The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-23
LOGANSPORT
WOMAN new
TEACHER HEAD
Miss Clara Rathfon Wins
Presidential Election at
General Session.
ASSUMES POST JAN. |
Paul Van Ripper, Lebanon,
Given High Post in
State ORGANIZATION.

Miss Clara Rathfon of Logansporr
was elected president of the Indiana
State Teachers Association at a
general meeting held at Cadle tab
ernacle today.
Miss Rathfon has been active in
association work for many years
She has been interested particularly
in advanced educational legislation
Other officers elected were Paul
Van Ripper of Lebanon, vice-presi-
dent, and Miss Rose Boggs of Rich
mond and R. E. Eckert of Dubois
county, members of the executive
committee at large.
Officers elected today will take up
their duties Jan. l, 1882.
Adopted by Association
Elections were made through a
resolution introduced by the cleo
tions committee which was adopted
unanimously by the association.
Chairman of the committee is FL
bert E. Day of Marion.
The resolutions committees re-
port was adopted unanimously. One
of the resolutions favored the
eighteenth amendment and all kim
dred laws. 1t also asked for rigid
enforcement.
Donald Dushane, chairman of
the legislative committee, said that
teachers should be particularly in
tereSted in the next session of the
state legislature. ct will be highly
important to all of U.s." he said.
"The teachers tenure Jaw has been
abused in any number of counties.
The legislature must put teeth into
this measure"
Motion of C. E. Chapman, Frank
fort, to gain the conventions sane
ton of action taken by the First,
Third and Fourth districts in nam
ing new executive committee men,
bers was voted down.
Amendments Are SheIved
The three districts acted Thurs
day night on the assumption that
because of change in district lines,
causing realignment of membership,
they were left without committee
representation.
-Four constitutional amendments
introduced at last years convention
were not voted on at the convention
today because of technicalities in
their introduction.
They would have changed the
term of Charles o. Williams, eXecu-
tive secretary, from a permanent
basis to a four-year term, provid-
ed for absentee balloting, secret
balloting, and for Incorporating the
Indiana Teacher magazine.
New amendments proposed by
Miss j. Harriet Mcclellan, Muncie,
would provide for secret balloting,
absentee balloting and would do
away with the nominating commit
tee, permitting any fifty associa-
ton members to nominate candi-
dates for executive Office.
Gandhi, Topic Tonight
Two general sessions are sched-
uled for this afternoon, one at
Cadle tabernacle and the other at
the Murat theater. The Roxy male
quartet, New York, will sing at both
sessions.
Judge Florence E. Allen, Ohio SUI
preme court, and Cameron Beck,
New York Stock Exchange person.
mel director, will speak at the taber-
nacle session, while speakers at the
theater will be Gordon j. Laing and
William E. Dodd, University of Chi
cago. and DR.. James E. Rogers, Ma
tional Physical Education Service
director.
One of the feature addresses of
the convention will be given at the
final session tonight in Cadle tab
ernacle by Bishop Frederick B.
Fisher, Ann Arbor, Mich, speaking
on "Mahatma Gandhi." The In
dianapolis Symphony orchestra, di-
rected by Ferdinand Schaefer, will
play.
Terms MuSsOIini Actor
Career of Mussolini well may
serve as warning to the people of
democracies, Tom Skeyhill, noted
Australian poet and student of
world affairs, declared in his adj
dress at the general session Thurs
day night.
Although Mussolini saved Italy,
and probably most of Europe, from
Bolshevism, when he went into Of
flee as premier, democracy went out,
he said.
Milo H. Stuart, assistant Indian
apolis school superintendent, as
ing and gave his inaugural address.
He succeeded Miss Matte B. Fry,
Anderson.