vTCvC€COwCC————_—_————_wwtOC_——— —G a. ————— ee ed N: vB. A. BULLETIN Fo, wins o October, 1920 Whole Number 53 the ugust 24, 1912. Publisht monthly, except July and August, by the National Education Assotiation of the United States. Enter ME cond- class matter December 8, 1917, at the post-office at Washington, D. C., under mS TO ELEVATE THE CHARACTER AND ADVANCE THE INTERESTS OF THE PROFESSION OF TEACHING AND TO PROMOTE THE CAUSE OF EDUCATION IN THE UNITED STATES.—PURPOSE OF THE ASSOCIA- TION AS EXPREST IN ITS CHARTER GRANTED BY CONGRESS NN a Sasa Wes dacacisks icscadin assess ogee oe eee 22 ae ee eee 23 Resolutions Adopted at Salt Lake City____-__-________________ 24 *% ee RE ee 29 eg a I eee ae il i 30 NS ee eek: One Hund en AAD LE EET EE ae Teacher Shortage Still a ie =—s cs >. peepertment Oficeté 2.1... A gah =o nrenionnntehaienbamdall Election of Melegates...._....._..._...____._ ne Sy eee Ee 40 Legislative Commission Begins Work___________._........_ | 41 Statements of Presidential Candidates__._............__-.......____ 42 i MT ie hay akc 43 Rass li emesis Seen Seng bo etptiaeennd is ds seis eaaladiond eck acts ain edigatcasnayicatasdcn 44 Department of Superintendence, Atlantic City, February 26 to March 3, 1921 NATIONAL EDUCATIOM ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED STATES HEADQUARTER§s 1201 SIXTEENTH ST. N. W., WASHINGTON, D. C. 22 2B NSS A BYLLETIN OFFICERS ce Se eee 2 ee Oe ce she sno — seen see aonkiand ie I eI sted cerned dn enigriees ewicivenienss c'nsve so ainis es eumsisniniemnearaneall Washington, D. ¢, a ee eT Executive Committee ag eee ae ‘ --.---VJakiand, Gae Josephine Corliss Preston, Vice-President-_._.-_____-____________- ae ------Olympia, Wash. Carroll G. Pearse, Chairman Board of Trustees pba ae _.._Milwaukee, Wis, Cornelia S. Adair, Treasurer_______- ee osichain sonal eaSike tala Richmond, Va, T. E. Finegan, Member by Election___ Oe ane SO ee a ee ee Harrisburg, Pa, Board of Trustees Casren G. Peartée, President Stace Normal’ Scbocl.- <=>. ee cess Milwaukee, Wis, _eaneer &. aeaers, Supermiendent of Schools... ......................... _..Pocatello, Idaho en, 2. soamerer, Geeta. Trem Sebeel........ ...... -s-.s-ts Paul, Bie RED So ES SE EE a rl RS pia ee _New York, N. Y. Fred M. Hunter, Superintendent of Schools__....___.._-_____________- pies eee Oakland, Cal, Vice-Presidents Josephine Corliss Preston, State Superintendent of Public Instruction-___.__._._.._._._.__Olympia, | ‘’ash, te TN. RUIN) To saree centenep enc tnectiuneicnesenaneneiiandeeuniins _....-.....--Somerville, Mass, E. C. Brocks, State Superintendent of Public Instruction___-_~_~~ ee rea Raleigh, N. C. an 7. wees, 12 Oak Amer ORts..... ncn ncnmnccnmcsnn= nian ak eri eticesinciasatc a, ae ee Josephine Hammond, 843 North 4th Street-__-.-----~-- : ae _........-Steubenville, Ohio S. A. Baker, State Superintendent of Public Schools a snasinanencintie tiene cnmcnn Gh Se EE ENTE LAE EO A SI een . is piastssinia Om- nent mn on tonal é As. thers pach. 1 see ation the pub- low d ot kers Deen arn- The ast, fare than |, as Ort Tort are our ate, - be fish our 1001 me- ers, our z profession and in the public mind, that those who enter the public-school service, whether they are to teach in rural schools or in urban schools, in elementary schools or in high schools, should have had a minimum of four years’ carefully planned preparation, following upon graduation from a four-year high school. We earnestly recommend the extension of the brief and quite inadequate pro- grams for the preparation of teachers that now prevail. We also desire to record our conviction that sound public policy dictates the selection of candidates for the teaching service on a rigorous basis of merit. The Smith-Towner Bill a Paramount Necessity We are convinst that adequate preparation of teachers, and the elevation of standards of selection, can be achieved only thru an acceptance of the principle that the wealth of the nation as a whole can legitimately, and may justifiably, be drawn upon to equalize opportunities for the education of all the nation’s chil- dren. We reaffirm our faith in this principle, and urge the immediate passage of the Smith-Towner bill by which federal participation in the support of public education is provided and which, at the same time, preserves the autonomy of the state in the management of its schools. We condemn the efforts of the enemies of the public schools to defeat this measure, particularly by stigmatizing it as a measure which involves national control of education. Such control is not only clearly unconstitutional, but it is out of harmony with the spirit of American institutions. This Association pledges itself as unreservedly to do its utmost to thwart any movement or proposal that would centralize control of the public schools, as it does to its support of the measure. We call attention once more to the singularly valuable features of the Smith- Towner bill: to the program that it sets for the reduction of adult illiteracy, for the Americanization of the immigrant population, for the vast extension of health education, for the adequate preparation .of teachers, and for the creation of a Department of Education under a Secretary who shall have a seat in the Presi- dent’s Cabinet. We rciterate the fact that each item of this program strikes at an outstanding weakness of American educatfon which the experience of the war set in high relief. We call the people’s attention to the fact that these emphasized problems are still with us, and that unaided state and local action has failed in any appreciable measure even to begin their solution on a nation-wide basis. The Smith-Towner bill is the only measure that has been proposed to cope with all of these problems. That measure now languishes in Congress, primarily because of the opposition of a minority of the people whosé leaders are tradi- tionally opposed to public education. We seriously and earnestly commend to the American people the program proposed in the Smith-Towner bill, framed with the interests of America’s children and America’s free schools solely in mind. Better Provision for Education Essential If the work of education is to be maintained, if it is to be so improved and developt as to meet the growing needs of the Republic, there must be a decided increase in financial support. We believe that revenues sufficiently ample must be provided to serve the following ends: 1. To pay salaries attractive enough to retain good teache:s now in the ser- 26 THE N. EA. A BULLETIN vice and to induce promising young men and women to prepare for teaching. We hold that provision for the retirement of superannuated teachers is fundamentally a part of the salary problem. 