Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1913-11-26
C, C, Hill and L, c., MerSfelder
Both County Superintend-
entS, Opposing Candidates
for Honor
NOMINATIONS STIR
UP SOME EXCITEMENT
Busiest Day of State Teachers
Convention Thus Far YeSter-
day. Sessions Being Held
Morning and Afternoon,
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NOMINATIONS FOR
n. VI. Il. A. OFFICERS

d. NOMINATIONS FOR
o n. VI. Il. A. OFFICERS Q
o For President.-C. G. Hill Of g
o Roswell, L. G. Mersfelder Of Clo- g
@ Wis. 9
@ For Vice President Mrs. Jo- @
g sic Lockhard Of Ration. @
o For Secretary-J II. Wagner Q
@ Of Santa Fe, Miss Susie Whitta- Q
@ ker Of East Las Vegas. Q
O. For Treasurer.-L. c. Burt OF o
o Mountainair, @
@ Member of Executive Commit o
o tee. 3. Taylor of Deming. .
o Railroad Secretary. - r. r. o
% Larkin Of East Las Vegas. o
% The polls opened at 1870 Q
@ o'clock yesterday afternoon and @
o will be open today from a. m g
o to p. m, but the teachers be- 9
o gan TO vote early and kept the Q
o election officers at the Con 4"
o cal club busy receiving Il 9
o ballots. Only holders Of the blue @
o membership card are entitled to >
@ vote. a."
g o 9 g 8 9 &. 9 9 = 9 Q g 9 9 @ 9 g
The afternoon session of the New
Mexico Educational association yes
terday open with waltz and ended
with a fairy tale Not that the asso-
eiali4l believes "a the maxim. 'F
business and pleasure interfere, cut
out business, but that the business
was disposed of expeditiously after
the noon hour had struck, and the
right Of way before noon was given 20
music and literature.
However, it is being seriously dis
cussed whether at future meetings,
business details had better be reduced
to q minimum. one proposition is<to
resort TO the mail ballot for electns
officers and thus avoid unpleasant
Incidents. BY sending each member q
numbered ballot before the conven-
ton meets and having it returned to
an elections committee, officers might
be chosen without taking up time at
the convention Similarly business
details should be attended to by the
executive committee and possibly a
paid secretary, for the association has
grown so large that its details de-
mand too much time from the secre-
tary on whom falls the brunt of the
work. After all, it is argued, the
teachers come together for fellowship,
pleasure and inspiration rather than
to spend time disposing Of business
matters thrust upon them in the hurry
of the moment.
\ Crowded Progrem.
The forenoon program yesterday
was so crowded that the greater part
Of it was superlmposed upon the pro-
gram of the afternoon, which in itself
was long enough to take up an entire
DAY It has been found chat sectional
meetings, county gatherings and ban
Quets all crowd in upon the time of the
general meetings, and that the speak
ers who want to be heard or ought to be
heard, increase in geometrical ratio
with each session
After the address by DR.. ClaXton
and a number of miscellaneous an
nouncements, the convention settled
down TO routine business during the
luncheon hour. The report of the
committee on elections was made by
rupert f. Asplund and provided for
an election with regular polls at the
Comercial club, printed ballots, poll
books and polls open yesterday after
noon and again today from a. m.
10 p. m. The result is to be an
hounced tonight at the oratorical con-
test provided the judges get through
counting in time
Nominations for Officers.
Because of the lateness Of the hour,
nominating speeches were almost en-
tlrey omitted For the presidency, I.
= Hill Of Roswell, and L. c. Mers-
lelder Of Clovis, were nominated.
pea was made that the office should
so to a county superintendent, al
tnough 1t was remarked sarcasticaliy
'nat the county superintendents al
ready had been duly loaded with hon
ors' Both of the candidates are
oouhty superintendents, one OF
Nhaves, the other of Curry county.
Assistant superintendent Filadelfo
haca ruffled the even tenor of the
proceedings in fiery address, in which
~ ueclared that he had intended 20
,u'e Tor a woman for the association
presidency, but since that could not
~ ne would second the nomination Of
mah 70 whom an injustice had been
uone py circulating a report shat he
oS opposed to the Spanish American
,so'hers and that he desired to use
,.e ~ presidency as a stepping -stone 20
e superintendeney of public instruc-
e'9ii' We must divorce politics from
1gVatlonal matters he Numbered
Inu q,', lhen seconded Tie nomination Of
DiSayowal on the part Of the friencs