The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1857-01-17

and dispense more crstatn beaefit 10 the
community. than under any Other. A
population Of 10000 would scarcely fsel
the pressure Of the annual % 900 tax for
SIX yeats, and Of the 81 .O0O tax annual
y thereafter. 10 found aud sustain high
Academic or Polyt chnic school, while
the value OF Inc educa,ed mind. which
would be annually reared into a higher
style Of life and action would transcend
all powers Of estimate, either a. regards
itself. or the pecuaiary benefit il lnlght
confer upon the public.
For the State University they have
made no provision hey md what the law
now gives, with the exception Of rrovi-
ding ior the ..ormal Department on, Of
the common school fund, wincn they have
regarded as obviously just, thai depart.
men, belonging in fact to the common
school system. and standing a, the head
of il.
Tire commissioners have made four
fold division Of the organizing forces EN-.
braced in their system. They have or
ganizrd the dis,rlc,, u e c. unity, the State.
aud iir special organizations Of the high,
Academic, OF Polytechnic School, aud
State Imvcrslty.
the district organizations has in II,
Aothlng peculiar. The manner OF crea-
ting the district board OF directors. as also
the time for which il is created. are taken
from the con mon school system OF OHIO,
while The general duties confiJed 10 it
are similarts those devolved upon dis,ric,
trustees in several States Of the Union.
|, 10 designed to b. merely local. and TO
embrace all those local objects and ex.
penses which are ordinarily matters Of
district cognizance.
Your commissioners, however, feel
found to say that they have presented
this organization SIMPLY in reference to
the existing state OF things. Their own
settled convictions are, that the VIII 10
district system, as stated in the bill.
Should be promptly discontinued, and
that of making each civil township dis.
tric,, substituted in is place. The fol-
lowing are SONS of the reasons which
have led 10 this conviction.
|. |, facilitates and gre~tIy simpiiies
the organization OF districts.
2. II gives much fewer occasions Tor
controversies relative to The boundaries
3. II greatly reduces the number oil
district boards OF directors, and conse
qurntly limits the expenses attending
these boards.
4. Ii dimInishes very much The num-
her Of presidents Of these boards, and
thus renders the annual meetings OF the
ceunly board OF examiners aud presi-
denis of the dstr,c; boards far less nu-
nrrous Ia attendance. better calculated
sor business purposes, aud less expen-
sive.
D. Ii renders the position OF The presi-
deut OF the board more honorable, axes
1t a higher marx Of DISTINCTION, gi,es a
larger scope for a choice, aud will tend
TO secure tor II higher grade Of talent
and attainment.
8. II equaiizes amonga large commu-
nhy the burden imposed IN the erection
re airs, and outfit ut school houses Of
ters much greater facilities aud induce
ments 10 establish dts,rIc, libraries, and
10 sustain and increase them.
z. II tends to more equal paricipa-
ton IN the benefit of the common school
fund.
). 1t annihila,es, and forever, the pos
sib'lny OF cutting up population into
SMALL DISTRICTS, TO which the dIslriC,
system so frequently led.
3. 1t gives 10 eacn family IN the dis
tric, the ch7tce OF schools to which 10 send
and sometimes OF districts, after the To-
cation Of school houses is decided upon
10. IL leads to The creation OF more
compodious school houses, with larger
accommodations and means of instruc.
ttun.
IL. 1t tends 20 secure the services If
more accomplished teachers, tgt. ar11-1l-
uiodanens being better, aad the cuorca ol
schools furnishing the strongest motives
To keep them in the best mapner.
II. IL offers taciiiles for classifying
those OF different ayes aud attainmeuts,
and OF OF employing different grades OF
teachers IN their instruction.
NJ fully convinced are your commits
~ioarrs oi The wiser policy of instt,uung
tht township Ia tie place Of the 6istf CT.
aud ihns avoiding the small dist ret or
ganzatlon, that they herewith present to
your honorable body an act based upon
the township system. IN whi3h they have
stated al large all the provisions peculiar
to tina. system, and gwen such directions
as vii lead TO its easy adoption II desir-
able.
In regard TO county organizations,
your commissioners have conferred IN one
individual, the county superintendent.
subject to some slight notifications BY
me superintendent OF public instruction,
all the actual power exercised for school
purposes, over the whole county. III.
aaltes the financial and vlsdorial power,
and stands intermediate between the
state aud district organ cations.
The commissioners have devolyed up-
on the county superintendent III" duty OF
attending to all the school lands IN his
county, as we'll the sixteenth sections in
Zach township, as such portions of the
live hundred thousand acres AS nav be
located within Is limits. These officers
are lar better situated to attend TO the
school lands within their own conntips
than the superintendent, Of puclic lnstruc-
t'on. BY thus dividing the RESPONSE Ill
ty among tue various county superln en-
dents, and placing IL upon those favora-
Div situated fer undertaLin,y !, H. -,