The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-04-28
How II Will Affect Wayne
County Districts.
TEXAS ALONE IN THIRD CLASS.
How Directors are to be elected
Regulations as to School Build
lngs-WhO may not teach
No Graft In Text Books.

not as yet be safely predicted, although
it is the general impression that it will
be signed. 1t is very lengthy act, many
of its provisions relating to cities and
large towns, and not applicable to dis
tricts with less than three thousand pop
ulation. THIS cuts out all of Wayne
county with the exception OF Texas,
which, by the census of 1900, had q
population of about 1000. The census
Of next year will without doubt put
loncsdale in the third class, but at
present, in common with all the other
districts in the county, it is in the fourth.
1t is quite possible that Hawley, also,
will be advanced step when the en-
umeration is taken in 1910.
In fourth class districts the number
of directors is fixed at five. In each
district five directors will be chosen
next February, one for one year, one for
two years, one for three years, one for
four years, and one for five years, and
one shall be elected every year thereaf-
ter for term of five years. If bor-
ough is in the fourth class of school dis
tricts and has five wards, each ward
will be entitled to one director, but there
are no five-ward boroughs in Lackawan-
ma, Luzerne, Susquehanna, Wayne,
Monroe, Pike or Wyoming counties.
The county superintendent salary
shall be not less than fifteen hundred
dollars nor more than two thousand
dollars year, but the directors at the
convention electing a superintendent
can make the salary more than two
thousand and then it comes out of the
state appropriation pro rata according
to the districts.
In all the schools every door that
opens inward must be changed before
school opens next September, and all
buildings must have fire escapes if they
are more than one story All hereafter
built that are more than two stories
must be fireproof, and the plans must
first be approved by the state board.
Every room must be not less than fiji
teen feet square, and the light from the
windows must not enter against the
faces of the pupils seated. No more
pupils will be permitted in any room
than will be afforded two hundred cubic
feet of air space each, and all rooms,
recitation or otherwise, must be arrang-
ed with windows or other ventilating
apparatus capable of furnishing thirty
cubic feet of fresh air per minute per
pupil.
No pupil shall be permitted to attend
school who has tuberculosis, nor shall
any person be employed as teacher or
janitor who has such disease.
Where stoves are used for heating the
same must be incased in galvanized iron
sheaths or other suitable material, and
the mean temperature of every room must
be kept at seventy degrees Fahrenheit, the
coldest day.
For defacing the walls, or other parts
of buildings a penalty is prescribed, and
any one caught writing poetry of an
obscene nature in or around a school
building or grounds is liable to six
months in the county Jail.
Text books cannot be changed oftener
than every five years, and every dealer
or publisher of text books must first
submit sample of his products to the
state board together with list of prices
they will furnish them in any district in
the state for five years.
The board of any district is empower
ed to seize land under the right of emf
nent domain, where it cannot agree OF
satisfactory terms with the owner, wheI
the land is needed for school buildings
The court appoints viewers to assess thu
damages.
No board can appoint the father
mother, brother, sister, wife, son, daugh
ter, step-son, step-daughter, brother-in
law, sister-in-law, grandchild, niece
nephew, uncle, aunt, or even first cous
in, or husband, as women can hol
Office as director, to the position o
teacher unless three-fourths of all tn,
members OF the board shall vote Tor nj
or her appointment.
No teacher, superintendent, director
appointee or employe of any boar
shall have any interest, financial o
otherwise, in any contract for supple
or books for the district in which he o
she is engaged, and violation is punish
ed with not less than thirty days no
more than one year in Jail. Promise t.
pay or payment of a sum for appoint
ment as teacher, employe, appointee o
superintendent, is inflicted with fin
and imprisonment not to exceed on
year..
No boy or girl need to think of en-
gaging as teacher hereafter, unless b
or she feels that after five years either o
them can take state examination TO
permanent certificate. This examina
ton is conducted by a board in ever,