The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1923-11-01

his emotion. She stressed the point
that Just, winning should not be
the important point in athletics, but
that the motto should be 81 give
service"
Mr.. Karl w. Mitchell of Winnie
mucca urged the correlation of the
teaching of civics and United States
history. He said that they are so
closely related in both cause and
effect that it is scarcely possible,
and certainly inadvisible, to separate
them. He advocated teaching these
subjects on alternate days in order
to facilitate their correlation.
Mr.. Earl Wooster of Fallon, in his
interesting discussion of Economics
for High Schools touched upon
many important points in this con-
nection. He is of the opinion that
economies is an entirely suitable
subject for high school considera-
ton, that it should cover at least
years work, and that it should
properly come nthe junior or senior
year. He says that if it is to be
taught effectively it must, at all
points, be linked up with local eco
nomic conditions.
In the primary section Mrs. vi
Wan Pike gave a demonstration in
number work. Games with circles
and numbers were used. A camp
ing trip was told in story form with
number study along the journey.
The reason for this method was to
keep the pupil interested. Mrs.
Edna Goodin of Lovelock gave a
paper on primary arithmetic. She
stressed the use of such imaginary
games as baseball, races, ladder
climbing, hide and seek, rolling of
hoops and bean bag games. These
games applied to primary arithmetic
will develop competitive spirit
in the pupil. Mrs. Clara Holloway
presided over the round table dis
cussion. It was concluded that a
thorough understanding of four
fundamentals should result by the
end of the third year, but after
this period other teachers should
not fail to continue the drill upon
the four fundamentals.
Mrs. Hall spoke on "Arithmetic
for the intermediate Grades" She
stressed the point that. real life
situations should be involved in
every problem. In a later session
Mrs, Hall spoke on making compo-
sition effective. She said that all
composition aims to interest or en-
terrain, or to convince or inform.
/ She exhibited book written by the
Ftudents of the sixth grade of the
Lovelock Grammar school; she
showed how, in brief, this book
would fill the essentials already men,
toned. She added that the logical
place to study words is in connec-
ion with reading. The last part
# the section meeting was used in
round table discussion led by Mr..
Scranton.
| Third Day
The principal speakers of the day
were DR., Tully Knowles, president
of the College of the Pacific, and
State Superintendent Hunting. In
he morning DR.. Knowles spoke on
the subject of "The Constitution of
the United States In the after
noon he spoke on "The Changing
Ideals in Education" State Super
intendent Hunting spoke on "Pro-
gress and Needs of Nevada Schools. u
DR.. Knowles in his Introductory
remarks, in the morning, showed
how our constitution is built upon a
system Of checks which will protect
it from radical popular action. He
contrasted this with the French
constitution, which has been changed
eleven times during the life of our
constitution. He also brought out
the fact that our constitution is
built on a foundation which has
been strong enough to withstand
| all changes in modern conditions
He dicussed the various methods by
which our constitution can be alter.
ed to meet the needs of changed
conditions. He said that the best
way to attack the radical element
is not to confne them in prison
but rather to defeat them with
reason and sound judgement.
At the main session in the after
noon DR.. Knowles spoke on the
changing ideals in education. In
brief he said that we have made
great strides in the understanding of
the laws of nature and that we have
been able to adapt these to the uses
of man. However, now that we
have gotten an understanding OF
these laws we are becoming less sat
isfied with our knowledge in the
field of the social sciences. AS a
result, in our universities today we
have greater interest being taken
in the social sciences. Instead of
studying cold scientific facts we are
taking more interest in the relations
of man. He said: Parents can't
get along with their children, en-