Show TEACHERS NAME THEIR OFFICERS 0 Byron Cummings President of 0 Sta State e Association on LIVELY Y CONTEST FOR HONORS 4 NEXT MEETING MAY Y BE HELD IN LOS ANGELES S Profesor BY Byron on Cummings of the University of f Utah tah was chosen yes yesterday yesterday n b by the members or of the n rs association to sue suc succeed State Superintendent A C Nelson as president for the ensuing year ear Pro ProCessor lessor Cessor Cummings gs was one of the five nominees In the field and his name was pre presented by Oscar Van Cotto Cott CottOn On the second ballot Cummings was elect d b by a vote o of while George GeorgeA A Eaton who was wars nominated by Wil WilHam Ham Allison received votes Miss Rosalie Pollock Professor Richard R B BLyman Lyman and L E were also nominated on In the second the two candidates receiving the larg largest est cst number of votes were th the only ones voted for 01 This was the only contest during the election ot of officers The others were made unanimous On the first ballot Mr Eaton received votes for president while Professor Cummings had 95 but when they were th two candidates on the second ballot the ng votes went to Professor Cummings MIss Rosalie of Salt Lake I convention of ut ll asso aSSO elation shall be held In Los Angeles and tb that t the committee be given authority to decide upon this es n After some comments by several of 0 the teachers on rates over the Salt Lake route It 11 was passed anI the mat matter ter was left In the hands of the executive committee ns thanking the regent of the university th the trustees or of the L D DS DS S university and President Joseph F FSmith FSmith Smith for the use of the buildings were also passed Judge W It B Ring Xing Speaks Preceding the meeting and election Ju Judge gc WU Wil Harp H King delivered J ii a address dress whIch was appreciated and a d heartily ap applaud applauded plaud d by br the teachers and nd their friends who filled Barratt hall to its utmost The judge spoke on the devel development of education In the state of Utah and traced it ft from the old log lag cabin schools which were built b by the pioneers up t the pr present universities Of the state He enn ared the meth methods methods and the of the schools at that time and those of today He said that it was his belle belief that the teachers should have shorter hours fewer stu students students dents and more money mone so that they would be able to pour their spirit Into as teachers being worn wom out wIth work He also took tip the history of education education tion from ancient times and traced it through the reformations up to the present day Miss Ella Ena Larsen Iarsen gave the first pa paper per of the da day taking for her sub subject subject Myth and History in the Ele EIe Elementary Schools and so ably did she handle bandle her subject that the p paper per was pronounced one of the best ever pre presented presented before the Miss Larsen said in part Upon us rests the responsibility of providing nutriment and creating con conditions conditions for tree free and unimpeded d growth Boys and girls need to be brought into 0 C rl 0 Q 0 cc 4 oc 0 p I r c o 0 08 0 0 b bo S 0 5 o t 3 I O o 0 0 0 0 JI S SC t 0 CoO C 4 BYRON CUMMINGS Ii t New President Utah State Te Teachers chers Association was unanimouslY elected first vice president and Miss Elizabeth Orth of Ogden was chosen Second vice dent In the same manner In the ot of a director for the term ot of two years ears A L Larsen of Sanpete count county was elected Instructor Instructor tor N T Porter or of th the University of Utah and Clarence E Blocker of park lark City were also candidates but on the second ballot banot Mr election was made Change in the Constitution An amendment to the constitution ot of the association was unanimously voted for yesterday esterday afternoon to the effect that the offices of secretary and treas treasurer treasurer be combined and that it be the dut duty of the president to make an ap appointment to the new office The amendment also stated that the ex executive co should decide up upon n the salary of this to exceed a year and not less Jess than The was presented to the teachers a day or two ago to consider and aft after e r the elections It was passed upon pon The offic offices of s secretary and treasur the last two years I have bee rushed with correspondence and It as de b by the members that the officer holding the position of secre should secure a definite Income The report of Treasurer William Bradford showed the association had collected year from dues and with the tn in the treasury last year ear the association has on hand Mr lr Bradford said Eald this was as not nota a complete repOrt as all of the dues had not been collected and that there were small bills which had not been paid a A s was as IntrOduCed by S P I gg of Provo Prove as follows iC the contact with far more 0 of f life lice than an the actual conditions or of their Individual tho world orld are Ukel likely to otter offer They need to tote te he admitted into the great world of life and the open door to this is the story AU All that man felt deepest and loved or hated most I Is express d In song or story These primitive people who gave us cur folk lore these heroes of the past have struggled to Interpret this concrete Individual life that I us and we find their solution in the literature of that day As human na nat t lure ure developed from myth history so must the child develop from myth I to reality But this reality need not mean s It may be n a beautiful beautiful ful reality Every ordinary child has many images but he needs more Images of beauty The sights and 0 sounds he receives are not varied aried and andare andare 0 are rarely beautiful and all stories should be Chosen with a view 1 ew to enriChing his mental images rather than Increasing the number ot of his fan des The child needs to hear thus earl early while his ear is hungry tor It the sonorous music the refined the impressive movements of some reat literature H He needs to hear its purity of diction its distinction of phrase Its choice c of words that all this must be l left rt to upon him unconsciously Too often we resort to unwise methods of cing the child to see or pretend to se see e that which would have ripened I only after months or it may be years ears And as the pass to years ears echoes wUI come talUs tous now and then from lives that are fuller and I sweeter because of the ballads the hero j stories the fairy tales the tho myths the marchers the nursery jingles the songs and the other bits at simple but real literature that we hue have given them t |