The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-21
$1,000 STATE
TEACHERS TO
THRONG CITY
Schools Close and Pupils
Watch Instructors Go
to Own Classes.
CITY HOTELS TANNED
Convention Will Start on
Thursday, With Over
40 Meetings.

Fifteen thousand Hoosier school,
teachers today were preparing tc
begin their annual trek to the state
capital TO attend the seventy
eighth annual Indiana State
Teachers Association convention
Thursday and Friday.
Schools throughout the state
closed their doors this afternoon
until Monday to permit the
teachers to attend the convention,
giving pupils four-day vacation.
while their instructors themselves
go to school
Hotel rooms we're filled to ca
pacity by advance registrations and
thousands of teachers will be forced
to take rooms in private homes.
Assignment of rooms in private
homes is being made by the Irdi-
annapolis convention bureau, from
booth on the mezzanine floor Of
the Claypool.
Full Program Arranged
A full program for the two DAYS
has been arranged, leaving the
teachers little time for other mat
tiers such, as their annual shopping
expeditions.
The convention will open Thurs
day morning with the holding of
more than forty sectional meetings,
IN which all the convention visitors
will participate. These sessions will
continue in the early afternoon.
The teachers will meet at Cadle
tabernacle at 4 Thursday for as
Segment of meeting places for dis
trict sessions, when each district
will elect one vice-president, one
nominating committeeman and one
nominee for delegate to the N. E. A.
convention in 1882.
More than 160 speakers of state
and national prominence are sched-
uled during the convention, which
will be opened formally with
general session Thursday night at
Cadle tabernacle.
Stuart to Give Address
Milo H. Stuart, indianapolis, state
president, will give his inaugural
address, THE Child Himself in Our
Schools" at the session Friday night.
High point of the sessions will be
address on "Mussolini'' by Tom
Skeyhill, famous Australian poet
and student of world affairs.
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sessions.
Election of officers and report of
the resolutions committee is sched-
uled for the Friday morning bust
ness session at Cadle tabernacle.
Two general sessions will be held
Friday afternoon, one at Cadle tab
ernacle and the other at the Murat
theater.
Judge Florence E. Allen of the
Ohio supreme court and Cameron
Beck. New York Stock Exchange
personnel director, will speak at the
tabernacle session.
Dinners Scheduled
Speakers at Murat theater will be
DR.. William K. Dodd and George
j. Laing, University of Chicago, and
DR.. James E. Rogers. National Ply
steal Education Service director.
Principal address at the closing
session Friday night at Cadle tab
ernacle will be that of Bishop Fred
erick B. Fisher of Ann Arbor on
''Mahatma Gandhi."
Forty-seven dinners and reunions
of social and professional frater-
mites and sororitieS, and alumni
and other groups, are scheduled for
Thursday and Friday nights.
Several auxiliary meetings are be-
ing held, including the Indiana
Congress of Parents and Teachers
convention at the SEVERN which
opened Tuesday and will continue
through Thursday, sessions of the
County Superintendent Associa-
ton, which met today at the Lin
coin, and meeting of the Indiana
High School Athletic Association to-
night and Thursday.