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Public Education
in Arkansas
Eight Studiea in Vital Educational
Problems.
EDITOR'S NOTE.
The Extension Division of the Uni
versity of Arkansas, in co-operation
with the United States Department of
Agriculture, will offer this year,
through this paper, a free correspond
ence course in “Education in Arkan
sas,” consisting of eight lessons or ar
ticles. These lessons will appear la
this paper at intervals of six weeks.
Those who wish to take this course
should write to the Director of Exten
sion Division of the University of Ar
kansas, at Fayetteville, stating name,
age, occupation, and stating that he
(or she' proposes to carry the work
through .or the ei'jht lessons. An ed
ucational bulletin will be sent to sup
plement lesson No. 1, and later for
each lesson if the question blank be
returned for the preceding lesson.
Preceding lessons may be had on re
quest. These question blanks will be
sent with each bulletin. The addition
al lessons on "Education in Arkansas”
will be: "The High School Problem"
and "Vocational Education" (2).
PUBLIC EDUCATION IN ARK
ANSAS
No. 5. Th* Training of Toachora.
By Dr. J. R. Jewell. Dean of School of
Education, University of Arkansas.
We live in a republic removed but
one step from a pure democracy.
Thomas JefTerson wrote to Washing
ton in 1786, "Our liberty can never be
safe but in the hands of the people
themselves, and that too of people
with a certain degree of education."
One of his last public utterances was,
"So long as 1 breathe 1 shall claim a
right to further public education.” |
j Madison wrote, "A popular govern
ment without a popular education is
but the prologue 16 a farce or a trage
dy, or perhaps both."
There are now enrolled In the pub
lic schools of this country more ttian
eighteen million children. They are
taught by five hundred thousand
teachers. The average school room
life of a teacher is less than six years
the country over, and in this part of
the great Middle West it is much less
than that. More than eighty thou
sand new teachers find their way into
the school room every year. Sixty
thousand of them are untrained and
have no ether way to perfect them
selves in methods of teaching, admin
istration and discipline than by their
experiments on defenseless children;
sixty thousand more have been ex
perimenting on the little folks for a
year, and another sixty thousand are
Just beginning to feel at home after
two years of learning through exper
ience, that is, If they have intelligent
supervision.
But only about half the population
between the ages of five and eighteen
is enrolled in any public schopl dur
ing any particular year. Consider this
in the light of the importance of an
intelligent citizenship as seen by our
forefathers who framed our constitu
tion, and the Importance of as perfect
an education as possible for all the
half who are in school will readily
be seen. Moreover, the average child
of school age is receiving only ninety
days of schooling each year. Clearly
then it is imperative that since the
only place this problem may be im
meflfrtely attacked is on the side of
inflection, we must provide the most
skilled teachers for our children, es
pecially through the first six grades,
for the average American never gets
beyond them, and It is only through
the common scholarship acquired dur
ing these early grades that we are to
assure ourselves of the common heri
tage of the American institutions of
which we are so proud.
It Is not true that teachers are
"born and not made,” any more than
the same statement would be true ror
lawyers or engineers. At any rate
they are not born ready made. So
ciety dignifies teaching by calling It
a profession, which means that our
teachers must consequently have a
clear Idea of the scientific principles
which determine its procedure. All
of us have seen the "natural’' teacher
with her wonderful "knack,” doing
wretchedly bad things in a wonderful
ly skilful way. She learned as an ap
prentice would who had no master.
No intelligent man would employ
such a workman on a piece of labor
demanding skill.
ThiB Is not merely a school man’s
point of view. Now that we are hear
ing so much about efficiency business
men the country over are demanding
that the teachers of the public schools
should have professional training. In
diana and California each require
work in either an accredited normal
school or in a Teachers’ College in
addition to high school graduation be
fore a young man or a young woman
may offer to teach even the poorest
country school in the state. Missouri
demands half a year of college peda
gogy and psychology, with full time
given to it dally, before teaching in
its best accredited high schools. Prac
tically all of the white teachers of
Louisiana have a professional train
ing. Kansas is demanding normal
training of all its teachers. Minneso
'a has set aside sufficient school
funds to enable her to procure the
best teachers from any of the neigh
boring states.
And Arkansas must either insist on
all her teachers being professionally
prepared or see her sons and daugh
ters, on whose intelligence and train
ing alone will depend the future pros
perity of our great state, so poorly
prepared for life, and they will not
be able to compete with the youth of
other states.
Ship Leaped Over Torpedo.
Capt. J. W. Bell of the British steam
ship vRio Larges, was In New York re
cently wearing the medal awarded by
King George for distinguished service.
The captain was also voted $6,500 by
the British admiralty for sinking the
first German submarine lost in the
war.
On February 28 Captain Bell, in
charge of the Thordis,- a steamship of
1,000 tons, was proceeding to an Eng
lish port when he sighted the peri
scope of a submarine off Beachy head.
An instant later a torpedo was sent
at the Thordis. Captain Bell ordered
full steam ahead and in the rough sea
managed to Jump the torpedo, as his
boat leaped the waves while the tor
pedo kept its own level. Captain Bell
then rammed the submafine and sank
her. _
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POSITION AS LURE TO GIRLS
Girl Without a Future Can Understand
Readily Why Some Marry
Without Love.
Some people cannot understand how
a girl can marry a man she doesn't
love, Olive Higgens Prouty writes in
the American Magazine. She can do
it more easily than she can stay at
home, watch half her friends marry,
and feel herself slowly ossifying into
something worthless and unessential.
