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Show TEACHERS' MEETING WILL OTITIC Utah Educational Association Associa-tion Convention Will Provide Pro-vide Inspiration. Great Interest centers in the coming meeting of the Utah Educational association's associa-tion's twenty-third annual convention, which meets here Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, January 2. 3 and 4. Officials declared last night that every message delivered during the three days' big meet will ring with patriotism and the needs of the hour. All programmes, general, departmental and sectional, will aim to ; give visiting teachers definite Information 1 and a ringing inspiration on the duty that faces the teaching profession. Not only will the convention be the biggest big-gest In the history of the association in point of attendance, but it will be the greatest in the light of the personnel of the speakers who will addr-jss the general sessions. Dr. George E. Vincent, president presi-dent of tho Rockefeller foundation ; former for-mer Ambassador A. X. Elkus, Dr. Frank M. McMurray of Columbia university, and J. W. Searson of Kansas State Agricultural Agricul-tural college, will give the teachers of the state and the people of Salt Lake City a feast of patriotic and intellectual thought-food. The attention of the citizens of Salt Lake City is particularly called to the fact that the meetings of the association are absolutely free to the public. A special spe-cial invitation is extended to all to attend at-tend the opening session of the convention conven-tion to hear former Ambassador Elkus speak on "The Situation in Turkey," the address of welcome by the governor, the response by President E. G. Peterson of tho Utah Agricultural college, and the a nnual address of the president of the association, D. C. Jensen, at 10 a. m. Wednesday, January 2, in the tabernacle. An equally urgent invitation is extended to all to hear Dr. George E. Vincent speak on "The Meaning of 'America' " in the tabernacle at S p. m. on the same day. At this latter meeting, too, will be given a demonstration on "The Making of an American," under the direction of Paul Armstrong, naturalization examiner for the United States in Utah. This will be a miniature scene of the usual admittance to citizenship as carried on in court. Students from the citizenship class of the Salt Lake City evening class will participate. par-ticipate. Miss Margaret Morgan is tlie teacher in chargre of the class. |