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Show Educators Endorse Military Training In the Schools New York, July 7. The National Education Association went on record here today as assenting to military training in schools providing that "military ends should not be permitted to pervert the educational purposes and practices of the school." This Is a chancre of attitude. Last year the con vention come out flat footed againsi such training. A resolution favoring woman suf frage was reported. The resolution on military training "recognized that the community oi state may Introduce such elements oi military training Into tho school as may seem wise and prudent yet (the association) believes that such train' ing should be strictly educational in its aim and organization and that military mili-tary ends should not be permitted to pervert the educational purposes and practices of tho school." Damage is Heavy. New Orleans, July 7. Direct reports received from virtually every point in the area swept by the storm indicated today that the damage to property and growing crops in Mississippi, Alabama, Ala-bama, West Florida and southeastern Louisiana, wouldd aggregate several million dollars. Damage in Mobile to buildings and other property was estimated esti-mated at about $100,000. Reports from Pensacola said tho principal damage had been along the water front and to shipping but details were lacking. Telegram and telephone tele-phone officials said today it probably would bo several days before wire communication was restored with these two cities. All points along the Mississippi coast have been heard from and the damage In that section was reported not so severe as had been expected. Apparently the greatest property losses were in the Interior of Mississippi Missis-sippi and Louisiana in the neighbor-hood neighbor-hood of Jackson, Meridian, Hatties-burg Hatties-burg and Laurel, Miss., and Belolt and Tallahassee. In southern Mississippi, according to late reports, entire fields of growing grow-ing corn and cotton were laid low and probably will be ruined, causing many thousands of dollars loss. Mobile reported that a number of vessels had been beached or lost coming com-ing into the bay from a gulf during tho storm. Persons arriving hero from Blloxle, iMlss., reported five schooners with crews of six men each were believed to have been in the gulf beyond Chan-deleur Chan-deleur island when tho storm struck and that their fate was not known. oo |