Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-07-10
EDUCATORS REFUSE
TO CREDIT ATTACK
ON YOUNG ELECTION

Open charges that at the convention
al Boston two years ago, when Mrs.
Ella Flagg Young. superintendent Of
Chicago schools. was elected president.
the rolls were stuffed: that teachers
were enrolled active members
credited from Chicago schools when
they lived in other states. and that
their dues were paid by Chicago prin-
cipals to insure more votes for Mrs.
Young were voted upon by the Nation
al Education Association yesterday.
The board Of directors adopted
unanimously a resolution that all ref
erence to the charges should be ex-
plunged from the records without inn
punging the motives or impeaching the
character of any one.
Harmony Desired.
1t was the intention that the whole
subject should be wiped out of future
discussion. and speeches were made
that 1.-The utmost harmony now pre-
walls in the association. and 1t was the
sense Of the meeting that no conscious
wrong entered into the election OF Mrs.
Young At the same time II was declared
Secretary Irwin SHEPPARD, who made
the charges. was not guilty OF any
'misstatements when he referred to the
violation of certain technicaltties at
the Boston election.
Secretary Sheppard attempted to sustain
his charges. He quoted letters from MIL
waukee and New Orleans in which per-
sons, whose names were withheld. profes-
sed to have been paid by Chicago teach
ers for Joining as active members and
voting for Mrs Young.
Mrs. Young Speaks.
Mrs. Young took the floor and said thaA
when she was asked in January. 1870 to
become candidate for president she
did not think the name Of the first woman
to head this organization would be drag
ged in the mud.
William B. Owen, principal of the Chi
cago Teachers College: Miss Ida Mighen
and Eta Q. Gee, Chicago's school princi-
pals, all declared they had been active
in supporting Mrs. Young. They assert
ed that IL had been customary to organ
ize in promoting a candidate; that the
Chicago teachers did furnish some money
to pay the dues Of active members, ana
that some of the active members thus
made did live in other states They de-
MED however that the members were
credited to Chicago schools, and said there
had been no intention of committing
fraud.
1t finally was agreed that the discus
sion should cease, and on motion u
James Y. Joyner. Raleigh, y. c.. 1t was
unanimously decided that the matter Dc
expunged from the records.
National University.
Whether the association should 90 on
record as favoring the establishment OF
a national university was discussed al
last nights session.
President Edmund j, James of the
University Of Illinois advocated the es-
Establishment of a national university In
Washington on the theory that In
free state education is fundamentally
national function
such an institution" he said. located
in the center of political power OF the
greatest nation on earth, would attract
in large numbers the bright and promis-
ing youth of other countries. who. as
students here would imbibe those fundA-
mental American ideas which we believe
are destined to work out the salvation OF
the world. Z
President Charles r. Vanhise OF the
University OF Wisconsin favored . ma
tional university, and said II would be
"a national asset. an instrumentality for
advanced research"