Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-12-01
DUKE CITY MEN
|. ON EDUCATIONAL
. FARLEY PROGRAM
President D. S. Hill and Su-
perintendent John Milne
Scheduled to Speak at
Conference at Denver.

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evening of Wednesday, December
5, and the morning of, Thursday
December Q.
The purpose of the conference
which is one Of a series of twelve
conferences called by the com
missioner of education, is to dis
cuss the most important and press
ing needs of education in Colorado
Wyoming and New Mexico from
the standpoint of craftsmanship
and the public welfare. and from
the standpoint of the citizens who
own, support, and use the schools
rather than from that of profess
sional educators.
Many Arc Invited.
Governors and chief school Of
flcers of the conference states,
members of legislatures, mayors of
cities, members Of city councils,
women's clubs, labor unions, Ro
tary clubs, Kiwanis clubs, and
civic and patriotic organizations,
and ministers, lawyers, editors, and
other publicists business men, city
and county superintendents of
schools, members of county and
city boards of education, repre-
sentatives of universities. colleges,
normal schools, and men and wom-
en- interested as citizens in the inn
provement of the schools and the
promotion of education have been
invited to attend the sessions of the
conference
Set speeches and formal pro-
ceedings of any kind will be avoid
ed as far as possible Although a
definite understanding will be
reached in advance that certain
PERSONS will be prepared to speak,
it is not intended to confine the
proceedings to those persons. The
meetings will be conferences, In
reality, and frank and free express
sion will be in order.
Topics For Discussion.
Among the conference topic an
nounced for such formidable dis
cussion are:
/. Important recent progress
2. Proposed legislative pro-
grams.
8. In what does the real crisis
in education consist?
4. An adequate supply of COM
petent teachers adequately pre-
pared.
5. The pay of teachers and
school officers
6, Special needs of rural
schools.
Z. The needs of higher educa-
8. Sources of revenue for edu-
cation.
8. Relation of education to the
production of material wealth and
to the public welfare
The program arranged for the
first day of the conference COM
prises an afternoon session, at
which imperative educational needs
and compensation of teachers will
be among the subjects discussed,
a dinner at which Mrs Mary c. c.
Bradford, state superintendent of
public instruction, will be toast
master, and public meeting.
Among the speakers at the open
ing session, which will also include
a discussion of Equitable Distrlbu-
ton of State and Federal Funds"
will be David spence Hill of New
Mexico, Mrs. Katherine A. Morton.
state superintendent of public in
struction of wyoming; Superinten-
dent Sexson, Sterling, Colo; super
intendent Stoes, Las Cruces. n. M:
President Crabbe of Greeley, Colo;
Mrs, Ruth C. Miller, state director
vocational education, New Mexico.
Needs of Respective States.
AT the dinner, scheduled to fol-
low the afternoon session, govern
ors of the conference states, or
their representatives, win voice the
needs of their respective states in
educational legislation. State Su-
perintendent Wagner will speak on
New Mexicos Greatest Problem"
Such topics as Increase in Rev
enue" and Possible Sources of
Revenue" will be discussed by emf
nent laymen at the public meeting.
Among those who will address the
public meeting are Secretary Joerns
of the tax commission of New
Mexico; Mr.. Morgan of the tax
of Colorado; Professor
Herbert Hadley, University of Col
orado, and Mayor Hunter of Chey-
enne. "All Year Round schools
will be discussed by Superintendent
Milne of Albuquerque, N. NJ; Pres
ident Hill, University of New Mex
leo, and Ward Bannister, of the
Civic and Commercial Association
of Denver.
The Kiwanis club of Denver will
be represented at the conference by
H. Smiley, George c. Man
ley, Henry H. Clark, and Alfred
Hoel.
Objects of the Conference.
The citizens of Denver and adj
joining cities have been invited to
attend the sessions of the confer
ence, which, in common with other
regional conferences of the series
called by the commissioner of ed
ucation, is the result of resoIu-
ton of the National Citizens Con-
ference on Education, held in
last May. That con-
ference requested the commission
err of education to call another SIM
liar conference late in the fall of
this year for the purpose of dis
cussing the educational situation
at this time, legislative measures
to be presented to the legislatures
Of the several states next year, and
the means of continuing the foster
ing of such interest among the
people at large and their represent
tatives in legislative bodies as may
be necessary to obtain needed leg
Islation.
Sixth of the Series.
After carefully considering the
the commissioner of edu-
cation decided that series of re-
yional conferences would be more
effective than one conference for
he whole country could be. This
will make possible much larger
,otal attendance, and a more prac-
ical and detailed discussion of
and ynafhnd af r,aat