Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-13
NATIONAL EDUCATORS
REPORT PRESENTED TO CoNVEN-
TON AT LOS ANGELS. CAL.

LOS ANGELES Cal, July I3.-The clos
ing session of the National Educational
Association was held in Temple Auditorium
yesterday afternoon. Prof. John Adams Of
University College London, England adj
dressed the convention upon Significant
Lack of Educational Terminology." Benja-
min Ide Wheeler, president Of the Un!ver-
sity of California. spoke on the subject OF
Call Nothing Common
Following is an extract of the report OF
the committee on resolutions:
Platform Resolutions.
The following is an abstract OF the report
of the committee on resolutions:
The National Educational Association
now holding its forty-fifth annual convert
ton in Los Angeles. and representing teach
ers and friends Of education in every state
of the Union, makes the following declara-
ton of principles and aims:
The National Educational Association
notes with approval that the qualifications
demanded of teachers in public schools. and
especially in city schools. are increasing an
nua!ly and particularly that in many To-
calitieS special preparation is demanded OF
being made in some quarters TO evade the
consequence of low salaries. The salaries
and often the conditions under which teach
ers in the public schools teach do not offer
sufficient inducement to offset the more
promising positions in the commercial lie
of large city. Resource is had, therefore,
to selecting students with incompetent high
school normal school training 10 MI
these yearly increasing vacancies. Hence
we believe that constant effort should be
made by all persons interested in educa-
ton to secure for teachers such adequate
compensation for their work that the teach
ers and public Will recognize teaching as
a profession. We wish heartily TO indorse
the action of those legislatures that have
a mil IN a "A n a pc
The rapid establishment of township and
rural high schools is one of the most graft
flying evidences of the progress of educa-
ton. We believe that this movement should
be encouraged 1t is the duty of the state
to provide for the education OF every child
within its borders. and TO see that all chill
dien obtain the rudiments Of education.
The constitutional provision that all tax
payers must contribute 20 the support OF
the public schools logically carries with Il
the implied provision that no persons should
be permitted to defeat the purposes of the
public school law BY forcing their children
at an early age to become breadwinners.
The National Educational Association wishes
to record its approval OF the increasing az
probation among educators of the fact that
the building of character is the real aim
of schools and the ultimate reason OF the
expenditure Of millions for their mantle
nance. There in the minds of the chill
dren and youth of today a tendency toward
a disregard for constituted authority, a lack
of respect for age and superior wisdom, a
weak appreciation OF the demands OF daty.
a disposition to follow pleasure and interest
rather than obligation and order. ms COZ
dition demands the earnest thought and ac-
ton of our leaders of opinion ana PAGES
important obligations upon school authori-
ties M,
Approves simplifed Spelling.
The National Educational Association ap-
provcs the efforts OF the simplihed spelling
hoard and other bodies to promote the SIM
OBLIGATION of English spelling by the judi
r,o,s omission OF useless silent letters and
,re substItut on of a more regular and In
talligible spelling in place of forms that are
grossly irregular or anomalous, such
amendments to be made according TO the
existing rules and analogies of the English
spelling, with due regard to the standards
accepted by scholars and the association
hereby approves the simpler forms contain
ed in the list of three hundred words now
spelled in two or more ways, published by
the simplified spelling board and contain
ing the twelve smplifieG forms now used
by this association, and directs that those
simpler forms being used IN the publ cations
of the association II accordance with the
rule now in force.
The National Educational Association be-
l!evesc that the forces of this world should
be organized and operated In the interests
of peace and not OF war; We believe that
material commercial and social interests
Of the peopIe Of the United States and OF
the whole world demand that tie energies
of these governments aud of the people be
devoted to the conservative and the health
full pursuits OF peace, and tfat the people he
relieved Of the burdens of providing at
enormous eXpe use the ornaments suggested
by the competitive desire for supremacy In
war. We further believe that the fear of
war and the possibility of war would alike
decline II governments VIC to rely more
upon the sentiment of the people and less
upon the strength of their armies and
Havics.