31921 JUNE, 1921 “The OURNAL of the NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION ALL NAL INU IAT NATTA 12) S/S WEOPIES r Ue Fs : : 2 i © Ht ~~ S N ~ NS ay Silent Partners in Civilization : . : 103 SC Organized Classroom Teachers 104 We Salt Lake City—Minutes ; ; ; ‘ , 105 vs Iowa ‘ . ; 7 , : ‘ . : 107 LF Editorial ; 7 , , , 7, ‘ : 108 Educational Advance . : ; . ‘ ; 109 Enrolment and Affiliation , ; ‘ ; : 111 Notes and Announcements . . ‘ . ‘ 112 Annual Meeting—Program . , , 113 Tentative Programs of Departments. , . 114 son ool. al an- en our the hing m as uum aner j00- den aber Published monthly, except July and August, by the 1201 SIXTEENTH STREET NorTHWEST, WASHINGTON, D. C. Entered as second class matter October 28, 1920, at the postoffice at Washington, D. C., under the Act of August 24, 1912. Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage provided for in section 1103, Act of October 3, 1917, authorized January 26, 1921. NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED STATES : SSS SS W<«« AK \\ = Printing ¢eAs a‘Prevocational Subject eo combines virtually all the desirable features that are re- quired of the ideal manual activity in education. Printing is an art in which the raw materials are words— words of all languages—requiring in its finished product a utilization of the principles of nearly all academic stud- ies. Included in these studies are reading, grammar, spelling, punctua- tion, word division and capitalization. ¢eAs aVocational Subject HE Printing industry needs men —competent and well-trained workers in all branches of the indus- try. Employers and employees are fully alive to the seriousness of the shortage of workmen in the printing and allied industries and probably would welcome a suggestion that they co-operate in apprentice education. Many schools are now furnishing edu- cation in printing. 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Following are a few of the reasons why the new McMURRY AND PARKINS GEOGRAPHIES meet every test imposed from any and all of the three viewpoints. SCIENTIFIC (1) All data are the latest available. (2) Utmost care has been taken by both authors and critics to guard against errors and inaccuracies in maps and text. PEDAGOGICAL (1) The problem method is largely used. (2) The organization provides a natural sequence in treatments. (3) The main points are reflected in marginal headings. MECHANICS (1) The type is large and open. (2) The illustrations in half tones are abundant and large enough to sh (3) There are more than twice as many been used in a geography text. black and white maps as (4) Color maps engraved by a new process give greater variety in color and vividness in detail than is possible with older processes. (5) The binding is attractive and substantial. 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Built on the results of fifty years’ experience by pioneers in the playground movement, Send today for Catalog “‘L”—the recognized textbook on playground planning and equip- ment. Fred Medart Mfg. Co. Potomac & De Kalb Streets St. Louis, Mo. San Francisco Rialto Bldg. New York 52 Vanderbilt Ave. Nene eee EEEEEE. Kindly mention the Journal when writine our advertisers pip sae 1 re se at ly be ience ment. nized quip: 0. Silent Partners in Civilization J. W. SEARSON JUNE, 1921 Professor of English, Kansas State Agricultural College, Manhattan, Kansas OLDING public sentiment in M harmony with advanced edu- cational experience is the next big task of educators. Experts, through years of experimentation and_ special study, have developed essential stand- ards far ahead of public sentiment. The public is not yet willing to give free and full support to its schools. Due to poor pay and inadequate facilities for “training teachers, there is a menacing teacher shortage. Each year we train - approximately 25,000 teachers to meet 4 demand for 100,000. Nearly 400,000 of our 792,000 teachers in America have less than a minimum of standard pro- fessional training. But a small per cent of our 23,000,000 school children is physically efficient. Over eighty out of every one hundred children in 429 cities have insufficient playground space, and the majority of the pupils are without proper medical inspection and attention. The buildings housing half the children were erected more than twenty - years ago and are insanitary, poorly lighted, badly heated and ventilated, and lack the necessary shops, laboratories, audi- torlums and gymnasiums demanded in progressive communities. At least forty per cent of al! elementary school classes, twenty per cent of the kindergarten classes, and eleven per cent of the junior and senior high school classes are so large that the individual child can not be given necessary care and personal in- struction. In rural and village communities, con- ditions are even worse. Inequalities in taxation and support, now clearly under- stood by educators, cry for instant remedy. If the taxpaying public understood and appreciated the nature of the men- acing situation, more adequate support would be forthcoming. But the public does not understand. The teachers have the facts, but they have not “burned them in.” Shall the teachers remain silent partners in civilization? Or shall they speak with voices the public can and appreciate? How can these silent partners find voices that will be heard? How can they educate the pub- lic up to standards in keeping with to- day’s needs? They owe it to themselves —— UBLIC SENTIMENT is everything. With public sen- timent nothing can fail; without it, nothing can succeed. Conse- quently he who molds public sen- timent goes deeper than he who enacts statutes or pronounces de- cisions. He makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to be executed.—A braham Lincoln. and to the taxpayers to make plain the meaning of each new movement—to show why it is worth while. “They don’t understand,” declare university professors when legislatures provide scant funds. ‘They don’t un- derstand,” teachers declare concerning boards of education who increase salaries gingerly. ‘They don’t understand,” say members of schoolboards about taxpay- ers who vote down bonds for necessary schoolhouses or who refuse to sanction living and saving salaries for teachers. Why don’t they understand? ‘These are the public’s schools. The public must be made to understand. The teachers—the public’s human engineer- ing experts—must present the facts. Once educational facts are presented with the frequency and persistence of soap or tobacco advertisements, the pub- lic, which has poured out its substance for soap and tobacco, will capitulate completely to its own highest interests in education. We expend millions of dollars an- nually for chewing gum, pleasure cars, cigarettes, face powder, and prize fights, and never think of complaining. Once the advantages of education are tucked into the public’s consciousness as snugly as are the merits of these pleasure and vanity thrillers, the public will clamor [103] for the higher thrills which come from investing large sums of money in its citizenship factory. The public must be informed. Its educational experts must -speak. The silent partners must become active. They must speak, not for themselves, but for civilization. In the silence and misunderstanding, society has suffered. The silent partners must awaken to their new responsibility and speak messages of understanding and codperation. Here are some of the ways in’ which these hitherto silent partners may speak the messages which will set the Ameri- can public on fire with zeal and readi- ness to support its most cherished child —the public schools: 1. Continue to secure the codpera- tion of America’s leading magazines, newspapers, and press associations, of the National Education Association, and of other great National organizations, in- volving every great interest of the home, of labor, and of business. These publica- tions and organizations have made the thinking public aware of the menace to education, but the vast unthinking mass remains inert and untouched. 2. Collect and publish to members of all teachers’ organizations the essential financial facts in the National, State, and local administration of education. * 3. Use all organized agencies, Na- tional, State, and local, to establish direct lines of communication between the teachers and the public. Provide the newspapers with facts and human interest stories in education. Interest the clergy, the labor leaders and mem- bers of labor organizations, rotary clubs, kiwanis clubs, chambers of commerce, social and cultural clubs, and other im- portant community agencies. ~ 4. Keep all educational officials in- formed and active. Members of school- boards, superintendents, principals, offi- cers of teachers’ organizations, city officials, civic leaders, and even extreme reactionaries of every description, should be in possession of important facts re- garding schools. 104 5. Give frank and full publicity to official proceedings of boards of educa- tion, to salary budgets, to appointments and dismissals, to urgent needs, to plans for school improvement, to self-surveys, to matters of controversy, and to matters of splendid agreement. Similarly pub- lish the proceedings and demands of teacher organizations with the facts sup- porting the demands. 6. Maintain an efficient corps of liaison officers between every part of the school organization and every essential community agency. Every teacher should know essential school facts and should have them in convenient form to give to members of the organizations to which she belongs. 7. Get persons outside of the school to see so clearly the meaning of the facts that they will become active champions of the causes the facts reveal. The American free school belongs to the pub- lic and the public should fight its battles. Induce leaders from without to print, publish, circularize, speak, and other- wise carry on propaganda. 