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Volume 5 February-Much, use No. 2

School Improvement Issue
School lmprovemenk Day, Friday, Man-J: 6, 1936

MARIE SPRATT BROWN

, pioneeu Eduutor «:5 Kentucky, the only Worn-n Ex-Pralidonl of elm
K.N.E.A., and now eaachiug It Hyden, Kentucky.

"An Equal Educational Opportunity for Every Kentucky Child"

The Kentucky State

Industrial College
Frankfort, Kentucky

ONE HALF A CENTURY
OF SERVICE
TO NEGRO YOUTH

A PROGRESSIVE STATE SUPPORTED
INSTITUTION

SECOND SEMESTER BEGINS JANUARY 25, 1936

SEND FOR CATALOG
FOR ALL INFORMATION, WRITE T0

R. B. A TWOOD, President

The K. N. E. A Journal

Official Organ of the Kentucky Negro Educational Association
Vol. VI February»March. 1936 No. 2
Published by the Kentucky Negro Educational Association
Editorial onioe at 1925 W, Madison Street
Louisville, Kentucky

Atwood Si \Vilson, Executive Secretary, Louisville; Managing Editor.
W. S. Blanton, Frankfort, President of K. N. El A.

Board of Director:
J. L. Bean, Versailles E T. Buford, Bowling Green
R. L. Bowery, Manchester V. K. Perry, Louisville

Published Bimonthly during the school year: October, December,
February and April

PRICE 50 CENTS PER YEAR OR 15 CENTS PER COPY

Membershiy in the K. N. E. A. (One Dollar) includes subscription to
the, Journal

Rates for Advertising space mailed on request
Present Circulation, 2, 000 Copies. 1985 K. N. E A. Membership 1,894

CONTENTS Page
Marie souatt Brown, Ex president of the KNEA Cover
. .2

Editorial Comment. i . . . .

Our State Superintendeni .4
K. N E A Convention Announcements. . 5
Honor Roll for 1935- 36. “6
World Goodwill Day. i i6
K. N. E. A. Kullil-lgs .7
The K. N. E A, By M. S. Blown 9
Tentative Outline of the 1986 K. N. E A. Plogmm. .10
Four Commandments, By J H. Dillard. . ...... . .13
Program [or the Progress of the Negro in Kentucky . 14
Kentucky Schools Today . ....... .16
K N. E. A. Diiectors Meet in Lou Ville .17
“A Master Workman," Poem by cl W. Ma .13

Advice For Parents ...........
School Improvement Day Program.
A Prayer, by Edgar Guest

Rosenwuld Acrostic.
A Playiet—Seliooi I
Bioeoesst and Television.
Letteis From Jeanes Teac
The Story of Julius Rosenwald
Lest 'We Forget Rosenwald—The

Editorial Comment

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MARIE SPRATT BROWN

On the. outside cover of the K.N.E.A. Journal is to be found the like-
ness of Miss Marie Spratt Brown, one of the loyal and most interested
[nemhers of the KNJ’JJL She has held nearly every K.N.E.A. oiiice and
is the only woman ex—president of the K.NrE.A.

Miss Brown has had an interesting career as an educator in Kentucky.
She did her ﬁrst teaching in the grades of the Louisville Public Schools.
At the very outset, Miss Brown was not satisﬁed to remain static and
attended the University of Chicago for seven consecutive summers, where
she gave special study to home economics. Her ﬁrst duties along this
line were in the Y.W.C.A in St. Louis. She, however, preferred to teach
and after teaching in summer schools at Louisville and Bowling Green,
accepted a teaching position in the Dunbar High School at Mayﬁeld. She
left there to teach at West Kentucky Industrial College but returned and
taught seven school years, ending, May, 1953. Since teaching there, she
has taught at various places, now being at Hydeu.

