Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-09
IIT HE fiftieth annual convention of
the National Educational asso-


citation will be opened with
prayer by Rev. Frank Talmage of Los
Angeles" and with two short raps of
the gavel President Nathan c. Schaef-
fer set going the Ngreatest congress of
teachers and educators ever held in the
world.
From the back of the stage, which
was filled with over 200 persons, to the
topmost gallery, the house was packed
with pedagogues and their friends, and
thousands of others who could not get
into the biz auditorium stood around
the lobby, in the basement, or in front
of the building, hoping for chance to
enter. Well nigh 1000 were crowded
into the house.
For forty-five minutes before the con-
vention opened, Prof. Bruce Gordon
Kingsley kept the audience entranced
by recital on the big temple organ.
1t was 2:45 before it's last notes died
away and DR.. Schaeffer called the vast
concourse to order.
Rev. DR.. Robert j. Burdette welcomed
the visitors to Los Angeles. In a char
acteristic address that kept the audi
ence alternately laughing and applaud
bade the teachers welcome to Los An
geles. Dr. Burdette paid a beautiful
| tribute to his former teachers. He
said
DR.. Burdette's Address
"In the name of all the people of the
City of Our Lady of the Angels, / ex-
tend to you welcome as romantic as
our past, as warm as our present, and
as big as our future. Now, don't get
our present and our future transposed
We have been homesick for you, ever
since you came and, went away, leaving
memories of your visit, sweet as the
perfume of pressed flowers in the pages
of cherished book.
1--WE have made ready for your COM
| ing. Wisdom hath builded her house;
she hath also furnished her table; she
crieth upon the highest places of the
city. Whose is simple, let him turn in
hither' And you have heard, and un-
derstood, and come.
LAS for hin. that is void of under
standing she saith to him, Come, eat
of my bread And 1 am here to par
take of her feast of good things.
Some Of you, who came early, made
the mistake of bringing your own
climate along with you. You should
not have done that. We have much
better one for you. One of our own in
vention. At least, it has been charged
that we invent great deal of it.
1--WE acknowledge that we manu-
facture 1t. The formula is very simple.
| You take all the best climates of all the
rest of the world, take out the best of
them at the best season of the best
year, blend them, refine them little,
and you have a fair imitation of Cali
fornia climate at it's worst.
1T is not protected by patent, but 1t
| is forbidden to manufacture 1t outside
of the state, and it must be consumed
on the premises. L would tell you
more about ou1 climate, but being a
minister of the gospel, 1 am hampered
| by rigid limitations, and cannot speak
freely and broadly as / should.
From School to Army
SIT is a Joy, spiced with thrill of ad-
venture, to meet q school teacher in
vacation. 1t is like meeting lion IN
the jungle, whom you use to tease IN
his cage. You are genuinely glad to see
him, but wonder about two things-if
he remembers, and if he harbors re-
sentiment My school days were ended,
happily FOR you, before any of you were
horn. If you will promise to say moth
ing about it outside this Auditorium,
| that the schools may not suffer thereby,
I will confess that / am product OF
| the public schools. They were not SO
remarkable for their productions IN
those days as they have since become.
1 must have been one of the by-prod-
ucts. The high school of Peoria, ILL.,,
was nv college. 1 knew so much when
was graduated from that institution
that | could not bring it all away with
me. Consequently, l have been gong
back to the public schools for the rest
of it ever since. 1 went from school
straight into the army. War seemed
so calm and tranquil and peaceful atter
my stormy school days. 1t was such
relief to go from Corporal Punishment
| to Corporal Atkins.
''Eyery teacher who had part in
directing nv education ought to have
a. war pension from the government. l
think about a dollar a minute would be
about right. My first teacher, Ephraim
Hinman, is living here in Los Angeles
He is a Methodist and that great church
ought to make him bishop, Tor ms
grandly successful work among the
heather. I don't see why they maven
done so. Perhaps they found out that
was one of his converts. l was
maverick when 1 started to school all
right, but successive dynasties OF In
struction put the proper brand all over
me. before | was finally broken to the
yoke and plough.
confesses He Was Spanked
.I wasn't professedly believer in
corporal punishment. But 1 was bet
ter than most professors and nominal
belieyers-I practiced the doctrine right
along At least, 1 lived up to it. 1t did
me good and does me good unto this
day. 1t makes great many things
beautifully clear to me.
Now, no Christening for the present
seemeth to be joyous, says the great
apostle, but grievous.' l don't need
any commentary on that passage. But
| l can truly say that all my chastise-