. 13 .E35 }opy 1 ^ I llilffiiocatifljitsociatioip '*' V r- ••• T( i- ~ - ^ r ••• x*^lJ L ■ ' ••* *.^ f Septemter ggagctober B«. 1998 DESIGNED BY BRENTANO'S AUG 10 mo 1 908 OFFICIAL SOUVENIR PROGRAM of the ELEVENTH ANNUAL CONFER.ENCE of " Eastern Pviblic Ed VI cat ion Associations MEETING WITH THE GR.EAT INTERNATIONAL CONGR.ESS ON TUBER.CULOSIS By special arrangement, all lectures gf the Congress and of the Conference are open to the members and delegates of each,._ ^nd., J:p .their guests. SEPTEMBER 28th TO OCTOBER. 3rd under the auspices of the PUBLIC EDUCATION ASSOCIATION WASHINGTON, D. C. SUBJECT: "THE PUBLIC SCHOOL AS A SAFEGUARD TO PUBLIC HEALTH." Accompanied by an Exhibit of Congestion of Population, and Congested School Rooms, and their Relation to Public Health. CALENDAR- OF CONFERENCE. 1908 Monday, Sept. 28 Tuesday, Sept. 29 Wednesday, Sept. 30 Thursday, Oct. 1 Friday, Oct. 2 Saturday, Oct. 3 9 A. M. Registration, Willard Hotel, 14th St. and Penn. Ave. Willard Hotel. 8 A. M. In rear of 1204 Penn. Ave. In front of Home Life Building, 15th St. and G St. 9 A. M. Willard Hotel. Juvenile Court, 1816 F St. 2 P. M. New Municipal Building, E St. and Penn. Ave. and 14th St. Business High School, 9th St. and Rhode Island Ave. Business High School. Business High School. Business High School. Willard Hotel. 7.30 P. M. Shoreham Hotel, 15th and H St., N. W. Shoreham Hotel. Shoreham Hotel. Raleigh Hotel, 12th St. and Penn. Ave. Willard Hotel. Willard Hotel. NOTE. — Bring this Official Souvenir Program with you to Washington. Edition 10,000 copies. APPRECIATION. \> V-?,^ We are indebted to the following firms for their assistance in getting out this book: Adams, Byron S., 512 nth St., N. W. "I Never Disappoint." Printer. Andrews Paper Co., 627 Louisiana Ave., N. W. Office Stationery and Desk Fur- nishings. Brentano's, 1200 F St., N. W. Books, Engraving, Designing, Book Plates. District of Columbia Paper Mfg. Co., Potomac & Water Streets, N. W. Cover Papers, Blotting Papers, Embossed Papers. Gotta, Robert C, & Co., 510 12th St., N, W. Art Bookbinders, Paper Rulers, Artistic Edition Work. Gibson Bros., Pennsylvania Ave. and 13th St., N. W. Printers. Hodges, John G., 420-422 nth St., N, W, Bookbinder, Blank Books. Merchants* Transfer & Storage Co., 920 E St., N. W. "We Move Anything." Fire- proof Storage. E. Morrison Paper Co., 1009 Penn. Ave., N. W. Newton, O. E., 11 08 E St., N. W. Bookbinder, Blank Book Manufacturer, Paper Ruling. Stott, Chas. G., & Co., 309 9th St., N. W. Stationery, Wrapping Paper. National Publishing Co., 628 Louisiana Ave., N. W. "What's Worth Printing is Worth Printing Well." OUR ADVERTISERS. The advertisers on pages 5, 7, 9, 11, have contributed thereby towards defraying our very large postage expenses. Please give them the preference in your patronage of Washington industries. Only those have been accepted who offered what all delegates desire in a strange city: Flowers, quick laundry, souvenirs, and a good, strong book. Translations by the Berlitz School of Languages, 723 14th St., N. W. ACKNOWLEDGMENT. The thanks of this Conference are due publicly, for various courtesies, to Dr. John S. Fulton, Mr, John J. McMahon, Mr. James S. Hiatt, Mrs. C. C. Darwin, Mrs, L. R, Dashiell, Mrs. A. J. George, Mrs. J. M. Price, Dr. Jane Robins, Mrs. John Milton Gitterman, Mr. George I. Aldridge, Mr. Neall S. Brown, Colonel McElroy, Mr. J. L. Shipley, Mr. H. B. Darling, Mr. Wm. W. Norman, Mr. John L. Newbold, Mr. E. E. Raf)ley. PROGRAM. