The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1873-01-30
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A""Tes8 0'E Communications for ts,s coI..asa
10 the Editor Of she EIwcssss.-
az KenoshG. W3scossisa.

The following communication froo,
Q. |. S., is very clear exposition of tn.
falIacy of a system of economy n, too
commonly practised. ~
EDITOR EDUCATIONAL So the "Ceuu.
y Board" propose hereafter to paw for
only $500 worth of County superintend-
ent oT'asns. Did it never occur to YOU
that the American people are proverbi.
ally pa1simonlous, that their A.iao;o...
VIII result In national cal .mity? Thew.
the people, not only fiad fault with Tn.
law that gives them County Suner;n.
tenoent, and with it uniformity oe
system, better class of teachers and
higher grade of efficiency, but thew
desire t take step backward to tho
Town Superintendency, and then Let
it To the lowest bidder as they dc the
Coliectorship. am not SO old but what
Ireme"ber those days, when the highs
ess u"l fcation of teacher was to make
q good quill pen. And in his se,ni-
occasional visits to tae School the
superInrend 7nt would spend the after.
noon noon in frequent short maps, while his
open mouth made a fine target for tha
paper .wads Of the Freshman class"
One oil. the curses of our law is, that it
does not make provision to encourage
the best class of talent and manhood to
become otficeholders Professional men
can make more out of office than in il.
ana they by their education are just the
"nes qualified for Office, and to them II
| should be given. Hence there are a
Glass of adventures, greedy sharks.
icprmorants. who wiring into Office, men
without qualification and principle, and
by their pluudering and stealing and
playing into each others hands manage
to get rich, while the poor tao pavey
cries TetT8nchn'ent, economy, and never
looks far enough into the political ms-
chine to see where the friction is.
f Ohe justly remarked, 'fet nae write the
song of 4. nation ard I'll shape its des.
tiny" Equally true and more certainly. r
the educational advantages of people
tgive character to q nation,-Greece
lives to day, and whys Her empire i
was not large, or her people greater in
numbers than others, but she spoke words
Eofswlsdom that have echoed down through
the chambers of time and buried in the
hearts OF men, and will as long as men
and nations value and treasure eternal
truth.-"Three months" will do the work
If County Superintendent, and $500 to be
the salary. How is it that poor igno-
rant preacher who never spent seventy.
I five cents TO go beyond the English read
er ; thinks 104 of his eza5orcts sermons.
delivered in SO sundays, just two months,
Is worth $500, and house rent and gar
den and psrqulsites thrown inv And the
Superintendent must at least have q GOOD
Common School education, sperd three.
months in the winter and three in the
summer in actual labor, visiting schools
examining teachers, attending Institutes,
lifting himself in theory and in practice
for the pittsnce that low lived break
man on freight tram gets. There are
some things in the School System that I
would have changed, but the one pro
posed is the best one I would suggest.
To make that brancha success requires
undivided attention No one could ac.
cept it for that salary without some 9TH
er source of revenue, and he who heats ]
two irons at once, is very apt to Let one
burn. -, ~, 49, s.- (. .r5f Is f1h
+ G.. s.,