Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, February 9, 1912, Page 1

k4 VOLUME 9. NUMBER 241. ers wisdom and enthusiasm, and gives VINCENT CAPTIVATES iren ek, it e BEMIDJI AUDIENCE they are mere puus. The universities ana schools can- not do all the training necessary to make the efficient man or woman. |“The talk at your dinner table has | more to do with the character of your Minnesota University Heaq Holds|child than the schools ever can do,” Nearly 1000 Listeners Spell- bound Throughout Lecture Educators’ Talk Filled with Wit from Beginning to End and Hx:s dity. a Feature. SAYS SOMETHING ALL THE TIuIE Is Master of Which Togethe; h Personal Maguetism “i.-'nscumted it was held fascinated, be- and charmed, is the ouly +in which the large audienee dent Gecrge E. Vineant, which heard that famous educator speak last evening can be referred to. it was fascinated by the general m, neti he man, be deved by h rapidity of speech and charmed b his wondertul use of the En Bemidji andience been as large or more appreciative ihan| was that at the Armory last evening. | wted that nearly one thous Alwayg Says Something. man who | SOME- Last night that widel br. Vincent is know a s up from the chair, s HNG, then sits down. uo exception to known characteristic of the man, and from the time he left his chair, after being introduced by George 1. Keen- an, president of the Teachers ciation. the large audience felt that something good was com and when he had concluded, that opin- ion hag been sustained. Divided His Subject- His subject, “The Duty of the New School,” was divided into three divi- ons, and every point which he wish- ed to impress fully of his listenerg he illustrated by giv ing some mental picture, usually con- raining more or less wit, a charae- teristic which markeq his talk from| the very beginning and continued throughout his entire lecture. President Vincent, in the first place, outlined his lecture. Educa tion, he said was to train the man for efiiciency. tfliciency is determinet by three things:-—knowledge, \vnsdcm and enthusiasm. It was the purpose of his talk to define and explain cach | one of these. In effect Dr. Vincent's lecture was as follow: . Knowledge is not the promiscuous accumulaiion of unconnected and un- related facts, but the systematic ar- rangement of such facts as may be! of use in any one particular phase or vocation of life. Some persons are in the habit of getting all the ideas they can, and then perpertrating these thoughts upon those with whom they come in contact. This is not real knowledge, but proves to be a real nuisance. Knowledge means the classification in one’s mind of what- ever facts he may acquire. To be able to apply this knowledge to the specific problems in life eon- stitutes wisdom. One may get all the knowledge that the colleges can offer, but unless they have wisdom, the power to put that knowledge into every day life and living, they are as useless to the world and to them- selves as if they had no knowledge, at all. Must Have Enthusiasm, These two things are not enough to make a man or woman successful in life. A third factor is enthusiasm. Enthusiasm, Dr. Vincent explained, does not mean only feeling and senti- ment; it means force, encrgy and de- termination. 1t is thig which keops men in contact with the world, which | makes them practical, which gives them the power to stick to problems. Without enthusiasm, we educate men only to be clever, and often clever men are more dangerous than ignor- ant men. Nor should we ry to get too much of any one of these factors. We should acquire knowledge, wisdom and enhtusiasm only in their right proportions. Without enthusiasm, one is forced to rely upon one’s wis- dom and knowledge, add with only these two factors one tends to become too material. Without wisdom, one exercises one’s enthusiasm and know- ledge together in such a way that he gives an appearance of being awk- ward and a bore. Knowledge temp- the English Language! dents of the city heard toe upon the minds | he stated. When working in co-oper- [ation with the home, the schools can !do marvels in working out the char- | acter of a boy or girl, but when they must work in opposition to these homes, they are powerless. Object of Education. The object of education is not only to train men and women for the material aims of this world. It is to {teach them to solve the problems of Uappiness, and to make themselves enjoy all there is in this world. With- out education we lose half of the hap- | piness there is in the world, ana if We train ourselves only for the busi- | ness side of life, we miss the greater i part of education. Humor Everywhere Evident. His