Bisbee daily review., 1911-07-08
TEACHERS ARE ARRIVING FOR
 ANNUAL MEET
San Francisco Will Be Host to 30,0OO Educators From Every Section of
 the Country
MANY LEADERS WILL
 DELIVER ADDRESSES
Fight That Has Been Brewing for Months Over New and Old Order May
 Occur


 SAN FRANCISCO. Cal, July 7.- San Francisco is rapidly filling with delegates and visitors to the forty niath annual conversion of the National Education association. some thirty thousand Of whom, represent ing all branches of educational work from the Kindergarten to the uni versity, will make this city their mecca during the coming week. The national headquarters were opeaea this morning at the St Francis Hotel by Secretary Irwin Shepard of Winona, AiinR.. who. a large force of assistants, will be in continual session save during sleeping hours. until the delegates have gotten into working order the first of the week
 The officers expects that all rec ords for attendance will be broken by the present convention. A vast array of visitors is already here and every arriving train is adding hundreds to the crowd. All of the teachers are loud in their praise of the local arrangements for hand ling the visitors and for their en- tertainment Each train is met by members of the reception committee. who pilot the visitors to tke head quarters for registration or assign ment or show them to their rooms if accommodations have been se- cured in advance The business sec ton Of the city is decorated with flags and bunting and signs bidding the N. F. 4. welcome are displayed everywhere.
 First Session Monday.
 The first general session of the association, in the Greek Theater of the University of California. will not be held until Monday afternoon. but the convention will be preceded tomorrow by meetings Of standing committees and several of the at- isted organizations At the form nal opening Monday afternoon ad- dresses of welcome will be delivered by Governor Johnson of California Mayor Mccarthy of San Francisco and President Wheeler of the Uni versity Of California Responses for the visitors will be made by Dr. Elmer E. Brown, late United States commissioner of education and who is soon to enter upon his new du- ties as chancellor of New York university Mrs. Ella Fl2gg Young Of Chicago. president of the asso- citation. will preside at the session and deliver the opening address. Dr. David Starr Jordan. president of Leland Stanford Junior university. will be another noted speaker at the initial session.
 Prominent Speakers.
 Among the persons of prominence T the educational world wkO will be included among the speakers Of the week are Carroll c. Pearse, superintendent of schools oi Mil waakee: James II. Van Sickle. su- Perintendelt O. schools of Baltimore; Joseph swain. president of Swarth- more college: James H. Baker. pres ident of the University of Cobra do; Robert J. Alsy, president of lac University of Maine; Samuel Avery. chancellor Of the University of Ne braska; Robert Lee Jones. state su- perintendsnt of public instruction Of Tennessee; Francis G. Blair. state superintendent Of public instruction Illinois; H. B. Brown. president O. Valparaiso university; George 2. Cook, state superintendent of Ar kansas: Thomas C. Mott. superin- F6HaEEL Oi &CHDDlS HILL J. W. Crabtree. state supeTintend- ent of Nebraska; Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia uni versity; John R. Kirk, president of Missouri State Normal school J H. Phillips. superintendent O. schools of Birmingham; W. E. liar. mon, state superintendent Of Mon tana; Thomas F. Kane. president of the University of Washington c. A. Duniway, president of ths University of Mantana. and ?. l. Campbell. president of the University of Oregon.
 instructive Program.
 From an instructive viewpoint the programme promises one Of the most successful conventSas in the history of the orgaRizatrf. AsleIf from this, however. the convention is likely to prove of more interest to the membership than aay of th- annusl meetings of recent years Eorseveral years the membership has been aligning itself into i've rival factions, whose differences came to the surface at the Bos ton convention last year. Since then 4he war clouds have been lOOmlnz hlacker and blacker and all sigps now point to bitter storm whicl may greatly affect the future o the big teachers organization.
 It will be a nghs against the "oie oraerv led by tks combined forces of the teachers of Illinois and New York. The main issue, and the ons vtfcs is expested to bring up th' most serious opposition. is the pro po-al to abolish the national coun rsl which Is vested with the powei of recommending appropriations ans Sxia9 the expenditure of funds. Th'