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

greater university attendance. He
supported this contention by saying
| that this is not a country of a few
leaders, but instead a country of
many leaders. He showed how a
successful leader must be qualified
| through education.
In the Wednesday morning high
school session, Mr.. o. F. Fuller of
Winnemucca spoke at some length
upon the technicalities of manual
training. He made the point that
shop work is not manual training
and stressed the difference between
the various trades which are, he said,
commonly listed as manual training.
He brought out the point that his
students are required to do very
little model work, just for the
sake of the models, but are chiefly
occupied with practical problems.
Mr.. P. w. Bell of Battle Noun
tain gave a very practical and in
teresting dicussion of Equipment
for Manual Training" He brought
out many of the special problems of
the manual training teacher He
stressed the fact that manual train
ing work is practical, progressive,
and is, of itself, an excellent course
in Americanization.
Mr.. Noble Waite of Fallon gave
a very entertaining and also very
timely and pertinent dicussion of
1.-THE Correlation of Physical Train
ing with Athletics" with special
stress upon physical training, which,
he believes, should be mainly ath-
etics in the grammar grades. He
believes it important that training
n all competitive athletics and in
calisthenics should be begun in the
grades.
AT the high school session in the
afternoon, Miss Olive Colpitts of
Fallon spoke on "The Objective in
High School Courses in Home Eco
nomics." She said that one of the
chief purposes of this course is to
produce better citizenship among
women. She said that home eco
Monies is not merely cooking and
sewing. She said that these things
must of course be taught, but
should be made merely the founda-
ton for other things, among them
the refnements of life such as in
terror decorating, etc. She believes
also that students should be instruc-
ted in budgeting, and in the methods
and ethics of marketing.
Miss Vera Parman of Lovelock
spoke very Interestingly upon the
home economics work in the
junior high school. She believes
lit impractical, if not actually i'm
possible, to give work with foods
with those grades and would limit
The work chiefly to sewing. She
made the point that home economics
eachers should get together to
tandardize the work so that every
one will know exactly what junior
nigh work in this subject is sup
posed to cover.
Miss Gertrude Webb of Winnie
mucca discussed "The Relation of
Home Economics Work to the
Health Program" She said that
health is to often neglected, persons
) forgetting that their social efficiency
lis dependent upon their physical
condition, to great degree. She
believes that instruction concerning
the most important health problems
can be logically and easily included
in the domestic science program.
Mrs. Chas, Ronnow of Battle
Mountain spoke at some length up
on vocational home making. She
said that there is no more important
vocation open to women than home
making. She spoke of the evolution
which has occurred in methods of
, teaching these subjects but feels
that they are still imperfect. She
; advocates the use of the project
method in this work.
In the elementary morning ses-
, sion, demonstration of sixth grade
: geography was given by Ethel
| Kibbee. Models of various types of
! irrigation dams and gates were used
! Samples of sacks Of grain raised in
Nevada were also exhibited. A
model dairy was built from small
box and used to explain the prin-
ciples of dairying. Carrie Bull.
also spoke on the subject of geo,
graphy. She discussed the project
method and suggested that commit.
! tees of the class be appointed to
work out project reports on such
subjects as agriculture, commerce
, industry and mining. Gladys Gas
! sells led a brief round table discus
sion at the conclusion of the morn.
, ing sectional meeting.
!, In another section, Mr.. Nolan
from the Palmer Publishing Co., dis
cussed the subject of penmanship
! In the primary work he demonsrtat.
ed interesting exercises which woult
be appreciated by little children
writing the Palmer method.
In the regular intermediate SEES
sion in penmanship. he discussed tn.