The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-26
BEGIN TO ARRIVE.
Advance Guard of State Teach
ers' Association Here.
An Attendance of 1 500 Peda'
g0gues Is Expected
SLANT VS.. VERTICAL.
Discussion Centers About Merits
of Writing Systems.
Programme Of Sessions and
Location of Meetings.

| The advance guard of the State
Teachers association began to arrive
| in Topeka today. If the weather is
favorable an attendance approximate
ing 1900 is expected. The sessions of
the association will commence on Tues
day evening and last over until Friday
morning. Concerning the weather the
association has the horseshoe of luck
nailed fast; out of the eleven past
years but one streak of bad weather
has been encountered by the associa-
ton at it's sessions.
The legislative halls at the state
house and the auditorium room at the
High school will be utilized for the
more important sessions while num-
Der of the committee rooms in the
state house will be given over to SEES
sions of a more minor nature. On
Tuesday evening a reception Will be
given the visiting members of the as
ISOLATION by the Commercial club In
the rotunda in the state house. In the
receiving line will be, Governor w. j.
Bailey, Bishop Frank Millspaugh, j.
R. Burrow, I. L. Dayhoff, Frank Dyer,
Chief Justice w. A. Johnston, Mayor
Bergundthal, Cor ]. w. f. Hughes,
Superintendent Whittemore, DR.. Nor
man PIass, Rev. f. NJ. Mallory.
Besides the general meetings depart
mental meetings for the departments
of colleges and high schools, common
and graded schools, primary schools,
county supervision, music, mathe-
MATES. city superintendent, history
and sociology, science, county high
schools, drawing and college presi-
dents will be held.
One of the storm centers of dis
cussion will center about the COM
parative merits of slant and vertical
writing The former is the one taught
now over the state but it is an unset
tied problem yet as to which fits the
needs most completely. The newly
organized association of members of
school boards will have a repre-
sentative upon the programme for the
first time. E. A. Rosser of Coffeyville
will speak for the State Organization
of School Boards The organization
over a year.
G. Stanley Hall, president of Clark
university, Worcester, Mass, and Rev.
w. A. OuayIe, D. D., of the Grand
Avenue Methodist church of Kansas
City, are the prominent speakers of
the convention. An admission fee will
be charged for these two lectures but
aside from this the sessions Will be Tree
to the public.
L. NJ. Knowles, superintendent of
the Marion county schools and for the
past 35 years a member of the asso-
citation, will be in attendance. Mr..
Knowles has therefore been mem
Der for almost the entire period of
the existence of the association.
The headquarters of the association
will be at the Copeland hotel The
rates granted by the railroads for the
event are one fare plus so cents for
all points except those within SO miles
from Topeka in which case the rate is
one and one-third.
The programme:
General Meetings.
Tuesday, December 81, 1904, o'clock
D. m, in Representative Hall-Song,
Modoc Club. Prayer, Norman Plass,
D. D., president of Washburn college.
Song, Modoc Club. Address of Welcome,
E. w. Hoch, Marion, governor elect.
Response, Supt. L. ]. Hall, Clay Center.
Presidents address, A. H. Bushey,
Pittsburg. Announcement of commit
tees. Music.
Wednesday, December %, 1904, 9
O'Clock a. M, in Representative Hall
900: Paper, Civic Purity-The Mission
of the School in Training for Citizen
ship. The College, L. H. Murlin, presi-
dent of Baker university, Baldwin; The
Common School, Supt- D. M Bowen,
Fort Scott. 1000: Address, The Things
that make for Good Citizenship, Mrs.
Cora G.. Lewis, Kinsley, president of the
State Social Science Federation. 10:45:
Address, The Public School Teacher and
the Future Citizen, Judge e. H. Madi-
son, Dodge City. 11:30: Election of
nominating committee.
wednesday. December g. 1880 o'clock
o. M, in High school auditorium
Music, a thirty-minute musical pro-
gramme, given by the department of
music of Washburn college. Lecture,