The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-02-21
Educators Assemble
In the City of Detroit

president; National Council of Teach
ers of English, Edwin NJ. Hopkins,
University OF Kansas, president; Ma
tional Vocational Guidance Associa-
tion, Jesse B. Davis. Grand Rapids,
Mich. president; School Garden AS
ISOLATION of America. Van Evrie Kill
patrick, New York City, president;
International Kindergarten Union,
Lucy Wheeler, Boston. chairman;
National Congress of Mothers and
Parent Teachers Associations, Mrs.
Frederick Schon', Philadelphia. pres
lident: National Association of Execu-
tive and Administrative Women in
Education, Lucy X. Cole, Seattle,
Wash, president.
Registration and assignments to
hotels and boarding houses occupied
the managers of the convention Sun
day. Because several of the organi-
cations will not meet until Wednes-
day or later it was expected that this
work would continue for several
Z days.
First Meeting.
4 The first OF the meetings was held
this morning when the Society of
College Teachers of Education and
the Council Of State Departments Of
Education opened The latter will
conclude its sessions today, but the
former will extend through Tuesday
morning. The National Vocational
| Guidance Association started this az
ternoon. and the National Society for
the Study of Education, the American
School Peace League and the Nation
al Council Of Education begin their
activities in the evening.
| Thrift" is the topic for the Ma
tiunal Council Of Education at its
initial session and nine speakers are
to discuss it in Its relation to country
life, industries, health and hygiene,
banking, conservation, the home, and
mems organizations, such as labor
unions, commercial associations and
similar bodies. This discussion will
be a sequel to public school essay
contest on Thrift which slosed with
January. Prize winners will be Sc
lected from each community, county
and state. and the ten best in each
state will ne considered in awarding
a national prize. 1t Is estimated that
10000 school children wrote on the
subject.
Butler 10 Speak.
The Department of Superintend-
ence will begin It's sessions Tuesday
evening. Nicholas Murray Butler
president Of Columbia university, has
been announced as the principal
speaker, his subject being What is
G ding On in the World" The de-
parment will hold it's meetings up tc
Friday evening. The late Thursday
session has been set aside as School
master Governors Evening" with
Governors woodbridge N. Ferris. Of
Michigan; Frank B. Willis, of Ohio
and Martin c. Brumbaugh, Of Penn
sylvania, invited as speakers.
luncheons, dinners and receptions
by the dozens have been planned fol
the visiting pedagogues. Alumni Of
various universities and colleges viii
conduct some Of these social affail
and women's clubs. commercial as
soclations, and public school organi'
cations of Detroit will look after
others. Among the entertainment:
will be a Shakesperian pageant by
pupils OF the Detroit central high
school. entitled 1.-THE Passing Show
OF 1916" Various industrial estab
lishments of the city will be thrown
open for inspection during the week
and all educational institutions OF the
city will also be on view.