The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1893-01-20

collegiate and university departments"
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Agricultural College and the State University.
The eighth biennial report of the state super
the careful attention Of the legislature for its
detailed interesting and valuable matter, and
for certain practical suggestions. From 1t We
that IN
| mote and sparsely settled county of Morton con-
tains nineteen school districts and thirteen
school buildinss while the expansive and we'll
| and 200 school buildings,
The persons Of school age in the state ior 1882
are reported to be 4s Sol; the number Of different
which is .S45 less than the enrolment for 1881.
The average daily attendance was 2S. 49, which
| is SOB less than it was in 1891. The common
schools may be regarded as the peoples colleges,
and, hence. worthy Of all needful care on the
| part of e law-making power OF the state; and
therefore attention is called to the following
that the law relating to compulsory attendance
| at school is susceptible of improvement" and
THE time has come in the history OF our state
for the establishment Of truant schools for the
| already large and constantly increasing number
of pupils who are in the streets when they ought
| to be in school,"
teachers in the state, and while males receive on
| an average 81. Is per month, and females SIS!
yet in sumner county the ayerase pay Is tine the
the males on an S average of sos per month
In the list of county superintendents OF public
| instruction for 1894. there are twenty-three
| ing power of women in educational work and of
| the coming solution of the problem OF equal pay
| for the same work, without reference to who
There are 81 school districts extending
through fifty-fve counties in the state which
have not sustai ned at least three months school
in the year and twenty.two OF these districts are
istence of Kansas as state, up to 1879, there had
been an annual levy of a tax of one mill on each
dollars valuation of the assessed property OF the
state for school purposes. But by an act OF the
Legislature of that year 1t was abolished.
From the report of the superintendent of pub
lie instruction the following extract is made,
which bears on this subject: Il believe that the
legislature should at the earliest day practicable,
restore the one mill levy by the state to be dis
tributed as the annual school fund is now appor-
toned. And if the legislature would make the
levy two mills, or even three mills. their action
would go quite a long way toward correcting
our present unequal and unjust distribution of
the money raised for the support OF our schools
by the district plan of taxatiOn."
The amount OF money of the seml-annual
apportionment of the state annual school fund
distributed among the schools of the state for
1891 was 1883 A. which was 53cents per cspita
for the February apportionment, and 90 cents
per capita for the August appOrtiOnment.
making total of 81 .O5 per capita.
the year 1891 for school purposes was s ,2s9 6S
OF which the sum of s., 53S, $50 81 was received
from county treasurers from district school
5000 9s1 81 of which S., $50 $50. II was received
from the treasurers Of the several counties of the
state from district school taxes.
CHANGE OF TINE OF ANNUAL SCHOOL MEETINGS.
The statute providing for annual meetings in
district schools on the last Thursday of July was
perhaps enacted on the theory thst it would give
the county clerk of each county sufficient time
amount Of taxable property in their respective
districts that suitable levy of district school
taxes might thereby be made, but the state
superintendent of public instruction in his re-
held at earlier date in cities Of the third class.
He gives as reason for the change that in these
cities from three to twelve teaches are employed
teachers if teachers could be employed at an
earlier date than is possible as the law now
stands; and it may be further remarked that
were such change made, cities of the first and
second class would not be given the first choice
of teachers by reason of their school boards
being elected at an earlier date.
COUNTY NORMAL INSTITUTES.
These institute=, brought into life by the action
Of the Legislature of 1877. have been so extended
a, to have an existence in every county of the
state They have had such q benefcent influence
upon the educational work of this great COM
monwealth as to be a permanent part Of what
may be called our symmetrical common school
system, SO helpful to the great body of the ener-
getlc, plain, tOtllng people OF kansas. At the
sessions of the institute in 1892 the average daily
attendance was fourteen in Morton county and
900 in the county of Jewell. The sessions have
been thirty days in 'ength in most of the Jog
counties. In 1891 there were 2lO evening lee
lures, independent of the general work of the
institutes, and in 1892 the corps of instructors
The state superintendent of public instruction
deemed it proper to require county commission
ers to appropriate not less than $50 for each in
stitute of four weeks.
THE PERMANENT SCHOOL FUND.
There are in the treasury of the state certain
fraudulent district school bonds, purpOrting to
have been issued by the authority of school dis
tricts organized in the counties of Comanche.
Norton and Rlce which aggregate $1,000, and of
which the state can have no possible prospect of
collecting any part of the principal or interest
of the same. Inasmuch az the constitution of
the state expressly declares that the permanent
school fund shall not be diminished. l would
recommend legislation authorizing the state
treasurer and auditor OF state to cancel these
fraudulent bonds. and duly provide for a rein
bursement of the fund to the amount of these
bonds.
HIGHER EDUCATION.
Aside from the Normal School, the Agricul-
tural College and the University OF the State, the
state superintendent in his report presents brief
abstracts of thirty other educational institutions
which Include high schools, academies, colleges,
The State Normal SchOOl.-The reports of the
president and board of regents Of this institu-
ton will amply repay ones perusal for the in
legislature will be asked to appropriate for the
fiscal year ending June 20, 1894, the amount of
$4,000 for an additional wing and assembly
room. The pupils from the institution come
from lightweight counties of the state and out
side of the state from sixteen states and terri
tories.
Ms. Carrie S Plumb and family have kindly
donated to the school the valuable private
library of selected public documents which the
late United States Senator Preston B. Plumb
had collected during his public life, which gift
embraces nearly LOCO volumes, for the most part
handsomely bound in sheep, but for which the
institution has absolutely no room.
The State Agricultural Couege.-The board of
regents of this institution. in their eighth bien-
NAL report, declared: The past two years have
shown more than usual prosperity in the growth
of the institution, as well as in its administra-
ton. Although crowded beyond the capacity of
the buildings for most satisfactory work. the
college in every department has been we'll MAIN
tanned. and the work of educating the sons and
daughters of farmers and mechanics in line with
prominent industries OF the state 10 so well
maintained rs to make the Kansas State Agri-
cultural College the largest of such institutions
in the country, or even in the world"
Instructive matte in the report il found under
several headings, and particularly under those
of "Exper ment Station and Farmers 1nsti-
tutes.''
President Fairchild. in his report to the board
of regents, says: Fully 20 per cent. of the stu
dents are shown by the records to be from farm
ers' homes. so that of all such colleges In the
United States this stands among the most repre-
sentative in relation to the farmers interest
throughout the state. No other has 30 large
attendance and no other has so large proper
ton of farmers children. There are pupils