Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1920-12-04
CITIZENS REGIONAL
 CONFERENCE ON
 EDUCATION DEC. 6

Regional Conference on Education for the states of California, Arizona, and New Mexico will be held on Monday, December 6, in the State Capitol Building, Sacramento, California.
 The purpose of the conference, which is one of series of twelve re- gional conferences on education, call ed by the Commissioner of Education, is to discuss the most important and pressing needs of education in Cali fornia, Arizona, and New Mexico from the standpoint of statesmanship and the public welfare, and from the standpoint of the citizens who own, support and use the schools rather than from that of professional edu- cators.
 State and national officials, busi- ness and professional men and women, editors, statesmen, publicists, educa- tors and representative citizens in every line of activity have been in- vited to attend the conference, which will include three sessions. Set speeches and formal proceedings of any kind will be avoided as far as possible. Although a definite under standing will be reached in advance that certain persons will be prepared to speak, it is not intended to con fine the proceedings to those persons. The meetings will be CONFEREN- CES, in reality, and frank and free expression will be in order.
 Among the conference topics an nounced for such round-table discus sion are:
 l. Important Recent Progress.
 ?. Proposed Legislative Programs
 3. In What Does the Real Crisis in Education Consist?
 4. An Adequate Supply of Con- petent Teachers Adequately Prepared
 5. The Pay of Teachers and School Officers.
 6. Special Needs of Rural Schools
 '. The Needs of Higher Education
 8. Sources of Revenue for Educa- tion.
 9. Relation of Education to Ma terial Wealth and the Public Welfare,
 Governor Boyle, of Nevada, has been invited to discuss the Problems of Revenue for the Larger Support of Education" Governor Stephens, of California, has been asked to extend welcome to the delegates, and Gov ernor Campbell, of Arizona, to discuss phases of education. Mayor Brown of Sacramento, has been asked to speak at the opening session of the conference.
 The first half hour of the morning session will be devoted to an outline of recent progress and contemplated legislation in each of the States in cluded in the conference group. Hon c. o. Case, State Superintendent ot public instruction of Arizona, Hon F. J. Hunting, State superintendent of public instruction of Nevada, and Hon. Will c. Wood, State superintend- ent of public instruction of California will discuss the first two conference topics as applying to their respective States.
 William H. Crocker has been invit. ed to speak on '"The Importance o1 Education to the Financial and Com. mercial Welfare of the People," Fl, wood Mead, University of Califarnia will speak on '"The Relation of Edu cation to Rural Life and Agricultura Efficiency" President Barrows, Uni versity of California, has been asked to speak on Meeting the Needs o1 Higher Education. in California, Ari zona, and New Mexico .
 Among those invited to attend the conference are members of chambers of commerce, women's clubs, civic anc patriotic organizations, labor unions farmers organizations, ministers lawyers, mayors of cities, members ot legislatures, members of State boards of education, county and city super lntendents of schools, county and city boards of education, representatives of universities, colleges and normal schools, members of Rotary and Xii wanls Clubs, and all who are inter- ested as citizens in the improvement of the schools, which, as citizens, they own, control, pay for and use. Citi- zens of Sacramento and adjoining cit les and towns have been invited to at- tend the session of the conference.
 The conference for the States of California, Arizona, and New Mexico, is the fifth in the series called by the Commissioner of Education; the first regional conference will be held at Chicago, on November 29, the second at St. Paul, on November 30, the third at Butte, Montana, on December End, and the fourth at Portland, Ore gon, on December 4.
 The regional conferences were call ed as the result of a resolution of the National Citizens Conference on Edu- cation, held in Washington last May. This conference requested the Com