The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-07-13
EDUCATORS READY
TO ELECT OFFICERS
insurgents Expect Nominating
Committee Will Select Carroll
e. Pearce for Presidency.

sAN FRANCISCO. July 12.-Its pen.
efal programme nearly finished. the Ma
''ohai Education association prepared IN.
hisht for its annual election tomorrow
at which officers for the coming voar ors
10 be elected. The report OF the reso.
iutions committee is TO be received and
what is held OF greatest moment amend
le.ts rneents TO the y-laws, prepared by a com
bittee appointed two wears ago n-e r.
oe oHered for final action
IIeeeuse The association has no dele
ana any active member can vote
at The meeting. the unexpected Is regard
Gu as more likely to happen than In con-
ngntions organized more coherently. To-
sISsa. however, the so-called progress
tnat the nominating committee formally
uained ne at tonight's session by President
'a paag rag Young; would choose Carroll
dency, Mrs. Young, by custom, viii be
eon'e nrst vice president, and eleven 9th
ers viii be named, as will a treasurer.
Possible Nomin ations.
MISS Katherine D. Blake of New York
VINO presented last year at Boston tho
minority report which nominated Mrs
urership' and Durand w. Springer OF De
troit the present treasurer, also is re
sarded as a good possibility. DR.. Irwin
snepard OF Winona, Mimi. the present
1our-year term His efficiency has been
Gornmended In several speeches. II
Pearse tails OF nomination in committee.
port.
- Mentioned candidate against
Pease is Elmer Ellsworth Brown, until
recently commissioner OF education OF
the United States. and an educator OF
Gndlsputed cmnence.s He figured largely
In hotel corridor discussion tonight.
Although not on the ground, Mr., Brown
Is considered an attractive candidate be-
cause or his eastern birth and education.
Ills wide range of teaching experience
reaching 10 California. and the fact, at
tractive TO insurgent hearts that he re-
signed his federal position partly because
he could not get enough money to carry
on the work which he felt was impera-
tive,
The report OF the resolutions commit
tee Will be on questions OF school policy
and VIII not deal with the association s
politics or machinery, which will be dealt
with by resolutions and speeches from
the floor.
Insurgent Objections.
AS To the report on amendments TO by
laws the insurgents Intend trying to dis
pose Of IL summarily and to achieve the
appointment of q brand new committee
on the same subject. They object TO all
OF the report. but mostly 10 provision
only by a three -fourths vote of active
membcrs present ut the session. and that,
in order 10 vote, members must Sign
up three months in advance. They as
sert that IL Is unusual for three-fourths
OF the active members present at scs-
sion ever To attend the active members
meeting, and have n long list OF obJec-
tlons To the other proposition.
1t was reported tonight that an appro-
priation OF $1,000 will be made for an in
besOEaton OF general condlu lions In rural
schools This Is about five times as much
as the sum Of all appropriations made last
year for Investigations. Other similar
appropriations are hoped for.
Mrs. Emma Blaine OF Chicago addressed
tonight's session OF the convention on
"TEe Opportunity OF the Teacher" "
Charles Zubtin OF Boston spoke "On the
Life OF the Teacher"