NEXT YEAR.

There must be an heroic effort to magnify the summer meeting of 1918.

War or no war, the meeting of 1918 must be large. The program must be representative of all America, of all classes, of all interests.

Pittsburg is first best in location and whether they wish it or not they should invite the meeting for July, 1918. They have never had the honor nor the burden. It should be Pittsburg in July, 1918.

If Pittsburgers will not rally with an adequate invitation Milwaukee is second best even if she has had both the summer and winter meetings. Of course the really best place is Chicago, but there will be objection since it met there six years ago next summer. Those are the only places that offer adequate attractiveness for next summer. Everyone should rally to the next summer meeting of the N. E. A.

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After years of uncertainty as to the future location of headquarters, the National Education Association will settle down with permanent head

quarters in Washington.

P. Byers, executive secretary committee on provision for the feeble minded, Philadelphia; vice president, Ida M. Manley, supervisor of department for defective children, Portland; secretary, Miss Kohnkey, supervisor special training, Cincinnati.

Department of Normal Schools-President, D. W. Hayes, president State Normal School, Peru, Neb.; vicepresident, G. W. Nash, president Normal school, Bellingham, Wash.; secretary, Harvey A. Schofield, president State Normal School, Eau Claire, Wis.

Department of Elementary Education.-President, Alice L. Harris, assistant superintendent of schools, Worcester, Mass.; vice president, Miss Dora M. Moore, principal Corona school, Denver; secretary, Alfie O.

Freel, principal Linnton school, Portland.

Department of Higher Education.President, William T. Foster, president Reed College; vice-president, F. L. McVey, president University of North Dakota, Grand Forks; secretary, Edward L. Schaub, professor of philosophy Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill.

Department of Classroom Teachers.President, Sara H. Fahey, teacher of English, Seward Park school, New York; vice-president, Viola Ortschild, grade teacher, Couch school, Portland; secretary, Mary V. Donoghue, grade teacher, Stewart school, Chicago. Department of Music Education.President, Osbourne McConathy, professor of public school and community music, Northwestern University Evanston, Ill.; vicepresident, M. Teresa Finn, supervisor of music, Soldan High school, St. Louis; secretary P. C. Hayden, supervisor of music, Keokuk, Iowa.

The only question that has ever been raised was one of expense. It will be much more expensive to establish and and maintain headquarters there than elsewhere, while Ann Arbor has been the least expensive possible. For influence in every way Washington will be the best possible place.

If necessary, in Washington the government will ultimately provide a building, and if not, anyone of the several foundations would provide the rent and more. The feeling became unanimous and intense that the headquarters must be in Washington.

OFFICERS FOR 1918

President-Mrs. Mary C. C. Bradford, state superintendent of Public Instruction, Denver, Colo.

Vice-presidents-Robert J. Aley, president University of Maine, Orono; Mrs. Josephine Corliss Preston, state superintendent of schools, Olympia, Wash.; Charl O. Williams, county superintendent, Tennessee; A. R. Kent, Raton, N. M.; E. C. Elliott, chancellor University of Montana, Helena; L. N. Hines, superintendent of schools, Crawfordsville, Ind. ; John A. Widstoe, president University of Utah; Anna Webb, Blanton, Tex.; W. N. Sheats, state superintendent of schools, Florida; R. H. Wilson, state superintendent of schools, Oklahoma; Walter W. Haviland, Harrisburg, Pa.; Mary Schenck Woolman, manager National Association for Promotion of Industrial Education, Boston.

Treasurer-A. J. Matthews, president State Normal School, Arizona.

Department of Special Education-President, Joseph

Department of Science.-President, W. H. Timbie, head of applied science department, Wentworth Institute, Boston; vice-president, Chester B. Curtis, principal Central High School, St. Louis; secretary, Fred D. Barber, professor of physics, State Normal University, Normal, Ill. Department of Modern Languages.-President Oliver M. Johnston, professor of the romance languages, Stanford University. Carlton Ames Wheeler, Hollywood High School, Los Angeles, secretary-treasurer.

Department of Rural and Agricultural Education.President, Charles H. Lane, specialist in agricultural education, United States Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C.; vice-president, W. F. Lusk, professor of agricultural education, Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y.; secretary, Charl O. Williams, superintendent Shelby County Schools, Memphis, Tenn.

Department of Educational Publications.-President, Arthur H. Chamberlain, editor Sierra Educational News, San Francisco; secretary, George L. Towne, editor Nebraska Teacher, Lincoln, Neb.

School Garden Association.-President Van Evrie Kirkpatrick, New York City; secretary, Miss E. Ruth Pyrtle, Lincoln, Neb.: treasurer, John L. Randall, Washington, D. C.; vice-presidents, S. B. McCready, Guelph, Ontario, and Alice V. Joyce, Portland, Oregon.; N. C. Maris, of Salem, Oregon, state director for Oregon.

