Show HOOLIGAN AND MAUD U D DISCUSSED DISC BT B r SCHOOL PRINCIPALS Colored Colod Supplement Declared to to Be Harmless Diversion Diversion for f r Yol Young Movement M v in Favor Fior F vor of Censor Censoring C Censoring ns r ring ing Moving Picture Pj tur Shows The moving picture shows and the colored Sunday supplement ame came in for fora a big share of advertising yesterday afternoon at a meeting of the principals principals pals pals of or the city schools held in the La Lafayette Lafayette Lafayette fayette school Indeed so much has not been said in many millY lines of oC the th press agents very best as was said in order ord r to get realy good discriminating pat patronage rOnile for the at ester yester days meeting And the thievery very last word In n regard to the matter maiter was the earnest advice of o the city superintendent that he the the teachers make visits to all aU the shows In the city during the coming comins holiday times and be able to report their heir findings soon after the thc beginning of school in the th new year This does not mean by b any means that hat the shoWs shoves were commended as a whole far front from it The subject of or the moving picture shows was td tO t be bc cussed and the discussion was as opened by y John S Welch the supervisor of or the grades who in company with others of or a committee had been beOn Inspect Inspecting Ing ng the local show houses with a view to o determining their effect on the grow Ing i ng minds cf or the school children Three Kinds of Shows Mr Welch read a thoughtful well i considered review of Qt the findings of the committee reporting the shows so far viewed to be bc of three classes the edu educational ed those giving scenes of ot foreign countries industries manners and cus etc the purely pUr ly ridiculous which might be termed In their ef effect effect feet and the vicious those depicting crime such as suicide murder prison scenes and life or kindred subjects These last Mr Welch held neld from the standpoint of or the educator to be much more vicious In their effect than the class showing silly episodes in love lovemaking lovemaking lovemaking making even The speaker advocated the he taking of some definite steps to have lave such pictures as would exercise a hurtfuL influence eradicated by having the he sets of oC pictures censored before they were exhibited The discussion became very general the he the Idea of nearly all aU present being that the picture shows were in themselves really instructive rather than harmful but jut that the class of or pictures should be carefully chosen since the chU dren iren of the city schools are known tob to toe tobe b be e patrons in iii very large part of the class of or shows referred to It Is there therefore therefore therefore fore with a view to taking some definite definite nite action in the near future with the support of the best element of the city cit that the teachers are to visit the shows and approve vo ve or or disapprove the class of pictures shown there Another subject which came in for fora a ashare ashare share of or discussion was the Sunday col eel colored colored ored supplement and in this Miss Ro Rosalie Rosalte salie salte Pollock led with a brief talk on the manner in which the Sunday sup BUP supplement supplement is received by b parents and by bythe bythe bythe the younger element clement Miss MIsa Pollock had brought for illustration of her subject ct a whole bundle of the colored pages and these she hedl he displayed and arid cOiled called at attention to after fter the other to show the thc utter lack of reprehensible matter within their lines The teachers present p showed great familiarity with Maud and her antics and also with Happy Hooligan Miss Iss Pollock held that even the sentences some sometimes sometimes sometimes times found had no lasting effect on the little littI people who arc are more interested first in the gaudy sa colors a thing al always alway always ways way admired by children and then In Inthe inthe the grotesque g cartooning carto ning As for Cor the tho older children the speaker said they soon outgrow the colored supplement and antI take to the jokes or humorous h brous sto stories stories ries elsewhere Funny Papers Are Harmless i The Thc discussion on err ibis Hils subject seemed seem d i ito to be beaU all al ilIf the same lines of or thought t the general g idea being that the funny papers papera are to say the least harmless and that they supply a alively alively lively Interest at certain stages of or the childs growth Miss Ward the head of or the childrens department in the public library vas as asked for her opinion opinion ion lona anti and diss but ut very mildly say saying saying tty ing that the Colored supplement E Is ex excluded eluded from fr the library mainly for the reason that so many Children came for those alone arone and were not satisfied with witha a better re solid soUd kind of literature uter ture J I Principal George A Eaton of the High school read tead a very ery thoughtful pa paper paper paper per on the segregation of the sexes in secondary schools Principal Brad Bradford Bradford Bradford ford and Miss Reilly both read brief papers on the place of interest in the moral training of the child chUd but owing I to the lateness of or the hour discussion i ot of both subjects was postponed 1 ned till a later time The teachers were given the privilege of or hearing a chorus of girls of the sixth seventh and eighth grades under the leadership of or William WilliamA A Wetzell sing two tw numbers to be given during the state teachers conven comen convention convention tion next week Both were three part songs Snow White and The Roses and both were sung exceptionally well The youthful voices were exquisitely blended and the harmonies were per perfectly perfectly sustained An All orchestra of three pieces played the accompaniments acco |