8. Maintain the closest personal and professional relationships with every in- dividual who, directly or indirectly, has to do with the making of laws, local, State, or National. ‘The closest touch with leaders in all political parties and with their chosen representatives is necessary if those who make our laws are to act with sympathy and under- standing. Keep the bare facts before every leader and lawmaker, not only during the sessions of the legislatures, but the year round. This is the big program for breaking the silence. The details must be worked out in every locality. The challenge has been made by lawmakers, by members of boards of education, and by hosts of taxpayers that did not “understand.” Can the silent partners of civilization meet the challenge? Can they become the active, trusted leaders and safe guides? Once the public knows school facts and understands right educational “brands,” it will give willing support to constructive agencies, and it will be quick to condemn and to unhand im- postors. The very life of the American free school is bound up in the active co- partnership of educators and the public. In a very rare sense, educational experts must “sell” education to the public, and prove in practice the righteousness of their program. Tue JouRNAL OF THE NATIONAL EpucATION ASSOCIATION -Organized Classroom ‘Teachers Cornelia S. Adair, Teacher in the Public Schools, Richmond, Virginia OR MANY YEARS, the classroom teacher has felt that she was not giving her best to the cause of education. This feeling crystallized at the Chi- cago meeting of the National Education Association in 1912 and resulted in the formation of the Department of Class- room Teachers of the National Educa- tion Association and the National League .of (Classroom) Teachers’ As- sociations. Although classroom teachers had al- ways been individual members of the National Education Association,they had never taken steps to be officially recog- nized by a department as other groups had done. It is true that there was the Department of Elementary Education, but its membership embraced all those who were in any way interested in the elementary schools. ‘The officers, more- over, had always been persons other than classroom teachers. So the newl awakened classroom teacher did not fd that this department adequately repr, sented her. On July 12, 1912, the formal ap tion for a Department of Classroom Teachers was presented to the Exécutive Committee by Margaret Haley, of Chi- cago. According to the By-laws of the association, it was laid over for one year. In 1913 the application was granted and the department organized. Officers for the year 1913-14 were: president, Flor- ence Rood, St. Paul; vice-president, Mary O’Connor, Buffalo; secretary, Mary Atkisson, Denver. The first meeting of this department was held in St. Paul in 1914. Since its organiza- tion it has been officered and managed entirely by classroom teachers. For the past seven years Sara Fahey, Teacher of Civics in the Manual Training High School in New York, has held most ac- ceptably the office of president. The organization of the National League of. Teachers’ Associations was perfected in Chicago the same year (1912) that proceedings for the organ- ization of the department were insti- tuted. The formation of the league was a Nation-wide movement to bring class- room teachers together in an organ- ization devoted exclusively to their in- June, 19 terests. The leaders felt that the ey. © change of ideas and inspiration would — operate more freely in an association of © persons doing the same type of work, Membership was limited to associa tions of classroom teachers. Delegates ~ ~ from seventy clubs in nineteen States 7 representing more than twenty thousand ~ teachers, took part in the formation of © the league. The first officers were: president, Grace Baldwin, Minneapolis; : secretary-treasurer, Mollie R. Hobbs, — Baltimore; vice-presidents, Mary L3 Morgan, Buffalo; Grace DeGraft | Portland, Oregon; Helen M. Holden, © Milwaukee. Nina O. Buchanan, president 1920. 21, has been active in the work of the | league since its formation; she has held | almost every office within the gift of - the teachers of her section and is a for © mer officer of the National Education © Association. It is interesting to note | that the names of the first National offi. 7 cers of the league and many of its local - officers appear on the list of those who applied for the organization of the De partment of Classroom Teachers. This © interchange of officers has been frequent, _ Frances Harden, of Chicago, and Sallie Hill, of Denver, each served as a vice “P¥tsident of the National Association | cae during her term as president of the ™ league. Ethel Gardner, vice-president, | and Margaret Richardson, secretary of the Department of Classroom Teachers, are the presidents of two of the most tive and efficient league clubs. Miss Hill is now Assistant Field Secretary of the National Education Association and” Miss Cornelia S. Adair (league presi: dent 1919-20) is its Treasurer. What Teachers Want \¥ IRST, teachers want to be : public not hired hands. Second, teachers want a share in ¥ the control and the responsibilities” of their work, not only in the” classroom but also in determining) policies and in the commercial aa” ministration. ; Third, teachers want life more | al-undantly: recreation, education, ¥ comfort, health, security —News | Letter of the Philadelphia Teach ers Association, November, 19. servants, i j Fr a sad aA . % 5 A I ay ae 3 Ra = % " b. : a a a & pf ol. 10, No. 6 “Committee on The two organizations have always een in harmony. ‘Their ideals are the same. Both are working to bring ‘teachers into relations of mutual as- “sistance and codperation, to improve the “social and economic status of teachers, and to promote the best interests of edu- cation.” Because the membership is jargely identical, the meetings are held at the same time and place in order that the same persons may be delegates to © both conventions or appear on their » various programs. The classroom teachers feel that they need both organizations. They need the National League of Teachers’ Associa- tions in which to work out their indi- vidual problems and to train themselves for broader service. “They need the De- partment in the National Education Association in which, as a part of the great National educational body, they may codperate with the other units of that body and may carry on, in the most efficient manner, their part of the educa- tional work of the Nation. Salt Lake City—Minutes HE September, 1920, Bulletin con- - tained an account of the reorganiza- “tion plan adopted at the 1920 meeting, along with the by-laws as amended at that time. Other numbers of the Bul- letin contained statements of the plans of the Association springing from the re- organization at Salt Lake City. It is | fitting, as the time approaches for the ) meeting of the reorganized Association, to publish a summary of the minutes of | ~ the meeting at which reorganization took |) place, Friday, July 9, 1920, at 9 a. m., “in the Tabernacle at Salt Lake City, Utah. President Josephine Corliss Preston presided. A rule was passed allowing > each member to speak but once on a question until all others had had an op- “S portunity to speak. The minutes of the “previous meeting which had been printed and distributed were approved by unani- mous consent. The printed audited reports: of the » Treasurer and Board of Trustees, which _ fad been approved by the Board of _ Directors, were presented and adopted. George D. Strayer, vice-president, read a report of the Executive Commit- tee, which recommended appropriations for the year 1920-21 as follows: © The Commission on the Organization ~ of Secondary Education, $150. Committee on Participation of Teachers in the Management of Schools, $150. ‘Committee on Health Education, $500. Committee on the Conservation of the _ American Home, $200. Commission on the Organization of Elementary Education, $1000. Teachers’ Salaries, Tenure, and Pensions, $500. Committee on Illiteracy, the unexpended balance from last year’s appropriation ' which is approximately $1000. Committee on Rural Education, the un- propriation which is approximately $600. Committee on Development of School Teachers, $500. A legislative commission whose purpose and duty it shall be to promote the passage of the Smith-Towner bill be- fore Congress, $7500. On motion, this part of the report was adopted and the Executive Committee was directed to assume responsibility for the expenditures of the committees named, and to decide which expenditures should be first authorized in case all could not be allowed. The second part of the report of the committee, recommending the allowance of a sum of $3000 to be used for the work of committees not included in the appropriations already made, or if neces- sary to increase the appropriations of committees named in the first part of the report, was adopted. The third part of the committee’s re- port stated that as directed by the Asso- ciation in its annual meeting in Mil- waukee, a committee had obtained from Congress an amendment of the Associa- tion’s charter permitting it to organize on a representative basis. The bill was read as follows: “Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress as- sembled, That an Act entitled ‘An Act to incorporate the National Educational Association of the United States,’ ap- proved June 30, 1906, be amended by adding an additional section to said Act, which section shall be designated Sec- tion 12, and shall read as follows: “ “That said corporation may provide, by amendment to its by-laws, that the - powers of active members exercised at the annual meeting in the election of officers and the transaction of business, shall be vested in and exercised by a rep- THE JOURNAL OF THE NaTIONAL EpuCATION ASSOCIATION 10S resentative assembly composed of dele- gates apportioned, elected, and governed in. accordance with the provisions of the by-laws adopted by said corporation.’ ” On motion, this part of the report was also adopted. Howard Driggs [Utah] then moved the adoption of the amendment to Article 2 of the by-laws, due notice of which had been given- at Milwaukee in 1919, as follows: “That Article 2 of the amendments be amended as follows: “Section 1. These by-laws may be altered or amended at the annual busi- ness meeting of the active members by unanimous consent, or by a two-thirds vote of the active members present. “Section 2. This amendment shall take effect immediately upon its adop- tion.’ ” After explanation of the motion by Mr. Driggs [Utah], it was adopted. Superintendent Fred M. Hunter [California] moved that the Association next consider the: plan of reorganization proposed by the Board of Directors and authorized by Congress. The motion was adopted. The essential changes proposed being in Article 2, it was unanimously voted to consider that article section by section. H. S$. Magill, field secretary, read and explained Article 2 as proposed in the pamphlet which had been distributed. Sections 1 to 8 were unanimously adopt- ed as read without debate. Section 9 was then read. Its adoption was strongly urged by Tesse H. Newlon [Nebraska].2 Sara H. Fahey York], after explaining her oppesitiat, moved that the part of Section 9 begin- ning “And the State superintendent or commissioner of education of each State, territory, and district shall be ex officio delegates to the representative aSsem- bly,” be stricken out. Miss McCarty [Utah] urged in op- position to the amendment of Section 9 that the ex-officio members of the Rep- resentative Assembiy would constitute a relatively small group and could, there- fore, never exert an undue control. D. B. Waldo [Michigan], - Miss Shelton, Susan M. Dorsey [California], J. M. Gwinn [Louisiana], Miss Rhodes [ New York], also spoke in opposition to the amendment of Section 9. On vote the amendment was lost and Section 9 as originally proposed was adopted. Section 10 was next read and after discussion by Anna Laura Force [Colo- | New 1 Now of Denver, Colorado. Tue JouRNAL oF THE NaTIONAL EpucaTion ASSOCIATION i rado], Miss Fahey [New York], A. E. Winship [Massachusetts], and others was unanimously adopted. Articles 3, 4, and 5 were unanimously adopted as printed. On motion of Will C. Wood [Cali- fornia], who explained that Articles 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11 contained only tech- nical changes, their adoption was moved as read. Katherine Blake [New York] moved the adoption of an amendment to Article 8, Section 1, which had been submitted to the Association in 1919, as follows: “The Proceedings of the Association, the Council, the departments, the com- missions, and committees shall be pub- lished at the discretion of and under the direction of a committee appointed by the Executive Committee, provided that in the opinion of the Executive Commit- tee the funds of the Association warrant the publication. Each member of the Association shall be entitled to a copy of the Proceedings.” After an explanation by Miss Blake {New York] that it was not one of the objects of her amendment to make it mandatory upon the Association to fur- nish the volume of the Proceedings to each member, Mr. Wood accepted the amendment as a part of his original motion, which was then carried. A. E. Winship [Massachusetts], next proposed that Section 11 be added to Article 2 as follows: ‘The officers shall be permitted to hold meetings other than for business purposes and the expense therefor shall be provided.” After dis- cussion the amendment was adopted. Jesse H. Newlon [Nebraska] then moved the adoption of the report as a whole. Mr. Christensen proposed that Sec- tions 2 and 3 be added to Article 11 as follows: “Section 2. And in addition to said unanimous consent or two-thirds vote, the said proposed amendment shall be submitted to the vote of the active mem- bers by a referendum to be conducted by the Executive Secretary of the Associa- tion, and shall be officially recorded be- fore December 1, following the annual meeting at which the’ amendment was proposed, and if a majority of the votes so cast are in favor of said proposed amendment, then the same shall become immediately effective, otherwise such proposed amendment shall fail of adop- tion. “Section 3. This amendment shall take effect immediately upon its adop- tion.” H. S. Magill explained that the pro- posed amendment would be illegal under the amended Charter which vests in a Representative Assembly the powers and duties previously exerted by active mem- bers. After further discussion by Mr. Christensen [Utah], favoring the amendment, Olive Jones [New York], PITY no man because he has to work. If he is worth his salt, he will work. I envy the man who has a work worth doing and does it well. There never has been devised, and there never will be devised, any law which will enable a man to succeed save by the exer- cise of those qualities which have always been the prerequisites of success, the qualities of hard work. of keen intelligence, of unflinching will—Theodore Roosevelt. opposing the amendment, Will C. Wood [California], opposing, Mr. Anderson [Utah], opposing, Mr. Driggs [Utah], opposing, Margaret Haley [Illinois], H. S. Magill, and Mr. Hathaway, the pro- posed amendment was laid on the table. The report, as a whole, was then unanimously adopted. In the absence of the chairman, State Superintendent Annie Webb Blanton [Texas], presented the report of the Resolutions’ Committee, which was read, discussed, amended, and adopted section by section.” Dr. Becht [Pennsylvania], then pre- sented the report of the Committee on Nominations. It was discussed, amend- ed, and adopted, electing the officers whose names have been published in the Bulletin and the JouRNAL of the Asso- ciation. Superintendent Fred M. Hunter [California], newly elected president, was introduced by the Chair and ex- pressed appreciation of the honor con- ferred upon him. Miss Blake [ New York] then moved that the Executive Committee be direct- ed to apply to Congress for a change in the Charter to remove entirely from the hands of the Board of Directors the election of the member at large of the Executive Committee and the members of the Board of Trustees. After dis- cussion the motion was carried. 2 Published in the October, 1920 Bulletin, pages 24-8 and in the 1920 Proceedings, pages 23-7. It was moved by Margaret Haley [Illinois] that the Executive Committee be instructed to ask Congress for an amendment striking out the section of the Charter which provides for life directors. After discussion the motion was laid on the table. William B. Owen [Illinois] moved that the Association authorize the ap- pointment of a special committee of three to codperate with the United States Commissioner of Education and a similar committee, appointed by the National Council of State Departments of Education, in the preparation of jn- formation as to, the sources of revenue for the support of the public schools, After discussion the motion was carried, Mr. Booth [Illinois], on behalf of the Department of Rural Education, asked unanimous consent for an amendment to Article 5, Section 1, striking out the words “and agriculture” after the words “rural education.” He also asked for unanimous consent for an amendment to Article 5, Section 3, which would permit the Department of Rural Education to meet at the time of the meeting of the Department of Superintendence. After discussion it was unanimously agreed to strike out the words “and agriculture.” There not be- ing unanimous consent for the other proposed amendment, the Chair ruled that it should go over until next year. Mr. Winter gave notice of his inten- tion to propose three amendments at the 1921 meeting: (1) an amendment to the effect that amendments to the By-laws shall be proposed at least six months | previous to the annual meeting; (2) an amendment to the effect that each State or local association unable to finance the sending to the annual meeting of all the delegates to which it is entitled, shall have the right to proxy votes for all delegates who are unable to attend the annual meeting; and (3) an amendment ~ adding Section 2 to Article 11 as fol- lows: “And in addition to the said unanimous consent, or two-thirds vote, the said proposed amendment shall be submitted to a vote of the active mem- 9 bers by a referendum to be conducted by the Executive Secretary of the Asso ciation, and shall be officially recorded before December 1, following the an-~ nual meeting at which the amendment was proposed, and if a majority of the © votes so given are in favor of said pro ~ posed amendment, then the same shall ~ become immediately effective; otherwise © said proposed amendment shall fail of adoption.” June, 1924 4 See a a 13 a ‘F ee Lie F Pol. 10, No. 6 THe JouRNAL OF THE NATIONAL EpucaTION ASSOCIATION 107 Mr. Winter moved that the Execu- tive Committee take prompt and effec- tive steps to secure the best legal advice upon the interpretation of the section of the Charter bearing upon the legality of the proposed referendum provision in the by-laws. The motion was carried. Jesse H. Newlon [Nebraska] moved that the Committee on Salaries, Tenure, and Pensions be constituted a regular committee of the National Education - Association. After discussion the motion was carried. On motion of Miss Blake [New York], it was voted that a Committee on Visual Education be authorized as one of the general committees of the Association. It was moved and unani- mously voted that the Commission on the Emergency in Education be dis- charged with the thanks of the Associa- tion for its valuable work. On motion of Dr. Strayer [New York], it was voted that the Executive Committee appoint a Legislative Com- mission which should be instructed to use all honorable means to secure the passage by Congress at the earliest pos- sible moment of the Smith-Towner bill. Cora Wilson Stewart, of Kentucky, moved that committees be appointed by the Association to interview the nomi- nees of the political parties for President of the United States, to present to them the educational ideals and plans of the Association and to secure an expression from them as to their attitude toward the cause of education in general, and toward those plans and ideals in par- ticular. C. G. Pearse [Wisconsin] moved to amend by adding ‘and of their attitude toward the Smith-Towner bill in particular.”” The motion was carried as amended. After various announcements had been made, the fifty-eighth annual busi- ness session of the National Education Association adjourned. The Iowa State Teachers College, Cedar Falls, Iowa, invites members of the National Education Association to Visit the institution and get acquainted with its plans and methods. The Faculty appreciates the oppor- tunity to attend the sessions of the Asso- Ciation so much that it has agreed to teach two Saturdays before and one Saturday immediately after the meeting in order to have vacation during the dates, July 4-5-6-7, so that the students and members of the faculty may attend the Des Moines meeting. Visitors will be welcome before these " dates and after these dates and every op- portunity will be given them to learn of the work that lowa is conducting at the State Teachers College—Homer H. SEERLEY, President. lowa HE FACT that the National Edu- cation Association is soon to meet at Des Moines focuses the interest of the teachers of the Nation upon lowa and her capital city. The following in- teresting facts and statements have been compiled from material furnished by the Secretary of the Iowa State Teachers’ Association, Charles F. Pye: Legend has it that when the first In- dians in the course of their wanderings came into the part of the Mississippi