The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1921-08-19
Educational Conference Be
Held Here to Further
Cause in County.
Primary Cause of Meet is
To Combat Five Month
School Term.
Will Bring Teachers of
County Together For
Cooperation.

Every teacher in the county is ex-
pected to attend the Educational
Conference planned by County Super
intendent Joe Routon, for Thursday
August twenty-fifth.
State Superintendent of Public
Instruction, Hon. j. B. Brown, will
be present to address the assembly.
This is Supt Browns first appear
ance in Henry County since he has
become the head of the public school
system of the state, and all teachers
and school people will be interested
to hear his talk, which will be on
an important educational topic,
Miss Rosa Judson. Rodgers, a
former popular and efficient Henry
but who now has the responsible
position of supervisor of elementary
schools, Montgomery County, Ala
bama, will also attend the mceting,
and viii speak Miss Rodgers has
also taught in the city schools OF
Paris and many friends here have
watched her rising career in the
educational world with marked an
prevail. Her speciality is primary
work, but she will have something
excellent to say to any WHO may
hear her.
The purpose of the conference is
to bring the. county teachers together
for the first time this year in an
inspirational meeting, and TO gener-
ally further the educational cause
in the county. The plans include
an advancement of greater co-opera'
ton and fellowship among the
county teaching fraternity; acquaint-
ing new teachers with those who
have taught in the schools here be-
fore; spreading little advance
educational gospel so to speak,
at the beginning of the school year.
The meeting will be held at the
court house, and will last from ten
thirty in the morning until three
in the afternoon, with the lunch
hour allowed. In addition to the
two principal speakers, most of the
school principals, and the leading
teachers of the county will attend
this conference, and win present any
problems confronting them for dis
cussion and advice.
Many of the county schools are
now in session, some forty having
begun the twenty-fifth of July, but
the day on which the conference
is planned, will be given the teach
ers as a holiday that they may be
present at this important meeting.
The conference is one of the sew
eral things that Supt Routon is
arranging for the immediate future
to arouse and re-awaken a progress
sive spirit in the entire county, in
the interest of fighting another five
months school term in this, one of
the most influential counties of Ten
nessee, and OF overcoming the eight
and one-third per cent illiteracy that
now exists in this county, according
to the census of 1920. An illiterate
is defined in the census, as a person
over 10 years of age who is unable
to read or write the English or any
other language, the per centage being
based on the total population ia
years of age. and over.
A question that will he emphasize d
at this county educational confer
ence is the back to school move
ment," or the stressing of schoo
attendance in Henry County, which
| ia q question that formed an import
| ant portion of the new school law;
as passed by the recent state legisla
| ture. and which base school money:
| pro rata on school attendance, etc.
| instead of on the scholastic censu.
as formerly, and which is a question
| that is looming in importance ever.
| year since the world war; when the
! draft showed so many able bodied
apparently strong minded young men
to be even unable TO read am
write
1t is likely that the new sehoo
4 laws, for the state, which include
| the appointment of single schoo
board to serve the entire county, a.
was recently made by the count,
court in regular session will be pub
! licly explained at this meeting; fol
the first time and it is to be con
| jectured that the important question
o teachers salaries will not be over
looked.
The conference will be open Il
everyone interested in education al
though all Henry County teachers ar,
expected to be present.
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