The age-herald., 1899-07-12
Prof Philips Delivered One of
 the Addresses.
LOS ANGELES IS ENFETE
In Honor of the Visiting Delegates-As- sociation Executive Committee Congratulates American Del
 egation at The Hague

l 10 lne udllOudl dSSOtldliOil, lhc INaS AhOAid and Whitcomb party from the eastern points, specials bringing the Ohio and Pennsylvania contingents, and a special
 from Vcksburg in charge of Professor l Bass, bringing delegates from southern i points, arrived today. The special that was 1 in collision with the freight train in the 1 northern part of the state also arrived, 1 bringing the Missouri and other delegates l save those who were injured who will have stopped over at San Francisco When l the last special arrives from Chicago to- morrow 1t is expected that there will be over 12,GOo teachers in this city. 1 The national council of educators held l its concluding session today. The first | business taken up was the report of the committee on libraries and their relations to public schools, presented by Chairman 1 J. c. Dana, librarian of the public library, Springfield, Mass. The report was long and in some sense an exhaustive examina- tion into the subject.
 The board of directors of the N. D. A. at their meeting unanimously passed the reso- lution offered by MT. Nicolas Murray But ler of New York.
 Resolved, That the president of the na-
 
 following telegram of congratulation on be- half of the association to the American del
 egates to the peace conference now in ses- l sion at The Hague.
 Andrew D. White, Chairman of the Ameri-
 can Delegation to the Peace Conference, The Hague, Holland:
 "The National Educational association in convention assembled tenders to the peace hao ifs success, which has attended their noble ef- fort in behalf of the principle of arbitra- tion"
 At 3 o'clock this afternoon Hon. F. Storer chairman of the local executive committee called the opening session of the convention to order in the pavilion. The building seats 5,00O but the audience numbered far in excess of that Short ad
 dresses of welcome were made by Governor Henry T. Gage, superintendent of public instruction; T. J. Kirk, Mayor Eaton and Superintendent of City Schools J. A Foshely and responses were made by N. c. Dougherty, superintendent of schools, Peo- ria, H.; D. s. Emersen and E. White, Co., Iumbus, o. and J. H. Phillips, superinten- dent of public schools, Birmingham, Ala
 The National Educational association
 was called to. order at 3 o'clock by Hon.
 F. Q. Storey of the local executive com
 mittee. The pavilion was crowded, and numbers of the visitors failed to gain ad- mittance.
 After an invocation by Rev. c. Clark Pierce, the delegates were welcomed by Governor Henry T. Gage on behalf of the state; Dr. Elmer E. Brown, on behalf of the University of California, and Mayor Fred Eaton, on behalf of the municipality,
 who told the visitors that they had the freedom of the city during their stay.
 Responses to the welcoming addresses were made by N. c. Dougherty superin- tendent of schools of Peoria, H.; pr. En- erson E. White of Columbus, O., and J. H. Phillips, superintendent of schools of Br- mingham, Ala.
 After the orchestra had played Mozart's overture to "Don Juan," President Elipha- let o. Lyle of Milerville delivered an ad- dress.
 At the evening session Dr. w. T. Harris, United States commissioner of education, delivered an interesting speech on "Educa- tional Policy for Our New Possessions"
 Henry Townsend, inspector general of schools of Hawaii spoke on the subject, 'In6 EuuCatlOndl f'TODlefn III f1dWdl.
 pr. Lyle in opening his address referred to the first meeting of the association in Philadelphia, when thirty-eght members were enrolled, and compared it with the en- rollment of more than 10000 in Washington last year. He also spoke of the progress in other respects.
 Referring to the late war he said:
 "Our history has demonstrated that we have no need of great standing army. It has demonstrated that in every state may be found an army ready at a moments mo- tice to defend our flag against every foe. And this army is not marshaled by mili- tary chieftains, but by educational chief tains. strong nation is made, not by barracks for troops, but by school houses for children; not by recruiting offices but by schoolmasters, not by rif1ed cannon and | Mauser bullets and war vessels, but by books and newspapers and churches. That nation Is strong whose citizens obey the law without seeing standing army behind the law. The nation is strongest whose laws are based on civil law and whose citi- zens obey both divine and human laws be- cause they are right.
 "A child obeys his teacher who to him is the law. The child law must be con creted as the abstract as the result of higher form of thought than the concrete; so a republic is higher type of govern ment than c monarchy. We may need an army to stSjugate the Philippines, but the United States would be distinctly lowered in moral tone if 1t should ever become necessary to maintain permanently within the United States a great standing army to secure to its inhabitants the blessings of peace. If this is true how great is the re- sponsibility of the American school teacher. Patriotism Is in the air, 1t is the normal condition of living under our flag"
 "The environment and the temper of the children of Hawaii" said pr. Townsend. "are especially diverslfed. This is due largely to the diversity of races, with all that it implies The ends of the earth meet In Hawaii, and no one race is predomi- nant in numbers. Presen t.indications are that the next generation 10 be born In