The log cabin Democrat., 1921-01-25
LEGISLATORS SEE WORK OF NORMAL PLEDGE LARGER SUPPORT Joint Committees Spend Day Guests of Local School-Speeches
 Made at Chapel

oCdte ANOIHldl oClOOl, Iile 1dCulIy anu student body of which responded with warm appreciation of the interest of the law makers, featured the visit of the joint senate and house of repre- sentatives committee today. As one of the legislators expressed the feel ing, they felt very closely akin to the people connected with and enrolled at the State Normal, while the general bearing of the visitors brought forth many expressions of praise. Senators +. D. Montgomery of Hope and W. A. Wilson of Thornton represent the upper house, while S. F. Morton of Fordyce and R. S. Hudson of Atkins represent the lower Allen Kennedy of Fort Smith, the third member of the house committee, failed to arrive. Jo Frauenthal of Conway represented the board of trustees.
 Between the time of the arrival of the visitors at the school and the morn ing chapel service, the legislators were allowed a short time during which to inspect the plant and equipment. The smallness of the model practice school building first attracted atten- tion, and then the inadequacy of the auditorium, where large part of the student body stood while the chap el service was held. The third out standing need of the school, more dormitories, was brought out in furth- CT inspection of the campus.
 B. w. Torreyson, president of the school, presided at the chapel service and introduced the speaker in his us- ual happy vein. Mr. Torreyson de- clared that as the four legislators would not inform him who would make the speech for the bunch, he would start at the left and take them in the order in which they were seated He announced tkat following the chapel service, the visitors would be given the run of the place, with only one restriction, that they report at the dormitory promptly at 12 on' they would miss dinner. MT. Torreyson introduc- ed the four as present or former school teachers, profession which leaves it's mark on every one, he de clared.
 Senator Wilson, the first speaker opened his remarks with the story of the negro who said that although he had robbed chicken roosts, got drunk and raised the mischief in gen, eral, he had never lost his religion The speaker said that whatever elst he had done he lad never made g speech. Senator Wilson spoke of the recent trip of the legislators tc schools in the middle west, declaring the best student body they saw was at the University of Arkansas, where they were given their best feed" He expressed confidence in the determina. tion of the legislature to take care of the states educational interests and was hopeful that the State Nor. nal would soon have an auditorium three times the size of it's present one and it filled with students.
 Education as the medium through which all manner of reform must be accomplished was the theme of Sena- tor Montgomery, who urged a broad CT diffusion of education through trained teachers as the best way ir which Bolshevism and the crime wave can be enumerated. He praised the work of the Normal and declared his approval of plans for it's immediate enlargement. Patriotism, he said should have much larger place ir all education.
 Mir. Torreyson compared Represen. tatives Morton and Hudson to Joshua and Caleb, the two scouts sent out by the Israelites to view the land ot Canaan. Mir. Morton declared that friends of the State Normal should be as the spy who reported that the land would be easy to conquer anC should be stout hearted and not al the spy who reported that it was : land of giants. He urged that friends of the school work with fortitude closing his address with an apt refer ence to Kipling's poem of the persor eXcavated ruins who could tell the purpose of the builder and how near. ly he came achieving his goal. Al human institutions, Mir. Morton said are left in a state of incompleteness but the very fact should inspire those who follow to add something to tn, structure thus started He declared unreservedly for measures which vii permit expansion of the school.
 A chance remark by MT, Torrey son upset his speech, Mir. Hudson de clared. He had intended to quot from the Bible as the only book no mentioned by the previous speakers However, Mr. Torreyson labeled on of MT. Morton's quotations as fror the Bible and so left him at sea. Hi reference to the Bible was the passage That which I have feared most ha now come upon me-" Mr. Hudson sai that three of his kin had been or wer students at the Normal, and that h
 was determined to do whatever pos