The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-07-09

resolution were ca bled to the American
delegates at The Hague.
The national council. comprised of
sixty of the leading members of the as
ISOLATION, held its first meeting, which
was presided over by Elmer z. Brown,
United States commissioner of educa-
ton, Washington, D. c. His opening
address also was q call to the educa-
tional forces to rally to the support of
universal peace. The board of directors
elected two new trustees. one of them
filing the vacancy created by the re-
signation of n. c. Dogherty of Peoria,
H., now serving a sentence in Joliet
for forgery. Nicholas Murray Butler,
president of Columbia university. was
unanimously reelected trustee.
According to the last official report,
the National Educational association
has an active membership of 0,l6S and
a total membership, including associ-
ates and honorary, of 2S,642. The last
meeting of the association was heid IN
Asbury Park, n. j., in 1905
More than 200 speakers are sched-
uled to address the meetings, among
whom are the most prominent educators
of the country. The first general seS-
sion convened in the Auditorium the
atre this afternoon at 2:30. A meeting
of the national council, of sixty mem
bers, was scheduled for 9:3O a. m.
Some Important Meetings.
In addition to the general sessions,
which are TO be held each evening this
week. meetings Of the various depart
ments of the association, seventeen in
number, are scheduled to be held dur
ing the morning and afternoon of each
day commencing Tuesday.
-. -fraV0-
of the present meeting will occur We'd
nesday, when the new Incorporation
granted by act of congress, and by
laws proposed at the Asbury Park con-
vention, will come up for adoption. New
national officers will be named on that
date also. The committee on constitu-
ton and bylaws, will meet with de-
cided opposition. but il is practically
certain they viii carry.
At $50 President Elmer Brown, Unit
ed States commissioner of education,
called the national council to order in
Beeran hall He announced that of the
fftv-six living members of the council
thirty-five had indicated their tnten-
ton of being present at the convention,
of which number twenty-sfX had given
notice of q desire to speak on various
topics assigned.
In his address to the council, Mr..
Brown expressed the hope that while
this convention is meeting on the east
ern edge of the Pacific, it will do all IN
its power TO aid that great gathering.
the second Hague peace conference,
now assembled on the eastern shore OF
the Atlantic, in accomplishing the peace
of the world" He recommended the ap-
pointment of a committee, with MI
Harris as chairman, to confer with the
teachers of other lands with view of
arranging a worldwide cooperation
for the common good.
Three Members Dead.
The matter of appointing a commit
tee to bring about a worldwide CO.
operation among educators, the speak
er asked to be referred to a department
committee for a full and careful inVes-
tigation of the idea involved. The mat
fer will be taken up later and the spe-
cial committee appointed.
The death Of three active and three
honorary members of the national coun-
Gil was noted with appropriate remarks
by President Brown. Members VINO
have died since the last meeting: VIII
liam r. Harper and Albert G. Lane of
Illinois,: Charles D. Mower, North Ca
rolina; John Eaton, District of Column
bia: Albert B. Marble. Kentucky; VIII
liam H. Payne, Michigan.
discussion of Public School
Finances" was participated in by the
following: Jesse d. Burks, principal
teacher training school, Albany, n. Y;
E. C. Cooley, superintendent of city
schools, Chicago; F. A. Fitzpatrick,
Boston. Mass; w. T. Harris, Washing
ton, D. c.; George c. Pardee, ex-gov-
ernor of California, Oakland; j. NJ
Greenwood. superintendent of schools,
Kansas City. Mo; c. z. Pearse, super
intendent of schools. Milwaukee,.
The board of directors met at II
O'Clock and proceeded with the election
of trustees to fill vacancies c. E
Pearse, superintendent of schools, Mil
waukee, was elected to succeed NJ. c.
Dougherty of Peoria, Ill, resigned. DR..
Nicholas Murray Butler, president of