During these years at Mayﬁeld, Miss Brown did an unusual thing.
Even though having taught many, ma'ny, years, she realized a life am-
bition and was graduated from the Tennessee State College, receiving
in 1931, the 3.5. Degree, Magus. Cum Laude, She later attended Fisk
University and did work on her Master of Arts degree. Such an achieve-
ment for a miner who had been in service so long is unusual For loyal
services to the KN.E.A. and her achievements, the K.N.E‘Ai takes pleas-
ﬁi'e in dedicating this issue of the K.N.E.A. Journal to Miss Marie Spratt

town,

In all these years, Miss Brown has never failed to enroh and has at
tended every convention, since she began teaching, except three. Her
interest in the K.N.E.A. is clearly shown in a poem written by her which
Sﬁd'lei} the oﬁice of the secretary. The poem appears elsewhere in this

came .

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SAMRIES OF NEGRO TEACHERS

An important part of the program of the K.N.E.A. is to see that that
part of our recent school code, which reads, “Each school district shall
pay its teachers according to a salary schedule which shall include train-
ing, quality of service, experience, and such other items as the board of
education shall approve,“ is enforced, There is a. tendency on the part
of boards of education to ieel that the Negro teacher does not need as
much on which to live as the White teacher. This idea seems to he the
result of the Negro’s not having heretofore received a salary sufﬁcient
to improve his living conditions so that they are up to the standard of
the White teachers. The fact is, that the Negro teacher has been forced
to reduce his living expenses and that he has suﬁ’ered because of this
situation In seeking the salaries due Negro teachers in accord with the
above mentioned provision of the school code, we are not asking a special
favor. We only seek that which is due us. _

Inst year there appeared a study regarding the salaries of Negro
teachers which was sent out by Dr. Chamberlain, titled “Salary Schedule
for Lexinan Public Schools," Bulletin No. 3, Volume 7, of The_Bureau
of School Service, University of Kentucky. The tendency of this study
was to suggest that the salaries of Negro teachers should be about eighty-

ﬁve per cent of that of the white teachers. In answer to this publication.
the Department of Social Studies at K.S.I.C. has sent out, with the co~
operation of the KN.E.A., l3. mimeogtaphed publication of considerable
length in Which a more detailed study of this question has been made.
The study was directed by Dr. Ernest M. Morris, Ph.D., Cornell Uni-
versity, and presents a. comprehensive investigation along the him of the
standards of living of Negro teachers and the added expense which he
must pay toreeeive the education which he needs to qualify for the stand-
ards set by the various departments of education. Dr. Morris’ answer
to Dr. Chamberlain is most convincing and superintendents and princi-
pals who read this publimtion will note therein that Dr. Morris has
proved from scientiﬁc data, that the Negro teacher needs the same
amount of salary as the White teacher. The K.N.E.A. believes that the
White citizens of Kentucky are fair and in the light of the argument pre<
sented, will proceed to rectify any injustices to the Negro teacher which
now exists in the application of the salary schedule. The K.N.E-A.
realizes that a local board of education may place in its salary schedules
such clauses that will operate against the paying of the Negro teacher
the salary due him. Mindful of these activities, we call upon our co-
workers, we call upon our superintendents, hoards of education, and
leading citizens to see that at least average justice is given the Neg-to

teachers in Kentucky.
o c u t u a

CHARLES W. ANDERSON

Recently an important event in the history of the Negro took place.
It was on the occasion of the seating of Charles W. Anderson, the ﬁrst
Negro legislator, in the Legislature of Kentucky Attorney Anderson
received an overwhelming majority of votes from the 58th Legislative
District, in Louisville and is easily the choice of his people. Mr. Ander-
son is a reﬁned gentleman, having a college education and a degree in
law. Mr. Anderson has already shown his interest in the education of
the colored youth of Kentucky, in his sponsoring of some measure to see
that the Negro student of Kentucky gets the same opportunities for
higher training as do the White students of Kentucky.

