The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-07-16
SAYS MONEY ELECTED HER.
MRS. YOUNG'S FRIENDS JNDIC
NANTLY DENY TRUTH OF
CHARGE.
oupt. FoOs. Of Reading Schools.
Makes Sensational Declaration at
Educational Convention.

perintendent of Schools at Reading
Pa. charged that $4,000 was raised
and spent to accomplish the election
yesterday of Mrs. Ella Flagg Young,
OF Chicago, to the presidency of the
Natlonal Education Association. The
assertion, as the story spread among
the thousands of teachers attending
the great convention, made a tremcn.
oous sensation. Mrs. Young's friends
stoutly and with great indignation
denied the truth of the story.
For some days there have been ru-
mors of barrel" and 1t has been
suggested that publishing interests
were deeply, If not unduly, interest
ed in the outcome of the election, but
not until today, "a hours after the
convention was stampeded for the
Illinois teacher, did anybody fatly
declare that money, and plenty of
It, was utilized to swing the vote.
Mr.. Foos does not claim that Mrs.
Young was cognizant of any such
move in her behalf. Rather, he as
| serts his admiration of the Chicago
woman, while scorning bitterly the
methods he alleges were used to put
her in the presidential chair over
Prof. q. X. Snyder, of Colorado.
| the candidate for whom he worked
That the alleged fund was raised
some time previous to the conven-
ton, and that a considerable part of
1t was used to pay transportation to
Boston of delegates known to he
strong for Mrs. Young, is what Mr..
Foos claims. He makes no assertion
as to how he believes the rest of the
fund was spent.
Marked by the first election of a
woman as president, and by the over
ruling of the prejudice against NOM
nations from the floor the conven-
| ton ended tonight. Not only was
| the convention revolutionary in its
method of selecting Mrs Young to
the presidency, but some Of the
speakers at the department meetings
during the week gave expression to
extremely radical ideas.
President David Starr Jordan, of
Leland Stanford, Jr., University
! made an unqualified denunciation of
football as college sport, character
| izing the game as "a mixture of bru-
| tality and pugilism, fit only for the
sordid to view and the brute to play"
William McAndrew, principal Of
the Washington Irving High School,
| New York, vigorously protested
against the present-day high school
curriculum. He derided ancient lis
| tory and the scanning of Latin verse
and advocated the teaching Of things
more useful in daily life.
Pleas were made by other speak
ers for the establishment of move
practical courses in high and secon.
dary schools. 1t was demanded by
some that agricultural courses be in
troduced in the country schools, not
as a theory, but in a practical man.
ner. One of the speakers asserted
that the agricultural colleges were so
theoretical that they do not teach
the common service Of the farm.
| The Carnegie Foundation was at
tackled by one speaker as the great
est educational monopoly in the
world.
| The suggestion was made and well
supported that the compulsory school
age be fixed at 16
| when graduates entering normal
schools do not know naples from
elms or robins from English SPAR
rows the biology or the administra-
| ton of the high school is remiss,"
was the opinion expressed by c. H.
Robinson, of Montclair, n. j., before
the department of science.
|
| old as Adam, according to Anna E.
| Harvey, of Brooklyn, n. Y, address
ing the kindergarten department
Ever since he was driven out of
| the Garden Of Eden" she said, man
has been longing to get back to the
soil. 1t is instructive in children"
| James NJ. Greenwood. of Kansas
| City, said:
| our present system of teaching
mas produced luxuriant crop of
| spineless and animated nobodies."
DR.. Charles A. A. J. Miller, assist
ant superintendent of the Baltimore
public schools, discussed the uualifi
tions and training the teacher of the
special class should have