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Show AM OF TEACHERS ' WILL MB TODAY Convention of Educational Association Is to Meet in Big Tabernacle. MAYOR TO WELCOME; Election Is Attracting Interest; Inter-est; Miss Rowe Candidate Candi-date for President. i PROGRAMME FOR TODAY. ; 10 ft. m. General se'iun nl tho ; ' thbf mark; invocation, h'cv. Klmnr . ! I. liolM'n, Salt Lake ity; wcl- J ! i-onio fiihlri'.-.H, Mnor V. .M'nnl, IVr- ; j !; rv of (Suit Lako" rily; response, l'rnent A. Sinitli, superi nl emlent oL' J-:! J-:! M-honl- of Salt Lakn; musical pro- O j' 'Tfinunp. Murray .junior ami senior ; liih schools; jiri. lout's address, ;. '! I'!, (i. (iowans, state superintendent J; of j.mMic inst met ion ; jippnintinent !; ! of com mil teop; notuiiwU inns oL' of- '; ticrrn; inl rodueinjj our tfiirsl. Dr. . Snedden, i'rufessnr James V. llosii-, ; ; l'rot'eor I'aity S. Hill. : '2 p. ni. Departmental hossioms us I follows.: Combined college and iie.h ; ; m lioot and superintendents and . ;' M'lmol board session in ballroom of ! lintel 1.1 tali ; "Standards and ; Tests," Professor James Music; ; Hdeclion, Salt Lnk bijrh school or-I'liestra; or-I'liestra; cornet solo, Kenneth !. . ; Wbito, Boxelder hih school; our-rent our-rent problems of secondary edmw Hon, Dr. Pavid Snedden. (iromniar ;l j,thi!o portions at Assembly hall. ; An tinny of teachers, nearly oOOG atrong, from every section of the btate of Utah is pathering in JSalt Luke this niorniii to attend tho opening session of the twenty-second annual convention of tbo Utah' Educational association. Teachers began to flock into the city ns. early as Monday night, and yesterday yester-day tho trains from every direction brought them in by tho scores. Last night they continued to Hock in until most, of tiic hotels were filled almost to rapacity, and still more are expected to ! DU. PAVID SNEDDON of Columbia university, who is to address convention j of teachers. ' ' . I ' . I ! . ' i r $ f 1 i I K 1 - i f if,-' 1 i arrive today, especially on the early trains this morning. It was estimated by the school authorities au-thorities of I ho state last night that not less than iMOl) persons, including the local teachers, were in tho city last, night and about. 500 more are expected to arrive tday. There are about 3300 teachers in the state, but. some MU0 or 4U(J of t hem are in outlying dist riots where they will not be able lo attend. All arningoments aro complete, for the convention, which expected to be the p; rentes L in i history of tho association in Utah, acconiinp to E. O. Gowans, state supoiintend.-Mil. of public instruction, who is president uT the :issnnatlon. "At least i in per cent of Lire entire teaching: force of the HtaLe will lie in attendance," said tho superintendent. Public Is Welcome. The sessions of the convention, all fne general ones of which will be held in the tabernacle, will he open to the general gen-eral public, as well as to tho teachers, it is announced by Superintendent Gowans, and he Is anxious to have the general public that is interested fn educational matters attend each of these sessions. j Subjects of Renera! interest to the pub- ' lie, as well as to those euni;ed in the work of tcachine;. will be discussed at the penernl meeting by some of the best authorities au-thorities of the slate. The departmental meetings, which will be given over to the discussion of technical subjects, will be held in the various school and public buildinirs between the general sessions. Anions? the prominent outside educators who will occupy places on the programme of the convention jjre Dr. Pavid Sned-den, Sned-den, professor of educational sociology, Columbia university; Miss Patty S. Hill, professor of kindergarten education, Columbia Co-lumbia university, and Professor James F. TToslc, head of the English department of the Chicago Normal college. Tho convention headquarters are located lo-cated at the Hotel Utah. The secretary's office will be on the mezzanine floor and will be open from 9 a. m. to S p. m. Will Hold Election. Announcement is made that members' of the association may enroll at any time d linns' the convention at the secretary's office, but all are urged to enroll the first day. One of the features of the convention, aside from the general consideration of educational subjects, will be the annual election. There are to he elected a president, vice president and two three-year three-year trustees. Nominations for these offices of-fices will be made from the floor of the convention this morning at the opening general session, but without speeches. The polls for voting will be located on the mezzanine floor of the Plotel Utah, where only memhers of the association may vote. The results of the election will be announced an-nounced to the convention at the general gen-eral session to be held Thursday evening. Meetings in Tabernacle. All general sessions of the convention will be held at I he tabernacle. On Thursday Thurs-day the sectional meetings will be held in tiio various rooms of the East high school. Other sectional meetings will be held In the Assembly hall, the Salt Iake theater, the lifatette school and other convenient places announced in the official offi-cial programme of the convention. The board of trustees of the association associa-tion will meet Thursday evening at 7 o'clock nt the Hotel Utah. In addition to tiie regular meeting of t he I 'tab. Educational association, a number of other educational organizations organiza-tions will hold their meetings in conjunction con-junction with tbo general association, including in-cluding the T'iah branch of the National Association nf Geography Teachers, which meets Thursday at 10 a. m. at the East high school; the Utah Teachers' Retirement Retire-ment association, which meets in the Assembly As-sembly ball Friday at 4 p. m. for the election elec-tion of officers and the transaction of other business; principals and coaches of high schools, who meet Thursday at 11 o'clock at the East high school, and countv superintendents, who meet at the East high school Thursday at U o'clock. 'Die purpose of tliis meeting is to consider con-sider a proposed course in mechanical j drawing for biirh schools. Miss May j Muyne of the Salt Tike high schools will ; lead tho discussion at this meeting, j The judges of the election of officers. I are C. II. Keele, chairman: Melvine Wilson, Wil-son, A. J. ll'igen, Mark C. Hrown and Howard A'. Alston. Tn connection with t lie election of president of the associa -(on for the coining year Miss Allen E. Rowe of tho S;tlt Lake East high school is being prominently mentioned. Miss Ko e is said to have the unanimous support sup-port of teachers in th Salt Iake schools! and of many others in tiie state. j For the henef it of those who will a t-tend t-tend 1 he department meetings at the! Fast high S'-hnnl tomorrow, arrangements ! have been made to serve a special hinch-! hinch-! e-n at the. cafeteria in the school butld-j butld-j ing at a cost of 2- cents. Arrangements : will have to be made with tbo secre- tare, however, for reservations, it is an-; an-; no'Tiicci. Tho sessions of the eonvention will mn-; mn-; tinue through to Frid-iv afternoon, when j the convention -will adjourn. |