Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 February 1903 — Page 4

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A private inventory of personal property at the Jasper county poor farm, taken nt the time Mr. Clark went there, showed propertyworth £1,800; now there is over §4,500 worth of personal property there. Prosperity lias not struck tlie section men of the Big FotfF. They receive but a dollar and eight cents per day. Last month their time was cut three dollars because the money appropriated was exhausted by the extra work caused by the snow. It is thought that their wages will be increased a nickle when summer comes. —Fowler Leader. The Lohring bill, to eliminate the power-of-attorney feature of the Nicholson liquor law, was killed in the House Thursday by a vote of 65 to 27. The bill to increase the salaries of circuit and superior court judges was also killed. The bill to increase the supreme and appellate judges salaries to $6,000 per year was passed and will become a law. Goodland Herald: “Courthouse ring’’ is not a myth, for they exist in almost all counties. Not necessarily an organization for embezzling funds, but a ring formed to gobble up every crumb that falls from the revenues by their construction of law, and to “kill off’’ every aspiring politician or individual who possesses the courage to question their methods, The same principle prevails in these organizations that actuates a drove of four-footed hogs when the swill is poured into the trough. We see the commissioners of Benton county have contracted with Workman, the tax-ferret, erstwhile auditor of Owen county, to investigate the tax-payers of Benton. The people over here, where an “investigation” has been in progress for the past two years i or more and'several widows andj orphans held up, do not think very much of the plan. The little • fish get “caught” and are scared into paying up to avoid a lawsuit, while the alleged big tax-dodgers, j who will tight, are not molested very much. i ■ The Newton county Enterprise criticises Senator Wolcott for voting for the bill to increase the salaries of the supremo and appellate judges, and says: “The senator represents a district that does not look kindly on salary grafts.” Perhaps Newton county politicians do not, as we have never' heard of them tearing their shirts off trying to get the legislature to grant them a “raise.” But Jasper county is a part of Senator Wolcott’s district, Bro. Strohm. and if j there is a republican politician in this county that thinks the salary provided by law is adequate for any republican from road supervisor to governor, we would like to get a look at his phiz. Evidently you are not very well acquainted with the politicians of this part of Wolcott s vineyard, Bro. Strohm. Such language from a republican editor in Jasper county would be a signal for a lynching bee. In the lower house of tlie legislature Wednesday, Representative Sayre of Wabash, during the fight to pass the bill to increase the supreme and appellate judges salary, (which was finally passed by a vote of 51 to 14) took his colleagues to task in the following forcible language: “Not for years, has there been such a spectacle. We have bills to raise the salaries of every officer from the governor down to road supervisor. and sober reason is fluiqfto the winds by the members of thin assembly. Township asse sors want more pay an 1 more days to work, deputy assessors want more pay, the county clerks and auditors have lobbies here to get more money, tho circuit and superior judges are to be given more salary, the prosecuting attorneys are to have their salaries doubled and we have not yet got half through the list. Must the citizens and taxpayers of Indiana another lobby here to stand about the aisles and corridors of this house to keep themselves protected from wholesale robbery?”

OUR SCHOOL AND HOME TEACHING.

Interesting Paper By Lee E. Glazebrook, of Marion Township, Read At the Farmers’ Institute Meeting Last Week.

“How to Teach and What to Teach” are questions old as the race, questions that have not yet been fully settled. Two errors in teaching, in the opinion of many, are in trying to teach too much and in the giving of so much time to the teaching of that which is of suqh little use. - Rousseau, back in the last half of the eighteenth century, said: “There is a choice in things which ought to bo taught as well as in the time fit for learning them. Of the knowledges within our reach, some are false, others useless and still others serve to nourish the pride of him who has them. Only the small number of those which really contribute to our good are worthy the care of a wise man and consequently of a child whom wo wish to render such. When 1 see a man enamored of knowledge allow himself to yield to its charms, and run from one kind to another, without knowing where to stop, I think I see a child upon the sea-shore collecting shells, beginning by loading himself with them; then, tempted by those he still sees, throwing them aside, picking them up, until weighed down by their number and no longer knowing which to choose, he ends by rejecting everything and returns empty handed.” It is not a question of knowing what is best but what is useful. In this line Herbert Spencer, the English philosopher, and of our own time, says! “The current education sacrifices the useful to the agreeable. As matters now go everything that pertains to mental adornment and display has precedence over knowledge which might increase our well-being and assure our happiness. As in the history of dress with the savages, for example, it is proved that the ornamental in dress precedes the useful; so in instruction ornamental studies are preferred to useful studies. This is especially the case with women who have a decided preference for the

