The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-03-24
Alabama Editor
Addresses State
Teachers Meet
Wilmington Teacher Named
Treasurer Of Group; Ses-
sions Ends Friday

RALEIGH, March %. - up -
DR.. John Temple Graves, editor
of The Age-Herald, Birmingham
Ala, declared in an address here
tonight that To-day, as in all the
days gone by, North Carolina IS
leading the south in those educa-
tional ambitions and achievements
which are still the great answer
for the SOUTH
Graves spoke at the second gen
eral session of the North Carolina
Education Associations annual
convention. The conference ends
tomorrow with the installation OF
new officers.
The Alabama editor declared
that Democracy is a liberal arts
institution, but liberal arts are not
liberal enough if they do not in
clude disciplines, faith and great
dreams. North Carolina has an
other educational governor. He,
like the others, wants more ana
more education in NORTH Carolina
and he wants to be certain that
education is not just a trade or
profession, but a leading forth OF
the mind, soul, perceptions and,
most of all, the character.
ST hope he wants education
freed. too, of a certain unprogress-
iveness which persuaded a cult
of educators in the dark decades
before Pearl Harbor that children
are born into this world an-wlse'
and that education can be given
to them by exposure alone ne con-
tinued.
In the south where education is
too badly needed and hard to get,
he said. our educational ideal OF
true leading forth with work anc
discipline involved in the Leading
is coming back to national atten
ion.
In earlier sessions, the indlvld
nal units of the association adopt
ed several proposals aimed at SOW
ing the alarmingly high increase
in juvenile delinquency among
children Of school age IN the
state.''
The department of classroom
teachers adopted two resolutions
DESIGNED to combat delinquency
One would amend the compulsory
school attendance law to include
children of Is years OF age, ano
the other would innaugurate a
program of sex education In junior
and senior high schools.
Other resolutions would increase
health and physical education pro
Grams in the schools; increase sa'
laries of classroom teachers te
meet present cost Of living ana .
more liberal requirement system
more adequate enforcement OF the
compulsory attendance law; ane
that a study be made to lnaugur
ate a better distribution OF the tea
cher load in schools.
Mable Studebaker, president o.
the Classroom Teachers assoclatof
of the National Education Asso
citation. was the principal speaker
Following her address, Miss sa
rah Foust of Charlotte was electee
to head the group in 1874 MIS-
Blanche Holt of Raleigh was elect
ed vice-president, Mrs. Edna Ross
of High Point, Secretary and MISS
Edith Winningnaan of Wilmington
treasurer.
In an address to the associations
of elementary and city secondary
PRINCIPALS Dr.. Clyde A. Erwin
state superintendent of public IN
struction, declared that:
1.-The problem of juvenile dem
ouency is becoming increasingly
grave. The problem must be me
by the full cooperation OF the
school principal with community
programs designed to provide {
wholesome background for tht
school child outside the schoo
room. in compensation for the IN
creasing laxity in home dlsclp
line"
He cited the increased approprl
ations for school work over per
iod of 10 years, terming them =
belief in the present system
school administration. Post wa
planning means post-school plan
ming" he said u..
Mrs. Frances Mayfarth of Wash
ington, editor of Childhood Educa
ion, was the speaker at a JOLT
luncheon of the association
Primary teachers. Grace Carte
of Greensboro, president OF III
group, presided. ,
Local unit and classroom teach
err presidents will be guests at
breakfast tomorrow at 8 am. an
national education assoclatlo
members will meet for bushes
discussion after the convention d.
journs.
Girls State Blanks
Are Being Taken Now