2. To provide school rooms sufficient in number to give each child a seat for a full-day session. 3. To extend and improve the facilities for teacher-training, so that ulti- mately all teachers may be fitly prepared professionally. 4. To provide adequately for vocational training, part time, and continuation schools and all other special schools that the welfare of the community demands, 5. To establish kindergartens as soon as practicable in connection with all? primary schools. 6. To furnish to all children of the nation, whether rural or urban, equal educational opportunities. 7. To pay equal salaries for equal service to all teachers of similar training, experience, and success. We believe that these desirable ends may be accomplisht if education is recognized 1s a national and state affair as well as a matter of local interest. The nation for its own safety should contribute money to strengthen the educational work of the states. The state should contribute at least half the money needed to support the schools within its borders, and in addition provide an equalization fund sufficient in amount to maintain uniform standards in all of its schools. We believe that teachers, freed from the economic burden of insufficient salaries, relieved from the overwork due to crowded school rooms and half-day sessions, and strengthened by better professional preparation, will put into their work the devotion, skill, and efficiency necessary to make the schools of the Re- public more nearly equal to the demands of a high order of citizenship. Higher Values in Education The National Education Association affirms and forcibly emphasizes the high significance of the economic factor in both national and individual life, and there- with the signal importance of vocational training in raising personal efficiency and augmenting the total output of the energies properly directed into the chan- nels of industry and commerce; and it insists and urges that the whole educa- tional system must be organized and actuated with proper regard to the practical, vocational, and professional needs of the individual and of the community at large. At the same time the National Education Association recognizes the old and immutable truth that no kind, amount, or degree of merely material prosperity or success can satisfy the fundamental and inextinguishable cravings of the human spirit, or can fulfil the needs of the individual in his life as an active citizen in a democratic country or meet the demands of the state for that service which will preserve and advance the social and political as well as the economic welfare of its people. The National Education Association regards with deep and anxious concern the multiplied tokens of a widespread lowering of recognition of intel- lectual efforts and achievements, of a growing impatience with all forms of mental effort, and, especially, of that effort which does not issue in prompt and abundant sensible and material returns; of a general distrust of thought and a general eagerness for action; of an increasing tendency toward decreasing the amount and quality of service performed for the increast rewards already given. Therefore, the National Education Association would stress the crying need that general or cultural education must not be overshadowed by vocational I We ally eat Iti- ion ds. all ual ont lay eir te- ill of us »- al nt al nt al n THE HR. &. A. BULEE TiN 2 training; that on the contrary it should be emphasized and strengthened and animated along the whole front of educational activity; that in the changed order of things of today there is still no excellence without great labor and that no adequate education can be secured by the youth of America without paying the price in long hours and years of hard intellectual effort. Education for Citizenship We maintain that education for the responsibilities of citizenship is an in- creasingly pressing obligation on the schools at this critical period of national and world affairs and to that end education for citizenship must fill a large place in school programs from the kindergarten to the graduate courses of the universi- ties, and this education must provide for practice along with instruction, so that there may be training in habits, ideals, and attitude of service for the common weal of community and nation. We acknowledge the valuable services which a number of organizations for the development of civic ideals and habits in children have rendered to the public schools, and we urge that the widest possible use be made by all schools, of the ways and means afforded by such organizations for the building of better citizenship. Ratification of Suffrage Amendment Urged The paramount interest of women in the education of their children should, on the general enfranchisement of the women of America, become an added force for educational progress, and, since justice to the women of our nation in con- ferring the ballot upon them in the several states of the Union, has been too long delayed, we urge upon the states of Connecticut, New Hampshire, Vermont, Ten- nessce, North Carolina, and Florida, speedy ratification of the national suffrage amendment, to the end that all women of the United States may exercise at the November election the full rights of American citizenship, and the Secretary of this Association is hereby instructed to transmit a copy of this resolution to the governor of each of these states named. Administration of the Smith-Hughes Law We favor such change in the administration of the Smith-Hughes law as will, in the future, avoid interference with the autonomy of the states in the plans and management of vocational education. Increast Recognition for State Departments Since the progress of education in the state as a whole is largely dependent upon wise and efficient leadership by the state department of education, and since in many states, such departments are placed on a plane of professional preparation and of remuneration which impairs their efficiency, we favor the recognition by legislatures and by the public, of the state superintendent of pub- lic instruction or state commissioner of education as the chief executive and ad- ministrative officer of the entire educational system of the state and we recom- mend that in the preparation of state budgets the state department of education be clase with the state’s highest educational institutions. 