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Show CACHE AMERICAN. LOGAN, UTAH The perfect antidote for blister- 1922-is available for sizes 12, 14, 16, 18 and 20. Size 14 reing, hot days is this cool, ned culotte for bicycling, quires 4 Mi yards of 39 inch mariding, beach, housework; for terial. Send 15 cents in coins. Send for the Summer Pattern tearing through the woods, or Book containing 100 Barbara Bell cleverly-desig- By FLMO SCOTT WATSON HE other Jay a great crowd of people gathered in the little city of j 4 Oxford, Ohio. They were there for a double to celebrate purpose the one hundredth anniersary of the publication of a book but more particularly to honor the memory of the man who wrote that book by unveiling a statue of him. The man was William Iolmes McGuffey and the book which he published in 18.16 was the first of the McGuffey Eclectic Readers. Of him it has been said that he was the most popular American of the Nineteenth century, the man who had the largest influence in determining the thoughts and ideals of the American people during that period and the man to whose work many great Americans of the present day pay tribute as being the fountain of their inspiration to aspire and to achieve." That is why many American notables authors, editors, educators, industrialists, statesmen were present when the statue, the creation of one of Americas leading sculptors, was unveiled at Oxford. Hut the greater part of the crowd there was made up of just plain folks," members of the numerous McGuffey Societies" scattered all over the United States, who still cherish in their hearts the lessons they learned from this Schoolmaster of a Nation in his Eclectic Readers. The memorial at Oxford is the second which has been erected in his honor within the last two years. In 1934 another great U 1 v J i m - ,1 I 1 I " 'j fetiSSYSSMiS .'i throng gathered near Washington, Pa., to dedicate a huge granite boulder on the site of the log cabin where McGuffey was born. The crumbling remains of that cabin w'ere removed to Dearborn, Mich., in 1928, rebuilt and added to the Edison institute collection by Henry Ford, through whose efforts 70 acres of the McGuffey farm were purchased for a permanent memorial. At that time Mr. Ford made one of his few public addresses. It was this laconic statement: I am glad to join you today in giving honor to Doctor McGuffey. He was a great American. The McGuffey Readers taught industry and morality to America. Tributes From Notables But Henry Ford is not alone in paying tribute to the Ohio schoolmaster. In fact, the list of those who have acknowledged their indebtedness to his teachings is a veritable American Whos Who." Herbert Quick in writing of his childhood in rural Iowa in his One Mans Life, says: book, I had a burning thirst for books. On those farms a boy or girl with my appetite for literature was a frog in a desert. The thirst was satisfied and, more important, was stimulated to aspiration for further satisfaction by an old volume of McGuffeys, the standard school readers of my day. My mastery of the first and second readers just the opening of the marvels of the printed page was a poignant delight and gave me a sort of ecconstistasy. Those tute the most influential volumes ever published in America. Newton D. Baker, secretary of war under President Wilson, once declared that a certain melancholy poem contained in the Fifth Reader made an impression on him that still remains, and the late Justice John H. Clarke said that the language he used in handing down decisions of the dog-eare- d text-boo- 1 rr L T JL iSLXvA. J, DEDICATION OF THE McOCFFEY MEMORIAL AT HIS BIRTII-TLACNEAR WASHINGTON, PA. (At the left stand Nancy Pardee Newton of Ypsilanti, Mich., Designer of the Plaque.) United States Supreme court not infrequently was colored by the readers he had studied 50 years before. Ida M. Tarbell, the late Albert J. Beveridge, and many others credit McGuffey with having had a large share in shaping their minds. The story of the McGuffeys goes back to August, 1774, when William and Anne (McKittrick) McGuffey emigrated to this country from Scotland. Landing at Philadelphia, they journeyed to the southern border of York county, Pennsylvania, where they settled. This Scotch family had one son, Alexander, who was six years old when they arrived in America. Alexander grew up to be a scout and Indian fighter, serving in Ohio and western Pennsylvania under Arthur St. Clair and Anthony Wayne. At the end of the campaign of 1794 he married Miss Anna Holmes of Washington county, Pennsylvania, and settled as a farmer in that county. Here, William Holmes McGuffey was born, September 23, E the fifth and sixth readers. After some time at Miami, Professor McGuffey, whose interest lay in the field of literature and philosophy, was tendered a professorship of mental philosophy. He carried on theological studies privately and on March 29, 1829, he received his ordination into the ministry of the Presbyterian church, with the degree of doctor of divinity. the McGuffey recognized dearth of reading material in the common schools of the time. He had a keen literary sense and was able to select much that appealed to young minds. It was this selection of lessons from a wide range of authors that caused him to name the readers McGuffey Eclectic Readers. To read them is to catch a glimpse of the stern reality of life in the America of the Nineteenth century. Humor is absent from every one of them from McGuffeys New First Eclectic Reader, from which the smallest children learned their ABCs and were fascinated by the 1800. quaint woodcuts of birds and anWhen the lad was two years imals, to the New Sixth Eclectic