The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-06-27
Popular indianapolis Sunday
School Worker Once More
Will Be at Head of State
Organization.
FOUR CITIES WANT
THE NEXT MEETING
Reports of the Secretary and
Treasurer Show Past Year
Most Successful in History
of Association.

A capacity house marked the open
ing of the second days session of the
state convention of the Indiana Sun
day School association this morning
in the East Main Street Friends
church, the most important official &C
ton for the day being the report OF
the nominating committee by its chair
man. E. T. Albertson. the following Of
ficers being elected:
President-W. c. Hall. Indianapolis.
Vice President-Thomas l.. Scott.
Indianapolis.
Recording Secretary-E. G. Holmes.
Indianapolis.
Treasurer-C. S. Dearborn.
For vacancies caused by expirations
and designations on the Board of Di-
rectors the following names were plac-
ed in nomination and ratified by the
convention, directors serving for three
years.:
J. A. Branson, Sheridan: Z. j.
Humpe, Kokomo; w. c. MORO. Irving
ton; E. NJ. Woodward, Rockville; Rev.
Paul Pfyfer. of Evansville, to fill the
place vi IteN. " blCctlr Va
the same city. who resigned: and Z.
W. Graves, of Logansport, to take the
vacancy caused by the resignation OF
E. T. Albertson.
A Spirited Contest.
There promises to be a spirited con-
test for the honor of entertaining the
next convention. The Board of direc-
tors will hold a meeting at 4:45 this
afternoon and the various delegations,
which are boosting the claims OF their
respective towns, will appear at that
time and present them.
Evansville, Logansport, South Bend
and Muncie are contesting for the hon.
or of entertaining the convention in
1913 with the odds somewhat in favor
of Evansville.
The address of the morning was that
of DR.. Mckinney, of New York. on
THE Big Girl Problem" DR.. Mckinney
stating in the beginning:
"The big girl problem is not so acute
at the present time as the big boy
problem. And there are good reasons
for this. In the first place We expect
more of a girl than we do of boy.
This is all wrong.
I'VE ought to expect as much Of a
boy as we do Of a girl.
But from infancy the girl is under
the direct influence of her mother and,
in a Christian home, that ia tremen-
dous," the speaker going on to say
that the traditions and conventions
which followed the education OF the
girl caused her to be held to more
strict accountability than the boy.
But herein, stated the speaker in ef-
feet, society was at fault. Both should
have to conform to an equal standard.
'If the fathers" said DR.. Mckinney.
had done for the boys what the moth
ers have done for the girls. the boy
problem would be almost entirely ELI
minated.
Tie on to your boy IL you're a
father" said DR.. Mckinney, "and there
will not be such a large problem for
conventions and organizations to
solve"
Praise For Suffrage.
That the big girl problem, however.
was constantly assuming large pro-
portions was asserted by the speaker.
eff our suffragette friends get their
way-as / hope they WILL" said DR..
Mckinney, "women's greater civic
freedom will result in more intimate
contact with the world and the big girl
problem will then take on a different
aspect"
THE problem of the Sunday School,
continued the speaker, "'is to get her
to see the right and want to do it"
DR.. McKinney's address was taken
up largely with an exposition of femi-
nine psychology at the period when
the child was evolving into a woman
and he made an appeal for a more ten
der and intelligent treatment from the
standpoint of comprehension of her
peculiar physical. mental and spiritual
condition at this period with particu-
lar attention to the relation she bore
toward her Sunday school teacher.
making the statement that the ideal
state would be reached when women
acted as teachers for the girls. men
for the boys.
Then the problem will not be so
acute" said DIR. Mckinney.
Mrs. Mary Foster Bryner. Of Chica-
go, international superintendent OF
the Elementary division. an entertain
ing and convincing speaker of i'm
pressive platform presence addressed
the convention upon THE Spiritual
Aims and Results of Graded Instruc-
tion," which set forth in detail the evo-
luton. preparation and purpose OF the
international system Of uniform and
graded lessons and explained their
adaptiveness IL every changing period
of the pupil and student.
Mrs Bryner stated that the first