humor was bright and every- [ where evident. He sald, that the rea- | son for there being so much know- ‘]ulé,v at the great universitles and Jurllo" s of the country is that the { Freshmen bring some knowledge with {them and the Seniors take none of it % It is a great deal habit that makes a man bow to a lady when he meets her on the street. However, {he remarked, it is very pleasing to iseo one of the stronger sex do honor 0 one of the --strongest. Although at on of the —strongest. Although at ‘tim(\& he was unusually earnest and sober, at others his wit carried hi audience completely, and the ap- | plause shook the building several; | times in the course of his lecture | Man With a Personality, it Dr. Vincent is a man with a z personality, and a man with a was shown soon after his ar- rival in Bemidji yesterday afternoon, { when he came upon a common laborer | piling wood. He rushed up to the man ltook him by the hand and gave him a ihand shake that made him stand straighter, thus showing that he is a {man of the people. Reception in.His Honor. { ception given in the president’s honor was he compelled to stand and meet the people of Bemidji who ecrowded {into the Commercial club rooms tor | the opportunity of meeting the uni- versity’s head. In the reception line were Super- { intendent Dyer, who introduced the president, the superintendnt’s wife, Ir. and Mrs. A. P. White, Mr. and Irs. W. G. Wedge, Jr., and Mr. and | Mrs. Thomas Burke. Punch was |served by Mesdames Torrance, San- born and Stanton. Dr. Vincent left on the midnight Minnesota & International passenger for Minneapolis. w l ;BOOST HOME MADE GOODS| } Annual Home Products Banquet to be | Held in April.— Saint Paul Label on Eeverything. | ADVERTISERS HAVE 5TH DINNER The organization of Saint Paul ad- vertising men, known as the Town Criers Club, are planning their Wifth Annual Saint Paul Products Dinner | for Wednesday evening, Aprit 17th. | This affair has come to be a very jlarge and elaborate one, in which a great deal of interest is taken, not only by the advertising men, but by Saint Paul manufacturers and mer- chants as well. An-innovation this year will be the admittance of the women of Saint Paul to this Home Products Feast, which is made at the earnest sugges- {tion of the Town Criers themselves. and the Saint Paul manufacturers and merchants who take part in the affair. It is contended that in this |way the women buyers of the pro- iducts which the banquet is to boost { will have an opportunity to “sample | the goods,” and as a result they will be even more solicitious about getting {home products for their own tables | Paul citizens. | The dinner, like its predecessors, will have nothing on.the menu not |made in Saint Paul. Everything i from the linen and dishes on the table Ito the coffee and cigars will bear a Saint Paul brand. X Among the prominent speakers will be Governor Eberhart, of Minnesota, President Vincent of the University of Minnesota, Mayor Keller, and offi- cers of the various business and com- mercial organizations of Saint Paul. Attractive souvenirs will be pre- sented to each guest, provided by manufacturers, wholesalers and mer- chants of Saint Paul. < | novelist is 49 years old today. | For more than an hour, at the re-| than they naturally are as true Saiut| BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 9, 1912. CRLOPVOROOCOPOPOO®S ®©®®®©®Q®®S@¢©00 Anthony Hope, the noted English | Mrs. Patrick Campbell, the Eng- lish actress ig 47 years old today. George Ade, Indiana author and playwright is 45 years old today. Field Marshal Sir Evelyn Wood, of the British army is 74 vears old to- day. & Lincoln Dixon, representative in Congress of the Fourth Indiana dis- trict is 42 years old today. { Oshkosh, Wis., Feb. 9. Scores of teachers are here attending the twen- ty-first annual meeting of the North- west Wisconsin Teachers’ Assoclation. Every city and town in the territory covered by the association is repre- sented, and it is said to be the larg- est convention ever held by the asso- ciation. E. H. Deeman of Neenah is {presiding over the sessions, which \vill last two days. A number of ed-! ucators of wide prominence are on| the program. New York, Feb. 9.--- Several thous- and young delegates from various points in the United States ana Can- ada assembled in this city today to at. tend the second annual meeting of the National Council of the Boy Scouts of America and to meet Gen-| eral Sir Baden-Powell, the founder and beaq of the Boy Scout movement. The famous soldier will conclude hiz! New York visit with a lecture tomor- row night and the next day he wili start on a tour that will end at San { Francisco the second week in March Washington, D. C., Feb. 9.