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a joy. In order to study and travel to make themselves better teachers for our children, instructors should be able to live comfortably and not worry over finances, and not have the fear that a capricious school board will be influenced by a disgrunted parent not to hire them anothér year. Tenure of office during good behavior, with good preparation for teaching, smaller groups of children to teach, all react to the good of the teacher, and the benefit of your children. See that the child‘s homework is done. #o worth while that the teachers canâ€" not live without us. The program chairman is the life of the organizaâ€" tion. Study our weaknesses. Teachâ€" ©rs are tired at the end of the day. The average mother goes to school with the idea of having her child praised by the teacher. The mother does not take the criticism of the child by the teacher kindly. There is an element of coâ€"operation between the parent and the teacher which is sions by the teachers for our inforâ€" mation. . "Church meetings should never inâ€" terfere with the work of the Parentâ€" Teacher association. _ Children are facing the responsibility to the teachâ€" er. and parents must have a vision of the welfare of the child. Train the women to be chairmen of your assoâ€" ciations. We should not criticise unâ€" kindly the women who start to serve as officers. Consult.the handbook as faithfully as a judge‘s watch. Go to the teachers for etiticism of the puâ€" pils. The P. T. A. is not a clearing house for complaints against the teachers. It never interferes with adâ€" ministration of â€" school. _ Individual differences of opinion must he settled in the class room. . Grade schools should have committees for the high school. An objective budget for the current exponses of the school should be made. Send delegates to district and state conferences always, and consider that money well spent. Only through conference can we get uniâ€" fied thought. There is something wrong with the teacher who does not I‘ke P. T. associations. Make them Iy before the child. It is for the muâ€" tual benefit of teacher and communiâ€" ty be given for extra work to both puâ€" pils and teachers." be a member of the program commitâ€" Too many school men are afraid to embark upon a change in the curriâ€" cula of the schools. They should be revised to meet the needs of each inâ€" dividual student. Too many teachers are interested in the subject matter which they teach, rather than in the boy or girl. Mrs. Solomon Jones in a sectional conference said: County in the conference. Send the principal of your school to P. T. A. conferences. Every. school should send two deleâ€" gates. One schbol board is eager to have its principal attend the P. T. A. state conference and pays his exâ€" penses. The Child Welfare Magazine is essential to the education of parâ€" ents. In this connection Tilinois now hoelds first rank in the list of subâ€" grading pupils on the intelligence| ment for which we paid so much basis. "There is something in every| money several years agoâ€"and which boy or girl that can be brought out,| should be in use now. but he should not be labeled as a| It would take several hours to view dum» or a bright pupil." He advised|the exhibits of the grade schools the sarrts to study the curriculum | which showed beautiful sewing by the of the «â€"boo!. Students should learn| girls, bird houses and furniture by to do in a b>=â€"r way what they will the boys. The pupils also sang for haye to do in life. His definition of| us, and high school orchestra and evra.~> was "That man is cultured band played for us. who aprrâ€"â€"iates the significance of| How lilinois P. T. A.‘s have multiâ€" the pe<t in relation to his fellow ; plied this year was shown in the reâ€" man." Vocational work may be cul~ | port of 180 new charters issued. There tured work to others. Wood working ) are now about 3000 associations in may be cultured work to the profesâ€"‘ our state. $11,000 were the receipts sional man. Education must be useâ€" for the year. ful in various ways. It makes a man ‘ _ The P. T. A. protects the national a bettéer man for having done that asset, the children of America:. The scribers to Child Welfare, and exâ€" ceeded California this year. . ~ We challenge any organization to | be as broad in its purpose as the P. . T. A. In this section conference| one woman said that she had always | thought that the P. T: A. was a place hphlht-h-m-lh“ pour tea. When she saw the scope of | the work discussed at this state conâ€" ference she said that she would reâ€" turn to Wilmette to round up all the parents and insist upon their attendâ€" ance at meetings. A one armed man who arose from the floor said that "the trouble with the schools is the. lnck of discipline in the homes. Children six years of age are stronger willed than their parents. ‘Where is the old fashioned THURSDAY, MAY 19, 1927 high school work when a boy who graduates goes out to drive a delivâ€" girl who had stamina enough to go to school as her mother dressed hert Continued from page 1 to Work of P. T. A. is not all that we learn He P. T. A. in every sixtyâ€"seven schools. There are twentyâ€"six counties that have none, there are eight with one, six with two, and eleven with only three P. T. A.