The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1908-07-01
THE BIG EDUCATIONAL CONFERENCE.
II Will Meet at the University Of Mis-.
sisSippi July & and !.

lconference to be held at the Stat
i University ON July 6th and 7th
under the auspices of the Missis
lsippi Teachers Association
lSuCh eminent educators as DIR
W. b. Murrah, of Millsaps Col
llege. DR.. /. wv. Cooper, Of Whit
worth; Dir. b. Ct. Lowrey, Of BLU
ESfountain; President Ii. e. Whit
field, Of the Girls Indnstria
college; Chancellor A. A. Kin
cannon, of the University of Mis-
Isissippi; and DR.. Kern, of st
Louis, are on the program fol
addresses during the meeting
land many other prominent edu-
Gators are expected to participate
in the Conference.
The School Improvement Asso
Eciation will meet in connection
with the conference on Tuesday
morning, July 7th, at 8 O'Clock,
call for session having been Isl
sued by Miss Susie ". Powell,
the president. This association
has performed some notably good
work il improving the public
school facilities of the State dur.
ing the past two years.
All railroads in the state have
agreed to grant q rate of one fare.
plus 25 cents, for the round trip,
and this will serve as an induce.
ment for many teachers to attend.
Tie official call for the conference
is as follows:
To the Friends of Education in
Mississippi: The Mississippi
Teachers Association, az its an
nual meeting early in May of this
year, adopted resolutions author
izing and instructing The presi-
dent of that body to call an edu-
Gational conference to meet at the
State University in July for the
purpose of organizing and adopt
ing plans for an aggressive CAM
paign in Mississippi for the fol-
lowing specific purposes:
t1 improvements Ia county
supervision as the strategic point
In the entire educational system.
~ The establishment and ade-
quate maintenance and equipment
OF public high schools asa neces.
sity in any modern system of edu-
cation; a right to every boy and
girl, rural and urban, and an
efficient means Of linking the ele-
mentary public schools with the
colleges and universities, and Of
IsSfpToping tile scholarship 0f the
rank and file Of public school
teachers, and the intelligence and
efficiency of the entire citizenship
of the state.
"a Industrial and agricultural
education in the elementary and
secondary public schools. to give
better and more practical prepara-
tion for the life that the majority
of the pupils Of these schools will
lead and the work they will do.
10 The educational and pro-
fessionaI training of teachers to
meet the just demand for more
efficient service and more money
by increased taxation.
60 Systematizing and unifying
the work of the schools, from the
elementary schools through the
colleges and university.
(6) Increased attendance, by
urging the Importance of educa-
ton, and also by conservative
legal requirements in such COM
munities as are prepared for this.
The resolutions also provided
that the state superintendent Of
education shall preside over the
conference and direct the cam
paign.
In pursuance Of these resolu-
lions the conference has been call
I'D, and to it we invite business
men, farmers, lawyers, preachers,
editors, teachers, Women's clubs
and other organizations, and in
deed every class Of white citizen
ship in the state that feels an IN
terest In the welfare of the state
and the proper education of those
on whose shoulders the future
destiny of the state depends.
Get your business league, your
board Of supervisors, your farm
ers' nuion, your city board, your
school board. your woman's club,
to send representatives to this cons
ference.
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