--- The | arrangements completeq for the an- | nuad banquet of the League of Re-! {nubncnn State Clubs at the New Wil- ilard hotel tomorrow night give prom- ise of one of the most notable affairs of the kind that the capital has seen this winter. Six hundred prominent party leaders will attend the func- tion. President Taft will be present | during the evening, and addresses will be delivered by Charles V. Fair- banks of Indiana, Governor Hadley of Missour, Governor Coldsborough of ! Maryland, John Hays Hammond of Massachusetts, Job Hedges of Missou- |ri D. D. Woodmansee of Ohio and J. Hampton Moore of Pennsylvania, Lawrence, Mass., Feb. 9.--- Joseph J. Ettor, leader of the cotion mill strikers, and his principal assistant, Arthur @ivoannitti, editor of the New York Socialist papers, were arraigned before Judge Chadler today for a pre- liminary hearing on a charge of be- ing accessories in the murder of An- na Lopizzi, an Italian .mill worker who was shot in the street riots here two weeks ago. The riots and the killing of the Lopizzi woman follow- ed a proclamation alleged to have been issued by Ettor and his assist. ant counseling the strikers to use violence. If held to the grand jury the two accused men probably will be obliged to remain in jail until the op- ening of the April term of court. | Boston, Mass, Feb. 9,---The annual | indoor track and field games of the Boston Athletic Association, to be held in Mechanic’s Hall tomorrow night, will attract to thig city more than 400 athletes representing all the prominent colleges and most of he leading athletic clubs of the East. The decision of the B. A. A. to per- mit only the best track and field athletes to compete assures interest- ing competitions in all the events. The colleges are well represented in the entries for the team races, which are a feature of each year’s meet. The list includes Harvard, Princeton, Cornell, Dartmouth, Yale, University of Maine, - University of Vermont, Brown, University of Penn- sylvania, Williams, Bowdoin, Holy Cross, Columbia and Wesleyan. The individual stars who will be seen in some of the events will in- clude Mel Sheppard, the half-mile champion, Alvah J. Meyer and H. B. Gissing, all wearing the colors of the Irish-American A. C. of New York. A. R. Kivat, the amteur mile cham- pion, also entered by the Irish-Amer- ican A. C.; A. B. Shaw, the old Dart- mouth hurler; Hal Heiland, of the St. Xavier A. C. of New York, and Bob Eller, of Georgetown University, who ig entered for the 40-yard event. WILL INVESTIGATE | | THE EVERGLADE CASE i Washington, Feb. 9.--- A formal order for o congressional investiga- tion of the Florida everglade lands case in the department of agricultura ‘was passed yesterday by the house committee on expenditures for trat department. Charges that Engineers Eliiott and Moorehouse, discharged by Sacrotary Wilson had been the victims of a Florida syndicate of land promoters and that official reports of th> (rue condition of the everglades had been suppressed, will be investigated. The age division of the department . as- rleulture © OUTSIDE NEWS CONDENSED. @ | jgames of years, when.-the fives re| committee algo will probe the ‘drain-|party gown for the Eik’s ball from the beautiful leectlon at TEN CENTS PER WEEK. @@e\o@@, TO BEMIDJI 5000060066 BASKETBALL TONIGHT: * “ fins ®@®4>~ On the upper Mississippi, ‘neath the shadows of the wood, i {In the land of Ojibwas, Chief Be- | i midji's village stood; | |Bark canoes like living phantoms| Quintett from Hnbbmd County Will| Clash With: ngh School Boys At Armory, 2 COMPLIMENTS ~ STANTON International Falls Press in Opening of District Court Story Honors Bemidji Jurist. shot across the lake so free, \Vln!e past the tepees flowed the riv- er, rushing onward to the sea, Coursed its way through Lake Bemidji, On its journey to the sea. GAME WILL BE EXCITING ONE | Lovers of basket ball in BemmmM ; ! will be given the opportunity of wit-| MA1Y ‘:)’l‘:y ::oen:;ateth: h"'"“"“é nessing one of the fastest basket ball | gone-argupd | £ | Now Chief Bemidji folds his blanket| regenting the high schools of Bemidji nthe Happy HMunting| Akely clash on the Armory floor this| Ground; | evening at 8 o’clock. | Years ago his tribe and people de-| While this is the first game of the | parted: hence for other lands, And now in place ‘of Indian village, i here a prosperous city stands. 