28 THE N. £E. A. BULLETIN oll OO oo We hold that educators employed in state departments of education should be placed on the same basis, both as to scholastic requirements and as to remy. neration, as are those of the state’s highest educational institutions. Physical Welfare As effective health education is essential to the conservation of the child, who is the most important asset of the nation, we favor definite plans for physgj- cal training to be carried on regularly in every school of the nation; we endorse the making of good-health practices a part of the daily life of the child; we recom. mend some such system as the modern health crusade as a part of an effective course of health education; we favor the teaching of social hygiene in all teacher. training institutions and recommend the cooperation of teachers with all organi- zations of parents in the instruction necessary to the inculcation of sound ideas and attitudes in children and youth. As to the essentials of social hygiene, we favor the establishment by the states and the nation of definite standards and ideals of physical perfection of children of school age, to be placed before both pupils and parents, and we advise the adoption of a plan of regular reports to| parents, of the physical standing of their children, to the end that every American child may build his life on a basis of sound physical health. Important Demands Reaffirmed We affirm and pledge anew our support of the following: 1. The development of a unified, well equipt, well taught, and well super- | vised rural school system. 2. The provision of facilities, including housing, that will contribute toward making the life and work of the rural school teacher not only tolerable but at- tractive. 3. State supervision of both private and public schools. 4. The employment of the English language as the vehicle of instruction in all schools, both public and private. 5. The selection of the highest type of citizens for service upon school | boards without regard to sex or political affiliation. International Relations in Education The ideals of a world community require the united effort of all nations looking to universal education as the surest means of establishing democracy thruout the world and of advancing the interests of the free peoples. We there- fore favor the formation of international bureaus of education as a means to this end and recommend that the President of the National Education Association, with the advice of the Executive Committee, appoint a committee of five on inter- national education relations, which shall have authority, under this Association, to cooperate with like committees from other countries, and the trustees of the Association are hereby authorized to provide such financial support as the move- ment may in their judgment require and justify. The Cigarette Condemned The rapid increase in cigarette smoking among people of all ages and both should remu- child, physi- idorse ecom- ective acher- r gani- ideas e, we S and - both . rts to 2rican uper- | ward it at- on in shoo! , tions racy nere- | this tion, nter- tion, ove- doth THE N. E. A BULLETIN 29 en ————— rr eee ae——6~$~$~=>—$—=~=$mmquvY_*qBpaRaoos—oOoOoOoDoDo Waa sexes and especially among growing boys is not only a cause for alarm but a call to arms. Therefore the Association pledges its membership to cooperate in wisely directed efforts in city, state, and nation in safeguarding the youth from cigarette smoking and kindred vices to the end that American ideals for manhood and womanhood may be preserved for coming generations. The Eighteenth Amendment The Association declares itself in hearty accord with the recent decision of the Supreme Court of the United States affirming the validity of the Eighteenth Amendment, and it further believes in and calls for the impartial and fearless en- forcement of the Volstead Act or similar act substantially in harmony in spirit and application to said act, opposing any backward step which suall endanger the fundamental institution of society. Recommends Permanent Tenure The National Education Association strongly urges the passage of laws in each state granting permanent tenure to teachers during efficient service, coupled with an efficient method of ridding the service of inefficient teachers and insuring the fullest protection of counsel to all teachers. Acknowledgment of Local Courtesies We desire to acknowledge the helpful cooperation of the press, the commer- cial club and its committees, the faculty and students of the public schools, and of the University of Utah, the church and schools of the Latter-Day Saints, and the citizens of the state and city, thru their various organizations. We desire to express our appreciation of the royal welcome accorded to us by Salt Lake City. It is the sense of this Association that the newspapers of Salt Lake City have provided the fullest and most complete report of the pro- ceedings in the history of the Association. PRESIDENTS OF THE N. E. A. 1895-1921 Nicholas Murray Butler___------ 1895 Lorense D. Harvey....csume>~-- 1909 Newton C. Dougherty----------- 1896 jae. toyner:.....u-2aee... 1910 Chistes o. Seanmer................ 1897 ae a ee ee ae 1911 Ee ee a 1898 | 6 ee, ee 1912 Bs I, MN i i ees ctentt ene octane 1899 Edward T. Fairchild............ 1913 a ee a 1900 pS S| eee eee ee ie 1914 pL eee ee 1901 David Starr Jordan.............. 1915 William M. Beardshear_______--~ 1902 David B. Johnsonz.icsecec-_--..-- 1916 eo UT QO ee eee: 1903 Robert J. Aley.tuigeee o> 1917 FON CE ecient ntscieions 1904 Mary C. C. Bradford isso wun 1918 William H. Maxwell_.....-.. -_- 1905 George D. Strayer-tilecci ancl 919 Nathan C. Schaeffer_____.________ 1907 Josephine CorlissPreston.,.-<_.1920 f6énm G- Cooley. 1908 Fred M. Hunteftl.. 