Imperial Valley press., 1923-03-03
|. v. TEACHERS
C0ND EMN CUT
IN GOV. BUDGET
Prof. Gruwell Opposes
Action; Urges Other
Bodies to Act
DIR. James Lecture OH
State is Best Ever
Heard Here

The Imperial County Teachers
Association went on record this
morning against the proposed re-
duction in funds for the conduct of
the state department of education
and teachers colleges as outlined IN
| Governor Richardson budget.
The resolutions were introduced
by c. b. Collins of Imperial schools
and are the same as those passed re-
Gently hv the teachers associations of
| Los Angeles. They followed dis
cusson of the subject by +. L..
Thurston, secretary of the State
Teachers Association, southern di-
vision, who ably presented the sit
uation from the view point of the
department of education, and the
| teachers. Prof. b. Nj. Gruwell of
Holtville spoke in opposition to the
resolutions, prefacing his remarks
with the statement that he believed
in their contention, but that he
| thought it would be better to have
! the endorsement come from other
organizations than from one cOmpOs-
ed wholly of teachers. He believed
| that with judiciOus handling, Cham
| bers of Commerce and other organ
iZatiOns could be won to the sup
port of the educational department
in it's position; but with the tax
payers association, in his opinion,
| antagOnistic to the teachers, and
with the press of the county sup
| porting the governor, he thought the
cause would be strengthened much
more if the support of the proposed
! resolutions came from other sources.
Shibley Favors Action
| A. p. Shibley said that he was IN
| favor of the teachers taking the
stand, that if they were accused of
getting into politics, they had a
good argument in self defense, in as
much as they were doing it in the
j interest of the children and with
no selfish interest to be served.
b The association unanimously sup
ported motion to retain it's pres
ent affiliation with the Southern
California IT. A. instead of join
ing with San Diego county in the
forming of new association.
| Under a change in the constitu-
tiOn, the county superintendent of
schools will be eX-offieio president
Of the Imperial County Teachers
| Association. =.r ,qi.4.. ..
Mrs. Luman Ferrell announced
the availability of a nurse to be
used in health work in the public
schools, under direction of the eoun-
ty committee of the antitubercu-
losis society. -.. -..l, .,.
Speaks on Boy Scouts
s. l.. McCrory spoke Of the Boy
Scout work, Mr.. Smith of the ora
torical contest recently launched by
the citizens committee of Los An
| geles, and Mr.. Gruwell spoke of the
inter-county oratorical contest for
the J. f. Davis cup, which will be
held in Holtville in May.
The lecture by DR.. George Whar
ton James on "The High Lights in
| California Literature, was magnif-
icient. This state, so great in re-
sources, i'll scenery, in climate, has
something else infinitely more val
liable in its literature, much of
which is immortal, and which re-
fleets so splendidly the life of the
people who have inhabited it from
| the Indians on down to today.
DR.. James entranced his audience
with his Indian legends, unwritten,
but full of poetry and rich in imag.
ination. He told some of the stories,
the one on. the Creation, excelling
anything in that line that has ever
been written outside of the Bible.
Padres, Pioneers, Writers
And then there were the paedres,
with their unusual art and religious
literature, the pioneers, the period
of the mining camps with Bret Hart
and a coterie of writer's great from
the very start.
There have been poets whose verse
will live and sing in the hearts of
men forever; scientists writing of
the great themes that have revolu-
tiOnized the world. The speaker told
OF the first development of a liter
ature distinctly California; of the
establishment of the Overland
Monthly with Bret Hart as its ed
itor; of the writing Of Hart's great
story, ''The Luck of Roaring
Camp which startled the natives
and threatened to lose to the pub
lication its editor, but which won
fame for him in the east and
brought to him an offer of a great
salary from the Atlanta Monthly.
~ Lauds Joaquin Miller
| The speaker closed with a tribute
to Joaquin Miller, the beloved poet
Of the Sierras, reading with marvel
Gus effect "Sail On, Sail On, I"
which Lord Tennyson classed as the