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28th. SESSION AT 9 A. M. Willard Hotel, 14th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue. AUTOMOBILE TRIP The delegates will meet for registration between 8 and 9 in the morning; imme- diately after which, the schools will be visited by a specially arranged automobile trip, the fare for which will be one dollar per person. Note. — The schools may be reached by trolley lines, but we recommend the trip by automobile and with the Association's own guides. Those desiring to go by automobile are requested to send their names before September loth to Mr. John J. McMahon, 918 F Street, N. W., Washington. PUBLIC SESSION AT 2 P. M. Board Room, New Municipal Building, Pennsylvania Ave., D and 14th Sts. The delegates will be received by the Honorable Henry B. F. Macfarland, Pres-ident of the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia. ADDRESS OF WELCOME TO THE CITY OF WASHINGTON, Cotnmissioiier Macfarland. ADDRESS OF WELCOME, TEXDEKING THE FREEDOM OF THE CITY SCHOOLS, Superintendent A. T. Stuart, Ph. B., M, A., Superintendent of Public Schools, District of Columbia. PUBLIC SESSION AT 7.30 P. M. Shoreham Hotel, 15th and H Sts., N. W. THE VALUE OF VOLUNTEKK, WORK TO A COM.UUNITY'S CIVIC HEALTH, Allen Albert, Jr., Editor, The Washington Times; Director and Member Executive Committee, Chamber of Commerce. DRAMATK^ SELECTIONS, Miss Miriam Lee Earley, Department of English, Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania. "THE USES OF THE MODERV SCHOOL HOUSE" (Illustrated), Henry 31. Leipziger, LL. B., Ph. D., Supervisor of the "Free Public Lectures to the People," Board of Education, New York City; Author, Educational and Ethical Essays. DISCUSSION. 3 .- ' TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29th. SESSION AT 9 A. M. Willard Hotel. BUSINESS MEETING OF DELEGATES. PUBLIC SESSION AT 2 P. M. Business High School, 9th St. and Rhode Island Ave., N. W. KEPOKTS OF DELEGATES. Five minute written reports by the voting delegates upon Affiliated Public Education Associations. Note. — To save time and to insure the inclusion and hearing of each one, these reports will be read from the platform by a professional reader, and later incor- porated into the Printed Proceedings of the Conference. Please send the written report of your Association before September loth, to Mr. John J. McMahon, 918 F Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. Delegates will report on the General Scope, Actual Accomplishment and Future Plans of their respective Education Associations. It is hoped that foreign delegates and those from States without organized Education Associations may find inspiration and suggestion. Discussion and Questions on the Organization and Conduct of Education Associa- tions until 3.30. "EYE SIGHT AND GENERAL HEALTH IN SCHOOL CHILDREN," Mrs. Emma J. Crouse, Graduate Refractionist, Columbia University and Spencer Institute, New York City; Graduate Nurse, Edinburg College, Pennsylvania; Appointee, Jamestown (Chautauqua County), New York, and Erie, Pennsylvania, School Boards to examine and report upon the eyes of all school children under their respective jurisdictions. "SCHOOL HYGIENE AS A FACTOR IN PUBLIC ADVANCEMENT," Pearce Kintzing, B. S., M. D., Author, "Old Age and How to iVttain It"; Professor, Clinical Medicine and Diseases of the Heart, Maryland Medical College; Physician, Franklin Square Hos- pital, Baltimore, Maryland; Honorary Vice-President, Public Federal Education Association. DISCUSSION. .,..,., PUBLIC SESSION AT 7.30 P. M. Shoreham Hotel, 15th and H Sts., N. W. "THE TEACHING OF HYGIENE IN THE PUBLIC ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS," A. Duncan Yocum, Ph. D., Professor, Pedagogy, University of Pennsylvania; Director, The Summer School, University of Pennsylvania. "THE JUVENILE COURT AND ITS RELATION TO SOCIAL HE.ALTH," His Honor, William H. De Lacey, LL. B, LL. M., D. C. L., Judge, Juvenile Court, District of Columbia; President, St. Vincent