The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-10-20
23 Auditoriums Put in Use
for Opening Series of
Sectional Meetings.
GLENN FRANK TO SPEAK
Noted Wisconsin U. Head Is
Head|iner on Program
for Tonight.
Pictures and other stories on First Page
OF Second Section and Page 5.

indianapolis assumed its annual
role as host to Indiana State teach
ers today, as $4,000 members Of the
State association filled twenty-three
local auditoriums in sectional
meetings to start the seventy-fourth
annual convention.
Majority of the thousands arrived
within a few hours this morning and
hotel lobbies were crowded with
long lines of teachers waiting to
claim reservations made, in some
cases, a year ago. A two-hour wait
in line was the rule for those who
arrived at downtown hotels during
the rush hours.
An estimated 5000 obtained hotel
rooms, while the remaining thou
sands are being housed in private
homes whose owners volunteered
their extra rooms until the conven-
ton closes Saturday noon.
Glenn Frank to Speak
The convention is claimed to have
the largest attendance of any edu-
cational organization in the world.
1t is divided into thirty-four sec
tional meetings, besides which there
will be seven general sessions.
These will be held in Cadle Taber-
nacle and I. o. o. F. hall. The first
will be held tonight at 1880 at Cadle
Tabernacle, at which Glenn Frank,
Wisconsin University president,
noted writer and lecturer, will speak
on the Disease of Tnstitutionalism."
Superintendent G. w. Boucher of
Valparaiso, State association presi-
dent, will deliver his inaugural ad-
dress, preceded by Miss Martha A.
Whitacre of Richmond, retiring
president.
Teachers committees will be an
nounced at this first general meet
ing.
Seek to Split Convention
Politics and factionalism are ex-
pected to enliven the academic ses-
sions. South Bend, while with
holding it's teachers from the State
meet in favor of a sectional meet
ing held in the northern Indiana
city, has sent a new constitution
which seeks to split the annual
State wide meet into smaller dis
trict conferences.
Evansville and Ft. Wayne are said
to support the move, but both have
scheduled district meetings for the
same days as the State convention
and the new constitution is believed
to lack sufficient voting strength
to carry.
Friends of Roy P. Wisehart, State
superintendent of public instruc-
ton, are somewhat resentful be-
cause no mention Of his appoint
ment, Sept. 1, to the State post has
been made in either the September
or October issue of 'The Indiana
Teacher" official association journal.
They attribute the alleged slight
to the editorship Of Donald Du
Shane, Columbus, who was a con-
tender for the State superin-
tendency.
Gauntlet Down on Regime
G. o. williams, association secre-
tary, attributed the omission to the
appointment not having been made
when material for the publications
was prepared.
An effort to incorporate the as
sociation and change the official
system also is being discussed.
Administration foes assert that
the Teachers Federation plays toe
large part in the present associa-
ton. District meetings, alleged to
be Federation controlled, now eject
association executive committee
members.
In any event the administration
proposes to fling the gauntlet down
on this score and back Mrs. Anna
Sherwood, Terre Haute, retiring
Federation president, for president
| of the association