The Sentinel=record., 1914-07-10
JORDAN NAMED
 BY EDUCATORS
CALIFORNIA COLLEGE PRESIDENT ELECTED BY NATIONAL TEACH
 FRS ASSOCIATION.
Equal Suffrage, Equal Pay, Internal ional Peace and Wilson's Mexican Policy Are Endorsed.

St Paul, Minn., July 9-Women's
 rights were recognized today to the fullest extent by the National Educa- | ton Association, which passed reso- | lutions endorsing woman suffrage ant 1 equal pay for teachers regardless of
 sex balloted five of it's ten vice pres dencies to women.
 l The delegation of active suffragists left the hall with broad smiles.
 We were given everything we asked" they said
 | Without a dissenting vote Dr. David Starr Jordan of Lee and Stanford was elected president of the ossociIion. | South Carolina members, wlo were active in support of D. B. Johnson, were first to present Dr. Jordans name Dr Johnson withdrew two
 days ago.
 | Oakland, California, was chosen as | the 1915 meeting place.
 Resolutions adopted today indorse i pensions for teachers, increased salar- lies, vacations to permit teachers to travel. simplified spelling, internat- ional peace, physical inspection Of children and cooperation Of parents in teaching sex hygiene. President Wilson's attitude in the Mexican situa I tion was indorseG.
 Education in a democracy was the | topic of discussion at tonig1ts gen eral session. The convention will ad- journ tomorrow night
 Only one incident marred the har- mony of today's meeting. When w.. 10. Thompson, Ohio state University, chairman of the resolutions committee | had finished reading the report per taining to women suffrage w. M. Sheets of Florida leaped to his feet.
 "I want to know what the com
 mittee means by political equality of | the sexes" he shouted
 Any man who does not know what
 kindergarten of American politics." retorted Thompson with heat.
 As a representative of the south | cannot but present the protest Of
 two thirds of southern women against woman suffrage" persisted Sheets His last words died amid storm of
 laughter and loud applause greeted
 the passage of the resolution. The clause in the resolution dealing
 with suffrage read:
 a~c1nfaffat, Iu off af
 rather than sex as the principle on which appointments and selections should be made and therefore de
 clares itself in favor of the political l equality of the sexes and equal pro lection for equal services | Characterizing the Carnegie and l Rockefeller foundations as agencies
 menaci1g true academic freedom and
 tending to defeat the primary purpos-
 es of democracy in schools, the nor
 nal school department unanimously
 adopted resolution censuring these funds. The resolution says We view with alarm the activities of the Carnegie and Rockefeller found
 atioas, agencies not in any way re sponsible to the people. on their ef-
 forts to control the policies of our
 state educational institutions; to fash
 ion them after their conceptions; to lstandardize our courses of study; and
 to surround the institutions with con
 dtions which menace true academic
 freedom and defeat the primary pur-
 pose of democracy as heretofore pre-
 served inyiolable in our common schools, norma schools and univer-
 sities."
 Mrs. Katrina Thask. Saratoga Springs Springs, N Y. was awarded medal of American School Peace League to- night, The medal is awarded to the person whose efforts toward world peace are considered most valuable
 Mrs Trask is the author of book
 advocating world peace.
 The peafe league tonight elected
 Wm. Howard Taft lonary prosi-