For a number of years, the mother of Mr. Anderson, Mrs. T. L. An-
derson, of Frankfort, Kentucky, was the head of our Elementary Educa»
lion Department of the K,N.ElA. The secretary-treasurer of the K.N.
E.A., on behalf of the oﬁcers, hoard of directors, and members of the
organization, takes pleasure in congratulating Mrs. T. L. Anderson on
the achievements of her son, and Mr. Anderson himself on being the ﬁrst
Negro legislator in the State of Kentucky.

c e t a c a

ENROLL AND ATTEND

The 60th annual convention of the K.N.E.K. in Louisville April 15-
lﬂ, .1936, should interest every colored teacher in Kentucky. We cordially
lnv1te each teacher in our state to make plans to be in Louisville on these
dates. As usual, we shall have outstanding speakers of national im~
portance and sectional meetings that are most stimulating to the class»
morn teacher. To attend the K.N.E.A. is to enrich one in his teaching
and Is to better prepare one to stimulate the children who sit at his feet
each day for guidance. There are many teachers who cannot attend
sumnaer schools. These teachers can only do justice to themselves by
kBEIET‘Ing themselves up-to»date through attendance to the K.N,E.A. con-
ven lon.

' There are important problems of our profession that need our atten-
tion as a group. We must make plans to insure a twelve dollar per cap-

its in Kentucky in order that we might continue to draw the salaries
which we drew while the sales tax was in operation Some new measures
must be introduced or else the teachers will have severe cuts'in their sul-
arias. There are other matters pertaining to the welfare of Negro chil-
dren, such as those outlined in the article, “Program for the Progress of
the Negro in Kentucky,” which appears elsewhere in this Journal. The
enrollment fee in the K.N.E.A. is only one dollar per year, which entitles
the teacher to receive the K.N.E.A. Journal and. rivilsges of active mem-
bership. Every Negro teacher in the state of tucky should send a
dollar to the secretary of the KN.E.A. and make plans to attend each
session of the 60th convention in Louisville. ENROLL AND ATTEND!

roe-es

THE X. N. E. A. DOLLAR

There is no dollar which the Negro teacher of Kentucky invests which
is more wisely spent than the dollar sent to the secretary—treasurer oi
the K.N.E.A. for membership. The ﬁnsncisl report given yearly shows
how acculately each dollar has been spent and the purposes for which
this dollar has gone. Realize that the K.N.E.A. sends each teach” sev-
eral Journals during the school year, makes loans to pupils who are ab
lending college, keeps up agitation to insure better working conditions
for the Negro teacher, encourages boards of education and superintend-
ents to provide better schools and oond‘ ons of study for the Negro youth
in Kentucky, sponsors spelling contests annually to have our pupils un—
prove along this line, sends to teachers throughout the state helpful
suggestions regarding their daily problems, aids teachers in securing
jobs, protects thegeneral interest of our teachers, and sponsors an an-
nual convention for the enrichment of the Negro teacher along the lines
of his profession. No dollar could be more wisely invested. .

Enroll by mail or give your dollar to your principal or organizer at
once. “Every teacher a member of the nuns.” is our slogan.

n r r a r :

OUR STATE SUPERINTENDENT

Kentucky schools and Kentucky teachers extend a royal welcome
to our new State Superintendent, the Hon. Harry Peters. For four
years he will be our leader. In him‘\ we will repose our faith and hope
for the continuance of the upward swing of education in out State.

We are glad that he has come from our ranks, that he knows the
problems of school boards, the needs of children, and the trials of
teachers. He has had rich training and rare experience, both of which
enhance his personal qualifications for the high responsibilities which,
fall upon him.

He has a sympathetic understanding of Kentucky‘s educational
problems. He knows mist laws are made by men, for the whole state,
and that those laws must be administered with reason and intelligence
and with due regard for local. conditions. He knows ﬂint schools are
not, in the ﬁnest sense, made by laws. He knows that wise adminis-
tration plus a teacher who likes the business of teaching and who loves
children are the factors that make good schools possible.

The teachers of the State will render to him their supreme loyalty.
They are a great organized, courageous, and ever-improving group.
They know how to follow a leader. They believe they have in Mr.
Peters a. great leader, and from him they will expect and. receive a
cordial and sympathetic interest which will make for a creaﬁve-
partnership for the advancement of education.

