Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-07-03
$4,000 Teachers At
NATIONAL MEETING
SESSIONS or THE EDUCATIONAL
ASSOCIATION ARE OPENED
AT CLEVELAND.
HOSTS ARE WINNERS
IN SPELLING MATCH
Pupil Of Ohio Metropolis Takes First
Honors in Contest-Mayor Makes
Address Of Welcome-Reports Read
and Other Routine Work.

Cleveland. g., June 30.-A meeting
of the council of the directors, and a
spelling contest We're the opening fea-
lures of the forty-sixth annual conven-
ton of the National Educational asso-
citation, which began here Monday.
Fhe estimates as to the attendance
vary. Delegates arriYel Upon every
train Monday and it was estimated
that fully $4,000 school teachers were
here Monday night.
The first general session of the con-
Feptien began at 2:30 Monday after
Roo4. This program consisted of mu-
sic, an address of welcome by the
mayer, a response by William @.
Thompson, president of the Ohio
state university, Columbus, o., and a
report upon the educational progress
of the year by President Charles r.
Thwing Of Western Reserve univer-
sity of Cleveland.
Cleveland Wins Spelling Match.
At the Hippodrome, where the gem
eral sessions were held, spelling con-
test between classes of eighth grade
pupils, representing the public schools
of Cleveland, Pittsburg, Pa, Erie. Pa.
and New Orleans, La. vas held Mon.
day. Fhe big theater, which seats
ever 5000, was filled. There were Is
contestants in each Of the four classes,
Cleveland won the spelling match,
with total of only SO errors; Pitts
burg, second, Al errors; New Orleans,
third, &C errors; Erie, fourth, SIS errors
Mae Thursby, Pittsburg and Marie
Brattop, Cleveland, the latter colored,
had perfect scores.
Talks of Vocational Education"
Glondesley S. H. Brereton, division
al inspector for the London, England,
county council, who has been suffer
ing from an attack of bronchitis, was
much improved Monday, and filled his
engagement at the general session
Monday night, when he spoke upon
the Problem of Vocational Education
in London"
At the meeting of the directors, the
financial reports were made on vacan-
cies filled. The committee on appro-
priations and investigation proposed
that their work be dropped, owing to
the general financial condition Of the
association and the change of the
policy 8f the railways throughout the
country in the matter Of passenger
rates. The committee recommended
that congress be urged to make ap.
preparations SO that this work could
be carried on by the government, in
the near future, under the department
Of the bureau of education.
Report Scarcity Of Teachers.
"The Scarcity Of Teachers" was the
subject that occupied the attention oil
| the National Council of Education at
its meeting Monday.
/. c. Mcneil, chairman of the com
| mittee of investigations, delivered a
report In which he showed that IN
structors are underpaid and that eco
nomic law is that labor drifts from
one occupation to another, according
| to the relative inducements offered
| in EACH"
Bricklayers, plasterers, plumbers
machinists and railroad firemen sue
ceeded in getting substantial raise
| to their wages each year, said the re
| port, and coal miners have obtained
| almost double pay within the past
ten wears.
Young Man and Girl Drowned.
BIT. Joseph. Mo-, June 30.--While
Mamie Fisher, Anna Taylor, ]. Parker
and Ruby Redman were returning
| from a party on the shores of Sugar
lake, at Armour Junction, in the south
ern part of this county, about two
o'clock Sunday morning, high waves
upset the boat and Fisher and Miss
Taylor, each about 10 years old, were
drowned. Miss Redman chung to the
boat until rescued by Roy Taylor
Parker swan ashore.
Excusable candor.
Young Futter drawing closer}-I
hope, Miss Clara, that your father in
the next room can't hear what am