It takes more courage to alt quietly,
wait for what may never come, and
observe without misgiving the man
you might have had making some oth
er woman's life happy and complete.
I couldn't go on living in guest
rooms forever. I was tired of travel
ing, sick to death of leading a life
that meant nothing to anybody but
Dandy (her dog). As a debutante I
had had a distinct mission—whether
worthy or unworthy, isn’t the point in
question — worked for it hard,
schemed, devised and succeeded. As
Mrs. Breckenridge Sewall, again I
could accomplish results. Many wom
en marry simply because they can
not endure an arid and purposeless
future.
some people minx mai a gin wno
marries tor position is hard and calcu
lating. Why, I entered into my en
gagement in the exalted mood of a
martyr! I didn’t feel hard, I felt self
sacrificing, like a girl in royal circles
whose marriage may distinguish her
self and her people to such an ex
tent that the mere question of her
own personal feelings is of small im
portance. The more I considered mar
rying Breck the more convinced I be
came that it was the best thing I
could do.
With my position placed upon my
brow, like a king his crown, freed at
last from all the mean and besmirch
ing tricks of acquiring social distinc
tion, I could grow and expand. When^
I looked ahead and saw myself one
day mistress of Grassmere, the Lon
don house, the grand mansion in New
York—wise and careful monitor of the
Sewall millions, gracious hostess, kind
ruler—I felt as nearly religious as
ever before in my life. I meant to do
good with my wealth and position and
Influence. Is that hard and calculat
ing?
Cacao Used as Currency.
Cacao passed as currency among
the natives of Central and South
America at the time of the European
conquest, and that despite a plentiful
supply of gold. Joseph Acosta, in
1610, tells us the Indians used “none
of their gold or silver for traffic in
or buy withall, and unto this day the
custom continues among them that
instead of money they use cacao.”
The Aztecs of ancient Mexico also
used “cacao”; as small change, as
many as 8,000 beans being counted
legal tender. The value of'the he a ns
may be judged from the fact that "a
tolerably good slave” could be pur
chased for 100 of them.—London
Chronicle.
Overcome Timidity.
Timidity prevents a man from be
ing an individual. He does not ask
himself, he asks others what to do,
what he shall think, how he shall feel.
He thus robs the world of a man and
gives it a shadow.
If one desires to overcome timidity,
it will be overcome. Cultivate desire,
grow ambition, study persons who ac
complish, associate with those whose
Influence moves you to action Get to
work and keep working.
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By FRANCIS LYNDE
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IT grew in the shadow
of the big dam and
perished beneath
the waters piled up
against the structure it
had raised.
ff In its life, as Mr. Lynde
has told the story, the
whole career of a mod
ern city is centered,
millions are made and
lest, men make and un
make themselves, and a
little western girl brings
back her lover from the
unrealities to the great
truths of life.
9 If you don’t read this
story you will miss a
phase of western prog
ress of intense interest.
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RAILROAD TIME TABLE.
St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern
LITTLE ROCK & MONROE RY.
South North
5:25 a. m.Huttig.5:23 p. m
7:55 a. rn.Monroe. 1:00 p.m
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Leaves Arrives
1 1:55 p. m. Huttig . 1 2:1 5 p. m.
St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern
FAHMERV1LLE & SOUTHERN RY.
North South
4:42 a. m. Huttig 3:54 p. m
3:15 a.m. Farmerville 5:20 p. m
local, f
10:15 a.m. Huttig 2:25 p.m.
tArrives Monday, Wednesday, and Fri
day from Monroe and goes to Farmer
ville.
’Arrives Tuesday, Thursday and Satur
day from Farmerville and goes to Mon
roe,
LODGE DIRECTORY,
ROWLAND LODGE No. 594 F. & A.
M.meets every second and fourth Satur
day evenings at 7:50 o'clock. Visiting
Masons always welcome.
L. M. Despain, W. M.
C. A. Berry. Sec’y.
HOWARD CHAPTER. No. 122. R. A.
M.—meets every first and third Thurs
day evening at Masonic hall. Visiting
companions welcome.
L. G. Gibson, H. P.
D. F. Collett. Secy.
HUTTIG CHAPTER No. 320, Order of
the Eastern Star, meets every first and
third Friday evening at 7:30 o'clock.
Visiting brothers and sisters welcome.
Mrs. J. A. Brignac, W. M.
Mrs. L. G. Gibson, Sec’y.
HUTTIG LODGE No. 348 I. 0. 0. F.
meets airery Tuesday evening. Visiting
brethern cordially invited to attend.
W. E. Chadwick, N. G.
Harlan Sehon, Secy.
HUTTIG REBEKAH LODGE No. 66,
meets every Monday night at 7:30 o'clock
Visitors are invited.
Mrs. Lou Milstead, N. G.
Miss Murray Pilkinton, Secy.
SWEET BAY CAMP No. 411 W. 0. W.
meets every first and third Saturday eve
nings. Visitors made welcome.
C. A. McCormick, C. C.
J. C. Bridges, Clerk.
Sweet Bay Circle No. 145, W. C.,
meets every second and fourth Thursday
night at 7:30 o’clock. Visitors are cor
dially incited.
Mrs. W. R. Dickerson, Guardain.
Mrs, C. A. McCormick, Clerk.
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