Show THEEE VOTE I WEBE TAKEN Selection of a Site For the s Next N E A Contention SALT LAKE HAS A GOOD SHOW Generally Believed That We Will Get It Utah Delegates Are Confident of Ultimate Ul-timate SuccessBoard of Directors Will Not Hake a Final Decision Until They Have Looked Over the Various Fields N E A Delegates Dele-gates a Good Class of People Special to The Herald Milwaukee July SThe board of directors di-rectors o the National l Educational association as-sociation today took a test vote on the site for the next convention conventon The vote of the directors Is not final but is merely to obtain the feeling of the directors The executive committee commit-tee will during the next few weeks look over the various sites and make a choice Salt Lake City seems to have an ex cellent show for getting the convention Three votes were taken one on first choice one on second choice and one on third choice For first choice the directors were Omaha 10 Salt Lake 9 Tashln tonS ton-S and Los Angeles 7 I For second choice Salt Lake 10 Washington 10 Los Angeles 6 and Omaha 5 For third choice Washington 10 I Los Angeles 8 Omaha 7 and Salt Lake 5 Salt Lake delegates are confident tonight to-night that the members of the executive I execu-tive board will readily see the advantages vantages the Utah offers ptah city oiers over Omaha and will award them the I nl convention con-vention I The National Educational association atonal Educatonal aszoclaton I Is worth a great xlfal to aliy city and I consequently there is annually a contest con-test for the honor of entertaining the I guests The convention has brought to this city 25000 educators among them the most prominent in the countrv Teachers from every state in the Union I are here and merchants here are well pleased with the advertisement the city will derive from the teachers The I convention is quite different from the usual onesthe guests are all highly I educated and take a deep interest in I everything I that the city offers tJ Milwaukeeans who are engaged In trade will remember the visitors as one of the best spending crowds that the jl city has ever entertained The strangers strang-ers one sees on the streets have the appearance of being comfortably provided vided for with this worlds goods and many of them have their eyes open for the best the city affords in the way of entertainment for which they are willing to pay liberally The best and most expensive rooms in the leading hotels have been disposed of to members mem-bers of the association and It is the I testimony of hotel men that they have I had no haggling over prices but l have found the visitors willing to pay without questioning the rates YESTERDAYS PROCEEDINGS Seven Thousand Delegates Filled the Exposition Building Milwaukee July 8With the mercury mer-cury hovering around the 90s 7000 delegates filed into the exposition building build-ing this forenoon to attend the first meeting of the Third days general I session of the National Educational association as-sociation The papers read this forenoon fore-noon related to rural schools The first paper was by B A Hlns dale professor of the science and art of teaching University of Michigan He said I Wealth is not always found where it is required for school purposes Hence i is necessary in the first place in many states to enlarge the units I of school taxation I is irrational to distribute such funds according to i school population since the cost of maintaining a good school depends only in blight degree upon the number num-ber of pupils it contains RECLASSIFICATION I William T Harris United States commissioner of education read a paper I pa-per on grading and classification The speaker said the chief care in the management I man-agement of a system of city schools is Ito I I-to grade or classity the pupils in such I a manner that the interests of some i are not sacrificed for those of others When pupils of slower temperament are strained to keep pace with quicker brigher ones they become discouraged and demoralized He advocated reclassification re-classification every two or three months Henry Sabin superintendent of public I pub-lic instruction of Iowa chairman of the committee of twelve spoke on i The Kind of Sujervision Most Needed I Need-ed He said supervision is a blessing I I or a curse in proportion to the intel i gence and skill with which it is administered I ad-ministered He closed by saying The supervision which I have attempted Qt tempted to mark out Is that of a live enthusiastic man in sympathy with educational progress In touch with the j common people consecrated to his work who thinks no sacrifice too great no labor too severe when made schools in the