The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-11-01
NOTABLE PROGRAM READY
Kenosha Teachers VIII Go in Body to
Attend Annual Sessions in Milwaukee
-Congresswoman Jeanette Rankin
Is Big Feature.

superintendent Mrs. Mary D. Brad
ford and all of the principals and
teachers in the local schools, will at
tend the sixty-ffth annual convention
of the Wisconsin Teachers Associa-
ton to be held in Milwaukee on Thurs
day, Friday and Saturday of this week.
AS is customary the schools will close
this evening and not open again until
Monday. 1t is estimated that between
seven and eight thousand teachers will
be there. Kenosha county will send
more than two hundred teachers
to the convention
The program is decidedly on war
basis, dealing with questions Of what
schools may do in this crisis. The con-
vention will try to discover how schools
may best be worked up and organized
that they may be Of most service to
the country at this time.
There does not appear to be a great
deal of interest this year as to who
will be elected president to succeed
Milton G. Potter. Thus far the name
of superintendent M. N. McIver, of
Oshkosh, is the only one mentioned
The convention will open Thursday
morning at 9:15 with mess chorus of
patriotic songs by Milwaukee school
children. Addresses Of welcome wall be
made by Mayor D. W. Hoan and Presi-
dent Potter, followed by discussion
on "The Worlds Food supply" by
Charles r. Van Hise, president Of the
University of Wisconsin, and Will
liam Il. Gilmore, of Cleveland.
On Friday morning Allen D. Albert,
Chicago; R. A. Karkes, River Falls;
Jessie B. Rittenhouse, New York; and
Frank D. Slutz, Dayton, will be the
speakers. Preceding the speeches a re
port on the election will be read, fol
lowed Ky business raeel:ng.
Perhaps the most notable speaker of
the convention will be Miss Jeanette
Rankin, member of congress from
Montana, who will speak on Friday
right at the Auditorium on "Woman
and the New Democracy Great in.
| terest is centered about this distin-
| guished member of the so-called weaker
sex, who has achieved SO high a place
in political circles.
Saturday morning the session will
open in Plankinton Hall at 900
o'clock, when Carol G.. Pearse, presi-
dent of the Milwaukee Normal school
will speak on Ruralizing City
Schools. y Addresses will also be
given by Thomas E. Finegan, deputy
commander of education, Albany, N
Y; L. D. Harvey, president of Stout
Institute, Menominee, and G. P. Cary,
state superintendent, Madison.
A special meeting will be held
Thursday afternoon at two O'Clock in
the main hall of the Auditorium for
the elementary section of the teachers.
| Many distinctly new ideas will be talk
ed over by F. D. Slutz, Dayton, o.;
Florence G. Fox. Washington, D. c.;
Bertha M. Hamilton, Fort Atkinson;
G. w. Swartz, Gary, Ind; A. E. Kagel
Milwaukee; f. 0. Holt, Edgerton; w
F. Weidend, Manitowoc, and G. O.
Banting, Chippewa Falls.
On Thursday afternoon at two O'Clock
the schools arts and home economic
sections will hold combined session
in Plankinton Hall. An address on
ssWar and Vocational Education ? will
be given by Mrs. Lois K. Mathews,
dean of women Of the University Of
Wisconsin. There will be talks on
various phases of education by H. T.
Miller of Madison, and r. G. Leo
nard of the University of Indiana.
The agricultural section will meet on
/ Thursday afternoon in Walker Hall
| Boys club work will be discussed by
IF. G. Thompson of Waupaca, and
Thomas Campion of Onalaska. The
| subject of agriculture will be taken
care Of by A. V. Miller of Patch Grove
E. J. Cooper of Marshall, and Frank
L. Glynn of Madison.
Other sections will hold their usua-
meetings as follows: Biology, Thursday
afternoon at Kilbourn Hall; hitsory
Thursday noon at 1915 O'Clock al
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tics Thursday afternoon at the German
English Academy; music, Thursday af-
ternoon in the assembly room of the