Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-01-25
FARMERS INSTITUTE.
saturday AftsrnOoa's PrOceedings- Judge
Dial's Address and It's Discussion.

saturday AftsrnOou's Rroceedings- Judgs
Dial's Address and its Discussion.
Friday evening a spirited discussion fol.
lowed the reading Of Auditor Serviss's pa
per, and the request for its publication was
hearty and unanimous.
Saturday a resolution WAS offered by j.
NJ. Jones. and carried unanimously. Il
the effect that the Clark county COM
missioners are asked to seat and furnish
the upper court room, occupied by the
Farmers Institute, for the benefit Of the
farmers and others desiring to hold public
meetings.
BEST Methods of Feeding Cattle for
Profit were discussed by Harvey II. Tut
tie, Hon. John Howell and Others. Mr..
Tuttle had fed corn ground in the ear with
good results. Mr.. Howell had found shelled
corn the best feed for calves. John Yeazell
ground all his feed for stock. One calf so
fed. weighed. when little over year old.
i.oss pounds,
A delightful duet was sung by Mrs.
Busby and Mrs. Widdicombe, and the sing
ing was heartily appauded.
A rising and unanimous vote of thanks
was given by the entire audience to Mrs.
Or. Gram, J. NJ. Jones and others for the
very excellent music provided.
Saturday afternoon Hon. L. q. Dial read
a paper on our school system. He intro
duced his paper with statement OF what
he had done in the Legislature to procure the
passage of bill designed to do away with
the subdistrict system in townships and pro
vide for the election Of six directors, who
should have the entire management Of the
schools.
Mr.. Dial said: As chairman Of the COM
mittee on schools and school lands, in the
house of representatives, my attention was
called specially TO the subject of the COM
mon schools of the state, and the first thing
that drew my particular attention was the
frequent applications made to the legisla-
ture for the change of sub-districts. or parts
thereof. into special districts. Night after
night, and week after week. and month after
month. such applications were con
sidered by the committee, the same
coming from the people of diff
ferent localities in every part Of the state.
Becoming special district would remove il
from the jurisdiction of the township
board. As now constituted Of sub-district
clerks, and make it an independent district
the same as village or city district And
the inquiry forced itself upon us, why this
anxiety to throw off the sub-district organi-
cations and to get from under the township
jurisdiction, into an independent relation?
This, in connection with other incidents,
caused me to enter upon careful examina-
ton of the questions involved.
1.-THE judge corresponded with the leading
institutions and schools of
ten Estates and with acknowledged ex-
perts in various portions of the county and
he was surprised 10 learn that they were
unanimous in favor of such plan as WAS
in the judges bill. Ex-President
of Marietta college; Ex-Commis-
,ioner Burns. of Ohio: the late President
Garfield; President E. E. White, of Indiana;
Prof. Williams, of the Ohio Wesleyan uni
rersity; all heartily approved of Judge
Diars bill
The Judge declared that not only was the
bad in itself but ii was badly
administered.
Says Judge Deal: Look at the operation
IF the school law in Clark county. There
ire ninety-four sub-districts in this county.
ifty-two of these have an enumeration less
thsn the law requires; their average enum-
'hip in this county has not one sub-district
containing sixty pupils. II has nine sub
iistricts numbering each, rs follows: IL. So,
Is, 43, 29, 30. 10, 81, "a. Six sub-districts
IN another township number each. As fol-
lows: ss, S2. 10, %, 81, IS; and schools
have been kept in two of the same. six
months, with an average attendance of not
over five pupils. and let it be remembered
that the smaller the enumeration the less
win be the per cent. of attendance; for a
school Of half dozen pupils will not have
he spirit of work and enthusiasm that a
arger number will produce. You cannot
make PIE without fuel: no more can you
make school without q fair number Of
pupils.
Ipresent several sub-districts in pairs. In
4 certain township, one sub-district emu
merates go pupils, another SO, another in
same township numbers lag pnpils, another
81, another in same township numbers LA
pupils, another 3S. another sub-district num-
bers 80 pupils, another ls, another subsiis-
trict numbers IL pupils, another 81, another
sub-district numbers 65 pupils, another q,
another sub-district numbers 13l pupils
30, another sub-district numbers 95 pupils,
another S5. another sub-district numbers los
pupils. another %, another sub-iistrict num-
bers 20 pupils, another %. another sub-dis-
trict numbers 96 pupils, another 20, another
sub-district numbers 20 pupils, another
81, (sSa).
have presented twelve pairs of sub-dis-
tricts, each pair taken from the same town.
ship. The first column of twelve numbers,
s3a, not quite one-fourth of the first. The
average attendance of the last twelve
schools would not be over SO per cent. as
the per cent. of attendance is always small
where the enumeration is small This
would give an average attendance of about
l3 pupils, and an annual expenditure of not
less than $500 10 each school. Thus. these
schools are too small by one-half for best
results in learning, but have expended on
them as much as if they had twice or three
times as many pupils.
The judge showed that Pennsylvania
had township system, with an enrolment
Of 937. 200 school children. and an aggregate
expense of 81, 4sa, SIT, or S221, 600 less than
the aggregate expense of Ohio schools, with
fewer children. The judge estimated that
with a township system. the public schools
Of Ohio would cost 81, 200, 900 less than
they cost now.
A Iyaly discuSsinp fnIlouad tha roo odipU