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1HE BEE: OMAHA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4. 1920.
Break in Ranks
Of State Teachers
Looms as Certain
President of Association in
Opening Annual Address
Sees Little Chanee to Pre
vent SpliL
"The Nebraska Teachers' associa
tion mifct cnlit ititn scftinn this
jear and submit to a plan for sec
tional annual meetings or certain
geographical groups of the associa
tion will revolt and hold independ
ent sessions."
This was the ultimatum declared
yesterday at the opening of the 54th
annual session of the Nebratka State
teachers' association by A. J. Stod
dard of Beatrice, president of the
association.
To accomplish this purpose Stod
dard declared that an attempt would
be made at 9 Friday morning at the
Auditorium to abrogate the present
constitution of the association.
"If the motion passes this tempor-
which has been organized for 54
years," Stoddard said.
"Then, in the event of the passage
of the resolutions, those favoring
sectional meetings, establishment o:
a full time secretary and other
features of the association will pro
pose the adoption of aHnew consti
tution." he said.
If the new constitution is adopted
there will be from three to four an
nual sessions of sectional groups of
the Nebraska State Teachers' as
sociation in as many towns and
cities in Nebraska.
Expect Warm Fight.
"There will be an Omaha meet
ing, of course," said Stoddard, "but
it will be a sectional meeting with
teachers here from the section al
. lotted to Omaha."
This plan which the factions from
Lincoln, Hastings and Alliance are
supnosed to be behind is a fore
runner of a warm fight on the floor
of the Auditorium Friday morning.
A fight somewhat similar last
year resulted jn sending a referen
dum to the teachers of Nebraska and
the vote cast was against a split in
the convention. This year the de
feated Licolnites and others have
bobbed up with a plan to kill the
present constitution on the floor of
the convention and to instantly
adopt another with features in it
favoring the plans for sectional
meetings.
Omaha teachers and thousands
favoring the biggest city in the state
as the meeting place for all teachers
with a concentration of talent mean
ing a better educational program for
the teachers are ready to fight for the
retaining of the convention this year,
the same as they did last year.
"Bound to Come."
Stoddard insisted yesterday that di
viding the meetings among various
towns would not decrease the at
tendance at the Omaha sectional
meeting.
"At present the teachers coming to
the convention are here from a
limited area right around Omaha and
this necessarily cuts down our
strength and prestige in the legisla
tive body and in a general educa
tional line," Stoddard declared.
"Every state is fighting for sectional
meetings and it is bound to come
sooner or later."' ,
"Topeka, Kan., the site of a cen
ti al teachers' meeting for years, final
ly was forced to give in to sectional
meetings. The convention held
t'.iere last week, a sectional conven
tion, was the most heavily attended
in years, I understand.
"Until we can get teachers from
every section of the Nebraska saf
filiated with the association and in
terested in meetings held some
where near their homes we cannot
hive-a full strength association to
which Nebraska teachers are en
titled." Denies Teachers "Kicked."
Continuing Stoddard claimed that
revolution in the ranks was avert
ed by officers oi the association this
year on a promise to get some legis
lation through the annual session
providing for stctional meetings.
: "They planned this year to have
independent meetings at Hastings
and Lincoln," lie said.
Stoddard denied reports that there
were "kicks without numbers" by
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Big Sale Saturday
of Fine Blankets
and Comforters
Union Outfitting Co.
Variety of Beautiful Pat
terns in Assorted Colors
and Fancy Borders.
Secured by Special Pur
chase and Placed on Sale
at About Half Price.
The doors of this big store will
swing open next Saturday to one
of the most sensational price re
daction sales held in Omaha for
many a month. Blankets of the
finest qualities and materials
will be offered to the public at
about Half Price.
In announcing this event, the
Union Outfitting Co. wishes to
state specifically that the ex
treme cut in prices is made pos
sible by their immense purchase
from a large eastern manufac
turer, burdened with a large sur
plus stock of blankets.
This big money-saving sale is
further evidence of the Great
Buying Power of the Union Out
fitting Co., located outside of
the High Rent District. As al
ways, you make your own terms.
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tliey were asked to pay an additional
ft) cents to pay for the increase n
railroad fares and hotel accomoda
tions to speakers brought to the
state association from 15 states.
"I don't know of any," he said,
"and if there were complaints they
were from Omaha teachers, who pay
less for the enjoyment of the pro
gram than any other teachers in the
ttate."
Stoddard also denied reports that
there had been no executive meetings
this year.
"We have held two, all the con
stitution provides for, and one in ad
dition, and we paid our own ex
penses for the additional meeting,"
he declared.
Stoddard declared it was im
perative to increase membership and
power of the educational association
ir. order to get much needed educa
tional reforms written into the Ne
braika statute books.
Need More Teachers.
"We failed in getting any legisla
tion through at the last general ses
sion for that reason," he said. "We
need an official publication and a
secretary on the job all the time in
order to get the county unit plan of
employing teachers, the election of
higher grade state superintendents
and other reforms adopted by the
lawmakers."
"The lack of power of teachers
and salary inducements has placed
the enrollment of normal schools
this year 40 per cent below normal,"
he said. "We are not getting the
teachers we should for our schools
as a result."