valley now known as Iowa, they found it fair beyond their imaginings and be- held in it the land of promise, and so called it Iowa, meaning “beautiful land.” Iowa is the very heart of the great Mississippi valley. From east to west the State measures 335 miles, an area as large as all the New England States combined. ‘The water area of this great commonwealth is but 561 square miles; its land area is 35,575,030 acres, and of this vast area 98.4 per cent is now under cultivation. It is largely from the culti- vation of this rich land that the wealth of the State comes. Iowa was ranked seventh among the States in point of school efficiency by Dr. Ayres. Ninety-nine per cent of her population is literate; one in four is in school. Iowa State University at Iowa City ranks second in the number of graduate students. lowa’s secondary schools are among the best in the coun- try. Millions of dollars are expended every year in building and improving high schools, grade schools, and consoli- dated schools. New consolidated schools are taking the place of the little white school-house that once was seen on alter- nate section lines. Qualifications for teachers in Iowa are among the highest of any State, and her teachers among the best paid. Iowa was chosen as the meeting place of the National Conference on Parks in January, 1921, because of the “extraor- dinary results in the fields of State park creation and development by the State of Iowa under its Public Park Act.” Among the State parks in Iowa are: The Devil’s Backbone in Delaware County; Boneyard Hollow in Webster County; an area near Farmington, in Van Buren County; the beautiful Keo- sauqua Park in Van Buren County; Lepley Park in Hardin County; an area near Oakland in Pottawattamie County ; land near Oakland Mills in Henry County; Roosevelt Park in Floyd County; and Wild Cat Den in Mus- catine County. One of the most beautiful spots in Iowa, one that no doubt will shortly be included in the National park system, is that part of the upper Mississippi valley which embraces Allamakee County and portions of Winnishiek, Clayton, Fayette, Dubuque, and Dela- ware Counties. The rare charm and beauty of this part of northeastern Iowa is unsurpassed in the Middle West. Here are scenes of quiet beauty, of stately grandeur; here is the splendid magnificence of the palisades, the color- ful and curiously jagged walls telling an interesting story; here limpid pools of water murmur around the thousand islands of the Mississippi; here are hills and valleys, each a dream of beauty with flowing streams, exquisite waterfalls, and towering castellated walls clothed with the shimmering green of summer or the glowing colors of autumn. In the northern part of Iowa are many enchanting spots. Lake Okoboji, famous over the Middle West as a sum- mer resort, and but one in a chain of lakes in Dickinson County, is the mecca of thousands every year. Here the charm of the prairie and of the forest, of hill and of valley, meet. About the shores of the lakes are woods of oak, maple, elm, and birch, and but a few miles distant are the rolling fields of green and gold. Homelike modern ho- tels, numerous summer homes, an ex- cellent nine-hole golf course, tennis courts, dancing pavilions, and other en- tertainment features are among the things that Okoboji affords the visitor in addition to excellent bathing, fishing, and boating. On the west shore of the lake is located Camp Holliday, a camp for girls, and on the same side Lakeside Laboratory, owned and operated by the State University as a summer school and experiment station. The camp-meeting grounds of the Methodist Episcopal Church, where annually a large confer- ence is held, are also on West Okoboji, as well as the extensive grounds belong- ing to the Y. W. C. A., where through- out the summer, school and working girls of several States spend happy, care- free vacations at a minimum expense. Clear Lake, too, in Cerro Gordo County, is another Iowa beauty spot and much frequented in the summer months. Although not so large as Okoboji, it is a popular vacation spot. 108 The Journal of the National Education Association Published monthly except July and A st by the Nations! Education Association of the United States Fred M. Hunter J. W. Crabtree President Secretary The payment of $2.00 active membership dues entitles a member tc attend all meetings of the Association and its de- ments, to vote for delegates to the Representative Aesem- ly, to hold office, and to receive the Journal monthly. The payment of $5.00 instead of $2.00 entitles an active member, in addition to the privileges of the $2.00 member- ship, to receive the complete bound volume of Proceedings, all committee reports, and other regular publications of the Aseociation. One dollar of each membership fee is for a year’s subscrip- tion to the Journal. , bscription to non-members is $2.00 per year; single copies, 25 cents. Advertising rates on application. embers are kindly requested to report at once any change of address, giving old as well as new address. Entered as second class matter October 28, 1920, at the post- office at Washington, D. C., under the act of August 24, 1912. Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage pro- vided for in section 1103, Act of October 3, 1917, authorized January 26, 1921 Editor-in-Chief William C. Bagley Editorial Council Names of members will appear later. Publication Staff Joy Elmer Morgan R. S. Erlandson Managing Editor Business Manager EXECUTIVE AND EDITORIAL OFFICES: 1201 Sixteenth Street N. W., Washington, D. C. Towner-Sterling Bill HE SMITH-TOWNER BILL of the last Congress, revised and per- fected, is the Towner-Sterling Bill in the present Congress. It is sponsored by Congressman Horace Mann Towner, of Iowa, in the House, and by Senator Thomas Sterling, of South Dakota, in the Senate. This bill gives to education primary recognition and provides recog- nized leadership, by creating a Depart- ment of Education with a Secretary in the President’s Cabinet. It also author- izes appropriations by the Federal Gov- ernment to aid and encourage the States in the promotion of education. Not only educators but the friends of public education throughout the Nation are giving it their earnest support. Other measures have been introduced in Congress affecting education, but all these would leave education submerged in a subordinate position in some depart- ment of the Government. That educa- tion is of primary importance to the Nation cannot be questioned. Washing- ton so declared it to be, and President Harding has so declared it to be. Why, then, should it not be given primary recognition? Why should there not be a Department of Education? There is only one satisfactory answer,—There should be, and there will be. No other solution can be permanent. As Charles Sumner has said, ““No question is settled until it is settled right.” THE JouRNAL oF THE NaTIONAL EpucaTION ASSOCIATION The Change in the Commis- sionership UT OF A CLEAR SKY after the JouRNAL has gone to press comes the announcement of the dismissal of Dr. Claxton as Commissioner of Educa- tion and the appointment of Mr. J. J. Tigert in his place. This action will be deplored by the friends of public educa- tion throughout the Nation. It is not necessary to discuss the long and faith- ful service of Dr. Claxton, whose work has had the approval of two successive presidents of opposite political faith, nor is it necessary to review the little-known record and untried leadership of the man who has been named for his place. It it most unfortunate that a change should be made at this time when the need for recognized national leadership in education is imperative. It is cer- tain to be construed as having been de- termined by political motives and in total disregard of the growing demand for the elevation of the Nation’s chief educational office. The Summer Vacation ACATION days are close at hand, if not actually begun. The prac- tise of having long vacations in the schools originated when the country was young.” The first school terms were but a few weeks in length. During the warmer and busier seasons pupils as well as teachers were needed for other tasks. With changing conditions, however, the average school term has length- ened to about 160 days, or eight school months. The average teacher has a vacation period of from three to four months. The teacher who is in poor health may need that much time for rest and recreation, but most teachers take advantage of this period of leisure to supplement their salaries or to obtain ad- ditional training. ‘Too much emphasis cannot be placed on the importance of this additional training, both to the teacher and to society. Better prepara- tion and higher salaries are usually found together. Many salary schedules allow considerable advances for summer training. The importance to the Nation of sum- mer training is incalculable. The teacher-training institutions of the country could probably accommodate 100,000 summer students without undue crowding. Most summer-school stu- dents are practising teachers. They bring to their work greater maturity and better methods of study than the stu- June, 192% dents of the regular year. ‘They take with them to their schoolrooms in the fall increased power and inspiration so that many times a hundred thousand children are directly benefited. Al] hail to the summer school. It is a school] of service. The teacher who attends js a true soldier and a patriot. The sum- mer school director who through modern methods of publicity obtains a large en- rolment is rendering society a great and distinctive service. The Local Association VER A THOUSAND local groups have already affiliated with the National Association. Others have requested information as to methods of organizing and work. Under its new plan of operation the National Associa- tion.is especially interested in local or- ganization. As professional spirit grows among teachers the tendency will be for every teacher to belong to a local unit, and for every member of the local unit to have membership in State and Na- tional associations. Most of the work of education asso- ciations has one of two general aims. The first aim is the elevation of the esti- mate which the public places upon the importance of education. Not until the public insists that every child in the United States have an adequate school- ing in a properly equipped building un- der the guidance and inspiration of pro- fessionally trained teachers can our edu- cation associations feel that the first part of their mission is achieved. The second aim of the education asso- ciation relates to the work which the teacher does and her attitude toward that work. It may be even more funda- mental than the aim first mentioned, for public appreciation of education can be won and held only in proportion as edu- cation is worthy of appreciation. Scholarship, community leadership, high- minded devotion to professional ideals, appreciation of the teachers—all these underlie public sup- port of education. The local education association may well be regarded as an excellent ex- | ample of democracy in action. Volun- tary organization on a high plane and © for lofty purposes is one of the indis- © pensable agencies of democratic progress. — Democracy is more than a constitution, 7 or a form of government, or guarantees — of certain rights and privileges. 