Salt Lake Tribune | 1916-07-04 | Page 1 | Educators Discuss Plans for Place

EDUCATORS DISCUSS PLAflSJOR PEACE Former President Taft Delivers De-livers Address Before National Na-tional Education Meeting. NEW YORK, July 3. Prepn redness, education and plans for world peace were discussed at the opening session of the annual convention of the JSalional Education association here today. In addition to the general session, departmental depart-mental meetings, at which phases of education were explained, were held. Among the speakers at the opening session ses-sion were former President William H. Taft, President David B. Johnson of the association, Dr. David Starr Jordan, vice president of the association, and P. P. Claxton, commissioner of education. educa-tion. The educators, numbering nearly twenty thousand, from all parts of tho United States, were welcomed to the city by Mayor -Mitchol, and to the state by Governor Whitman. President Johnson spoke on ''The Rural Home and the Farm Woman. ' ' Ho said tho needs of the farm woman have been forgotton in all of the progressive movements for rural betterment bet-terment until comparatively recent years. He said he hoped President Wilson would appoint a national commission com-mission to study the problem. Former President Taft devoted his address to an exposition of tho pinn and aims of the league to enforce peace. The lesion of this year, Mavor Mitchel said in his address of welcome, (Continued on Page Two.) EDUCATORS DISCUSS PUS FOR PEACE (Continued from Page One.) is that ''no country can secure-trained service iu. cases of national disaster, if it does nbt teach its youth to take its place in the forces of the defense of the republic." William H. Maxwell, superintendent of schools of New York City, declared that, if compulsory military training must come to replace the volunteer system sys-tem in the United States, it should embrace em-brace the training of all, and uot of a chosen few. The military training, ho said, should not interfere with cultural training, which would prevent military training from degenerating into militarism. mili-tarism. Former President Taft, discussing the aims of the league to enforce peace, of which he is president; declared that, although all the details of the plan have not been worked out, the league is practical, and is justified by precedent. prece-dent. The United States, the former president presi-dent declared, could enter tho league without breaking the constitution, and to do so it was not necessary to maintain main-tain a sta-nding army. At the meeting of the American School Peace league it was decided to urge the convention that war maps and details of battlefields be climinat'-'d from the study of history, and to treat only the causes, spirit and results of wars.