The members of this Association express their grateful appreciation to the committee on arrangements, under the leadership of Superintendent L. R. Alderman and O. M. Plummer, of the Portland Board of Education, for the extensive measures taken for the success of this meeting; to the local press and to the repre sentatives of the Associated Press and of the United Press, for complete and reliable reports of our meetings and encouraging and valuable editorial comments on educational topics; to the special committees on entertainment, to the teachers, the Board of Education, the city officials and to the citizens of Portland for the royal welcome and the whole-souled and generous hospitality accorded to this association.

DECLARATION OF PRINCIPLES.

The National Education Association, assembled in annual convention in the city of Portland under unprecedented conditions of world war, recognizes that the first duty of the hour is whole-hearted National loyalty. Our supreme wish is to give the fullest measure of service for the sacred cause of our country and our allies in defense of democracy and righteousness.

We pledge to President Wilson and the National Administration, and to Governors and other authorities of -our respective states, that we will conduct all educational affairs committed to our care in this spirit, putting aside for the present the consideration of all other questions, however important.

We rejoice that the young men and young women of Our country have manifested such a splendid spirit of patriotic devotion to the National cause. The records of our secondary schools, colleges and universities give proof that the American educational system has not failed to inculcate the spirit of patriotism. We are proud of the work that our young people are doing in Army, Navy, training camps, hospitals and Red Cross. service.

SCHOOLS MUST MOBILIZE, TOO. Realizing that this is not to be a war of a few months, that victory is to be won, not so much by individual valor as by organization and full use of the resources of the Nation, we are convinced that the educational system must be maintained in the highest possible state -of efficiency.

All are agreed the standards in the elementary, intermediate, secondary and industrial schools must not be allowed to deteriorate during this crisis, but if possible, must be improved. Likewise, collegiate and professional education must be encouraged and further devel-oped, because one of the greatest needs of the country, both in war and in periods of National reconstruction, is trained leadership.

In this spirit we recommend to all who are responsible for educational organization and administration that they survey present conditions and evaluate the work being done, in order that the greatest possible efficiency may be immediately secured.

Revision of course of study, improvement of methods of instruction, alterations in the lengths and dates of

school terms, shortening of vacations and holidays, adaptations of school days with provision for part time work, the maintenance of continuation schools, the wider use of school plants, prompt organization and further development of industrial and other forms of Vocational work, all these matters should receive immediate attention and prompt action.

PHYSICAL

EDUCATION IMPORTANT. Physical education, including medical inspection for all children in all schools, should be worked out wisely and emphasized as never before received.

In technical institutions, colleges, and universities, where the young men are of suitable age, we recommend that the Government give every encouragement to genuine military training, ample in scope and practical in nature.

The Nation needs the benefits of genuine thrift and conservation of all resources. To this end we recommend that all schools and institutions make definite provision for the teaching of these practical virtues. We recommend that the existing extension departments of our land-grant colleges and other institutions be strengthened in order that their advantages may be brought to all the people.

EQUAL SUFFRAGE INDORSED.

We reaffirm the previous recommendations of this association on the justice and educational value of manhood and womanhood suffrage; the establishment of a National university; the protection of teachers and institutions from designing partisanship; the creation of a Federal department of education in charge of a secretary of education, and the maintenance of improved standards of salaries commensurate with conditions of living.

We urge that patriotism be taught by every teacher of whatever grade, by methods adapted to the mental and spiritual life of pupils, whether this be by heroic story, by song, by biography and history, by social ethics, or by a revised and vitalized civics.

We ask the co-operation of the National Council of Defense, state councils of defense, governors, superintendents, and all school officers, in order that these recommendations may be put into practice in the shortest possible time and in the wisest possible way.

Finally, as President Wilson has given us the vision, we ask the blessing of God upon the cause of the nations in alliance to save the world from militarism and autocracy, and we pledge again that we will work with entire devotion for the establishment of a triumphant peace after victory, a peace to be administered by a "Veritable League of Honor," an inclusive league of nations founded upon the principle of National loy. alty extended into world citizenship.

Resolved, That President R. J. Aley is hereby authorized to appoint such committees as he considers necessary to promote and to make effective the suggestions and recommendations embodied in these resolutions.

Saturday, July 7, marked the opening of the N. E. A. convention in Portland, Oregon. For the first time in its history, this city, on the edge of the world, was the mecca of the pedagogical pilgrims of the United States.

The influx of visitors on the opening day was not large but an unusual number of the real leaders in educational movements were present at the first meeting of the convention. This was held by the National Council of Education in the ballroom of the Multnomah Hotel,-a striking testimonial to the fact that when occasion demands it, the American people can lay aside frivolity and on the very floor where light feet have tripped to the rollicking strains of the orchestra, discuss the serious problems that confront our nation at this particular time.

