The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-10
PROGRAM IS OUT
Official Announcement State
Teachers Convention.
Six Thousand Delegates Are
Expected in Topeka Then.
AMBASSADOR GERARD COMING
DR.. Newell Dwight Hills Also
One of the Speakers.
Reservation of Rooms Can Be
Made at This Time.

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be in Topeka November T. 8 and 9 for
the annual convention of the north
west Kansas section of the Kansas |
State Teachers association, according |
to an announcement today by F. L.
ton The call has gone out over the /
city for rooms to house the visitors,
and every effort Is to be made to make !
the incoming thousands comfortable |
with as little fuss as possible.
The convention meetings are divided
into three parts. Four general ses-
sions are to be held during the con-
vention-one each evening and one the |
morning of November 8. The day pro-
gram is filled with round table and de-
partmental@ conferences which are to |
churches, the assembly chambers in |
the state house and in the high school |
The general sessions in the evening |,
will be held at the city auditorium. |
Gerard Is Coming.
On the list of speakers announced |
for the general sessions, James G. &C. |
rard, former United States ambassa-
dor to Germany, is the most promi- |
nent. It was Gerard who handled the |
diplomatic reirs of America in Hun
land thru the first three years of the
war, and it was the reports of AM
bassador Gerard which finally re-
suited in the American declaration of
war. Ambassador Gerard is to be the
principal speaker at the first general
session of the teachers convention the
evening of November Z. He is to speak
at the auditorium.
DR.. Newell Dwight Hills, Of New
York City, is on the official program
as the speaker for the second general
session at the auditorium the morn
ing of November s. Doctor Hills is
one of the few men in the United
/ States who is responsible for indis-
| rto1l IL 1-4.
committed by the Hun hordes in Bel
GUM and France. Doctor Hills has
a. collection of pictures, which Trooper
O'Connor in recent speech in To-
peka, declared will make any true
| mans blood run cold, and then turn
| to a boiling, sizzling heat of anger and
| determination.
Lieut.. Paul Perigord of the French
| army is also listed on the speakers
| program for the second general session
/ of the convention. Nothing much is
| known here of Lieutenant Perigord,
except that his talk will be tale of
| the wars told by man who has been
| thru it all.
The third general session of the con-
vention the evening of November
| at the city auditorium is to be essen
| TALLY the business session of the con-
| vention. The committees on resolu-
| lions and the committe on nominations
| will submit their repots, and a vote
is to be taken on the amendment pro-
posed for article XVI of the constitu-
Il ton of the association.
Well Known Educators.
The fourth and closing meeting of
the convention of the northwest Kan
sas section of the Kansas State Teach
ers' association is to be held at the
city auditorium the morning of No
vember 8. This session is to be essen
TALLY an inspirational affair with three
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for addresses. DR.. Thomas D. Wood
of Columbia university; DIR. S. Parkes
Cadman of New York City, and w. d.
Ross, state superintendent of educa-
ton. are to be the speakers at this
session.
The Topeka high school orchestra,
the girls glee club and the high school
quartet are to furnish the music for
the four general sessions of the con-
vention, tho at each session a soloist
of note is to have part in the pro-
ceedings.
AT the departmental meetings many
prominent school men and educators
win have the right of way on the floor.
These meetings are scattered among
the churches and assembly halls in the
uptown section of the city, and are
broken up with the round tables of
the various subjects covered in each
department.
In the primary departmental meet
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versity of Wisconsin and Miss Eliza
beth Hall, assistant superintendent OF
schools at Minneapolis, Mimi, are to
be the principal speakers.
In the graded department meeting.
Prof. w. w. Charters of the Univer.
sity of Illinois and Miss Theda Glide.
meister, of the Minnesota State Nor.
NAL, are to be the speakers.
Francis G. Blair, state superinten.
dent of schools for Illinois and Prof
I t r., Nj ria of
are on the program for the rural de-
partment meetings.
For the high school department
Superintendent Jesse Newton, of Lin.
coin, Neb., and Prof. Harry Miller. OF
the University of Wisconsin, are to be
the principal speakers.
The college section is to hear Presi.
dent w. A Jessup. of the University
OF Iowa. and Prof. Charles Elwood, OF
the University of Missouri.
Reserve Your Rooms.
E. F. Stanley, 1881 Garfield street
Topeka, has been placed in charge OF
the reservation of rooms for the con.
vention and all teachers expecting to
attend the convention are urged to
write to him at once, make reserva-
ton and so help to avoid a last minute
congestion and a possible shortage OF
rooms. Check stands will be main
tanned in the north corridor of the
state house by the Topeka Chamber
of Commerce, and the Boy Scouts will
be on hand to act as guides to the
visitors.
Every teacher is expected to enroll
Immediately upon arrival in the city
at the enrolment booths in the north
corridor of the state house. Only
teachers in possession of enrolment
cards will be admitted to the meetings
of the convention or to the round table
conferences. Teachers from the First
Third Fifth and Seventh conversational
districts are to vote for directors for
the state association at the meeting
4 this year.
Untitled Steel Orders.
New York, Oct 10.-Unfilled orders