Ogden Daily Standard | 1916-07-06 | Page 7 | Military Training before Convention

MILITARY TRAINING BEFORE CONVENTION New York, July 6. The subject of military training in the public schools, which has been engrossing tho delegates dele-gates to the annual convention of the National Education association was hold in abeyance today as far as official of-ficial action was concerned. The convention con-vention will hoar the report of th committee on resolutions on the subject sub-ject tomorrow. Dr. Woods Hutchlns In an address before tho department of child hygiene today said military training in the schools "may provo the great emancipator emanci-pator to free our system of education from the clerical shackles and classical class-ical absurdities of the past and place it upon a hygienic base," Educational preparation for foreign countries for salaries and pensions of teachers were tho subjects on today's program of the general session. Those who were to speak included David Starr Jordan, chancellor emeritus of Leland Stanford university. oo TO BE EXPECTED. To tho average Scottish churchgoer church-goer tho minister who reads his ser. mon is a weak sort of preacher. In a Highland village tho minister was always offending in this respect, At last a deputation of his congregation congrega-tion waited on him to point out that they would prefer him to preach with-out with-out reading every word from Ta manuscript. manu-script. "Ah, my friends," ho said sadly, "I must apologlzo; but I have a bad memory. If I had not it in writing I should forgot what 1 have to say." "Wool, meenlster," was tho spokesman's spokes-man's scathing answer, "if ye canna remember yer aim discourses ye canna blamo us gin we forgot them." nn