The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1909-07-27

In elucidMiOn of a portioa OF ms
recent report OF examinations Oh the
records of the state auditor s Once.
Stale Examiner &. A. Taylor aa-
dressed a letter 10 PrOfs. Kent, rem.
mings and Hughes, Of the Edmond
.tafe normal. detailing items which
his report had classified under
heading which indicated lack ol de-
tail In warrants by which they hau
been paid various sums
MIR. TAYLOR says that the records
show +. c. Kent TO have drawn
sshary warrants TO the amount OF
sSl6. 66 Gin payment OF Prof Kent
81 400 per year salary rs professor
of mathematics at Edmond). ana
during the same time had drawn Two
sums Of $50 each. making a total oi
500. sfor svstematizing work of the
normal. Prof r Y. Temming. Dead
~ the commercial department. at 1he
college al salary OF S.zoV .pei
year is shown 10 have drawn $.VV
salary. and SGO in two sums OF S'U
each for systematizing work OF the
school. Harry Hughes, physlch in
structor OF the college has drawn
$3.50 salary. and at the same timo
sf33. "a as the girls physical in
structOr.
Without comment the letter makes
II plain that Profs Kent and Tenn
ming have drawn in addition 10 their
regular salaries as members Of the
faculty. 500 each for additional serv-
ices under the heading of "systema-
tizing the work of the college . and
Prof Hughes to have drawn along
with warrants marked salary
$133 "a as girls physical instruct
or"
In explanation of any possible
charge of inegulaTity in these extra
sums paid Profs. Kent and Tenn
ming and az TO way Prof. Hughes
SPECIFIES on some OF his warrants for
salary" and on others for girls
physical instructor" State Superin
tendent E. ID. Cameron, who is a
member of the Edmond board of re
gents, issued the following state
ment.
Cameron Explains.
"The work of the Central state
normal school had to be systematized
80 that a history OF every student o.
the school could be kept, and a full
and complete record of everything
transplring In the school could be
kept for all time TO come, This in
volved vast amount OF labor, and
required the work OF experts to ar
range and prepare the records. Thi'
work was absolutely necessary ant
essential to the success of the school
The president of the school did no
have time TO do this work and sug
gested Chat We employ an expert II
such work TO assist Nm in systema
tizing the records of the school $,
that the history of the school from
the beginning can be kept, and tha
the record of every student will b'
there, and instead OF taking hours 4
find the records of the students, IN
cludIng all Of his credits and hlstor
uf work done. II can be done in
minutes time The board decided
that inasmuch as Prof. Kent am
Prof. Temming were expert in sucl
work that it would be well to emplo,
them to systematize the records an,
10 do this work outside of the regu
lar school hours. The board agree.
to pay them $50 each per quarter III
III the records are all gotten I'm work
able condition. It was contemplate
That ii would take about four quar-
tiers to do the work MIR Kent an
Mr.. Temming began the work an
worked at night and early in tn
morning getting the records OF th
school In condition, and have done
vast deal Of labor at odd hours, an
We had paid them al the time @
the report for this work 500 eacl
total 70 both of them Of 5000 Tha
Is what the record shows ahsolutei
thai II was paid for systematIzing th
records of the Edmond state norma
The record shows that This Sl0o Na
not paid as salary. hut was paid "a
extra labor that no teacher is eXpec
ed 70 10 and We think chat ID is labo
that would have cost us more tha
$1,000 Il We had employed Outsid
parties 70 do the work. and the Wor
sdone by these gentlemen Is Of valu
90 the school thar cannot De- est