Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-06-27

health and education prob
lens which has been prepared by
Mrs. Mary McSkimmon, president of
the National Education Association,
for the slxty-fourth annual meeting of
that body, to take place next week in
Philadelphia.
After many months spent in travel
ing from coast to coast to study the
children of all sections of the country
in order that her program might en-
phasize all of the vital problems ana
needs facing American childhood in
it's struggle for learning and prepara-
ton for citizenship, Mrs. McSkimmon
has arranged well balanced schedule
which should prove a powerful force
in awakening both the teachers them
selves and the country at large to the
Importance of focusing attention upon
the interests and welfare of children,
not only as custodians Of the Nation s
future, but also as the logical torch
bearers to light the way to greater
harmony Of nations.
1t is the conviction of many proml-
nent club leaders, expressed frequent
ly in assemblies and conventions, that
through training the children of the
world in the principles of lnterna-
tional amity rather than international
animosity will come the first great
step toward a better understanding
between nations, which is recog-
nized as the only possible cure
for war and it's attending evils. In
the n. T.. A. program emphasis will
be laid upon the vital function of
schools In promoting a spirit of inter
national friendship among children.
One interesting address on this sub
ject will be given by John ii. finley
of the New York Times. whose subject
will he Education and the Worlds
Children
MIS-. McSkimmon win follow Mr..
Finley In the general session on June
% with an address, THE Challenge of
Childhood" which will further en-
phasize the importance of thinking of
children as individuals with latent
powers rather than as a mass of ire
sponsible youngsters who must have
certain facts drilled into them whether
they will or no.
The program is too extensive to be
discussed in detail here. but it is
thought that the clubwomen might
be interested in some of the high
lights which coincide so perfectly with
their own work in the interests of
child welfare, which is the keynote of
so many women's national organizd-
tons.
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general session tomorrow morning in
Philadelphia to discussion of child la
Dor problems which is completely in
harmony with the child labor program
of the General Federation of Women's
Clubs outlined during the recent con-
vention at Atlantic City.
Miss Grace Abbott, chief of the
Children's Bureau, United States De-
partment of Labor. will address the
meeting on THE Laws Protection of
childhood" She will be followed by
Cameron Beck. personnel director of
the New York Stock Exchange, who
will discuss the cost of leadership.
pointing out the ultimate loss to
! leadership which comes from putting
children to work instead of through
school.
One of the prominent clubwomen
on the first days program will be
Mrs. A. II. Reeve, president of the Ma
tional Congress of Parents and Teach
ers. who will describe last Summers
roundup of five and sixyear-old chill
dren This roundup is made annually
by the congress. in cooperation with
| the National Education Association
and other nationwide organizations,
! in an effort TO send 100 per cent physi-
| cally perfect children into the first
grades of the schools each Fall. The
children are examined and their de-
fects, if any, reported to parents in
order that they may be corrected as
| far as possible during the Summer
months.
On Wednesday the problem of child
industry will be emphasized further
in addresses by Katherine Dozier of
Gainesville, Ga, and r. l.. Cooley,
director of vocational education in the
public schools of Milwaukee. Wis.
Miss DoZier will speak on the ''Child
and the Mill Mr.. Cooleyis subject
| will be "Industry's Interest in the Ed
ucation of the Child"
Every angle of child life will be
dealt with before the educators draw
their sessions to a close. Radio and
the child, motion pictures and the
child. newspapers and the child-all
will be discussed at length. One of
| the unique features of the mo-
ton picture discussion will he the
showing of a. film. California the
Golden" which has been produced
by teachers and children in California
entirely without assistance from pro
fessional directors.
Mrs. Sara Louise Sullivan president
of the Girl Scouts of America, will
teer in Girl Scout organization at the
morning session, Thursday. July l.
The importance of adequate school
systems for rural communities one
of the things being stressed now by
women's clubs all over the country
will be discussed tomorrow by Miss
Florence NJ. Hale and by Mrs. Marie
Turner Harvey of kirkville, Mo.
who spent Is years of her life under
great hardship, transforming a school
for rural children into the sort of in
stitution all rural communities should
have but few ever dream of.
Two other women well known TO
the clubwomen of Washington will
have a part in the program of the Ma
tional Education Association. Miss
Julia f. Sullivan, president of the de-
partment of classroom teachers, will
preside over the sessions Tuesday and
Thursday afternoon to be held i'm the
auditorium of the Central High
School. Miss Agnes VIM, a member
of the executive staff al Washington.
who was the first classroom teacher
, to be appointed to the staff. will at
| tend the sessions. Miss VIM is an
active clubwoman In the Capital, be-
| ing affiliated with the Woman's City
Club, the 1Soroptimist Club of the Dis
trict of Columbia. the League of
! American Pen Women, National
| League of Women Voters and the
| National Council of Administrative
! Women in Education.
| Miss Belle Sherwin, president of the
| National League of Women Voters
| who returned last Monday from the
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