The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-10-18
OPPOSED TOCLASS COSSIPS NOSE IN.
Teachers VIII Discuss Trades Scandal
Professions Records of Births.
They Also Will Out Miss COyell Tries To Protect
Smith Towner Bill "Faen Girls
is BIG EDUCATIONAL QUESTION REFUSES CHARACTER HOUNDS
Would Provide But Many Succeed in Ruihng
Better Education. Girls Regulations. IL.
Retirement Many Legitimate
Also To | Born Every
Teachers VIII Discuss Trades
and Professions Here.
They Also VIII Thresh Out
Smith-TOwner Bill.
is BIG EDUCATIONAL QUESTION
Would Provide Large Fund for
Better Education.
Retirement Fund for Teachers
Also To Be Urged.

Endorsement CT the Smith-Towner
bill now pending in congress; opposi-
ton to separately conducted schools
for pupils preparing for professions
and those preparing for trades; rec
ommendation of a teachers retirement
fund and the demand for more eff
some of the big questions that will be
threshed out by the 5000 teachers
who viii attend the convention of the
Kansas State Teachers association in
Topeka November 6, and s.
The Smith-Towner bill, which has
caused so much dispute, provides for
the establishment of a national de-
partment of education. with a secre-
tary of education as a member of the
presidents cabinet An annual appro-
priation would be made under this
bill Of 500, 700, 900 to aid and encour-
age the states in the removal of Hit
eracy. the Americanization of imni-
grants. the equalization of educational
opportunities and the preparation of
teachers for public service.
Teachers Plan Action.
If the proposed resolution to be
introduced to the teachers is passed.
they will especially commend that sec
ton of the bill which provides that
all educational facilities encouraged by
the terms of the bill shall be organ
the legally constituted state and local
education authorities. They will
urge the Kansas members of the
house of representatives to. do every
thing possible to obtain the early en-
actment of the bill.
Any movement that has a tendency
to make a distinction in pupils or di-
vide people into classes is absolutely
opposed in a proposed resolution to
be voted on by the teachers one day
of the convention.
I'VE endorse absolutely and unre-
servedly," reads the resolution, IAN
Americanism that demands and Sc
cures equal opportunities for every
child of the republic; that makes ev-
| cry reasonable effort to secure the
most efficient education for the high
est citizenship which we consider
paramount to any. technical or trade
education; and that opposes every
movement tending to produce any dis
tinction between those preparing for
the professions and those preparing
for the trades, by separately conducted
/ schools.
I'VE are opposed to every move that
tends to divide our people into classes
and we pledge our whole-hearted sup
4 port and will use every effort in our
J power to teach a lofty patriotism and
a true democracy, not alone in the
| class room, but by our daily life
Article x of the resolutions provides
! for the favoring of a teachers pension
or retirement fund, compulsory and
statewide in its application.
| In order that Kansas may have a
more effective compulsory education
/ law, and that officers In sympathy
with it's enforcement may be secured
for that work, the teachers propose
to recommend amendments providing
| for truant officers invested with au-
1 thority to return delinquent children
| to school without process of court
| trials that a fee commensurate with
/ the duties and requirements of such
officers be legalized and that adequate
provision be made for all necessary
| expenses.
/ The teachers will pledge their sup
| port to all movements in education
which have as their object the specific
betterment of all class room teaching.