Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-12-26
AT
ATLANTIC CITY
Both North and South Jersey
will Send Large Delegations
to State Association.

Trops of school teachers are going to
swoop down upon Atlantic City to-
morrow for the annual session of the
State Teachers Association, which
will continue Thursday and Friday.
From all appearances too, it is like
~ to be one of the liveliest sessions
the organization has ever seen. The
fact that South Jersey is apt to be
more largely represented than usual
may have a great deal to do with the
outlook for warn sessions, since
from South Jersey ONE the least
support of the retirement fund,
which has had several hard fights in
other years.
The North Jersey teachers, being
more and more deeply in
terested in the fund, are anxious to
keep up the battle along lines already
we'll defined, while there are said to
be a number of influential members
of the association who are ready and
anxious to resume hostilities upon
the present administration which
broke out in sessions at Jersey City
and Trenton.
To head off any possible large ma
jarity from the lower part of the
state, friends of the funds admins
tration are making extra efforts to
get delegates from Essex, Hudson
and Passaic counties to make the
trip to the shore, which is very at
tractive at this time of the year.
Aside from the probable fight IN
the retirement fund the sessions of
the association are very sure to be
marked by other discussions and by
a lively contest for the chief offices.
There will be many attractive and in
structive features, however, to make
the sessions profitable to the mem
bers of the busy and underpaid pro-
fession.
The convention will be opened to-
morrow afternoon with an address
of welcome by Silas r. Morse of the
State Board of Education, Atlantic
City, The president of the associa-
ton, DR.. William M. Swimgle, of Or
ange, will give a short address and
will be followed by Dr.. Myron T.
Scudder, principal of the New Paltz
Norman school, of New York, who
will speak on Student Participation
in School Government" The balance
of the session will be taken up with
business.
At the evening session tomorrow
addresses will be given on THE Use
of Books" by John Cotton Dana, Ii
brarian of the Newark free public
library, and on Schools and School
masters Abroad" by DR.. George H.
Phillips, principal of West Chester
(Pa.) Normal school. Thursday
morning lectures will be given in the
auditorium by Superintendent Mac
key of Trenton on New Discoveries
in Education: How to Use Them"
and by Professor Edward r. John
stone, principal of the Training
School for Predetermined Girls and
Boys, Vineland, on THE Defective
Child"
While the general session is being
held in the auditorium, the high
school department will hold special
sessions in different rooms. At the
first, Superintendent Fred S. Shep-
herd of Asbury Park, will preside.
An address will be made by DR.. Scud-
der on "A Study of High School Stu
dents" In the grammar department
Principal A. F. Stauffer, of Jersey
City, will open the meeting, after
which Professor X. H. Whitbeck, of
the state schools, Trenton, will give
an address on THE Fundamental and
the Incidental in Geography" follow
ed by Superintendent John H. Walsh,
of New York city, on Some Phases
of the Arithmetic Problem"
Thursday afternoon Supreme
Court Justice Franklin Fort of East
Orange, will give an address on THE
Juvenile Offender and Reform Meas
ures," after which the reports of the
various committees will be heard.
Thursday night Jacob A.. Riis, of
New York city, will give an address
on THE Battle with the Slums."
Friday mornings session will be Civ
en- up entirely to the reports of com
mittees and the election and installa-
ton of officers for the ensuing year.