Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-17
IN Conference.
PerSian-AmeriCan Educa-
tionaI Society in Session.
Maine Woman One Of Leading
Promoters in Movement.
Program and Distinguished Speak.
ers, at Washington Today.

he HIST dilliidi Vi the
Persian American Educational Society
is in session here today and Satur-
day. There are delegates in at
tendance from Chicago. Boston. New
York Philadelphia. Baltimore. st.
Louis and other prominent cities. The
sessions are held in the auditorium
OF the Public Library, and addresses
are being delivered by a number of
public men and women.
Goodsia Khanoum. the first Persian
woman who has ever reached Amer
lea, arrived in Washington. Monday,
June l., and is present at the meet
ings. This young lady, who already
speaks perfect English, is to attend
school i'll this country. and her COM
ing is one of the results of the work
OF this society. which is establishing
schools of modern education in Persia
There will be an exposition of the
Persian press showing the progress of
the newspapers and the range of in
ternational subjects dealt with by
the editors.
The first session was held this
0Friday) morning. The president of
the society. William Fl. Hoar, a
prominent merchant of New York
city. delivered the opening address.
He was followed by Mira Ali Kuli
Khan. the charge d'affaires of Persia,
on Modern Education in Persia.
Dir. Elmer Ellsworth Brown, United
States Commissioner of Education
will treat of The International Edu-
cational Relations" and Benjamin f.
Truehlood secretary of the American
Peace Society. will speak on the sub
ject of Peace, the Keynote of the
orient" Mira Ahmad Sohrab, of
Ispahan. Persia. the organizer of the
conference. will tell about The Per
sian Women" after which Joseph H.
Hammer. the secretary of the society
will present the annual report.
There. viii be addresses by Hooper
Harris of New York city, rs Persia's
Future Safe" c. S. Donaldson of the
bureau Of manufacturers and the con-
suar service, Commercial Relations
Between Persia ana America" Mrs.
Fannie Fern Andrews. secretary of
the school Peace League of Boston.
Education and International Peace;
Prof. H. b. Holler. Aims of the
Oriental University; and Rev Mar
tin ODonoghue, $. T. B.. Educa-
tional Unity With South America"
The session on Saturday a. NJ,
June Il. viii be presided over by
Hooper Harris. a pI ointment lawyer of
New York, with the following speak
ers: Prof Edward c. Getsinger.
Washington, d. c.. Breakers Ahead
OF Persia; Howard MaeNutt, New
York. Reciprocity; Prof Hermann
Sehoenfeld of George Washington
University, "Persia's International
Relations; Henry c. Ffnkelstein, |
legal attache Persian Legation, Per |
STA and the Constitution" and Prof. |
Arnauld Belmont. The Future of the |
Orient. and the Responsibility of |
America, following which Mira |
Ahmad Sohrab viii present the Con- |
OF the Orient Occident I'm
ity, in which broader organization the |
society will be merged.
The fourth session on Saturday |
evening will be presided over by |
Mira Ahmad Sohrab, and will be
featured by an address by Hon. Theo- |
dore L. Burton, United States Senator |
from Ohio. Mrs. LYDIA Young Withee |
of the League of American Pen Wo- |
men anu tie w OMAN 4Ndllbiidl
Association, will give paper on
Where is Persia" the evening clos |
ing with an illustrated lecture by |
Mira S. Rattle OF Columbia Univers- |
ity, New York, on Persia, the Land |
of the Nightingale and the Rose"
The leading social feature of the |
will be q musical and re- |
ception at Rauscher's Hall, in charge |
of prominent society and literary |
women of Washington, the guest of |
honor to be Goodsia Khanoum, of Te- |
heran. Persia.
The society is receiving the CO.
operation of the new Persian govern
ment, and its aims are liberal educa-
ton OF Persian children, improving
conditions, the development
of its rich natural resources, and the
increase of commercial activities~be-
tween America and Persia. The new
society will endeavor to interest the
whole world in its campaign of edu-
cation, economic development. and in
the propaganda of Universal Peace.
Mrs. l.. j. Young Withee, who is on
the program Saturday evening, is a
sister of DR.. A. G.. Young of the State
Board of Health, Augusta. She is
one of the leading promoters of the
movement Editor.l