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Show cLLA FLAGG YOUNG IS LEADING FIGURE AMONG EDUCATORS Compensation for Teachers and Ethical Education Pressing Questions. 8.4 K FRANCISCO, July 7. A lively live-ly fight on various issues between the so called "insurgent" ' gild "old guard" wings of tbe National Educational Educa-tional association, which opens it convention con-vention here tonight, is indicated by statements of its president, Mrs. Ella Flagg Young of Chicago. - ' Mrs. Young,' leader of tbe progress ive element, was naked what she thought of the insurgents' prospects of success. " I cannot tell yet," the said. "I think it depends a good deal on how ISau Francisco nnd the other coast towns line up. We are bringing nearly 30U delegates from Chicago, and New York will have a large representation, but it is the place we are in that usually decides such things. I have no definite information on now tha 'old guard has reached into the west and organised." "Reiterating; her positive declaration declara-tion that she will not be a candidate for re-election, Mrs. Young said that she would not accept the office even if TraaVa her, i i Though suffering from a alight affection af-fection of the throat and ear thai bothered her considerably on the journey jour-ney to the coast, Mrs. Young assert that her indisposition will not interfere inter-fere with her work as presiding officer of the convention. Hhe spent todav resting and recuperating her strength for the banquet m her honor tonight, which will uiher in the formal proceedings proceed-ings of the association. Mrs. Young will respond to tbe tonst, "Educational "Education-al Values." Professor E. C. Moore of Yale university. David Starr Jordan, president of Stanford university) Mrs. O. Sheppard Barnum of Los Angeles, national chairman a of the Hchool of Patrons, and President Benjamin Ide Wheeler of the University of California Califor-nia will make addresses. Tbe compensation a of teachers and ethical education are two of tbe questions ques-tions in which Mrs. Young says she is most interested just now, and which she purposes pressing at this assembly. assem-bly. Thousands of delegates arrived over night and today, and it in expected that the majority of educators who will take part in tbe convention will have reached Ban Francisco by tonight. to-night. - i |