The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1912-1921, 1918-07-01
TEACHERS THROW
THEIR WEIGHT INTO
COUNTRY CONTEST
5000 OF THEM GATHERING AT
CONVENTION IN PlTTSBURG
TO DISCUSS PROBLEMS.
WILL CONSIDER ESSENTIALS IN
A WARaMODlFlED EDU-
CATION.
SEE IN tRUSSlA'S COLLAPSE Me-
CESSlTY FOR PEOPLES CO.
OPERATION AT HOME.
(By the Associated Press.)

(By the Associated Press.)
Pittsburgh, Pa, July 1.-The tea |,
cheers Of the country, at least the
5000 of them that are gathering here
for convention, for July to 5, are
going to throw their weight into the
contest between Germany ana Amer
lea. They have been virtually called
to the colors by the officers of the
National Education Association,
managing this annual convention.
For one week they are going to dis
cuss war-modified education. Three
cabinet officers, and possibly Pres'-l
dent Wilson, to say nothing of hosb
of notable wartime leaders and edu-
Gators, will tell them what the gov
eminent wants them to do.
Leaders of the Association say that
Russa's collapse has made clear that
the educational organization of the in
telligence and cooperative effort Of
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that the army which is the spear-head
in France, must have lis long strong
shaft at home. The Council of Ma
tional Defense at Washington has de-
creed that the school house must
serve as the governments outposts
and has called on every state organi-
cation TO assist in this civic organi-
cation at he school center. President
Wilson has been the need for this and
has written personally to every state,
calling attention to this movement as
one that will weld this nation to-
gether as no other great nation has
ever been welded before, and thirty
eight states already have responded.
Test Loyalty in Oklahoma.
In Oklahoma, they ask. to test a
mans loyalty, edo you belong to the
Community Council of Defense?"
formed in every school district of the
state. The loyal districts are those
'iioI nave iVu POI CSiit ll0liiUSloiiip
of adults in this service and the
school houses in districts are Compel
ing with each other to show every
man, woman and child lined up and
ready for action.
This accounts for the animation
with which teachers are looking for
ward to the convention at Pittsburgh,
for their leadership in community or
ganIzation is going to be their big
gest and best contribution over
whelming the enemy.
To git people in all walks and
ranks of life, as well as one hundred
and one war organizations, to do
team work together at he school
house, takes study and discussion,
hence three community conferences
have betn planned under the auspices
of the three principal agencies en-
gagged in this educational work, the
National Community Cenuter Asso-
citation, the National Education Asso-
citation, and the United Staes Bureau
of Education These conferences are
to last four days, July to 3.
The president of the National Edu-
cation Association, Mrs. Mary C. c.
Bradford, who is State Superinten-
dent of Public Instruction in Colora-
do, will give the keynote in an open
ing address Monday, July /, entitled,
The Building OF the New Civiliza-
tion,' but he main conferences will
begin the following day when the
United States Secretary of the In
terror Franklin K, Lane, will speak
on Americas Experiment in Demo-
crazy What are its Failures and
John Collier, president of the Ma
tlonal Community Center Association
will give the point of view of the
citizen, who wishes to become a
member of the Community Council of |
Defense. The Council of National
Defense at Washington win present
the system it has inaugurated of 10
cal council organizations at the
school house, and. tht Bureau of Edu-
cation, through Commissioner C,ax-
ton, will tell why the school district
is the ultimate Unit in Democracy"
NOTICE.