The Indianapolis times., 1927-10-19
CITY IS HOST
TO THOUSANDS
OF TEACHERS
Throngs Will ArrivJ Today
for Dinners Tonight, Con-
vention Thursday.
OLD RECORDS TO FALL
Advance Enrolment is Far
Ahead of Any Previous
Year, Says Official.

indianapolis is shining up figu-
ative red apples today to be pre-
sented to Miss Indiana Teacher from
Evansville, East Chicago, and all
points between, when the seventy
fourth annual Indiana State Teach
ers' Association convention opens
here Thursday at 10 a. m.
Practically every available audi
torium in the city will be crowded
by sectional meetings to be attended
by $4,000 Miss Indiana Teachers.
Miss Anna Sherwood of Terre
Haute, Vigo County township school
teacher, and retiring president Of
the State Teachers Federation, ap-
pears likely to be unopposed for
State Association president. Elec-
ton of officers will start Thursday
at 4 p. m. at Cadle Tabernacle.
"Split" Plan to Fail
Resolutions are expected to be in
troduced to split the State con-
vention held here annually into
small annual district meetings. In
diana cities desiring to obtain
these meetings have kept their
teachers from attending the State
meet, however, and the resolutions
are without sufficient voting
strength to carry, association off,
GERS believe.
II telieve 1t would be a foolish
move to split the State convention
into small groups" said r. E. Eckert
of Jasper, Dubois County school
superintendent, permanent treaann
urer the superintendent StS
Association and resolutions commiv
tee chairman.
"The advantages of attending a
convention of this character cannot
be compared with those of a small
district meeting attended by repre-
sentatives of a few surrounding
counties" he said.
Seen as Commercial Move
Chamber Of Commerce officials
are Interested in keeping the con-
vention for indianapolis.
Williams blamed the move for
small meetings on commercial con-
siderations on the part OF other
cities In the State"
The Chamber of Commerce con-
vention bureau has appealed to In
dianapolis citizens to volunteer
rooms, because hotel accommoda-
tions will be woefully inadequate.
A housing bureau" will be estab-
lished today in the Claypool. to pro-
vide contact for teachers in search
OF rooms and persons volunteering
rooms.
"The advance enrolment for this
years convention is the largest in
the history of the association"
Charles o. Williams, secretary, said.
Last year more than $4,000 attended.
Four dinners preceding the con-
vention will be held tonight at local
hotels; ninety-two county school
superintendent and attendance off,
GERS in the Lincoln; Indiana Par
ent-Teacher Association, at the
SEVERN, and the Indiana School
mems Club and Indiana School
Women's Club, at the Claypool.
Among speakers at the general
sessions are Will Durant, author Of
"The Story of Philosophy" DR..
Thomas H. Briggs of Columbia Uni
versity, and Glenn Frank, Wisconsin
University president.
Divided Into "a Sections
The entire convention is divided
into thirty-four sections. At least
twenty-eight auditoriums will be
used for meetings of the sections.
Inability to obtain an auditorium
in the city capable of holding all the
$4,000 teachers forced breaking the
general sessions into two groups,
part of which will meet at Cadle
Tabernacle and part at I. o. o. F.
hall.
The first general session will be
held Thursday night at Cadle Tab
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