The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-03
WAR FLAVOR IN


of Americas heroic ally. France. Irv-
ing Bachelor, the novelist one of the
speakers returned to this country
from France on November 1, and his
address before the Kansas teachers is
almost his first speaking engagement
since returning from the theater of
war. William Allen White, who will
introduce Irving Bachelor and Ray
Stannard Baker to the teachers, has
also just returned from the western
battle front. Another feature which
will bring France before the teachers,
will be a plea for aid for the French
orphans which Rabbi Stephen Wise of
New York City, will make at one of
the general sessions. Indeed, it will
be a pro-French convention the teach
ers will hold in Kansas this year.
Mind Your Own Business"
One of the most popular of the
dozen or more educators of national
reputation who will address the eight
thousand teachers next week, is Will
lam McAndrew, associate superintend-
ent of schools of New York City.
Superintendent McAndrew will speak
on the subject. Mind Y our Own Bust
ness and will show in this address
the whole duty of the teacher and the
school during the great world war
in which we are now engaged. Super
intendent McAndrew, unlike many
SCHOOl l6dQGTS, QlCl NOT his career
as a teacher. Instead he "got job"
as he expresses it, as ticket agent in
the offices of the Great Northern rail-
way ("Jim Hills road"), and was
afterward travelling passenger agent
for that railway. Later he entered edu-
cational work, and is now one of the
most influential school men of the ma
ton. He is largely responsible for
the minimum salary law for teachers
which is now on the statute books of
the state of New York.
Gary School Head Here.
A feature of the program that will
bring many teachers to Topeka is the
address by Supt. William Writ of
Gary, Indiana, on THE Gary Public
Schools" This address will be illus
trated by motion pictures showing
these schools in actual operation, and
as the Gary schools are the most
talked-of schools in the country many
learn about them from the man that
placed Gary on the map of the coun-
try.
1t is not unusual for speakers to
enter into contracts for dates before
the teachers and at the eleventh hour
pressing engagements elsewhere.
SuzzaIIo Is Released.
This year, however, according to F.
L. Pinet, secretary, practically no
eleventh hour releases have been ask
ed for and the teachers who attend the
big convention will hear the splendid
array of platform talent as originally
announced with but one exception.
This is President Suzzallo of the Uni
versity of Washington who has asked
for and has been given his release by
the association management Presi-
dent SuzZallo is chairman of the
council of defense for the state of
shin nd Nh
out of the war have made it impera-
tive for him to cancel his Kansas en-
gagement. To take Presidents SUI
zallo's place on the program the man
agement has secured DR.. Chas. H.
Judd OF the School of Education, Chi
cago university, who will speak on
Education for Citizenship"
Mrs. Harvey to Speak.
Among the big attractions is Mrs.
Marie Turner Harvey of the Porter
rural school near Kirksville, Mo. Mrs.
Harvey has the distinction of having
given Herbert Quick the inspiration
for his famous rural school story, THE
Brown Mouse" Mrs. Harvey is said
to have organized the most successful
model rural school in the entire coun-
try. She was at one TIME a Kansas
teacher, having worked in Butler
county. She will give two addresses
to the teachers-one on 1.-The Rural
School in a Democracy" and the other
on The Real Relation Between the
School and the Agricultural Forces of
the State"
Wilson for President.
.Altho it is not good taste for any
school man or woman to be an
avowed candidate for the presidency
of the Kansas State Teachers asso-
citation, yet this office is such a high
one that any Kansas educator would
feel greatly honored to be selected for
the position which means the leader
ship over eight thousand teachers. So
while there are no avowed candidates
for the place the friends of a number
of school men and women are quietly
working for their favorites. Among
those mentioned for the place are
Supt H. B. Wilson of Topeka, County
superintendent, S. P. Rowland of
Hutchinson, County superintendent
Annie Crouch of Wabaunsee county,
superintendent J. o. Hall OF Hutch
inson. Prof. E. L. Holton- of Manhat-
tan, Prof. Mary A. Whitney of EN-
poria, and President w. A. Brandon
burg of Pittsburg.