The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-05-20
ARE GRAT|f|EO
WITH RESULT OF
TECHNICAL MEET
Industrial Educators Session in
Elizabeth Was a Conn
plete Success.

Members of the National League Tor
Industrial Education are congratulating
themselves today on the very success
full session of the annual convention
held at Elizabeth yesterday. The work
done included the formation of a State
branch, the adoption of a constitution
the election of officers and trustees and
the inspection of big local plants.
Speeches on the character aud object
of the work of the league and a banquet
last night relieved the routine business
of the session.
In an address in the evening on the
topic. THE Federal Government in its
Relation to Industrial E%ducation.s the
Hon. Charles r. Davis, congressman
from Minnesota, spoke of the encourag-
ing tendency among educators to aban-
don the so-called traditions surrounding
our educational system and to advocate
the advancement of education along
broader n more practical lines. !.
THE problem of furnishing we'll
trained craftsmen, or rather Journey
men fitted In the end to become such,
Is not simple he said. Few prob
lens are simple in the actual process
of their solution, and much care and
forethought and practical
sense will be needed in order to work
it out In a fairly satisfactory
It should appeal to all our citizens. I
Inn glad that societies have already
been formed to promote Industrial edu-
cation. and that their membership in
chp1es manufacturers and leaders of
labor unions, educators and publicists,
men of all conditions who are inter-
ested In education and in industry
The officers elected were as follows:
H-AG. Stoddard, president of the Tren-
ton Iron Company, Trenton, president;
d.. Samuel e. Robertson, of Newark,
vt~ce-prestdent; A. L. Johnson; of Gran
fond. secretary; William Fellowes Nor
gam of Short Hills, treasurer. There
wer0kforty-ffve members of the execu-
ttseacoun6 also chosen.
The organization was effected with
Charles H. K. Halsey, of the Union
County Trust Company. of this city, as
temporary chairman. Mr.. Halsey is
president of the Board of Trade. Will
lam F.. Groves was made temporary
secretary. The first speaker at the
afternoon meeting was Mayor Victor
Mravlag, who spoke briefly on the
need of thorough training along indus
trial lines.
Banquet in AfternoOn.
Other speakers in the afternoon were
DR.. George B. Hodge, secretary of the
international committee of the Y. M. G..
A., and Professor Thomas M. Ballet,
of the School of Pedagogy of the New
York University. Mr.. Ballet advo-
Gated such academic training, in con-
nection with Industrial Instruction.. as
could be consistently acquired.
The banquet closed the afternoon ses-
sion, and Then the evening meeting
was resumed, Walter B. Timms,
president of the local Board Of Educar
ton, presided. He spoke on the
great necessity of industrial training.
Professor Willet M. Hays, Assistant
United States Secretary of AgricuI-
ture; Superintendent Of Schools Rich
ard E. Clement. of this city; Charles
H. K. Halsey and George r. c. Howe,
of the State Commission for Industrial
Education. also spoke along similar
lines. SIS
Those who were chosen members of
the executive council are as follows:
To January ], 1910. Professor Cheshire
L. Boone, of the State Normal School,
Montclair; John N. Lathrop, of Jersey
City; Winton G. Garrison, of the Bu-
reau of Vital Statistics;s William L.
Geddes, of Camden; Robert B.. Cissel,
of the Backus Waters Company, New
ark; Senator B. H. Minch, of Bridge
ton; Secretary Arthur Russell of the
Bloomfield Board of Trade; Arthur
Brisbane, of the New York Journal;
Samuel Childs, OF Bernardsville; Uk
rich Eberhardt, of Gould & Eberhardt,
Newark; Earl A.. Merrill, of Westfield;
B. F. Robinson, OF the Russell-Robin-
son Company, Newark; DR.. Ernest b.
Kent, of the Manual Training School,
Jersey City; ]. B.. Bryan, superintend-
ent of schools, Camden; DR. O.. l.
Woodley. superintendent of schools,
Passaic. To 1911, former United States
senator James Smith, jr., of Newark;
John w. Ferguson, of Paterson; State
Senator Ernest RI Ackermon, of Plain
field; Ex-Governor Franklin Murphy.
Ex-Governor r. c. Stokes. Franklin
conllin, of Flood & Conkltn, New
ark; Peter Campbell, Of Newark;
j. A.. Campbell, of the Trenton
Pottery Company; Superintendent A.
H. Updyke, of the Garwood public
schools; Leslie f. Fort, secretary
to the Governor; Alexander Kauf-
man, Elizabeth school commissioner;
Monroe ". Poole, of Long Branch;
Henry H. Isham, of Elizabeth; p. F.
Nydegger, of the Singer factory. Eliza
beth; Henry M. Maxson, of the Plain
field schools; Hugh d, King. of
Bloomfield; Professor j. j. Savitz,