The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-05
EDUCATORS HOLD
 MANY MEETINGS
 AT NASHVILLE
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fields, her rich deposits of coal and ore | her great forests and her wonderful water power" he said.
 l Taking up the question of schools the speaker said the time had come foi the school to become more closely linked with life and that it must pre- pare its students for efficient service in life.
 | The wonderful achievements in en- | gineering manufacturing. commerce and agriculture are forcing the south ern people, MT. Gibson remarked to re- | gard these occupations as in every sense quite as honorable as the so- called learned professions, and the | schools, he said, are coming to recog- nize experience that those studies which prepare the youth for successful | experience in these occupations have as legitimate a place In the school cur | riculum as any of the humanities. In this connection he declared the most democratic institution in democratic | America is the public school. Manual training courses, he said, were the out come of widespread interest in a more direct preparation for efficient service Ill the schools and q public demand that the l great d1Ily pl NouhS pNopiS iioN'iia ''N elementary schools be given some means 1 of earning a livelihood. But the south to- day needs, he stated, "a more general ] technical training for the masses of workers both in the fields and in the fac tories The marvellous influx of capital into the south for the purpose of convert | ing her boundless stores of raw material into marketable products for the uses and | comfort of man must be met by propor- | te in the mammal skill workers" Labor organizations and man. | ufacturing associations are uniting their voices in a demand for technical training | of the youth of our land
 | Other addresses were by Prof. w. H. Hand of the University of South Carolina on Compulsory Education" and by Law ton B. Evans, city superintendent of health of Augusta, on "A Survey of the Situation"
 Farm and Products
 The afternoon session is to be devoted tc the farm and it's products. High water today compelled the abandonment of the trip to the Hermitage for the conference leaders planned by the Nashville women's reception guild.
 The southern women writers who or ganized elected the following officers President, Mrs Rutledge Smith. Cookes vile, Tenn; first vice president, Mis-
 
 second vice president, Miss 1sma Dooiey Atlanta secretary, Mrs. Ida Clyde Clark Nashville; treasurer, Mrs. Maude McIve Rountree, Birmingham. The name adopt ed was The League of Southern Womef Writers" Under it's bylaws suffrage Il not barred from discussions, the mattel having been the subject of lively debate
 Among the charter members are Ruti McEnery Stuart, Daisy Fitzhugh Ayres Ellen Glasgow, Mrs. Julian Harris, Octav' Thanet. Mrs. Cora Harris and Mar, Johnson.
 The visitors were given a tea party b, Miss Maria Thompson Davis.
 Equal Suffrage
 Equal suffrage crept into the conference for education in the south this afternoon when Mrs. Desha Breckenridge of Ken lucky addressed suh-conference or clu' women presided over by Mrs. l.. Crozie French, president of the Tennessee Feeder ation of Women's Clubs.
 "Public Schools and Southern Develop ment." was Mrs. Breckinridge's subject and her brilliant address attracted muci attention and is more talked of, perhaps than any other event of the conference Mrs Breclxnridge told of the victory Ken lucky women recently won when the. were granted the right to ballot in schoo matters, and predicted that the publi' schools of the entire south would be nor, benefited by the participation of womei m school elections than by any othe movement.
 The backward condition of school in many states was attributed by Mrs Breckinridge to the fact that womei have no voice in school matters. Sh maintained that motherhood is all has been pictured but declared that i is little short of a crime to take chi dren away from the mother at six year of age and entrust them to schools II which the mothers have no voice. Mrs Breckinridge's address was receives