4 it may be all of these, its roots stri deep into much more fundam things. It is born of mutual good work of fellow | fol. 10. No. 6 THE JOURNAL OF THE NATIONAL EpucaTION ASSOCIATION oe, oh Oe Se a , 0- la- nay trustworthiness. 1t springs from a re to let live as well as to live. It conserves the enormous energies that lie hidden in the originalities, the initiatives, and the enthusiasms of the individual. © Wt thrives on the self-restraint that prompts individuals to give loyalty to ~ the common welfare. Democracy is the Be spirit of service in the hearts of people. © Without this spirit there can be no gen- wine democracy in the home, in the school, in industry, or in community life. ee Voluntary organization for mutual a ee Tg h —— - National Congress of Mothers and 2 Parent-Teacher Associations held its ® twenty-fifth annual convention in Wash- ® ington, D. C., during the last week in ® April. A strong and varied program " was presented. The principal officers are as follows: Mrs. Milton P. Hig- gins (Mass.), president; Mrs. Joseph Garibaldi (N. C.), recording secretary ; Mrs. George B. Chandler (Conn.), cor- responding secretary; Mrs. Hubert N. Rowell (Calif.), treasurer; Mrs. C. H. Remington (R. I.), auditor; and Mrs. ® Giles Scott Rafter (D. C.), historian. Shy ay ge ae ® A National Council for the Social : Studies—The wider introductiony ‘of ® the social studies—history, government, ® economics, sociology, and related sub- 4 Be jects—into the public schools is to be © promoted actively through the organ- | ization of the National Council for | Teachers of Social Studies. Tempo- | faty organization of-this Council was | effected March 3, 1921, at Atlantic City ® im connection with the meeting of the ® Department of Superintendence of the ® National Education Association. » The Council aims to settffe a greater “degree of codperation among those in- > terested in promoting these social science | subjects in the elementary and secondary > schools. It plans to put its members in ~ touch with new materials of instruction, 4 particularly of an experimental charac- » ter, through a new Department of So- j cial Studies to be conducted monthly in a the Historical Outlook, and also hopes | to issue other publications from time to > time. It aims to codrdinate the efforts __ of the many nations] and regional asso- ions and committees which are in- ing social studies courses. ‘ae d I A AA HR : the several passenger associations. “These 4 rates will apply to members of the As ~ sociation and dependent members of 7 their families. Round trip tickets will 4 R be sold at one and a half fare witha § minimum of one dollar. hope to attend, even though they are not — sure they can do so, should get Identifica- 7 tion Certificates at once. These may be had by applying either to N. E. A. State 3 Directors or to the Secretary's office at 4 i Washington. A list of State Direc 7 tors may be found on page 85 of the™ April Journat. Mary McSkimmon, 7 Principal Pierce School, Brookline, is % now State Director for Massachusetts. 7 Summer excursion rates of one and 4 | third fare with full stop-over privileges ~ may be had from principal stations in” California, Nebraska, Oregon, Wash” ington, and Western British Columbia) to Chicago, New York, Boston, Phila delphia, Washington, D. C., and other points. a Local ticket agents will furnish 1 formation as to rates, dates of § validation, and other conditions gover ing both N. E. A. tickets and the sume mer excursion tickets. Application should be made to the agent some time) in advance. 4 Headquarters for the National A® (Continued on page 117) © 4 Members who § > Annual Meeting—Program HE FOLLOWING is a tenta- tive program of the 59th annual meeting of the National Educa- ‘tion Association at Des Moines, lowa, y 3-8. General sessions will be held “in the Coliseum. Sunday Evening July 3, 8:00 o’clock Musical program—Concert recital. “Address by Bishop Homer C. Stuntz, Omaha, Nebr. Monday Morning July 4, 9:30-10:30 o’clock rst business session of the Representative "Assembly to which all members of the Association are welcome. Banort of the Committee on Salaries— D. B. Waldo, President State Normal School, Kalamazoo, Mich., Chairman. port of the Committee on Tenure—Charl 0. Williams, Superintendent Shelby County Schools, Memphis, Tenn., Chairman. port of the Committee on Pensions— (Joseph Swain, President Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pa., Chairman) —John W. Carr, for the Committee. Report of the Editor-in-Chief of the Jour- NAL OF THE NATIONAL EpucaTion As- SOcIATION—W. C. Bagley, Professor of Education, Teachers’ College, Colum- bia University, New York, N. Y. July 4, 10:45-12:00 o’clock Report of Committee on Reorganization of > Elementary Education— Margaret S. McNaught, Commissioner Elementary Education, Sacramento, Calif., Chair- man; Olive M. Jones, Principal Public ‘School No. 120, New York, N. Y. nposium: The American Program in Education as It is Related to the Work of the Principal—Ida Lee Woody, Principal Hamilton School, St. Louis, Mo.; J. J. Zmrhal, Principal Herzl School, Chicago, Ill.; Geoffrey Morgan, McBurney School, New York, N. Y.; Lewis W. Smith, Principal, Joliet, Ill.; John A. Sexson, Principal Union "High School, Sterling, Colo. Monday Afternoon a July 4, 1:30-2:00 o’clock Americanization Pageant by the Moines Public Schools— Des ae July 4, 2:00-4:00 o’clock Smposium: The American Program in © Education as It is Related to the Class- Toom Teacher—Agnes S. Winn, Teacher Public Schools, Seattle, Wash.; Marion Higgins, St. Louis, Mo; Allan Paterson, Des Moines, ; ; Marion George, Trenton, N, J. Repo of Committee on Sources of Reve- © te—William B. Owen, President Chi- Normal School, Chicago, Ill, an, of Committee on Visual Educa- Ira B. Bush, Superintendent City 8, Erie, Pa., Chairman. Monday Evening July 4, 8:00 o’clock Musical Program— Welcome—P. E. McClena- Superintendent of Public Instruction, Des Moines, lowa; J. W. Studebaker, Superintendent City Schools, Des Moines, Iowa; S. M. Wallace, President Iowa State Teach- ers’ Association; the Mayor of Des Moines; the Governor of Iowa. Addresses of han, State * RESIDENT FRED M, HUNT- ER, of the National Education Association, whose strong program promises to attract a large attendance at the initial meeting of the reorganized Association the first week in July. Mr. Hunter is superintendent of the Oak- land (California) Schools. ing to California he was prominent in public-school work in Nebraska. Before go- Response for the National Education As- sociation—J. A. C. Chandler, President College of William and Mary, Wil- liamsburg, Va. Address—Calvin Coolidge, of the United States, te Address—Henry J. Ryan, Chairman Amer- icanization Commission, American Le- gion. Vice-President Washington, Tuesday Afternoon July 5, 1:30-2:00 o’clock Health Pageant— July 5, 2:00-4:00 o’clock Symposium: The American Program in Education as It is Related to the Work [113] leacher Robert H. of the Normal Schools and Training Institutions Wright, President East Carolina Teachers’ Training School, Green- ville, N. C.; F. J. Kelly, Dean School of Education, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kans.; John A. H. Keith, President State Normal School, In- diana, Pa.; John R. Kirk, President State Teachers’’ College, Kirksville, Mo. Report of Committee on Health Problems in Education—Thomas D. Wood, Pro- fessor of Education, Teachers’ College, Columbia University, New York, N. Y., Chairman. Report of Committee on Illiteracy—Cora Wilson Stewart, National Illiteracy Commission, Frankfort, Ky., Chair- man. Tuesday Evening July 5, 8:00 o’clock Musical P Address—The Parenthood of the State— Judge Ben B. Lindsey, Judge of Juve- nile Court, Denver, Colo. Address—Social Hygiene and Its Place in the Schools—Charles A. Barker, Rep- resentative International Rotary, Chi- cago, Ill. Wednesday Morning July 6, 9:00-10:15 o’clock Second business session of the sentative Assembly. Report of the President on the Program and the Development of the Associa- tion—Fred M. Hunter, Superintendent City Schools, Oakland, Calif. Report of the Legislative Commission— George D. Strayer, Professor Educa- tional Administration, Teachers’ Col- lege, Columbia University, New York, N. Y., Chairman. Discussion of Previous Reports— Introduction of New Business for Order— July 6, 10:30-12:00 Symposium: What Part Shall the and Universities Play in the Program of Education ?