Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-09
(By Associated Press.)

IN ENVBR, July S.-San Francisco
will be the meeting place of the
IL National Educational association.
The board of directors of the associa-
tion. breaking precedent in the respect
that conventions heretofore never have
been held either east or west twice III
succession. decided to hold the next
association gathering on the coast ana
the San Francisco delegation prevailed.
Two other strong bidders for the con-
yention were Milwaukee and Boston
Judge Ben b. Lindsey of the Denver
Juvenile court, known as the boys
Judge" spoke tonight in the place Oh
DIR. Henry b. FaVill of chicago, ue-
layed by a wreck in central Kansas;
Judge Lindsey discussed the relation
between the state and the WayWard
boy. r,,,,.,-o of
Other speakers were J. p. Burke OF
Boston and Ben Blewitt of st. Louis.
.'XVby is it that a young man de-
generates within six months after he
enters college,"
Home Education Wrong
Charles Fordyce. dean of the Univer-
ei+v of Nebraska, who spoke before the
higher education department OF the
National Educational association TINS
morning. said this question was one
not uncommonly asked OF hlm ny
teachers
"These teachers" said Mr.. Fordyce'
tell me that their boys leave them
clean i'm mind and strong in body ana
ftted for a college life and in SIX
months they succumb to temptation.
"Tu tell you why. They have peen
going to a secondary school uioTL nue.
home influence. They come to colege
as their own masters, and in a teW
months they fall under the alluTlng
vices constantly Haunted before thsH
eyes"
He said it was nothing new that boys
in their first two years at college gave
wav to temptation and "degenerated.
He nroposed the English and German
methods to stop this lowering of moral
standards He said that the boys
should be made self-reliant men before
thev enter college, and they would be
able to come and go as they please
without the necessity of constant su-
pervision, which only tended to make
them worse.
DR.. Main Makes Address
Mr.. Fordyce was followed by DR.. J..
H. T. Main, president of Iowa college
at Grinnell, Iowa.
versity of Illinois, spoke this afternoon
on educational unity and its preserVa-
ton while meeting the demands for
industrial training.
The department of elementary edu-
cation heard addresses by Clifton +.
Hodge, Clark university Worcester,
Mass. and Mrs Ellen H. Richards of
Boston.
Forestry and the care of natural re-
sources were treated at the morning
session by Hugh A. Winkenwerder OF
Colorado college, Colorado Springs in a
paper in which he urged the working
boy or the boy who thinks of coming
west especially to apply himself to
the study of nature and the preserVa-
ton of it's resources. The department
of special education again took up the
question of the child "born short" and
Edward NJ Van Cleave, superintend-
ent of the state school for the blind,
Columbus, Ohio, told Of the work in
the Ohio institution.
The final meeting of the board of
directors will be held this afternoon.
Joyner Elected President
The election of James Yadkin Joyner,
superintendent of public instruction of
North Carolina, as president of the
National Educational association this
afternoon, led up to a series of parlia-
mentary situations which threatened
for a time to rend the inner circle Of
the association.
Mr.. Joyner was elected on the Sec
ond ballot and his rise to the presi-
dency was the cause for qualification
by the enemies of the sO-called book
trust" Mr.. Joyner all along had been
the aVoWed candidate of the anti-oc-
topusites, and when his election over
Benjamin BleWett, head of the st.
Louis schools, and DR. J. H. Phillips
of Birmingham, Ala, was announced,
there was much rejoicing in the ranks
of the antis.
Immediately afterWard the resOlu-
tions committee appeared with a quiet
enough arrangement of resolves" and
thank yous," innocent indeed except
in one essential, and this referred to
the democracy of the schools. The
clause dealing with the subject main
tanned that democracy was absolutely
necessary. After setting forth elabo-
rately the committees views the resO-
luton explained that to make this
democracy stand out in the true light
of Jeffersonian simplicity, it would be
the disagreeable duty of the precepters
to smite the fraternity evil in the high
schools Of the land.
Commotion Is Caused
Instantly there was a commotion in
the outskirts of the meeting Of electors.
But it did not last long for the reso-
lutiOns committee evidently knew what
it was about and the anti-fraternity
clause went through without amend
ment.
Henceforth, therefore, the fraternity
will meet with official froWns in the
high school. But the fraternity clause
did more than stir up discord in this
respect. 1t brought out more resolu-
tions, each of which proved a burr
under the saddle of the pedagogic
equine. First Of all there was a clause
about simplified spelling. 1t rected
that this might not be "a propitious oc-
casion for the renewal Of the PoOse-
velt-Matthews innovation, yet the mat
ter might bear inspection and for that
reason was adopted. Protest against
it brought forth the explanation that
The resolution was merely for the pur-
pose of investigation and did not bind
the association to amputated English
Then the militant spirit of independ-
ence burst forth. II was instigated by
Edwin G. Dexter, commissioner Of edu-
oaIinn Tor RnrLn Rinn MI. Dexter. nf-