The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1907-02-22
Mr. Kerr might easily have found from.


the table which he studied on pay.
lilo, that there were nineteen counties
in South Dakota in which the incident
al expense per week was greater that
it was in Graut county, five in whici
it was more than double; one, Mime
hahs, ia which it was six times a.
much; and one, Brookings, in which
1t was more than nine times as much
The total expense of the Grant
County Summer School for 1905, a.
given by the report, was $47S, which
would be Sll95O per week. The aver
age daily attendance at the summer
school was 100, making the cost pei
student little less than 81. 10 per
week Compare this with the adjoin-
ing counties, obtaining the figures in
the same way, and you find tho cost
per student per week to be: deuel..
S3.2l: Codington, S3.47; Day, $2.O3:
Roberts, $4 30. 1t didn't seem to oc
cur to Mr.. Kerr to do any figuring.
| The state of Minnesota paid $4Ol. 80
as her share of the expense OF this
inter- State Summer School, nearly as
much as Grant county, while probably
three-fourths of the enrolment were
Grant county people. SO much for
Mr.. Kerr's rash statement that 1--WE
| are pay ing lnClueutdl eApcHscS Ch o.
belong to Minnesota"
| But the incidental expense OF the in
stitute is not the onl expense, though
it is the one which Mr.. Kerr prefers
to emphasize. 1t was stated by Mr..
Aldrich ut the school officers meeting
that it was found possible to secure
the best due ational talent obtain able
to come to Simpson Park at half, or
less than half, the usual salary, on
account of the beauties of the sur
roundlngs, the Chautauqua advant-
ages and the opportunity for an out
ing. When Mr.. Kerr was pOring over
page ITO be must have noticed the
amount paid to conductors in each
county. This column shows that
Grant county paid S1O4, or $26 a
week, and that but one other county
paid as little. The other institute
conductors received as high as $1lO
per week, the average being about $50
per week.
> In the next column is given the total
I amount paid all other instructors. In
Grant county this was $3.50, or S57. SO
per week. The same item in De Ell
county was $lO7.80 per week; in Cod
ington, 1852: in Day, 800; and in Rob.
erts, $ll3.25.
We have shown that, nOtwithstand.
ing the fact that Grant county is the
only county in the state which owns its
own summer school plant, and there
fore has to meet some maintenance
} charges, that our incidental expense
compares very favorably with that OF
, the average county, and that our ex'
a, pense for instructors is just about
half what it is in adjoining counties.
AS to the halliday session, .fuu
days work was done every day. 1T
is found possible, where teachers are
on the ground in the morning, and dc
not have to drive in from their homes
, to begin work early and by deferring
, the dinner hour until about one
1 O'Clock, to do the usual days work o.
: the summer school in one session.
/. Mr.. Kerr's figures, upon analysis,
appear to prove just the opposite O
what he wished them to prove. VIZ
submit that they are an insult to tht
: intelligence of the school officers ant
y y patrons of Grant county, and mas
y much as most of the facts we have
cited must have come to Mr.. Kerr's
!; notice in his search for the figures
whice he did sift out, his action il
9 deliberately suppressing them is TO-
g the people to Judge.
= If Mr.. Kerr wishes to destroy th'
J Inter- State Summer School by remOv
: ing the county institute from Simpson
u Park, the manly thing would be TO-
. . him to give the real reason for it ant
I go before the people on his record
. whice is certainly not an enviable on
. . thus far.
IRWIN d. ALDRICH.