The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1922-04-20

impressed us all. You should have
heard the demonstration Of several
minutes that greeted him; and he de-
serves it.
Then came DR.. Prosser of Dunwoody
Institute in Minneapolis, with his
wonderful stimulating thots, and his
admirable quotations from J 0 n
Fiske, the great New England philoso-
pher and hiI,rian.
Nobody thot of going home. They
were all out to "steal few from the
night, my boys", as Tom Moore puts
it.
So the high school put on must
cal program which was a feast. En-
cores were tabooed, but they surely
were deserved. Such music is So
cial cement, and Prof. Howard is a
great boon to the community. p.
Did you go down the line up there
Miss Nelson and Mr.. Cotton, the
great Night School wizard, the writer,
Mr.. White, and Supt. Waller, were
marshalled by DR.. Beeler, with Presi-
dent Mcfarland, and we reviewed a
mighty fine body of teachers, young
and enthusiastic, happy and exper-
fenced, all in their Easter bonnets,
tho the young men carried theirs mod
estly in their hands. Such lot of
men walked down the line! No long
err is young America tied to woman's
apron strings. Let us hope young
America will learn obedience to Law,
from the precept and example of the
stalwart Sons Of the Pioneer Fathers,
and we women will rejoice. We have
done, and are doing our "bit".
Heard Supt. White say to Pres.
To ii nd
ing Jane Adams pour tea in Hull
folks tell they saw You w. in the
Line. Well, there were only five
present at the first teachers meet
ing the writer attended in Minot in
81, and only one, a man, C. A. John
son, who has been spending the win
| ter in Florida, and is now a receptive
candidate for the nomination Of U. S.
senator. And then, little later, but
in Wahpeton, at an Educational Asso-
citation banquet, which the writer at
| tended in the clutches of the Sheriff of
Richland county. P. j. McCumber,
the rising states attorney, toasted the
teachers, and the writer was put up to
answer him, which she did with Gold
smiths Hedje Schoolmaster.
Full we'll they laughed with coun-
| terfeited glee;
At all his jokes, for many a joke
| had he.
Full we'll the boding tremblers
learned to trace
The days disasters in his morning
face
And still they gazed. and still the
wonder grew,
That one small head could carry all
he knew"
Much water has gone under the
bridge, since then, November '93, and
Gov. Shortridge in the chair.
Thursday morning found me gazing
into George Walkers brilliant par
terras, and wishing the door was un-
locked att a. m.
But on to breakfast at the Leland,
with the schoolmen, and such feast
Of reason and flow Of soul under Prof.
EColton.. The first Of such break
fasts in the state! See them grow!
Hear them sing! For they are jolly
good fellows, which nobody can deny
can you?
Then the ten-cent bus to the Nor
NAL. Minot is doing things these
days. She always did.
| Only one forenoon could | stay, but
that Gymn held notices, new scenery
and Boy Scouts serving all, taking
my eye, as we'll as rows on rows Of
the consolidated teachers, and on the
rostrum was an able woman demon
strating the teaching of music in
schools. Surely appreciation of good
music grows in her bailiwick, which
the program showed to be Brandon
township near Maxbass, and her name
is Mrs. Wilcox. She had phono-
graph at hand for illustrations of her
ideas. Would that every school had
one! and then she sang and we had
the Nightingale in our own woodlot.
No wonder Miss Nelson said II wish
we had her in the General" so that
all the teachers assembled in Minot
could hear her.
We heard also Mr.. Mitchell tell the
story of the Junior Red Cross and
it's movement in North Dakota. 1t
made me think how our Boys and
Girls are getting nearer to the Broth
erhood Of Man than we Grown-ups
area little child shall lead them"
Then we saw Messrs. Cotton and
Davis erect a screen Supt White
needed for his presentation Of the
system Of marking credits, and we all
realized how fallible poor human ma
ture is, and how Harvard and Yale
just judge things like a good school
ma'am boarding round.
But the school officers who had
filed in to hear A. C. Berg marched
out solidly-they have boys and girls
living on basis of Honor Credits,
but at present they are far more in
terested in the school tax and how to
stretch it so as to cover the minimum
salary law handsomely. A. C. Berg
proposes dropping the extra $500 Civ
en- for experience, but he insists
stoutly that teachers still had small
pay early in the war-that they sac
rificed and spared when their dollar
only bot SO cents worth and that
North Dakota should take no steps
backward about the salaries.
And that's all l saw of the big
meeting. l bow reverently and saw