the need of public rehearsals of the ing when an orchestra must be some- The crowded houses that greet every free, or really "popular priced" concert, show that many, many love music who can not afford current prices. Chicago-city of vision has introduced a pleasing innovation in offering concerts especially for children. Following is the program explanation of the venture: "The concerts will be given by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (ninety men), with Frederick Stock conducting. The program will be of about an hour's duration, and, as the name given the concerts implies, especially constructed for the instruction and enjoyment of children. That the children may listen with better understanding and keener enjoyment, Mr. Stock will give short explanatory remarks. These concerts will be given at intervals during the season Thursday afternoons at 4 o'clock. It is sincerely hoped the new effort will meet with popular response sufficient to warrant a series of these programs at regular intervals during this and Kindergarten Department Ruth Patterson, Teachers College of Indianapolis, Editor. Organization of Indiana State Kinder garten Association. In response to an invitation, from the Indianapolis Branch of the International Kindergarten Union, issued at the meeting of the Kindergarten Section of the Indiana State Teachers' Association, Kindergartners from fourteen different towns having Kindergartens, met on October 31, 1919, and effected the organization of a State Kindergarten Association. Five othFive other towns in the state which are known to have Kindergartens, were not represented. Every effort will be made to acquaint these five centers with the purposes of the organization, and to enlist their interest and co-operation. A vigorous attempt will also be made to discover whether there are any oth on er towns in the state which have Kindergartens, but which have not been listed. The aim of the State Kinderten Association will be to gather the Kindergarten forces of Indiana together, to enable the Kindergartners of the different towns to become acquainted with each others' work, problems and discoveries, and to further the Kindergarten efforts in the State. It is expected that as the work develops, the group of members in each center will gather together other teachers, who are interested in Kindergarten work, and also men and women of the town, who while not teaching feel the need of a closer acquaintance with the work of the Kindergarten and will encourage them to form a chapter of the State Kindergarten Association. At the meeting held on October 31, it was decided to make the dues for the first year twenty-five cents with the understanding that this was subject to change if by the next annual meeting there seemed to be need of it. The following officers were elected: Eliza A. Blaker, Indianapolis, president. Ruth Patterson, Indianapolis, vicepresident. Frances Berry, Richmond, Recording Secretary. Mary Africa, Indianapolis, Corresponding Secretary. Helen Wesp, Anderson, Treasurer. A Call for Co-operation. Fellow Kindergartners! This is to be our column. Here is an opportunity for Indiana Kindergartners to tell what they are doing and to discuss the subjects of interest to them. Here is a list of topics about which Kindergartners of the state have already said. they wish to hear. Will you not take a subject and state your views upon it briefly? The editor reserves the right to limit the space. What have you to say about: "My Experiments With a Free Period and the Results." "The Use of Psychological Tests in the Kindergarten." "Spontaneous Group Work vs. Organized Group Work.' "The Kindergarten Work in My Town." "Books That Have Been of Value to Me in My Work." Have you other topics to suggest? Address contribution to Ruth Patterson, 717 North Alabama street, Indianapolis. 1870-Indiana State Normal School-1920 Semi-Centennial Celebration, January 6 to 9, 1920. PROGRAM. Tuesday Evening, January 6. Wednesday Morning, January 7. Address, Governor James P. Goodrich. Address, President William W. Par sons. Address, President W. E. Stone. Wednesday Afternoon, January_7. "Fifty Years of Education in Indiana," State Superintendent L. N. Hines. "Rural Schools in Indiana," Professor W. W. Black, '92. "The Consolidated School," Lee L. Driver. Wednesday Evening, January 7. "The Greatest Current Educational Problems," President W. L. Bryan, Dean Lotus D. Coffman. Thursday Morning, January 8. "The State Normal School of the Middle West," President John W. Cook, Illinois; President H. H. Seerley, Iowa; President William W. Parsons, Indiana. Thursday Afternoon, January_8. "Teacher Training," President E. W. Bohannon, '87, Minnesota; President John E. McGilvrey, '91, Ohio; President W. P. Morgan, '95, Illinois; President William F. Clark, '98, North Dakota. Thursday Evening, January 8. Friday Morning, January 9. U. S. Commissioner P. P. Claxton. Friday Afternoon, January 9. "Women in Education," Miss Ellen C. Sabin, Mrs. Edith Whitenack Dorsey, '94; Miss Ethel Burton, '08. Friday Evening, January 9. "The Outlook in Education," Edward Howard Griggs. All former students and friends of the State Normal School are cordially invited to be present at all of these meetings. THE EDUCATOR-JOURNAL is published the tenth of each month by the EDUCATOR-JOURNAL COMPANY 403-404 Newton Claypool Building, Indianapolis Bell Tel., Main 4081 EDITOR L. N. Hines, Crawfordsville, Indiana. ASSOCIATE EDITORS George L. Roberts, Head Department of Education Purdue University; H. L. Smith, Dean School of Education, Indiana University; William N. Otto, Shortridge High School, Indianapolis; Frances M. Kelsey, Teachers College of Indianapolis. MANAGING EDITOR M. P. Helm, Indianapolis, Indiana. All business communications should be addressed to the Educator-Journal Company, 403-404 Newton Claypool Building, Indianapolis, Indiana. TO SUBSCRIBERS If you do not receive your Educator-Journal within a reasonable time after date of publication, make a request for another copy. When ordering a change in your address, do not forget to give both your old and your new address. Change in address can not be made without this information. The subscription price is $1.00 a year, payable in advance; when not paid in advance, the price is $1.25. Notice will be given to each subscriber of the time his subscription expires, but no subscription will be discontinued except upon request sent direct to the office, accompanied by the full amount due at the time such request is made. The country child is entitled to as long a school term, to as good a school house, to a teacher as experienced and skilled, as the city child. Whenever we shall have equal educational opportunities in Indiana for all children, equal conditions will prevail in city and country schools. One county superintendent recently reported an instance of a one-room rural school in