The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-28
John Macdonald Talks to State
Teachers Association.
Kansas Proved Right to First
Place In Elementary Education.
HARGER TO TEACHERS.
Abilene Editor Discusses Making
of kansan.
SAYS Children Should Be Taught
to Appreciate Nature.

Notwithstanding the opinion first
EXPRESSED that the weather would
probably cut badly into the attend
ance of the State Teachers association,
the registration favors as large a rep
resentation as in former years The
registration books in the state superin-
tendent's Office showed an enrolment
this noon of upwards of 500. Judg-
ing from the experience of former
years. this means the presence of 1000
teachers in the city.
This mornings session of the asso-
citation, which was held in Represen-
tative hall at the state house, was well
attended; the capacity of the hall was
taxed, and the estimated attendance
was in the neighborhood of 1000.
The theme of the papers and discus
sions of the mornings programme was
along the line of citizenship, the re-
lation between the school and civic
life,
sfty who was to have presented a
paper upon The Mission of the Col
lege in Training for Civilization" was
unable to be present. Supt. d. M.
Bowen followed with a paper upon
"The Mission of the Common School
in the Training for Good Citizenship
Mrs. Cora G.. Lewis, of Kinsley,
president of the State Federation OF
ing address upon 1.-The Public School
Teacher and the Future Citizenship. =
Mrs Lewis held the close attention OF
her audience throughout the length OF
her address
The intermission between the ad-
dress of Mrs. Lewis and that of Mr..
John Macdonald was charmingly
filled by a baritone solo by Prof. olaf
Valley, of the music department of
the State Agricultural college. Prof.
Valley was forced to respond to an en-
core
Mr.. John Macdonald of the West
ern school Journal finished the morn
ing's programme with an i'm
prOmptu talk on what he did to the
Kansas Educational Exhibit at the
Worlds Fair and what in turn the
Exhibit did to him He interspersed
his talk with his characteristic aumor-
Gus remarks and succeeded in keep
ing his audience in laughter most of
the time. However, il was not all
humOr. He stated that the Kansas
exhibit excelled without question the
other states represented in the depart
ment OF elementary education. The
state made no attempt to high
pedestal with regard to its depart
ments of higher education 1t ac-
knOWledged that the older states were
in advance in the record made by the
state in those departments but in
the elementary educational depart
ment Kansas would accept a second
place from no one. Continuing he
stated that some of the people who
had viewed the exhibit had taken ex-
ceptiOn to the yellow decorative effect
of the Kansas educational booth but
that he considered the criticism badly
out Of place since yellow is the dis
tinctive Kansas color, the color of the
sunfiower as well as the grain.
The committee rooms of the Repre-
sentative chamber are being decorated
by the representative colleges and
state educational institutions, and re-
unions Of their graduates are held
I'll
some rs graduates located in the city
has the northwest committee room
with a display of its manual training
department. The Kansas State Uni
versity has the southwest committee
room and the room is hung with finely
executed photographs of the buildings
upon the campus and also their in
ter1OrS- Baker college has decorated
a portion of the gallery Immediately
above that of the Kansas University
The State Manual Training school of
Pittsburg has an exhibit in the cloak
room OF the hall. This is located to
the southeast. The exhibit is well
worth while and speaks eloquentIy of
the character of the work which is he
ing done at the states manual train
ing Schooi Representative specimens
OF the work in each of the depart
ments of woodworking, mechanical
drawing, cooking and dressmaking
school is now before the legislature
asking for an appropriation The
school is located in a district of the
state which is removed from the
olner districts tributary to the state
institutions and this has resulted in a
considerable manifestation of interest
IN the welfare of the school in that
district The work is done by pupils
OF the nigh school grade though others
OF an older age have enrolled with
science.
This evening DR.. Stanley Hall will
give lecture at the high school audi
IoIiunl- Ihe lecture is entitled "fEvo-
1utlon, the True Philosophy of Higher
Education" Dr. Hall is the nresident
OF clark university and is considered
an authority upon educa tional topics
An admission will be charged
zis inns afternoon Chas- Moreau Harger.
eultor OF the Abilene Reflector ga ca
an interesting address before the era5
eu school section session in the auditor
lum of the high school He spoke Inon
tne Making of a Kansan." His speech
In part follows:
Your days work and mine do not
greatly differ We are both earning
our daily bread-and something extra
II We can secure it-and We are trying
IN our humble way to make the world
little better. Particularly are we in
terested IN this fairest bit of earth's
FERTILITY. the state of Kansas the peo-
PIE VINO are now upon it and those who
are hereafter to call it home
me generation that is attending your
school that is laughing along nv
street in youths gayety, will be the
nrSt TO come truly to the management
Of a commonwealth of Kansas. Did Won
ever think of that? Young men and
women born in Kansas are to he slIre
ming places of trust today. but thev
are dividing the duty of the times with
thelr fathers and mothers those of the I
generation that came from the green
allls a ana shining waters of that land of /