2a 1921 New National Education Association Headquarters cramer mma tt t= we worsen SACRCRUarters SHREAR BA BOUL ETE 31 NEW HOME OF THE NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION _ BEAUTIFUL BUILDING is owned by the National Education Asso- ciation and is used as its national headquarters. It is located at 1201 Six- teenth Street N. W., five blocks north of the White House and diagonally across the street from the home of the National Geographic Society. Sixteenth Street, or Presidential Avenue as it is sometimes called, extending from the White House north to the District line, passing by the leading embassies of foreign countries and the most beautiful and expensive dwellings in the city, is not only considered to be the finest street in Washington, but one of the finest in the world. The building is well adapted to the needs of the Association. It is a beautiful four-story structure, 85 by 42 feet. The heavy walls are of reinforced concrete and a fine quality of brick. The columns and finish are of heavy oak. The rooms are large and well lighted. The building is of Colonial design and holds its own in a good degree with the beautiful and substantial buildings of the National Geo- graphic Society across the street. The Association moved its headquarters into this building in August. It uses for its own offices all the space on the first floor and about half of the space on the second and third floors. It has leased to the National Congress of Mothers and Parent-teacher Associations the south half of the third floor, to be used as the national headquarters of that Association. It has leased the south half of the second floor and the south half of the fourth floor to the Swedish Legation, to be used as the permanent offices of the minister and his staff. This has been known as the Guggenheim property but more recently as the Robert Bacon residence. It was in this house that Secretary Bacon during Presi- dent Roosevelt’s administration, entertained many distinguisht guests from for- eign countries and held the notable receptions of that period. Pfesident Roose- velt was the guest of honor at many of these diplomatic and social events. ADVANTAGES OFFERED BY THE PROFESSION OF TEACHING The following taken from an attractiv: illustrated eight page leaflet, publisht by the Board of Education of the City of New York, 1s worthy the widest possible circulation. It is a forceful statement of the advantages of the teaching profession. It should be in the hands of every young man or woman choosing a vocation. —[Tue Enprror] Why Should I Teach? EACH because teaching is service. More and more tiie best people are com- ing to see that the only soul-satisfying reward in life is to extend help to others—to serve. Teach because teaching is moral and mental growth. No other calling gives the same chances for self-development in culture and fine living. Teach because the teacher more than all others molds the social world in which she must live, making of her boys and girls of today her fellow-citizens of tomorrow. Teach because the most interesting thing in life is to watch growth, and of 32 THE WN. £.A. BULLETIN all growth the most inspiring is the development of mind and character under the magic of the teacher’s sympathy. Teach because teaching is a dedication of all that is best in you to all that is best in those about you—to fathers and mothers whose fondest hope is in their children, to the little child who trusts the world of grown-ups to guide him to- ward the light. Teach because as a patriot you owe it to your country and as a human being you owe it to humanity. Self-respect Thru Elevation of Occupation Educational opportunity is a fundamental principle in American life. Teach- ing is therefore an occupation vital to the country’s welfare, and, for that reason, elevating as a career. Seif-respect accompanies anything we do that is worth while. Public Appreciation Public appreciation is accorded all teachers, and very generously accorded some teachers. Personal worth counts for more in teaching than in many other professions. Freedom From Worry Teaching is not usually a seasonal occupation. Employment is at least an- ual, and, more and more, protected by civil service regulations assuring tenure «f office. Freedom from worry is an important asset in life and especially so when it extends thruoit one’s career and when it will continue after retirement thru pension provisions. Opportuaity for Personal Growth No other work gives more opportunity for personal growth. The teacher is engaged in actual teaching no{ more than two hundred days in the year. The tveek-ends and vacations afford, her leisure to cultivate personal tastes or talents, ») enjoy music and pictures, ti) be outdoors, to travel, to form enriching friend- ships. Teaching, a Career Teaching is not a temporary makeshift. Those to whom it proves congenial ‘aay follow it as a career. They may specialize and they may advance to increas- sagly responsible positions, gaining in salary and enjoying the greater challenge \o their powers and abilities. Teaching, a Broad General Training for Other Work Once a teacher ueed not mean always a teacher. But once a teacher has w ant to forrver 7 .chers, who responded to a call to perform some other kind service, % foy dation in outlook, executive ability, poise, and knowledge of uman racvre, shat has enabled them to outstrip their fellows in the new field. A ler lat eir tO- ng yn, th ed al S- S$ yf ee ey THE BS EB. A! BU ELSE FES 33 ONE HUNDRED PER CENT ENROLMENTS ORMER BULLETINS contain the names of several hundred schools which report 100 per cent membership enrolment in the N. E. A. The following additional schools have completed their reports since the issue of the June Bulle- tin. If any 100 per cent school has not been included in this or in previous lists, the Superintendent is requested to call the Secretary’s attention to the omission: Aberdeen, Wash., Whitman School__-_----.-------------- Mollie Jeans, Principal RE Eee Harriet McCarthy, Principal American Fork, Utah, American Fork Public Schools____--------_-----------~~-- Beaver, Utah, Murdock Academy---------------_---- Reinhard Maeser, Principal ee Belle Eagleson, Principal EES ee a er eee Helen Coston, Principal Bingham Canyon, Utah, Highland Boy Scout----.---.---_.-_-...--...-.---..... Brigham City, Utah, Box Elder County School District Brookline, Mass., Pierce School___-------_-_-_.-___ Mary McSkimmon, Principal nt. Avemense Semedl....__._..__.... J. H. Stehman, Principal Ge. Utes, North Sammitt School District... necks nese i. SC TI iii ennai Dora M. Moore, Principal Erie, Pa., Erie Teachers Association__.__.__.__.-_._._-__S. G. Breneiser, Chairman ES Se ee eee ee A. J. Nicely, Principal EE EEA OE a ET ET ae Sue B. Tarrey, Principal ES OT ee A a Mame Cantlon, Acting Principal Farmington, Utah, Davis County School District-_--_ Thomas E. Williams, Clerk Garfield, N. J., No. 1 School (Grant)__-_-____-_- Katherine F. Davidson, Principal Rae swan ochool, No. 3... H. V. Matthews, Principal ents eseealsilenetsibeniainsoenreninncacannbandiibi dyn done soctinmarensistain N. E. Lincoln, Principal | ae ES RELY «CS ee Tessie McGuire, Principal Kansas City, Mo., Milton Moore School____-------~- Helen G. Fairland, Principal ET Cae a ee -..........Lucy C. Whitney, Principal Beeoena, Wis., Deming School_......... 