Students Learn Geography Now red Method yisita to Industrial Plants Giv» Pupils First-Hand Information; Textbook* More Interesting. I,eon O. tmlth, assistant superin tendent of schools, ha* written aome of his Ideas on “Geography Teaching Today Versus 'Ths Good Old Days."' He takes th# following slant of the subject: School* don’t teach geography like they used to teach It. Do you re member when geography meant a big book behind which you could put a “Diamond Dick" or soma other thriller and have It hidden safely from the teacher’a eyes? It also meant a fine place to eat apples oV cheap chocolates. Even the hooks are different now. While the geogra phy text Is atlll larger than books In other subjects because of the maps they contain, they are not quite akin to the atlas In size, as were the text books In the days of our youth. Do yo"u remember how In your school days your study of geography was confined to dry. encyclopedic facts about the number of degrees and the width of the various zones, “bounding states and countries," nam ing and locating innumerable capes, bays, gulfs, rivers, cities, mountains, harbors, etc. In some cases we actually committed to memory in order of importance, capes, bays, gulfs, rivers, etc., lying around the marginal continent. Then if we wanted to locate any particular point with reference to some other point we had to start at the starting point at the north and parro like repeat nil these plaies until we rame to th,e one In whlih we were particularly Interested. And then, there were the names of all the states nnh their capitals which took much time. The old alng so'ng geography lessons with the locations “Malne-Augusta, on the Kennebec river; Yermont-Montpelier. on the Onion river," etc., were ef fective In placing some bounds that made it possible to keep Harrisburg In Pennsylvania and Helena In Mon tana, but who In Helena or Omaha Is Interested In Montpelier oh the Onion river. Such a system seem ingly placed as much emphasis on Carson City as upon St. Paul or In dianapolis. Began With New r.ngiano. “In the good old days” pupil* be jgan their study of the United States with New England and followed the historical development across the country finally ending up with the Paclflo northwest without any re gard for the Interest or Industries of the pupils in question. Now it Is all different. Geography Is taught as a lire, vital, thrilling subject whose content is around about us and which affects us from our waking moments In the morning until we go to bed at night. At the present time, geography texts are used in the Omaha echoole which emphasize and begins the study of the geography of the United States with the middle west where we live, and move, and have our being—that portion of the country which fur nishes so much of th# world's food supply. Many of the pupils approach the subject of geography by a study of the foods which they find oh their own tables and this makes a natural contact with both foreign and do mestic regions of Interest. Furthermore, the modern textbooks are leaving behind the formal, etilted, dry way of presenting live material and In the present day book the lan guage is simple, the material more Interesting, and often the etatements are made In the vernacular. The fol lowing description of a portion of Texas by an American soldier Is quoted In a geography text: "This Is a country of more streams and less water, more cows and less milk, and where you can look farther and see less than In any other country In the world.” In the same paragraph, we find this statement—"water Is so very scarce that the natives have learned to go a long time without It. If you ask an Arizonan if he will have a drink of water, he will probably reply by saying. ‘No, thank you, I drank yesterday.’ " First-Hand Information. Now the pupils not only read about things In the text, but they get actual first-hand Information by doing them. Last year a class at Pacific school, Thirteenth and Paclflo streets, was studying about silk, so the members of tha class actually procured some ■Ilk worms and kept them supplied with mulberry leave* until the •’worms” had developed sufficiently to form cocoons and demonstrated the manufacture of silk. Then there Is Journey-georgraphy. A certain elasa desired to see New Tork city. They wanted to see the buildings and the people, especially bow the people lived. Among other places mentioned were Niagara Falls, tha Hudson river, Washington, D. C., Mt. Varnon, Asheville, N. C., and tha blue grass region of Kentucky. The class decided to become acquainted with th* circle tours offered by the railroad companies and selected th* circle tour which would Include most of these places. It was found that the eastern objective of many of the circle tours was Nsw Tork city. The pupils Inferred from maps tha routes connecting Omaha and New Tork city. Thee* Inferences wers checked by Inquiry at th* information bureau. Various root*# war* discussed as to time, eost and soenery. Tha rout* Anally selected was from Omaha te Chicago, from ChJeago to Montreal, Montreal to Boston and from Boston to Now Tork. Th# return Journey was mad# by Washington, Mt. Ver non, Cincinnati, Laxlngton, Ky.. to Chicago. Thg attraction* along the routes selected were studied in detail, Illustrated literature Issued by rail roads, chambers of commerce