Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-05
REQUIRES UNIVERSITY TRAINING
Must Apply to All County and City
Superintendents.
BIG REVOLUTION IN. EDUCATION
Many Communities Now Have il Vol
UNFAIRLY in Force.
OF SCHOOL BILLS FILED
for Agricultural school, HAS Not
Given III Hope EntIreIN or
Enforcinr claims,
-Erom q sad corre.nondent. )

tFrum a starr Correspondent )
LINCOLN. Neh.. Feb. 4.-(speclaiN-A
fundamental change in the educational sys-
tenn OF the state Is contemplted In r. r.
49, by Tuley oC Gage. now before the com
mttee on public schools and state senator
Crabtree has been conducting an invest
cation among tho county superint tendentH
TO find what tho consensus Of opinion is
as Co the wisdom OF reuuring college de-
Erees Tor the offices.
Filley's hlll requires that every man who
gets position as a county superintendent
much he a bachelor OF arts graduate from
a university or a holder Of a four-year
degree from a normal school II has a
clause TO save retroactive action and ex-
cepts those now In the service.
Most of the superintendcnts In Nebraska
now are graduates OF normal school two
year courses and many OF them have had
more education for their profession but
they could not oc said tobe generally hold
crs Of higher degrees. Mr. Crabtree found
in letters which nc received from nsrly
200 men interested In the question, that
the people most interested are about
equally divided upon the question The men
who hold tho degrees are not by any means
the only ones who think they are neces-
sary.
There arc strong arguments advanced
on esch/ side but the majority Of mon
who know the field best, think, accord
ing to superintendent Crabtree, that the
move would not be altogether wise.
There are many strong young men,"
said the superintendent. "who make the
teaching profession stepping stone for
further education or for other profess
sions. They are capable and interested
in the work while they are in it, and
we should not be deprived of their sor-
vices"
Western NebrRskR's Interest.
This session has brought out num-
ber of educational bills of all kinds In
both house and senate. The members
from the western part OF the state are
all deeply interested In their educational
facilities. The representa- dives from
southwestern Nebraska. led by Eastman
Of Franklin, made a short but strenuops
fight TO get 100000 for an agricultural
school of their own. Many bills, not
including the big appropriations asked
for all the normal schools modify in
different ways the present educational
conditions and laws
Several bills make new library regula-
tons. Fries of Howard has H. r. o.
which makes library appropriation by 3
school board from the school funds optional
instead OF obligatory as II has been
IT. r. 2e, by Parties of Wayne provides
that the Wayne Normal shall set aside
matricustion fees for library purposes as
has been in done in Peru and Kearney
Nromals. II. r. ST. by Taylor Of Hitch
cock also deals with county superlntendents
and provides for an Increase in their
salaries. In the bill is passed the salaries
will be appOrtioned to the actual popula-
ton OF the county and not to the school
population as now.
Filsey has another bill, which modlfies
|, the granting OF bachelor degree and II. r.
1872 introduced by him appropriates $4,000
to maintain departments OF agriculture ana
domestic science in high schools.
University Removal.
OF greater interest to educational au-
thorities than any other question Is the
removal OF the State university in whole
or in part TO the campus at the state farm.
The committee considering this bill has bad
several meetings with the regents OF whom
four are opposed and two favoring and the
matter has been discussed on every side,
educational, practical, financial and
aesthetic. The settlement of II Ia OF great
Importance to the future Of the university
and will not he decided without a long
deliheratlon,
Appropriation Measures.
, The week has not been especially produC-
tive of assault upon the treasury, but there
have been a few appropriation bills H. r.
275 by Murphy OF Saline appropriates $50 OOC
for the purchase OF the Gilbert homestead
in that county for a state game park OF 81,
acres. II. r. PSI provides a commission for
recodifying the statutes OF Nebraska and
appropriates $4,000 for that. Quaokenbusn
and Hardin support this bill by request II
r. 1853 by stebbins OF Dawson sets aside
, 900 for the office OF state highway
? commissioner. n. r. 3O1 sets aside s., 900 for
marking the oregon trail IN Nebraska. p
Il. 3O4 Is another appropriation for agrI,
, cultural instruction In the high schools OF
p the counties. II Is by BaEset or Buffalo
and Taylor OF Hitchcock and provides foi
p an expenditure OF 1850 for each school
H. r. 300 by Mockett OF Lancaster appro
PIRATES $4,000 for a state sanitorium for Ia
digent consumptiyes II. r. $40 apropriatei
100000 for two new buildings at the Lncoir
insane asylum.
The total expenditure involved in thes,
bills amounts 20 S252.000, not including n
nns 4. IL