2.2 -2u. Edna B. Washburn, Principal RE ee ee Mrs. H. M. McKenzie, Principal La Crosse, Wis., Hamilton School___-__--_--_--______Hannah McCoville, Principal —J. J. Hogan School__-_---__----__------_---_...Miss Susan Campbell, Principal FE aeeeoin School__......._........_- Susan Campbell, Sec.-Treas. Teachers Club NE TEETER OT W. C. Greenwalt, Principal Lincoln, Nebr., Bancroft School_____ ea Sw J. Belle Corbin, Principal Cg ES ES a __Bertha L. Green, Principal al eerste essen onabiailliesaaidl Clare McPhee, Principal EE EEE ee Mrs. Emma M. Goodrich, Principal en Mrs. Sadie M. Crystal, Principal ES ES EE LETT Annie M. T. Cogil, Principal ES ee ae eee Mrs. Florence Conkle, Principal SS LE Anna C. Batman, Principal | ae eae E. Ruth Pyrtle, Principal a 2 ee ee Te y A -_ > BULLETIN -Prescott Schoo! a) ...---.-...---.-.Mrs. May Morley, Principal] Park School --- ee ee, a ee -~fiapervisers of Lincoln Piiiic Schools.._................ ....._........--- --__. a \Vhittier School ee ee ee ee eee eS Willard School__....---...-----------------_--_--_Mrs. Martha Hutton, Principaj l.«cvan, Utah, Public Schools__.......-.-_- D. Tarbert, Clerk, Board of Education \filwaukee, Wis., Windlake Avenue School____---------~-- C. A. Kriesel, Principal} Moline, Ilinois—- wau----------.--..--Lewis A. Mahoney, Superintendent gg REE ee See Alice Wheelock, Principal ES Se te er a Hattie Moore, Principal Pe Rn er ee RT A ee en ee er Florence Donahey, Principal ee. ae, 3. eee Behera ec -- Sara Grace Johnson, Principal ia a es Sennen ee Fanny G. Blair, Principal Ocean Grove, N. J., Neptune Township Schools___._Mr. Paul Y. Eckert, Principal Omene Nebr., Bancroft School.........._...........- Mary N. Austin, Principal Pittsburgh, Pa., Greenfield School______-_____________, Adda May Mann, Principat I UII Sic aa See Oey AS eke eee Ella Conlin, Principat id aca mo eemcenn Louisa D. Self, Principat ' Se TTEN III ac a Se Ella Conlin, Principal Ie a ee Ollie T. Patterson, Principal —Springfield School__--_------------ ee es Ces Louisa D. Seif, Principat Pocatello, Idaho, City Public Schools____--__-- Walter R. Siders, Superintendent nee era. Doeeteect OOF sco ome ook Anna Beckstrom, Principat Salem, Oregon, Englewood School..._.__--_____________- Helena Willett, Principat EER RO SIE ee eee NS Con ee E. A. Miller, Principal mepuaaennnnnn? PpOmNOe 88 Se H. F. Durham, Principal Seer ene ey, Uren, Limeom: Seheol_- ee Ee a Rg ee ee Grace E. Frost, Principal —McKinley School —Tweifth School Be a a ee a eC Elizabeth Bond, Principal a Seattle, Wash., McGilvra School____-_1--.__________ Eva Dansingburg, Principal Sioux City, lowa, Lincoln School_____-----___---____ Winifred E. Sloan, Principal Suaeway, Miatea, Seagway Public Schools... ...______.___.__._____ Spanish Fork, Utah, Nebo School District spemane, Waeh., Bemiss School..._.................. O. C. Pratt, Superintendent a a tas ai as acs Sema Se shomsemsanininabenataen aces asemsesiounstoebaneo-ananapenininenaan i cA NIE cee a ee SE IIe I ee i eS a erg ena nbemeon ciecwsocdnen acm eng amon.o> aron'enenascapaperensesenenanee Sa Stevens Point, Wis., Stevens Point Normal School____-_- John F. Sims, President Seoeuton, Cait; FE) Derado School_..._....-...._..- John R. Williams, Principal gE ee ee ee E. R. Paxton, Principal I cc kata eee ce nfediceaien ovamsenen'ab Siew come Roscoe M. Banta, Principal I Cadac tk spall tik daoeichearem nab toabindSommewndicenaseisesin H. W. Bessar, Principal RO ee Robert H. Allen, Principal SRE HR ih cece ee ee Bradley Grover, Principal —Lincoln School___----- ites eeeeginre bemea cece caeanons Sadie A. Garvin, Principal Ea rs ee eee Miss M. Southworth, Principal PE A ice enencicuddinmineia teks tian cleo adie ccatouwe N. Ella Russell, Principak —— Tut he ey A £22 Yt Le 35 FN SS ‘ipal === —Washington Se i REDS ELSE EE Ee On Le ale A. M. McGowen, Principal ~ ahs RT THIN einen bninnin Henry B. Wade, Principal ~=== Je auamery Seneel.. 2. le Florilla Campbell, Principal ‘Ipal Tacoma, Wash., Bryant School—Central School______---_- (G. A. Stanley, Principal ton Ee G. A. Stanley, Principal ‘ipal EC en eI Frederick J. Weldron, Principal lent a li Pe ARI A 5, ED Mary J. Irwin, Principal Ipal —Sheridan School—Sherman School___------_----_________ Mary Hall, Principal ipal ES INE cs cdshe lhe ctocencivty ahh beens cic i nies episen inieinn oss adn eae oes as ‘ipal ‘ipal ‘ipat ATLANTIC CITY HOTELS a LL HOTELS in the list on pages 36-37 are recommended by the Convention inal Bureau of Atlantic City. Reservations should be made from this list only pad Write direct to the hotel or to Supt. Charles E. Boyer, Atlantic City, N. J. ipa dbcon iier The lowest priced rooms at inal aks the very large hotels on the ipa / Board Walk have been reserved, cain ————— AS ipa (é Pree Tete \ but accommodations will be am- lent DUapet a= we CI ple for all who desire to attend ‘ipa \ 000808 Ost" ¢ Ave Anse Lae Ws the meeting of the Department p me rae oe \AVE Ww £S H onde inal 3 Ai cthon ERS GIN ae of Superintendence. ioal | a) Aanoooo0o oe “ ) Garden Pier Many are making reservations ips OOO Cos Cg re EO ear: ipal Ponoons oT - at the smaller hotels. The As- : ““Soatitatafitam Dewar BF CHARLES Fig ) Mn Mum sociation wishes to encourage ipa 2 etatale ereitter amie cea ac Bs steetc Cry this practice. The rates are : _ a, ae re. Wstee! Pier lower and the accommodations | | ORROREEY Sprctey imal eae Op 0. quel ier temshe: Maient Siem | i (cj uj dj jy | Rm | coon | | are equal in many instances to ipa =a0000 a yen Dies cmt Pi those of the larger hotels. The a SEAN ATE tabulation shows not only the ar lela e lg Je) Cit" aaj / [Young's Ocean rates and the location of hotels ‘ipal EW YOR AVE / i imei f inal PE OC a ff srouid'rexone but it gives the approximate : __ | MEMEO (A distance from the Million Dol- | bessboorr™ oundgure a0 eT Oupoo Rn )=3. ae f 2200. ‘hee lar Pier which contains the au- lent | (els}3/2)9)0 1; Bie < Is | ditorium where the meetings are Ws 0CIe tl tL to be held. Registration head- nee ote . ees oo quarters and commercial exhib- 7 Fedbel pre onl — j er ee its will also be on the Pier, It Ei: | a Gtorai at! i will be observed that the walk- lent ‘ < a Aves I ing distance from practically all ipal | : \ \t Sone es H of these hotels is comparatively ipal cae | \ if short. All are near the Board ipal | YW BEAC \omae | Walk. ipal | OD et — The Convention Bureau of At- ipal lantic City, of which Mr. A. T. ipal 3ell is manager, will send on ipal | application a pamphlet which ipal gives more complete informa- ipak f tion concerning hotel rates and the attractions of Atlantic City. THE N. A. BU LLE TIN a aqeayqs$Ss——aooa—qo>—M——ffoao>oqqqaoajqgy‘“™w DEPARTMENT OFFICERS NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION 1920-1921 The National Council of Education President, Homer H. Seerley, President Iowa State Teachers College_____________ Cedar Falls, Iowa Vice-President, Josephine Corliss Preston, State Superintendent of Public Instruction_-Olympia, Wash. Secretary, Adelaide Steele Baylor, Federal Agent for Home Economics__________ Washington, D. C, Department of Superintendence President, Calvin N. Kendall, Commissioner of Education____..