New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-07-02
Council Opens Convention
with Talks on Thrift
and Education.
ALL SECTIONS OF u. S.
ARE REPRESENTED
Women In Majority Among
Those Who Will Hear Lectures
and See Sights.

Father Knickerbocker during the next
week is to be the self-appointed host
for tho largest gathering Of teachers
and educators OF every description,
from colleges. preparatory and elemen-
tary schools, that has ever been assem-
bed In one place. An army of 3d.
600 visitors, In addition TO the 1890
New York teachers, who have already
enrolled their names at the addison
Square Garden headquarters Of the Ma
tional Education Association, are pour
ing into the railroad terminals on every
train, coming from every corner OF the
United States that is large enough TO
have a public school system.
II &. an overwhelming feminine army
with a whole division Of young school
marms Just out OF normal school. and
hailing for the most part from places
that the average New Yorker could not
locate on the map. But there ars thou
sands Of older women. too, who are
registering In ever incresing numbers
at headquarters.
These 10000 (or IL may be 100000
visitors have come to New York for
J the purpose Of listening to lectures
/ and addresses scheduled on the seven
day programme, but New York Is pre-
pared TO lure them from the stern duty
! Of acquiring knowledge, and has pre-
pared for the purpose list OF enter
tainments and amusements. At ono
end Of the scale there are special con-
certs, receptions, dances, dramatic per-
formances and trips up the Hudson and
down the Bay. and at the other Is
Coney Island.
Along one side Of the big room in
Madison Square Garden in which the
"what is IT," the fat woman and the
man from Borneo additionally disport
/ themselves when the circus comes 70
town, there are hundreds of colored
pamphlets and a fourishing ticket
Office, providing excursion rates for
I seaside resorts, Niagara Falls, sight
seeing buses and the islands OF the
/ Caribbean.
N.E.A. Opens Work.
Yesterday the ffty-fourth annual
! convention Of the National Educational
Association opened with meeting Of
/ the National Council OF Education, a
subordinate body Of the association, in
the ballroom Of the Hotel Aston, which
will be used during all the week as a
supplementary lecture hall. Addresses
were delivered by Robert NJ. Yerkes
| assistant 'SRfessor Of psychology at
| Harvard; ). Duncan Yocum, Of the Unit
versity OF Pennsylvania; James J.
/ Joyner, State superintendent OF North
/ Carolina; s. W. Stratus, president OF the
| American Society Of Thrift. and John
/ ". Carr, Superintendent OF Schools OF
/ Bayonnc, n. J.
The title Of Mr.. Strauss address was
/ 1.-THE Greater Thrift" and the big
/ audience in the Aston ballroom listened
/ TO his definition OF useful and wasteful
means of spending money with the
/ kcenest interest THE man who pays
/ $4,000 for a work of art, the product
/ of the brain of a genius, and hangs II
| in his home is not thriftless or extrav-
/ agant," said Mr.. Straus, "for he is plac-
/ ing a premium on genius and brains,
The man VIII adorns his home with
expensive furniture and who maintains
beautiful grounds, If he can actually
afford such things. Is a benefactor be
cause he is rewarc.rg skill and artistic
accomplishment.
Mr.. Straus declared that Americans
were an amazingly thslftless people.
OF the 20,000,000 families occupying
homes in the United States, he said
that 100000 rerted the houses they
/ lived in, and of the remainder 3,OOO,-
900 lived under the burden of mort
gage.
Superintendent Joyner, OF North
Carolina, speaking on Rural Educa-
ton" said that 1t was hopeless TO cry
"back to the farm!" to the country
! bows until they were taught to make
money out of the soil and to demand
modern conveniences of life and the
breaking up of the old isolation. The
girls in the country school must be
taught how to make their homes COM
Portable, healthy and soeiable.
Social wellbeIng Shown
Professor Yerkes delivered an ad-
dress on THE Psychological Aspects Of
Social Wellbeing," in which he dis
cussed the question of eugenics and
prenatal existence. at is, in my opin-
ion" he said, "as much the duty Of the
educator to assure that individuals
shall be well born as that they shall
be well reared. SO long as We attempt
to sharply separate the problems Of
parental development from those Of
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