The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-11-05
New Features Won Approval of
Kansas School Teachers.
Sentiment for TWO-SectiOn Con-
ventiOn Is Developed.
OUTGOING TRAINS CROWDED
DarrOw Speaker at Last Gen.
eral Session Today.
Enrolment viii Equal That of
1920, Says Pinet.

make the fifty-eighth annual conven-
tion of the Kansas State Teachers as
sociation tho most successful conven-
ton it has ever held, in the opinion of
Frank L. Pinet, secretary, expressed
today after the convention had ad-
journed
Tho plan of having but one main
speaker on the program of each gem
era1 session. instead of two. has won
approval from the teachers. Music at
the beginning of the programs of the
general sessions has also suited the
schoolma'ams.
Favor Two-ScctiOn Meets.
Il have heard expressions of opin-
ion from many of the teachers in IA
vor OF the holding of only two sections
OF the convention-one at Wichita and
one at Topeka" Pinet said. This
sentiment is not unanimous. There Is
still a strong belief also that the other
two cities-Salina and Pittsburg-
should have their conventions, but
the two-section idea seems to be grow
ing. 1 have heard more about it this
year than ever before.
"Aa to attendance-it just simply
can't be done. There are still 1000
cards which have to be accounted for.
The registrations. locally, in Topeka,
Vance amounted to about 500. There
wcre 500 local enrollments at Wichita
the first day and 200 or 900 at each
Of the other places.
Enrolment Same as Last Year.
Il believe the enrolment will be
about the same as last year, 3, 900.
have no reason for believing it will
be less"
More than -tllree=fourths of the
county superintendents of the Topeka
section left the city before the meet
ing called by Miss Wooster, state su-
perintendent The problem of attend
ing the meeting was discussed by the
suH6rintendents before the hour set,
ard n majority of them felt that moth
in was to be gained by going.
The same condition was met with at
al the other meetings, and results Of
the state superintendent executive
sos=ions were few and far between, it
i'm reported in Topeka.
Exodug in Full Swing.
The exodus of teachers from Topeka
after the fifty eighth annual conven-
ton of their association is well under
way today. Many of the teachers are
Skipping" the last general session of
the convention, and the outgoing trains
this morning are crowded and are
carrying extra equipment.
Five extra cars were carried on
Santa Fe train No. 6, east bound, at
40 o'clock Friday evening, and west
bound trains are carrying all the pas
sengcrs they can accommodate.
Found Table Meetings Finished.
All round table and department
meetings were finished Friday after
noon. The closing session is the gem
eral session in the city auditorium this
morning.
The general session at the audi
torium this morning was opened with
a musical program furnished by the
music department of Ottawa Univer-
sity The musical program was as
follows:
vice President c. O. Smith, Presiding.
Musical Program: Ottawa University.
Days HarbngeE,: ;;ao f,;,,b ;bi.-''.'.'Brown
n The Want of Nanderpool
b; oh. Didn't 1t Rain......-....B .BgTleigh
c c0D'''rafs6i Sao Paul Ii. TIT. "'liAe'
b. The fThts Leaves and the wind. 49,. .Protheroe
Girls Glee Club.
Miss Mary Nelson. C,
Girls Giee Club.
Clarence Darrow Speaks.
IAN there is to an individual is
heredity and environment" Clarencf
s. Darrow, Chicago, lawyer and indus
trial leader. sad in addressing the
general session this morning.
THE environment fixes all the pos
sibilities and tendencies. but after
these are fixed, everything depends or
heredity. The acorn will produce ar
oak tree and can produce no other
but the size and symmetry OF the tree
may depend upon the soil in which the
acorn is placed, or it may depend or
whether it is sheltered or swept by
the winds. but it will be an oak and
can be nothing else.
After the structure is complete
what will happen to it depends on thC
environment that it meets. Some
heredities are so strong that they Will
stand up under almost any environ
xnent, and some are so weak that nc
environment will help them. The or
dinary heredity is neither very good
uoi very bad. and what will happen
depends entirely upon the environ
nent that is placed around it. Moth
ing can be done to change the heredity
to make the innate structure weaker
or stronger or to in any way caange its
instincts, but environment can be
Tlad1 easier.
1T has been so long thought that &
human being is a special creation and
that it has no relation to the rest OF
animal life, that men and women are
supposed to defy both heredity and
environment and have their whole
destiny in their own hands; but as q
matter of fact, man is only an evolu-
tion from a lower order and his whole
being is governed by the same laws
that govern all other animal life and
It is only by recognizing these laws
and following them that teaching is Of
any avail.
THE whole purpose of teaching Is
to cultivate inh.bitions and tendencies
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