The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-03-14
PLEA THEIR CAUSE
1900 School Teachers of State
Assert Themselves.
Organize to "COmbat Arthur
Capper and Papers,"
FORM A PUBLICITY BUREAU
Also Plan Nee tings Before and
Not After Elections.
Going Before Allen TO Ask Text
Book Recognition.

The board of directors of the Kan
sas State Teachers association, which
represents the organized teachers of
Kansas, met in Topeka Thursday, and
| laid the foundation for what is to be
a persistent and determined campaign
, to obtain the recognition they feel is
due the teachers of the state. Those
present at the meeting of the board
were: Supt. NJ. E. Pearson, Kansas
City; Supt. A. J. Stout, Topeka; Supt.
C. S. Risdon, Independence; County
Supt. C. A. Deardorff of Usage county;
Miss Lillian Scott, Baker university;
Principal E. B. Allbaugh. Clay county
high school; President w. A. Lewis,
Fort Hays Normal school; State Supt.
L. E. Wooster, Topeka; Miss May
Howes, Wichita city schools, and Prof.
W. H. Johnson, University of Kansas.
The board adopted the following
resolutions:
Whereas. 1t has for years been n prin
ciple of the Kansas State Teachers as
ISOLATION repeatedly declared at the an,
nuSl meetings of the association, that the
public schools of Kansas should be given
representation on the Kansas state school
| book commission; and
Whereas. 1t is generally recognized by
! the teachers of Kansas and the patrons of
| OF the children of the state would be
served by such representation; and
/ W lereaS, House Dill NO. 40. winch MADE
mandatory the appointment of county
| superintendent and n city superintendent
on this commission has been defeated: and
| Whereas. Under the present law it is op-
| tional with the governor of the state
whether or not representatives of the pub
lie schools shall be named on the COM
mission: therefore,
Be it further resolved by the board of
directors of the Kansas State Teachers Gs-
| sociation. which represents the seventeen
| thousand teachers in the public schools of
| Kansas. that the governor of Kansas be
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Book commission, for the terms beginning
April 1. 1919 one city superintendent and
one county superintendent, or other persons
| of recognized standing directly engaged in
public school work, and
| Be it further resolved that committee
be appointed by the board of directors of
| the Kansas State Teachers association to
place this matter before the governor in i
personal interview.
A committee consisting of Supt. NJ.
E. Pearson, Supt. C. S. Risdon and
Co. Supt C. A. Deardorff was APP
pointed to interview Governor Allen
and lay before him the formal action
of the Kansas State Teachers asso-
citation.
A Slap at Cappcr.
According to F. l.. Pinet, secretary
for the association, this is but the be-
| ginning of a long and ell-organized
campaign to be made by the teachers
to win the recognition they feel is due
them.
"You may say said Mr. Pinet to-
day, that the teachers are going to
| organize in a way that has never been
attempted before. We purpose to find
out if the teachers of Kansas are to
have something to say about the
school affairs of Kansas; or whether
all these matters are to be turned
over to Arthur Capper and his fifty
| seven varieties of farm and household
journal3.'
next fall with our four big meetings
at Topeka, Salina, Wichita, and Pitts
burg, we will enroll $1,000 teachers
Then we will effect a close organiza-
ton county by county, with a legisla-
tive committee in each county. pro-
vide for an educational press bureau
which will furnish free news service
| to the seven hundred dailies and
weeklies of the state. 1t is also sig
Rificant that we are planning to hold
our annual meetings for 1920. which
is an election year, two weeks before
| the election, instead of one week after
election has been the ca So form