The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-09
Educators Talk of Dark Horse
for Presidency.
Book Trust Gossip May EIimi-
nate KanSan and Woman.
W. A. M'KEEVER MADE SPEECH
Sees Education Making Great
Democracy of the World.
War First Enemy of Progress,
Kansas Educator Says.

Chicago July 9.-The fight of pro-
gressives, and conservatives for con-
troll in the National Education asso-
citation overshadowed the interest in
educational subjects on the program
Tor discussion at the opening OF the
second days work of the organiza-
tons fiftieth annual convention.
The final test of strength between
the two factions was scheduled to
come this afternoon at an adjourned
meeting of the board of directors. 1t
was believed that it would then be de-
cided whether the directorate will at
tempt to bar from the annual meeting
all but active members of at least 80
days standing. If the ruling is made
it will be blow to several thousand
teachers who have been enrolled less
than thirty days.
The proposal to so limit the voting
power was made by Secretary Irwin
Shepard several months ago and it is
said a majority of the directors have
considered it favorab1y. 1t was eX-
pected that Sheppard would present it
In the form of a resolution.
Book Trust Gossip.
With E. T. Fairchild of Kansas and
Miss Grace G. Strachan of New ork
city as the leading candidates for
president, there was talk of dark
horse" candidate on account OF much
gossip regarding book trust influence.
This together with the fight on Sec
rotary Shepard waged principally by
Mrs. Ella F1agg Young of Chicago and
Carroll G. Pearse, the president, cauS-
ed much caucusing among the dele
gates while the set program for the
day was matter of minor interest
Fourteen hundred children of the
Chicago elementary schools were to
omen the morning session with
grand chorus and then the topic the
American high school, was to be DIS
cussed from various standpoints by
prominent educators.
1I2f m
was to be discussed by Walter R. Sid
ers, superintendent of schools OF
Pocatello, Idaho.
The mortality of the early years with
some administrative remedies was to
be taken up by Miss Adelaide steele
Ravlor. assistant state superintendent
of public instruction, Indianapolis,
while Arthur D. Call, school principal
superintendent of schools, ST. Paul;
Kate Epson Clark, Brooklyn, n. Y,
and William Hughes Mearns, school
of Pedagogy, Philadelphia, were TO
take M other phases of the subject.
At the evening session Edmund j:
James, president of the University or
Illinois; Charles r. Van Hise, presi-
dent of the University of Wisconsin;
James H Baker, president University
of Colorado and william o. Thomp-'
sen. president of, Ohio. state univer-
sity will speak on various phases OF
the subject "A national university.
The principal event of the session
was the speech of w. A. Mckeever of
Kansas whose subject was Eugenics.
His speech follows:
The London school of eUgenists, "bio
metricians," are proceeding chiefly I'M
der the role of pathologists and psy-
chiatrists-they are out in the field
searching for degenerates in the form
of sick bodies and degenerate minds, |
and they are meeting with marked sue
cess in finding what they are looking
for They are out with the assumption |
that mankind is sharply divided up |
into stocks-that there are a very few |
OF the better stocks and a very large
number of the worse or weaker stocks
They go among the families of Oxford |
graduates and others who have been |
favored with full physical and mental |
nurture as well as with the powerful |
stin -ulus of hope and expectancy, and |
take some measurements. These math-
ematical eugenics then lay their yard |
stick upon the members of the peasant
~, men and women who have been
bruised and beaten and half starved |
through the workings of an UBIQUITOUS
caste system fastened upon their an
cestry generations ago by the bloody
hand of conquest; and 10! the children
of the better" stocks are proved to
to be the ones to breed from! They
make a much superior showing as com
pared with the others!
Taking Stock on Race.
What is the general nature of the