The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-29
MAY DAY FETE
Big Public School Physical
Education Exhibition.
VIII Be Staged at the Fair
Grounds May 5.
TIE rUTDAunr nr AEAV f1IIrru
The ENTRANCE OF MAY QUEEN
Will Open Program Prompt
Iy at LAS O'clock.
Mayor Has Proclaimed Hall
Holiday for the Occasion.

Plans are rapidly maturing for the
big public school physical education
exhibition which will be held at the
state fair grounds on Friday, May 5.
Special cars will be operated; a spe-
cial emergency hospital tent will be
provided at the grounds with the city
| physician and the visiting nurses in
charge, and special delegations of stu
dents and teachers of physical educa-
ton from Emporia Normal and K. U
will be in Topeka to inspect the exh1-
bition.
The program for the afternoon will
begin promptly at 1 AS o'clock .: r
M. McClintock, principal of Clay
school, has secured the assistance OF
the entire high school faculty in TAX
ing care of the gates. Tickets for the
exhibition will be in the hands of the
children for sale, Monday
Chief Harvey Parsons will have per-
sonal supervision over the policing of
the grounds and premises and Will
have a squad of bluecoats and plain
clothes men on hand. A special detail
of the Kansas National Guard from
Battery A also will assist in patroling
the grounds
The Program.
| The program will open with the en-
trance of the May Queen, Miss Mar
guerite Stewart of Sumner, who Will
be preceded by a herald, two crown
bearers and twelve little flower bear
ers Then will come the queen OF the
festival borne in a Sedan chair upon
the shoulders of ten of the husklest
boys in Topeka grade schools.
Following the queen Will come her
maids of honor, Margaret Hill OF
Clay; Theresa James, Mckinley; Lu-
cile HeWins, Quinton Heights; Helen
Decker, Polk; Anna Cain, HARRISON
Florence Binger, Lincoln; Ruth Thor
oman Lowman Hill; Jeanette Dool-
ey, Central Park; Mary French, La
fayette; Margaret Morns, Quincy; Net
tie McCallan, Branner-
The queen will ascend to raised
platform in the judges stand and be
crowned There she will be enthroned
for the afternoon.
First Hoop Drill.
The first calisthenic number VIII pc
a hoop drill done to music by over
thousand second grade pupils. Last
fall every grocer in town was besieseo
for old barrel hoops. They all Won
dered why hoops were in such de-
mand If they come to the falr
grounds next Friday they will see over
a thousand of these same hOops-but
it is doubtful whether they will rec
ognize them because the hoops will be
gaily wrapped in beautiful bright
school colors.
Representatives from Central Park,
Lowman Hill, Garfield, Polk, Wash
ington, Buchanan, Harrison, Sumner,
Potwin Douglas Lincoln, Branner,
Quincy, Grant, Mckinley. State street
will take part in this drill.
The third grade calisthentic drill
is made up of bending movements
and those hand and arm movements
usually associated with a dumb bell
drill. The children will do this to
music of the King Cotton March by
John Philip Sousa. They will wear
rosettes of their school color on each
wrist. Every school except Washing
ton and Douglas will be represented in
this drill.
Reed Drill Is New.
The fourth grade reed drill is new
in Topeka. The movements are most
ly original, done with piece of reed
six feet in length. While going
through many graceful movements,
the reeds are made to form different
figures. For a while it was feared
that this drill would have to be left
out, this reed being of a kind used by
the Germans to pack their large shells.
However, Mr.. Holman, clerk of school
board, found a firm in Chicago with a
supply on hand and gave the young
reed drfl1erS a chance to take a part
in the exhibition, although he had to
pay a war price. The reeds will be
decorated in school colors. The music
will be an Irish Jig by Burchenal.
Representative from Central Park,
Polk, Lowman HILL Harrison. Wash
ington, Lincoln, Garfield, Sumner
cite, Parkdale and State Street will
take part
The Marching Drill.
The fifth grade marching drill, one
of the best received numbers last
year. will be much improved this
time. Much of this drill was taken
from the United States infantry drill
regulations. A company from Central
Park gave the work before the To-
peka Military club, made up of the
officers of the regular army and the
Kansas National Guard stationed in
Topeka, and the officers complimented
the children highly in their prompt
ness, precision and steadiness in
ranks. The children go through eVo-
buttons in line, in squads, in COM
panies and in platoons. Schools TAX
ing part in the drill are Central Park,
Lowman Hill, Polk, Monroe, Harri-
son, Sumner, Potwin, Branner, Van
Buren, and Quincy.
The Sixth grade will give the. wand
drill, taken from the manual ar
ranged by Major Butt for use in the
United States army The wand will
take the place of the rifle and will be
wrapped in school colors- Every
school in Topeka will be represented
in this drill.
The free-hand calisthenic drill.
made up of twelve beautiful Swedish
movements, puts every muscle of the
body into play. This work is done by
the seventh and eighth grades to the
music of the 'Battleship Connecticut
March" Nearly one thousand pupils
: will drill together in this exercise.
Indian Club Drills.
The single Indian club drill by the
eighth A grades will be much the
same as it was last year Four hun
dred pupils will take part.
The double club drills by the ninth
grades of Sumner and Quincy and
eighth grade of Central Park, will be
new feature and the prettiest and
most difficult on the program. Three
hundred students will go through a
, set of 4 intricate exercises, in which