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Show SECRETARY SPRINGER : i OF N. E. A. IN TOWN I Says Religion Did Not Effect Ef-fect Defeat of Miss Stracham. Educators of Salt Lake City will be greeted today by an old friend, D. W. Springer of Ann Arbor. Mich, secretary of the National Education association. Mr. Springer stopped off in Salt Lake on his wav home from tho successful N. E. A. convention recently held in Oakland, Cal., especially to say "howdy" to his Salt Lake friends,; whom he became attached to when the N. E. A. convention was held in Salt Lake a few years ago. The secretary of the N. E. A. will call upoii City Superintendent D. H. Chris tenso 11, Supervisor of Grammar Grades G. N. Child and other men and women in the city schools and the university with whom he came in contact through the national organization. He plans to attend at-tend the city teachers' institute, now in session, and no doubt will be called upon bv Superintendent Christcnsen for a talk. Accompanying Mr. Springer is Mis. Springer, who also made many friends here, and some of their friends, also on their way east from the Oakland meeting. They are stopping at the Hotel Utah. Chatting at the hotel yesterday, Mr. Springer said the N. E. A. convention this year was a success in every way. He commented upon the number of Utah educators in attendance. He F.aid the report which went out to tho effect that Miss Grace Stracham of New York, defeated for the presidency of the N. E. A., charged her defeat to opposition to her on account of her religion re-ligion was much ado about nothing. Miss Stracham was said to have resigned re-signed from the association because she was discriminated against. "When people are disappointed they sometimes say things they do not mean," commented Secretary Springer. "Miss Stracham announced that she had resigned from the association, and I have no reason to doubt her word, but her resignation has not come to my hands as secretary. I do not think there is any foundation for the charge that Miss Stracham was not elected president presi-dent of the N. E. A. because of her religious re-ligious views. Religion has never been brought into the National Education association." Mr. Springer and his party arrived from the coast yesterday afternoon. They expect to leave for the east late toda'. I |