Evening star., 1921-04-17
NOTED EDUCATORS
AMONG SPEAKERS
Community Centers Confer.
ence First of Kind-Opens
Here Thursday.

With high government officials,
! members of Congress and representa-
tiv6s of educational institutions from
all sections of the country in at
tendance. the first national confer
ence on the use of the community
ten. federal commissioner of educa
ton. will open here Thursday for y
three-day session. Meetings will be
held at the Thomson Community
| Center. 18th and l. streets, and in the
auditorium of Central High School.
! To make plain the way in which
the nations public school equipment
! may he used both for voting and for
! TIE orga nized prediction assembl '
! of the citizens is the primary pur-
pose of the conference. The possi
biIities of this postal system in CO.
stitute the secondary object.
DR.. CIaxton First Speaker.
! The initial session will be held at
Central High School Thursday even
ing at 1880 O'Clock. with Justice Sid
dons of the District Supreme Court
presiding. Addresses of welcome will
be made by Commissioner CiaXton. DIR.
Abram Simon. president of the boa rd
OF education. AMI Miss Cecil B. Nor
+: ton. general secretary of the COM
nunity center department of the Dis
tr II public schools. The principal
speeches will be made by Brig Gen.
, Charles +. Sawyer. President: Hard
acting comm .ssioner of education of
New York state. and Mrs. Lillian
Russell Moore. known on the stag.
as Lillian Russell Gen. Sawyer will
speak on "';very Pubic Schooihous =
a Community Center" DR.. Gilbert on
Recently Passed in New York. Max
ing Each Public Schoolhouse a Poll
ing Place." and Mrs. Moore on THE
Community Center as the Neighbo' =
hood Headquarters of Dramatic EX-
preston"
The second session will be held Fri
day morning at 10 o'clock at the
Thomson School. Mrs. Giles Scott
Refer will preside. Speeches vii! be
made by Mrs. \. J. Driscoll. Charles
Finckel. Senator Kenyon of Iowa.
Thomas G. Moore. member of the New
York state assembly: Miss Frances S.
Farley. Mrs. Herbert D. Brown. Lynn
Hines. Norman Hapgood and Clinton
Rogers, secretary OF the National
Municipal League.
House Clerk on Program.
The third session will be held at
the Thomson School Friday afternoon
ut . o'clock. with Mrs. Howard l..
Of Women's Clubs. presiding. Ad-
dresses will be made by William Tyler
Page. clerk OF the House of Rep
resentatives: DIR. \. o. Thomas. state
Superintendent of schools Of Maine:
Or. ]. w. Abercrombie. state superin-
tendent Of education of Alabama !:
Miss Norton. Mrs Gabrielle Pelham, a.
Sevin Sponseller. community sccre-
tary Of Mount Joy. Pa. and Edward
81. Barrows Of New Bedford, Mass. -,
preside at Friday evenings meeting.
which will be held at Central High
School at 7:30 O'Clock. The program
will include addresses by Superintend-
ent of Schools Frank w. Ballou, Post
master General Will H. Hays and
Pennsylvania.
The Saturday morning discussion
session will be held at the Thomson
School at 10 o'clock. The speakers
will be Senator Capper OF Kansas.
Daniel c. Roper, Secretary of Agri-
Greensboro. y. G.; w. J. Holloway.
Maryland State supervisor of rural
schools. and George w. Guy of Rich
mond. Va. executive secretary OF the
Cooperative Educational Association.
The second discussion on Sa turday1
also will be held at the Thomson
School. at o'clock in the afternoon.
Miss Margaret Woodrow Wilson will
preside. Speeches will be n1adeaby Dr..
Edwin A. Peterson of the American
Red Cross; Samuel L. Rogers, direc-
tor of census; Dolph Eastman Of New
York. Arthur K. Holder and Dudley
Grant Hays of Chicago.
The conference will c,ose with an
informal dinner at the Thomson school
Saturday night. at o'clock The din
| ner is being arranged by Mrs. Dris-
coll.
All Of the sessions are open to the
public.