The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-08-23
NO SMOKE
Of BATTLE
School Board Disposes of
Important Matters Mon
day.
K. H. MARSHALL GETS z YEARS
Principal of High School
Elected for Additional
Year.
Mayor Setter, Member Hill on Salary
Scale and Affairs of Financt Feat
urcs of the Evening Deliberations

The pipe of peace continued to
smoke briskly at the meeting of the
school board which convened I'm the
high school building last evening.
Among the salient points developed
were the following: Professor Mar
shall was, at the recommendation of
superintendent Hartman, elected for
term of two years instead of one;
Member Hill made some very posi-
tive and pertinent points about the
constant cry of insufficient wages
by the teachers; Mayor Setter,
through Member Jacoby, broke into
the deliberations of the August body
of educators by requesting to gain
first hand information regarding the
safety of the school children of the
city.
Bills presented by the finance
committee to the amount of S251.25
were inspected and approved. Mem
ber Jacoby advanced a plan where
by exits from the playrooms at the
Lincoln street building should be
provided. Upon motion IL carried.
This provides outer entrances to every
school playroom In the city.
Mr.. Jacoby advised the board that
he had been questioned by Mayor
Setter regarding tho recent report
of the state fire inspector. The may.
or was Informed that insofar as pos
siblc the demands of the inspector
had been met, He asked permls-
sion OF the board to go with them on
their annual tour of inspection of
building previous to the opening of
school, and bring In his wake the
local fire chief. The boar d honor
ed the request. Some insurance per-
siflage was thes handled about and
action was taken on a number of
safeguards Member Hill suggested
that the board had been doing things
to reduce the insurance rate for the
last several years without coming
any closer to the desired goal. the
crop of defects discovered by the
companies being practically mex
haustible.
At the recommendation of Superin-
tendent Hartman, the Ward system
of phonetic reading, and the Spear
system of numbers taught by
sets OF books designed to teach the
child the concrete rather rather than
the abstract method. was finally ad-
opted for the first three primary
grades. Members CUTLERY and Dick
the time of the initiative adoption of
the time of the intative adoption of
the systems, asked for full expasa-
tion of the methods which Superin-
tndent Hartman furnished to their
material, which insures free school
books for the first three grades, will
be $3.50.
Superintendent Hartman then pres
ented to the board the advisa bility
of regulating the courses of high
school study so the student may
change his course at the termina-
ton of the first or even the second
year. Many pupils enter the high
school undecided about what course
they really want to persue. They
mako a hurried decision and later
when their abilities and tastes de-
velope. they find hhey have made
mistake. This necessitates FIVE years
in high school, II they would make
change, the result being that many
boys and girls are lost to the third
and fourth years. The suggestion
met with the hearty endorsement of
the members, and the matter was
given into the hands of the text
book committee to act in conjunction
with Messrs. Hartman and Marshall
In arranging the course to meet the
new idea.
Superintendent Hartman handed
the board surprise by advising that
they extend Principal Marshall's
term of election from one to two
years. He explained as his reason
that he and the principal had map
ed out work, the full benefit of
which could not develop in a single