his territory that during the last twelve years has had twelve beginning teachers. No one can even pretend that the pupils in this school received their just deserts during the twelve years. Conditions of this kind must change. The teachers of Indiana will give their heartiest support to Mrs. E. E. Olcott, as president of the State Teachers' Association. The women teachers deserved and received brilliant recognition of their part in the teaching profession in this state by the unanimous election of Mrs. Olcott, who has the profound respect of the entire teaching body in our commonwealth. All of us are ready to do her bidding. The school official who cuts his school term short or in any other way impairs his school facilities in order to "get even" with the state tax board is in small business. The only sufferers by such a procedure are the little, unoffending, innocent children who are helpless and not responsible for the squabbles of their elders. If any school official is displeased with the rulings of the tax board, the thing for him to do is to deal with the board and not vent his feelings on the children. It is the full duty of every trustee and school board to give the children every school advantage possible at all times. It is reported that the Miami County Board of Education has placed a ban on cigarette smoking and lownecked dresses in the schools of that county. Such action as this is heartening to the wayfarer who sees too many of the frivolities of life among the young people in our schools. The school system of any community would get a more sympathetic understanding on the part of its public if the superintendent or some teacher would by a working arrangement with the local papers furnish them with regular consignments of local and general school news and comment. In a vast majority of cases most of the local school publicity is furnished by columns of items written by pupils who through inexperience and immaturity do not understand much about what the schools are trying to do and all too often emphasize the trivial and unimportant in the news they give to the public. A big opportunity is being missed here by many school sys tems. We desire to commend the school news furnished their local papers by Superintendents Gilley, of Daviess county; Jollief, of Parke county; county; Jollief, of Schanlaub, of Newton county, and oth er school men and women who endeavor to interpret their school systems to the people who pay the taxes. Both the schools and the people are better off for such publicity work as this. The people are entitled to know what is going on in the schools, from those who know most about the schools. Some of the very best work being done in Indiana in the way of interpreting a local school system is that of Miss Rose Rudin, of Evansville, through the columns of the Evansville Courier. Miss Rudin's experience as a teacher fits her eminently for this work and the sympathy of Editor Howard Roosa for all that is best in education insures that the message of the schools shall get a full and fair presentation to the public that is interested in a most vital way. There has been discovered recently in Indiana a private school that is conducting regular classes in German. The Indiana law on that subject will be applied by the state officials. Teachers and pupils should not forget that thrift stamps are still on sale and that they are a splendid investment. There is no better way to teach thrift than to lead children to buy understandingly the securities of their government. RETIRED TEACHERS' ASSOCIA TION. Frankfort, Ind. Editor of The Educator-Journal: The teachers of this vicinity who retired under the Indiana state retirement law met during the regular session of the Clinton County Institute and formed a "Retired Teachers' Association," the condition of membership being that applicants shall have retired. under our state teachers' retirement law. Those who are charter members are G. E. Long, G. A. Rinehart, J. L. Black, O. S. Baird and Miss Mary Morrison. At this meeting G. E. Long was elected secretary, G. A. Rinehart president, and O. S. Baird treasurer. Our object in forming this association is to co-operate with the schools and to offer our services in township and county institutes where we reside, when asked, free of charge. We request the co-operation of all retired teachers of the state and would like to make a state organization out of this preliminary meeting. For further information write G. E. Long, 462 Harrison street, Frankfort, Ind., or O. S. Baird, Kokomo, Ind. No teacher in this association has taught fewer than forty years, except Mr. Rinehart, who has thirty-five years to his credit. One has taught forty-two years. Yours truly, TRI-STATE COLLEGE, ANGOLA, INDIANA. Tri-State College was organized in 1884, and incorporated under the laws of Indiana in 1906. During its existence of thirty-five years it has had thirty-five competitors, in Ohio and Indiana. By competitors we mean in dependent schools. like Tri-State, schools wholly self-supporting. Of the thirty-five competitors, only two of them live as self-supporting schools today. The self-supporting school, like the self-supporting man, is the best on earth, but it is not easy for a school to be self-supporting in these days. Union labor does all in its power to standardize all work, reduce hours per day and raise wages; so the school tends all the time to standardization and reduction of work to be done. The tendency now is to reduce work in colleges and normal schools to four periods a day, Independent schools like Tri-State prefer to work, not so much because her teachers are more industrious, but because her proprietors must pay her bills. We live and enjoy the good will of our patrons because of the work we do; that is, we have but one thing to commend us— our work-no money, no church. no state behind us-just our plain work. Tri-State College as a normal school is one of four standard schools of Indiana with the following courses: (1) Twelve weeks' teacher training course, Class A. (2) Twenty-four weeks' teacher training course, Class B. (3) Two years' teachers' course; graduates from this receive life license to teach in elementary schools of Indiana. (4) Bachelor of pedagogy course (B. Pd.), 180 credit hours beyond a commissioned high school course, which holds the commission in all high schools of the state. (All these courses accredited in Ohio as well as in Indiana.) Tri-State College conducts various other courses, as follows: Bachelor of science and bachelor of arts courses, commercial courses, special courses in chemistry (more than one hundred men and women in chemical labora. tories now), music courses (including public school music), art, manual training training and agriculture, domestic science, four courses in engineering, civil, mechanical, electrical and chemical. Over four hundred men here now |