The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1872-04-04

AHE 0SHOOls fund AFfOHIlON'
MENT.-The following letter. which
should have been published last week
explains itself
Mr.. EDITOR The object of this
communication IL to correct few er.
rors, doubtless undesigned,) which
appeared In an editorial of your last
issue. The reports of all. the secreta-
ries In the county were received by
me except the report from Fairfield.
They were behind in point of time.
but asked for aud received permits.
sion to hold my report till the latest
posstble moment when not receiving
the report due from Fairfield, l in.
serted the number reported the year
bofl,rc, and forwarded 70 Des Mofnes
The persons Of school age reported
for 1870 WAS ,45l; the number for 1871,
,9O3 SO you can see at Il glance that
had made the report a. stated in
your article, Cedar county would have
been the gamer instead Of loser there.
fore the $4,000 which would
have been saved BY stirring up the
secretaries vanishes like the baseless
fabric Of dream. Respectfully,
A. b. OAKLEY.
Most certainly If any errors occurred
in our remarks, referred to by Mr..
Oakley, they were undersigned. a also
was any direct or implied censure Of
the County Superintendent. We
thought, as We said, that the township
aud district secretaries were In fault
and that the presentation of the mat
ter in that light would show that
among the duties of the County Super
intehdrht We're some Of real import
ance, contrary 10 the somewhat gen
eral belief. And now since Mr.. @. has
called our attention particularly TO his
reports, we have looked the matter up
carefully, and are constrained to say
that We see no error Whatever In our
former statement, uis. in Substance,
that the report for 1871 was incorrect,
aud that the county loses money from
It's apportionment on that account II
figures do not lie we could prove this
from that document
itself; but lacking time aud space, will
only appeal 10 anyone's common
sense to ask ii it can be deemed posi-
BILE that Cedar county, with precisely
the same population as Jones, can
have one thousand, one hundred and
nincty-three less children Of school
age than the latter, or that Cedar
county had one hundred and seventy
one less youth of such age in 1871 than
in 1869. both Of which improbable con.
ditions are made to appear by the re.
port alluded to. The following are
part OF the Remarks" appended by
Mr.. Oakley himself to his report for
1871: Il had thought to send you q
report perfect in all its parts as sta
istical exhibit Of educational matters
y this county. The result il before
1on In the worst shape possible. = =
Iut could Ihdue gathered the figures l
would have given them to you in good
shape, accurately footed up"
Our County Superintendent have
u tunes past been compelled to do
else to make living, and
II course Official business has come in
NJ secondary matter. No one can
blame them for this under such cir.
but We have held and do
'hink that the Office, II worth sustain
ng at all, should be Of sufficient i'm.
portance to pay q good man for giving
MS whole time and attention, and that
sufficient duties may well be attached
% 1t to occupy such time and care
'ully.