Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-02-19
VAN OF EDUCATORS
REACHES CAPITAL.
Council of State Heads and
Commissioners Continues
Meetings.

George n. Child. superintendent of
schools of Salt Lake City. achieved
distinction for the State of Utah to.
day when he was formally indeXed
as No. of the 900 educators who
today began to arrive for the conven-
ilon of the department of superin-
tendence of the National Education
Association.
The peak of the influx of educa-
tlonai visitors. who will tax the ca
pacity OF all local hotels. is expected
To be reached tomorrow.
AIR. Child registered at the Wash.
lngton Auditorium. headquarters for
the convention. shortly before the
registration booth opened at noon. He
was followed by II. T.. Dempsey of
New York, Dr.. Frank W. Ballou, MIR.
ana Mrs. Wallace r. Mason of keene
\. H.; Miss Isabelle Esten of the
Dean Normal School. at keene, n. H.,
ana Joseph Roster, president of the
STATE Normal School, Fairmont, w
Va.
Reception booths at the Union Sta.
uon We're opened today under the SUI
pefNlSlon of G. J. Schwartz Of the
Eastern High School; Miss Sibyl Baker
anu Bessie Nhitford. High School
CADETS under command OF the high
Sch"ol principals. today began their
uuty of attending the wants of the
educators
me Council of State Superintend-
ehtS and Commissioners of Education
were holding the second DAYS session
"i their annual meeting at the New
Willard. This unit is composed of
delegates from each Of the States and
possessions and they are discussing
ohlectlres in State School Admins
tration."
Or. Ballou spoke AT todays session
OF the council. He told the edu.
Gators of the three measures which
Congress had enacted for the benefit
OF the local school system. namely.
passage of the adequate salary bill,
passage Of the compulsory attendance
bill and the fve-year school building
program.
Morning Speakers
DR.. A. F.. Winship. editor of the
Journal of Education, spoke on
America the Beautiful" Others who
spoke this morning We're: John w.
Abercrombie. Ala bama; A. r. Mere
dith. Connecticut; w. S. Cawthon,
Florida: y. II. Ballard, Georgia; T.
ii. Harris. Louisiana; Augustus o.
Thomas, Maine; Albert s. Cook, Mary
Ia nd; Payson Smith. Massachusetts:
Thomas +. johnson. Michigan: w. j.
Hunting, Nevada; Ernest w Butter
field. New Hampshire; John Enrigh;.
New Jersey; Frank +. Groves. New
York: A. T. Allen, North Carolina;
NJ. A. Nash. Oklahoma; r. X. Haas.
PENNSYLVANIA: Walter T.. RANGE.
Rhode Isla nd; James II. Hope. Sou,h
Carolina; +. J.. Harmed, Tennessee:
Clarence II. Dempsey. Vermont, ilar
ris Hart. Virginia, and George NJ.
Ford. West Virginia.
United States Commissioner of Ed
uca tion John J. Tigert IT the banquet
of the council held last night gave
the educators the following message:
"It would he nothing less than a
calamity to the Nation if the Federal
bureau should trespass upon the
rights of the State departments, but
there is useful function which ii
may perform. Without some central
agency for investigation and infor-
ma tion, there is essentially great
deal of lost motion and duplication of
effort
OPPORTUNITIES 10 study the educa
tional activities OF the Department of
the Interior will he afforded the visit
Ing educators beginning tomorrow.
Educational Exhibit.
Covering q floor space OF approx
mately 900 square feet in the lower
front corridor OF the Interior Depa rt-
ment Building. the Bureau of Edu-
cation, Geological Survey. National
Parks Service, Bureau ~ Indian At
fairs Bureau 81 Reclamation, Pen
sion Office. Land ONCE. Howard Uni
versity. Columbia institute for the
Deaf. Alaska Railway and ST. Eliza
beth's Hospital and Freedmen's Hos
pital will unite in a joint educational
exhibit to show some of the services
rendered by the Interior Department
as a Federal university for the PEG
pie" The exhibit will he arranged
bv various schools" of the uni
versity" as research engineering,
education. psychiatry. geology. geog-
raphy. botany, zoology, chemistry,
history and anthropology.
The Bureau of Education has ar
ranged a special exhibit in its rooms
and in the + street corridor on the
sixth floor of the Interior Building.
One of these exhibits. occupying the
entire corridor. will contain more
than $50 pictures and floor plans OF
school buildings. representing "a
cities and 10 counties in "a States
Another exhibit will show the work
of the extension departments OF state
universities and another Will sho"
the administrative organizations OF
80 of the larger city school systems.
Tomorrow will be devoted to
program of safety education con-
ferences under the supervision of the
the National Safety Councils edu-
cation division with an important
session tomorrow night by the Ma
tional Society for the Study OF Edu-
cation when Secretary of Commerce
Hoover will deliver an address on
Safety as a National Problem.
Safety Council Sessions.
The safety council sessions viii
start tomorrow morning at 10 o clock
i'm the Central High School with the
following speakers: Mrs. suzanne
NORM Swing. Miss Minnie Nelson.
Miss Ruth Streitz and Mrs, Frances
Miner Tomorrow afternoon those
to talk will be DIR. f. George Payne,
Miss Evelyn Holston. DR.. Harold
Rugg and A. w. Whitney.
A morality play, How knowledge
Driveth Away Fear" will be present
ed .by the dra matte club Of the VIII
son Normal School at Central High
School tomorrow afternoon at 4:3O.
Members OF the National Society
for the study of Educat ton Will hear
tomorrow night at the Washington
Auditorium: Guy NJ. Whipple. secre-
tary of the society, on introducing
the Yearbook Of Safety Education:
A. w. Whitney, chairman or the edu-
cation division of the National Safety
Council. New York City, on The Re