—L. man, President University of Minne- sota, Minneapolis, Minn.; Irving S. Cutter, Dean College of Medicine, Uni- versity of Nebraska, Omaha, Nebr.;: W. A. Jessup, President University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa; C. H. Judd, Head Department of Education, Uni- versity of Chicago, Chicago, II. Report of Commission on Reorganization of Secondary Education—William B. Owen, Principal Chicago Normal Col- lege, Chicago, II}. Repre- Special Colleges American D. Coff- Wednesday Evening July 6, 8:00 o’clock Musical Program— Address—A. H. Chamberlain, California State Teachers’ San Francisco, Calif. Thursday Morning July 7, 9:00-10:15 o’clock Third business session of the Representa- Assembly, Report of Field Secretary—Hugh S. Ma- gill, Field Secretary National Educa- tion Association. Secretary, Association, 114 Report of Committee on Thrift Education —Arthur H. Chamberlain, Secretary California State Teachers’ Associa- tion, Chairman. Discussion of Previous Reports and Intro- duction of New Business— July 7, 10:30-12:00 o’clock Report of the Committee on Codrdination of Research Agencies—Jesse H. New- lon, Superintendent City Schools, Den- ver, Colo., Chairman. Symposium: What Shall be the Program in Education for City School Systems in View of the Objectives of the Amer- ican Program in Education—Randall J. Condon, Superintendent City Schools, Cincinnati, Ohio; J. M. Gwinn, Super- intendent City Schools, New Orleans, La.; J. W. Gowans, Superintendent City Schools, Winfield, Kans.; Peter Mortensen, Superintendent City Schools, Chicago, Ill.; W. L. Stephens, Superintendent City Schools, Long Beach, Calif. Thursday Afternoon July 7, 2:00 o’clock Report of Committee on Foreign Rela- tions—A. O. Thomas, State Superin- tendent of Public Instruction, Augusta, Maine. Report of- Committee on Payment of Ex- penses of Delegates—Cornelia S. Adair, Teacher Public Schools, Richmond, Va., Chairman. Symposium: The State Program in Edu- cation and Its Bearing Upon the Na- Tentative Programs THE JourNAL OF THE NATIONAL EnucaTION ASSOCIATION tional Program—T. E. Finegan, State Superintendent Public Instruction, Harrisburg, Pa.; George H. Reavis, Deputy State Superintendent Public Instruction, Baltimore, Md.; T. E. Johnson, State Superintendent Public Instruction, Lansing, Mich.; May Trumper, State Superintendent Public Instruction, Helena, Mont.; M. L. Brit- tain, State Superintendent Public In- struction, Atlanta, Ga. Thursday Evening July 7, 8:00 o’clock Musical Program— Address—Judge Horace M. Towner, U. S. Representative from Iowa, Corning, _ Towa. Address—Aurelia Henry Reinhardt, Presi- dent Mills College, Oakland, Calif. Friday Morning July 8, 9:00-12:00 o’clock Final business meeting af the Represen- tative Assembly. Report of Secretary to Delegate Assem- bly—J. W. Crabtree, Secretary, Na- tional Education Association. Report of Treasurer to Delegate Assem- bly—Cornelia S. Adair, Teacher Pub- lic Schools, Richmond, Va., Treasurer. Report of Chairman of Board of Trustees —C. G. Pearse, President State Nor- mal School, Milwaukee, Wis., Chair- man. Election of Officers— of Departments and Allied Organizations National Council of Education will hold conferences Friday and Saturday, July 1 and 2. The Friday morning ses- sion, 8:30 o’clock, will have a meeting of the Committee on Membership, followed by roll call and report of the Secretary; the President’s address, The Struggle for Power in the American Educational Sys- tem ; report of the Committee on State Ad- ministration of Schools; and preliminary report of the Committee on Character and Citizenship Education. The Friday afternoon session will be de- voted to reports of the Committees on Membership and Rural Education. The Saturday morning session will. in- clude a meeting of the Executive Com- mittee; address of welcome by F. M. Hunter, Oakland, Calif.; a symposium platform meeting with ten-minute ad- dresses by P. P. Claxton, F. G. Blair, W. A. Jessup, Carroll G. Pearse, Fannie Fern Andrews, W. A. Brandenburg, and J. M. Gwinn; and reports of the Com- mittee on Racial Well-Being by Helen C. Putnam, Providence, R. I., and of the Committee on Extension Education by L. H. Minkel, Fort Dodge, Iowa. The Saturday afternoon session will in- clude reports of the Executive Committee and those committees not on the schedule before February, 1922, viz.: Thrift Educa- o- tion, Democracy Applied to Education, American Teachers’ Colleges, Educational Surveys, Participation of Teachers in School Management, and Reorganization of Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth Grades. The Committee on the Elementary School Course, Katherine D. Blake, Chair- man, will meet Tuesday morning, July 5. The officers are: President, H. H. Seerley, Cedar Falls, Iowa; Vice-presi- dent, Josephine C. Preston, Olympia, Wash.; and Secretary, Adelaide S. Baylor, Washington, D. C. Boy Scout Section will hold a confer- ence at 2 o'clock, Tuesday, July 5, the place to be announced later. The follow- ing program will be given: How We Ad- minister the Boy Scout and Girl Scout Movement in Our System, H. D. Ram- sey, Superintendent of City Schools, Fort Scott, Kans.; How Closely Should the Boy Scout Movement Be Affiliated with the Public School System in a Large City? S. S. Baker, Assistant Superintendent Schools, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Demonstration by a Des Moines Boy Scout Troop, Fred G. Davie, Scout Executive, Des Moines, Iowa; The Future of Scouting, James E. West, Chief Scout Executive, New York, N. Y.; The Report of the Committee on the Relation of Public Schools with Scout- June, ing, Frank Cody, Superintendent Gm Schools, Detroit, Mich., Chairman; mary of Situation, E. K. Fretwell, Ted ers’ College, Columbia University, Ney York, N. Y. Superintendent J. H, eridge, of the Omaha, Nebraska, —_ is in charge of this meeting. Child Hygiene Department will held sessions on Tuesday morning, July 5, and Wednesday, July 6, at a luncheog! and again at 1:30 in the afternoon. President O. B. Nesbit, Director of Medical Inspec. tion in the Gary, Indiana, Public Schools, § has prepared an unusually attractive Pro gram. Conference on Illiteracy—G ene ral. topic, Illiteracy in the United States. Gig. subtopics are: First, The Crusade” Against Illiteracy, Origin, Extension, and Goal; second, Illiteracy, A Rural or ap Urban Problem; third, Illiteracy Statistics’ How Obtained, and How Used; ie Suitable Texts and School Material ¢ Adult Beginners; fifth, Types of Schoole for Adult Illiterates; sixth, Campaigy Methods. y Main speakers are: State Superintent ent Conway, of New Mexico; S. K. Mar dis, Ohio University; State Superintendal Brittain, of Georgia; State Superintendent” Bond, of Arkansas; W. L. Lou Gray, South Carolina; Sarah E. Luther, Ala) bama. Twenty minutes each discussion by. State Superintendent Thomas, of Maine; Miss Kelly, North Carolina; Guhin, State Department, South Dakota; Smith, of New York State Department; Rundle, President Mississippi Illiteracy Commis” sion; and one speaker from Washington State Department appointed by Mrs. Pree ton. Cora Wilson Stewart, President Kentucky Illiteracy Commission, is Chair man. Department of Business Education will hold two conferences, place and ¢ to be announced later. The program the first session will be as follows: Articulation of University and High School Business Courses, C. O. Ruggles, Univer) sity of Ohio, Athens, Ohio, and G. D® Swiggett, U. S. Bureau of Educatic 7 Washington, D. C.; Qualifications fof Teaching Commercial Subjects, C. G@ Linn, Dean of Boyes High School of Com merce, Omaha, Nebr., and H. C. Yodeh State Normal School, Whitewater, Wis: The Continuation School, Its Problem and Their Solution, L. L. Roberts, Dire tor of Corporation School Swift and Co pany, Chicago, fll. “9 The program tor the second session! / be as follows: Coédperation between BD ness Houses and Business Schools, liams Bachrach, Supervisor Business & cation, Chicago High Schools, Chica Ill., and Ralph Faxon, General Secreta Chamber of Commerce, Des Moine Iowa; A Business Survey, E. A. Ze ‘THE JouRNAL OF THE NaTiIONAL EpucaTION ASSOCIATION 115 4 hh High School, Des Moines, lowa, ‘E. W. Barnhart, Federal Board for ‘Wocational Education, Washington, D. C.; "4 Commercial Program for Junior High pols, Ivan E. Chapman, Principal “Western High School, Detroit, Mich. - The officers are: President, Thomas A. “Be , Director School of Commerce and iensce, University of Utah, Salt Lake 4 City, Utah; Secretary, W. S. Peterson, /Commercial Department, Ogden High "School, Ogden, Utah. “Department of Classroom Teachers - aring an unusually rich program. he officers of this department are: Presi- dent, Sara H. Fahey, Manual Training £ High School, New York, N. Y.; Secre- “tary, Margaret Richardso ay Grade Teacher, Spokane, Wash. ent of Educational Publica- ong will hold a conference, the place and to be announced later. The follow- Ping topics will be discussed: (A) How to % Improve Textbooks—(1) Sensing the De- "mand; (2) How Can Publishers and Au- 1 thors Best Codperate to Make Better “Textbooks ? (B) How to Raise Standards T of Authorship—(1) Yardsticks for Mea- 4 surement of Author’s Productions; Edu- ‘cating the Public to Demand Higher ® Standards in Textbooks—(1) Acquaint- ti ing the Public with Classroom Needs; ue | 0) Informing the Public of Relative ® Costs of Classroom Materials. | The officers are: President, George L. Towne, Editor Nebraska Teacher, Lin- coln, Nebr.; Secretary, C. W. Taber, Western Manager Lippincott & Co., Chi o, Ill. ‘Department of Elementary Educa- “tion will hold sessions Tuesday, Wednes- 4 y, and Friday, July 5, 6, and 8. The Tuesday morning session will consider the bject, The Elementary School and the sadjustments of the Next Ten Years. ® it will be addressed by Geo. D. Strayer, ; 1 teachers College, Columbia University; }. B. Weaver, Des Moines; William M. ‘Lewis, Savings Division, U. S. Treasury; “Anna Baker, Ben Blewett Junior High ‘Dechool, St. Louis, Mo.; G. C. Minard, perintendent of Schools, Arlington, : The Wednesday session will be ad- d by W. W. Charters, Carnegie In- , Pittsburgh; H. B. Wilson, Super- tndent Schools, Berkeley, Calif.; Er- Mest Horn, University of Iowa, on the eLimits of the Project. A report of the ommittee on English will be followed by ® Maddress on The Relation of the Teach- Ding of the Mother Tongue to the Na- Program in Education, by H. R. ges, Professor of English, University of Utah, Salt Lake City. the Friday afternoon session will be nN rn over to a discussion of the Improve- of Instruction Through the Use of Standard Tests. It will be addressed by I. M. Allen, Superintendent of Schools, Springfield, Ill.; E. E. Chiles, Ben Blewett Junior High School, St. Louis, Mo.; J. Worth Osburn, State Department of Education, Madison, Wis.; Bessie Bacon Goodrich, Des Moines, lowa; Maude Mc- Broom, Detroit Teachers’ College; Her- man Hendrix, Mesa, Ariz.; Carroll R. Reed, Superintendent of Schools, Akron, Ohio. The officers are: President, P. W. L. Cox, Head Master Washington School, 17 E. 60th St., New York, N. Y.; Vice- President, Marion S. Hanckel, Supervisor Kindergarten and Primary Grades, Rich- mond, Va.; Secretary, Annie E. Logan, Assistant Superintendent of Schools, Cin- cinnati, Ohio. Department of Higher Education has plans under way for an unusually sig- nificant program. The details will be an- nounced later. Guy Stanton Ford, Uni- versity of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn., is president, and J. J. Pettijohn, Assistant to the President, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn., is secretary. Department of Kindergarten Edu- cation will hold sessions July 5 and 6. On Tuesday morniing, July 5, there will be a business session at 9 o’clock, followed by an address by Nina C. Vandewalker, Specialist in Rural Education, Bureau of Education, Washington, D. C., on The Kindergarten Meetings at