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[[preprinted]] TELEPHONE, MONROE 825
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1437 WEST OHIO STREET
CHICAGO [[/preprinted]]

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ten to one, but all the important amendments were carried ten to one. The Nominating committee refused to present Miss Strachan's name and named instead Mr. A. E. Fairchild Superintendent of Public Schools of Kansas, a very able and fine man. Miss Blake thereupon presented Miss Strachan's name from the floor of the convention, which was all right, but then one of Miss Strachan's other backers made the following happy reference, "People who live in Chicago and other small western towns are probably not aware of the life in a metropolitan city like New York, or the life of a woman from such a metropolitan city like Miss Strachan. She is accustomed to meeting governors, senators, mayors of cities and other officials, and it was therefore nothing but a part of her every day life to call upon Mayor Harrison. Doubtless such courtesies among leading men and women of the nation are unknown to the small towns of the west." At this the convention broke out into such Ha-Has that the president could scarcely bring it to order. When Miss Strachan spoke for herself she referred to her personal friendship with one of the representatives of one of the book companies as "one of the two men who was ever allowed to call her Grace" This too is doubtless an expression of a "metropolitan" woman, although it did not seem to convey anything very distinguishing to the poor western little folks who were listening. After the defeat of Miss Strachan, she and her followers spent the next few days telling everybody that they were going to form a New York National Education Association by the formation of a separate eastern teachers' organization, and all of us who were