Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1917 — ASK AID OF THE SCHOOL TEACHERS [ARTICLE]

ASK AID OF THE SCHOOL TEACHERS

Governor Goodrich Asks For a Conference of Indiana Educators At the State House. C. R. Dean, superintendent of the public schools of this city, is in receipt of the following letter from the state superintendent of public instruction, Horace Ellis, concerning the recent proclamation of Governor Goodrich: “To Our Indiana Teachers:

“Through public proclamation Governor James P. Goodrich has summoned, for enlistment in our national defense, all the educational forces of Indiana. Instant response -Co every honarabel appeal made to them in the past by the state or national authority have .been made by Indiana educators. This order of our goveomor shall likewise 'be obeyed with alacrity. “As state superintendent of public instruction, for Indiana, I (hereby invite you to attend an educational conference to be held at 10 o’clock a. nu, Saturday, May 5, in the chamber of the house of representatives in the state capitol at Indianapolis, for the .purpose of mobilizing the educational forces of the state for state and national defense. HORACE ELLIS, Supt. Public Instruction. PROCLAMATION. _ All .the resources of the State and Nation are being rapidly mobilized for the national defense. The voluntary service of everyone in some capacity in this national crisis is a plain and patriotic duty. Now, therefore, I, James P. Goodrich, Governor of Indiana, appreciating the great service which can be rendered to our nation by the schools of Indiana, do hereby, in co-operation with State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Dr. Horace Ellas, call thq presidents of universities, colleges and normal schools, the county and city superintendents, the heads of public,-pawvate and parochial schools for an educational conference, to be held at 10 o'clock on Saturday, May sth, in the chamber of the House of Representatives fin the Capital for the purpose of planning ways and means for the mobilization of the educational forces of the state which will provide for aN an opportunity of enlisting in this paramount service to out State and Nation. In witness whereof, I have hereunto sot my hand and caused to be affixed the Seal of the State, at the Capitol, I nthe City of IndlanapoMs, this 27th day of April, 1917. J. P. GOODRICH, Governor. Bd Jackson, Sec. of State.