"What Our Institutions of Learning Owe to the Nation in Time of War" was the topic of the day and ably handled by the different speakers who were introduced by Arthur H. Chamberlain of California.

Charles R. Van Hise, representing Herbert Hoover, stated that the co-operation existing throughout the country to control the markets, should be broken by a system of public control brought about through a federal trade commission.

Carroll G. Pearse of Wisconsin impressed upon the audience the necessity for training our girls not only in home-making ideals, but to qualify them for the operative side, making them real partners in the home.

W. A. Brandenburg of Pittsburg, Kansas, hit the nail on the head by saying that it is not enough to regulate food commodities alone, but that all things relative to the production of food commodities should be regulated also.

The churches of Portland were thrown open to the visitors on Sunday, and many availed themselves of the opportunity to worship in the time-honored way, but, "tell it not in Gath," a far greater number "took to the woods" even as does the small boy when he gets out of school. Yea, verily these staid, dignified educators of the nation's youth, "played hookey." One could not blame them, however, on a perfect July day, and Oregon's beautiful green fields and forests extending everywhere. Anyway we are told by one who speaks knowingly that God's first temples were not erected on city blocks.

The musical service in the evening was well attended and the vim displayed by the congregation in its chorus singing left nothing to be desired in the way of an expression of the appreciation of the situation.

President Aley spoke briefly but convincingly at this assembly on "The Importance of Rendering to Caesar the Things that Are Caesar's." He declared that it is impossible to enumerate the debts of gratitude that are owed to one's country, and that these debts can be paid only by loyalty. That our teachers will see to it that children are taught what they owe to our great nation, and how to pay it and pay it in full. That this vast army of men and women, filled with an earnest purpose, is willing to assume any responsibility placed upon it by the government, and upon it depends the security of the nation.

At the business meeting of the National Council on

Monday morning, the most important action taken was the adoption of resolutions favoring the introduction of instructions in thrift into the public schools. It is not the intention to make this a separate branch but to make the application in connection with other branches, such as history, geography, arithmetic, domestic science and household economy. This will necessitate a reconstruction in school literature. Arthur H. Chamberlain of California, Kate Devereux Blake of New York, and Henry R. Daniel of Chicago, were appointed as a committee to map out plans for putting into effect the instructions of the council.

The resolutions were prepared and presented to the council by S. W. Straus of New York, president of the American Society for Thrift. In substance they were as follows:

That the world war has precipitated unprecedented economic conditions in this country, calling for immediate practice of intelligent, constructive thrift, because of the waste of man power and destruction of physical resources abroad.

That every sign points unquestionably that American people must in the future eliminate waste of every character. That President Wilson devoted his first message after the war declaration to the subject of thrift.

That it is only through the medium of the school teacher that future citizens can make of thrift a fundamental principle of existence.

It is resolved, therefore, that the committee take immediate action toward introducing study of thrift in the schools, thus making America first of all nations to take this decisive forward step in constructive education.

It is further resolved that the committee recommend preparation of advantageous literature in applying thrift studies in connection with arithmetic, domestic science, history and English composition.

The resolution provides that at the February, 1918, meeting, the committee shall have before it a comprehensive plan for practical use of these mediums in the schoolroom.

Miss Susan M. Dorsey of Los Angeles was elected a member of the council for a term of six years to take the place of the late Benjamin Blewett of St. Louis. Miss Adelaide Baylor was re-elected secretary.

Monday afternoon the convention proper opened in the new city auditorium, which was tastefully decorated with typical Oregon flowers and greenery. Many exclamations concerning the beauty and fitness of the meeting place were heard on all sides.

In accordance with the Western spirit that pervades all the entertainment of the visitors Samuel L. Simpson's "Beautiful Willamette," set to music, was rendered as the opening nuniber, by a chorus of grade teachers of the city, and was received with the most hearty appreciation by the audience.

Minnie Richards Blance of the College of Speech Arts, Denver, Colorado, filled the big auditorium with the her impressive tones as she solemnly read hundredth Psalm. It was a splendid example of the power of the well-controlled human voice.

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Mayor Baker with his face beaming with enthusiasm welcomed the delegates on behalf of the city. In his

address he took occasion to enlarge upon the resources of Oregon, and though he stated that in coming before an audience of educators from all over the United States he felt like the farmer who was driving over a road filled with "chuck" holes and being unable to proceed, looked into his wagon and exclaimed: "Stuck, by gosh! and nothing to unload," his hearers felt that Oregon had enough commodities to unload, to feed the world, and the resources for building the ships to transport them. Mayor Baker said in closing: "Tell people what we have and we shall be amply repaid."

