The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-09
Last Statewide Session After
Record of 55 Years.
Topeka ENTERTAINS TONIGHT
Ray Stannard Baker and Irving
Bachelor at C. of C..
Federation of Labor Would In
terest Union of Teachers.
GENERAL PROGRAM.
TONIGHT
Fifth General Session.

Fifth General Session.
Friday November 8. p. m.
Music. violin solo. Frank E. Hendry, Uni
Greetings J. f. House, mayor OF Topeka. /
Foreword william Allen White, Emporla-
Address, THE Art of Living in a crowd
ed World Ray Stannard Baker Amherst
Massachusetts. r Otoo++
Music, vocal solo, Mrs. herlnan O4O''
University Of Kansas. 1i-,,
Address, The Cheerful Yankees irving
fNote: This entire evenings program is
provided TO the teachers thru the courtesy
of the Topeka Chamber of Commerce.
The first war convention of the
Kansas State Teachers association
and. bv amendments to the constitu-
ton adopted today, the last statewide
meeting for a few years at the least
will pass into history tonight, follow
ing the Chamber of Commerce enter
tainment at the auditorium, as the
best attended, most successful and
most eventfuI meeting on record in
the organizations fifty-five years of
existence 1t is conservatively est1-
mated by those in charge of reg1stra-
ton that 1900 teachers have attend
ed This enrolment is, approximate
", 200 more than last year.
The program as provided by the
officers of the association has met
with the unanimous approval of the
members. The speakers. comprising
an array that outdid any that have
previously appeared before the edu-
Gators, were pleasing, instructive and
entertaining The welcome which To-
peka has extended to visitors and the
steps the city has taken to make them
feel "at home" is one of the features
of the convention.
What is regarded as one OF the
most important phases of the meet
ing is the tendency indicated during
the two days to begin steps for higher
pay for instructors the state over.
William McAndrews, New York, in
talk at the auditorium Thursday morn
ing told his audience how the latter
could lay d foundation that would
insure better conditions as to TINS.
New Union Move.
An effort by the American FEEDER
alton of Labor to interest the teach
ers in affiliation with the labor un-
ions was evident. Literature calling
attention to the ideas and aims of the
labor organization was circulated
among those attending both today
and Thursday
assembly at the auditorium wherein,
after resolutions and amendments
had been adopted, William Writ, sup
erintendent of the Gary schools and
c. H. Judd, dean of the school of edu-
cation, University of Chicago, ad-
dressed an audience that packed the
building. Preceding the entire
morning program the Girls Glee club
of the high school sang and the pic
ture painted by George Stone of John
Macdonald, late editor of the West
ern School Journal, was exhibited to
the assembly.
Expansion National Life.
THE problem of education today is
life which Will assure the safety of
that democracy for which we are
fighting, DR.. Judd asserted.
He assailed the present system of
teaching American youth, saying that
in our effort to be cosmopolitan and
give a liberal education educators
have failed to instruct the pupils in
the significance of nationalism and as
a consequence in the present national
crisis the country has found itself
lacking the unity it should have.
our schools. less than any other in
the country, train for citizenship -
said Doctor Judd. THE naitonalism
idea is one of the great functions of
the schools of England, and particu-
larly Germany. but we have sacrificed
that in an effort to be cosmopolitan.
Our system neglects the problem
of making a solidified unit out of our
populace and we have made no effort
to reconstruct the system to that end
rather We have believed our plan of
broad education was best for training
citizens.
I'VE have not put enough signifi-
cant content into that word nation
The Germans have various methods
of training for the different classes in
the country, emphasizing. according to
the needs of each, the idea Of national
unity.
In one instance, we are struggling
with an Syear elementary school sys-
TEN that is fundamentally rudimen-
tary. We have expanded its scope
until it is overcrowded but We still
limit it to elementary subjects But
we now are going to put something OF
real significance into the seventh and
eighth grades-something more than
rudimentary something that will
lead straight into the subjects OF
higher learning and give pupils an in
cenuve to further education
The real economic structure of the
government depends upon the tasks
you and l perform and in order to in
sure the solidity of this structure we
must teach our children. beginning
with the elementary schools what the
organic structure of the community
is"
A plea to extend to the CITY chill
dren the same cOmpensating adyan.
tages afforded adults was made by
William Writ superintendent O.
schools at Gary, Ind. in his address
In rXplaining the Gary .ystem, Mr.
Writ told how the shift of popula,