The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-11-22
PROGRAM FULL
OF GOOD THINGS
State Teachers to Hold First
Session This Afternoon, and
General Conference Tonight.
Agricultural Section
Has Two Meet
ings To-Day.


of the Valley of the Shenandoah.
which makes men and substance; from
the mounted Businesses of the South-
west where the tap of the miners
as the wealth comes from the ever
lasting hills; from where the cattle on
thousand bluegrass farms feed the
epicures of Europe: from the sunny
fields of cotton and tobacco in the
Southside; from the lands where the
trees creak and groan under tAe burden
of golden fruit: from Tidewatey, where
old oceans gray and melancholy waste
gives UP its riches and where dwell
they who go down to the sea in
ships; from the streets OF the cities
which the sons of the new Virginia are
building-came yesterday the teachers
and educational workers of the Com
monwealth.
They are in earnest these men and
women who are striving for the cdu-
cational upiift of the race. Without
the hope of those material rewards
which come to those in other profess
sions they do what after all is the
only work worth while-that which is
done for the works sake.
Many Meetings.
For four days they will be in Rich
mond attending conferences of all
sorts and kinds-conferences of teachers
as body, conferences of school work
ers combined. conferences of superin-
tendents and principals and college
instructors and high school teachers
and grammar grade teachers and pri-
mary teachers end manual arts teach
ers and agricultural teachers and do
mestic arts teachers
They will go away with the inspira-
ton which comes from association,
from personal touch and Interchange
of experiences, from contact with the
| master minds in their profesSson in the
STATE and IN the nation.
| Nothing is too good for them. The
President of the United States will
speak to the teachers Of Virginia, In
dicating the Importance with which,
their work is regarded by the worlds
foremost official Men and women
| whose names are household words be-
cause they are men and women who
have done things in the nation and In
the State, Will give of their counsel
| and of their knowledge, and aid in
the final campaign of that successful
warfare which has during the past
| century driven back the hosts Of ig-
norance and superstitution. and which
within the next generation is destined
to plant the banner of knowledge,
which alone can make men free. upon
| the farthermost ramparts of the ma
| tion.
Trip to Hampton.
| The division school superintendents
of the State are already on the job.
Sixty-five of them met In Richmond
vacfar1a,t af A 10 ct
the Hampton Normal and Agricultural
Institute as the guests of President
H. B. Frissell With them went State
Superintendent ]. D. Eggleston, Jr.,
| Superintendent c. M. Hazen, of Ches-
terfleld. and Supervisor of Elementary
| Schools Jackson Davis. They were met
at Hampton by about fifteen others
from the Tidewater section. This
party Will return to Richmond this
evening at 6:35.
| At 4 o'clock this afternoon the State
Teachers Association, by far the larg-
est of the four grand bodies which
make up the Virginia Educational Con-
ference. will hold it's formal opening
session in the auditorium of the John
Marshall High School.
Miss Elizabeth winston. president OF
| the Richmond Cooperative Teachers
| Association, and Assistant City upper.
intendent Albert H.. Fill will deliver
sponses will be by Professor j. p Nc
Connell, of Emory and Henu7 College
and Dr.. j. Paul Spence. of Norfolk
This will be meeting OF considerable
Importance, and will embrace the re.
ports of delegates. After the appoint
will adjourn.
OF course, # is Intended that the
| general meetings of the conference at
night shall be the principal events
bonn nnaer the auspices q the ad conterl M
ence of Division Snperintendents. DR..
| Charles M. Hazen, of Chesterfield, will
preside.
executive committee of the Virginia
| Educational Conference, has called the
body to order. 1t will be welcomed to
kieemqna Chandler az city Thsn s1psEnsndsa M eoms ts
| annual address of State Superintendent
Joseph D. Eggleston. Jr, which is al
ways a leading feature of the annual
~ he Williams Td Mddge
Mann.
An important part o{ this meeting
Will be the music, whif will be rem
Conservatory of Music, under the lead
ership Of Director Frank +, Cosby, for
whose services The comm,ttee
| change from the official program, and
Mr.. Spiegel's part OF the affair has
been postponed to Thursday night.
Agricultural Section First,
First Of ali the meetings viii be tnat
OF the teachers of agricultural, sec,
ton of the department. of Industrial
education, This will come at 10:3O this
morning In the Mechanics Institute
These people Will have another meet
| ing at the same place at 2 o'clock .his
lafternoon.
which make up the STATE re e,chers'
Association will meet to-day Ihe an
ecutlve committee of tho association
at noon. and the executive commlttee
of the department OF principals viii
have a meeting at O'Clock at ri,a
John Smith school, opposite the John
Marshall School. NJ
at the two meetings Or the asncul-