Evening star., 1924-06-28
Four Specials Coming This
Afternoon With Parties
From Middle West.
ARRANGEMENTS MADE
FOR MORE THAN 10000
Hundreds From Pacific Coast and
Southwest Expected Early
Next Week.

delegates to the sixty-second annual
meeting of the National Education
Association. which convenes tomor-
row for six-day session, was start
ed this morning at the convention
headquarters in Central High School.
The registration booths were opened
at $3.50 o'clock, and by noon approx
mately 1000 teachers and educators
from various sections of the United
States had officially reported at head
quarters.
Virtually every train which arrived
al the Union Station today brought a
quota of the teachers and prominent
educators who are to take part in the
great educational conclave. The first
of the special trains bringing the
state delegations is scheduled to
arrive this afternoon, and before sun
set more than one-half of the 10000
who have made arrangements {"
come to Washington for the meeting
are expected to be in the city The
peak loads, however, will not be here
until Monday morning, when the first
general session of the cony ention will
get under way.
Westerners Due Today.
Four special trains carrying 1000
of the educators and teachers, left
Chicago last night over the Baltimore
and Ohio lines, and are due to arrive
in the Union station this evening at
1880 o'clock. Delegations from Iowa.
Minnesota, Nebraska North and South
Dakota, Wisconsin, Illinois and Colo
rado are on these trains. The Chi
cago delegation, 700 strong, is occu-
pying an entire special train.
The delegation from Mississippi is
scheduled to reach here this afternoon
at 2:45 o'clock. The Detroit delega-
tion left this morning and is due in
Washington tomorrow morning al
1880 O'Clock. There are $50 in this
delegation. A delegation of fifty from
the University of Virginia arrived
yesterday afternoon over the South
ern railroad.
Many Trains on Way.
Scores of special trains from the
far west and southwest also are en-
route, with the teachers and edu-
Gators, and the exact time of their ar
rival has not been definitely deter
mined. A majority of them will not
reach here until Monday, and a few
are not expected until Tuesday
Hustle at Headquarters.
Convention headquarters at Central
High School were a beehive of activ-
ity this morning the members OF
the numerous local committees
worked with machne-like precision
in preparing for the hordes of teach
ers. Workmen were putting finish
ing touches on the scores of educa
tional exhibits which flank the long
corridors in the basement of the
school The clerks behind the regis
tration booths were answering volley
after volley of questions hred at
them by the visiting teachers.
Many of the teachers who regis
tered early spent the morning view
ing the numerous educational ex-
maps of the District and reading the
vast quantity of literature given
them upon their arrival.
Hold Group Conferences.
Meantime, at the National Educa-
tion Association headquarters, at 1901
18th street. officials of the organiza-
ton were holding group conferences,
mapping out the final plans for the
convention. Pre-convention sessions
of the organizations allied with the \.
E. A. also were held this morning.
These included the national confer
ence on thrift at the New Willard Ho-
tel. the Classical League at the New
National Museum. and the executive
committee of the \. l.. A, which met
at the associations headquarters. and
the conference on the Pan-American
ID 40 ric MA
lean building.
, The board of directors of the Ma
tional Education Association will
meet this afternoon in the Library OF
Central High School A meeting OF
the committee of one hundred on
classroom teachers problems also is
scheduled for 1880 o'clock this eve
ming at the associations headquarters.
Plan Forestry Exhibit.
Delegates to the convention. it was
announced today, will have an oppor-
tunity to, make a close study of for
estry conditions in the United States
| through an exhibit which will be on
| display next week at w. B. Moses g.
Sons. 11th and F streets. Timber de-
pletion, farm forestry. utilization of
| forest products, recreational advan-
tages of wooded areas and the men
ace of man-cauSeQ forest nreS Will oe
shown. Special lantern slide lectures
will be given at 2:30 and 4:3O o'clock
each afternoon
The exhibit will be in charge of Mrs.
Lillian r. Conway, assisted by l.. M.
Heisley, Miss Beryl Garner, Miss Ber-
nice Geddes and Miss Edith Levy. the
special lectures will be given by As
sistant Forester Will c. Barnes. DR..
NJ. C. Merrill, G. H. Collingwood and
Miller Hamilton, all Of the forest
service.
The District school teachers. in con-
nection with those of Virginia, it also
was announced, will give joint re-
ception to all the teachers attending
the convention and their friends Mon
day night at $50 o'clock at the Will
lard Hotel Immediately following the
general session at Central High
School. Music will be furnished by
the United States Marine Band.