The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-30
NOTHING LIKE IT
Teachers Association Attend
ance Largest on Record.
]. w. Gleed Delivers the Address
of Welcome.
BOOST FOR STRONG.
Saws That He Is Kansas Most
)OST FOR STRONG.
Says That He Is Kansas Most
Important Official.
Children's Chorus Makes a De-
cided Hit.

School teachers have been eulogized
from one end of the earth to the
other but there has always been a
pervading idea that the average
school teacher had sacrificed her life,
her beauty and her happiness for the
good of the growing generations. The
sacrifice has been pictured too strong
ly-or at least from the looks and
general disposition of the school
teachers at the forty-sixth annual
meeting of the Kansas State School
Teachers association which held their
first regular meeting at the Repre-
sentative hall in the state house last
night. a person would think that the
school teachers over the state had just
graduated from college.
It is the general opinion that To-
peka smart set will have to pull down
meeting is over-or the race will be
a complete failure. The laddies of
the city are getting revenge for the
way the Topeka girls pull in the gang
planks when the LeavenWOrth soldiers
come to town and at the meeting last
night several of the "bloods" buzzed
around the state house craving in
PRODUCTION from whOmever it would
come.
The forty-sixth annual meeting of
the Kansas State Teachers associa-
ton is going to be a record breaker.
At the opening of the convention last
1lRnI there were more QelSBdIeS lIdl
have ever been known to attend the
whole session in former years. The
big representative hall at the state
house was packed to the walls. The
main floor was closely seated by every
available chair in the state house and
all around the walls people stood lis
tening to the music and oratory The
windows were filled with delegates
both standing and sitting. The front
and back galleries were as well filled
and in the lobby just outside the hall
the overflow meeting was almost as
big The officers of the association
say that there are hundreds who have
not arrived in the city and it is ex-
pected that fully one thousand teach
ers will register before the day is
over. They are coming on every
train.
Representative hall is tastefully
decorated for the occasion, the col
leges over the state furnishing the
decorations. The State Normal has
taken possession of the north COM
mittee room and a huge pennant bear
ing two smaller pennants and the
proper insignia hangs above the en-
trance. The state Manual Training
Normal assumes the responsibility of
the south committee room and has
the regulation size collegef1ed pen
nant above their gateway. Kansas
university has taken the middle room
Just behind the speakers throne as its
headquarters and the red and the blue
hangs down from the gallery above
and draps over a kansas" banner
which guards the doorway. Baker
comes in, as usual. just in the rear of
the hall. It is expected that num-
her of colleges will put up their PEN
nants today. Washburn is not
although there are
enough pretty school teachers at the
convention to remind a person of the |
local college.
PicI1en WieIds the GaveI.
The convention last night was
opened by w. s. Picken of Hays City |
who dropped the official gavel at 7:45 |
and the animal meeting was on. me |
started out with the must |
cal selection by the children of the |
Shawnee county schools and it made |
such an impression upon the vast au- |
dience that three encOreS we're given. |
The children were of all sizes and |
ages and there were fully 200 of them. |
They were placed ten deep clear across |
hall and their singing |
was the most novel ever heard in the |
city. Under their director Miss Eva |
Willard they approached grand opera |
In their rendering of certain we'll |
known songs and the excellent train |
ing they exhibited came as a surprise /
and lesson to the assembled teach |
ers One school teacher who is mu-
sicfan of rare ability and who has |
been teaching children the arts of /
song for over ten years said last night |
that she never heard such a blending |
NJ voices and such a regularity of |
lime. The children sang before and |
after the prayer delivered by Rev.
clarence E Holcombe of the Lowman
Hin Methodist Episcopal chapel. and |
pach time they were received with en-
thusiasm by the audience.
j. w. Gleed's Welcome.
J. W. Gleed o. Topeka was then in
to give the address of well
rome Mr.. Gleed made a beautiful
talk and after the adjournment he |
would have been surrounded with
If he had not taken ad-
of a few final remarks by the
chairman just before the close of the
meeting and made his exit. On ac-
count of the absence of the president |
N the Kansas State Teachers asso-
citation Mr. Gleed was asked to give a
few additional remarks in connection
with his address of welcome and the
speaker paid the teachers of the state
pne of the prettiest tributes ever paid
4 human being. He gave a definition
~ a teacher as-"that person to
hose companionship we entrust our
children five hours every day in the
best part of their lives and in the per-
cd of their lives when every impress
sion and every thought mouIds their
'utUre years" Mr. Gleed went on to
sav that the school teacher rendered |
more real service to the child than the |
oa rerts themselves, and that they
we're the most potent Of all human
actors in the result of the child's life