cause of the common district THE RURAL PUPIL David L Kiehle professor Of pedagogy peda-gogy University of Minnesota read I tYon f f Yia the inset paper on the morning pro I gramme He said in substance Our I schools have houses furniture apparatus ap-paratus teachers organization but I something Is necessary to make all this material effective for the education educa-tion of the pupils In the rural schools The pupil in the rural school must be put In accord with his environment and accor taught to make the best possible use I of Us conditions It is to combat this I I 1 tendency and educate the youth to fill I his own sphere honorably and successfully success-fully where the rural school exists fuly The speaker said Aat the agricultural I agricul-tural svtjool 1 has dcae muiJii to raise the standard of the rural sttfiool A message of greeting was received frcm the association of teachers in In dan schools In session at Rosebud S D A suitable rely was ordered to be sent In an interview < wJih one of tCie din di-n old no psnujjuoo THREE VONES WERE TAKEN Continued from Page 1 rectors today the announcement was made that the selection would be in mae the order of Sail Lake City Lcs Angeles Ange-les arid Omaha Te board of directors reponted an amendment for a change in the constitution consti-tution In regard to the eHgitETOty of offJciais for active membership providing pro-viding that all must pay 2 enrollment fee and the annual dues The proposed amendment was adopted by a large I vote I DEGREECONFERRING COLLEGES Various sections of the N E A held meetings late this afternoon Tine department de-partment of higher education was addressed I ad-dressed by President James Canfleld I of the Ohio state society on the rc1 ttaa1 value of a eY education President Henry W Rogers of the Northwestern university of Evanston I IH gave a instructive talk on The State Should Exercise Supervision Over DegreeConferring Colleges At the department c secondary education I edu-cation Latin and Greek were discussed President Albert Leonard of the E ng hamptOn high school N Y spoke on Are not college entrance requirements I rrftthed too tthe high Wffison Farrand of the Newark N I J academy talked on Is there any better test of power and proficiency I I than a twofold transition 1 W E Walters president of Wells I college Aurora N Y discoursed en Is u ttaie fr Greek composition to b I a s preparatory schools I He believed not h i discussed by Principal f W Wrsxrpb l 1 ChTacx and P j fessor H F CaiOvell of Nebraska E V Robinson fo Muskegon Mfch spoke on An Ideal course in Msiory for e ondUr sohcote I cO HIGH SCHOOLS Miss HanrieL L Keeler of Cleveland I led cm the topic of EccOh and was olowed by George B ACton of Minneapolis Min-neapolis Many papers were read in connection wJh the round table topic of the High Schools as a Social Factor torChiUJ ChiUJ study atitraWted much tent ten-t nThe The department of art education held its final meeting this afternoon JesseS I Jesse-S Brown a Indianapolis and Miss Gidden C Chicago gave talks lllus I i trated with drawings on the black i board j The session o the elementary depart i ment was generally devoted to a discussion dis-cussion of arithmetic I In the library department R W i Bullock of Colorado read a paper on i Observations I upon Childrens Reading i i Read-ing i Professor Richard Jones of the New J York state university spoke on The Moral and Literary Responsibility of Librarians in Selecting Books for the Public Library I The meeting was led by J H Van sickle of Denver j A new department was added to the National Educational association entitled I I I en-titled The department of School Administration Ad-ministration The first meeting was held this afternoon At the meeting of i this body questions of school administration I adminis-tration are considered from the side of I I th > school commissioner I I The final decision on the site of the next convention will be made known I in December Appearances favor the I selection of Salt Lake City EVENING SESSION I Tonights general session of the National Na-tional Educational association was I short on account of a reception given I by the citizens of Milwaukee Rev I Lynn Abbutt of Brooklyn N Y was the only speaker of the evening His i I theme was The Democracy y of Learn i ng I The reception was held at Deutoher club and was a grand affair I At a meeting of the board of directors direc-tors of the N E A Charles R Skinner of New York S W Harris of Washington i Washing-ton Charles Gilbert of Newark N J W R Harper of Chicago and Earl t Barnes were elected members of the i national council F L Soldun of St Louis was elected a member of the I board of trustees I |