So with delight we hail our new superintendent and pledge him
our best eﬁorts in the expanding- program for public schools which is
and has always been so close to his heart _(K. E. A. Journal)

K. N. E. A. Announcements

Daily Expeme

Teachers may secure room and board at the K.N.ElA. meeting for
$1.50 per day. For sleeping in homes the rate is 750 per night. Meals
are approximately the same per day.

Memhenhip Cal-dc

Be sure to bring your membership card to the K.N.E.A. meeting. It
has the following uses: (1) permits you to see a nicture free at the Grand
Theatre; (2) permits you to see a picture free at the Lyric Theatre:
(3) permits you to vote; and (4) permits you to get reduced admisslon
to the Friday night musicale. BE SURE TO BRING YOUR MEMBER-
SHIP CARD W'ITH YOU.

Budget

The K.N.E.A. Secretary is sending out hedges along- W'ith membership
cards. Be sure to bring the badge to the Convention with you. Wear
your badge at the meeting and show both your loyalty to the K.N.E.A.
and to the teaching profession.

The Fifth Annual Musicale

The Fifth Annual Musicale will be held on Friday Night, April 17.
This program will be either at the Armory or at Quinn Chapel. Watch
for the ﬁnal announcement of the program. A fee of 25!: will be charged
non-members of the K.N.E.A. A membership card will admit a K.N.E.A.
member free.

Nominniions

Those who desire tn have their names submitted to the Nominating
Committee must send their names by March 15 to the secretary or to
Prof. W. E. Newsome, of Cynthiana. This year the terms of two directors
will expire and they or some other persons will be elected. The ﬁrst
vice-president, Mrs. Ellen L. Taylor, will be ineligible to succeed herself.
Other ofﬁcers. as now listed, will probably be candidates for reelection.
The Nominating Committee will make its report on Thursday morning,
April 16 at which time the election of ofﬁcers might be by acclamatian,
or, if the situation arises, there will be an election by ballot on Friday,
April 17.

The spelling Bee

The Annual Spelling Contest of the K.N.E.A. will he held Friday,
April 1'7 at 10 :00 A.M. in the Elementary Education Department. Name:
of entries must be sent to the secretary of the K.N.E.A. as soon as os~
sible before April 1. Send name, grade, and school system the pup) is
to represent. Rules of the Spelling Contest and a. suggested list of spell-
X'ﬂg words may be secured by Writing the secretary of the K.N.E.A.

Annual Exhibition

The Sixteenth Annual Exhibition of the KN.E.A, will he held at the
Amory on Saturday, Apr. 18. Beside drum and bugle corps ilemunstrw
titans. there will be a ”Pageant of Ethiopia" The usual social hours at
the Armory will close the 60th convention of the K.N.E.A.

n t u r r it

Any one knawing of a teacher who has died since our 1935 convention.
is requested to send the name of the teacher to Rev. J. Francis Wilson at
Maceo, Kentucky, who is \Chairman of our Neurology Committee.

1936 K. N. E. A. Honor Roll

The following schools and county systems had enrolled one hun—
dred per cent in the K. N. E. A. up to Uanuary 18, 1936. These schools

and counties have been sent certiﬁeates of honor.

CITY SCHOOLS

School Trinzipal City
B. T. WMhington Mrs. Lucy H. Smith Lexington
Geo. W. Carver Mrs. Fannie H. White Lexington
Russell Jr. High Prof, M. H. Gﬁﬁn Lexinan
Constitution Prof. J. B. Caulder Lexington
Dunbar High Prof. W. H. Fouse Lexington
Go. Training School Prof. Geo. C. Wakeﬁeld Greenville
Snuthgate Street Miss Nora H. War'd Newport
Co. Training School Prof. D. E. Car-man Springfield
City High School Prof. P. W.',Williams Lynch
Bond-Washington Prof. G. W. Adams Elimbeﬂitcwn
City Colored Prof. R. I. Pleasant Morganiield

GOUNTY SCHOOLS

Superintendent or

County San:

