The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-07-07
Forty ninth Annual Convention
Will Open on Monday With
Thousands OF Dele
gates Present
FINE PROGRAM IS PREPARED
List of Speakers Includes Some o
Best Known Educators in Amer
iea-Various Sessions to be
Full of Interest.

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gates and visitors TO the forty ninth
lannual convention of the National ilc,l-
ucation Assooiation, some thirty thou
sand of whom representing an bran
ohes of ed < |.tional work from thc pdn-
dergarten u the university. win make
this city their mecca during the com
ing week. The national headquarters
were opened this morning at the St
Francis hotel by Secretary Irwin Shep-
ard of Winona Mimi. who, with
large force of assistants, VIII be in
continual session save during sleeping
hours. until the delegates have gotten
into working order the FIRST of the
week.
The officers expect that all records
for attendance will be broken by the
present convention. A vast army OF
visitors is already here and every ar
irving train is adding hundreds To the
crowd. All Of the teachers are loud
in their praise cf the local arrange
imonts for handling the visitors and
for their entertainment. Zach train
Is met by members of the reception
committee, who pilot the visitors TO tine
lheadquarters for registration or as
lsignment. or show them To their rooms
Iif accommodations have been secured
in advance. The business section of
the city is decorated with flags and
bunting and signs bidding them. E. A.
welcome are displayed everywhere.
Sessions Open Monday.
i The first general session Of the asso-
citation in the Greek Theater of the
University of california, viii not be
held until Monday afternoon. but the
convention will be preceded tomorrow
by meetings of standing committees
land several of the affiliated organiza-
tions. At the formal opening Monday
lafternoon addresses of welcome viii
lbe delivered by Governor Johnson OF
california, Mayor Mccarthy Of san
Francisco and President Wheeler OF
1.-THE University Of California Respon-
es for the visitors will be made by DIT
Elmer T.. Brown. late United states
lCommissoner of Education and who is
soon to enter upon his new duties as
Chancellor of New York University.
Mrs. Ella Flagg Young of Chicago,
president of the association. will pre-
side at the session and deliver the OPP
ening address. Dr. David starr Jor-
dan. president of Leland Stanford Ju-
nior University, will be another noted
speaker at the initial session.
MANY Prominent Speakers.
| , H. ,,,.,.co.,,, ,c ,,rou,fuanca i'm
the educational world who will be in
cluded among the speakers of the week
lare Carroll G.. Pcarse, superintendent
of schools Of Milwaukee; James H..
/ Van Sickle, superintendent of schools
Of baltimore; Joseph Swain, president
of Swarshmore College; James H., Ba-
ker. president of the University OF
Colorado; Robert J. Alley, president of
the University of Maine; Samuel Az
erv. chancellor of the University OF
Nebraska: Robert Lee Jones. state
superintendent of public instruction of
Tennessee: Francis c. Blair, state su-
perintendent of Illinois, III. Il. Brown,
lpresident of Valparaiso University;
T, George Il. Cook, state superintendent
of Arkansas; Thomas G. Mott superln-
tendent of schools of Richmond Ind;
J. w Crabtree. state superintendent
!, of Nebraska: Nicholas Murray Butler.
, president Of Columbia University
lJohn r. Kirk. president of Missouri
e state Normal school; j. II. Phillips,
superintendent of schools of Birming-
q ham; w. L. Harmon. state superinten-
n dent of Montana; Thomas f. Kane
a president of the University of Wash
. ington: G. a. Duniway, president OF
= the University of Montana; and +. l..
Campbell, president of the University
e of oregon.
Many Important Questions.
. From an instructive viewpoint the
programme promises one of the most
successful conventions in the history
of the organization. Aside from this
however. the convention is likely "a
4 prove of more interest to the mem
Ibership than any of the annual meet
Il ings of recent years. For several years
$ the membership has been aligning IT.
= self into two rival factions, whose diff
# fercnces came To the surface at the
= BOSTON convention last year. Since
!. then the war clouds have been loom
s ing blacker and blacl>er and all signs
n now point to a bitter storm whicl
Il may greatly affect the future of the hil
e teachers organization.
,f Il will be fight against the "ol'
l. order" led by the combined forces 81
N the teachers of Illinois and New York
Ie The main issue. and the one which Il
i lexpected to bring up the most serious
deposition, is the proposal to abolisl