1‘ . By the shore of Lake Bemidji, Here a prosperous city stands. | In honor of this grand old chieftan, year for Bemidji, the boys are trained to the minute, and Coach Robinson, who successfully turned out a team which was after the championship from the first blow of the whistle last year until the final game was played, feels that hig team has a chance for | both' lake and eity bear his vietory, although playing against a name, . ! team’ which thus- far this season has|SulTounded by a farming country, the been playing in winning form. | city quickly grew to fame; Nearly the entire Bemidji team is|R#ilroads out in all directions, high- comprised of men who have won their YRyS oo, SHAL cant - be.lEal, B’s on the football field, and all are | Be3UtY spot of Miiinesota, Beltrami's excellent athletes. Bailey and Rip- 5 growing tc"“““fi seat; ple will be at the forward positions Bel”t‘“y spot-of Minnesota, | when the game is begun this evening, altramls -aroWlng: county, seat; Achenback and Ryan at guards, while Peck, the veteran will be'a centre. ‘Where once the forest stood unbrok- Ths 1nidhp of ‘the Abely 1s ot en, re-echoing the wierd re- known, but it is probable that it will framn, be the same as in previous contests Of the music of the war dance, u_'ill this season. soon be fields of waving grain; Lands are cheap, and crops prolific, - water pure and air the best, COWS HAVE GOOD RECORD ™', g ranncy ot ctntory Bemidji by the crystal lake. i Beauty spot of all the west. ‘ R. H. ADAMS. { WILL SING AT CONCERT Gave Total of 33,302 Pounds of Milk In Ten Months on Schroeder Farm. ~ That wondertul records can be|J, H, Nasson Feature at February made in dairying in Northern Minne- f . sota, hag again been demonstrated by Number of Musical Organiza- the Schroeder Dairy Farm, located tion. s a few miles from Bemidji. | The latest being the records made by four of the Schroeder cows, num- bers 4, b, 18, and 26, which have pro-|IS FAVORABLY KNOWN HERE duced 7806, 7417, 9144 and 8935 pounds of milk, respectively, during the last ten months. i i J. H. Nasson the Minneapolis sing- er, will be the soloist at the February. number of the winter concerts given by the Bemidji City band. Harry Masten, director of the band, ihas announced that 'the entertain- Minneapolis, Minn., Feb. 9—Goy-| ment will be given a week from next ernor Eberhart will assist in teh op-| Wednesday, February 28. : ening of Willlam H. Taft’s campaign | in Minnesota. ' This was announced by E. J. Foster, president of the 8th | ward Taft club. The governor wili speak at the club’s meeting in the West Side Commercial Club rooms. Former Congressman Tawney will be the chief speaker. The governor’s acecptance of an invitation to speak at this opening rally of the Taft forces in Minnesota ig the most pronounced indication of the governor's ulignment on.the pres- idential questio: EBERHART SUPPORTS TAFT Minnesota Executive Makes Known Hig Preference. The band has been strengthened i by:the addition or several musiciang jand it is expected that the coming concert will be the leading musical event of the winter. While the audience at the last two [ concerts have been fairly large, they ]hme to a certain extent been a dis- appointment to tiie management and it is expected that the one to be] be held February 28 will be a record breaker for attendance. = The boys of the band practice: eit] er one or two nights every week gether, aside from the practi Splendid uppanumty to nuv your|they: put in indhldually. an need all the encouragement they he Ber-lceive and they ought to 5 great deal more. e | that Empori; | weleome him back to his | slde of the face. “FEW WITH BETTER RECORD” In the current issue of the In- ternational Falls Press, that publica- tion pays Judge C. W. Stanton of Be- ‘Midji-much honos ang refers-to kim as the man who did much in forming Koochiching county and who has fill- ed the position of district judge with such fitting dignity, impartiality and fairness that few judges have a ber- ter record. The following item is from the story of the Press in connection with the opening of court in that city: “No man receives as hearty a wel- come to this city ané county as Judge C. W; Stanton who'arrived Tuesday | last to preside over.this term_of Dis- triet Court. It was largely through his efforts that this county was form- ed. He was its first prosecuting at- torney and from that office was called to the District Bench upon which he has presided with such fitting dignity impartially and fairness that few judges have made a better record. It ig with much pride that we watch his progress.and with much pleasure that we clasp again his friendly hand and Jformer home, city and county.” BANDIT ROUTED BY PIE Girl Saves Cash Drawer by Hurling Hot Custard at a Masked Man In Denver. - Denver, Col., Feb. 9.