The Hotel Fontenelle, head-1
quarters for the session, was ,
filled with teachers registering. At
noon today registration totalled
2,000 and it was estimated by noon
tomorrow it would amount to 5,000
one-third of the total number of
teachers in Nebraska.
' The Superintendents' 'and Princi
pals' association held the first ses
sion yesterday at Masonic temple.
"Each year from $1 to $2 per
capita should be spent in increasing
the high school libraries," Leon A.
Smith, assistant superintendent of
the Omaha schools, declared in a
paper on "The High School Li
brary." About Paper Handkerchiefs. .
"Teachers should teach children
there should be as much fruit on the
tables of their homes as in pictures
on the' walls," Frederick W.
Maroney, state director of physical
training in New Jersev, declared in
an address on "The Supervision of
Health Edu:ation."
"We should spend as much time
in studying the needs of the body as
in Misdymg its functions," he con
tinued. "Handkerchiefs used in schools
should lie the same as towels used
in public wash rooms, paper hand
kerchiefs to be used and burned up
after using."
These addresses were followed
by papers on "SMndard Tests of a
Jleai Mo.'i3u:e of School Efficiency,"
by Wayne W. Curtman, assistant
superintendent of schools at Lin
coln, and "The Professional High
School Principal," by Prof. Thomas
H. Briggs, Columbia university.
Urges-Dormitories. ,
If Nebraska is generous enough to
aopropriate $150,000 to give hogs at
the state fair a good shelter, it
should be willing to appropriate $1,
000,000 for dormitories at the four
principal normal schools in the
state. Such was the opinion ex
pressed by D. B. Waldo, president
of the Western State Normal
school at Kalamazoo, Mich., at the
meeting of the superintendents' and
principals' association. The sub
ject of his address was "The Reme-
DR. LEE W. EDWARDS
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Reduced from $15 sizes 8 to 18 years
40 Girls' Silk and Serge
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Reduced from $16.50, sizes 7 to 14 years
$35 Girls' Handsome
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dies for Teacher Shortage in Ne
braska." Suitable appropriations, better sal
aries, a strong state teachers' or
ganization to stimulate interest in
the profession and more scholarships
were remedies submitted by the
Michigan man.
His address was followed by 10
minute talks on "Concrete Methods
of Supervision," by Supt. A. L.
Caviness pi Kearney, M. C. I.ef'er
of Lincoln and Supt. J. II. Bever
idge of Omaha.
Lee L. Driver, director of the
Bureau of Rural Education of Penn
sylvania, delivered an illustrated
lecture on "The Rural School of To
morrow." Good roads, he declared,
would make the rural school become
a thing of joy and a place accessible
all times of the year thesame as city
schools at the present time.
Pitctires of modern rural schools
with playgrounds and other im
provements inaugurated in recent
years were shown to the teachers.
Election of officers closed the
meeting. A. W. Graham, superin
tendent of schools at York, was
elected president of the association,
and Jeanette Nelson, superintendent
of schools of Lancaster county, was
elected secretary.
Minimum Salary Movement.
"A minimum salary of $1,200 a year
for all teachers in the United States
is a requisite of the bigger plan )f
education now sweeping forward in
various states and in the whole
country," said Will C. Wood, super
intendent of schools of California,
speaking yesterday afternoon at the
county superintendents' conference
of the Nebraska State Teachers' as
sociation convention.
"The people of California yester
day voted on a constitutional amend
ment under which the state will have
to supply $30 per pupil in all its
schools and each county will have to
supply an additional $30 per pupil in
grade schools and 160 per pupil in
high schools per annum. This will
raise more than enough money to
provide a minimum salary of
$1,200 a year for teachers.
"Eventually the national govern
ment must supply certain prtLii
of the money for school teachers in
order that educational advantages
may be equalized throughout the
land.
"In some parts of South Carolina
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today they pay teachers salaries of
$284 a year. In some counties of
California the people are so poor in
property and rich in children that
those children wouldn't get much
education if the state didn't help "
Mr. Wood asserted married
women make ths best teachers.
"In my opinion." he said, "a mar
ried woman who has brought up
two, three or four children, and
then returns to teaching, is the best
teacher."
Spain has opened an aviation
school near Madrid in which the
government aids those receiving in
struction.
Mrs. Jefferis Pleased
With Vote in Omaha
Washington, Nov. 3 (Special
Telegram.) Mrs. A. W. (Jetferis,
wife of Congressman Jefferis, who
has been in Washington for several
weeks, was overjoyed this morning
to receive a telegram from the con
gressman statins' that he had been
re-elected by 10,000 majority.
"This is the most welcome news
I have hail in a long time," Mrs.
Jefferis said, "and bears out my pre
diction before I left Omaha that the
victory would be biff, but I did not
expect it to reach the figures given
in my husband's telegram."
Mrs. Jefferis i accompanied by
her daughter, Mi Janet Jefferis,
who has been placed in Miss Ma
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and arranged as a rest and tea room for you to use
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Round Oak Ranges
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Prices constitute a splendid value.
27x54 12.25 8-3x10-6 $110
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