SCHOOL duties call you back again to your appointed tasks; and cool, brisk Autumn evenings welcome you Comfortable shoes are important to the woman who walks The heels on Cantilever Shoes are sceintifically placed so The flexible arch helps to correct weak arches by permitting Cantilever Shoe La Crosse-Rivoli Shoe Store Marinette-Lauerman Bros. Co. Milwaukee-S. J. Brouwer Shoe Co. Sheboygan-H. C. Prange Co. Wausau-Berg & Sabatke Cantilever Stores Appleton-The Pettibone Peabody Co. Beloit-Paul L. Murkland Eau Claire-Ivar-Anderson Shoe Co. Janesville-Varsity Clo. & Shoe Co. in Wisconsin ESTABLISHED 1854 VOL. LVI, NO. 1 MADISON, WIS. SEPTEMBER, 1923 FOREWORD With this issue The Wisconsin Journal of Education returns to the Wisconsin Teachers' Association. It was established in 1854 by James Sutherland of Janesville. In 1855 the Wisconsin Teachers' Association, at its third session, took over the Journal and appointed a board of nine editors to take charge of it. John G. McMynn was chosen resident editor and Racine the place of publication. The Journal was to be issued monthly, and was to have thirty-two, six by nine double column pages. The Association. then had a membership list of twenty-two. In the United States there were but ten educational journals, the most important being the American Journal of Education. The University of Wisconsin was graduating a class of four, the Madison schools enrolled 750; there were no normal schools, and no system of supervision. The Journal was financed largely by state aid, but in 1864 this aid was withdrawn and the Journal lived on for less than a year. In 1865 it was abandoned and for the next five years no copies were issued. It was resumed in 1871 under the direction of the state department of public instruction and for fourteen years it was the organ of that department. In 1885 the Association again assumed control with J. W. Stearns as editor. In 1899 it was sold to B. J. Castle and in 1902 it passed to the Bruce Publishing Company who sold it in January, 1903, to W. N. Parker. The Journal now comes to the Association when it has about eleven thousand members and is organized upon a permanent basis. It finds itself one of 144 educational periodicals in a period of almost unparalleled educational development. The opportunity to serve education is very great and we hope with the support of the teachers of Wisconsin that The Wisconsin Journal of Education may become a worthy example of educational journalism in the field of Association publications. Somewhat formally the purposes of the Journal may be stated as follows: 1. To publish the official actions of the Association. 2. To make information concerning the educational problems of Wisconsin available to its readers. 3. To stimulate individual and cooperative efforts in improving school room procedure. 4. To gather from the membership of the Wisconsin Teachers' Association their opinions and conclusions on matters of educational policy. 5. To supply usable material for the daily work of the teacher. 6. To help carry out the comprehensive program of the State Department of Public 7. To offer an incentive to educational investigation by publishing contributions. 9. To supply material by which teachers may educate the public as to the needs 10. To give general information about education in this and other states, and throughout the Nation. We shall not realize all of these objectives at once. We hope that suggestions, criticisms, contributions, and news items will be sent freely to the editor. The Journal belongs to the teachers of Wisconsin. They can make it what they will. 270761 The Wisconsin Journal of Education 611 Beaver Building, Madison, Wis. Published monthly, except July and August, by the Wisconsin Teachers' Association Managing Editor-E. G. Doudna. The payment of $2.00 membership dues entitles a member to attend all meetings of the Association and to receive the Journal. By action of the Executive committee fifty cents of each membership fee of $2.00 is for subscription to the Journal. Members are requested to report promptly change of address. Give old as well as new address. Subscription price is $2.00 a year. Entered as second-class matter at Madison, Wisconsin. WISCONSIN TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION developed M. Q; I. Q; E. Q; Acc. Q; A. Q; and Eff. Q. Can you do these P. D. Q? MILWAUKEE MEETING The 70th Annual meeting of the Wisconsin Teachers' Association will be held in Milwaukee, Nov. 8, 9, and 10. President F. S. Hyer of Whitewater, the president of the Association has arranged an unusually strong program. At the three morning sessions in the Auditorium there will be addresses by leaders of American thought. Glen Frank, the brilliant editor of Century Magazine; Ruth Bryan Owen -as eloquent as her father; Vilhjalmur Steffanson, Arctic explorer; George Arps, Dean of Education, Ohio University; Herman L. Ekern, authority on teachers' pensions; Dr. S. Parkes Cadman, famous preacher, will speak at the three morning sessions. This is a wonderful array of talent and indicates a program equal to any ever given. Music is well provided for. Bogumil Sykora, famous cello soloist, will play Friday morning, Nov. 9. For the Thursday evening concert a trio of operatic stars from the Chicago Opera Company has been engaged. The sectional programs on Thursday and Friday afternoons are being arranged now by chairmen elected last year or appointed by the president. These are all being carefully prepared, and in the thirty-four sectional meetings the intimate problems of the school room will be discussed by the leaders of education. The business of the Association is conducted by the Representative Assembly which will meet during the session. Indications are for a record attendance. The Association is laying plans for an increase in membership that will bring every teacher in the state into the organization. Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Illinois have practically done this. Wisconsin should do the same. Here is an educational classic from the Alabama School Journal:: WAIT, WAIT, WAIT! One class of schools must forever wait their turn-the little district school that sits beside our rural roadways, "a ragged beggar sunning." He who advocates their immediate improvement at all costs is a fanatic and soon learns that his cause must wait. Wait-while great navies and armies are built up. LEGISLATION The legislature adjourned finally on July 14 after a session which lasted six months. It concluded its work by failing to pass appropriation bills for the Normal Schools and the University. The Assembly had an overwhelming majority of "Progressives", but this one-sided condition made it unwieldy and intractable. If there was competent leadership it seldom was in evidence and the majority milled around and got nowhere. The Wait until a system of splendid high- passage or rejection of a bill meant noth ways can be built. Wait until ports and rivers are made ready for commerce Wait until magnificent quarters for state prisoners can be pro vided Wait until all the courts and legal ma chinery can be adjusted. Wait-until colleges and universities Oh, yes, they will wait and, in the meantime, unrealizable wealth is going to waste. Around these little buildings live the hundreds of thousands who grow up straight from the ground and who, through this contact with things natural, learn something that makes them often real leaders of men and affairs. But what a waste of possibility! It is the merest chance that gives a country boy an insight into his powers and opportunities. Only the one in a thousand sees the vision, for the state is too busy with other things to set up worthy machinery for his benefit. Wait-and perhaps some day a Daniel will come to judgment and will tell everything else in the manifold state system to get outside and mark time while this job is attended to. ing, as motions to reconsider were sure to be made and were frequently carried. The result was vacillation, indifference, and failure. The Senate was evenly divided with fifteen Republicans, fifteen Progressives, and three Socialists. This made for close organization and discipline. The Senate was thus a smoother working body, but important issues were usually decided by one vote. The Assembly and Senate came to violent disagreement over the tax program, and because of this important educational appropriations failed. The committees on education in both houses were courteous, open-minded, and fair. They gave a great deal of time and much earnest consideration to bills presented to them. Both Senator Ridgway, chairman of the Senate committee, and J. D. Millar, of Dunn County, chairman of the Assembly committee were real friends of education. We could not have had better friends of constructive school legislation than they proved to be. The process of making laws in Wisconsin is long and devious. Custom, tradition, and rules have made the simple statement of the constitution seem like a primer class demonstration. A typical case is 177A, the Caldwell bill to repeal the Retirement Fund Law. This was introduced on February 2 and was not disposed of finally until June 29. It was be |