The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-05
Alabama Educational Association
 Begins Sessions Here Wednesday

I MT M. r. Bush MT. E. l.. Brown, Mr. c. P. Underwood, MT. J. M Burnett, Mr.
 H. B. Graves MT. E. M. ifier, Miss Dora Wilson, Miss Rosa Strickland, MT. J. D. | Williams MT. l. R. Obenchain, MT. c. J. | Going, Mir Foster Ansley. MT. c. J. Us- sery. MT. G. A. Young, Miss Augusta Redwood, Mrs. J. w. Bruce Mrs. $. J. | Cole, Mrs T. A. Moross. Mrs. l. w. Phil lips Mrs. John l.. Parker, Mrs. Lenore A. Eldred, Miss Belle Conner, Mrs. Ther-
 esq H. Evans, Miss Clara Pitts, Miss Mary Rittenberry, MT. A. l.. Reese, Mr. R. " Allgood MT. T. D. Moor, MT c. P. Bowman, MT. E. O. Sanders, MT. 10. E. Gordan.
 With MT. c. A. Brown, chairman of the 1 finance committee, are MI. c. J. Going, Mr J. D. Williams, MT. P. M. McNei, MT. R. W. Ewing, MT. J. H. Loveman, Dr. John L. Parker.
 Miss Mabel Hogin, chairman of the committee on music has with her Miss Evelyn Going, Mrs. c. J. Sharpe, Miss Jennie Handley, Miss Minnie McNeill Miss Norma Schoolar, MT. c. A. Brown On the committee on places of meet | ing are MT. Roy Dimmitt, chairman, MT. | H. F. James, Miss Helen Hudson, MT. L.. l F. Banks, MT. c. c. Certain, MT. D. R.. | Price, MT. B. Y. Neal, Miss Marguerite Weaver Miss Mary Comeron, Miss L,l | Abbe Chambless Miss Alice Stafford, MT. | D. G. Chase, MT. Foster Ansley, Miss l Helen Futile, Mir. D. C. Van Merkestijn. l Miss May Hansis, chairman of the en- | tertainment committee, has with her Miss
 Beryl Macauey, Miss Dora Wilson, Miss 1 Bessie Cowell, Miss Leila Wood, Miss Lima Denny, Miss Mary Fitzgerald, Miss I Mary Todd, Miss Annie Bradford, Miss l Corrine Chisholm, Miss Flora Harrison,
 Miss Elberta Taylor, Miss Mamie Henry, | Miss Louise Thornberry. Miss Carre | I.ur ia. Miss Loula Bradford. Miss Agnes Will
 son. Miss Susan Todd Miss Blair Cor don, Miss Lucille Jones, Miss Edna Dexter, ! Miss Annie Wilkerson, Miss Susie Gun
 ningham.
 1 This last committee will be in charge of | a prettily arranged reception room at the | High school and will serve tea coffee
 and waters in another room. Several I members of this committee will be on duty Friday morning, another group on the afternoon, and others on Saturday
 morning. The rest room will be for the | exclusive use of teachers who may be i'll.
 and Miss Denny and Miss PaNerson, the
 nurses connected with the Birmingham | schools. will be in charge.
 | Commenting upon the association and | the programme prepared, MT $. R. But 1 Ter, chairman of the executive committee, 1 says: 1 '''rhe executive committee has endeav- l oreu to pfONlue a programme tHht VIII | embody some of the educational questions
 of today and has, we believe, secured | speakers who can suggest a solution of l some of our problems.
 1 "2. We believe that there is no school
 legislation needed so badly as that pro- 1 videing for compulsory school attendance | and local taxation, and therefore these | two subjects are stressed in the pro- gramme of the Alabama Educational as-
 sociation.
 l Should the next legislature fail to pass | laws providing for these the schools can not possibly make much advancement in | the next four years.
 '3 The people of this commonwealth | realize more than ever before the im- | portance of our rural schools. The great
 majority of the youth of Alabama must
 receive their training in the grades in the | one and two-room school buildings and | therefore more recognition has been given , the rural schools in the coming pro- l gramme than heretofore. The department of rural schools that was made a part l of the Alabama Educational association i organization in Montgomery last year will | in very few years become the most i'm portant department of the Alabama Edu- | cational association, and it is from this l department that the principal increase in | membership of the Alabama Educational | association will come.
 "A. The committee is endeavorng to 1 have 3050 at the Birmingham meeting. ] Every teacher in the state should become l a member of the state association. Tho | pride he should have in his profession
 would prompt him to be an active worker | for the success for his state organization.
 Membership in our different educational