The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-02-28
Representative Morley Says
Board of Control Made
Small Saving at Expense
of State Public School
Children's Stomachs = Edu-
cational Institution Fight
Goes Over.

That the board of control has prac~
t1ced economy at the expense Of the
quality of the food furnished the pu-
pills of the state public schools is the
charge made to the house yesterday
afternoon by Representative Morley.
One afternoon proved altogether too
short for a satisfactory discussion Of
the Morley bill, removing the state
educational institutions from the board
of control management and the special
order was continued until Wednesday
at 2 o'clock
House Badly Split.
Aside from the charges made by Mr.
Morley and Representative Rosenwald
in the role of a modern Chrysostom,
the long two hours debate was devoid
of interest or instructive matter. The
diversity of opinions expressed and
applauded by distinctive factions, were,
however, sufficiently well defined to
indicate that the passage of the bill
with any of its essentials retained will
be difficult.
The faction which has arrayed it.
self under the oratoricaI leadership of
Rosenwald and in which Representa-
tive w. A. Nolan will be a directing
factor, is unalterably opposed to chang
ing the present board Of control law
in any particular which contempIates
greater freedom Of any of the institu-
tions.
The Morley following wants all the
educational institutions relieved of
board Of control management and will
not support a measure amended to in
clude only the university and normal
schools.
Take All or None.
Not a few of the normal schools
friends are with Morley in his conten-
ton, but some of them and powerful
men prefer to wipe out the whole board
Of control law at one fell swoop. If
they cannot do this they will stand
with Nolan against any change That
faction which is uncompromising in it's
desire to wipe out the board of control
is keeping it's light under cover, but
must be recl1oned with in forecasting
general results.
Preliminary to the discussion of the
measure, the university adherents tried
university question apart from the
the bill by items. Morley turned the
laugh on them by showing that his bill
contained only one section and amend
ments would have to be made in the
nature of additions, as the university
is not mentioned in the text.
On the main question Mr.. Morley
said the members Of the board of con-
troll had admitted that the local boards
and the state board cannot work well
together, and the matter resolves it.
self to question of relieve the schools
of board of control management or
wipe out the local boards.
Provide Cheaper Food.
Touching the matter Of economy,
Mr.. Morley said the board of control
had economical in the matter of food
at Owatonna. They had reduced the
butter, eggs, sugar and dried fruit diet
and supplied the deficiency with an in
crease of flour. The net result was a
saving of $4,000. The board bought
good flour, but too much of it in the
regular diet, Mr.. Morley thought, not
the best thing for the children.
w. A. Nolan contended that the de-
sire to take the schools from the man
agement of the board of control has
local pride and local ambition at it's
base, and challenged the friends of the
Morley bill to show a single instance
in which the schools have suffered
through the board of control.
The prominent features of Mr. Rosen-
walds speech were his oratory, force
full, if not of the Chauncey Depew or
| der; and his assertions:
Slap at University.
1--WE are all human beings 'ff there
is an institution in the state which
| needs a board of control it is the uni
versity," and "the normal schools in
terfere with the work of the high
schools"
His original proposition was permit
ted to stand on it's own merits without
| argument by Mr.. Rosenwald, but the
! university and normal schools PROPOSE
tions he followed up with corroborative
testimony, to his mind, entirely con-
elusive.
Mr.. Rosenwa1d admitted he believed
President Northrop, of the university
! the greatest man in the world, but no
fnancier The members of the board
of control, he said, are f1nanc1ers and
should be permitted to maintain a
| check on the enormous university ex-
penditures. The normal schools inter
| fere with the high schools, he said, be-
| cause academic studies are included
in their curriculums and a large num-
Der of the pupils are there simply as
subjects for the practice of the mi
| nority
Representative Perley made strong
plea for passage Of the Morley bill
intact.