The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-01-01
FINAL MEETING
OF EDUCATORS
Officers Are Elected and the
Last Addresses Made
TRAINING IS NECESSARY
Southern Agricultural Schools, Library
Work and General Progress In Edu-
cation Are Discussed BY the
Leaders In Convention.
TRAINING IS NECESSARY

next annual convention, but the selection
of the place of the next meeting was
left to the executive committee, which
will announce its choice within the next
few months.
A large audience attended the final
meeting in the FIRST Methodist church
tonight. A feature Of the evening was
aA address by DIR. Wickliffe Rose OF
Nashville, Tenn, one of the foremost of
Public Education as Public Bust
ness"
The following officers for the ensuing
year were elected;
President, j. B. Vansickle, superintend-
ent of schools of Baltimore; E. B. Craig
head New Orleans, vice president SUI
w M. Slaton of Atlanta
second vice president; Miss Ma
rian Hanckel. Charleston, s. c., third
vice president; H. E. Bierly, Chattanooga,
secretary for four years; f. P. Burns,
Atlanta, treasurer; State School Superin-
tendent j. NJ. Pound, member of the
board of directors from Georgia. The
selection for the annual convention will
be announced several months later by
the executive committee.
Agricultural Schools.
Southern agricultural schools, library
work and general educational progress
were discussed at the final session of
the convention.
H. l1aI to,
formally, several heads of schools in the
south exchanging suggestions about de-
tails of their work. G. H. Baskette of
Nashville. in an address on THE Library
as a Factor in Education" advocated
that every southern state should have a
library commission created by law to fur
Their all library establishment by CIV
ing necessary information and all possible
aid in the establishment of a school and
libraries. THE SOUTH he
said, has made some wonderful progress
in her educational system, in the bet
is far behind the north, east and west
in library enterprise and extension"
Trained Librarians.
Trained Libraria>ship in the South, !"
was the subject of paper by Miss Julia
T. Rankin of the Training School of the
Carnegie Library in Atlanta She re-
viewed the progress of establishing Ii
braries in the southern states since the
Civil War
In an address by Sidney G. Gilbreath of
Chattanooga, on School Attendance In
the Southern States" he dealt mostly in
statistics.
Following a discussion on compulsory
education the convention then held bus
mess meeting.
1t was announced today that at a meet
ing last night by the directors of the
association a committee reposted favor
ably for the organization of council
for the discussion of subjects of vital
Importance to the south that are not in
cluded in the work of the Southern Edu-
cational association. This afternoon in
the department of higher education the
Right View OF Education" was discussed
by President W. B. Murrah of Millsaps
college, Jackson, Miss. He said that the
south has now reached that period in the
advancement of education when 1t should
insist that any system of education is
defective that does not provide for the
whole of mans complex nature
In the department of physical education
an exhibition of gymnastics was given
at the Girls High school of Atlanta
Public Education.
Public Education and Public Bust
ness" was discussed by Wickliffe Rose,
general agent of the Peabody fund Of
Nashville.
"In face of the stupendous task of ed
ucating all the children of all the peo-
oJa
south, of the mountain sections as well
as the plains; of the negro race as well
as the white, IS not in the private school
maintained by philanthropy, but in the
public schools paid for by the people and
administered as public business"
He called attention to the fact that of the
total expenditures by states, counties and
municipalities of the United States for
all public purposes, approximately 80 per
cent is being devoted to education.
Mr.. Rose advocates the selection of
state superintendents of education by
boards, business directors selected
from educational institutions.
Fight on tuberculosis.
At the night session, DR.. w. H. Witt
of Nashville, Tenn, in an address on
THE Present Status of the Fight
Against Tuberculosis" said:
w
of the causes of tuberculosis. Zeal is a
good thing, but only when yoked with
knowledge and common sense. An his
torical campaign is always an inef-
fectual one Above all things do not
develop q health fad either as 1t af-
fects personally or your family or your
pupils
II am free to say that your great
est service in the matter which we
have under discussion is going to be
in holding a pride and a conscience
alb out public matters that shall express
itself In few years in a rational and
sustained campaign, not only by the
state at large, but by every municipal
ity or 9TH err local civil organization in
the country. The boy before you can
more easily than you think, take in
the fact that the wealth of his state
depends on the brain and muscle of
the people in health and in work; that
unnecessary illness Is nothing less than
Just SO much tax on the aggregate
wealth, and that no temporary cost Is
too great to prevent such state of af-
fairs.
Proper Ventilation.
proper ventilation is a difficult en-
gineering problem, not yet fully solved,
but teachers should see to 1t that the
freshest air compatible with comfort
is given the children. Children should
be urged to have their feet dry and
well protected. Sitting all day with
wet feet invites catarrhal colds, low
ers the general vitality of the child and
prepares for the invasion of the sys-
tenn by the different organisms of dis
ease. In all schools having play
hours and recesses, the children should
be urged to stay out of doors II the
wea Their is at all inviting.
Splitting on the floor should be pre-
hibited. and suppose by now the time
honored privilege of splitting on the
slate il denied the American boy. Every