The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-01-21
Pres. Brandenburg Urges Many
Reforms i'm Education.
Hard to Get Money for Train
ing Teachers, He Says.

1 IF we could sell our children at
SO much a pound, we could get more
money from the state to pay for the
/ training of the people who educate and
train them,'' W. A. Brandenburg,
president of the Pittsburg State Nor
NAL school, declared at the final ses-
sion of the council of administration
| of the Kansas State Teachers associa-
ttion this morning at their meeting in
| Memorial hail. which closed the two
day session of the council.
Hard to Get Money for Education.
/ Brandenburg spoke with Indignation
of the fact that it is easier in all states
ito get money for the training of people
! to produce agricultural or Industrial
wealth for the state than it is to get
money for the training of teachers. He
protested vehemently against the in
teQualitieS of appropriations for the
teacher training schools and the agri-
cultural college and the university in
| Kansas.
Calling attention to the resolution
recently passed by the state agricul-
tural conference, urging that the legis-
lature increase the appropriation for
the State Agricultural college, Bran
denburg offered to bet two cents that
there was not a bunch of teachers in
the state who dared to offer such a
resolution
Unanimous in Resolution.
| He had hardly left the floor when
a resolution corresponding closely to
the one offered by the agricultural
conference was placed before the
teachers, and was unanimously adopt
ed. Brandenburg stepped back to the
speakers stand and rendered his two
cents to the presiding officer.
f, Chancellor Lindley, of Kansas Uni
versity, declared that the taxes which
the people of this and other states pay
for the ignorance which would be pre-
vented by proper education, are far
/ higher than those which they are
asked to pay for the support of educa-
! uonal institutions.
IF there were a federal official en-
| powered to call every Monday morn
| which the people of this state are los
ing thru remediable ignorance, there
would be a great number of cases of
:! heart failure in Kansas" Lindley de-
clared.
Legislation for All.
| The legislation which is the best
for any interest or any class, in the
I long run, is the legislation which is
the best for the public as a whole,
Lindley declared
The commissioner plan of education,
whereby the educational system of a
state is placed under the direction of
a man chosen for his ability in that
tline, and not thru the field of politics,
is an effort to place the right man on
1.-THE right job, and is favored by Chan
cellor Lindley.
Prof. c. E. Rarick, of the Fort HAYS
Normal school, who was to have
Ispoken on achievements in School
| consolidation in Western Kansas" is
in the hospital as the result of a motor
accident, and unable to appear.
j Professor Loomis Talks.
Prin. A. X. Loomis, of Wellington,
port for High Schools" analyzing
closely the sources and methods by
(which the money for the SUPPORT of
the high schools is secured.
Other speakers at the session were
Prin. Caleb w. Smick of Decatur
iChapute; Supt. NJ. G. Kirkpatrick, of
Belleville, and Miss Lillian Scott, of
Baker university.
Tonight. at the Chamber of Com
merce, the educators will entertain the
members of the legislature and talk
over school problems and needed
school legislation. More than 200 edu-
Gators have made reservations for the
banquet and it is expected an equal
number of legislators will attend.
To Remove Office from Politics.
/ Removal of the office of state super
lintendent of schools from politics was
urged at the first general session of
the council OF administration 1huTS-
day night by DR.. c. E Chadsey, of Illi-
nois university. Several states have
already adopted this policy, he said.
He pointed out that the state superin-
tendent should be no less of an edu-
cational expert than the city superin-
Itendent and should be as free to act
in the educational interests of the
lstate. This is something the Kansas
teachers have long advocated and at
every annual meeting the subject Is
embraced in the resolutions adopted
by them.
/ Advocates Supervision of Schools.
f. H. Holton, dean of education at
Manhattan, advocated state super-
vision of parochia1 and private schools
in an address before Schoolmasters
club at Pel1etier's Thursday night
Teachers should at least be certified
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