The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-05
TIRED But HAPPY
That Describes Condition Of
State Teachers.
Number Exceeds the Highest
Estimate Made.
ALL WERE CARED FOR
People Of Topeka Met the Emer-
gency Nobly.
Scholarly AddrocSnS nv nr
ALL WERE CARED FOR
Scholarly Addresses by DIR.
Draper and DIR. Ross.


| To say that they were weary is put
ting it mildly in describing the condi-
ton of the 1850 teachers when they
retired to their respective quarters at
the close of the session last night at
the Auditorium where there was only
standing room to be secured. This
morning, however. at an early hour they
could be seen on the streets of the cap
ital city wandering at random singly,
in pairs, ard in groups seeing the sights
of Topeka.
There has been nothing like il in the
history of the city-this vast throng of
knowledge disseminators, and even as
late as noon today the registration was
en- the increase. 1t was an interesting
sight to view this varied collection of
humanity-one of the most interesting
features of the sessions of two days
duration. 1t was not only of interest
| to the casual observer, but the teachers
themselves were curious to see what
| the other fellow looks like, for they
hail from both the cities and rural
districts. 1t is the dress that attracts
the attention of especially the feminine
who would come under this head, stood
on the steps of the capitol building she
exclaimed, 1T is worth the trip to To-
reka just to see this collection of mil
| linery."
While the people of Topeka might
have responded with more alacrity to
the call for rooms for the accommodate
ton of the visitors. still the crowds
were creditably handled. and great cred
| it is due to the entertainment commit
| tee under the direction of H. W. Jones.
Following the statement of the situation
| in last nights State Journal 700 rooms
| were offered.
The weathe.- conditions have been
| IDEAL for the assembling of the teach
crs and this, the forty-seventh annual
meeting of the Kansas State Teachers
as ISOLATION. is the most successful gath
ering of teachers in the history of the
association. The increase in attendance
has been about 500 per cent over previ-
Gus years on account of the change in
date from the Christmas holidays.
| The convention has been big thing
and the merchants. for many of the
! teachers had been looking forward for
weeks to the trip to Topeka in antici-
patton of doing shopping, especially
those who hail from the country dis
trictS.
| By $50 last night only standing room
was available in the big Auditorium
and the crowd could be estimated at
more than 4500 persons. Musical selec-
lions given on the pipe organ by w. F.
Roehr, including Wagner's Tannhauser
! overture were greeted with applause by
| the vast audience.
DR.. Diapers Address.
| The first address of the evening was
made by DIR. A. S. Draper, commission
of education in New York and who
versity of Illinois. his subject being,
motive in Education" It was of
scholarly nature and was in part as
follows:
DR.. Andrew S. Draper, who was for
| ten years president of the University of
| Illinois said in part:
1.-The schools must surely uphold
| scholarship. They are rather naturally
| subjects to conceits. Neither the uni
versity president nor the elementary
| teacher is altogether immune. 1t is
] well, for occasional attacks are not I'M
| healthful. They are associated with
| our business. But truth is the object OF
the schools. The surest truth comes
| from the higher learning. 1t is poor,
weak system of schools which has no
| schools higher up. Perhaps that Is
what is the matter with some of the
experts 1t is a strong system OF
the ones above: in which the ones
above are quickening~ the ones below
| and are dependent upon them; In which
| the live currents of real truth are al
ways coursing up and down the whole
structure from the turrets to the
| foundation stones. The north, central
! and western states of our union have
| had a freer opportunity than the east
ern states had to make this SO, and
/ thew have done it more completely.
Some of the eastern states have some
advantage over their western sisters;
but it ought to be said and appreciated
! that there is no system of schools in
the world with height, and depth. and
breadth. and coordination. and contin-
uity. and diversification, and interde-
pendence, and sustained by public
moneys and open to all, like what is
unfolding in the great western states
which lie in the watershed OF the Mis-
| sissippi river and to the west of 1t.
| From whatever cause it arises. the
complaint is general and seems justf-
fed, that we do not train children to
Go definite things, that the completion
Of courses can not be reckoned in eff
cheney, and that our proceedings do
not generate the intellectual resource
frlness and power that they ought. 1t
ie a serious charge.
"But neither teaching to read, nor
training to work, nor offering oppor-
tunity, nor enforcing the truth, nor
I'll of that together, comprise the sum
OF the burden that is upon the Ameri-
cen schools. The major part is the
imparting to the pupil the desire to
know, and the power to do, and the
urpose to find the truth for himself
and act up to 1t. He must know what
men and women have done in the
world. where they have succeeded and
when they have failed, and why. He
must know what manner of social life,
what kind of business conduct, has
succeeded and what has failed, and
why He must know that work is a
Messing, that participation in the, priv
ileges which rational society creates is
a privilege, that public service is a
duty, and that government is a burden
which all good citizens are bound to
bear In other words, his motives
; must be aroused and brought into con-
eormity with the motives which are the
. groundwork of the schools
Lecture on Saints and Sinners.
The tendency of the times is for the
uplift of society was the statement of
DR.. E. A. Ross of the University OF
| Wisconsin in a sociological address on
| Latter Day Sinners and Saints The
, question is often asked whether or not
l the world is growing better, and the