County Organizer
Muhlenberg Supt. H. F. Bates. Jr. Grenville
Bath Supt. W. W. Horton Owingsville
Mchcken Supt. Miles Meﬁdeth Paducah
Hickman Supt. Vera Bedrham Clinton
Union Supt. W. 0. Wright Morganfield
Adair Supt. C. WyMarsl'izﬂl Columbia
Washington Supt. J. F. McWhorter Springﬁeld
Leslie ‘Miss M. S. Brown Hyden
Boone “Pref. Wallace Strader Burlington
Fulton *Miss Birdie Schoﬁeld Hickman
Laurel “Prof. Walter D. Bean London
Lincoln "Dr. Wm. Tardif Stanford
Madison Supt. J. ‘D. Hmilton Richmond
Wayne *Miss Jane Duncan Monticello

*County Organizer

WORLD GOODW'ILL DAY

The World Federation is to have World Goodwill Day exercises
May 13. 1936. in every school in every community in the nation. A
few other nations are making similar efforts. We are beginning early
in order to reach every community with inspirational information. The
principal or someone appointed by him is requested to serve as local
director for that school and community.

All organizations and all citizens are invited to cooperate with
the schools. Readers are requested to see the principal and to lend en-
couragement. Full particulars may be obtained by Writing the World
Federation, 1201 Sixteenth Street, N. W.. Washington, D. C. A Good<
w-ill Booklet may be secured from the World Federation an east (15
cents). It contains suggestions, programs, pageants, and plays.

K II. E. I. Kullings

Mrs. M. L. Copeland, supervisor
of Todd and Christian County
rural schools, continues to pub-
lish a monthly bulletin of speciJ
interest to Jeanes Teachers and
others engaged in rural school
education. Mrs. Copeland served
as chairman of the committee
which made the school improve-
ment program suggested in this
Journal.

Attorney C. W. Merriweather,
noted Kentucky poet and writer.
was among the ﬁrst to enroll in
the K.NiE.A. for 1936. One of
his recent poems, “Stephen Col-
lins Foster,” has been placed in
the library of Eastern State
Teachers College, in the Lilly
Fotser Hall at Indianapolis, and
in the Henry Ford Museum at
Dearhorn, Michigan. Mr. Merri-
weather’s keen interest in the
teacher and education is shown
in his poem, “A Master Work-
men."

Mr. Thomas F. Blue, head of
Negro libraries in Louisville, died
on November 12, 1935. He was
the ﬁrst Negro librarian in the
United States, having been ap-
pointed in 1905. He was always
a friend of the K.N.E.A. and
took an active part in its activi-
ties. He has been succeeded by
Mrs. Rachel D. Harris, who from
the outset has been his ﬁrst as-
sistant.

Prof. c. L. Timberleke, e
county organizer of the K.N.E.A.,
writes from Uniontown, where he

is teaching, that he is working
to have a record membership at)
the 1936 convention of the K.N.—
E.A. Prof. Timberlake has been
for many years a staunch sup-
porter of the K.N.E.A.

Mr. W. P. King. Executive
Secretary of the KE.A., has been
named chairman of the execu-
tive committee of the Interna—
tional Relations Commission of
the National Education Associa-
tion of the United States.

The Central High School at
Louisville recently opened s Pray
tical Arts building at Eighth and
Chestnut streets. The principal,
Atwood S. Wilson, recently con—
ducted dedicatory exercises at
which the new vocational educa»
tion courses at Central were de»
scribed.

Prof. G. W. Jackson, a popu-
lar teacher in Louisville and 9.
very active member of the K.N.—
EA" recently married. We can—
gratulate him and the bride.

Prof. Whitney M. Young, who
is serving as principal of Lincoln
Institute at Lincoln Ridge, Kyi,
continues to show progress. The
school has made outstanding
improvement since he has been
ylsced in charge of it.

Joseph re. Houschins, who holds
the degrees, Master of Arts in
Economics and Doctor of the
Science of Law, and head of the
Department of Economics and

Government at Wiley College,
has been appointed Assistant Bus-
ineu Specialist in the Division
of Negro Affairs of the Bureau
of Foreign and Domestic Com-
merce at Washington, D. C.

