The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1912-04-18

makes should be adopted by the Legls-
lature. The school laws have been tam
pered with too much already and but few
amendments passed during recent years
have improved the existing laws.
Lake Charles American-Pres Gov
ernor Sanders course in letting out the
use of the State funds for two years, last
week, at lower rate of interest than was
offered for them, shows that he is deter
mined that no one shall be afflicted with
regrets over his retirement from Office
New Orleans Picayune: zone of the
| first acts of new General Assembly,
remarked prominent man in the Hall
councils, will be to legislate the New
Orleans School Board out of existence.
There will be no more political school
boards with one member being named by
each of the seventeen ward bosses. The
new bill will provide for board of five
members, to be elected at large, irrespec-
tive of districts or ward lines, and they
must be men who hold no other position.
It will be the aim of the measure to remove
the New Orleans schools just as far from
: politics as it is possible. The board will
elect the superintendent"
Claiborne Guardian journal: 1t is much
; to hn regretted that the Department OF
!. = Education, so sacred to the people IS
hedged about with such conditions as to
: seriously interfere with the public schools
and the progress of education in this State
: for the next four years. Resolutions have
. been passed in different sections of the
State regardless of political factions re-
\ questing Mr.. Harris to resign and we be-
r liieve if he knew how strong the opposition
was to him and his policies he would do so
T. no fnr to
any thing for the cause of education with
out the cooperation of the teachers anc
the patrons of the schools, and unfortu'
it nately large portion of these are arayec
IS against him. This opposition does no
1t come alone from the Aswell sympathizers
e or the Hall supporters but many who were
e partizans of Michel have joined in the in
y dignaton meetings and have condemned
'r the course pursued by Mr.. Harris. Th'
70 measures that he proposes to submit t.
le the Legislature are even worse than tn
present laws and it is to be hoped that the.
st will not get the sanction of that body.
l. Mansfield Enterprise: At the las
70 meeting of the Parish School Board,
Re resolution was adopted notifying tn
re public that no schools would be opened il
st this parish in the fall of 1912 unless specia
e. funds are provided by special taxes, a
Sc the School Board is now $4,000 in debt
e Thus it is no schools or more taxes, an
we do not believe that the people of De
soto will agree to abandon our publ
nc schools. We have an abiding faith tha
x the Hall administration will be able
- remedy this trouble to great extent, bl
al it is positive fact that something must
az done, and that at once. We have no hop
Vs. Is. for any reform from the efforts of Super
nc intendent Harris, but the Legislature ca
us do much in that direction, and his hanc
l 'ie should be tied as effectively as possible
i ,ls The most important places that Governe
no Hall will be called upon to fill is the men
nc ~! bership of the State Board Of Education
III and if Governor Hall will give us boar
= with back-b bone and brains, the worst TIL
Mr.. Harris can do will be to draw his pa
. and retire as gentleman of leisure durir
Fl the next four years, and let the Sta
: II Board of Education straighten out n
abominable and unexcusable errors. TIL
- is the biggest proposition Governor Hs
rm will have to face, and if he solves it he "
by be a great man. 1he people have faith
The him, and expect much at his hands.