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Show Principals Will Exemplify New Leadership, Educator Says Utah Teachers' Convention Closes With Many Instructive Sessions for Pedagogues;. Speak- ! ers Severely Arraign German "Kultur." yr . HEATER than any other de-I de-I mand in the education of I T the future," declared Dr. Frank M. MeMurry in his final address yesterday afternoon at the teachers' convention, "will be the demand for leadership, and that leadership lead-ership will be found in the principals of schools." - In his address Dr. MoMurry discussed dis-cussed the particulars in which this leadership would necessarily appear. "The new education," he said, "will be different from the old, inasmuch as tho emphasis of the new will be placed not upon subjects but upon community needs. This being so, where shall we look for men to lead out in this' untried un-tried field? We are not likely to find it among our administrators. We shall not be likely to find it among those who experiment, who pioneer the path in theory. Nor shall we find it in the classroom teacher, who has to do with the children directly. We shall most likely be able to find the new leadership leader-ship "in the principals of schools. Principal's Qualifications. "The leader of the future in education educa-tion must be able first to judge a class recitation, suggest improvements and convince the teacher of the necessity of making the suggested improvements without the use of his authority. "He' must also have the inclination and the ability to study intensely. A good many principals are becoming wooden through lack of keeping up their studies. He must 'have power to establish in the people at large the standards of skill in teaching and supervision. super-vision. He must make parents know what ho is doing with the teachers and : what the teachers are doing with the children. "Tt is just as necessary for us to know what the teachers think of the principal and why they think it as it is for us to know what the principal- thinks of tho teachers." Reading Must Appeal. The only other speaker of the afternoon after-noon session was Professor Searson. who spoke on "Kidding Reading of Rubbish." "There is no permanent development : in taste and effective power," Professor Searson said, "except on the basifl of response re-sponse in Ihe children. If a child says at the mention of a poem. 'Oh, I've had that!' there is something wrong either with the poem, which may be outside of the child's ranpe of interest, or with the way In which it has been taught. The teacher has no more business putting ground glass into reading1 than alien enemies have to put it into the food of our soldiers. Ground glass in literature is literature that is not within the power of the child to exneriencn and enjoy and which does not call forth its enthusiasm." Yesterday morning's session of the convention con-vention whs patriotic in its nature. Kvery address dealt body blows to German Ger-man ideals in education and urged the creation a nd strengthening of American ideals. Pr. George K. Fellows of the University of Utah said that we should not be so much concerned with amusements, amuse-ments, but should devote ourselves wholly to the war issues while we can. Superintendent Super-intendent K. A. Smith of the city schools showed how the schools can help win the war. Dr. E. G. Gowans, utatc superintendent super-intendent of public instruction, argued for the elimination of every tiling German Ger-man 'from our schools, including pro-German- teachers. Kaiser Arraigned. Dr. Fellows spoke on '"The War and America's Duty." Outlining the prewar plans of Germany with respect to the United States, he urged upon the teachers teach-ers the necessity of actually doing something, some-thing, insteady of merely talking about the war. "We sing about America being 'the land of the free and the home of the brave,' which is all very well," Dr. Fellows Fel-lows said, "but can we sing that one, two or three years from now? Not if we do not dedicate ourselves, our time and our money to resist this, the most wicked aggression against democratic government in the history of the world. The question who started this war has long since been settled. Germany started start-ed it through its present emperor. He began this war with a view to imposing German ideals upon the civilized world. It was conceived and is prosecuted in the : most cold-blooded spirit. The wars of the past have been differences between nations, or between princes, or for political politi-cal causes; but this is a war for the purposes of aggression, ambition and world domination. "This is not the time to argue, to criticize, crit-icize, to wish things different from what they are. It is rather a time to think and work with all our might for America." Amer-ica." Duty of Schools. Dr. Smith spoke on "The Enlistment of Our Public Schools in the Nation's Crisis.'' Declaring that this war is a death grapple between the Germans and humanity, he complin ten ted the schools of Utah on what they have already done to help win this war for humanity. He suggested that all the schools of the state might do three things from now on as long as the war lasts: First, they should aid in a material way, by having the boys produce things from the soil, to help support the nation, to have the girls knit and do such other work as they can, and to induce every one to save foodstuffs. Secondly, they should help intellectually. ! believe," Mr. Smith said, "that the great documents of this war, such as the addresses of the president, should be studied by every boy and girl in the land." Thirdly, there should be developed in the schools a spiritual atmosphere, one of national ideals, that shall make our schools a ho tlied of patriotism. Dean Milton Reunion of the state university uni-versity gave "Kultur" a hard knock in his address on "The New Culture." "I am not going to speak of the culture that Is spelled with a ' K,' ' he said. "That really belongs to a prehistoric age. to a condition of savagery, and not to a civilized civ-ilized community. "Old-fashioned culture required that the person supposed to possess it should disdain industry and the active life in |