The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-09
TEACHERS FROWN

health supervision in both country and city
schools, such supervision to be made com
gressive. but deem it public necessity
(o) We reaffrm the principles set forth
schools of the county should be placed on
an equal financial basis; and we recon-
mend that the county be made the unit of
taxation, excluding from such unit all cities
of the first and second class.
80 Since teachers do not receive salaries
adequate to meet the new educational and
economic demands we recommend legislation
which will provide that the teachers of
Kansas shall receive pensions from the
educational work.
"a We favor legislation allowing the
state board of education to appoint another
assistant in the state superintendent Of
lice, whose principal duty shall be to con-
duct for the state of Kansas a free EN-
pIoyment agency, registering all teachers
who-may apply and furnishing credentials
or teachers when requested by city or dis
trict boards of education.
80 To bring about the legislation men
toned in the seven preceding sections and
| to plan for other educational needs from
year to year, we recommend that legisla-
tive committee of five be appointed by the
president of this association, this NOvem-
anu INA that me expenses of this committee up
to $500 shall be allowed from the funds
, of the state association.
ARTICLE III.
"a In this time of world wide conflict
and the necessary individual and national
readJustments, tremendous problems are
arising, and will arise; therefore we iIeeIn
the education of our citizens more iInDor-
tant than ever. and We urge in every com
munity that teachers and boards of educ;l-
ton demand not only school as usual
but school more than usual for. as Com
missioner ClaxtOn says, Our schools must
now be sustained and improved as to
enable them better to prepare our boys and
girls for life and work in the new age
which will follow the close of the war aud
the coming of peace. No boys and girls
must be neglected or exploited for selfish
ends
CD AS teachers of Kansas we protest
most emphatically against the organized
demand for their wares in our new ma
uonal army BY nationwide advertis-
ing campaign the tobacco trust would make
the demand appear spontaneous 1t hides
its own self-interest in the appeal to be
generous TO our sailors and soldiers. We
urge our citizenry to do some clear think
ing on this subject; a thing harmful in
peace is just as harmful aif not more so
in time of war. and we believe that this
tobacco prOpa ganda if not checked viii
largely nullify the teachings in our schools
regarding narcotics and physical welfare
and that also it will encOurag e a favorable
attitude towards. and condone the use Of
tobacco and cigarettes among the youth
(3l As individual citizens and as Nom
bers of the great teaching fraternity of the
state of Kansas. pledge our allegiance
to the national administration in the carry
ing out Of its policies for the prosecution
of the war. We therefore promise full sup
port to the state and national councils of
defense, in the conservation of the food
resources OF the nation and TO our presi-
dent. the Honorable Woodrow Wilson, we
pledge full cooperation in his plans for
Junior Red Cross organizations we further
urge that definite and comprehensive teach
ing in national loyalty and patriotic service
be made part of the instruction in every
JOHN B. HEFFELFINGER.
r. W. McWILLIAAIS
GUY NJ WARREN
MARY A. WHITNEY,
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