Atlantic City and Detroit. Tuesday afternoon will be a story hour in charge of Irene Hirsch, of Drake Uni- versity. Qn Wednesday noon will occur a luncheon for members of the National Council of Primary Education and the Kindergarten Department. On Wednes- day afternoon, the general topic will be Unity in Aims and Principles of Kinder- garten and Primary Education and. the Unification Needed in Practice. Subtopics will be The Curriculum; speakers are Stella Wood, Principal of Kindergarten Training School Minneapolis, Minn., Methods and Equipment, Standardization of the Achievements of Kindergarten Chil- dren; Ella Victoria Dobbs, President of National Council of Primary Education; Bessie Parks, Director of Kindergartens, Des Moines, Iowa; Miriam Hoover, Ft. Dodge, Iowa; Laura Krebs, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The officers of the Kindergarten De- partment are President, Marion S. Hanc- kel, Richmond, Virginia; Vice-President, Barbara Greenwood, Los Angeles, Cali- fornia; Secretary, Anna H. Littell, Day- ton, Ohio. Department of Music Education will hold sessions on Tuesday morning, Jul 5, and Wednesday afternoon, July 6. At the first session Osbourne McConathy, North- western University, Evanston, IIl., will present the courses of study for music supervisors, which was adopted by the Na- tional Conference of Music Supervisors at St. Joseph, Mo., April 8, 1921. The dis- cussion will be led by John R. Kirk, Presi- dent of Teachers’ College, Kirksville, Mo., and Ernest Horn, Department of Educa- tion, University of Iowa, lowa City. The principal issue is whether the four-years’ course shall consist of one-half regular college work, one-quarter education, and one-quarter music leading to the degree of Bachelor of Arts, or whether it shall con- sist of one-quarter regular college work, one-quarter education, and one-half music leading to the degree of Bachelor of Music. At the second session the president will present a statement on tests and measure- ments in school music. There will be demonstrations showing how to vitalize and standardize music in one-room rural schools by means of the phonograph and showing how to use standardization tests and measurements in music in consolidated schools. Time will be allowed for free discussion. C. A. Fullerton, Director of Music, Iowa City Teachers’ College, Cedar Falls, Iowa, is president of the Department. Department of Normal Schools prom- ises a strong program. The details of this program will be announced later. The officers of the department are: President, W. A. Lewis, President State Normal School, Hays, Kans.; Secretary, Anna M. Tibbets, Head Department of Education, Fargo College, Fargo, N. D. Department of Physical Education Will hold conferences Tuesday morning and Wednesday afternoon, July 5 and 6. The Tuesday morning session will be ad- dressed by W. S. Small, Specialist in School Hygiene, U. S. Bureau of Educa- tion, Washington, D. C., on Social Engineering through Physical Educa- tion in the School and the Com- munity; Jay B. Nash, Superintendent of Recreation, Oakland, Calif., on The Relation of Public Playgrounds and Recre- ation Centers to Our National Ideals of Democracy; followed by discussion led by Margaret McKee, Des Moines; Emil Rath, Indianapolis; Floyd A. Rowe, State Director of Physical Education, Michigan. The Wednesday afternoon session will be addressed by Richard A. Bolt, Director of American Child Hygiene Association, Baltimore, on Logical Contributiofis of Physical Education to Health Education and Supervision in the Schools and the Community; Thomas D. Wood, Professor of Physical Education, Columbia Univer- sity, on Physical Education as a Health Movement; E. Dana Caulkins, Secretary National Committee on Health Problems in Physical Education, on A National Plat- form of Physical Education; and discus- sion led by A. D. Browne, Stanford Uni- a See ~ i ce ER PE LET aE EEL THe JourRNAL oF THE NarioNAL EpuCATION ASSOCIATION * versity; Charles B. Lewis, Youngstown, ‘Ohio; and Ethel Perrin, Detroit, Mich. The officers are: President, F. L. Klee- berger, Professor Physical Education, University of California, Berkeley, Calif. Department of Rural Education will hold conferences on Tuesday afternoon, July 5, Wednesday afternoon, July 6, and Friday afternoon, July 8. The Tuesday afternoon session will be devoted to a consideration of the general topic, A National Program for Rural Edu- cation. Addresses will be delivered at this session by Lee L. Driver, of Pennsylvania, on the Platform of the Department of Rural Education; by President H. W. Foght, Normal School, Aberdeen, South Dakota, on the County Unit and How to Secure it in the Midde West; and by George A. Selke, Department of Educa- tion, St. Paul, Minnesota, on the Village in Relation to Rural School Administra- tion and the County Unit. Wednesday afternoon will be devoted to a discussion of Rural Schoo! Consolida- tion, with George S. Dick, of Wisconsin; C. C. Swain, of Iowa; B. G. Bittikefor, of Ohio; Macy Campbell, of Iowa; and V. G. Hoffman, of Illinois, as speakers. The last session of the Department on Friday afternoon, July 8, will be assigned chiefly to a discussion of Rural Teacher- Training and Supervision. The first speaker at this session will be L. B. Sipple, of Aberdeen, South Dakota, who will dis- cuss Principles and Policies in the Prepara- tion of Rural Teachers, which will be further discussed by H. E. Flynn, Depart- ment of Education, St. Paul, Minn. Fol- lowing this, State Superintendent C. P. Cary, of Wisconsin, Superintendent Minnie J. Neilsen, of North Dakota, will speak on Supervision of Rural Schools, on which the discussion will be led by State Superin- tendent Minnie J. Neilsen, North Dakota, and Amelia N. Bengston, Olivia, Minn. The officers of the Department are. President, E. M. Rapp, Superintendent of Schools, Berks County, Pennsylvania; Vice-President, I. B. Ball, Supervisor of Agricultural Education, Salt Lake City, Utah; Secretary, Mabel Carney, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, Department of School Administra- tion will hold conferences Tuesday morn- ing and Wednesday afternoon, July 5 and 6. The topic for the Tuesday session will be Adequate School Funds—How and Where to Get Them. The meeting will be addressed by Hugh §. Magill, Field Secretary, National Education Associa- tion, on New Sources of School Revenue, and A. E. Winship, Editor Journal of Education, Boston, Mass., on Adequate State and National Support for the Schools. The Wednesday afternoon session will be given over to Schoolhouse Planning and Construction. The meeting will be ad- dressed by John Je Donovan, Architect, Oakland, Calif., on The Evolution of Schoolhouse Planning; Edith McClure Patterson, Chicago, IIl., on School Build- ings and Their Occupants; George B. Thomas, Chairman Portland School Board, Portland, Oreg., on Equipment for Vocational Education; Frank Irving Cooper, Chairman, Boston, Mass., on Re- port of Progress of the Committee on Standardization of Schoolhouse Planning. The officers are: President, G. W. Ger- wig, Secretary Board of Education, Pitts- burgh, Pa.; Secretary, William C. Bruce, Editor American School Board Journal, Milwaukee, Wis. Department of School Patrons, under the able leadership of its president, will present an interesting program, details of which will be given later. Department of Science Instruction will hold conferences, Wednesday after- noon, July 6, and Friday afternoon, July 8. The Wednesday session will be ad- dressed by T. W. Galloway, Associate Di- rector, The American Social Hygiene As- sociation, New York, N. Y., and Benj. C. Gruenberg, U. S. Bureau of Education, Washington, D. C., on Social Hygiene in the Public Schools, followed by a discus- sion. The Friday session will be ad- dressed by Eliot R. Downing, School of Education, University of Chicago; Gilbert H. Trafton, State Normal School, Man- kato, Minn.; and F. D. Barber, Illinois State Normal University, Normal, IIL, on Science for the Elementary Grades. This session will be followed by a short business meeting. The officers are: President, J. C. John- son, Dean, Colorado State Normal School, Gunnison, Colo.; Secretary, Louise H. Seeley, Dickinson High School, Jersey City, N. J. Department of Secondary Education will meet Tuesday forenoon, July 5, and Wednesday afternoon, July 6. The Committee on High School Library Problems will present-its report through C. C. Certain, of Cass Technical High School, Detroit, Michigan: Burton P. Fowler, First Assistant Principal of Cen- tral High School, Cleveland, Ohio, will present a paper on Socialization of the Six- year High School through the Organiza- tion of Student Activities. Ray H. Brace- well, Principal of the Burlington, Iowa, High School, will present a paper on Segregation in Ability Groups as a Means of Taking into Account Individual Differ- ences. The Bureau of Education, Washington, D. C., will furnish a speaker on Sex Edu- cation in High School. Charles E. Barker will furnish a paper on The Physical Effi- ciency of the Teacher. Benjamin C, Gruenberg, of the United States Public June Health Service, Washington, D. C, wij speak on A Program of Sex E ducagialet ‘ Secondary Schools. Bk The officers of the Departaal President, Clarence T. Rice, Principal of Kansas City (Kansas) High School; Vigg. President, Guy C. Wilson, Principal 3 Latter Day Saints High School, Salt Lake” City, Utah; Secretary, Minnie Oliverson’ Assistant Principal for Girls, Kansas ¢ Cite: (Kansas) High School. Department of Vocational Edy tion will present a varied Program in keeping with the reawakened interest j in this field of education. W. G. Hummel State Director for Vocational Ed voting | Seattle, Wash., is president, and Marjay: S. Van Liew, State Superintendent Home Economics, Albany, N. Y., is secretary, a Department for the Wider Use Schoolhouses will hold a conference, the place and date to be announced later, ” meeting will be addressed by Reyna Crist, U. S. Department of Labor, Wash ington, D. C.; I. B. Morgan, Dire Vocational Schools, Kansas City, Kang, Frank L. Dykema, Grand Rapids, Mic The officers are: President, Raymond F. Crist, Department of Labor, Washing: ton, D. C.; Secretary, Margarita Spaul ing Gerry, "Washington, Rs Health Committee of the National: Council will hold an open meeting in com junction with the Iowa State Medical So ciety. Place and date will be announced later. This meeting will be a Dr. Thomas D. Wood, Columbia Unive sity, New York, N. Y. Library Department will hold its gen eral session Tuesday morning, July 54 10 o'clock, at