Omaha daily bee., 1920-11-06
Teachers
Body Votes
Down Split
Contending Factions Patch Up
Differences-Agree to Sub
nit New Constitution to
Referendum.
Omaha Meeting Closes

Wet, but happy, with suit cases
bnlging and minds full OF new ideas
assimilated in the last three days
Nebraska teachers by the hundreds
boarded street cars in the pouring
rain yesterday afternoon and re-
turned to their homes and schools.
The fitty-fourth annual session OF
the Nebraska State Teachers asso-
cation officially closed yesterday. 1t
attained an attendance record sur
passed only by tnat of last year
when l64 more were present. The
talent and tangible results of the seS-
SIGN this year easily led those OF
past meetings. They include:
utilization with the National Edu-
cation association.
adoption of a plan to settle defi-
nil siy the constant fight OF whether
there shall be central meeting or
sectional meetings.
Adoption Of a plan to put an edu-
ca''oual lobby on the job at Lincoln
this year.
Hotel Accommodations.
Consideration OF a plan by the Of
itcers Of the association to kc a
contract with Omaha hotel next
wear in which rates TO be charged
will be recorded and, avoid constant
wrangling among delegates over
hotel Accommodations.
Establishment OF two new sections
10 the association typical section
dealing with problems of the abnor"
nal and subnormal child in public
schools and a normal training sec
tlo1.
Officers and members OF the
executive committee must remair H.
Omaha today to pick up few odds
and ends OF unfinished business be-
lore returning to their homes. These
include counting OF ballots cast tor
a new president, vice president and
4 treasurer and the election OF
committee of nine educators to
adott a new constitution which will
be presented to members of the as
soeiation for consideration IN the
near future. ~
ElectlOn NeSultS 10 SoIlS'
A. IT. Stoddard, president OF the
association, announced late ,yester.
day afternoon that the committee OF
nine would be selected by the e%ecu-
tive committee early this morning
at the Hotel Fontenelle. The result
st .he voting will be announced by
loon, he stated. Ballots los three
new members of the exccutivc COM
missce who will succeed Jesse II.
Newton of Lincoln; A. y. iced OF
\Vavne, and R. ]. Barr of Grand Is
land also must be counted.
The promised fight over the divl--
sion Of the association into sectional
meetings on the convention floor. at
hte' Auditorium yesterday morning
did not materiaIize. At committee
meeting held Thursday night at the
Hotel Fontenelle, the contending tac-
tions patched up their differences and
agreed to present a plan to adopt
A new constitution to "a referendum
by the teachers, members of the as
sociation.
Resolution Adopted
This was accomplished by adopt
ing refolution on the convention,
floor to amend the constitution and
the amendment proposed was an ell
tirely new constitution. Another mo-
ton carried giving committee OF
nine power to write a constitution
and providing, in the event the vote
TO kill the present one carried. that
the one written by the committee
automatically became the constitution
under which the association would
operate. =
To insure harmony on the CON
ycntion floor it was arranged that
those who had been at loggerheads
on the proposition-True Of Nc
Cook, Stoddard of Beatrice, Letter
of Lincoln and Beveridge of Omaha
should speak i'll behalf of the reso-
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