The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-03-19
Tells What School Men Are
Seeking to Accomplish in
This Country.

Prof. J. A. Carnagey, superintend-
ent of the Paducah public schools,
made the following report of the Ma
tional Educational association at
Washington:
! | wish TO congratulate the city of
Paducah on having school board
that Is broad-minded enough to recog-
nize the value OF keeping abreast OF
the best educational thought of the
day. Every business and professional
ing into intimate personal contact
with other men working along the
same lines as his own. Men in every
phase. of professional and business
activity have their meetings where
ways and means of getting the best
results are discussed and views are
exchanged. Men OF business know
that in order to meet competition
they must not get behind their neigh
bors, and they send their special rep
resentatiyes when meetings affecting
their interests are to he held These
meetings cannot fail to be a source OF
Inspiration to those who attend, and
this inspiration and the ideas cleaned
from the meeting must result in bet
ter methods. and thus higher stand
ard OF efficiency be secured. and the
business or organization be made bet
ter.
| The superintendent OF state, county
! and city schools of the United States,
have. for more than thirty years, held
an annual meeting in some city. For
the first fifteen years of its existence
the department of superientendents of
the National Educational association
held It's annual meeting in the city of
Washington. Since 1889 the meetings
have been held in various cities of the
country. For the first time since
1889 the meeting for February, 1908.
was set for Washington city. There
has been a wonderful growth in the
attendance at the meeting since the
first time | attended In Cleveland. O..
In 1895. Then there were some $50
or 800 persons enrolled. At the last
meeting at Washington at least 500
persons were present | am not adj
v.sed as TO the exact number. The
newspapers reported that the attend
ance reached 2,OO0. At the recep-
ton held by the president on Wed
nesday afternoon about 500 cards OF
invitation 10 delegates were given out.
The program included three DAYS,
and men OF national and international
equation appeared and discussed
matters OF interest to the schools.
On Tuesday morning at the first ses-
sion. the Hon. Joseph G. Cannon.
speaker Of the house. honored the de-
partment by delivering an address OF
welcome. II certainly was a high
honor TO have a man OF Mr.. Cannon's
prominence to speak to us on educa-
tional matters.
Mr. Cannon emphasized the neces-
sity of local communities paying
more literally toward education. He
deprecated the idea of the states
being expected To educate the pupils
out OF state fund. This applies par.
.ticularly TO us in Kentucky. What
our people need to learn is that II
their schools are to improve as they
should. they must be supported more
literally b. local taxation. rs Is The
case in the states OF the north. Ken
lucky must not depend upon the
s3.i0 per capita to educate her chill
drcn. She should, by statute, provide
that citizens and county districts
should supplement this ny taxing
themselves so that at least 81 should