The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-22
EDUCATORS PLANNING BIG
 MEETINGS AT LOUISVILLE


 model country church. The experimental country school at Winthrop college, South | Carolina, and it's activities will form the | basis of the school demonstrations. Radi- ating from the church and school as cen 1 ters there will be demonstrations in the Organization of various cooperative so- l cieties such as the corn club. the can ming and poultry club, the community egg and poultry association, the fruit growers i association, the cooperative creamery and other models of cooperation in mar keting. There will be a conference of country women on home equipment and -methods of simplifying house work. For the doctors there will be an exhibit of modern rural sanitation and conferen V on methods of conserving community l health For the preachers there will be | a conference on the social work of the church in the country community The business men will discuss farm credits. 1 local cooperative banks and systems of taxation. In the morning the teachers
 will have the privilege of attending all these. conferences and demonstrations and l thereby coming into touch with some broader phases of educational work.
 Annual Meetings
 In the afternoons the various depart
 ments of the Southern Educational asso-
 ciation will hold their annual meetings.
 At these meetings there will be an at
 tempt to furmulate plans of action on
 few of the fundamental questions relat- | ing to education.
 The Southern Educational council will discuss state and county organization for the administration and supervision of tho schools, and will endeavor to formulate
 a plan by which the state educational system may be both democratic and re- moved from the contamnating influence of partisan politics The department of ] higher education will consider the exten- sion work of the college and university 1 in the southern community
 | The department of Superintendence has arranged a programme dealing with the | methods of teacher training, the orsanl- zation of campaigns against adult Hitter acy and cooperation between city and country advancement of the county school | system. The department of elementary and secondary education will discuss the report of their committee on the better | articulation of the elementary and sec ondary schools. The normal department Will endeavor to formulate a state plan | Tor the training of teachers for all grades | or schools The department of industrial education will devote it's entire pro | Sramme to the discussion of vocational education in the southern mill village. The Woman'S department will consider the topic, How the Woman of the Town and the Woman of the Country May Help Each Other" The library department will consider county library movement and | Will endeayor to devise a plan by which the people in the country community may have advantage of the town library At the morning session of the Southern Educational association Friday morning the time will be given entirely to a con slderation of the possibilities of the pri- vate and denominational college in, the n
 Joint Evening Sessions At the great joint evening sessions ev- erybody will come together for inspirat,on and the consideration of more general educational topics. The first evening ses- sion will be a memorial exercise in honor or MT. Robert c. ogden, founder of the conference for Education in the South Ihe second session will be a farm life pro- gramme. At the third, Dr. F. P Ciaxton. Ohlted States commissioner of education VIII speak on An Attainable Ideal for the Rural School in the South," and pr. Bruce k. Payne president of the George Peabody College for Teachers. will deliver an address on "The Education of Teach- CTS for Southern Schools" At the fina, general session the findings of the special conferences will be presented in 8 series or resolutions embodying a programme Of action for the south.
 The railroads have granted A rate of piacuealiy one fare for the round trip The president of the Southern Educa- uonal association is w. K Tate Coluu- bia, S. c. The. acting president of ihe Conference for Education in the South is pr. $. c. Mitchell, edmond, Va. The secretary of the Southern Educational association is R. A. Clayton, Birming ham, The executive secretary of the Conference for Education in the South IS pr A. P. Bourland, Southern building Washington, D. c. Communications ad- dressed to these secretaries will recaiva rrompt attention.