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Show NATION'S EDUCATORS , OPEN COM SAN FRANCISCO, July 10. The acceptance of the resignation of Dr Nicholas Murray Butler from the board of directors 6f tho National Ed ucatlonal association and the forma! opening of the forty-ninth annual con Acntlon of the association at the Greek theater, In Berkeley, marked the activities of the day Dr Butler's But-ler's resignation was received and ae copied at the annual meeting of the board of directors early in the day While the announcement was a surprise sur-prise to 'the general body of teachers, teach-ers, It Is known to have forestalled a plan of the insurgent cloment to unseat Dr. Butlor on account of nou-attendanco nou-attendanco at meetings Thousands of teachers, the women in light summer frocks and tho men with light straw hats which had survived sur-vived tho eastern heat wave, crowded tho big theater on the campus of tlu University of California, where tbr forty-ninth annual convention was formally opened by an address of welcomo by Gov. H. W. Johnson. The California committee on skies and sunshlno scorned mindful of the teachers' recent exodus from the heat-parched east, and sont a wisp of a cloud to follow tho sun during the afternoon. Gov Johnson made a short felicitous felici-tous address, In which ho extended the hospitality of the state to the visitors. Robert J. Aleyck, president of the University of Maine, the farthest farth-est cast of American institutions ol higher learning, responded to the governor's address He was followed by Mayor P H McCarthy of San Francisco, President Benjamin I'' Wheeler of the University of California, Califor-nia, Mrs. Ella Flagg Young and President Presi-dent David Starr Jordan of Leland Stanford university The most Important event of the business routine of the da was the appointment of tho committee on resolutions by Mrs. Young Tho committee com-mittee Is as follows: Carroll G Pcarse, "Wisconsin; Mrs. O. Shcpard Barnum, Los Angeles; Maxmlllan Grossman, Now Jersey, James E As-well. As-well. Louisiana; J. W Crabtreo, Nebraska, Ne-braska, John Phillips, Alabama, Gertrude Ger-trude E English, Chicago President Jordan's subject was "Tho Relation of Education to Temperance Tem-perance " He offered a single succln" formula for settling the drink evil. "Cut It out." "Alcohol Ib a nerve depressant," said Dr. Jordan. HIt dissolves the restraints re-straints in tho character of tho indl vidual which havo boon built up by his experiences with life. It overthrows over-throws all tho work of character building " President Wheeler made a short address ad-dress In which he touched on tho use of tho English language in tho schools An address on "The Cause of Education" by Helen Marsh Wlx-son Wlx-son of Colorado, state superintendent of public instruction, was to havo been given, but Mrs Wlxon was unavoidably un-avoidably absent At the conclusion of the regular program the delegates met by states to elect members of the committee on nominations. Tho social activities of tho opening day woro concluded by a rccoptlon to Mrs. Young in San Francisco tonight. That portion of the convention which had adopted tho designation "progressive" was well pleased tonight to-night over the membership of tho res olution committee, claiming a good majority. With nearly all the state roprcscn tatlves In. the same wing was In clined to be hopeful over tho makeup make-up of the nominations committee, and their spokesman expressed strong hope that Carroll G. Pearse of Mil-Tnukco Mil-Tnukco would bo elected president |