded this meaning, and said.
81 referred to the elective system of
study which, having elements of good in
1t, has grown out of all sensible proportion
in schools and colleges until too many of
our young people are getting education by
dabs.
"As an example of this young man told
me last June that when he elected a mod
ern language in his course he first chose
French. But after a year he decided he
didn't like it and switched to Spanish
year of that disillusioned him and then he
tried year of Italian. Thus said the boy,
4 have q smattering of three foreign Ian
guages and none is any good to me-
vigorously to simplify a course of study
instead of widening it by permitting loose
choice, to select the proper fundamental
studies suitable to the individual use these
as basis, and then build on that base, is,
it appears to me, the way to produce
literally educated generation. This does
not mean more studies but more study.
The New York herald., 1921-07-24
Princeton Educator Tells of Evils Growing
From Lack of Training in Fundamentals
Neglect of Classics and the Dearth of
Good Teachers Throughout the Country
By WILLIS STEEL.

Here is the breeding ground of the ignorant
discomfort which is the natural enemy of
our institutions.
'In this region of illiteracy we find the
dislike or even contempt for the chief
studies which afford a liberal education.
notably to Latin and Greek, also to any
other studies lying outside the range of
petty interests.
"This element has the same feelings OF
dislike toward ancient history, mathemat-
les, philosophy and all the sciences except
in so far as these serve their own material
ends. Their Indifference to knowledge is
large part of the cause Of the failure of
their own lives.
eff once this class should learn that
knowledge is power for good their lot
would be brighter. 1t is the business of
the schools to see that they get this help.
1t is the business of our country to see
that the schools are equipped with spec
tally fine teachers, so that this help shall
be surely provided"
The New York herald., 1921-07-24

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