The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1913-07-11
EDUCATORS HOLD
THEIR CONVENTION
NOTED EDUCATORS FROM EVERY
SECTION OF UNION MEET
IN UTAH CAPITAL.
Ney-note Address by President Con
tains outline Of Plan Of Reoreanr
zation In Order to Keep Abreast
With the Times.

Salt Lake ty-Educators Of
national prominence and teachers
from every section Of the Union were
in this city Monday, April Z, for the
opening session of the National Edu-
cation association, the visiting edu-
Gators being given a characteristic
welcome.
At the opening session Monday
afternoon OF the National Education
association, held in the Tabernacle,
President Edward T. Failchild, in his
address introducing the work of the
convention, presented scheme of re-
organization of the association which
he believes will add to its efficiency
sa body, tending to increase the
standard of efficiency of the public
school teacher. This address was re-
garded as the keynote speech Of the
convention.
Addresses were also made at the
opening session by M. P. Shawkey
state superintendent of public schools
of Charleston, w. Va, who took for
his subject What Shall We Do With
the Single-room SCHOOL," and by
| Henry Neumann, leader of the Brook
! lyn Society of Ethical Culture, who
spoke on THE Moral Values in Pub
lie Self-government."
The delegats had been arriving for
week before the opening session,
and en- Sunday welcome was voiced
by Charles w. Penrose, in behalf of
the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter
day Saints, at services in the taber-
nacle, following which Philander P.
Claxton, United States commissioner
of education delivered an address on
| The School Teacher
IF a school teacher be unable to
give all his life and being, not mega
lively, but affirmatively and aggres-
sively, for the sake of the child, for
the sake of the home and for the
sake of the nation, he should leave
the profession This is the view ex-
pressed by DR.. P. P. Claxton in his
| address.
! Educational Sunday" was observed
/ generally in Salt Lake churches and
ward chapels, pastors of the various
denominations delivering sermons
bearing on topics of interest to the
many teachers in the city, while the
members of many wards of the Nor
mon church listened to addresses from
| prominent members of the National
Education association.
Before an audience of approximate
| ly $500 persons in the tabernacle Sum
day night, B. H. Roberts delivered an
and Education prefacing his talk by
saying that he assumed that large
number of the congregation consist
ed of visitors who are here to attend
the N. E. A. convention.
Underpaid as they are, the teachers
of the United States are not only
maintaining, but improving, the stan4-
ard Of public schools of the country
This was practically the conclusion
resulting from discussion of the re-
port on teachers salaries, tenur,, and
pensions as presented to the national
Nti W ilooluSHt JOSepn oWdlH %
Swarthmore college, Swarthmore, Pa.
The sessions of the council we're held
at Barratt hall.
P. P. Claxton United States COM
missioner of education, attributed
this maintenance and Improvement
of school work to the splendid char
acter of the teachers, and not to the
encouragement received by them in
their labors.