Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1880-01-23

The expenditures for the four nor
NAL schools We're S12,5OS.0T, of which
81 1870 were paid 10 Instructors.
The attendance during the year aggro.
gated l,SeS different pupils,
The catalogue of the state university
shows ASH different students in atten-
dance during the year, The Board of
Regents report $40, S6SlS paid out dur
lev the year for current expenses, of
which $40, s06.77 was received by in
structors.
These statistics are presented for
your consideration, not by way of criti-
ciSm or complaint, bat with the hope
that they will attract to the subject Of
education the attention which its inn
portanco demands. believe our
schools aIe improving from year to
year, particularly the rural district
schools, whose the mass OF our people
receive their education, and that this
Improvement is due, in large measure,
primarily to the Jealous and Intelligent
lahers of state and county Superiuten-
dents, and the enthusiastic cooperation
of the professional teachers who have
graduated from onr normal schools and
state university, and the excellent col
leges and other institutions of learning
not in any way aided by the state. 1t
Is, therefore, n serious misrepresentation
to assume, rs fear many do, that the
only justification and reason for ex-
pending the large sums ot money nee
essary to equip and maintain our nor
NAL schools ami university, are 70 he
found III the direct and primary results
Of their lahors in furnishing the oppor-
tuuity and means OF education to tho
pupils in attendance. These results,
though in and of themselves by no
means unimportant, are among tho
least OF the benefits conferred by these
institutions. Their full fruitien IA not
seen without including the public
schools, proper, and the good therein
accomplished,
The ordinary income OF the univer-
sity is derived from the interest upon
the University and Agricultural college
funds, amounting last year To SIT, Sti,-
%, and the proceeds of the one-tenth
of mill tax provided for i'll section
800 of the revised statutes, which was
$ll $1,000. These sums appear to be
adequate for all the present necessities
of the institution, and If the present
ratio OF assessment IA 10 continue, their
is perpaps no necessity for any change
in the law; but il il should be increased,
az il ought to be to represent more
nearly the actual value of taxable
property, there would seem to he man
ifest propriety in changing the form OF
the appropriation from an indefinite
to fixed sum, --such sum, he il more
Tor less, as the legitimate needs OF the
University may require.
INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS.
The whole number Of boys III atten-
dance ut the Industrial school for boys,
At Waukesha, during the last tioal year,
was 435, and the average attendance
t 1926. The number admitted M 126
az against 15t last year, and y mum
ber discharged 113. The rent OK.
$l00,s6 per inmate, as against $ll4 %
Inst year. The amount paid for sal
aries and wages was $13, 8l036, and for
subsistence $ll,097,dl. The sum Of
| 1913, 5000 has been paid towards tho
erection Of now buildings.
The managers ask for MI appropria-
ton OF $780, 900, in addition To surplus
and the sums TO be received from eoun-
ties, 10 meet the expenses of the current
year
OF the amounts heretofore appropri-
ated for building purposes, there will
remain, when the present buildings are
completed and paid for, the sum Of
20, 20l.74 which the managers propose
ID expend in building a hospital and leo
house. They claim that this sum rep
resents in part the valHe Of tho labor Of
the boys III the erection Of the buildings
the past summer, and that IL may there
fore be legitimately expended in pro-
yiding other needed structures.
The epidemic which prevailed in that
institution last summer attracted wide
attention and elected much discussion.
II IL easy to be wise after tho fact. Tho
health oi the boys, and all connected
with the school, had been for years OK.
oeptionally good, under circumstances
and conditions, 10 all appearance, pre-
oisely similar TO those existing when the
disease broke out, and the managers are
not censurable because they did not
discover the indscoverabe. The total
number of cases Of typho.malarial fe.
yer, IN population OF sec, was 30, six
OF them terminating fatally. The
promptnesp, vigor and skill with which
tho disease was handled after its break
Ing out, is creditabe 70 the managers
and the attending physician.
The managers Of the Industrial
School for Girls in Milwaukee are not
required TO report to the state, but do,
IN fact, favor me with copy of their
report when published. Not having re-
ceived their report for the past year, !
am unable to give you the details Of
their work. | have, however, visited
Their institution, been much gratifed
and encouraged IN witnessing the success
Of the labors Of the philantlropic ladies
who have Us management in charge.