The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-11-10
NEW OFFICERS.

w. ii. johnson, Lawrence, preSl-
dent.
H. ]. French, Eldorado, county su-
perintendent of schools, Butler county,
vice president.
G w. Trout, Pittsburg. head of the
department of history. State Manual
Training school, chairman of college
section.
w. A. Bailey, Kansas City. principal
of Kansas City high school, chairman
of high school section.
Emil Kra tchovil, Clay Center. super
intendent Clay Center schools, chair
man of the graded schools section.
Miss Elizabeth Warning. Holton. su-
perintendent of Jackson county
schools, chairman of the primary
schools section.
o. r. Farris, superintendent of
schools at Eureka; c. A. Shively, su-
perintendent of schools at Hays, and
f. Z. Stonecipher, superintendent of
schools at Cherokee, auditing commit
tee.
Mary Antin, a Russian-Jewess, au-
thor, lecturer and settlement worker,
in an excellent and applause inspiring
address at the city auditorium this
morning pleaded for the abolishment
of parochial schools and private
schools, excepting in rare instances.
The subject of her address was, "The
Public Schools, a Test of American
Faith"
No address delivered so far this year
has created as much applause as did
that of the little woman with mass
OF curly hair, who speaks with a dis
tinctly foreign accent. Mary Antin
was in Topeka two weeks ago and de-
HVered political address along with
other members of that famous WON
fnI ~ I'll,
10 coast, carrying the banner of
Charles Evans Hughes.
Doctor Estey Speaks.
The auditorium was filled to over
flowing at the morning session. In
addition to the address of Mary Antfn
VINO viii speak again at the high
school auditorium tonight, an address
on The Meaning of Youth" was de-
hVered by E. B. Bryan of COLGATE
university, New York, DR.. Stephen s
Estey OF the First PRESBYTERIAN
church delivered a glowing eulogv or
the late John Macdonald. ResoInfions
We're adopted and the teachers voteC
unanimously to elect the officers nomi.
mated by the board of directors Thurs
day night. The next meeting nIac.
WIN pe decided upon at a meeting OF
the BOARD OF directors next month.
Faith of America.
Inc schools" Mary Antin said
snow the faith of America in man
America has trusted man with an cd.
ucatlon which prior to the adoption nj
the public school policy of your New
England forefathers was only tbs
prerogative of aristocracy in Eurone
They based the common schools or
the fact that no one can know what
there is in the boy of the commor
man. The common man is alvav
reaching for something he doesn't mn.
derstand. When he reached ont for :
public school, he did this very thing
Later philosophers told him it was ths
nucleus for a universal education
He created it as a protest against tht
tyranny of European masters. wh(
confined education to aristocracy."
SteIilized Tubes.
Private schools she classes as :
sterilized single tube. They should h,
utilized by parents only in rare in.
stances when it is found impossible +,
maintain home, according to Mar
Antins. opinion. Then she congratu
lated America on the separation Of thc
church from school.
Sooner or later" said Mary Antin
the children from private schools
must tread the same path as those q
the public school. They fail to ge
the greatest lesson of life-the under