The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-19
TAX PROBLEM
IS MAIN TOPIC
FOR TEACHERS
Plea for State Action to Aid
Schools viii Be Made at
Annual ConCIaVe.
OPENS ON THURSDAY,
Attendance Is Expected to
Be Far Below That of
Past Years.

Taxation problems affecting the
schools, viii be the principal theme
of the seventy-ninth annual con-
vention of the Indiana State Teach
ers' Association, which opens here
Thursday.
Preliminary estimates place prob
able attendance at 10000 or 10000
public school teachers, several thou
sand below the usual attendance.
This attendance drop is attrib-
uted to- reduced salaries, and, in
some instances, no salaries, so that
many teachers are unable to meet
expense of a trip to indianapolis.
Legislative committee of the aSSo-
citation is expected to be author
lied to go before the legislature in
January, 1888, and demand laws to
provide funds to supplement those
receivable under the $3.50 maximum
tax levy law, and allow uncurtailed
operation OF schools.
Seek More Funds
Income, sales and luxury taxes
are expected to be sought, with a
demand that $4,000, 900 of gasoline
tax funds be appropriated at once
to prevent schools in many cities
from shortening terms as result of
the $3.50 maximum law.
School teachers have stayed out ,
Of politics, and as a result schools
have had to stand the brunt of tax
reduction" said Charles o. Will
liams, association secretary-treas-
urer.
Membership in the association il
expected to be increased to nearly
$4,000 this year as result of the tax
fight, he said.
The convention will open with
forty-one sectional meetings Thurs
day morning and afternoon.
First general session will be held
at Cadle tabernacle Thursday night.
when Miss Clara Rathfon, Logan
sport, association president, will give
her inaugural address.
The session will be presided over
by Milo H. Stuart, Indianapolis
school, assistant superintendent, and
retiring association president.
Principal speaker at the session
will be DR.. Daniel A. Polling, New
York City, nationally known prohi-
bition advocate, who will speak on
What Age Owes Youth"
Business Session Friday
Friday will be devoted to general
sessions, with one in the morning.
two in the afternoon, and a fourth
at, night.
The business session will open
Friday morning at 9 in Cadle ia
bernacle. Annual election of off,
GERS, action on resolutions and leg
iSlative committee reports, and ball
loting on constitutional amend
ment are on the program.
!. The amendment would provide for
nomination of officers by petition
a month before the convention.
Voting would be by printed ballots,
enabling Stay-at-home members to
vote.
Ray Lyman Wilbur, secretary OF
the interior, will be principal speak
er at the tabernacle session Friday
afternoon. Senator Arthur R. Rob-
inson also will speak on his foreign
travels.
The second session at the Murat
theater will be addressed by Thomas
Alexander, Columbia university. and
Francis Kirkham of the national
Child Welfare Association.
viii Name Committee
what Japan Is Thinking" will
be the topic of Allen D. Albert,
executive secretary of the Chicago
worlds fair, at the general meet
ing Friday night. DR.. Charles A,
Beard, New MILFORD, Conn, also
will speak on Education in Our
Neurological Age
The delegates are expected to
receive an invitation to hold the
1888 convention in Chicago. during
the last month of the worlds fair.
1t is understood the invitation will
include offer Of substantial sum
to finance the /conclave.
Teachers will meet by congress
sicnal districts at 4 Thursday in
Cadle tabernacle, to elect executive
committee members from the First,
Second, Third, Fourth and Fifth
districts, to select president
and nominating committee member,
and to nominate delegate to the
N. E. A. for each district.