‘s in the county. Lake county has twentyâ€"one. expense money to the conference for {Ilinois, and two were given money to send them to the Nationa) conference in California this year. Two were At the evening mecting a candle lichting service was held. Each regâ€" ional director, in 2 white robe, marchâ€" ed up the aisle to slow music, and lit her taper from the one held by the president on the rostrum of the church, and then in about twentyâ€"five words cach woman reported the work of her district. District 19 in our state has all of Cook county outside of Chicago and all of Lake county. It has one P. T. A. in every seven schools. We stand second among districts. Chicago is first with one for every six schools. District 16 is the lowest with but one Fach regional director was given a bouquet, by the women of her district. Some leaders were also given their given life memberships. We gave Mrs. Edmonds a beautiful â€"leather portfolio. A new memorial memberâ€" ship was created whereby any assoâ€" ciation may honor a departed memâ€" ber who has given valuable service to her association, by presenting $100 in her name to place her on the memâ€" Miss Alma Binzel of Milwaukee, spoke on "Wise Parents and Well Trained Children." She told of her The P. T. A. protects the national asset, the children of America. The financial aid to the schools is wise, it is meant to improve the atmosphere and comfort of the schools. & Supt. McAndrew Speaks Supt. McAndrew of the Chicago schools told of the technique which the teachers of his school ig Brooklyn organized against parents who went to complainâ€""Wait a minute" in various intomations was used, and then "I am sorry that you feel that way about it," which completely disâ€" armed the aggrieved parents. He called women who try to tell teachers how the school should be run "a smellâ€" ing committee." The teacher would eay to a woman "you have one or seven children, I have forty. I know that you know how to take care of your children." How to prevent misâ€" chicf on Hallowe‘en which should be a day of all the saints but is now a day of all the devils, is made an exâ€" amination day in good citizenship, withâ€"a falling off in arrests by police for destroying property in Chicago. The Illinois council was founded 26 years ago. We have 92,645 members in our association. The money we send to the national goes to Utah, Spain and Hawaii to help the work there. Illinois stands second among the states in membership in the naâ€" tar child guidance clinics and among many interesting stories she told of How lMinocis P. T. A.s have multiâ€" plied this year was shown in the reâ€" port of 180 new charters issued. There are now about 3000 associations in our state. $11,000 were the receipts for the year. tion put on by children in a safety program. "Uncle Bob" toid a story your delegate wondered what had beâ€" come of all of the gymnasium equipâ€" ment for which we paid so much money ‘several years agoâ€"and which should be in use now. It would take several hours to view the exhibits of the grade schools which showed beautiful sewing by the girls, bird houses and furniture by the boys. The pupils also sang for One of the . Protected Auto Parking Day or Evening Service Weekly Charge $1.00 East Side Busingss District Convenient to Depot and Alcyon Theatre Next to Pease Drug Store *> Central and Sheridan | Next to Community Shop . 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The scope of the work discussed in Quincy included conferences on Wednesday morning on radio, American Citizenship, Child Hygiene, â€" Education, Kindergarten, High School, Better Films, Juvenile Protection, Legislation, Parliamenâ€" tary Law, Press and Publicity, Safety, Rural Schools, School Beautiful. Deerficld P. T. A. publicity in scrap books and Mr. Lowdermilk‘s artistic invitations, were the admiration and envy of some of the delegates. We give as well as get information. Streator, East St. Louis, Meunt Vernon and Moline presented invitaâ€" tions for the conference next year, and it is my hope and wish that you may ‘have at least two trained leaders eager to attend. These conferences are held in difâ€" ferent communities to give us a betâ€" ter knowledge of the state in which we live. They weld together our peoâ€" ple, we learn of our natural resources. The byâ€"products of meetings are growth and development. 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