Show T HO L 0 THEIR convention NOTED EDUCATORS FROM EVERY SECTION OP OF UNION MEET IN N UTAH CAPITAL key keynote note address by president contains outline of plan of reorganization in n order to keep abreast with the times dp salt lake city educators ot of national prominence and teachers from every section of the union were in this city monday april 7 tor for the opening session ot of the national education association the visiting educators being given a characteristic welcome active direction of the activities and alms alma of 0 the national education association through the medium of an advisory advisor council of 0 three that the organization may ma be more closely dlo Gely knit together anu and more effective in its work was advocated voca idd by president E T fairchild in hla his official annual address to the members of that organization delivered monday afternoon at the general session in the Tabe tabernacle mAcle in its organization president pair child holds the asso association clation la Is behind the times as compared with organizations ot of other professional men and women an impost important ant recommendation of mr M r r air a Is that the association 11 haye have an official clai publication ot or general F EDWARD T FAIRCHILD 7 at ri president of the national education educato 0 n association who has a plan for r reorganization e 0 of association circulation among the people as a means of increasing inci easing the effectiveness of the association work continuity of the work of the N E A a fairchild it Is apparent in his advocacy of a board ot of three to take the managerial reins ot of the organization ile he proposes the election of two mem members b era of the board by the trustees the third member to be president of the association ex the plan P ian as he outlines would moan mean that these men orni eminent nent edu educators cahors do vote most of their time to the work afia that they be placed on commensurate salaries the attendance at the convention has haa been i 1 disappointment to many F ully fully educators had been expected yet at the opening session there were scarcely present addresses were also made at the opening session by AI 11 shawkey state superintendent of public schools ot of charleston W va who took tor for hla his subject what shall we do with the single room school and by henry neumann Neuma nii leader of the brooklyn society of ethical culture who spoke on an the moral values in public I 1 to self government the de legats had been arriving for a week before the opening session aej and on sunday welcome was voiced by charles W V penrose in behalf of the church of jesu christ of latter d day ay saints at services in the taber vacle following which philander P claxton ton states commissioner of education delivered an addre address i ss on the school teacher if a school teacher bo be unable to give all his life and being not negatively but affirmatively and agar aggressively es fo for the sake of the child tor for the sake of the homo home and for the sake of the nation he should leave the profession this is the view expressed e e by dr P P claxton clarion in his hl address sunday was observed generally in salt lake churches and ward chapels pastors of at the varlo various idi denominations delivering sermons bearing on topics of interest to the many teab teachers bers in the city while tho the members of many wards of the mormon church listened to addresses from prominent members of the national education before an audience of approximately y persons persona in the tabernacle sunday night U B 11 II roberts delivered aa interesting address on Mormon lam and education prefacing his talk by saying that he bo assumed that a largo large number of the congregation ons consisted st of visitors who are hereto attend the N A convention underpaid underpay id as they are tho the toa teachers toach chers cra of the united clites aru am not only mali maintaining staining ita ining but improving the llie tankard of public schools of the iho country this was practically tha th 3 conclusion resulting from discussion of tho the 0 ro o port on teachers salaries and pensions as presented to the national council by president joseph swain 01 of swarthmore mure college swarthmore moro pa the sessions of the council yere held at barratt hall P P claxton united states com of 0 education attributed this maintenance and improvement of school work to the splendid character of the teachers and not to tho the encouragement received by them in their labors amid alt all of the business of the national education association the hs social features were not neglected and the women of the convention especially were shown much social attention at the meeting of the board of directors of the N X E A which was held monday at the lion house it was wan decided to prosecute a campaign to raise aa an endowment fund of in five years ind and an appropriation ot of to carry on the tha work was authorized A meeting of the agricultural hagh school teachers or 0 the state stata was held monday at tho hotel utah under the direction of the extension division of the utah agricultural college pr dr E B G peterson of the agricultural collego who presided explained that the purpose of the gathering was to systematize S the agricultural work in the high schools of the state one of the special entertainment features for the reception at saltair on tuesday was the lecture given by professor arthur hr H chamberlain in tho the hippodrome the subject of oc the lecture leot tire was our western wonder lands and it was illustrated with colored lantern elides similes said to be the finest that modern art and science can produce that the teaching of agriculture without effective practical application Is as great a mistake as it would be ba to teach only the theory of reading arithmetic and other subjects was tho the statement made in the annual report of the committee on courses of study given Aloit monday day by br E C bishop chairman of the state collego college of agriculture ames iowa at tho the joint meeting of the rural and agricultural und school gar garden den departments the mating was held at the first presbyterian church the kindergarten department of tho the N FJ A held its initial meeting git at the first christian science cli monday morning the leading address was given by miss barbara greenwood P united states commissioner of education who attended the national education ii atlon association convention at salt lake of los log angeles An goles cal on ways and means of increasing effective iv ander garten supervision I 1 one of the fea features tares of tho the convention was tho the pros rpm it la is doubtful it at any previous jus bession such a high class musical pr program has been provided |