Evening star., 1940-03-24
Speaking Conference
Opens 1hree-Day
Meeting Thursday
Phuses Of Education
To Be Taken Up
At Annual Session

Addresses dealing with the art
Of speaking and topics Of general
interest will be delivered by promi-
nent speakers during sessions of an
annual meeting of the Eastern
Public-Speaking Conference, to be
held Thursday, Friday and Satur-
day in the Mayhower Hotel.
The New York League for Speech
Improvement and the Potomac
Speech Association will meet in
conjunction with the conference,
participating in general meetings.
Preliminary sessions will be held
Thursday evening.
A business session will be held at
9:30 am. Friday, with the confer
ence president. w. Hayes Yeager of
George Washington University, pre-
. siding. 1t will be followed at 10
am. by speech education" ses-
sion at which addresses of welcome
will be delivered by Representative
Randolph of West Virginia and
Chester w. Holmes, assistant super
intendent of District public schools.
Speakers at the session on speech
education will include Harold Ben
jamin, dean of the College of Edu-
cation and director of the summer
session, University of Maryland,
whose subject will be "The Place
OF Speech in Teacher Training:
Ordway Tead, president of the
Board of Higher Education, New
York, who will talk on THE Place
OF Speech in the Colleges and Uni
versities" DR.. Helen K. Macintosh,
senior specialist in elementary edu-
cation, United States Office of Edu-
cation, who will speak on The
Place of Speech in the Elementary
School Curriculum" and Miss Ethel
Sunny, whose subject will be "The
Place of Speech in the Secondary
School Curriculum"
Separate Sessions Friday.
Friday afternoon separate ses-
sions will be held dealing with
speech in pre-school education,
speech in elementary education,
speech in secondary education,
speech In the colleges and univer-
sites, speech in teacher education,
speech in adult education, dramat-
les, rhetoric, voice and diction and
educational aids in speech. Sew
eral educators and experts will take
part in these sessions.
Among speakers at one of the
Friday afternoon sessions will be
Frank Cushman, consultant in voca-
tional education. Unitel States Office
OF Education. and j. o. Martin,
editor of the Chesapeake g. Potomac
Telephone Co.'S magazine. Two ses-
eions, one on voice and diction and
the other on educational aids to
speech. will be held Friday night,
to be followed by general discus
sion and conference.
General Topics Saturday.
Speakers on topics of general in
terest will be featured in sessions
Saturday morning, the first to be
devoted to the general theme of
Putting the News on the Air" and
the second to measuring Public
Opinion" Earl Goodwin of the Ma
tional Broadcasting Co., Albert
Warner of the Columbia Broadcast
Ing System and Fulton Lewis, ir.
OF the Mutual Broadcasting System
will speak at the first Of the Satur-
day sessions; Eugene Meyer, pub
Usher of the washington Post, will
preside at the second session. The
speakers and subjects at the latter
will be George H. Gallup, public
opinion statistician, whose subject
will be The Method of Scientific
sampling and the Place of Polls of
Public Opinion in Democracy; Fl.
A. Wichelns, Cornell University, who
will speak on Some Weaknesses of
Public Opinion Polls; Roscoe
Wright, chief of public relations,
Bureau Of the Census, who will
talk on "HoW a Federal Apencu