The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-02-25
the school and the adul, community.

the school and the adult community.
is fortunate that our generation
is inci!ning 10 formulate tho task of
euucatloh largely in economic terms, in
! ' tei iis III earning ana spending. Of pro-
uuctiNe efficiency anu standards OF liv-
ing. Those are no gnvble or purely
Hiatctiaiistic terms. II Is q misinter-
pfetation OF this tendency TO say that
tit Is for the advantage OF Industry.
The demand is made not In the In
,efests oil industry, but In the name and
In the interests OF education IL W..
can Increase by 90 per cent the earn
inG capacity OF the boy who enters in
uustfy, We shall make him relatively
independent OF his employer. II he be-
comes worth So week at the start
instead OF S6-;o Industry, he becomes
by the same educational process worth
Sl2 week 10 himself. | am far from
suggesting that earning capacity at the
moment of leaving school Is tho ONLY
or even the best test Of the efficiency
OF the schools. but II Is q very definite
test, and one from which the opponents
of modern ideas In education should
not shrink. Men and women who arc
TT 10 do the work Of the world. and
keen 10 appreciate In due proportions
the fruits OF Industry. capable workers
ana discriminating ultimate consumers
producers of wealth.. e. OF well-be-
ing and rational users OF wealth-these
are the goal of education as the social
economist would formulate Il. asking
from the schools not everything. but
n generous slice OF that large eycry-
thing OF which social welfare consiste."
United states Commissioner OF Edu-
cation l.. p. Claxton. who arrived in the
morning. came In. and was invited TO
the rostrum. He was received with
applause.
About $500 Visitors Here.
br. Chandler announced in an interim
mat thirty negroes from the Whitlock
Tobacco factory had been engaged to
sing Southern airs for the educators at
i:i5 O'Clock tonight The time Is set
nfteen minutes earlier. 80 as not to
interfere with the program. which will
begin promptly at 8 o'clock DR..
Chandler announced also that tho John
Marshall High School Chorus missing
last night, would sing in the high
school at $50 o'clock this morning, and
invited all the delegates to come and
near the singing.
Joint resolution from the General
Assembly. welcoming the National Edu-
cation Association. and inviting It's
members to visit the Legislative halls
at any time they desired, was read and
unanimously accepted.
The actual registration made yester-
day showed that there were $500 dele
gates present AS the American Assoc
cintion OF Collegiate Registrars, which
IS also meeting here. does not register
with the National Education Associa.
uon' ana az many women are not reg
lstered. the actual number OF visitors
Is nearly $500. Secretary Joseph H.
Saunders has had some difficulty In
finding room for all tho delegates, Tor
the hotels are hlled and some Of the
visitors. have been turned away.
attention was called TO the fact yes
tetohy that the elementary school e2-
hioits are being shown In the John
Marshall High School. and the exhibits
or colored schools are being displayed
~ the Armstrong High School Color
ed). Commercial exhibits arc on dis
play in Murphy's Hotel Annex.
ALVIN Il Pope. chief OF the Depart
nent or Education OF the Panama-pa-
enc exposition, and Wallace Hatch,
superintendent OF special exhibits Of
the same department. are attending tho
convention. interesting the educators In
4 scientific system of exhibition and
Sitlon