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Show SUPT. j, M. MILLS IN A TALK Oil HIS : SYSTEM ; l I The regular monthly meeting of the teachers and department supervl-sors supervl-sors of the city schools was held this morning nt the high school, with a large attendance. The general session ses-sion was marked with an addrcsB by Dr. N. R. Pugmlre, the subjoct treated treat-ed being the care of the eyes, ears and nose, and he gave some excellent instructions as to how the teachers could look after the welfare of the children along these lines. Superintendent Johu M. Mills, who returned from Richmond, Va.. yesterday,' yester-day,' presided at the meeting and spoke briefly, telling the teachers that he had made a thorough investigation of the half and part day system that he had recommended for the Ogden schools about three months ago. He had seen every feature of the system In operation, he said, and that it was proving a success in many eastern cities. Ho also predicted that it would be used in most of the schools in the country within the next five years. In speaking after the meeting, of his trip to the superintendents', convention con-vention at Richmond, and of his visits vis-its to other cltios, both while on hlr way there and on his return trip, Mr. Mills said that his conclusions pointed point-ed more strongly than ever to the ultimate ul-timate adoption of the half-day, part-day part-day and industrial school system In the schools of the country. He visited vis-ited two schools In Hammond, Indiana; Indi-ana; three, in Chicago, two in Indianapolis, India-napolis, and several in Louisville, Lexington Lex-ington and Ashland, Kentucky; CM-ton, CM-ton, Lynchburg, Roanoke, and Rich-I Rich-I mond, Virginia, and Gary, Indiana, which have this system In active operation. op-eration. His visit to the Technical high school and the "Truants" school at Indianapolis, he said, were particularly particu-larly impressive. In the latter school all the students in the city with tendencies ten-dencies toward truancy arc kept and this school has resulted in doing much good. He found that the most expensive ex-pensive equipment in the industrial departments of the Indianapolis schools to be valued at only $400 which, he said, was much less than the present oquipment in the Ogden schools. The school opens at 8:15 a. m. and runs all day, with the intellectual intel-lectual work being done in a halt day and the physical work in the other half day. In Hammond there is one school where the social center idea is thoroughly thor-oughly organized. This school Is about the size of the Grant school of Ogden. In it Is installed a reading room, with books and magazines donated do-nated by philanthropic persons, a millinery and dress making department depart-ment for the use of working girls u night. In the building are also headquarters head-quarters for women's clubs, the Camp Fire girls and public service committees. commit-tees. There is also a large assembly assem-bly room where glee clubs, choruses, bands and orchestras rehearse under a competent director and where amateur ama-teur dramas and entertainment are given. A particular feature of this schoo is that it serves as a headquarters of a group of boys of the "riffraff" type, whose former headquarters were the saloons. They have now organized under the name of the Lincoln club and, under the congenial influence of the school and Its supervisors, are becoming be-coming useful members of the community. com-munity. Mr. Mills said also that there are many of these social centers in the east as a part of the school systems and that the school as a social center cen-ter needed no defense. The recent convention, he continued, contin-ued, did more constructive work along the line of industrial education thuu any other convention of recent years and several sessions were devoted entirely en-tirely to the discussion of the part day, half day, industrial and trade schools. Cincinnati, Ohio, was chosen cho-sen as the next meeting place for the association because of the high standing of Its schools In the kind of work that has been so broadly discussed dis-cussed in Ogden during the past throe months, and Supt. Congdon of the Cincinnati schools led in the discussion discus-sion at the convention just ended, on this subject. The Cincinnati schools have employment em-ployment bureaus, half-day sessions, social centers and many other fca-. tures of interest to superintendents. |