The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-08
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hard for the success and adoption of
| the amendments.
/ William McAndrews. superintendent
| of New York City schools, asserted
/ that teachers the nation over are fac
] ing a crisis with poor pay pitted
/ against the high cost of living and, in
! his address, laid the foundation for
a statewide effort on the part of the
instructors to make an effort to OBJ
tain better pay. A $1,000 salary be-
| fore the war is worth no more than
| $3.50 now, he said.
: ITO preserve the public schools
from the attendant forces which are
accompanying this war, the work of
reconstruction must begin at once. We
/ cannot wait until after the war" This
/ is what William McAndrews, associ-
ate superintendent of New York City
schools told the Big crowd at the audi
/ forum this morning.
1--WE have lots of weak, unframed
and wholly unsuited teachers instruct
! ing the boys and girls of America and
we cannot fire them when they worF;
! only about thirty cents of what it
| did when our teaching wages were
fixed. Teachers today are like volun-
+ teer fire companies. L suggest for
! Kansas a committee to make a wage
survey of Kansas teachers. Let the
| fullest publicity be given teachers
! wages. Self-pride will not permit a
father to have his boy taught by peo-
Teachers salaries should be made
| public property all over the state and
( let each town vie with each other in
getting the best by publication of
wages.
ITO make the schools a bigger force
I would advocate having more of the
| Red Cross and soldier relief work
done in the schools. The school teach
ers should be more likable chaps
| They cannot be because the other
professions and business get the best
| talent now
| Wise Arouses Patriotism.
Rabbi Stephen Wise of the Free
! Synagogue, New York City, aroused
round after round of applause with
/ assertions that our boys going to
/ France must not come back until the
| Teuton government is crushed and
done away with" Thru his speech
one of the most stirring delivered in
| the city since the precipitation of
America into the war, women scat
tered thru the audience Knitted
| glance showed that the things being
worked upon where wristlets, socks
and sweaters that are to be used>by
soldiers in the trenches. Wise, who
once urged that America should keep
out of the war, declared that the
United States is not challenged to war
defend the treasures of nature and
of the people. He denounced paci-
fists, charged the greater mass of So
cialists with favoring Prussian rule of
the world and asserted that this is
not the presidents war, but the war
of 1OO,OOO,OOO men, women and chill
dren.
Germany must not have one iota
of gain from the war" he said. Ger
many must give up Alsace-Lorraine |
she must restore Belgium, Poland and
other devastated territory and must
adhere to reparation, restoration and
nothing less"
Sectional Meetings.
Sectional meetings and round ia
| bles were held this afternoon. AT
many war was again the principal top
ic- Speakers from all Corners of the
state and nation were on the program.
The college section met this afternoon
at the First Baptist church Rabbi
Wise was again the speaker At the |
First Methodist church the rural
school section listened to half-dozen
speakers A feature address was de-
l1vered by Mrs. Marie Turner Harvey
k1rksville, Mo-, who spoke on The
Rural School in a Democracy" The
primary section met AT the First Pres
oyterian church this afternoon at 2
clock, the time at which all other
sectional meetings began.
The second general assembly of the
convention will be held tonight at
o'clock at the auditorium when David
Snedden, Teachers college, Columbia
university, will speak on Gan After
the war Program for Education .
Nathan c. Schaeffer, state sunerir1
tendent for Pennsylvania, will sneak
on work and Play in Education"
..e, 1oLllorroW VIII undoubtedly be the
fireworks day of the convention
With the fight between factions for.
ana against division of the state con-
vention on, the demonstration will he
ADDED to by resolutions to be intro
ouced Whlch Will ask that the state
superintendent office be made an
appointive one instead of elective
Electlon OF officers-executive and
members of the executive comrnittaa
viii also be held at the general as /
sembly tomorrow morning. There &C
scores of men and women beine ,oa+,e
aoned today for the various places
ana politics ad hbre'' are not ont of
order today VI
The resolutions to be introduced
tomorrow assert that In this
time of world wide confIjc+ o ol1is
the necessary individual and ma
tlonaI re-adjustment tremendous
problems are arising, and will arise
tnere1ore we deem the' education of
our citizens more important than
ever, and we urge, in every Commune /
lty, that teachers and boards Of ad11-
cation demand not only school al
usual, but school more than usual i
1or as Commissioner Claxton saws.
Our schools must be now SO sustained
ana improved as to enable them TO
better prepare our boys and girls for
the life and work in the new age
winch will follow the close of the war
ana the coming of peace. No bows
ana girls must now be neglected or 4
exploited for selfish ends .
RESOLUTIONS Introduced.
Resolutions to be introduced before
the teachers are as follows:
ARTICLE 1.
AS members of the Kansas State Teach 4
ers' association we endorse the able and
efficient administration of our state super
intendent, W. D. Ross, Rnd pledge him our
full support in the pursuance of his further