The Topeka state journal., 1919-11-08
TUTORS NATIONS


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pleaded for the education of chill
dren along the lines to which they
are best adapted, and predicted that
the time would come when the re-
quirements of the teaching profess
sion would demand men and women
that may see defects in health as
! readily as defects in mentality.
Raymond A. Kent, of lawrence,
was elected vice president of the
northeast, conference at the third gem
eral session in the auditorium Friday
night Department officers elected
were: College department, Fl. g.
Love, Emporia; high school, F. Z.
Alder, Manhattan; grade school, E. L.
Heilman, Burlingame; primary. May
Van Beckten, Topeka; rural school,
Supt. Annie GODDARD, Oskaloosa,
That the state should give boys and
girls an opportunity to find out what
kind of work they want to follow in
life and then educate them along those
lines was the text around which Gov.
w. L. Harding, Iowa, centered his ad-
dress before the teachers at their third
general session in the auditorium Fri
day night.
TT is the duty of the state" Gov
ernor Harding twice repeated solemn
opportunity to find out what kind of
work they like, and then give them
thoro education along those lines.
Solve Misfit Problem.
There are too many misffts in the
world. the speaker declared. He
pointed out that millions of men and
women are engaged in occupations dis
tasteful to them and that as result
they are inefficient and unhappy.
made unhappy, he said.
The one-room school should not be
forgotten in the building up of the
consolidated schools, the governor
IL,
his own state, there were 10000 one
room schools and that the lives of the
pupils in those schools are just as inn
portapt as the lives of other children.
He related many interesting anec-
dotes of his life as a school child,
teacher, lawyer and statesman. He
declared that many children are driven
out of school because someone in
sists on their doing things which they
cannot do" Educate the child along
the lines he likes and advance the
world, the. governor urged.
Governor Harding was introduced
by Gov. Henry J.. Allen, who made a
short address of greeting to the teach
ers. Governor Allen congratulated the
teachers on the fine set of >resolu-
tions" passed by them and especially
icommended them for the one pertain
ing to the minimum salary of $1,000.
Teachers, he said, were not getting the
tempted to impress this on the last
legislature without success.
New Environment Needed.
1.-THE New World and How To Get
It," was the subject of an address by
DIR. Edward A. Steiner, in which he
pointed out the great change that had
been wrought in mankind by the
events OF recent years and urged the
necessity of adaptation to the new
environment.
The musical hit of the whole CON
vention was the boys and girls glee
clubs of the Topeka high school, which
rendered several selections. The boys
were called back for an encore and
received tremendous applause.
The twenty-seyen resolutions pre-
sented to the teachers by the resolu-
ton committee were adopted as Il
whole after article 2 had been amend
ed by striking out that sentence which
pledged the votes of the 1000 teach
ers of the state to the gubernatorial
candidate who would promise to ap-
point only active educators on the state
school textbook commission. The
resolutions were read by Miss Eliza
beth Horning, of Holton. who imme
diately moved their adoption They
were carried by an overwhelming ma
jority aftersthe pledge clause had been
stricken out. They included the
unionism resolution.
The addresses were opened by DR..
Edmund James Kulp,' pastor of the
First Methodist church, who. in a five
minute talk. urged the teachers to as
sist financially and morally the Red
Cross Christmas campaign for the
eradication of tuberculosis. Someone
dies every three minuts of tubercu-
losis, Doctor Kulp said. and declared
there is absolutely no reasonfor it.
Wooster in Washington.
A telegram from Miss L. z. Wooster,
state superintendent of education. was
read to the teachers, in which she ex-
planned that she had been detained in
| Washington at a federal hearing to
establish a national board of educa-
tion and expressed regret she could
not attend the convention. The hear
ing. She said, is of great Importance
to the western states.