The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-10-18
TEACHERS SPLIT
over GATHERING
PLACE IN STATE
Politics Seen for Meeting
Thursday; $4,000
Due Here.

Politics aplenty will be rampant
when $4,000 teachers gather here
Thursday for the seventy-fourth an
nual session of the Indiana State
Teachers Association.
Groups are busy preparing an at
tack on the present administration,
which has survived many similar
battles in the past. South Bend
will be present with a new consti-
tuition, which would make the big
meeting in Indianapolis mere
delegate affair and substitute dis
trict meetings instead, according to
c. o. Williams, association secre-
tary.
Business Getters Join
South Bend, Evansville and Ft.
Wayne have backed district meet
igs, the local Chambers of Com
merce and other commercial bodies
feeling that they bring trade to the
city.
South Bend held its meeting last
week and will not excuse teachers
to attend the Indianapolis gather
irgs, Williams said. Ft. Wayne and
Evansville have scheduled district
meetings for the same time that
the State event is being held. These
meetings attract about 1000 teach
ers each. Williams has been as
sured that 321 teachers will prefer
ably attend the indianapolis meet
ing from Ft. Wayne. The county
superintendents have advised teach
ers to take their choice.
Despite these events, we expect
to have $4,000 out Of membership
of 10000 techers present" Williams
declared. l..
Fight Secretary
Williams himself may be under
fire when the convention assemblies.
It is asserted by certain factions
that motion was passed by the
convention last year requiring the
financial statement of the organiza-
ton TO be published in the conven-
ton number of 1.-THE Indiana
Teacher" 1t does not appear there
and Williams declared today that
no such motion was passed. It is
said to have been introduced by
T. j. Fitzgibbons Of Muncie, who
was killed en- route to Muncie dur
ing the convention last year.
Friends of Roy P. Wisehart, State
superintendent of public instruction,
feel that he has been treated un-
fairly and this may also be taken
up at the general sessions. No ac-
count of his appointment appears
in either the September or October
numbers of 1.-THE Indiana Teacher"
official organization publication. He
was appointed Sept. 1. They at
tribute this omission to the editor
ship of Donald Du Shane, Column
bus, who was a contender for the
State post.
Williams explains the absence of
mention of Wisehart's appointment
in the October convention number
on the grounds that it had not
been contaminated when the ma
terial was prepared. Wisehart Incl
dentally is mentioned in an edi-
torial in the issue, however, and his
friends are irate at Williams ex-
PLANTATION.
Would Re0rganize
An amendment to the constitu-
ton of the association, proposed
last year, will be voted on at this
weeks session, and this is also the
focal point of considerable ccntro-
versy.- It would abolish the present
administration system Of officers
and executive committee and SUBJ
stitute a board of directors of five
and have the organization incor-
porated.
Administration enemies assert
that the Teachers Federation plays
too large part in present organi-
zation plan. The executive COM
mittee members are chosen at dis
trict meetings, and it is alleged
that these are often federation con-
trOlled