Show EDUCATORS LEAVE 1 II fOR THEIR HONES HOMES c FINAL SESSION OF SUC SUCCESSFUL GATHERING AT SALT LAKE MARKED BY ENTHUSIASM Delegates Warm In Their Praise of Reception Accorded by and Declare Convention Was War Most In History Salt Lake L-ake City The The first fifty annual annual an an- nual convention of the National Education Edu cation association came to a. a close Friday night and the Salt Lake ake meeting meet meetIng ing passed into the history of or th the organization organization or n marked as one of the most mos su successful best managed and most royally entertained meeting of s ever held 1 The tributes given Salt Lane Latte ano ana Utah Utah Utah- including the local committees and school officials and teachers who have been most active in preparing for the meeting were thoughtful e ei ex of at sincere appreciation of the hostess city and state and themen the themen themen men and women of at Utah who have sought to show their appreciation o othe of the honor of the N.E. N.E. N N. E. E A. A The closing session of the conven convention con en tion troll began beian with an excell excellent nt n musical program and closed with the reading of an address from President elect Joeph Jo Jo- eph sw Swain n who was called home Fri Friday Fri day klay morning by a a telegram bringing word of serious Illness in his family He lie left for Pennsylvania a few min mm- utes after he had prepared a n bri brief f address address address ad ad- dress acc accepting the office to which h he had bad been el elected This address he was to have given at the closing session of o othe the convention Friday night but I Iwas It was read by President E E. T. T Fairchild whose term of office expired with the of the session J. J Lyman Barnard professor of hist history his his- t try tory ry and ani g government I in the h Sq School o Pedagogy Philadelphia was was' Introduced Introduced Intro intra by President E. E T T. T Fairchild a au as ast asu u t leader in the movement to humanize the teaching of history and civics Inthe in inthe th the schools of a. a Mr rr Ir Dar Barnard 1 id outlined methods methods' of teaching civics ir In 1st Inthe the public schools of Philadelphia where e from the kindergarten up theris there ther is an effort to instruct the children a ato as asto asto to their duty to the community and t to their government government- local and national James F. F Hoosic head of the English English En En- glish gUsh department Chicago Teachers Teacher college spoke on Advance Movement of Teachers of English Speaking on the of The Th High School as as' a Factor in Soc Social Socia 1 Pi Progress ogress Tho Thomas as Je Jesse se Jones specialist specialist ape ape- in in- inthe the government bure bureau u o of education said that th the high school of o of today was as to be regard regarded d as having havin the greatest opportunity for the democratization demo demo- emo of th the country P. P P. P Claxon United States commissioner commis- commis sinner of education tIn outlined th the ri need ed for a national bureau of education calling caIling attention to to the fact tact that tu IDe constitution makes no mention of education education edu edu- cation and there are no educational in in- in the way of schools c c. c co l l- l leges or a university that are national Despite this the government and th the nation as as a whole is more or less ss interested interested in in- in education and educational nal matters h he said saidi Discussion of problems of ot educating atypical children was given before Fr Fri Fri day afternoons afternoon's session of the department department depart depart- ment of special education of the National National Na Na- Education association by D D. D M. M P. P E Er E of New York director di rector of the National Association fo fot- fot the Study and on of Exceptional Exceptional Exceptional Children A. A C. C Nelson state superintendent t of pu public ins instruction r c in Utah was was' honored hon ored by bt t being elect elected d second second vice vice- president of the N. N E. E A. A The retiring retiring ing president Edward Edward T. T Fairchild was chosen first vice vic |