-____________________ Trenton, N. J. First Vice-President, J. M. Gwinn, Superintendent of Schools__.-.._..__..._._._.__.New Orleans, La. Second Vice-President, E. A. Smith, Superintendent of Schools___ ee Secretary, Belle M. Ryan, Assistant Superintendent of Schools_._.__________________ Omaha, Nebr. Normal Schools President, W. A. Lewis, President State Normal School_.......-___________________ Hays, Kan. Vice-President, C. E. Evans, President State Normal School aabaebeieeetaieiisel San Marcos, Tex. Secretary, Anna M. Tibbets, Head Department of Education, Fargo College___________ Fargo, N. D. Elementary Education President, Frank M. McMurry, Teachers College, Columbia University_____..._...c.New York, N. Y. Vice-President, Marion Hanchel, Supervisor of Kindergarten and Primary Grades_____ Richmond, Va. Secretary, Annie E. Logan, Assistant Superintendent of Schools____._...._________ Cincinnati, Ohie Higher Education President, Guy Stanton Ford, University of Minnesota__...____.________________ Minneapolis, Minn, Secretary, J. J. Pettyjohn, Director of Extension, Indiana University_._..________ Indianapolis, Ind. Vocational Education and Practical Arts President, W. G. Hummel, State Director for Vocational Education__._.______________Seattle, Wash. Secretary, Marian S. Van Liew, State Superintendent Home Economics______________, Albany, N. Y. Kindergarten Education President, Marian Hanchel, Supervisor of Kindergarten and Primary Grades________ Richmond, Va. Vice-President, Barbara Greenwood, Director Kindergarten Department, Southern Branch, University an tance sss tte tiehitn nigh eis ols desuhasen ica aniciceysh mumps Los Angeles, Calif. EE a a a Dayton, Ohio Music Education President, P. Melvin Peterson, Director of Music--.-----...-.-_-.--_._._._-_..-__Salt Lake City, Utah Vice-President, Ben H. Smith, Supervisor of Music................-_-_--_-_________. Denver, Col. Secondary Education President, Clarence T. Rice, Principal High School_......................______ Kansas City, Kan. Vice-President, Guy E. Wilson, President L. D. S. University High School____Salt Lake City, Utah Secretary, Miss Oliverson, Teacher in High School_........-_-_-___..._________ Kansas City, Kan. Business Education President, Thomas A. Beale, Director School of Commerce and Finance, University of Utah Salt Lake City, Utah Secretary, W. S. Peterson, Commercial Department, Ogden High School___-__________ Ogden, Utah Child Hygiene President, O. B. Nesbitt, School Health Commissioner_......._._...._.._--_______ Gary, Ind Vice-President, H. S. Gruver, Superintendent of Schools__........_._____________ Worcester, Mass. Secretary, Alice H. Couch-Wood, Elizabeth McCormick Memorial Fund__-__._Salt Lake City, Utah’ \\ Pr Pr Sass WT es THEN. &.A BULLETIN ————— ————— A ee Physical Education President, F. C. Kleeberger, Professor Physical Education, University of California__Berkeley, Calif. Science Instruction President, John C. Johnson, Colorado State Normal School__-__-------------------- Gunnison, Col. Secretary, Louise H. Seeley, Dickinson High School__--.--_----__-----------~- Jersey City, N. J. School Administration President, George W. Gerwig, Secretary Board of Education-__-_-__-_-_------------_Pittsburgh, Pa. Vice-President, H. A. Smith, President Board of Education____.-_.._----.---_Salt Lake City, Utah Secretary, William C. Bruce, Editor, American School Board Journal___----.~---~~- Milwaukee, Wis. Library Department President, Sherman Williams, Chief of School Libraries, State Department of Education__Albany, N. Y. Vice-President, M. W. Poulson, Associate Professor of Education, Brigham Young University Provo, Utah ren semeeet iy, Lalbeview ieee Benet niin ein nn nncse cnc eeweensenn Chicago, IIl. School Patrons President, Maida K. McMath, Member Vocational Board of Education_______________Seattle, Wash. Rural Education President, Eli Rapp, Superintendent Berk County Schools_._-._-.---_---_----___-____ Reading, Pa. Vice-President, I. B. Ball, State Supervisor Agricultural Education____________ Salt Lake City, Utah Secretary, Mabel Carney, Professor Rural Education, Teachers College, Columbia University New York, N. Y. Classroom Teachers President, Sara H. Fahey, Teacher of Community Civics, Manual Training High School New York, N. Y. Vice-President, Ethel M. Gardiner, Teacher in Grade School___-._-_-._.__________ Milwaukee, Wis. Gesetary, Margaret Richardson, Grade Teacher.................................. Spokane, Wash. Promotion of the Wider Use of Schoolhouses President, Raymond F. Crist, Department of Labor_..----.--.--_--....._______ Washington, D. C. Vice-President, I. B. Morgan, Director Vocational Schools__..........___________ Kansas City, Kan. Secretary, Margarita Spaulding Gerry, Member Board of Education____.________ Washington, D. C. Educational Publications President, George L. Towne, Editor, Nebraska Teacher_...........-__.-___________ Lincoln, Nebr. peeretary, C. W. Taber, Western Manager, Lippincott & Co........................... Chicago, III. Deans of Women President, Mina Kerr, Dean of Milwaukee Downer College__.____________________ Milwaukee, Wis. Vice-President, Eva Johnston, Dean of Women, University of Missouri_._._._.________ Columbia, Mo. Secretary, Anne Dudley Blitz, Dean William Smith College____..__--_____________ ._._Geneva, N. Y. YOU TEACHERS—AND IT IS A MERE TRUISM TO SAY THIS—YOU TEACHERS MAKE THE WHOLE WORLD YOUR DEBTOR; AND OF YOU IT CAN BE SAID, AS IT CAN BE SAID OF NO OTHER PROFES- SION SAVE THE PROFESSION OF THE MINISTERS OF THE GOSPEL THEMSELVES, IF YOU TEACHERS DID NOT DO YOUR WORK WELL, THIS REPUBLIC COULD NOT OUTLAST THE SPAN OF A GENERA- TION.