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Wednesday was quiet. In proof that they were feeling educationally progressive as well as politically liberal, the delegates elected as their president Superintendent Archie Loyd Threlkeld of Denver. Dr Threlkeld's was the first public school system in the U. S. to adopt progressive methods of education on a city-wide scale. Thursday was the last day and the delegates found a new villain in Governor Landon of Kansas. While the convention drew the line at officially baiting the leading Republican candidate for President, many of the delegates got together to send him a telegram:
"It is commonly reported in this great gathering of many groups of American educators that you have helped balance your budget in Kansas by reducing funds for education and human relief. . . ."
As the superintendents closed their convention and turned homeward, many of them troubled by the prospect of explaining .their new-found liberalism to stern school boards, they treasured a little jingle composed during the convention by old William Andrew McAndrew :
My board is bored
And so am I.
I'd like to kiss
My board goodbye.