Show EDUCATORS HOLD THEIR CONVENTION I NOTED EDUCATORS FROM EVERY SECTION OF UNION MEET I IN UTAH CAPITAL I note Key Address by President Contains Con Con- tame Outline of Plan of Reorganization in Order to Keep Abreast With the Times 1 Salt Lake City Educators Educators of ot national prominence and te teachers chers from Crom ever every section of the Union were rn In this city elty Monday April 7 7 for the theol ol opening session of or tho the National Education Education Education Edu Edu- cation association the visiting educators educators edu edu- being given a characteristic welcome Active direction of the activities and aims alms of the National Education association through the medium of an advisory council of three that the organization organization or or- may be more closely knit together and more in its work was advocated by President E. E T. T Fairchild In his official annual address to the members of that organization delivered Monday afternoon at the general session in the Tabernacle In its organization President Fairchild Fairchild Fairchild Fair- Fair child holds the Education association on onIs Is behind the times as compared with organizations of other professional men and women An important recommendation of Mr Mn Fairchild is that the association have an official publication of general EDWARD T. T FAIRCHILD It ir J r c jj President of the National Education L Association who has a plan for reorganization reorganization re reo re- re organization of association circulation among the people as a means of increasing the effectiveness of the association work Continuity of the work of the N. N E. E I A. A Is a leading consideration of President President President dent Fairchild it is apparent in his advocacy of a board of three to take the managerial reins of the tion He proposes the election of two members of the board by the trustees the third member to be president president president pres pres- ident of the association ex Th The plan as he outlines would mean that thai these men men eminent eminent educators educators educators-dc de devote vote most of their time to the work and anti that they be placed on com commensurate commensurate men salaries The attendance at the convention has been a a. a disappointment to many Fully educators had been expected ex cx yet at the opening session L there were scarcely present Addresses were also made at the opening session by M. M P Shawkey state superintendent of public schools of Charleston W. W Va who took for his subject What Shall We Ve Do With the Single-room Single School and by Henry Neumann leader of ot the Brooklyn Brook Book lyn Society of Ethical Culture who spoke on The Moral Values in Pu Public Public Pub Pub- lic gov Self The had been arriving for fora a week before the opening session and on Sunday welcome was voiced by Charles W. W Penrose in behalf of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Latter- I day ay Saints at services in the tabernacle tabernacle tabernacle taber taber- nacle fo following which Philander P. P Claxton United States commissioner of education delivered an address on The School Teacher If a school teacher be unable to give all his life and being heing not negatively nega nega- lively but affirmatively and aggressively ively for the sake or the child for forthe forthe the sake Eal of the home and for the sake alt of the nation he should leave the profession This is the view expressed ex cx- pressed by Dr P. P P. P Claxton In his his address Educational Sunday was observed generally Iq In Salt Lake churches andward and andward and ward chapels pastors of the various I I denominations delivering sermons i I i bearing on topics of interest to the j i m mm many any teachers In tho the city while th mm m members embers o of many wards of the ii Mor 1 m mon on ch listened to address addresses fro p prominent me members bers of or the Natio National j Education E association 1 Before Defore an audience of or 1 approximate l ly y persons in the he tabernacle ld Sun li d day ay night B. B H. H Roberts delivered K all a i Interesting address on a and nd Education prefacing hl his talk h by by s saying aying that he assumed that a lan large latKo number umber of Cf the congregation cons ed of or visitors who are arc here to I Ithe the N. N E. E A. A convention att attend r fl Underpaid as they ar are the teachers teacher of th the United state ar am net on Only maintaining but improving the stav ard of or public schools of or the This was practically cally the th-a conclusion 1 resulting from dl discussion of or the r Te re port on teachers' teachers salaries i and n t pensions as presented present to the national council by President Joseph Joseph Swain 0 o of Swarthmore c college Swarthmore pa The sessions of the council Yere held beld at Barratt hall P. P P. P Claxton United States com com- m o of education attributed this maintenance and improvement t. t of ot school work to the splendid character character char char- acter of or the teachers and not to th the encouragement received by them j ia their labors Amid all of the business of or the National Na Na- Education association n the social so- so s cial features were not neglected and j the women of or the convention especial ly were shown much social attention At the meeting of or the board of ot directors dl di rectors of the N. N E. E A. A which was held 1 Monday at the Lion house it wa was decided decided de de- de cid d to prosecute te a campaign to r raise an endowment fund of In H I five years and an appropriation of ot to carry carryon on the tLe work Wa was aU or A meeting of the agricultural high h i school teachers of the state was held held Monday at the Hotel Utah under the 3 direction of the extension division of j the Utah agricultural college Dr E.G. E. E J G. G Peterson of the agricultural col cal l lege loge who presided explained that the J purpose of the gathering was to systematize systematize Sa the agricultural work in the high schools of the state One of the special entertainment features for the reception at Saltair on Tuesday was the lecture given by by Professor Arthur H. H Chamberlain inthe in inthe In the Hippodrome The subject of the lecture was Our Western Wonderlands Wonderlands Wonder Wonder- lands and it was Illustrated with colored colored col ored lantern slides said to be the the finest that modern art and science can produce That the teaching o Of agriculture without effective i practical eal application is as great a mistake as it would beto be beto to teach only the theory of reading arithmetic and other subjects was the statement made in the annual report of the committee on courses of study given Monday by E. E C. C Bishop cb chairman chair ir man of the State College of Agriculture Agriculture ture Ames Iowa at the joint me meetIng meeting meet meet- t. t Ing of the rural and agricultural and und school garden departments Th The c meeting was held at the First Presbyterian Presbyterian Presby Presby- terian church A The kindergarten department of oC the N. N E. E A. A held its Initial meeting at the Y First Christian Science church Monday Mon day morning The leading address address' was given iven by Miss Barbara Greenwood I. I P. P P. P CLAXTON T TA f A i 1 3 I Iw w United States Commissioner of Ed Education Education Edu Edu- cation who attended the National E Education Education Ed Ed- Association convention a at Salt Lake I I of Los Angeles Cal Cat on Ways anti anil l rl I Means reans of Increasing Effective e I I garten Supervision j One of the feat features of the tue convention conven tion was the mu musical program m. m It is isI I I doubtful if it at an any JUS 1 su such h a high class musical program has j i been provided jj I |