New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-07-01
Large Calibred Speech
Makers i'm Van as $4,000
N. A. Visitors Arrive.
FESTIVITIES PLANNED
FOR DAY AND NIGHT
Teachers Will BE Busy at Play
When They're Not Too
Busy with Work.

Thirty thousand members OF the
National Education Association with
their families, making a total of o.
600 visitors, are closing in upon New
York this morning. Led oy the in
coming president of the association,
David b. Johnson, the South Carolina
brigade stormed the gates yesterday
and fortified position in the waldorf
Astoria David Starr Jordan, at the
head If the Pacific Coast division, Is
expected TO enter the city from the
West this morning. The invaders are
supplied with rapid fire speech-maK-
ors. big oratorial guns and reams OF
ammunition for round table discus
sions.
To make an unconditional surren-
der TO the school teachers is the de-
termination of the defenders. The
city will belong TO the schoolmasterS
and schoolma ans from this until the
next Saturday.
A reason prompts New York's gen
erosity. For ffty-four years the "
= A. has scorned New York's hospital
ity for that Of every other city OF any
size in the country. Thrice IL na'
banouetcd with Chicago, Los Angeies
and Kansas City, and four tunes WIZ
learned Boston. Now that lot w
frst time since the early days OF the
Civil War. tho teachers have deciGeu
10 accent New York's invitation Ne"
York has determined 10 show them
GOOD time. There will be dinners
banouets. balls, breakfasts, speeches.
and mass meetings without end.
Welcome from Governor.
The first general session Of the as
sociation will be neld next Monday al
ternoon in Madison Square Garden
vbcro addresses Of welcome will De
made bv Governor Whitman, John H.
Finley. State Commissioner OF Educa-
lion. Mayor Mitchell, President Will
GOV c ~ the BOARD of Education, City
cnnorintcndent Of Schools Maxwell and
Acting City superintendent otrau-
benmuller. ,-oi.
Chief among the speakers at the week
don't William Howard Taft, who Will
talk on as There Waste IN Educ"-
tom" William Jennings Bryan, VINO
will explain the new meaning OF reaco
with Honor; David Starr Jordan, retlr-
ing president Of the organization; rhI-
ander p. Claxton, United states COM
missioner of Education; Ella tlagg
Young. Superintendent OF the chicago
schools; Fannie Fern Andrews, OF bos-
ton. Permanent Secretary OF the School
Peace League, and G.. Stanley HAL, VINO
will deduce conclusions from the pres
ont War and Education.
educational Sunday" will be oo-
served tomorrow in score OF the Guy
churches. A. the Cathedral of s.. John
the Divine, DR.. Robert Johnson. rector
NJ the Church of the Saviour, Philadel-
phia, will conduct services at IL ana 4
o'clock. The Central Presbyterian
Church will hold special services at the
same hours.
Other Special Services.
The Central Jewish Institute will give
reception to the Jewish teachers az
the institute tomorrow afternoon at 5
o'clock. and the Sabbath service to-day
will be dedicated to education. Temple
Emanuel will hold the regular ser
vices to-day For the visiting Catholic
teachers solemn high mass will be cele-
brated at II a. m. at st. Patrick's Ca
thedral.
To-day's programme includes after
noon and evening sessions in the ball
room Of the Hotel Aston Of the Ma
tional Council of Education, consisting
Of high officials of the association.
Speakers in the afternoon will be DR..
A. Duncan Yocum, professor Of educa-
tional research and practice in the
University of Pennsylvania, whose sub
iect will be report on the Course Of
Study as a Test OF Efficiency of Super
vision; Or. Helen c. Putnam, Of Prov
idence. r. l., who will speak on Pre-
paredness and Education and Robert
VI. Yerkes, assistant professor of com
parative psychology and psychologist
TO the Psychopathlc Hospital, Boston,
whose subject will be Psychological
Aspects of Racial Well-Being."