Rocky Ford enterprise., 1909-03-26
MR.. BoLLEs REPORTS
Upon the Convention Of School Su-
perintendents in Chicago.

upon the Sonvenuon OF SCuooA Su-
perintendents in Chicago.
The National Education Association
of the United States is believed to
be the largest organization of its kind
in the world. This association holds
its annual meeting early in July and
will meet this year in Denver.
The largest department of this as
sociation is the Department of ST.
perintendence, which holds its regular
annual meeting late ~. IN February sr a. bsa hhs
go.
Among the kindred organizations
meeing with the Department of Su-
perintendence were The National So
ciety for the Scientific Study Of Edu-
cation, The Society Of College Teach
ers of Education. The National Com
mittee on Agricultural Education,
The Conference of State Superintend.
ents of Education. The Educational
Press Association and The American
School Hygiene Association. This
last named organization held joint
session with the Department of Super
intcndence. At this session were dis
cussed The Necessity for Depart.
Education" Hygiene of the Public
Playground" !" "The Evil Influences of
School Conditions upon the Health
of School Children" and "A Plea for
the Systematic Annual and Universal
Examination of School Children's
Eyes, Noses and Throats" were the
subjects of papers by W.. H. Max
well, superintendent of schools. New
York City; Geo. E. Johnson. Supt. OF
Playground Association, Pittsburg;
Woods Hutchinson. NJ. D.. New York
City and Frank Airport, Northwestern
Medical School. .
The papers read in the meeting OF
the general association had to do with
matters Of vital Importance to the ed,
ucational interests of our nation and
general trend of the most progressive
movements operating through the
public schools of today. The follow
ing subjects are selected as fairly
representative of the general charac-
ter of the Drogram:
"Thc Problem of the Delinquent
Pupil" -.
(a) "What to do with the truants."
Bert Hall, Truancy Department.
Public Schools, Milwaukee.
(b) "What Share of the Blame for
the Increase in the Number Of Tru-
ants and Incorrigibles Belongs to the
Sehoolr-Julia Riehman. Dis. supt.
(eI A Simple Story of Work with
Boys."-John E. Gunckcll. Ncwsboys'
Association. Toledo.
"The Schools in Relation to Char
actcr Building"
(a) Spiritual Values that can be
Realized in Teaching Beginners to
Ib) "Moral Ethics in the Making" :"
(c) Ethical Training in Schools" !"
(d) "Music as a Moral Influence;
(c) "Thc American Peril" (9 Spirit
of Lawlcssncss).
This paper was read by Jno. w:
Abercrombic, Pres. of University OF
Alabama.
industrial Training"
(a) "In Grammar Schools
(b) Tn High Schools
fc) "In Vocational Schools"
industrial Education.
(a) "The Dignity of Vocation"
(b) "Shall Industrial Education be
treated as a Phase of General Educa-
ton"
(e, Industrial Education as Ma
tional Interest"-by Elmer Ellsworth
Brown, U. S. Commissioner OF Edu-
cation.
(d) Continuation Schools"
There were present at this meeting
superintendent and prominent eduea-
tors from nearly every state in the
Union. No one whose senses were
attuned to the spirit of the occasion
could sit through a single session
without experiencing, in regular alter