e volume of old, the McGuffeys removed to Reader, a Trumbull county, Ohio, where solid and forbidding type, deas ExAlexander McGuffey purchased scribed on the a farm of 165 acres in Cortsville ercises of Rhetorical Reading village, Cortsville township, in with Introductory Rules and Exthe Connecticut W'estern Re- amples. serve. Moral Lessons One day Rev. Thomas Hughes, All of the stories in this volPresbyterian minister, was rid- ume ended with a moral and ing by the lonely McGuffey cabsome of the poems were set to in. He overheard the mother music for singing. At the end of Wilpraying that her young son, the book were the Ten Comliam, might have the opportu- mandments in verse and this exnity to secure an education that hortation: would fit him for life and for the With all thy soul love God ministry. Reverend Hughes arabove, to attend the have boy ranged And as thyself thy neighbor school at the Old Stone acadlove. which he had opened at emy Back in the eighties every The was tuition Pa. Darlington, was told more than once $3 a year and board 75 cents a child If at first you week. Here William received his by his parents: academic training and by the dont succeed, try, try again! time he was eighteen was ready They got that maxim from a poem in McGuffeys New Fourth for a collegiate course. Eclectic Reader, as they did the He went to the nearest college, admonition to Waste not, want Washington college, in PennsylWhen they taught their not. vania, and there came under the influence of Dr. Andrew Wylie, president of the college. He studied Latin, Greek and Hebrew as well as English and was graduated with honors in 1826, receiving the bachelor of arts degree. A Pioneer Teacher While attending Washington college he supported himself in part by teaching. He taught a pioneer school in Kentucky, his work being observed by the first president of Miami university that had been founded at Oxford, Ohio, in 1809. This man, Rev. Robert Hamilton Bishop, at once recognized the power and devotion of the young undergraduate student and offered him a position at Miami, to begin in the autumn of 1826. The minutes of the board of trustees show that he was employed as professor of languages. Miami tradition tells that he rode into Oxford with his little brother Alexander with his personal cop- FIRST READER TITLE PAGE ies of Levy, Horace, Memorabilia and the Greek and Hebrew children that it was a sin to abtexts of the Bible in his saddle stain from licking the plate bags. clean they were repeating the Soon after coming to Oxford he title of a little drama in McGumet Harriet Spining, daughter of ffeys Fourth Reader. Lazy A Meddlesome Matty, Judge Isaac Spining of Dayton, Ned, Exwho was visiting her uncle in OxMothers Gift, the Bible, ford. They became engaged and tract from the Sermon on the are some of the other w'ere married April 3, 1827. Mount titles. While at Miami, McGuffey The Fifth Reader has the title: wrote the first and second of the McGuffeys New Fifth Eclectic graded set of readers the first in 1836 and the second in 1837. Reader: Selected and Original Here Both the third and fourth read- Exercises for Schools. ers were written at Cincinnati in we find old friends: Maud Muller, 1838. His brother, Alexander, Shy lock, or the Pound of Effects of Gambling. aided Professor McGuffey in the Flesh. revision of the readers and col- which begins: The love of gambling steals, lected much of the material for fly-le- H. McGUFFEY ! : i 456-pag- WILLIAM I perhaps more often than any other sin, with an imperceptible influence on its victim. Its first pretext is inconsiderable, and falsely termed innocent play, witn no more than the gentle excitement necessary to amusement. The plea, once indulged, is but too often as the letting out of water. The interest imperceptibly grows. Pride of superior skill, opportunity, avarice, and all the overwhelming passions of depraved natures, ally themselves with the incipient and growing fondness. Dam and dike are swept away. The victim struggles in vain, and is borne down by the uncontrolled current." The Bible, the Best of Classics, Religion the Only Basis of The Intemperate HusSociety, band," are the titles of other lessons, and many of these articles are honored by the name of the author in the index. That familiar poem, "The Spider and the Fly," is given In this reader. Directions for Reading are expounded and rules for proper diction are stressed. It remains for the Sixth Reader to begin with Principles of Education, which is considered under six heads: 1. Articulation. 2. Inflection. 3. Accent and Emphasis. 4. Reading verse. 5. The voice. 6. Gesture. All faults to be remedied are meticulously listed. Indeed, lessons in articulation start with the second reader, and proper emphasis and correct pronunciation are stressed all through the series. The Sixth Reader also contained such classics as Hamlet's well-planne- 10 IT K!,, TOKYO. PI-- a institution unequaled as mice of publicity and brought into existence by George Boldt when be built the Waldorf in New Yoik, has a branch here. a -- i L.ke the old P. A. of Fifth avenue street, where the and Thirty-fourtnow spikes State building Empire tlie sky for a world's record, the an Tokyo promenade supplies quite look and eyeful to those who would see. Pageantry of all peoples; a passing show bewildering in its variety and color; warp and woof of the India. Asia. Africa, the world. drab, inquisitive European; the bored Briton, the ambitious in funds, and also in trade, each on his own, pass in spectacular review. Detaching themselves from the procession, a man and woman, ceremonial dressed in kimonos indicating some sect in native priesthood, took seats