Mrs. Bettie Davis is reported
as doing 'very good work as prin-
cipal of the Ed. B. Davis School
at Georgetown. The school is
mined in honor of the late Pro-
fessor Edward B. Davis, an out-
standing fraternal leader and ed-
ucator. Prof. Davis was a past
president of the K.N.E.A. His
absence at the K.N.E.A. conven-
tions has been keenly feltzby the
organization.

Mr. L. N. Taylor, State Di-

rector of Rural Schools, has been
the chief factor in the promotion
of School Improvement Day for
the past several years Each year
Mr. Taylor aids in the publica-
tion of a K.N.E.A. Journal, fea-
turing the work of Julius Rosen-
wald and the activities of the
Juries teachers in Kentucky.
We appreciate the ﬁne service he
is rendering our teachers and
youth.

Prof. w. H. Humphrey, prin-
cipal of the John G. Fee High
School at Maysville continues to
do extraordinary work in his vi-
cinity. He shows a special inter-
est in the K.N.E.A. program and
each year makes valuable sug-
gestions. Prof. Humphrey is an
ex—president of the K.N.E.A.

Privileges of Active Membership
in the K. N. E. A.

The privilege of attending all general sessions of the Asso-

The priw‘lege of participatng in the departmental sessions.
The privilege of speaking and holding oﬂice in the Kentucky

The privilege of voting and participating in the business alfzirs

1.
elation.
2.
3.
Negro Educational Association.
4.
of the Associatio .
5.

The privilege of recei ‘ng all literature of the Association in-

cluding the ofﬁcial publication, The K. N. E. A. Journal.

No Kentucky Teacher Should Fail to Enroll

Send One Dollar
To A. S. WILSON, Secretary, Treasurer
1925 W. Madison Street, Louisville, Ky.

Enroll and Keep Up!

THE K. N. E. A.
(By M. 5. BROWN, Ex-Pretident)

In the midst of our labors and sorrows,
Each year our attention we pay

To the thoughts of our fellow",
Extracting the good,

We can this the KWNEA.

Years ago I accosted some teachers.
Who gave me a look of dismay
When I asked with: smile,

Will you stop for a while

To attend the great KN.E.AHZ

Later on when these teachers grew conscious
Of what the great speakers would say,
They digested it well And began to repel
Those who scorned the great K.N.EiA.

Mr. Atwood s. Wilson came forward.
He keeps records up to the day.

If he’d only been there when I sat in the chair,
What a glorious K.N.E.A.

I now rejoice with you dear teachers,

Who have entered so nobly the fray.

May you have for your motto, wherever you are,
“Enroll in the KN.E.A.”

Keep well' in your minds the poem,
Which tells of the Gobblins so gay,
You had better watch out or Ethey’ll get you, no doubt,
If you don’t meet the KEN
Note 1mm the editor: This new was not sent ln for publication, not has it

teen revised for that purpose n is muted n the thoughts ﬁrst nine in the
luthox- mainly to reveal her enthusiasm ma constant interest in the K M E. A.

Vocational Guidance

School teachers are among our most faithful correspondents.
One writes to tell us about an experience of her principal, the head of
one of the city’s big high schools for girls. When school opened, a
mother called on him to talk about her daughter, explaining that she
had to be rather ehoicy as to schools, because the girl was forward
mentally, and moreover had already decided upon her career. The
principal said his school was just an average one, specializing in
nothing technical, but what did the girl have in mind for the future?
"She’s going to he an international spy," the mother said.

—The New Yorker

TENTA-TIVE OUTLINE OF THE 1936

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K. N. E. A. PROGRAM

APRIL 15-18
Wednesday, April 15, 1936

Registration of teachers, K.N.E.A. Headquarters, Quinn
Chapel Church, Chestnut Street between Ninth and Tenth,
Louisville, Ky.

Observation of Louisville Public School classes at work.
Visitation to Louisville Municipal College at Seventh and
Kentucky Streets and other places of educational interest.
Mist-noon Musicale. A program to which all teaches are
invited. Quinn Chapel Main Auditorium Miss R. L. Carp-
enter, of Louisville, presiding.

