The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-09-05
More Than 5000 Kenosha
School Children Get
Back to Work.
WILL FIND SEATS FOR ALL
Supt. Bradford in Address to Teachers
Urges Them to Seek the Welfare of
the Children Only One New Depart
ment Opened This Year.

The school bells Of the city rang
for the first time in three months this
morning and more than three thousand
Kenosha school children trudged back
| to school The attendance for the
term promises to be considerably lar
ger than last year, but figures can not
be given out until after the general
meeting of the principals this after
noon. f'Seats for ALL is the motto
Of Superintendent Bra ford and her
assistants and it is expected that there
will be little trouble arranging to take
care Of the children.
| All of the eight rooms at the Frank
school were ready for use this morn
ing. One room was opened at the Ger
man Lutheran school and one at the
St. Thomas school and it is possible
that it will be necessary to open the
auditorium Of the Frank school to
take care of all the new pupils. There
is only one new department. this year
ard that is the department of domes-
tic economy at the High school build
ing. This is under the direction Of
Miss Frances Beck.
The first regular meeting of the
teachers was held at the High school
on Tuesday afternoon and this showed
the largest number of teachers ever
employed in the schools. superinten-
dent Bradford in her, annual address
to the teachers said in part:
"Kenosha is moving forward in
many ways. It. is making rapid prog
ress industrially, and under a progress
sive administration is moving ahead
in civic affairs. It ranks eighth in
population in the state and is said
to have made during the last decade,
the greatest proportional growth
among Wisconsin cities.
"We have a school board doing all
il can to help the advancement of the
schools. Such great institution as q
public school system costs a large
amount, and since the money must
come by public taxation there are
bound to be limitations. As is occur
ring in many cities, outside philan-
thropy has begun to come forward
with help for the public schools. For
years, colleges and other institutions
have been receiving benefits and en-.
dowments from those who owe these
institutions much for their youthful
equipment for life. The time is APP
preaching when those who regard the
public schools as their alma mater will
give money to help along the most i'm
portant public institutions.
Here is a fundamental proposition
that / think Kenosha is coming to see:
that no city has any right to take on
or to encourage growth, out of proper
tion to the growth and educational OPP
homes come to be in Kenosha; that a
city which boasts Of attracting this
or that new industry with consequent
increase of workmen and their fam
lies is doing serious injustice to its
child-citizens, if it does not make
proportionally increased provision for
schools.
9 Besides the need Of thus keeping
pace with natural growth, Kenosha
has been obliged to catch up with the
procession-many cities Of her rank,
having long outdistanced her in the
march towards newer forms of edu-
cational work. She has sprinted ahead
this year with new domestic science
department and "a new chemistry de-
partment in the High school, and with
a more convenient equipment Of rooms
for all High school teachers than ever
before.
S In the elementary schools there is
one new manual training centre, and
the promise Of kitchens for girls at no
distant day.
"All these changes are in line with
the trend Of the times-which is that
Of more and more adaptation of the
schools to meet the needs of the com
munity.
You have come to work for Ke-
nosha, for the children of Kenosha.
You are expected to be loyal to her
interests. A city that is good enough
to support you materially BY afording
you field Of work, is good enough to