Show EDUCATORS E DISCUSS PROBLEMS mm OF DAY MY MEETING AT UTAH CAPITAL PROVES PROFITABLE TO VISITING TEACHERS Western Man Chosen to Head Association tion While Philadelphia Is Selected as Next Meeting Place Plan Place Plan to Reorganize Associations Association Salt Lake Leading educators of the nation were guests of ot this city last week during the tho annual session of the National Education association which came to a close Friday morning The convention was one of the tho most successful In the thc history of oC the time as as- association from point of attendance and results achieved Those who atten attended attended at at- ten tended lIed were to a great degree degree de lIe- de- de gree as a result resul t of the discussions and tho the words of wl wisdom dom from front the brightest bright bright- est minds of the thc teaching profession Immediate steps to reorganize the tho National Education association on the delegate plan adopted by the association association tion Uon will be tal taken en by Fred M. M Hunter the newly elected president from flom Oakland Oakland Oakland Oak Oak- land Calif Communications will be besent besent besent sent to each state urging action I along the new lines The Time first official act of President Hunter was to to call a meeting of ot the tho state board of directors Thomas E. E Finnegan state superintendent of Harrisburg Har- Har Pa was elected the new member of the e. e executive committee of the time National Education association Olive M. M Jones president of the principals principals' principals principals' principals principals' prin prin- association of ot New York fork City was elected the new member of the board of trustees An executive session session session ses ses- sion was held late Inte In the time afternoon The next convention of the time National Education association will probably be beheld beheld held In Philadelphia as the theote vote ote was 24 to 17 In preference of this elt city The Tho second choice was Des Moines Ia la A unanimous rising vote occurred when the resolution was read urging Connecticut New Hampshire Vermont Vermont Ver Ver- mont moat Tennessee North Carolina and Florida to adopt woman suffrage at once Financial Independence nce Is to be bo taught to the coming coining generations o of school children In America as a result result result re re- sult of action taken en Friday by the state superintendents superintendents' section A committee committee committee com com- of seven was appointed to confer confer confer con con- fer with officials of the savings division division divi divi- sion son of oC the treasury department at Washington to formulate a n uniform course of ot stu study y In thrift saving and safe Investment which will be a compulsory compulsory compulsory com com- part o of the CUrl curriculum t of every school III iu America This action was taken as ns the result of the time suggestion suggestion suggestion tion of Mrs 1 Josephine Corliss Preston retiring president of ot the association who Is Js a also so superintendent of schools of Washington A resolution was adopted approving the time recent decision n of the United States supreme court In upholding the time constitutionality constitutionality con con- constitutionality of the Eighteenth amendment amend amend- amendment ment and calling for the Impartial enforcement en en- enforcement of the time Volsted act Another Another Another An An- other resolution was was' presented and adopted calling for the passage of state laws providing for the tenure of ot teachers during efficient service and seeking a method by which to eliminate eliminate eliminate ate the tho Inefficient and protect the efficient Speakers at the convention declared that Cooperation and comprehension of ofa a unity of interest are arc essential to the attainment of ot the correct development of ot the public school system Hitherto both school boards and superintendents have havo worked too much independently of each other the boards too largely largel Intent on ou making a record for economy the superintendents dents too closely closel engrossed In putting over a system either devised by themselves themselves them them- them them-I selves or by some specialist In iu admin admin- education Teachers have been wrongly compelled com corn gelled to curtail or eliminate their own personality and Initiative to conform to the views of superintendents over but not understand understand- understanding them In authority ing the peculiar conditions with which wh Ch the Instructors ha have hae e to deal Cooperation of the parent Is 18 Just as essential to weld the school system Into a harmonious whole as the unification unification uni uni- of any of the other OthOl factors contributing to Its make I ILow Low salaries In n the time profession Is not the only thing that Is causing causing teachers teach teach- ers to enter entel other othel fields of endeavor but the cut and system that Is a n. deathblow to an any Initiative and creative creative creative cre cre- power that the young oun teacher might have Is also to blame declared an educator from the south Tenure of superintendents was declared declared de le- as too uncertain by William Bruce editor of the time American School Board Journal He lie also recommended the time striking of oC teachers as a n means of ot bettering their conditions |