The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1904-01-22

too large where your roads are good
Where you have a school of 100 scholars
three teachers are necessary, and yor
will have good school. The only add
ed expense will be transportation, and
you have eliminated two-thirds of thu
teachers labors, and does away with thu
expense of running three schoolhouses
The transportation of scholars removes
many of the immoralities which arise
now under the old system. One objec
ton is that under the Capitalization
the scholars leave home earlier in
the morning; but this averages up, fol
they get home earlier at night. The
limit Of Capitalization should be four
miles. Capitalization is steadily going
on, and the time will come when four
more grades will be added to the eight,
which the law now allows in the CEN
tralized school. g
The conveyance to take children to
and from the centralized schools is heat
ed and kept comfortable in winter. The
cost of these wagons average $1.36 a
day. There is Is per cent larger at
tendance in the centralized school than
in the average rural district. There is
absolutely no hardness The children
keep in better health for they come to
school and go home again warm and
dry shod. The expense is but little
more than under the old system, if any.
In fact the per capita expense is less.
However, it depends entirely on local
conditions.
1.-THE Ideal Education for Farmers
Sons and Daughters" was the topic as
signed President J. L. Snyder, of the M.
A. G.. He declared the ideal school is
the centralized school. He traced the
growth of educational facilities in the
past few years.
Since high schools are in every COM
they should broaden their cur
riculum. Not to face back to Greece
and Rome but to face about and look
ahead. There is so much more besides
Latin and Greek in the present age that
we should look out for. There are hun
dreds of occupations open now yet high
high schools educate men for the law,
medicine, the church and literature
only. There is great call for men
trained in modern methods and profess
sions-civil engineering electricity,
chemistry, designing.
We want living languages, living is
Sues Let us give our boys needful in
instead of stories of the slaves
Of Greece and Rome. 1t is worth more
TO know how Eads built the Mississ-
ppi jetties than how Caesar crossed the
Rubicon.
There was $27, 900, OO0.worth of hay in
Michigan last year. The boys who will
,aise that hay are now in the public
schools, and they are studying botany,
out not one in ten can name three grass
IS that made up that hay. What about
,ur young women? We should teach
hem domestic science. OF course, some
olks say that this practical training
Ices not conduce to culture but don't be
90 sure.
By putting in manual training and |
Domestic science in the high schools,
'ou will not only double the attendance, !
s has been done in other cities, but you /
would turn out young people ready to
10 things. If l had my way, would
AVE children take nature study first.
/ am going to live to see the high
chools of this state revolutionized The
arious studies now taught will be
aught only in relation to the actual
fairs of life
The following resolutions were unani-
nously adopted:
Resolved, That we regard the question
f direct nomination to be the paramount
,sue of the day.
Be it further resolved. That we unan-
mously favor the nomination of all
ublic officials by the direct system and
rye the necessity of the nomination
nd election of a governor and legisla-
ure who are thoroughly in sympathy
nth the principle of direct nomina-
ions.
Resolved, That we are alarmed at the
pparent inclination of our public off
ials to over step and disregard what we
steem as their moral obligations to the
eople.
Resolved, That we regard the fee
vstem in the payment of our officials as
and expensive, and every
ublic official should be placed on a
llary.
Resolved, That we extend to Mayor
and the City of Corunna our
ost hearty thanks for their welcome
Id the courtesies extended during our {
ay in their city.
Resolved, That we thank our state
orkers, Miss Buell. and Messrs. Palmer
i'd Oviatt, and our local officers
essrs Chandler, Carruthers and Mrs
r. xxxo,11 lit.