The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1910-11-18
OUR CODE
PROMINENT EDUCATOR OF THE
STATE OUTLINES SOME OF
ITS SALIENT POINTS
RURAL SCHOOL WILL PASS
The District System of Control viii
Give Place to a Commission
Plan Embracing County
Outs lde of Cities

Sioux Falls-W. NJ. MAR, surerin-
tendent of s hOols for Mi ne aha
county, who has tahen an act We in
tel est IN educat onal matters II I e
state, pc hts out much of inter st re-
latlns TO present and p op S d laws
affecting the same He sa s.:
No one acquainted with the rural
schools Of South Dakota viii ella N
that t4ey ae perfect: no one W II
claim tat they are Highly ELL e t
The L.gh schools Of the S at haze
made much greater process then he
rural schools, and SO sadly Ies e te
are the latter, SO meagerly are they
supported, and 50 iueti ent have they
become that for the last few yea
educators have been greatly intere t.
ed in their real condition and i'm
provement.
There can be no doubt that the
time has arrived for a forwa d move
ment in the rural S hools.
They are but little imp owed over
the schools of d quarter of a cent ry
ago.
Consolidation has been discussed.
State aid has been suggested.
The elimination CT the ell elton OF
county and state surel i~ntendents fir m
politics has received some atteLti II.
But lone of these plans have teen
adopted or very serious y considered,
and not until the present no II ha a
really important and Sc fous at empt
been made to take hold Of the PROB
lem and solve it for all time.
The people of the state proba "
do not know that the most serious
and important pie OF legislation that
will be proposed to the legislature at
Pierre next January will concern the r
schools-yes. that little district sch~ol
out in the county
1t should attract attention Of every
citizen of the state and afford them
a topic for discussion for the newt
three months. Every citizen sho d
read the p opposed school code; every
paper should discuss it upon tie edi-
torial rage.
It is a matter Of the gravest i'm
~portance. and | wish thar this fat
could be sufficiently imp cssed on the
mind OF every one in the state.
In order that we may have a fair
, understanding Of the p1Tp Sc OF THIS
code / shah in the p~lainest Ia qua e
, possible state its most salient fea-
lures. shall do this witho { discus =
ing the merits or dedcienc es of the
plan. What we need at the prese I
tine is a fair understanding Of tn
: ccde. and this ! shall now attempt &c
: give.
The new school code is the result o
a wears work by a committee ap-
!. pointed by the State Tea lie $ asso IA
| ton a year AGO, 10 cons der tie ru-
raj school problem. and to d aw III
9 a plan for the solution of the p 90.
lem.
2 The committee spent a greet dea
r of time and money in an Ell TT 70 col
. let reliable facts concerf 2 the ru
y raj schools. and in the p ena att n an
u pub ication Of the code. At the meet
l. ing of the association in HHr n la
week, the committee made lis report
d For nearly two DAYS the repo va
l. gone over carefully, nearly eve y pa a
eraph and section icing deb ted ..
- the educate S. At the conclns on o
:. the debate il was adopted by t EN-
u and will come up before the newt Sc
s!,n of the legislature under the lead
II ershtp of Superinte dent Big low o
a. Lead who is a candidate fer tire lag
O islature, and who IS going TO Pierre
u for no other purpose than win IN
desire Of calling the serious attic I o.
Of the Legislature to the cond't on q
= our rural schools. and the fmpefatly
. necessity Of improving them.
He is an able man, and viii ma
~ an impression upon tie sess on. liner
: ran be no doubt abort this. tbs niue
should be said about the mar W
= will lead the fght for tie new (od'
= He will have strong backing, an
those who think that what he pr
poses ie all a joke, WI lie say n
n taken when they read Of what take
r, mace when he begins operation
4s Pierre.
is And now after this long introd''
IN ton what is the code7 Just this III
h code proposes TO DIST oy the Q
IA school board in the 5ural d strlef
making the entire county, outs G
cities Of the first and second class, III
). school dist
- This will make a county dlstrlc
u over this district there VIII &c ny
ne commissioners. elected by populi
e. vote. who will serve a tie m CT fly
&c Years, one to be elected eaeh yea
" This board of five commits 0 Z S WI
have absolute cont oil OF all I
shoots in the country. tie power
levy he school tax, TO spend mon
for school purposes. to hire tea h I
and attend to the general work ~
would properly belong to al scn'
matters. The local district Will ma
one representative who VII re OF
the board conce MIN the como W
and needs of his school. he VII
known to the local direct +. I
re- will have no vote whatever. rms
perhaps the fundamental Heren
he between the present system anu '
lat >.
Lead-In order to prevent the I
-, $1,000. &c Ainhfhnria which n