de Paul Charitable Society; President, National Alumni Association of Christian Brothers; Member of the Bar of the District of Columbia; Member of the Bar of the Supreme Court of the United States. DISCUSSION. The Only Department Store on the Main Thoroughfare of the Nation^s Capital S'" St. a Pa Ave THE BUSY CORNER Midway the Capitol and the White House A Great Souvenir and Novelty Post Card Stock The Bargain Store of the South •the busy cornw' Le seul grand Mag^asin de Noti- veautes sur le boulevard principal de la Capitale des Etats-Unis. A eg"ale distance entre le Capitole etla "Maison Blanche" du President. Grand choix de Sotivenirs de Voyag"e, de Cartes postales, et de Nouveautes. Le meilleur Mag-asin d'occasions du Sud. Dass einzig-e grosse Waarenhaus auf der g-rossen Hauptstrasse der Bundeshaup tstadt. Im Centrum der Stadt g-leichweit entf ernt vom ' ' Capitol " und vom " Weissen Hause." Riesenauswahl in Reiserinnerun- g-en, Ansichtskarten und N e u i g- - keiten. Das beste Geschaeft in Gelegen- heitsartikeln im Sueden. ^ " WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30th. 8 A. M. (Note. — One hour earlier than the other morning sessions.) In the rear of 1204 Pennsylvania Avenue. Special Train to Arlington, the National Cemetery; Alexandria, Va., and Mount Vernon, the home of George Washington. The Association will have lecturers on the trains, wagonettes and guides for the trip around Arlington, and guides for Alexandria and Mount Vernon. A lunch will be served the delegates at Mount Ver- non. The fare for this trip will be two dollars per person. Those desiring to go by special train are requested to send their names before September loth to Mr. John J. McMahon, 918 F Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. PUBLIC SESSION AT 2 P. M. Business High School, 9th St. and Rhode Island Ave., N. W. • "PHYSICAIi TRAINING IN THE SCHOOLS," Mi.ss Kebpcca Stoneroal>, Professor and Director, English and Festivals, Ethical Culture School, New York City; Instructor, School of Pedagogy, University of New York; Editor, "Emerson," "Mon- taigne," Pope's "Iliad," Dryden's "Palamon and Arcite," "Ruskin's Message to Our Times," "Parsifal, and the Quest of the Holy Grail." "THE EDUCATIONAL CAMPAIGN AGAINST MENTAl, AND MO HAL, KETAKOATION," L,iglitner TVitmer, 31. A., Ph. D. Professor, Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Director of its La- boratory of Psychology; Psychologist, Pennsylvania Training School for Feeble- Minded Children; Founrier and Editor, "The Psychological Clinic," "Experimental Studies in Psychology"; Author, "Analytical Psychology," and many essays upon Experimental Psychology. DISCUSSION. PUBLIC SESSION AT 7.30 P. M. Willard Hotel. "GERMAN ADMINISTRATIVE MKTHODS IN KELATION TO THE HEALTH OF PUBLIC SCHOOL CHILDREN," L. R. Klemm, Ph. D., Specialist in Foreign Educational Systems, United States Bureau of Education, Washington, D. C. ; Author, "European Schools," "Chips from a Teacher's Workshop," "History of German Literature," etc., etc.; Late Superintendent of Schools, Hamilton, Ohio; Late Assistant Superintendent of Schools, Cleveland, Ohio. "MEDICAL INSPECTION OF SCHOOL CHILDREN IN NEW YORK CITY," Commissioner Thomas Darlington, M. D., The Health Commissioner, New York City; Author, "Medical and Climat- ological Studies"; Visiting Physician, New York Foundling Hospital; Consult- ing Physician, French Hospital; Attending Physician, St. John's, Riverside and Ford- ham Hospitals. "THE PUBLIC SCHOOL AND THE PUBLIC HEALTH," Health Officer W. C. Woodward, M. D., LL. M., The Health Officer, District of Columbia; In Charge of Medical In- spection in the Public Schools of the District of Columbia; Professor, State Medicine, University of Georgetown; Professor, Medical Jurisprudence, Law Department, University of Georgetown; Professor, Medical Jurisprudence, George Washington University. DISCUSSION. 