Morning journal and courier., 1882-04-13

State Normal school by drafting out teach CTS to attend. without sufficient warning, the teachers institutes, and to assist hls lectures on reading by illustrations Of vocal gymnastics, and has paid for the latter oy an unauthorized charge on the puphc ac- count He has taken time from hls ohclal duties to super1ntend the instruction ana expenses of young ladies and gentlemen, Chinese and Japanese, and has received commission on the sums handled on behalf of the young gentlemen, and presents from the foreign governments He has assumed as his duty to the practical interests or education as described by the statute, the delivering of lectures on village lm- provement and tree planting. He has neg iected the visiting of schools and the offer ing Of practical suggestions for their develop ment Your committee believe that the e1- | stence of separate office with prescrlpeo | duties, collateral or supplemental to those of | the State Board of Education, has resulted ID 1 that office overshado wing and embarrassing the board in it's duties, and that the board should be held exclusively responsible for the | supervision of the educational interests ot | the State That for this reason it should have | full control of the appointment and re- moval of it's subordinates and the division l and direction of their duties, and that It | should have the exclusive accounting of such ] receipts and disbursement of public funds as ! also believe that the profession of teacher, which should be the noblest profession, IS ] not ennobled by setting self styled educators 1 to featuring assemblies of teachers. Your 1 committee believe that teachers, like other ] professional men and women, Will most enno- l .ble their profession by holding their own con- | yentions in their own way and comparing the results of their various experience with out State supervision State expenses. | Your committee recommend therefore that l the law creating secretary Of the State | Board of Education be repealed and that his duties be transferred to the State Board of | Education and for that purpose recommend l the passage of the accompanying bill:
 | GEORGE M: GUNN,
 CHARLES H. OWEN, P. w. WREN.
 The bill submitted by the committee abol- l ishes the office of secretary, repeals the law l fixing the salary for that officer and permits the Board of Education to employ such cleri- cal force as they may see fit.
 l Burglars at Work in a Water Street l Office.
 The safe door at the office of w. A. Beck ley & Co., s. lumber dealers, corner of Water and Union streets, was found to be missing on opening the office yesterday morning. It had been blown off by burglars It was an old fashioned safe with thin panels. The work looked to the police as if done by pro- fessionals. Thirty-fve dollars was taken from the safe. Four or five old coats in the office were discovered lying around loosely, saturated with water. They are supposed to have been used to deaden the sound. The burglars pried open the boxes and took the money. MT. Beckley removed considerable sum Tuesday night so the haul was very small. The burglars entered the office by prying open side window. The noise of the explosion was not heard. An old family live near and Northampton railroad men were in the freight depot oppo- | site