Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1911-11-16
FOUR HUNDRED TEACHERS ATTEND
26TH. ANNUAL CONVENTION
Governor William J. Mills Extends Welcome and Empha.
sizes Importance Of Domestic Science In This Day
of High Cost of Lving.President Joseph S.
Hofer Declares Child Must Be Under
stood and Pleads for Attention to
Health.Tucumcari's Orchestra
Discourses Music

the Tuclmcari stringed orchestra ot
thirty players discoursed sweet
music.
Secretary Rupert F. Asplund of the
convention, to whose untiring efforts
the success in attendance and enthu
siasm is due, then read several let
ters from ''the absent ones" includ
ing Former Governor l.. Bradford
Prince, who is in Denver presiding
at the apple congress and who regret
ted his inability to attend the conven
ton. Professor Searson sent word
that he expects to arrive by 6 O'Clock
this evening. He arrived this af.er
noon and will speak tonight in the
Hall of Representatives.
Mr.. Asplund stated tnat Mayor Ar
thur Seligman, who was scheduled tc
deliver an address of welcome after
the governors was unavoidably alb.
sent owing to illness.
He then introduced DR.. Edgar l..
Hewett, director of the School of
American Archaeology who discussed
the proposed excursion to be taken
Saturday to the Puye Cliffs. DR..
HeWett stated that if a party of fifty
teachers can be guaranteen the rail
road will run a special train to Santa
Clara, leaving here at Z a. n and ar
irving there at 8 a. m. Wagons and
carriages will take the eycursionists
to the cliffs and the train will start
homeWard in time to bring the ex-
cursionists here by p m. He said
that he advised all to take a substan-
tial lunch alone. DR.. Hewett prom
lsed to make the excursion a person.
ally conducted tour and said that the
price for each excursionist would be
IS.
They Will Go.
In a few moments it was ascertain.
ed that the required number of teach
ers would make the trip.
president Hofer's Address.
"Fellow-teachers, the hills and the
hollows of New Mexico are filled with
children crying out for better schools
and better teachers. Before us are
the children Of today, the men of to.
morrow and the souls of eternity.
Yesterday We asked what we should
do to the child when it's action
ala not please us. Today we wish to
Know what we can do for its welfare,
and tomorrow We will work with it to
get it to do such deeds as will contri-
butte to its own complete development
the welfare of others, and to the ser.
vice of God and humanity"
This was the declaration made by
Joseph F. Hofer, president of the New
Mexico Educational Association in his
address to the convention at the hall
OF representatives this morning and it
was the conclusion of magnificent
expose OF the needs of the modern
school child and the problems that
confront the teacher of today.
Mr.. Hotter, who is well known
teacher of experience, being now SUI
perlntendent of school at Tuc1mcari.
predicted that the price of a parch.
ment held and displayed by many a
president, professor and pedagog will
drop below par when teachers are
compelled to play their part so well
that they can hold their audiences
as actors and speakers now hold the
attention of their auditors who leave
when they grow tired.
Or the work of the first state legis.
lature. which meets here early in the
year, he said:
Let us hope that our first legisla.
ture will herald the dawn of our new
state with such educational legislation
as will be commensurate with the
and commercial Importance
OF our grand commonwealth: and let
this, our last territorial meeting. and
the twenty-fifth anniversary of our as.
sociation, be characterized by a con.
centrated effort to start the approach.
Ing era on such safe and sane lines
that all clouds of ignorance shall be
dispelled, that intelligence shall
brighten the features Of every citizen
as the suns smile now illumes each
vale and hill, and ours shall soon be
recognized as the most enlightened
state in the sisterhood."
Mr.. Hofer's address was a length,
one and it was frequently interrupted
with applaure.
He said in part:
Fellow teachers, ladies and gen.
tlemen. This annual convention ,s
also our last under territorial form
Of government and our twenty.fifth
More than three cen.
turtles ago the conuuering Caucasian
chose this place as headquarters from
which to drive the savage and the in.
[idel from this land; here also. a quar-.
ter of a century ago, he took the in.
ltial step to organize the forces that
raised the standard Of our civilization
to the point where congress considers
US capable Of governing ourselves:
and it is indeed fitting that we should
come here to close our territorial led.
ger. and prepare the plans that shall
guide US under statehood.
1t Is noteworthy that at least ten
Eormer presidents Of the New Mexico
Educational Association are still
among its most active members. We
are peculiarly fortunate In the pres.
Continued On pass four.