12 ENTERTAINMENT. The hospitable ctiizens of "the Convention Citj-, Washington," extend greeting, and offer hospitality to all voting delegates of the Public Education Association Conference. TRANSPORTATION. Reduced railj-oad rates will be offered by the railroad companies to and from Washington, from September 21st to October 12th on account of the International Congres^s on Tuberculosis. This great gathering of scientific men from every country and in the interest of public health, will be the most beneficial and brilliant that the Nation's Capital has ever beheld. The Congress' exhibit at the National Museum is earnestly recommended to the attention of the Delegates. One of the exhibits, showing over-crowded and normal conditions of class-rooms, will prove of special interest to Delegates; it will be found in the alcove assigned to the Com- mittee on Congestion of Population, and was prepared for their exhibit by the Public Education Association of New York. THE HOSTESS ASSOCIATION. The Public Federal Education Association, incorporated under the laws of the District of Columbia, is a volunteer organization, which is primarily responsible for the passage through the United States Congress of such humanitarian laws as the Compulsory Education Act of 1906, the Free Lectures to the People Acts of 1904, 1905, 1906, the Increase in Teachers' Salaries and Organic School Act of 1906, and the introduction and passage of the Child Labor Act of 1908, the Employment Agen- cies Regulation Acts of 1906, 1907. With other organizations it is responsible for the passage of the Juvenile Court Act of 1905, and of the Investigation into the Labor of Women and Children Act of 1907. It is now agitatino- the establishment of Public Schools on Naval Reservations, proper provisions for Public Playgrounds, Public Baths, and School Gardens. Outside of its legislative activities, it conducts Lectures on First Aid to the Injured, has Committees on Public Lectures, School Reorganiza- tion, Hospital Reading, etc., etc. The Public Federal Education Association has a good educational Reference Library and Bibliography which may be consulted by the Delegates. A visit to the extensive library of the U. S. Bureau of Education, 8th and G Sts., N. W., is recommended. PUBLIC SCHOOLS. The Public School System of the District of Columbia is directly legislated for by the United States Congress, and is supported by specific: Congressional appropriations drawn, dollar for dollar, half from the revenues furnished by the taxpayers of the District of Columbia, and half from the United States Treasury. The erection and maintenance of the buildings are by the District Building Department under a Board of three Commissioners appointed by the President and exercising the functions of Mayors or Governors of the District of Columbia. The academic government of these public schools is vested by Congress under the Organic School Act of 1906, in an unpaid Board of Education of nine members appointed by the Judges of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, in a Superintendent of Schools, in two Assistant Su- perintendents, in thirteen Supervising District Principals, and in nine Directors of Special Work including School Libraries and Night Schools. The school system is a bifurcate one from the Assistant Superintendents to the Kindergarten inclusive. A few of the principal schools which will repay a visit are: SOME SCHOOLS UNDER ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENT HUGHES: Western High School. Business High School. McKinley Manual Training School. Grade Schools. — Dennison, Force, Franklin, Gales, Ludlow, Morgan. Atypical Schools. — Edmonds, Bowen, 625 "Q" Street, Gales, Greenleaf. Kindergarten. — Model : Dennison. SOME SCHOOLS UNDER ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENT BRUCE: Normal School, No. 2. M Street High School. Armstrong Manual Training School. Grade Scliovls. — Garnet, Langston, Lincoln, Miner, Montgomery, Stevens. Atypical Schools. — St. Luke's Chapel, Garnet, Cardozo (Incorrigibles), Stevens, Cook, Samaritan. Kindergarten. — Model: Miner. 