L. R. Alderman spoke in behalf of the city schools, and earnestly urged the conservation of human talent. "Our motto heretofore has been school as usual, now it must be School unusual. We must have more vim and more vigor in our work than ever before. Our nation has conscripted men, and will also conscript talent. Hence, in order that there may be more capital and more labor to meet the present crisis, the last thing to sacrifice is our school system. The greatest waste in the world is the waste of human talent."

President W. T. Foster of Reed College represented the private colleges of the Northwest, and made a stirring appeal for co-operation among all educational forces.

Dr. Clyde A. Duniway, president-elect of Colorado College, had been invited by President Aley to respond to the addresses of welcome, and keenly enjoyed the joke in the fact that President Aley did not know that he was a native Oregonian, and had rambled through the woods and over the hills about Portland in his boyhood days. Dr. Duniway is a ready and brilliant speaker and his reminiscences were particularly pleasing to his audience. His assertion that our schools should fit a democracy that shall rule the world, and if we pledge ourselves to make it so, we will do it, met with a continued round of applause.

David B. Johnson of South Carolina, retiring president of the N. E. A., in surrendering his place to President Aley, presented him with a handsome gavel, the gift and workmanship of the technical classes in the high schools of Bangor, Me. President Aley briefly reviewed the war situation and forcefully stated that if the war continues for several years, as it may, our schools-public, secondary and higher institutions-must not only keep a normal pace, but must speed up to meet the condition. "It is not a time to criticise a fellow worker, or a school system differing from our own. If the educational boat is to move up stream there must be no one to rock it, no idle passengers in it, for everyone must We should spend more time in getting good, and in recognition of the man who is rendering efficient service in any way."

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In closing the first general session of the convention, James Withycombe, governor of Oregon, briefly greeted the visitors, and declared himself in favor of a "clean plate" for conservation. The applause rendered the governor was a strong evidence of his high standing among the teachers of the Northwest.

Monday's evening session opened with the story in song, "Legends of Seaside," composed by Virginia Drake and set to music by Emil Enna. This exhibition of local talent was unique in character and one of the best numbers given during the convention.

The celebrities among the teachers had been interviewed by newspaper men from the moment of their arrival, but on this occasion they had the privilege of hearing the newspaper man instead, Edgar B. Piper, the able editorial writer of the Portland Oregonian, held his audience from start to finish in his talk on the "Press and Preparedness." It was essentially a war talk, and his severe arraignment of German “Kultur” brought forth the approval of the audience in vigorous and prolonged applause. "The German 'Kultur,'" said Mr. Piper, "means German frightfulness and is merely the old German barbarism with what passes for a college education."

Much to the regret of those who wished to remain to the end of the program, the restless ones caused much disturbance and delay by leaving just at the time each new speaker was announced, but Sara H. Fahey of New York maintained her poise and succeeded in making everyone hear her paper on "How the Public School Can Foster the American Ideal of Patriotism." This number was very practical and particularly helpful to elementary teachers.

President Ackerman of the Oregon State Normal School was applauded so long and heartily, when he rose, that it was some time before he could make himself heard. President Ackerman is known as the man who put the "go" in Oregonian educational administration, because of this and because he always says something worthwhile, he never fails to have an attentive audience. The keynote of his talk was loyalty on the part of the student to himself, to his school, and to his country. Mr. Ackerman stated that had all the men in the land between the ages of twenty-one and thirty-one, been as ready to respond to our country's call as were the men in our higher institutions of learning, there would have been no occasion for conscription.

Everyone regretted that Anna Y. Reed of Seattle was placed last on the program and that she felt that she could not give her discussion of "Newsboy Service" as she had planned. However, in the few minutes devoted to the topic she gave some very interesting and valuable suggestions as to what may be accomplished with the boys. Her examples of the quaint philosophical sayings of the boys themselves were not lost on her hearers. Here are a few samples:

"You can't be late even a little bit or someone else will get your corner."

"You get some pep selling papers, but you don't get any pep in school."

"You learn to size up people, until you can size up the teacher quicker'n she can you."

"You learn most everything you need to know in being a newsboy."

Mrs. Josephine Corliss Preston of Washington illustrated her talk on "Woman and Preparedness" by relating touching incidents concerning the sacrifice to the God of War.

Mrs. Alexander Thompson of The Dalles, Oregon, the only woman in the Oregon legislature during its last session, threw a bomb into the camp the moment her feet touched the platform. Her magnificent voice carried to the farthest recesses of the crowded galleries, and not a word was lost. Mrs. Thompson attacked the commercialization of our schools and spared not a thing from cellar to garret of our school system. It was a veritable "roast," but delivered in a pleasing way that called out frequent and long bursts of applause. What had promised to be a rather quiet, peaceful session suddenly teemed with new life and everybody was on the alert to hear what was coming next.

Ella Flagg Young was introduced as "the dean of American women," and as the applause which greeted her died away, many felt, as one remarked in a satisfied whisper, "I've lived a long time to see this day." Mrs.