the Public Library, TF meeting will be addressed by Adeline Zachert, Director of School Libraries; the State of Pennsylvania, Harrisbuy Pa. on Joy Reading in Elemental Schools; W. H. Kerr, Librarian, Stat Normal ‘School, Emporia, Kans., on Th Normal School Library as a Teaching it stitution; Dr. Sherman Williams, “a School Libraries Divisio n, Educa Dept., Albany, N. Y., on The Purp se the School Library; ‘Todails L. Wheele Public Library, Youngstown Ohio, 6 Home Reading with School an F. Chamberlayne, High School Lib Binghamton, N. Y., on Relation High School Lantary to the Other D partments of the School. Pe A joint session with the National Cou cil of Teachers of English will be Wednesday afternoon, July 6, at 3. I at the Public Library. This meeti be addressed by Professor A. Bi Na lowa State College, on Stepping 3t Literary Taste; Milton J. Ferg Librarian, Sacramento, Calif. The Vestibule to the Palace THE JouRNAL OF THE NATIONAL EpucaATION ASSOCIATION brary; Margaret Skinner, Janesville, Wis.. bn Recent Literature for High Schools; si H. Milam, Secretary, American Li- Association, Chicago, Ill., on The # wf the Public Library in Public Edu- The business meeting will be held Fri- y afternoon, July 8, at 2 o'clock, at the blic Library. This meeting will include jon of the proposed by-laws, discus- “ion of statement on Libraries in Educa- report of the survey of Normal Shool Libraries; and other matters of ; There will be a library exhibit at the Public Library. All exhibits should be ad- Wdressed to Grace Rose, Public Library, s Moines, Iowa, and plainly marked brary Exhibit, N. E. A. “There will be a library luncheon at the © Harris-Emery Tea Room on Wednesday, "July 6, at 12 o'clock, $1.25 a plate. All © who are interested in any phase of library ss are invited to be present. ‘There will be a number of very brief talks by - those whose experience and ability will "guarantee a stimulating and enjoyable oc- " casion. For reservations notify Julia A. ~ Robinson, Historical, Memorial and Art » Building, Des Moines, Iowa. The officers of the Library Department ss President, Dr. Sherman Williams, of School Libraries Division, Edu- n Department, Albany, N. Y.; Vice- esident, M. W. Poulson, Brigham University, Provo, Utah; Secre- y, Margaret Ely, Principal, Book Se- ‘ection Department, The Chicago Public “Tiry, Chicago, Ill. "National Association of Elementary School Principals will hold one general ession and two sectional meetings. The meral session will be addressed by onard Power, President, Port Arthur, Rm x, on The Principal as an Educational ‘Expert; Katherine Blake, Principal, Public 100 No. 6, New York, N. Y., on The acipal as an Economic Expert; Ide rgeant, Paterson, N. J., on The Princi- as a Community Factor; Worth Mc- ire, Seattle, Wash., on The Status of Be Bhementary School Principal, a Study. theme of the morning sectional meet- g will be Sympathetic Constructive Su- ision, This meeting will be addressed y a H. Kneisley, Seattle, Wash.; Flor- nce Holbrook, Chicago, Ill.; Olive Jones, mew York, N. Y.; and others. At the patternoon session Georgia Alexander will give an illustrated address on Breaking "the Lock Step in the Elementary Schools. Abu ess meeting will follow for the dis- ion and adoption of constitution and bg l€ Officers of the Association are: ident, Leonard Power, Port Arthur, First Vice-President, Katherine D. New York, N. Y.; Second Vice- ent, Ide Sargeant, Paterson, N. J.; ice-President, J. M. Kneisley, Se- attle, Wash.; Corresponding Secretary, J. Bracken, Duluth, Minn.; Receiving Sec- retary, Mary W. Riesse, Philadelphia, Pa.; Treasurer, Courtland Davis, Nor- folk, Va. NOTES AND ANNOUNCE- MENTS (Continued from page 112) sociation and the States will be located at the Fort Des Moines. Hotel. All officers of the National Education As- sociation will have their offices at the Fort Des Moines Hotel except the Sec- retary, whose main office will be located on the mezzanine floor of the Savery Hotel. Registration Headquarters for the Des Moines meeting will be conven- iently located in the Auditorium on the main floor directly in front of the main entrance. A ladies’ rest room is at the left of the main entrance. During the convention, an orchestra at the rear of the Auditorium will play for the enter- tainment of the visitors. N. E. A. Postoffice and information service at Des Moines will be located near the entrance on the main floor of the Auditorium. Owing to the central location of this office, better mail service can be had here than at hotels or the general delivery. Letters to members should be addressed care of N. E. A. Postoffice. Information booths will be found at all depots and the leading hotels. Delegates should reach Des Moines early—Since the delegates of the Repre- sentative Assembly will meet by States Sunday afternoon, July 3, at 5:00 o'clock, it is advisable for them to plan to reach Des: Moines not later than Saturday evening or Sunday morning. Every delegate should be provided with proper credentials from his State or local affiliated association and should see the Secretary before the meeting of delegates Sunday afternoon. Commercial and other exhibits will be unusually fine this year. They are being managed by the Association itself under the direction of Assistant Secre- tary R. S. Erlandson. They will be located in the Auditorium on the same floor with the postoffice, information booth, and registration headquarters. Notice of Proposed Amendments— At the meeting of the Board of Direc- tors at Salt Lake City, Utah, July 9, 1920, notice was given of the following proposed amendments to be considered 117 by the next annual meeting. The amendment proposed by the Department of Deans of Women to add to Article 5, Section 3, reads as follows: “And ex- cept that the Department of Deans of Women may hold their annual meeting at the time of the meeting of the De- partment of Superintendence.”’ Notice was given by D. W. Springer that at the 1921 meeting amendments would be offered to Articles 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 of the By-laws as are indi- cated in the N. E, A. Bulletin for April, 1918, pp. 27-32. On application sent by 150 active members, notice was given for an amend- ment to the By-laws, creating a new de- partment to be known as the Depart- ment of Immigrant Education of the National Education Association, the pur- pose of said department to be the discus- sion of questions pertaining to the train- ing of persons above compulsory school age in speaking, reading, and writing the English language, in the duties and re- sponsibilities ot American citizenship and in other closely related matters. Delegates of State and local affili- ated associations to the Des Moines meeting are required to file their cre- dentials with the Secretary of the Asso- ciation on blanks furnished by him not later than ten days before the beginning of the meeting. June 24 is the tenth day before the meeting. Blanks may be had from the Secretary, 1201 Sixteenth St. N. W., Washington, D. C. Hotel Reservations—A list of hotels with rates was published in the April JOURNAL. Reservations should be made as early as possible. Persons wishing rooms either in hotels or private homes, who have not already done so, should write at once indicating as definitely as possible the kind of accommodations wanted and the amount they desire to pay. Requests should be addressed to Charles F. Pye, 407 Youngerman Block, Des Moines, Iowa. Members should have their member- ship cards for 1921-22 with them at the Des Moines meeting. Persons whe have mislaid or lost their cards should see the Secretary as soon as possible after arrival. By showing the membership card members will receive the program, all announcements, and the badge which will permit them to attend all meetings. Those who do not have membership cards for 1921-22 will enrol at registra- tion headquarters and receive member- ship cards, announcements, and badges. Miessner Piano Company 298 Third St., Milwaukee, Wis. To the Schools of America An Announcement By W. Otto Miessner The Miessner-Jackson Company has severed relations with the Jackson Piano Company, and hereafter will transact business under the name, Miessner Piano Company. The Miessner Piano Company is now pro- ducing its own new and improved “Baby Upright.” This latest School Piano, developed after several years of experience in supplying the educational field, is called the MONOGRAM. It will be worth your while, before placing your order for School Pianos, to investigate the many superior advantages of this new instru- ment. Descriptive literature, prices, and terms will be sent upon request. As the originator of the little piano for schools, I take personal: pride in announcing the MONO- GRAM—the “Baby Upright” Supreme. Sincerely yours, MIESSNER PIANO COMPANY PRESIDENT. Clip and Mail This Coupon Today MIESSNER PIANO CO., 228 Third Street, Milwaukee, Wis. Please send me the illustrated Monogram catalog, complete details of your 10 Day Trial Offer, and Special Price to Schools. 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COLLEGE CREDITS IN THE HEART OF THE ROCKIES | In the land of the sky where it is refreshingly cool always, within two hours by automobile from snow-capped peaks, and near streams as beautiful as are in the Rockies. ‘The college, located in Gunnison, Colorado, has good railroad facilities from the east through the Royal Gorge and from the west through the Black Canyon of the Gunnison. Surroundings are de- cidedly conducive to study. Because of the exhilarating climate students feel at the end of the summer quarter a decided increase in strength and endurance. The college offers standard courses in twelve departments lead- } ing to the degree of Bachelor of Arts in Education. The courses }_ offered are as follows: Education, English, Foreign Languages, ]~ History and Political Science, Home Economics, Mathematics, | Music, Biology, Chemistry and Physics, Art, Manual Train- ing and Business Training. The faculty is composed of fifty- one members selected for their exceptional ability. Some of ® America’s ablest educators will be present to lecture and} % instruct during the summer quarter. The school is a member : of the North Central Association of Colleges and a class A} member of the American Association of Teacher’s Colleges. | — Summer Quarter, June 14 to August 20. First Term, June 14) fn to July 16; Second Term, July 16 to August 20. Ni: Living expenses are low. Tuition is reasonable. For Particulars write to the Secretary. COLORADO STATE NORMAL scHooL | GUNNISON, COLORADO 4