Music Hour of State Music Association, R. L. Carpenter,
Directtess-

First General Session of 1935 Convention at Quinn Chapel.
Welcome Address: Prof. Clyde Liggin, Principal of Vir-
ginl'a Avenue and Parkland Schools, Louisville, Ky.
Response to Welcome: Miss Nora H. Ward, Principal of
Southgate Street School, Newport, Ky.

President’s Annual Address: W. S. Blanton, Princiyal of
Mayo-Underwood High School, Frankfort, Ky.

Address: Dr. W. E. B. DuBois, Ph.D., Atlanta University.
Announcements and Adjournment.

“rum—d”, April 16, 1935
Second General Session of K.N-E.A. at Quinn Chapel.
Report of KN.E.A. Resolutions Committee, S. L. Barker.
Owensboro, Chairman.
Report of K.N.E.A. Legislative Committee, J. H. Ingram,
Frankfort, Chairman.
Annual Report of Secretary-Treasurer, Atwood S. Wilson.
Louisville, Ky.
Report of Auditing Committee, Prof. P. L. Guthrie, Chair-

man.
Address: H. W. Peters, smcc Superintendent of Education,
Frankfort, Ky.

Report of K.N.E.A. Necrology Commitcee and Memorial
Exercises, Rev. J. Francis Wilson, Macao, Chairman.
Report of Nominating Committee, W. E. Newsome, Chait-
man.

Announoements and Adjournment.

Sectional Meetings of KN.E.A. Departments as follows:
(1) Primary Teachers Corderenee—Mrs. Blanche Elliott,
Greenville, Chairman. Dunbar School, 9th and Magazine

Streets.

(2) Elementary Education DeparhnenbﬁMrs. _L H. Smith.
Lexington, Chairman. Main Auditorium of Quinn Chanel.
(3) High School and College Department—Dean 1". AR.
Bailey, Paducali, Chairman. Sunday School Room of Quinn

Chi: . ‘
(4) pF.E.R.A. Teachers’ ConfereneFMr. Lyle H. Hawkins,
Chairman. Western Branch Library, Tenth and Chestnut

Streets.
(5) Rural Education Department—Mrs. M. L. Copeland,

9 :45 P.M.

8:30 A.M.
9:00 A.M.

10:80 AM.
11:30 A.M.

2 :15 EM.

2:45 PM.
3:00 PJVI.
8:45 RM.

4:30 P.M,

Hopkinsville, Chairman Room 102, Central High School.
Prof. w. J. Hale, Jr, Nashville, Tenn. ., guest speaker

Librariansl Conference, Miss Ann Bunker, Frankfurt, Chair-
men, Room 202 Central High School.

Principals’ Conference—Phyllis Wheatley Y.W.C.A., Prof.

W. H. Fouse, presiding. Dr. Spencer Shank, University of
Cincinnati, est speaker
Principals’ anquet—Phyllis Wheatley, Y. W. C. A
Music Hour at Quinn Chapel. Miss R. L. Carpenter, Pre-
siding.

Third General Session KN.E.A. at Quinn Chapel.
Address:Attorney C. W. Anderson, Representative in
Kentucky Legislature, Frankfort, Ky.

Address: Mrs. Myrtle Phillips, A.M. (candidate Ph.D.)
Head of Teacher Training Department, Howard University.
Washington, D.C.

Announcements and Adjournment.

Frid-y, April 17, 1936
Election of Oﬁcers by Ballot, unless the Nominating Com-
mittee’s report has made it unnecessary.

Sectional Meetings of K.N.E.A. Departments as followa:
(1) Vocational Education Department—Prof. Whitney M.
Young, Lincoln Ridge, Chairman. Sunday School Room of
Quinn Chapel. Guest speaker, Dr. Ralph Jacobs, University
of Cincinnati.

(2) F E. .A, Teachers’ Conference, Mr. Lyle H. Hawkins,
presiding. Western Branch Library.
(3) Foreign Language Departrnenl‘r—‘Miss A. M Emanuel

Chairman. Room 206 Central High School.

(4) Music Department—Miss R. L. Carpenter, Chairman.
Central High School gymnasium, room 109. Guest Spaker,

Mrsl Alzada Singleton Buford, Columbus, Ohio.

