| Show EDUCATORS ARE REFO REFORMER One of Last Acts Was to Pass a Resolution in Favor of Spell SpellIng Spelling Ing Reform SECY SHEPHERD MAKES MAKE KICK So J Ordered by hy Executive Com Coot Committee Ho IIo iI Will iVill Not Vote In lEt Meeting on the Ito Subject Los Angeles Angele July U The Nation National al nl Educational 1 association concluded d Its labors today with the tho adoption of ot ofa a series of ot solutions resolutions r principal among which was ivas no ono one upon the tho sub subject subject of ot tho the strained relations existing between capital and labor In this country countr coUnti recognizing the tho seriousness R of or this condition sun recommending that lie tha teachers of ot America at nt once enter upon a systematic course of ot Instruction lion tion mu with regard to Inculcating n a stronger sense sen e ot or patriotism and met the tho right and duties ot or citi citizenship and Imd the tho security tint sacred nci floss of ot human buma life lite Second In Importance to In the resold resolution resolution tion tints upon capital capItol and labor was waB ono one upon P the subject ct of simplified spelt spell hUg Ing In endorsing tho work Of at the sim Im simplified spoiling spellIng board und and directing tho secretary of ot the tho association to adopt tho the shorter style stylo of ull of ot thin selected words In the tho publications of the association This resolution which was a 0 direct contradiction to the act net of the ULO board ot of directors yes yesterday yesterday in declaring d against tho the use usa of at thru tho and thoro was wa 1 only after vigorous debate anti strongly expressed sod opposition It Jt carries carried by n a vote of ot to 22 2 al although although although though It was claimed that many other than members voted In Inthe inthe the tho affirmative rho Tho resolutions I further lUrther endorsed the efforts being made mad to Increase tho the salaries ot or teachers tench rs favored harmon harmonizing izing ot of the child chillI labor and truancy laws and urged the tha state to provide for tor tho the education or of every overy child Im Ira Impressed pressed upon educators that tho the building of at character ter was WIts the rial ral aim of ot the schools and deplored the tho tendency among children toward to a is disregard for constituted Ity and lack of ot respect for tornio ngo and super superior mr lor wisdom urged d abolishment of or se so secret cret societies fraternities and sororities aaron ties In schools denouncing thorn them BH nit M to tho the Interests of schools and boOths declared for tor tho the merit system for OL the blue th promotion of ot teachers and against political Jn intrigue and ed M strongly In favor vor of or orld peace And Ind International arbitration The resolution referring to the tho th in hi situation Introduced int by b Cob Col Alexander Al x nd r Hogg former superintend superintendent lIu out ent of or schools ot at Fort Worth Tax and end read ns nit follows That It Is III the tho sense ot or this association that It Is III the tho duty duly of or the tile teachers of or this republic to at once enter upon a n systematic course courso of ot In n which shall not oat on ly n ii broader patriotism but n a more extended course conre of ot moral Instruction especially In Ju regard to the tho rights anti and duties ditties of Qt f the tho right of ot prop pro II erty crt 1 ty the tha security and Uld sacredness of or human life lite Secy SOC of the tho National Edu Edit Educational association stated staled after ad of ot the convention that un I ss so ordered by bp b the tho executive com I he lie would not record the tho vote vole in the ito meeting m today toda upon the subject I of it simplified spelling inasmuch ns as It CI ordered Td hIm V to 1150 US the simplified form of ot words in publications of the thC as OJ nn an assumption ot of authority In open meeting which hs he h regarded d as properly belonging to active members alone alono or to tho the board of ot directors He tie I stated that thero there was no precedent of ot constitutional authority for such eUch a n voto vote In an open session and that he lie would not comply with the mandate ns us tho mauer now stood Rather ho would obey oby the hit order of the board of ot directors of ot yesterday In striking thren ot or tho the simplified words worde from the tho list of or 32 il previously hy by hythe the tho association lion tion The Tho words struck truck out crt tho and thoro |
