Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-07-09
EDUCATORS FAVOR
EQUAL SUFFRAGE
Resolution Declares for PoIit-
zeal Rights for Women-con-
denim Sex Teaching.

ST. PAUL, Mimi. July s-For the
purpose of receiving the reports of
the various committees and electing
president to succeed Joseph Swain,
of swarthmore, Pa. the National
Education Association held its annual
business meeting today. Harmony
was the watchword of the meeting,
and the unanimous election of DR..
David Starr Jordan, of Leland STAN
ford University. was expected
The resolutions committee embodied
| in its report a resolution indorsing
! woman suffrage The resolution does
not specifically mention man or wom-
an suffrage, but states that the edu-
Gators of the country believe ''politi-
cal equality for both sexes necessary
| for the best interest of the nation.
While the business meeting was in
session various problems pertaining
to the welfare of children were being
discussed by delegates in different de-
partments and plans outlined for the
solution of questions vital to the edu-
cational world.
Speaking before the department of
child hygiene, DR.. Louis W Rapeer,
OF the New York Training School for
Teachers, advocated education as 8
means of eliminating enormous ma
| tional financial loss" due to i'll health
THE average workingman's family
| has an economic loss OF between five
and fifteen per cent. of the annual in
come, due TO i'll health DR.. Rapeer
said.
The teaching of sex hygiene in
schools was roundly denounced at
yesterdays session of the association.
Speaker after speaker argued against
a
/ loud applause.
I'VE should have only the strongest
condemnation for the wealthy. club
| going woman who has not time to
teach her child the fundamental
truths of life and would throw the
| responsibility upon a teacher or a
football coach, said DR.. Charles II.
| Keene, of Minneapolis, supervisor of
hygiene and physical training.f Such
carelessness is outrageous When
| the cheering had subsidized he went
on:
Sex instruction placed on the same
plane with spelling and arithmetic
will rob it of all its sacredness. We
talk about the inability of the poorer
mother to teach her children personal
hygiene but it is not for these chill
dren We need to have all the fear
knowledge never will compel pur-
ity. Sex instruction in schools will
but tend to lower the standard OF
in our schools the homes of America
will continue to lose ground and will
give up the few privileges they now
have to train the children"
n. W. Showalter, president of
Cheney Normal School, Cheney,
Washington. said when a father
or mother turns aside a child's
natural question or deals dishonesty
with pex questions, he or she lays
the foundation of an immortality
which may develop into tremendous
force"
Miss Clara G. Baer. of New Orleans,
and Baroness Rose Posse, of Boston.
expressed similar views on the sub
ject,
Methods for the conservation of the
future race were advocated before the
Department of Social Education by
Mary G. Campbell, Chicago psy-
biologist She suggested close OBJ
seryation of the characteristics of the
children in the public schools as
means to determining delinquency in
time to apply curative treatment.
Every year the public schools pro-
duce human waste as is evidenced
by those who pass through our courts
and nsychopathic laboratories, she
said. I'VE should conserve the chill
dren in the public schools by having
a special report every few months on
those who are slightly retarded and
are beginning to lag behind so that
the deviations from normal could be
studied in time to prevent mental
and moral disaster. Many an i'm
moral act has its genesis in the dis
couraged boy or girl