-- A masked bandit came to grief early today when hit squarely in the face with a hot | custard pie while lotting a cash draw- er at 4 o’clock, just as Miss Ina Mouat entered the room from ‘the kitchen. In each hand she carried a steaming hot custard pie. “Hold up your the robber. “I wont' drop these pies for any villian like you,” said the girl. “Don’t you move,” said the holdup hands,” demanded jman, as he turned to the cash regist- er. " Miss' Mouat heaved a pie and the soft part-struck him squarely on the The robber dashed through the kitchen and into an al- ley and escaped. MORE QPEOS[TIQK FOR BROWN That W. N. Brown, present alder- man of ‘the Fourth Ward, and who seeks re-election, will have further opposition than from the Socialists, was made known today when the an- mouncement of R. E. Millet was made public. The nnnummement means that in two of the three wards of the city there will be three cornered fights for alderman, K. K. Roe, preseut alder-; | Ward, being oppos- 'TEACHERS' MEETING - NOW ON IN EARNEST |Opened This Morning by Music Giv- en by Forty Boys of the, Sixth Gradé. SUPERINTENDE;I‘ SCHULZ TALK Says That Schools of Minnesota are | Progressing and Becoming More Efficient in Educating Young | | Says George B- Aiton, State High School Inspector, and Also Speaks Of Problems of Rural Schools Music by forty boys of the sixth grade of the city school opened the formal program of the North Central | Minnesota Teachers’ Association pro- [gram this The chorus, which has been trained by Miss Ethel Murray sang two songs, which were enthusiastically applauded by the au- dience. Following this music, the president of the association, Superintendent Geo. E. Keenan of Deer River, made the customary address of the presi- dent, in which he outlined the pro- gram of the convention and showed some of the lines of progress which have been made during the past year. State Superintendent Talks. State Superintendent C. G. Shulz !then discussed “By What standards | Should the Efficiency of a School be Measured?” He brought out the fol- lowing points: The schools of this state are progréssing. As shown by the industrial exhibit which are now | becoming the pride of ail schools. these institutions are becoming more practical and more efficient in fitting jmen and women for life. The school |building and the equipment of the school are important. factors to be considered in discussing the efficiency of schools, and school boards and teachers should not hesitate to make the chools as perfect as their means will permit. However, it is not only tne equipment of the school, but the intellectual side of it, that are neces- ey to make good men and women. It is up to the teacher, although she is poorly paid than any other public of- ficer, to supply this greater, want. morning. Aiton On Program. George B. Aiton, State High School Inspector, talked on “What Should be Eliminated in the Smaller Schools for the Proper Introduction of Indus- trial Subjects?” He did not speak tof the high schools, but dealt with the problems which confront the ru- ral and the grade teacher. He said that he did not believe that we should eliminate from'our schools any of the subjects that are being taught now, but that parts of several subjects should be cut out of the -curriculi. Mome time should be spent in read- ing, he insisted, for then a firm ba- sis for the work of the upper grades will be laid. He advocated that the {first 50 pages of the arithmetic be cut out, anqd that the student should be introduced from the very start on questions of money and other practi- cal things. | An Amusing Incident. President W. A. Shoemaker of St. Cloud Normal School, in his lecture fon “The Recitation that Colmtg,” re- marked that while Mr. Aiton would eliminate the first fifty pages of arith- metic, he would cut out the last fifty, and then Mr. Aiton in the audience sald, “And there are probably some here who would cut out the middle fifty too.” “There is not much to be eliminated in the subjects, but in the manner of teaching them,” the speaker continued, “There are three parts which should be brought out in every recitation: the test, the de- velopment ang the drill.” The firsi \nf these should be applied only to | parts of the subject which have been thoroughly. gone‘over the day Dbefore; ino teacher should require a pupil to | recite on work he has not prepared. It is the prime function of the reci- tation to lead out the pupils thought and to get them to rely upon the facts that they know to reach certain con- i clusions, It ig the duty of the eaeh- er, also; to drill into. the pupil’s mind all of the facts that will be nec- ‘essary for that pupil to have a good foundation for what problems he will encounter in the future. 3 Tells of Ewlu SUBJECTS NOW TAUGHT 0. K.’ bigger