The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-10-18
To GREET NUNS
Topeka Business Men Will
Welcome Teachers Thursday.
Work of Meeting Incoming
Trains Begins at 1880 O'clock.
C. OF C. COMMITTEES BUSY
Boy Scouts to Give Information
and Garry Baggage.
First General Sessions in Audi
torium Thursday Night.
!. OF C. COMMITTEES BUSY

Many Topeka business men will rise
earlier Thursday morning than they
ere accustomed to. Fifteen of them
will station themselves at the various
railway depots of the city to glad
hand" the cohorts of the Kansas State
Teachers association, who will begin
to arrive in flocks, punches and
squads on early morning trains.
At 4:55 O'Clock Thursday morning
the first train ON which there is
considerable delegation of pedagogues
is expected. From that time on, the
welcoming committee of the Chamber
of Commerce will meet approximately
100 trains. reaching all the stations III
the city from all parts of the state.
At the same hour, the chauffeur
members of the Chamber of Cora-
merce will park their cars at the state
house and the railway stations, ready
to convey the teachers from their
trains to the state house for resist,a-
ton and thence to the rooms which
they will occupy during the conVen-
ton. There are seventy-fivc Chamber
of Commerce members who have vol
unteered the use of their cars with
themselves or their employees as driv-
ers, for the convenience of the teach
ers.
To Begin Work Early.
At 4:30 o'clock Thursday morning
the Chamber of Commerce office staff
will be entrenched behind the Infor-
nation booths and the room assign
ment booths in the state house, and
ground floor of that building will be
illuminated and waiting to greet ana
serve the teachers in any way posi-
Bile.
Registration counters for the Kan
sas State Teachers association off
GERS, room assignment booth, 1nfor-
nation booth and check stand are in
Il $3.50 Id
and the entire organization is ready
to go.
Boy Scouts to Help.
There will be fifty Boy Scouts, out
in the cold gray dawn of Thursday
morning, ready to carry the baggage
of the teachers, and give them any
information or assistance which they
may.
Western Union messenger boys will
wear "Ask Me" badges and will have
instructions from their office to
answer any questions which they may
be asked by teachers.
Anything which a Kansas school
teacher wants in Topeka, will be
Forthcoming if the teacher asks for
it and the Chamber of Commerce can
secure it.
Thursday morning will be given
| over to registration and getting set
tled,'' there being nothing on the con-
vention program for the morning
hours.
Six departmental meetings. at as
many different points in the city, will
| commence at o'clock Thursday aft
ernoon.
Meetings Begin Thursday P. NJ.
The college department will meet
at the First Baptist church, Ninth
and Jackson streets; section "A' of
| the high school department, at the
First Congregational church, Seventh
and Harrison streets; Section 'B' of
the high school department, at the
high school auditorium, Eighth ave-
nue. and Harrison street; section 'C''
| of the high school department, repre-
/ sentative hall. state house; grade
school department, Memorial hall.
department, auditorium, First Chris
tian church, 622 TopekS boulevard; {;
primary department, city auditorium,
Seventh and Quincy street.
! The first general session of the con-
vention will be held at the city audi
torium at o'clock Thursday evening.
with Vice President H. P. Study, of
Atchison, presiding.
| Paul Lawles of Topeka will ing
several selections at the opening of
the program of the general sessions.
| President Coffman to Speak.
| President Lotus D. Coffman of the
/ University of Minnesota, at Minneapo-
/
| general session. His subject will be
| Intelligence and Moral Responsible
ity.'
| The Chamber of Commerce repre-
! sentatives are today checking over the
various meeting places which have
been assigned to the sections and de-
partments of the convention, and see
ing that all is in order.
| In addition to the places named,
round table meetings Will be held
| Friday afternoon at the Swedish
Bethel church. Sixth avenue and .Har-
| rison street; the Masonic temple, 619-
| % Jackson street; the supreme court
room in the state house; Dougherty' S
Business college, 11S West Eighth
avenue; the senate chamber at the
! state house; room Al of the manual
training high school at Eighth ave-
nue. and Harrison street; the auditor
! ium of the Lutheran church, Fifth and
| Harrison streets; the auditorium OF
the First Presbyterian church, S17
| Harrison street; the Sunday school
room of the same church; the audi
| toriuum of the First Congregational
church, Seventh and Harrison streets,
| (Conrinued on Page Twu.I