The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-04
STOP THE leaks.
School Board Will Adopt the
RequisitiOn System.
Put an End to Waste in School
Supplies.
MRS. M'CARTER NAMED
Takes Place of Samuel Houston
Who Resigned From Board.
Trade Schools May Soon Be Es-
tablished Here.
MRS. M'CARTER NAMED

IN the midst of a warm campaign
for school board positions. vacancy
on the school board was created and
that vacancy filed almost in the
cWinkling of an eye. Samuel Houston
resigned his position on the board be-
cause business would not permit him
to devote a sufficient amount of tine
In the interests of the school, and
Mrs. Margaret Hill McCarter was
unanimously chosen by the board of
education in session Monday night to
NIL out the unexpired term.
1t was upon the motion of S. r.
kutz that another woman was placed
on the board of education. Twenty
years ago there were two women on
the board said Mr.. Kutz, land 1 be-
Heve that il is fitting that we should
choose another woman at this time"
Il want to say in casting my vote"
said c. K. Holiday, that in trying to
honor Mrs. Margaret Hill McCarter 1
think the board is honoring itself and
the city of Topeka" Mrs. McCarter
VIII serve on the board until August,
1912.
An important step was taken by the
board when a report on the requisi-
ton system of handling school supplies
read by S. r. Kutz was adopted. The
report recommends the esta blishment
of a storehouse where supplies will be
Kept. and in connection with this a
workship where repairs of all kinds
Will be made.
S. r. Kutz and Superintendent L. d.
Whittemore recently made trip to
Kansas City. KAN and Kansas City,
Mo. to inspect the systems in vogue
in those cities. I'VE find in Kansas
City. Kan said Mr.. Kutz. that they
have really practical system. An ex-
cellent building was erected at q cost
of $4,000 which serves as a store room
and a repair shop. Here any kind of
cabinet work is done or jobs in plumb
ing. great deal of money is saved
each year.
"A plumber and several carpenters
are employed and instead of contracting
for much of the work it is done by
their own force. 1t means a great deal
to the board of education and the tax
payers to adopt such system
ThiI Plan Adopted.
The report which was adopted reads
in part:
I'VE find that the supplies above
mentioned. with the exception of man
uai training supplies and equipment
and those for the domestic science de-
partment are largely supplied under
contract by Zercher, Hall, and the Cen
trail Paper company. In this connection
we recommend that in the purchase of
oil supplies. the competitive bid sys-
tenn be employed, and specific notice be
given to all dealers, and that the con-
tract award go to the lowest RESPONSE
BILE bidder, home merchants to be pre-
ferred.
Your committee is of the opinion
that economy and good service would
suggest that a more business-like meth
cd be employed. and to accomplish this
we would suggest the opening of
storehouse where supplies of all kinds
can be kept, under the immediate super
vision of a storekeeper, in quantity
equal to at least one-half of the de-
mands of a school year.
I'VE recommend that the board make
necessary arrangements for the open
ing of a storehouse to be in readiness
for the opening of our next school year
and that storekeeper be selected to
make such reports to the clerk of the
board as the board may direct.
I'VE recommend that at the opening
of such storehouse all supplies on hand
be invoiced and charged to the store
house under proper classification, and
that all subsequent purchases be charg-
ed in the same manner; and the store
house to have credit for orders drawn
upon it, properly classified, to the end
that at any inventory period a perfect
balanced conditions may be had.
your committee further recon-
mends that in connection with such
store house there be established a
workshop. wherein repairing of all
believes that the temporary employ
1nent of these two agencies will be so
fruitful of good that their continuance
will be n necessity"
Judge Carver Objected.
The only time when there was any
danger of one of the hot arguments
being started which have given the
present board notoriety was when S.
r. Kutz offered the suggestion in the
form of a motion that an investigation
be made of the existing "evil' which
makes it necessary for the parents to
exneDd a cOnsidpra hla amount of
money in the purchase of supplemental
school books
II don't like the language of that"
said Judge Carver, rather warmly. 1T
starts out with the umDtion that
it is an evil to be corrected. The state
superintendent and others consider
some of the books are not sufficient for