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Show SALT UKE GETS BIO CONVENTION Salt Lake, the unanimous choice of the N. E. A. for the 1913 convention. conven-tion. Rah, Rah, Rah!" This was the exuberant message flashed from Chicago last night by D. H. Christensen, superintendent of Salt Lake's public schools, to James T. Hammond, president of the Salt 1 Lake board of education. ' It means that Salt Lake will en-J tertain within its gates next summer the largest national convention the country affords, a plum for which the city has striven for many years Aside from being the largest In the I matter of attendance, the gathering of the National Education associa- I tlon Is said to be by far the most important convention In America. To it come the leading educational figures fig-ures of the country to thresh out the vital problems that confront the school systems of the country with i each year's progress. It was back In the time of Fisher Harris, the first man to point out Salt Lake's advantages as a gathering gather-ing place of the nation's hosts, that the first effort to land the N. E. A convention was made. It failed, despite de-spite the superb generalship of Mr Harris, but the foundations for the present victory were laid. Each year Salt Lake has had Its Invitation be-for be-for the convention. It supported San Francisco for the 1911 convention and In turn received the support of the San Francisco delegates at this year's convention In Chicago. I About 7,000 delegates will attend the 1913 convention. It is estimated, taking Into consideration the fact that I the holding of a convention so far I west as Salt Lake will have a alight decreasing effect on the attendance But the total number of visitors who j will come to the cjty as a result of the convention will exceed 10,000, it Is thought. , , on I |