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Show WOULD EXEMPT THE MALE PEDAGOGUES Women Teachers Favor Keeping Their Brethren Out of the World ' War. PORTLAND. Ore., July 11. Teachers attending the National Education association asso-ciation convention here toay divided on the question of -whether the association should recommend that male teachers he exempted from t he selective draft, and it is h.dieved probable that the breach will not be closed until the convention at large has voted on the question. Katherine Pewreaux Blake, principal of a New York public school, today recommended rec-ommended to the committee on resolutions resolu-tions that It pass a resolution rec m-mendinp m-mendinp to the federal government that the mole teachers of the nation he exempted ex-empted because their absence would cripple crip-ple the school systems. The resolutions committee has not taken favorable action on the proposal and, according to its chairman, J. W. Crab tree, R.iver Falls, Wis., it will reject re-ject the question, Mr. Crabtree contending contend-ing that women teachers can take the place or' the men. Upon the announcement of Mr. Crab-tree's Crab-tree's stand, a petition was circulated asking that the resolutions committee put the question up to the convention at large Friday. It has been suggested that only the women members be allowed to vote on the issue. |