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qualities of pure decoration : Just as the Orinoco Indian paints and tattoos himself, so the child in this country learns Latin because it forms a part of the ‘education of a gentleman.’ ” This is one of the troubles of our schools to-day in this country too much of the ornamental, too little of the useful and practical. It is this desire for the supposed ornamental aud the supposed possession of this ornamental that makes the haughty and proud, the self-important, the “big I” students in ourjiigh schools and colleges. Just as soon as a child enters high-school, parents and teachers begin to appraise it of its great importance; it is now a member of such and such a class, only the few are able to make such advancement as this. Here the child is hurried along turning leaves in this book, drawing pictures in that, counting grass-hop-pers’ legs, learning an occasional latin word or two daily growing wiser and wiser in little things till the day of graduation, when "rent display is made. The childrei are made to believe by their teachers that the greater part of the useful and ornamental knowledge of this world is theirs. Un tho day of graduation tho highschool student is the first scholar , of the land, Int no soon r is he 'out of the shadow of thn highschool building than ho begins to find that he knows nothing well. His instructors have been trying “to fit him for life” and have put into his ('ducation a littleof everything that one would wish to know, but not a sufficient amount of any one thing to make it of any practical use to him. In a recent editorial in a daily paper, a writer says; “The schools do not need any more fads, they are getting more fads than anything else. If you want to make a workman you must first make

him know his tools, and the tools of education are words and figures. It is nonsense to talk about anyeducated who cannot read aiJK figure accurately and intelligently. From lowest to highest these things are essential, and they are not taught as they should be taught in our schools." If a teacher can teach them properly and effectively it matters but little whether lie knows how many bones there are in the human body or how old Hannable was when he crossed the Alps, Let us have schools kept on a common sense basis.” It is supposed that educators know more about this subject than do men of other callings; educators may have fine theories and methods and. know well how to teach, but theydo not always know what is best to teach, they look at things from an educations point of view. Many, yes most of them, do not always know what is best to teach, what is best for a child to know. The teacher is not a practical man; the nature of his calling is such as takes him away from tho real life and daily doings of the world. Tho proper incentives to study are often wanting in our home and schools; parents and teachers are too apt to appeal to the sordid and selfish parts of their children’s natures. We too frequently represent education to them as a wheel of fortune which will turn out to them high life, ease, splendor and idleness. How often do we hear parents and teachers telling their children that if they do not be more - diligent in study they will have to labor for their earthly support, live as the common herd lives, be nobody and die unknown to fame. The idea that education is the road to affluence, political and professional honor, is made too prominent. Too many teachers and parents seem to be ignorant of what the real objects of education are. Education as defined by one is “the drawing forth and

cultivation* of the human faculties—education- includes the whole course of training moral, intellectual and physical.” If this definition be correct, then other faculties must be cultivated besides acquisitiveness, other desires than those for show and affluence must be aroused if we would make our education complete. It is because of the improper training in our homes and in our schools and the improper inducements held out .to the children that to-day, in this country, the professions are all so full and our industrial and mechanical are so greatly in neeil of a more skilled and better informed class of laborers. We all know that year after year our schools turn loose upon society a hoard of young men and women panting for fame, thirsting for wealth and despising common labor. Such a class is in many I respects, a detriment to the country; it would be far hettn for ! the worl 1 and for these young . j '< p'e Ihenisolvea, if they knew .much less of books and a little more ot the duties and responsibilities of true men and women, 1 If wq hold out to our pupils im[Rioper inducements to mental toil and thereby cultivate within them ino.-.lirniti* desires f>r the I shows, sham mdvnuities.il' life ;we have done a bad work Thole are other and better it mtives ito mental toil than the ones wo commonly use We need uot offer wealth to the child to make it I industrials in school. We need 1 not promise it as a reward for its school labors a life of ease, endless pleasure and total exemption from menial toil. Every branch of useful learning when properly presented, will, of itself, be a sufficient incentive to mental effort. Every student of history is amply paid for all his toil by the pleasure it gives him to know what has

