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Show SKIDMORE TO HEAD TEACHERS Boxelder Man Elected Presi-1 dent of U. E. A.: Ses-r Ses-r sions Continue SALT LAKE. Dec 30. Hy a decid j led majority of vote?. Charles H Skid 1 j more. Superintendent of the Roxelder I county schools, was yesterday elected president of the Utah Educational u sociatlon. Professor Skidmorc received I 183 votes, his only opponent. Professor Profes-sor B. Roland Lewis, head of ihe Eng lish depaitnient of Ihe University of . Tiah pollincr i'.nv otes. D. W Parratt, suporintendenl of j 1 ho Granite district schools of Sal 1 1 ! Iake county, was elected vice presi-i ileni of tlie association, wlnnins over James L Parker of the Dniveralt of 1 Utah) by only six votes TWO TRUSTEES. j There were but. Iwn randidates for 'the two vacancies in the imsleeships- I 1 ; hence there was no contest in this re- 1 card, ti, P. Giles of Jordon district. S:iH Lake r.iuim. received 6S9 votew, I i while G33 ballots were cast for A. J. . Ashman, superintendent of the Sevier j ' county schools, j There was more (hn the evcelien! 1 j address on vital educational Ibplcs to' make tlu session nf yestcrdBy morn-! I inc worthy of special attention. Music' of ihe better son v:'. made D distini ijtlve feature nf the program, nOI ;i)on I in the numbers preliminsr to the; ' '-chcduled prosratn 01 speeches, l"'i I also in ihe artistic orpan reriial fci !jon by Professor J J HcClellan chief .i tabernacle orpanisi, in the hall hour j . I following the addiesses While many. ;jof the Salt Lake teachers have lont;i 1 made a practice of hcarinc the ereat j organ at infrequent Intervals, there I were hundreds from outside the City I to whom the organist and instrument Jaro v,rtually unknown I After the community singins of the I morning session, under the direction I of Mark Robinson Ol tKien, had well j serv ed to induce a receptive attitude and put everybodj in eood liumor Professor Pro-fessor McClellan and Willard Wiehe. violinist, e three special numbers: that brought general and enthusiastic applause The finale, leniawski's "Schero Tarantelle." proved the ar-' tistry of both foinist and accompa-nj accompa-nj ; at (he piano in a manner that carried the audience off its feet. PRESIDCMT GIVES ADDRESS President A M Merrill, in his annual an-nual address, discussed "Fundamentals "Fundamen-tals in Education and Citizenship." While conKt iitulatin-t the state of Utah and iie teacher. on the progress made In tin last few years, Dr. Merrill believed thai if the duty due the chll ! dren were to be done, there were stv-1 oral pressing problems that domandtd Immediate attention. Ono of the most important of these ' questions, in the opinion of the presi j dent, Is that of proprr rood and nour 1 ishnient for ihe children In spite of i I all the attention that has been given! to dietetics and home cooklnc. I through the media of the schools. Dr. Merriil held that it was true today that hundreds of thousands of school children all over the country were si 'tending school underfed and uhdei nourished. He said' that science had 1 i-hovn sixteen elements absolutely en-j en-j sential to the building of the body In its completeness, and that moderi ' I conditions In manufacture of foods I I had virtually eliminated eight of these elements and reduced lour of the oth ; er eight by 75 per cent. He instanced' a survey made of the lunches in one, of the large cities, where It had been! shown that 10 per cent of ihetu con- sisted mainly of confections and Sweetmeats, not fit or proper as stable articles of diet for growing children.. Education lor Politics" was the; 'theme of rr E 6. Slsson. president of the University of .Montana. In thc iew of Or. Slsson, "politics" had noih Ing to do with partisanship, but signi-j fied inst'-ml the broad r r concept ol du lies and obligations as a citizen, a member oi the body politic. The agricultural section met in room 33 of the Joseph F. Smith me mortal building with President j George D. Slelner of the University of i ! Utah and Secretary Sam Morgan of j Sandy on hand to consult with a large I number of delegates. The program 1 was a round table discussion of nn-j nn-j merouB subjects pertaining to agricultural agricul-tural phaHes of education. The business section, which met at 1 room 23 of the Joseph I". Smith building, build-ing, with President W. L Peterson of ht Ogden high school and seerHnr Ij W, McMurrln of Ogden. heard a discussion by Will G. Farrell of Bsll l ake on "Some Things Vou Do Not I Teach,." ! NEW HUMANISM DISCUSSED. The classics and modern language ( ' lions met Jointly at the west parlor' ol the Hotel Etah. Andrew R Andei son aud Raymond r Harrimsn, both j of tbo University of Utah, are presi dent and secretary, respectively, of the classes section AN'. T. Sunder Ol the Utah inversity is prefldcnt of the modern languages section, and oli.: w anderly of the Weber formal school, Ogden, Is oecretary. There was Ian extended program, featured by an address by lr Slsson on 'The New! ( Humanism." Today, as was the case yesterday several departmental meetings will 1 take up the problems incident lo (hell particular lines of work. The program for the session in I eludes an address by Superintendent: ; N Child of the Salt Lake City I I schools, on "Making the Class Period j Effective in the Teaching ol Civics,"! a talk on "Teaching Citizenship to Counteract Delinquency," by E 8 Hlpckley. superintendent of the state industrial school, and an address by I Dr. Coffman on Progress in Claaslfj ,1 Ion of School Children ' Some of ihe pupils of the Weber county school I will give "The American Creed." and j also a chorus under Ihe direction of' ' Alberl J. Powell, the Weber county I music supervisor. 00 JUDGE APPOINTED. BOISE. Ida., Dec. 30. Raymond : j GlvMis of Boise was appointed judge I of the Third Judicial district yesterda; 1 to succeed Judge Charles P McCarthy, 1 who was elected lo the supreme court bench for a four-year term. Jiidg McCarthy presented his res-I Ignatlon lo Governor Davis some time ago, to become effective January 3. 1 fuiige Given will succeed Judge Mc- Carihy ai this time, ' |