Show TEMPERANCE IN TEXT BOOKS Prof Atwater Takes Tip and Discusses Dis-cusses Important Question Syracuse N Y Dec 2Pro1 0 W Atwater of Wesloyan university Middle town Conn read 0 paper before tho Stato Science Teachers association hero day on Alcohol Physiology in tho c ountry Schools lie said In substance A body of temperance reformers by extensive organized effort have secured In almost every Stato In the Union legis lation requiring textbook Instruction In Instructon temperance physiology In public schools Unfortunately for science pedagogy and morality n considerable part QC nt teaching Is not In accord with tho views of specialists or the result of the latest scientific Investigation Thus sclentllo InveHlgaton it comes about that Jl the United States n great educational movement Is attempting to build up moral reform upano basis of doetrlno which scientific authority dis approves authorl In explaining what In his Judgment constitutes rational teaching of tho aub I cct Prof Atwater said ho believed the Instruction should be only In tho higher and not the lower grades of schools and that both tho kind and the amount oC Instruction I should be left to the great body of capable conservative and earnest educators to decide In tho afternoon Just before ndjourn jneiU of the conference Mrs Mary A Hunt of Boston national superintendent of uclonlllic temperance of the Worlds W C TU and Mrs Ella A Boole Elo president of tho Stato W C T U dig puled statements inndo by Prof Atwater relative lo filcohoj in food Mrs Boolo said that It was h reflection on teachers rofecton that they wore opposing temperance leg islation and leaching of textbooks Tho great stumbling block in teachers int > tl I tutcs and normal schools she uald was duo to tho fact Unit there was not tin alcohol intelligent presentation of the effects oC |