been done upon the earth by ipan. The natural desire to know ourselves and the things around us is a sufficient incentive, if properly presented, to make us all close students of physical and mental science—indeed the" study of every branch of useful learning brings to the mind a pleasure and 'satisfaction that fully compensates for all the hours of toil spent in acquiring a knowledge of it. Let us be careful how we arouse ! our children to action. Let’s not lire their souls with passion for i gain, set their minds against the humble calling and conditions of dife; let’s so train that when we send them from the school-room into the world they will not be •above doing whatsoever honest hands find to do. Are our schools presenting the proper incentives to right, conduct? The primary object of all school work should bo moral training, i The state is only benofitted in its 1 great outlay of money upon our jschools by the improved morals of I those it educates. If misery and i crime had not lessened in proportion to the advancement of education the state would never have : befriended our schools as it has. I'he properly educated man is a J source of revenue to the state, a I contributor to the welfare and imI provement of its citizens. Our schools have done much toward making the world wiser and better, but with all the beaqtiful pictures of right living and all the evil consequences of wicked deeds that are daily read and taught in them, it is really a wonder that they have not accomplished more than they have. We are thankful for what has been done and hopeful that much more will still be done, for there is yet great need of moral training from some source. The world is full of wild spirits. Many imperfect ideas of life are still entertained by both the young and the old. Our schools are not doing all they can do, are not perfecting the juvenile world as some seem to think. He who thinks the schools are holding in reserve, in an embryo state a race of saints with which to begin this new century will do well to observe occasionally the conduct of America.” Let him stand upon the “school house play 7 ground” and note what he sees and hears Let him go to some public gathering where the small boy wishes to find amusement and where the old folks want to see and heap-: let him try to drive a spirited team upon a street the lads have decided to coast upon; let bis appearance or manners in some way excite the mirth of the young braves, or let him by word or act, intentionally or unintentionally, offend one of these little ones and he will soon find himself wishing for them the same fate that befell the saucy children that, “guying” the prophet, said unto him: “Go up thou, bald head.” The small boy on a bum is a monster, and on a bum is his natural element. Collectively, nothing can quiet or control him, when once started, and he is usually on the start. I know of nothing with which to compare him. The cyclone in its fury rushes fiercely from its secret home, wrecks the forest, tears down cottage and castle, maims and kills our fellowbeings, but its path is narrow and its life is short. The blizzard Hies forth on its frosty wings, piles its snow mountain high, congeals rivers and lakes, freezes to death man and beast, but it operates on only a small portion of the earth at a time and is thus active only a day or so each year. Drouths come parching and burning, floods drown and wash away, these are only local disturbances and are short-lived, but the deviltry. depredations and annoyances of the small boy are universal, in season and out of season. Like the poor, ye have them always with you Take the pugulistic J)oy, the wise boy, the funny boy, the inquisitive boy, the smart boy, jand the constitutionally mean I boy, and you have a combination

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of plagues equaling the famous plagues of Egypt. These are the boys society has to endure, these are the boys the schools have to deal with; nothing is too sacred for them to assail, nothing too private for them to pry into; nothing too serious for them to deride, no silence so solemn and aweful that they will not break; no matter too important for them to partake in, nothing too helpless and pitiable for them to abuse. Now, are all these natural charistics of the boy race? No, twofifths are inherited and three-fifths are acquired from imperfect home and school training. There is a gush all over the land over the dear, dear children. Everything that can possibly be done for their comfort and pleasure is done. Millions of dollars a year are spent for toys for them, everything that is pleasing to the taste and pleasant to the sight is theirs; no self-denial, their wishes in all things must be gratified. They must suffer no dissappointments, their wills must not be crossed, for the theory is, humor and pet or you’ll spoil their tempers. Is it any wonder that when grown to school age they should carry things with such a high hand? Parents and teachers should have their children learn that this is not a toy world, a world of pleasure only. Let them know that dissapointments will come and that they can not always have things just as they would like them. Teach them to respect the rights of others and at all times and in all places to be courteous and kind. Not only should children bo taught those things, but they should be made to observe them. The world is full of good teaching and good advice, but is sadly in need of controling and enforcing power. Beat and flog, kick and cuff, knock down and drag out, have obedience or blood, for obedience is a great lesson that all must sooner or later learn; obedience to home laws, obedience (o school laws, obedience to state laws, obedience to God’s laws. Willing, cheerful obedience makes the happy child the peitceable, useful citizen. (Concluded next week.)

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