(5) Athletic Department—Mr. H. A. Kean, Frankfort.
Chairman. Room 103 Central High School. Guest speaker,
P. W. L. Jones, Cincinnati.

(6) Elementary Education—Mrs. L, H. Smith, Lexington,
Chairman. Quinn Chapel.

(7) English Department—Miss Helen Yancey, Chairman,

Room 207 Central High School.

(8) Science Teachers‘ Conferences. Prof. Henry Frizell.
Mayﬁeld, Chairman, Room 302 Central High School.
Annual Spelling Bee—Auspices Elementary Education De-
partment—Prof. G. E. Brown, presiding. Quinn Chapel.
Special Picture~—Lyrlc Theatre, Sixth and Walnut Streets.
Free to teachers enrolled in K.N,E.A. for 1936. Present
membership cards.

Band Concert—Ky. School for Blind. Mr. Otis Eades, Di-
rector. Quinn Chapel.

Fourth General Session of K,N.E.A. Quinn Chapel,
Address: Dean R. E, Clement, President N'.AT.C. S.
Address: Dr. Ralph Jacobs, Specialist in Vocational Edu~
cation, University of Cincinnati.

Announcements and Adjournment.

8:15 P. M. Fifth Annual Musicale, Armory, Sixth and Walnut Streets.
Miss R L Carpenter, Ditectress General admission, 25¢;
reserved seats, 35c. General adnrlssion seats free to teach-
as who present membership aids; an additional me will
allow a teacher to get a reserved sent.

This program to feature:
I. The K.S.I.C. Odette
2 The Apollo Quartet
3. The Louisville Choral Club
4. Louisville High School Glee Clubs
5. A Mamnmth School Chorus

Saturday, April 13, 1936
9:00 AM. Final General Session of the K.N.E.A. Central High School
gymnasium
9:15 AM. Report of K.N.E.A. Departmental Chairmen.
1 0 AM. Reports of Committees and old businessl
11:00 AM. gustallation of oliicers. New Business and Plans for 1936-

12:00 Noon Adjournment

7:00 AM. Sixteenth Annual Exhibition, Armory, Sixth and Walnut
Streets Lnnisville, Kentucky. Thispto program will be pre-
sented lry pupils of the Lniusville Public Schools.
Part I~Drum and Bugle Corps Demonstrations.
Pm II—Pageant of Ethlop is
Part III—Social Houidszs 10: 00 RM. to 12: 00 M.Spec'in1

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FOUR COMMANDMENTS

By J. H.

Of course there are many com—
mandments for teachers, but after
an experience of twenty-nine years
in the school-room I ﬁnd there are
four which stand out foremost, in
my mind They may not be the
greatest, hot at any rate these four
stand out, and I think they are
good commandments.

The ﬁrst is that teachers should
he as well groomed and dressed as
possible. One of the cleverest State
Superintendents of Education
whom I have known was Allen of
North Carolina. I heard him once
at a meeting in Atlantic City make
a short address on the meaning of
democracy which was a gem. The
next speech I happened to hair
from him was at a large meeting
of teachers in Raleigh. On this
occasion his theme was the im-
portance of this ﬁrst simple com-
mandment.

A second commandment is, that
teachers should not threaten, should
not say, if you do so and so. I will
do so and so. When the time comes
you may regret you made the
threat, and yet not to carry it out
has a bad eﬂ’ect. It is much better
simply to do the punishment when
it is called for.

A third commandment is that
teachers should by all means ex-

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amine carefully all written work
and hand it back to the pupiL If
there is no intention of doing this
the writing should not be inquired.
My observation and information
lead me to fear that there is an
increasing tendency to brmk this
commandment. I was telling this
to a meeting of teachers, and when
I said I was sure no (Escher in that
rmrm was guilty, there was a. gen-
eral laugh. It is easy to see that
an error neglected is an error more
deeply ﬁxed in the pupil’s mind.

The fourth commandment is,
that teachers should he rigidly ex-
acting. Pupils admire most the
teachers who keep this c