Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 24 September 1897 — Page 2

WEEKLY JOURNAL.

ESTABLISHED IX 1818. Successor to 27ic Record, the first paper in Crawfordsville, established In 1831, and to tbo People's Press, established in 1844.

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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1897.

CALIFORNIA'S prune crop this year i6 estimated at 520,000,000. Evidently the people of California have prunes.

IT has been decided not to chanpe the color of the 2-cent stamp from red to green as it was first annnounced. 'Tis well. The present stamp could be not be improved.

Gov. O'FKRRALL, of Virginia, is a Democrat, but he Bays in a recent letter: "Free, unlimited and independent coinage of silver is doomed, and no strong political party of the present or future will ever put itself to death by declaring for it in national convention." The activity of the gold Democrats shows that an increasing number of the party take the same view.

THE clamor for the rerconetization silver did not succeed, but a very good substitute for it has been found, that is the remonetization of the farmer. That was the avowed object of those desiring to remonetize silver, but it has been accomplished in a much shorter and more direct way wheat, corn and cotton have remonetized the farmers of the country and made them the most independent class of men.

THE Luetgart trial at Chicago drags its weary length along. Experts in various branches of business endeavor ari now to be introduced for the defense and demonstrate that the prosecution experts could not tell the difference between human and hug sausage. The average expert witness is a fraud. The same expert would testify on the opposite side if he was paid for it. The law which recognizes Buch testimony is the very perfection of human pettifogging.

TOPKKA Capital: "Yes, sir," emphatically remarked the Hon. William J. Bryan, as he signed a receipt for $770 28 in payment for his Iola speech., "it is monstrous that we must have prosperity at the expense of the downtrodden serfs of India." Wiping a scalding te:ir from his eye, Mr. Bryan then hastened to his train and proceeded to Atchison, where he was to rcceive $500 for standing on the coattails of prosperity and sympathizing with the unfortunate farmers of the Argentine Republic.

THERE IS no good reason to believe that we shall have another tariff agitation to disturb the businets of the country for many years. The protec tive tariff just passed has been enacted 60 early in President McKinley's administration that any attempt to repeal it would be useless for four years to come. The industrial and business interests of the country, after the experiences of tariff agitation which they had the past four years, will demand tariff repose. Before any effective steps could be taken to revolutionize the tariff, our industries and busi ne&s will be so thoroughly adjusted to the new tariff, and will have before them so complete demonstration of its beneficence in- comparison with the results of the tariff of 1S94, that any attempt to carry an election against protection would be futile. There can be no doubt that the protective policy is stronger to-day than it has ever been before in the history of the country, If any one doubts this let him interview the average citizen as he meets him, and he will find abundant evidence that protection has come to stay.

A CRISIS Ai'l'llOACIIING, Gen. Fitzhugh Lee, the Consul uen eral to Cuba, who has been at home for several weeks, will return to hi6 post at Havana. He came to the United States piepared to remain, and it was thought that his successor would be named for this very important consular office. The President, at the close of a two hours'interview last Saturday, during which General Lee gave him an account of the whole situ ation up to date, expressed a wish that General Lee would go back, and the General promptly signified his willingness to do so. General Lee was appointed by President Cleveland, but "before the close of the of the administration it became evident that the Consul General was not in sympathy with the Cleveland policy and he tendered hiB resignation. With the MeKinley policy, which of course has net been divulged, he seems to be in entire sympathy, as he has had the most

cordial support of the new administration. There seems to be a thorough understanding between President McICinley and General Lee. It is very evident that a crisis is approaching in this Cuban matter, and whether it is produced by the collapse of Spain's policy, or by the action of the United States, the President felt that this government should be represented at Havana by a man familiar with the situation. The two men being: entirely in accord on thi6 question the President felt that no other man cou)d so admirably and completely shape up the final settlement.

TIIKISE is a convenient arrangement in many railway stations in Germany. Passengers for suburban stations instead of going to the regular ticket office and standing in line for several minutes, sometimes ao long that they miss their train, can go to an automatic box and by dropping a nickel in the slot or a coin equivalent to the amount of the fare, can supply themselves with a ticket in an instant. There are rows of these boxes erected against the wall in convenient locations. Tho name of the town is painted in large letters, and underneath the price of the ticket.

ANOTHER NEW SCHOOL IDEA

The Flexible I'lan of Grading Pupils plained by Its Oiijjinator, AV. J.

Shearer.

The Atlantic Monthly a short time ago contained a contribution from W. J. Shearer, superintendent of the schools at Elizabeth, New Jersey, entitled "The Lockstep of the Public Schools." It attracted a great deal of attention and a vast amount of favorable comment from the press. In his report to his trustees Mr. Shearer goes further into the advantages of his llexible method of grading over the usual ironclad plan. We append an extract from the report:

At the last meeting of the National Educational Association Dr. W. T. Harris, United States Commissioner of Education, emphasized the fact that, the n'.ust serious weakness of the public aiid private schools of this country i6 found in the usual iron-clad method of grading pupils. No educator who values his reputation will dare deny the truth of this statement, made by him who ecands without a peer among the educators of the present day. It is encouraging that, not only Dr. Harris and other lending educators of this country, have given their highest endorsement to the methods we have been using to correct this serious weakness, but that three hundred leading periodicals, of different Slates, have commended most highly the method of grading which is in use only in the city of Elizabeth.