—THEODORE ROOSEVELT. ELECTION OF DELEGATES TO THE REPRESENTATIVE ASSEMBLY N ORDER that there may be uniformity in the election of delegates to the Representative Assembly, the following interpretation is given of the revised By-laws adopted ‘at the Salt Lake City meeting. Affiliated State Associations First, the number of delegates to which an affiliated state association shall be entitled in the Representative Asseimbly at the next annual meeting of the Asso- ciation will be finally determined by the number of active members of the National Association who are meinbers of such state association at the close of the mem- bership year, May 31, 1921. Second, an affiliated state association shall clect as many delegates to the Representative Assembly as it is entitled to at the time such election takes place. Information on this subject will be furnisht the officers of the state association by the Secretary of the National Association. Third, each affiliated state association should make provision for additional delegates to fill out the quota to which such state association may be entitled at the close of the membership year resulting from an increase in the number of active members of the National Association in such state association. This may be accomplisht by using either of the following methods: (a) Elect a list of provisional delegates to be taken in the order named to fill out the quota to which the state may be entitled at the close of the membership year. (b) Make provision for the appointment of additional delegates to fill out the quota to which the state may be entitled at the close of the membership year. Fourth, in the election of delegates to the Representative Assembly by an affiliated state association, at whatever time during the year the state meeting may be held, active members of the National Association whose dues have been paid for the year 1920-1921, as shown by their membership card, and only such, shall be eligible to be delegates or to vote in the election of delegates. Affiliated Local Associations It is presumed that the election of delegates by affiliated local associations will take place late in the year, and therefore that there will be no need of making provision for additional delegates resulting from an increase in active membership in the National Association after the meeting of the local association at which delegates are selected. . In the election of delegates to the Representative Assembly by an affiliated local association, the number of delegates to which such local association is en- titled shall be determined by the number of active members of the National Asso- ciation who are members of such local association at the time of the selection of delegates. Inforination on this subject will be furnisht the officers of the local by el wes Rom << _— — —<—_ | oe nn He 3 —- Oo 0 Lf qe sam 2a it sf ie ed Lad - wn - VY WS THE N. E. A. BULLETIN association by the Secretary of the National Association. Only active members of the National Association whose dues are paid for the year 1920-21, as shown by their membership cards, shall be eligible to be delegates or to vote in the election of delegates. LEGISLATIVE COMMISSION BEGINS WORK HE LEGISLATIVE COMMISSION, authorized at the Salt Lake City meeting to promote the passage of the Smith-Towner bill, has been appointed by President Hunter and has entered actively upon its work. The personnel of the Commission is as follows: George D. Strayer, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York City, Chairman; Mary C. C. Bradford, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Denver, Colo.; J. A. C. Chandler, President, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Va.; R. J. Condon, Superintendent of City Schools, Cincinnati, Ohio; Thomas E. Finegan, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Harrisburg, Pa.; T. E. Johnson, State Superintendent of Public In- struction, Lansing, Mich.; Charl O. Williams, County Superintendent of Schools, Memphis, Tenn.; Agnes S. Winn, President, Grade Teachers’ Club, Seattle, Wash.; D. B. Waldo, President, State Normal School, Kalamazoo, Mich.; Will C. Wood, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Sacramento, Calif.; and Wm. M. Davidson, Superintendent of City Schools, Pittsburgh, Pa. The Commission held a meeting in Washington on September 10 and 11. Hugh S. Magill, Field Secretary of the Association, was elected Secretary of the Commission and a definite plan of procedure was outlined and unanimously ap- proved by the members present. It was decided to insist that the bill be reported out of committce and brought to a vote if possible in both Senate and House at the coming session of Congress, which will convene on December 6. Since the coming session is a continuation of the Sixty-sixth Congress, the bill will not need to be reintroduced but will bear its present name and designation, H.R. 7 and S. 1017. If it should not pass before March 4, the final adjournment of the Sixty-sixth Congress, it will need to be reintroduced as a new biil in the Sixty- seventh Congress. Plans are being carried forward for effecting a complete organization of the educational forces in every state for the active support of the bill. A number of prominent national organizations, including the National League of Women Voters and the General Federation of Women’s Clubs, have decided to make the promotion of this measure one of their primary objects at the coming session of Congress. Another matter of great importance is the organization of a committee composed of many leading citizens from different parts of the country to promote its passage. The interest of persons. outside of the teaching profession in the bill is becoming more and more manifest. Farsighted, patriotic people everywhere are realizing the vital importance of public education to the prosperity and safety of our country, and for this reason they are giving their earnest support to the Smith-Towner bill. HAT WHICH MAKES A GOOD CONSTITUTION must keep it, namely, men of wisdom and virtue; qualities that because they descend not with worldly inheritance must be carefully propagated by a virtuous education of youth, for which spare no cost, for by such parsimony all that is saved is lost.