The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-11-04
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Bile, to secure greater efficiency: !
favored the esta blishment of a code of +
professional ethics for teachers, and /
approved the Sterling -Towner bill for /
the creation of a department of edu- !
cation in the cabinet of the president |
of the United States.
'.Altho it is impossible to make a |
very close estimate of the attendance !
on account of the registration system, |
should say that there are not more
than 5000 teahers in Topeka today"
F. L. Pinet, secretary of the Kansas
State Teachers association said today
"A liberal count would put the at
tendance here in Topeka at 5000; at
Salina, 1000; at Pittsburg, 1000, and
at Wichita, 1000 That would make
total of $4,000. and I'll be very
happy if we have that number in at
tendance at all the sections-it would
mean an increase of 1900 over the at
tendance of last year.
These estimates may be cut down
when we check up duplicate registra-
| lions, but they are not likely to be
exceeded"
The bulk of arrivals of teachers for
the annual convention was earlier this
year than last. Enrollments slackened
| at the booth at the state house at II
o'clock Thursday evening. Where
there were teachers waiting to have
accommodations found for them at
O'Clock Thursday morning, not
teacher was in sight at the Chamber
| of Commerce booth at 1880 o'clock
| this morning.
| Passenger agents for the various
railroads reported that the grand rush
occurred Thursday, when every train
into Topeka carried a full quota of
| teachers. Comparatively few teachers
/ arrived on morning trains this morn
| ing.
The serious business of the conven-
I Tlrifh 10
tables. Full programs of the round
| table meetings will be found in an
other column of The State Journal.
| Department meetings were held
| Thursday afternoon at several differ
ent locations in Topeka.
The high point of today's program is
| the general session at the city audi
| torium this morning. The Washburn
| Glee club and members of the student
body and the faculty of Washburn
music for the opening exercises. Ray
mond Robins, of Chicago, world
known economist and socioloGist, was
the speaker.
Raymond Robins Speaks.
Declaring that an increase of arna-
lments now spells the bankruptcy of
states, the suicide of nations" Robins
lment by agreement between Great
Britain, Japan and the United States,
with a holiday in naval construction
for at least three years.
The peoples of the word eagerly
look to the pending disarmament con-
ference for relief from the crushing
burden of taxation and some vital step
toward international agreement that
will secure and preserve the peace of
the world" Robins said.
After depicting the worldwide con-
ditions of today as those of a hungry,
disillusioned, embittered and suffer-
ing word" Robins declared that in
increasing armament the nations of
the world were but playing into the
hands of bolshevism because of the re-
sultant burden of taxation and high
costs of necessities of life.
Not again in this generation will
any of us look out upon a world filled
with the plenty, good will and gener-
Gus cheer common to the nations of
western Europe and America only
seven short years ago" he said.
Ten million slaughtered youths,
twenty million MANNED, three hun
dred and thirty billions of wealth de-
stroyed, and the kindly currents of
4 human sympathy poisoned by propa-
gandas of hate-there are elements
in the high cost of living that no acts
i of congress nor resolutions of thrift
can mitigate.
1.-The world needs brotherhood. but
while the nations feverishly arm for
the slaughter of each other, brother
hood is impossible. The burdens of
taxation weigh heavily on every home,
but with five nations spending two
billion five hundred millions annually
for past and future wars, effective re-
duction of taxation is impossible.
Increasing ornaments breed boil
| shevism. In conversatio with Nico-
lai Lenine, dictator of Soviet Russia,
1 asked how he expected the world
revolutionto develop. Lenine re
piled: 1t will not come thru propa-
ganda, nor thru external force
World revolution will come from the
increased cost of living in all capt.
talistic countries. One of the ele-
Z ments of this cost is increased taxa
/ ton forced by the increased arma-
ments needed in the battle between
rival international capitalists for the
markets of the world. This high tax
: alton plus big profits and high wages
will so increase the cost of living that
consumption by the masses become s
impossible. Then comes what CAPT
talists call over-production and con-
sequent unemployment with idle
workers and idle factories-the par
alysis of production and the suicide
of capitalism. Idleness and hunger
will fan the smoldering fires of the
class war into the flame of world
revolution in all capitalist lands
How much longer shall Christian
America play Lenines game for
| Worldwide bOlsheyist revolution ~