The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-04
All Is in Readiness for Meeting
of Teachers.
Big State Meeting will Convene
Next Thursday.
MANY NEW FEATURES
Sectional and Round Table
Meetings Will Be Strong.
Teachers viii Be Entertained
Royalty While Here.

Everything points to the most sue
cessful meeting of the members of the
State Teachers association next
Thursday and Friday in the history OF
the organization said Superintendent
E T. FairchiId today The program
is Of the same class that is provided for
the meetings of the National Educa-
tionaI association. The only difference
being that the list of speakers is not
quite so lengthy. Even at that there
ara more good things scheduled for the
Topeka meeting than any one person
can take in
1.-The program is so rich that be-
lieve many of the people of Topeka
should take advantage of the scholarly
addresses and pay the necessary dollar
to become members of the association
All this has been made possible on &C
count of the change in date from De-
cember to earlier in the season. The
first year after the change, there was
an attendance of more than $500. On
account of the program which un-
doubleday excels anything yet offered
at q state meeting Of teachers in the
United States and the publicity which
has been given through the new press
bureau with Prof. J. w. Searson at its
head I am confident that there will be
q record breaking attendance here"
Local Arrangements.
Pretty high school girls will serve as
ushers in the Auditorium mornings,
round table and department meetings
will be held in the afternoons while the
meeting of state teachers is in progress
next week Thursday and Friday. This
and other innovations were decided
upon at meeting Of a number of local
educators together with the secretary
of the Commercial club.
Twenty Boy Scouts will meet all
trains and escort the teachers to the
Auditorium and the state house where
registration viii take place. The Com
7nercial club will arrange to have eight
autos kept busy taking the visitors
from the registration headquarters to
their respective rooming places These
are courtesies which are unique in the
history of the state organization of
knowledge disseminators.
Aside from real policeman or two
at the doors to keep nervous teachers
from rushing in and out from the big
hall and thus disturb the meetings, a
force of prominent business men of the
city will be on hand to do the uShering.
The members of the board of educa-
ton will act as hosts while the school
board representatives are here from all
over Kansas, and at the regular meet
ing of the board which will be held
Monday evening il will probably be de-
cided to extend the board members of
Kansas a personal Invitation to visit
the city.
Many of the board members will
want to take the rounds of the school
buildings of Topeka to get ideas which |
can be utilized when building new
school houses in their respective towns, |
and arrangements will undoubtedly be |
made for their conveyance on their |
tours around the buildings.
A check stand will be maintained at I
both the Auditorium and the state |
house, and these will probably be pre- |
sided over by high school boys who !
can be depended upon for faithful ser |
vice. A force of high school boys may |
relieve the Boy Scouts at night in the |
work of meeting trains. but nothing /
definite in that direction has as yet |
been decided
Principal z. F. Stanley has charge |
of the arrangement and he would like |
to have the names of all those who can !
furnish good rooms and breakfasts to
visitors at the rate of a dollar a day.
He asks that he be notified at once as
to available rooms either by post card /
or by phone call, No. 1856 Blue, Ind.
The churches are being urge@s to
serve meals for the accommodation of
teachers moons and evenings.
The Sectional Meetings
Sectional programs. not only for
teachers but for uperintendents of
schools. members of boards of educa-
ton and other educational officers, are
to form one of the big features of the
sessions of the Kansas State Teachers
association in Topeka Thursday and
Friday, November and 10. The fact
is arOusing great interest among teach
ers who are not satisfied with cut and
dried general programs but want ma
terial and inspiration that will be Of