Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1914-12-09

The meeting last night was presided
over by Meyer Bloomfield In the alb
sence Of Frederick G. Bonser David
Spence Hill, Phi. D.. director of tho
Division Of Education Research. Pub
lie Schools. New Orleans. La. spoke on
Tho Question OF Organization Of Voca-
tional Guidance In the South" and de-
ciared that II was not II problem OF
| the South alone. but one that concerned
| the country at largo as we'll. william
NJ. Leiserson. Of the Wisconsin Free
Employment Bureau, lectured on .Wo-
! cational Guidance" and DR.. p. p. Clax-
ton. United States Commissioner of
: Education. discussed part Time Sec
ance Program"
DIR. CLANTON SPEAKS ON
ELEMENTS Or INSTRUCTION
Dr. Claxton said that there were two
should be included in every :oe course e
instruction in manhood or womanhood
and instruction in citizenship. These.
he thought. should be made the basis
OF all education. so that no soul should
go out OF this worlds existence without
some claim to having taken even a
and national citizenship. Miss Julia c..
Lathrop,. chief of the United States
Children's Bureau, Washington. made
sidered in Vocational Program" and
an address was made by Frank "
thompson. of Boston. Mass.
Mr.. Leavitt, former president of the
association. said last night that It was
t.. the most representative body of edu-
experience ea and that good was being
done now that might not be known
IN until =, the next generation. The effect
though. and already there is manifest
q desire TO instruct every child so that
II TT might not go forth into life crippled
I nf t1x,I
cipies of IN the elementary prin
W Vhsre were S delegates here from as far
from New Orleans. and all of them
were men and women without price.
IN order that they might help a little
I IN the general welfare Of the genera
Ton now springing up and Of gem
crations yet to come.
PROGRAM FOR 'rO.DAY,s
SESSION OF ASSOCIATION
to The e. program Of the National Society
cation for to-day follows:
2;30 p. NJ, Hotel efferson-Confer-
Retail Stores. chairman, T. K. Cory,
liam Filenes's Sons Co, Boston. Mass:
p pa Stores. Miner Chapman. coun-
Department store Education Associao
sio'i, beulan -. hennard, educational
director. Department Store Education
association. New York; Training for
Salesmanship. Mrs. Lucinda w. Prince
director OF craftsmanship In High and
continuation Schools and director
School OF Salesmanship. Simmons Col
Iese. Boston, Mass: The Health Of the
DlSepartment Store Worker, DR.. Kristine
Mann, director hygiene, Department
store Education Association. New
3 p NJ, William Fox School, 23OO
Hanover Ayenue-Moving Pictures in
Vocational Training and Vocational
Guidance. Wesley A O'Leary, director
training class for trade teachers, Pratt
institute. Brooklyn. n. Y. films shown
by courtesy of American Steel and
Wire Company. Russell Jennings Com
pany, Philadelphia Bureau Of CONNER
cial Economics, New York Edison Com
pany.
$50 p. NJ. Jefferson Hotel-National
Education Association Committee on
Vocational Education and Vocational
Guidance, chairman, Robert J. Fuller
superintendent of schools. North Attle-
SP. NJ, John Marshall High School
a meeting will be held by the Central
Trade and Labor Council in the audi
forum of the. John Marshall High
school. to discuss the subject Of indus
trial education, chairman, John Hirsch-
berg, president Central Trades and
Labor Council, Richmond; speaker.
Samuel Gompers, president American
Federation of Labor. Members and
delegates attending the convention are
invited by the council to be present.