14 CONSTITUTION OF THE CONFERENCE OF EASTERN PUBLIC EDUCATION ASSOCIATIONS, Object. Co-operation in public education; to obtain this an annual meeting shall be held at a place designated by the Executive Committee. Executive Committee. There shall be an Executive Committee of three members who shall serve for three years and shall appoint their successors. The Executive Committee shall be empowered to invite societies eligible to membership to join the Conference; to name the place- of meeting each year and to arrange the program for each Conference. Membership. The Associations joined in the first Conference shall be charter members; all other Associations admitted to membership in the Conference shall be non-professional or- ganizations strictly devoted to the cause of public education. Associations having educational departments and approved by the Executive Committee shall be admitted as Associate Members. Expenses of Members. The Association under whose auspices the Conference is held shall bear all the expenses incurred thereby. The clerical expenses of the Executive Committee shall be met by an annual fee of two dollars from each Society. Amendments. The Constitution may be amended at any meeting of the Conference by a two- tkirds vote of the members present. Amendment. — The annual dues shall hereafter be five dollars (1905). PUBLIC-FEDERAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION. Incorporated under the laws of the District of Columbia. ii6 C Street, N. E. Telephone, Lincoln 34. Branch Office, Room 29, 918 F Street, N. W. Telephone, Main 7364. OFFICERS. Mrs. John Milton Gitterman, A. M., President. Mrs. Chas. Carlyle Darwin, A. B., Sec'y. Ex- Treasurer-General, D. A. R. George White, Esq., Treasurer, Vice-Pres., Commercial National Bank. HONORARY VICE-PRESIDENTS. Hon. Wm. H. Taft Hon. Giflford Pinchot Hon. Chas. J. Bonaparte Hon. Simon A, Wolf Hon. Paul Morton Captain Geo. A. Van Smith Senator J. C. S. Blackburn John Joy Edson, Esq. Senator Shelby M. Cullom MrSu E. L. Burchard, A. B. Senator Henry C. Hansbrough J. M. Gitterman, A. M., Ph. D. Representative Wm. S. Bennet Hon. Ion Perdicaris Representative Philip P. Campbell Hon. Samuel Gompers, Pres. A. F. of L. Representative Jos. A. Goulden L. R. Klemm, Ph. D. Representative T. F. Marshall Rev. S. M. Newman, D. D. Representative Jacob Van Vechten Olcott Hon. Geo. F. Bowerman Representative Herbert Parsons Max West, A. M., Ph. D. Representative W. A. Reeder Miss Lois A. Bangs Representative E. L. Taylor, Jr. Mrs. L. B. Swormstedt, A, B. Dr. Alex. Graham Bell Rev. John Van Schaick, Jr. Aldis B. Browne, Esq. Pearce Kintzing, B. S., M. D. COMMITTEES ON CONFERENCE. Business Committee. John Joseph McMahon, LL.B., M. A., Chairman (with power). Committee on Hospitality. Mrs. Kate Waller Barrett, Chairman. Mrs. Aldis B Browne Mrs. J. A. Gilfillan Mrs. C. C. Darwin Mrs. Laise-Phillips Mrs. William S. Bennet Mrs. E. J. Somers Executive Committee of the Conference Mr. George I. Aldrich, Brookline Education Society, Brookline, Mass. Mrs. L. R. Dashiell, Education Association, Richmond, Va. Mrs. William E. D. Scott, Public Education Association, New York City. 16 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 021 523 404 6 9 ^