The daily Argus., 1876-05-10

wife Shameful1y, sometime striking her,
and on this occasion he cut her eye and
knocked her down three times. After
hearing the evidence the Magistrate fined
him $5 and costs. in default of which he
was remanded to the calaboose and will be
put to work on the streets. Mercy is
wasted Oh a brute of this description.
A man who will willingly strike a woman,
and she lis wife, is unfit to dwell in
civilized community and should be punish
ed to the full extent of the law. This is
not the first offense by any means: he has
been cruelty treating his wife for 5 years,
sametimes. as she saws, beating her shame
fully. She has borne it in silence and
probably would have done so still had not
the neighbors interferred.
The Common School,
To the Editors OF THE ARGUS.
The dissatisfaction with the manage
ment of our schools is increasing. 1t
grows principally out of the heavy taxes
for the schools, and the manner of spend
ing the same; though there is considerable
feeling that the work done in them is
superficial and not thorough, The people
are dissatisfied with the attempt to pervert
the common school from its legiti-
ment and proper object Ia common educa-
tion) by filling it with languages, ologies
&c. Formerly it was a great and good
thing for state to have common school
fund, the income which would materially
help to support a school in every district
in the state; and the deficiency had to be.
and was made up by rate bill, every one
paying a rate in proportion to the at
tendance of his children. This manner of
supporting schools has been superseded
by universal education by universal taxa
ton. But universal taxation for that OBJ
ject is, and can be justified only on the
ground of greater safety to the state-the
community where every one has COM
mon school education, Z. e. sufficient to en-
able him 10 transact common business
And taxing all the people, rich or poor,
who have NJ school children, in the same
manner and to the same extent for school
purposes, that those are taxed who have
such children, for any other purpose, or
anything beyond a mere common shcool
educat ton is a glaring Injustice not c0ntem-
plated by the school Law, end is so near
akin to robbery that il should make any
man blush to advocate it.
Can any one claim that foreign languages
constitute any part of common school
education? That they or any one Of them
is necessary to fit one to do common
business? The people of Moline are sorely
feeling the unnecessary burden put upon
them by the expense of teaching such
languages in their schools.
And that is not all They are alive tt
the fact that our School Board made &
mistake not small one either. il
materially increasing the cost of our school.
a year ago, by increasing salaries, The
: superintendent salary and the salaries Of
: many Of the teachers were largely in
) creased; his from ST., 500 to $3.50; some
, of theirs from $55 to SIS per month
In Chicago and in many other cities
, teachers and superintendents' salarie
! were reduced last year. "a general shrinkag,
OF values, the country over, seeming t.
make it necessary. And that shrinkag,
and the consequent necessity for reduction
of taxes and expenses are greater this yea
, than last.
1t is thought by some few, possibly b.
,, some of the Board, that Moline shoul,
pay as much for experimenting her school
as Davenport her s-but to this Ey
Davenport to Moline looks 4 to !, and tn
t Isuper1ntending of Davenport's schools i
to the superinteEding of Mollne's school
e in that ratio. Davenport has, in rcun
: numbers, four times the population, fou
y times as many scholars, four times as man
schools as Moline. And while we are pay
S ing more than So per scholar for superin
e tendent's salary alone, Davenport is pay
e ing only halt a dolldrt Is there room fo
s improvement in thiSmanagement of GU
t schools2 Can this School Board max
that Improvement? Ii not, can the pee
: pie elect one that can?
n Many are asking what it is that GU
Il superintendent is paid $l.8O0 for eigl
d months time for Whether it is for tryin
s to get Swedish teachers employed, and tn
= cost of the schools thereby largely il
creased; or fer driving fine horse bac
. and forth between the school houses; G
y . tor throwing away so much of the scholars
!" time last winter on exhibitions; or fo
o his recommendations in his Report. LIE
); us examine one of them and see how
4, looks Under the head of special Studio
= he says, ''penmanship, music and DRAWN
- are usually taught in large graded schoo
- by special instructors, as so few regula
% teachers consider themselves competent {
give instruction in these branches. Som'
thing should be done to secure larger rt
suits in these studies" ''Penmanshil
II music and drawing special Instructors,
e school teachers incompetent to teac
writingl How does it look? Who eve
h heard of common school without writing
q 1t is one of the three cardinal branches 9
S which the common school rests, and tt
second in the list Read, acrite au
t, cypher" is the whole body of the carmen
d the rest is trimming special instruc
ot orsl' forsoothl to teach writing in tt
10 common school! How does it look?
at that the kind of recommendations we pa
800 for, for common school uses? 1t
N mlsnomer. 1t needs new name. III
IS uncommon school, so uncommon as to a
te ply for special instructors to teach writir
r. and several foreign languagesi
lg If the language of the Report is saE
y pie of the vernacular taught there, to th
IN Eye it looks very much as though "speci
he instructor" in English are most need
In, around and about the Moline comm,
lg schools. Should find time to run O
d. Eye through said Report | may give "
p sample or two of its contents Eye.
Moline, Ills, May 10th.
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