and steamship companies supplied ma terlal not found In text hooks. Th* Imaginary Journey etpulated #o far as possible all the experiences of n real Journey, bringing a part of th* real world close to each child. Actual Industrie* Keen. TV» you remember the old fashioned Stereoscope on th# marble center table In the parlor! Now, th# stereo scope and stereograph art weed sda» York Hotel Pays Off Old Debt and Dividend Tork, Neb., Feb. 21—Hotel Mc Cloud. Tork, Neb., where the state association of hotel men held their annual meeting last week. The hotel was built by local capital five years ago. The high cost of building made It necessary to borrow more money than was planned. This sum was paid .. . i off the past year aiul a ft per cent dividend was given stockholders, the certificates being used as place cards at the annual hotel meeting. B, A. Slocum, who heads the hotel, was elected state president of “the Nebraska Hotel Mens’ association and I. A. Medlar of the Midwest Hotel Reporter was reelected sec tary. tiflcally in presenting s from a geographic setting. Tlx .here are lantern slides galore, to say nothing of moving pictures depicting life and activities in various industries In numerable states, cities and countries. Then. too. Omaha children make many excursions to key industries in the city. One day a class may, under the direction of a teacher, visit the telephone company or the smelter, or a packing house, or a candy factory (oh: boy). Another day the same class, or another class, may make a tour of inspection to the cracker factory or creamers-, or see some other huge industrial process carried on. Concrete material of a supplement ary nature Is furnished through the various commercial exhibits furnished to the schools. These show the pro cess of manufacture of cocoa, let^d pencils, pens, paper and numerous other commodities. In many classes the pupils make huge scrap books of pictures, interesting information, sta tistics, etc., which serve as valuable sources of learning and also "a memory book" of the subject. Some times the whole class will co-operate in making a book which is "a thing of beauty and a joy forever.” An excellent example of the latter project is an "Omaha book" made by the eighth B class of I-othrop school. A boy In the seventh grade at Web ster school actually constructed a model steamboat out of a toy steam engine and an erector set and he informed the reporter that the engine would run until the boiler sprang a leak. So If any of you remember geography as dry, just drop In on a modern elaas In geography in the Omaha schools and get a new point of view. Tax Payments Reflect Farming Improvement Columbus, Neb., Feb. 21.—Improved conditions in farming communities is reflected locally in the payment of personal taxes, which have been more prompt this year than at any other time since the post-war days. In Platte county the treasurer is issu ing less than 200 distress warrants I I for unpaid personal taxes this month and all but a few of them are direct ed against people who resided In the county temporarily at the tlm# of the spring assessment a year ago, but departed before the taxes became due. The number of distress war rants Is about half that of two years ago. Cotner College Note*. The affirmative debating teem of the Brock High school defeated the Lincoln High school Friday, by a two to one de cision, on the league of nations question. The Brock team Is coached by Richard H. McCann, principal of that high school. Mr. McCann was captain of the affirms five state championship college team last year and winner of one of the Alice .leery debating prizes. i Wendell Wlngard. Harvard, played an original composition at chapel Thursday. In the fine arts program The selection had been written In connection with the work of the harmony class, of which Miss Emily Clarke la Instructor. Avery Morton, who has been teaching physical chemistry for several years In Massachusetts Institute of Technology at Boston, received his doctor of philosophy degree last June from that Institution. He received hla master of arts degree from the University of Chicago In 1920. Aileie Oulzow. Monte Vista, Colo.; Mayble Epp. Falrbury; Joanna Coleman. Ashland: Locky Evans. Lincoln, and J. K Shellenberger. attended the annual convention of the Nebraska Student Vol unteer Union at York college. Professor Shellenberrer has been faculty representa tiv# on the advisory committee to the •tats union. Mis# Oulzow was elected business manager for the Nebraska Ptate Student Volunteer Bulletin, a monthly publication of the organization, for the ensuing year. * J. H. Blcknell, secretary or tha col lege. preached In the Bethany church last Sunday, morning and evening Mra. Lsnore Burkett Van Kirk, direc tor of the school of fine arts and Instruc tor in voice, appeared with Dr Louisa Pound, professor of the English language In the University of Nebraska. In the fea ture event of the season at the meeting of the woman’s club at Fremont. Miss Pound, authority on bellada, gave a lec ture on western ballads. Mrs. Van Ktrk singing a number of them. A similar pro gram on the Nebraska folk songs was ¥lven by Miss Pound and Mrs. Van Kirk hureday before the first annual conven tion of the Nebraska Writer s Oulld at Lincoln. A I) V KRThKM ENT. 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