The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-11-02
Arrangements Made for Biggest
Convention in History.
Registration Booths to Open in
State House Today.
ADVANCE GUARD IS HERE
C.. of G.. to Furnish Assistance in
Entertaining Visitors.
Secretary Pinet Well Pleased
With Program Thus Far.

Evening trains into Topeka today
will carry heavy contingent of teach
ers from all parts of the state to at
tend the fifty-eighth annual conven-
ton of the Kansas State Teachers
association.
The registration booth at the state
house will be opened late this after
noon for the registration of the early
comers All other preparations for
the reception have been made and
are complete.
w. a. Biby, who hasl been chair
man of the general reception commit
tee of the Chamber of Commerce, was
today forced to resign because of an
urgent call to Chicago.
Charles L. Mitchell was selected to
head the committee in Bibys place.
To Supply Information.
Wilbur A. Stanfield, chairman of
the reception committee of the Cham
ber of Commerce has announced a
committee chosen from the teachers
in the local schools, who will be posted
at the various railroad stations, and
will give information to the teachers
when they arrive. The teachers at
the stations will also hand out the free
transportation tickets on special street
cars which will take the teachers to
the state house for registration and
room assignment.
The teachers from Topeka schools
who will serve, two at a time, at the
railroad station booths, are: w. w. A
McGaw, H. r. Thompson, c. H. Hep
worth, Miss Myre NJ. Corning. Mrs.
Tucker, Miss Ethel NJ. Aldrich, Miss
Margaret Tillotson, Miss Emma
Thompson, Miss Grace Detlor, Miss
Ellen Heartburg, Miss Esther Swan
ton, Miss Julia Davis, Mrs Margaret
Kitten, Mrs. Kathryn Crawford, and
Mrs. Margaret Brown.
The same committee will serve with
the general reception committee of the
Chamber of Commerce, at the recep-
ton for the teachers Friday night.
Headquarters at State House.
The Chamber of Commerce staff
will be esta ablished in the state house
to assist the teachers in locating
rooms, and a Chamber of Commerce
committee with motor cars, under the
craftsmanship of A. c. Nagel, will con-
vey them from the state house to the
rooms to which they have been as
signed.
There are already some of the teach
ers in Topeka, visiting the Topeka
schools. The heavy enrolment will
start tonight and the first trains
Thursday will bring great numbers of
the teachers into the city.
1l6SlStFauOn LnlS year Will not be
the task which it has been in past
years. F. L. Pinet, secretary of the
association, said today. I'VE expect
to 0e able to handle it with five or six
people instead of a dozen.
This is on account of the fact that
the teachers have been required to
register in advance in order to secure
the reduced railroad railroad fare to
Topeka. This is going to simplify
matters for US"
DarrOW To Be Here.
Pinet worked till after midnight
Tuesday night, adjusting a break in
the program of the Wichita meeting.
Clarence S. Darrow, of Chicago, law
yer and industrial leader, was to have
spoken in Wichita Friday and in To-
peka Saturday He will be unable to
attend the Wichita meeting, but will
be on the program of the Topeka sec
tion as scheduled.
Pinet succeeded in securing Richard
]. Hopkins, attorney general of the
state, to speak at the Wichita meet
ing, and will also endeavor to have
Rabbi Leon Harrison, of st. Louis.
Jewish leader and speaker, on the
same program.
THE stage is all set and the actors
are beginning to appear" Pinet said
this morning. $50 far as have been
able to determine, the arrangements
for the biggest annual convention
which Topeka has had, are all COM
plete and everything is ready to CO."