The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-26
KERKER IS CHOSEN |
Kansas City Man President Com
merciaI Teachers.
Convention Next Year in Mis-
souri, Town.
MEETINGS AT AN END.
Interesting Addresses Mark the
Closing Hours.
Jolly Banquet Held at the Hotel
ThrOOy.

The Joint convention of members Of
the Missouri Valley Commercial Teach
ers' association and the Western Com
mercial School Managers association
came to a close this afternoon. The at
tendance at the sessions which have
lasted two days was about ZOO
officers for the associations were cho-
sen as follows:
Missouri Valley Commercial Teachers
association-F. J. Kerker. Kansas City,
president; E. D. Long, Emporia- vice
president; Eva ]. Sullivan, Kansas City,
Secretary-treaSurer.
Western Commercial School Mana
gers association-B. F. Williams, Des
Moines, president; G. L. Moody, Hutch
inson, vice president; Almon F. Gates,
Waterloo, Iowa, secretary-treasurer.
The next convention will be held in
Kansas City.
This morning the important address
was given by President Homer H. Seer
ley, of the Iowa State Teachers college,
the title being Education for EA1ct-
ency."
Education" said he. seeks by social
stimulus, guidance and control to so
develop the natural powers of the child
as to render him able and disposed to
lead a healthy. happy and morally
worthy life" This definition implies
that efficiency is the chief end and that
without such result all Such eftort Is
useless and helpless.
1T recognizes that every person is an
individual, different in many respects
from other individuals in that he has
natural powers conferred upon him by
heredity from the race to which he be-
longs and that the development, train
| ing and employment of his natural
powers limit the activities and the SER
vices that he can contribute to ctVil1za-
ton In addition it designates health,
happiness and moral worthiness as per-
sonal qualities that are absolutely es-
sential to an influential and effective
| life"
E. r. Corbin of Dougherty's Business
| college gave practical talk on ACTUAL
| ONCE Work Under the Supervision of
| the Teacher" A penmanship har-
| monium was one of the features of
| the morning meeting of the Missouri
Valley Commercial Teachers associa-
ton.
This afternoon the closing address
was by President Homer H. Seerley on
THE American School and the Ameri-
can People, In the course of the
day some clever examples were given
of rapid manipulation of the type
writer.
Last Nights Banquet.
Last night a banquet was held at
the Hotel Throop with plates laid for
nearly two hundred guests, Raymond
P. Kelley of New York city presiding
The Cicilian male quartette. Miss Ethel
Barnes, Miss Ona May Miller and f
L. Robbins furnished music which
pleased.
Iowa, gave an interesting address on
| Effectiveness, in the course of which
he told of how he got his start in life
as dish washer in Topeka.
"It will be forty years in few
weeks since I stood at the door of the
hotel which occupied the site of the
present Throop hotel, applying for G
Job to the landlord, gruff old fellow
HE looked me over and said, Car
you wash dfshes?' 1 told him could
and / was glad to get in out of the
cold to wash dishes or to do anything
that would permit me to attend school
This was in 1871. The old Gordon
house was built way back in the sixties
at was confronted with q lot Of
dishes-in fact. I didn't know that sc
many dishes existed. 1 did a good jot
on these dishes. There is a JOY thai
comes from doing things right I en-
joyed washing those dishes.
"The man who works only for Wis
tble reward misses the whole fun il
the game. To measure man from
the money standard is a most damna-
BILE thing
The speaker then asserted that il
was not necessary to have had a line
of distinguished ancestors in order tt
make success in life. He mentioned
some of those who have won fame fol
their deeds without being able to boas
of ancestors. John Brown was in thu
list. ct used to sit on John Browns
lap when was boy" he continued
. He was a grand old man"
President Homer H. Seerley mad
, some pointed remarks
Friday afternoon Dean w. R. Ar
: thur of the Washburn law schoo
| spoke on Does Law Have q Place Il
Commercial Training?" Superinten
dent L. D. Whittemore gave the ad
9 dress of welcome.
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