Show I N. N E. E A. A TAKES UPI UP P PI I I MODEL FARM PLAN Wi Will Advocate Adoption of Idea Developed in U. U of U. U CONGRESS ASKED TO HELP Department lilI of Agriculture Support Measure li o Id hl I Appropriation I bat iou for rl Work Ii PIO Professor I William Stewart Hh principal pal Ial of the lie normal school scholl d department of ur the tl University I of Utah was vas Informed ye yesterday that Ito tho National Educational us association hail had hal tal taken n up Ull In iii II earnest the system that he proposed before a meeting of or the department of or ortho the tho It e principals of th the Ii e state stale normal i schools of the Ite UnIted States at their meeting In li-i Louisville last year ear At t that meeting meeting Professor or Stewart read a I paper on ott the work that Is 18 beInG being be be- ing InG done dont at It th the University it of model farm Corm aria which Is run ryn r n by the normal not nor mal school chool faculty In lit connection with wih lit IK- regular le ulal work wurl The farm rm comprises f five acres anti and I is planted to garden ar cn truck and fruit ClUI trees The purpose that lint Professor Stewart nl and those associated with wih him him hind had in mind was wag as creating In lit the thc child a Lu desire to understand nature na- na lure ture tUe and nial to accomplish this h by l' bringing bring bring- II bug ing the lie child In actual contact with sili wih tia Ja nature The results that limit Professor PI Stewart reported to th the normal school princIpals principals pals so 0 Interested them that the they spent spoilt elal days in discussing the thC matter mater with the lie result that thai thc they decided to recommend the thc II Installation of ot a model m in iii II every even normal nO chool In t th- th I country country- Th They decided further to II interest In- In terest the i a and lt senators sena tors tol's torI from frol their respective stats states In lit the c with th the tite view lew of or getting gelling nn on appropriation for fOI carrying out similar ar work In iii II the other state stale normal schools I BI Appropriation Sought J hl it The rite Th success s they the achieved NI In iii this limbs line inc Is attested b by the lie introduction be before he- he fore both the senate and the house of g of or the lie Pollard Burkell-Pollard bill bil which If IC passed will wi appropriate ate atc OU at once and S an annually iii Jual J- J ual until th the total a appropriation will have hae ha c reached the lie sum of if annually LI to be lie divided among amon the state stale normal Iti In lit the United States One half is 18 to lo b be divided 11 equally among amon th the schools and the theother other othel one half is to be bc dl divided accordIng accordIng accord- accord Ing lug to attendance The TIte normal department de tie- of the n University lt of oC Utah would r receive about S 1 annually under this arrangement nl In Iii II speaking of or the Ite probable effect of the lie the normal schools Professor Stewart says s-ays The people of the lie country can not nOl benefaction tho thit appreciate how great t a bill bi really raly would be It I would revolutionize re the present system of ot C UC l' l lLon lion tion Lon Teachers could then be trained especially lal for the teaching of vf IndustrIal Industrial Indus Indus- trial subjects I In the tw public schools schol The general public I Is greatly rat deceived II IL holds today concern concern- in bit the lie views Iw I lug Ing the lie leaching of nature b by actual contact with nature You frequently hear heal even eren people say ay a that it itIs itIs I Is II a u useless ele waste of oC time line to lo train and in the children In Iii the gardens fel fields s But we ire who ilI have hac H C tried both holl systems that systems that of merely n ll tillIng filling the lie and that thai child's childs tJ's ch head with wih theory an which we ar are now ito using which permits per per- mits inis the child to lo put to tl an nit actual test tet everything that thal he has bias learned learnel along th s ln-s sp lines HI ha have have- come to J IJ the tl bit tinn tiona that cUS is Is lh the Ito only nl correct me method hUl School subjects today are arc nothing than formal I tJ drills ris t that ha t exhaust the lie thi child chilI and leave lea no 10 sion but mt If IC you Ol Isolate these drills both practice ant and theory will wi be he altJe aided What hut Training Means can I U Not ot on only I aro aro alU the lie mo most t prominent I educators of or the lie day ay 1 pushing the lie system SS S'S tem that lint we have ha in vogue hel heie e c but hut even en the tw department of or n agriculture has taken takemi the mailer up UI and ant I Is supporting sup porting the Pollard Burkell-Pollard Pollard bill bi The has con constantly tant complained In lii Its reports Ii to tn the lie pre president and to toCOI COI congress that tile the agricultural colleges NI In lii the lie country are arc not doing the Ito work bork tl that lint ought lie pe h be expected of them bent and that lie tho tendency of the Is from the of oC nature rathel ruth ruth- away aar study cr el than towards H it This training of or the young In lit the methods of IC agriculture agri- agri culture will wl really realy mean the lie in lit a small wa way of on an nt agriculture ture tUte e co college in Iii ecI every state Mute normal nornal school In the tho United States Slates Such Huch a athing athing athing thing the lie department believes can cn have ha but one effect and that hat will wi he heto heto to 0 create creato amon among the lie young of the humid hind hinda allI allIa a great sentiment In iii II favor or fa of a agriculture agri II culture nl and It Is this the they say MY that the present lay day agricultural colleges have ha to do Among molS the mon ninny many educators In tho the country who have ha c con congratulated Prof Stewart on 01 the Ite success he lie has achie achieved d with lila his little farm faim Is Principal W W. S Jacl Jackman man head of the coe college e of or education of the lie University of Chicago Chica go so who says a I can think o of no tio greater for fOI you than titan the lii fuel fact that every CI educator edu ducatO du- du cator catO in lit th the ite country is watching what you are arc doing My h on only wish is that thai the University of Chicago l were as well wel situated as you are alC so I that we too could CUl carry on 01 th great work that thai you have havo begun |