immediately adjoining mine and became absorbed in the panorama. Without loss of time I made a remark in English, to which the My wife, man replied in kind. said he, "does not understand your language. She is here in Tokyo for the first time. Our home is on Mount Koya. at the Shingon Buddhist seat founded eleven hundred I am a years ago by priest Clergyman Takes Bride "Are Buddhist priests permitted to marry? "Oh, yes, for many years under Shingon matrimony has been enMy present visit to couraged. Tokyo has to do with arrangements for the marriage of a young Buddhist clergyman of the Shingon U sect, now residing in California. - a. - . kJ "For more than a thousand years 4 I the pr.esthood on Mount Koya, A toy put ei in hot which is scored with temples, were A lien will in tho hot not allowed to marry or to eat Tli boy ut on tho lid of tho hot meat, nor were women permitted Tiio eat hit tho hon , and tho bon within the sacred precincts conseput out the eye of tho eoL crated to Buddhist teachings. Tho lioy got off tho lid of tho hot "With the advance of modern Tho cat got out and tin oC thought it was deemed expedient to introduce marriage, although LESSOK xtv. vegetarian diet continued for some la time. Gradually, however, the against meat were brokk en down, the wives of the priestjlfew hood and the priests themselves taking rather kindly to the mixed diet, which brought about a pronot so ill as to die. nounced improvement physical among the disciples and their chilthe sun. dren. A sensible and progressive step, I regard it. A LEAF FROM THE PRIMER At this juncture of the conversation two Hindu women, garbed m soliloquy and The Fall of Carflowing silken robes and bedecked from dinal Wolsey, Henry with gold bracelets, bangled rings and Lochinvar Scott's VIII; and anklets softly as they Marmion and Douglas; Gray's moved down jangling Peacock Alley, passed ImElegy; Macauley on The in front of us. peachment of Warren Hastings; New World Opens Up Enoch Arden"; Tennysons With wide eyes the wife of the Poes The Raven; Longfelpriest watched the dusky and "A Buddhist low's Evangeline, women of India saunter along, josLife. Psalm of tled by Europeans and Japanese In 1836 Doctor McGuffev left women clothed in rainbow-hueOxford to accept the presidency flowing kimonos, their dark hair In 1839 he arranged in modish fashion and of Cincinnati college became president of Ohio univer- gleaming with decorations. "All of tins beauty appears to- sity at Athens. In 1844 he returned to Cincinnati and served night for the first time to my wife's as professor at Woodward col- eyes, said the priest, himself She will lured by its splendor. lege, afterward known as Woodward hu'h school. talk endlessly of these things when In 1845 McGuffev went to the we return to the sacred mountain, and there is no knowing what University of Virginia as professor of philosophy. He was pop- thoughts will come to her. The sound of music drifting in ular w.th his students and lie taught, says one writer, with tiie from a ballroom off the promenade simplicity of a child, with the smote our eais. Through the procession of human peacocks thinprecision of a mathematician, anr with the authority of truth ning out at intervals we caught An old friend left the follow ing glimpses of dancers. and of the Vestern world A description of Dr McGuffey man or medium stature and gliding, laughing without restraint compact figure His foiehead and merging thus," continued the was broad and full; Ins ees holy man from Mount Koya, where for centuries his forebears walked clear and expressive His features were of the strongly in the cool of the morning and acmarked rugged Scotch type He companied with their prayers the was a ready speaker, a popular setting sun, she has known nothlecturer on education, and an ing until now That which is written upon her face betrays nought abo preacher but uncertainty. Dr McGuffev's conscientiousCooking Via Radio ness was proverbial. When he The sun also rises," I said. was nearly seventv-threyears but will it Yes." he replied. e old he prepared a book It was the result set? The sky is filled with color on philosophy. and the air with new voices." of ten years of careful research Has this You refer to radio? But he was so critical that after the book was already m type he speech upon the ether reached the deeded that it was not worthy mountain of the faithful Yes, but of these things I would and ordeied it of publication He remained at tne speak with approval, for it is on withheld. institution until his the invisible wave that my wife Virginia learned the secrets of western on death May 4. 1373 But he had lived to see his cooking. What skill she has in the art of preparing food readers soiling into the millions that have come to apand extending their influence in- for stomachs preciate the combination wrought to other lands by being translatover fire, of blending vegetables ed into many foreign languages. a ceremony and meat, of influence was How great that is out of what in making the past was a mere impossible to estimate. But there detail to sustain life, is not to be is no doubt that their serious purdismissed lightly. pose, their kindly spirit and their It is well that this wisdom, tone made moral children high which arrived upon the wings of of an earlier generation better should be spread the men and women today. At least, amongmorning, all peoples. And it is good that is the unanimous testimony that from day to day the companof the devoted members of the ion of my bosom should, by way of McGuffey Societ:es thousands of the air, add to her supply of learn Americans in all walks of life. ing. 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