When, less than two years ago, I came to this city, this plan of grading was gradually put in operation without the expenditure of an extra dollar. While no reasonable person would expect that the schools of a city of fifty thousand could be suddenly transformed, yet many marked benefits, resulting from the adoption of the plan, have already appeared. Statistics gathered in a hundred different cities, prove the correctness of the following comparison of the usual method, with the more flexible plan in operation in this city. The comparison will show some of the important differences in methods and results: 1. Basis of Promotion.—Under the usual plan, pupils' ability to pass the advanced work iB determined by the promotion examination sent out by the superintendent, who, of necessity, must be without information as to what the pupils have really done. Without uniformity of conditions, it demands uniformity of results, makeB the time limit the same for all, and is, therefore, the cause of the attempted uniformity in school work. Uniformity is a demon, which cuts short the school life of the majority, and menaces the intellectual life of every pupil in the schools. Before it can be throttled the promotion examination must be abandoned.

Under this plan the teacher and principal follow closely the pupils' work, and their careful estimate of pupils' ability to do advanced work, determines their promotion. 2. Time of Promotion.—Under the usual plan, pupils are promoted to advanced work at a certain fixed time. A6 the course of study is nailed to the calendar, when the Sign is right, and the sun has reached a certain altitude in the heavens, and the thermometer's mercury is highest, and the pupils' energy is lowest, all are given a nerveshattering test, and those who are lucky enough to pass this useless examination go to advanced work, while the rest stop school or lose a year. Thus, in chain gangs, are all bound and forced to move at the same pace for their whole school lives.

Under this plan pupils are promoted to advanced work when ready for it. All must agree that a pupil's promotion should not be determined by the lapse of time, but by acquired ability to go forward. That, under this plan, it is quite easy for pupils to pass to advanced work at any time, is shown by the fact, that, sixty per cent of the pupils did so during last year. But

for this plan, all these pupils would have been held back and forced to "mark time" until the end of the year. 3. Method of Classification.—Under the usual method, pupils are roughly herded in large, looslv grade 1 classes. Even if the classification could be made accurate at the beginning of the year, irregular at.tendandunce and a hundred other causes would soon make it unsatisfactory. As there is no pro vision for reclassification, it tnust. re main unsatisfactory until t.lie. order comes for all to move, in short, the pupils are made to fit the arbitrary method of classification.

Under this plan, the pupils placed in each room are not only closely classified, according to ability, but, in essential branches, they are still more accurately graded into small divisions. Extra divisions are made when needed and are not continued one day longer than necessary. In reality, the school is made to fit the needs of the pupil and this is done in such a way as not to greatly increase the work of the teacher. 4. Size of Classes.—-Under the uc-ual plan, pupils are herded in classes of from forty to eighty.

Under this plan, the number of pupils to be handled by each teacher may be just as large as uuuer the usual plan, for a false idea of economy generally demands that tbd classes be made much larger than they should be but, in the importan* branches, pupils are instructed in classes of from six to fifteen. 5. Amount of Work Demanded in a Given Time.—Under the usual plan, a fixed amount of work is required of all within a given period. Though teachers vary greatly in efficiency, and though pupils differ in a hundred ways affecting their progress, yet all pupils are kept in intellectual lock-step, not only month after month, but year after year, for their whole school lives. Surely this making of the time limit the same for all, is the greatest curse of our schools, both public and private. Yet I have not been able to find any other city where this outrage is not perpetrated on the defenseless children and the helpless teachers. How many excellent teachers have been condemned because they could not furnish the brain cells which some needed to keep up with their more gifted companions!

Under this plan, no teacher in the city of Elizabeth is expected or allowed to take her pupils faster than they can do good work. Teachers are not forced to driye pupils through the course of study, but are expected to train them in the work. 0. Attention to Indiyidual Needs.— Under the usual plan, as pupils are crowded into large classes and all are expected to cover the same amount of the course in a given time, the poor teacher is forced to forget that the class is composed of fifty individuals, and to think only of the fact that all must be at a certain place by the time fixed by the superintendent: therefore, she dare not think of the needs of the individual pupils. Under fear of condemnation, she tries to stuff at all with the same amount of indigestible matter, in the hope that they will appear big enough to pass the senseless examination for promotion. Fortunately, the Almighty has provided the children with good forgetters, and, that which would be a burden and result in great injury, is soon forgotten.

Under this plan, attention to the individual is not only encouraged but required. In the essential branches pupils work in small classes, and also work as individuals at those pointB where experience has shown there is greatest need of individual work. Thus the teacher comes into close contact with each pupil, than which nothing iB more important. For proper mental development there must be this contact of the mind of the teacher with the mind of each pupil the separate Study of its needs and the separate ministering to the needs which are peculiar to it. Only thus can the strong mind of the true teacher come into life-giving contact with the weaker mind of the pupil for the purpose of restraint, guidance and development. But while the effort is made to secure all the advantages of attention to the individual, ca,re is taken to retain the many advantages of the class recitation.

Further reasons as contained in Mr. Shearer's report will be published tomorrow.

Another Chicago Kxcurtsion. The Monon in planning another cheap excursion to Chicago. It will probably be run about two weeks from next Sunday and in view of the success of the latest one will will receive a large patronage.

John Mutton's Sale.

John C. Hutton will have a sale of everything on his farm, twelve miles north of Crawfordsville, on Thursday, Oct.

lielcascrt From Jail.

The two men ^suspected of robbing the store at Kingman were released Wednesday. The owner of the store failed to show up and the local authorities decided not to hold the men longer.

The secret of happiness, "Keep your liver right." Burdock Blood Bitters is nature's remedy for complaints of the liver or bowels.

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