Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-29
WOMEN CANNOT
RUN FOR OFFICE
PRIMARY LAW PROHIBIT 5
FEMALE NOMINEES
Unless Act is Amended So Affidavit
of Being Registered Voter Is Not
Required, Only Males Can
Direct County Schools
Associated Pressl

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 2S.-Al-
though twenty-three of the fifty-seven
county school superintendents in Cal
ifornia are women, the new direct pri-
mary law prohibits any woman from
running for Office, and unless amended.
will result in the passing Of this
branch of public education into the
hands of masculine instructors, ac-
cording to the annual message of Pres
ident Morris e. Cox of the California
Teachers association.
President Cox delivered his message
today before the first general session
of the association, which is gathered
in its forty-third annual convention.
He pointed out the fact the direct pri-
mary law requires every candidate for
office shall make affidavit he Is reg
istered voter before his name shall be
permitted ON the ballots, and said that
inasmuch as women are not voters
they cannot comply with the require
ments of the law.
Itinerant teachers came in for nara
words from President Cox. He said
the drifting members of the educa-
tional fraternity were not OF the sort
calculated to make good instructors
and did more harm than good.
Prof. Alexis f. Lange, acting presi-
dent of the University of California,
was placed in nomination for the pres
idency of the association without op-
position.
Nominated for Directorate
A. ]. Cloud of San Francisco, DR..
Morris e. Daley of San Jose, James
A Barr of stockton, Mrs. Mary w.
George of San Jose. Miss Elizabeth
sherman of Oakland and C. T. Bied-
enbach of Oakland were placed IN
nomination to fill three vacancies on
the directorate.
DIR. A. w. Scott of San Francisco
and E. s. Schneider of San Francisco
were nominated for the educational
council.
At the meeting of the musical section
of the association which preceded the
general gathering, various methods OIL
instructing pupils of various ages were
demonstrated and discussed.
The uses and abuses of the phono-
graph in this connection were brought
out by many speakers.
AT the high school section meeting
the instructors discussed the new en-
trance requirements of the University
of california and the new subjects in
troduced with which high schools must
deal in future.
Noted Men Make Addresses
James Ferguson, president of section;
Prof. Percy r. Davidson of STANFORD
university and DR.. H. r. Hatfield of
the University of California were
among the speakers.
At the county superintendents' sec
ton meeting the suggestion that county
examinations for teachers be abolished
which was made by e. w. Lindsay
of Fresno-called out resolution that
the legislature should provide for the
training of teachers which was carried
without a negative vote.
The elementary school section met at
Dreamland pavilion, and the high
school, music. manual arts and county
boards sections met at the Mission
high school.
The session of the Alameda county
section was continued in Oakland.
This afternoon the first of the gem
eral sessions of the association was
held at Dreamland pavilion where the
delegates were welcomed by Kirk Har-
ris, president of the San Francisco
Convention league. The response was
made by Alexander Sheriffs, superin-
tcndent OF SCHOOLS of San Jose.
A number of banquets and receptions
were rendered to the visiting teachers
tonight.