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Show oo English Is to Be Taught to the Foreigners SALT LAKE, Aug. 9 Americaniza -tlon of foreigners and the administering administer-ing of the part-time educational law were the piincipal subjects considered yesterday at the first day's meeting of school superintendents at the rapitol Governor Bamberger welcomed the educators and others present at the meeting. G. N. Child, state superintendent superin-tendent of public instruction, was chairman Speaking of the education of the aliens affected by the Americanization law passed by the last legislature, J. Fred Anderson, director ol" American!" - sation for Salt Lake publn . -1 is, eaid ihat the opportune time had come for BUCh instruction. Since the war, he said, America has awakened to the importance of looking after the mental and physical welfare oi the Immigrant "The national fellowship ol the wesl is a ;tkm ass.-i jn ihe Americanization of foreigners in Utah, and will aid greatly in mtking the movement sue-1 t u 1 here." Mr Anderson declared If every citizen would become interested in-terested In one alien, we would have 'no Americanization problem What is needed Is a representative .American! -'zation committee, comprised of business bus-iness men, educators and new Amer leans who have been successful in the land of their adoption "Teachers of Americanization must be of cosmopolitan mind and have an earnest interest in the work. Mr. Anderson stated that the Americanization Amer-icanization law prodded that all foreigners for-eigners must be able to read and write the English language at least as well as the fifth grade standard. The teaching of civics by the use of practical examples rather than making It a subject to be learned entirely through books, was advocated by Mo-siah Mo-siah Hall, state high inspector "Social Factors in Education" was the subject discussed by H. Claude Lewis, superintendent of Iron county schools He declared that moral teach -inga of the schoolroom are counteract ed and destroyed very often when the student la not under the jurisdiction of the school Director Jea Cox, of the home economics eco-nomics department, outlined plans lor home economics education under the provisions of the Smith-Hughes act 0 for girls more than 14 years of age. Francis N Kirkham spoke on part-time part-time education and its administration. Professor Lerdj E Cowles of the University of I tali spoke on the requirements re-quirements for teacher training work on the curriculum for part-time ' schools, I B, Call, stale supervisor of agricultural agri-cultural education, urged unified j teaching of agriculture in connection with vocational i ducat ion. Robert E Smith, direc tor of war loan I organization twelfth federal reserve j district, was a speaker at the afternoon after-noon session of the convention He stressed the worth of teaching thrift in the schools George T. Odell. state director of war savings, and Henry D. Movie, assistant as-sistant director, also spoke at the meeting, Thev complimented the supervisors su-pervisors on the cooperation of the schools in the war savings drives., and thanked them for their support. The superintendents will meet again today. The first session will open at 9:30 this morning. oo |