— William Penn. 7mm n.'R A. SBULLETIN STATEMENTS OF PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES -* THE SALT LAKE CITY MEETING a resolution was unanimously adopted authorizing the President of the Association to appoint two com. mittees of five each, one to visit Senator Harding and the other to visit Governor Cox. These committces were instructed to present the legislative program of the Association to the respective candidates and to solicit their support of the same, particularly of the Smith-Towner bill, providing for a Department of Edu- cation with a Secretary in the President’s Cabinet and appropriations by Con. gress to encourage and assist the states in the promotion of education. In conformity with this resolution President Hunter appointed the following committees: Committee to wait on Governor Cox, Cora Wilson Stewart, Chairman, Illit- eracy Commission, Frankfort, Ky., Chairman; Thomas E. Finegan, State Super- intendent of Public Instruction, Pennsylvania; Mary C. C. Bradford, State Super- intencent of Public Instruction, Colorado; J. M. Gwinn, Superintendent of Schools, New Orleans; and G. H. Reavis, Assistant State Superintendent of Schools, Maryland. Committee to wait on Senator Harding, William M. Davidson, Superinten- dent of Schools, Pittsburgh, Chairman; A. E. Winship, Editor Journal of Educa- tion, Boston; Josephine Corliss Preston, State Superintendent of Schools, Wash- ington; Sarah Louise Arnold, Dean of Simmons College, Boston; and Hugh §. Magill, Field Secretary, National Education Association. The Chairmen of these committees succeeded in arranging interviews with the respective candidates. The legislative program of the Association was pre- sented to each and his interest and support solicited. The statements herein pub- lisht were given out by the respective candidates and their publication authorized, Statement of James M. Cox Democratic Candidate for President I am giving serious attention to the necessary reorganization of the executive departments in the Federal Government. I shall certainly favor the executive administration of affairs relating directly to all matters of human welfare, includ- ing education. It should be the province of the Federal Government to extend aid in all lines of education, looking particularly to the removal of illiteracy, the Americanization of immigrants, the preparation and proper compensation of teachers, physical education, health and sanitation and the equalizing of educational opportunities to the end that every boy and girl in the United States shall be guaranteed the chance of obtaining a complete practical education. We should extend the advantages of education by a national policy without destroying the effectiveness of local provision, maintaining that democracy in education which will develop the healthy and reasonable individualism in Amevi- can national life which enables the citizens of this Republic to think for them- selves and thercby find for themselves the solution of their most serious problems. \\ nr w@ tA Qa@mpmrnyt fr Fr eS 4 OO I ng lit- ith re- b- ve ve es on es he LeBEe Sm. EE A BULLER SS EEE ——— ee ee Statement of Warren G. Harding Republican Candidate for President I have committed myself to the creation of a Department of Public Welfare as a necessary governmental agency for carrying out effectively a program for the promotion of social justice-and human welfare. I have outlined in my public addresses some of the things which I think should be included in such a depart- ment. I refer particularly to my address on “Social Justice” delivered at Marion, Ohio, on October first, to representative groups of women who honored ‘me with their presence on that day. I did not on that occasion directly touch upon the question of the inclusion of education in such a department as I proposed. Obviously, education in all its aspects might be one of the chief concerns of such a department. Indeed e tuca- tion is sO intimately related to every phase of human welfare and to the perpetuity of our free institutions that it must be considered of primary importance in any program for social betterment. So important is education to the life of the Nation and so extensive its work that it has been proposed to establish a Federal Department of Education to con- duct research and carry on investigation in the field of education, and to encour- age and assist the states and the local communities in the promotion of education. The Federal Government has establisht the precedent of promoting educa- tion. It has made liberal grants of land and money for the establishment and support of colleges of agriculture and mechanic arts, and in more recent years has made appropriations for vocational education and household arts. Without interfering in any way with the control and management of public education by the states, the Federal Government should extend aid to the states for the pro- motion of physical education, the Americanization of the foreign born, the eradi- cation of illiteracy, the better training of teachers, and for promoting free educa- tional opportunities for all the children of all the people. TEACHERS SALARIES MUST DOUBLE CHOOL BUDGETS in American cities should be twice as large as before the war, according to an analysis of public school statistics given out by the Russell Sage Foundation. The report maintains that teachers’ salaries should now be double the pre-war figures in order to obtain the same quality of educational ser- vice. The cost of school buildings is declared to have trebled in the last five years. These findings are made public in a volume, entitled “Trends of School Costs.” The author is Dr. W. Randolph Burgess, assistant director of the de- partment of education of the Russell Sage Foundation. During the five years since 1915 the salaries of teachers have increast on the average of 45 per cent, as compared with a 100 per cent increase in the wages of laborers. A comparison of teachers’ salaries and the cost of the necessities of life each year for the past eighty years makes it clear that in the past two years the purchasing power of the teachers’ salary has been less than any other time since the civil war. The report maintains that the only way to retain efficient teachers in service and at the same time attract able men and women to teaching is to bring salaries to a level corresponding to the level of the wages in other occupations, and the level of the cost of living. This is taken to mean bringing salaries to a point just double the pre-war figures. . THE'N. E. A BULLETIN ———_ aan te ein WORK By Henry Van Dyke Let me but do my work from day to day, In field or forest, at the desk or loom, In roaring market-place or tranquil room; Let me but find it in my heart to say, When vagrant wishes beckon me astray, “This is my work; my blessing, not my doom; “Of all who live, I am the one by whom “This work can best be done in the right way.” Then shall I see it not too great, nor small, To suit my spirit and to prove my powers; Then shall I cheerful greet the labouring hours, And cheerful turn, when the long shadows fall At eventide, to play and love and rest, Because I know for me my work is best. [From Music anp OrHer Poems, Scribner, 1919] e