The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1912-09-27

in his district will start the last day
Of Sept. He told us he did not I'M
derstand that it made so very much
difference when the school began or
they would have planned to have had
their school begin on the date sug-
gested by the State superintendent
the 9th of September.
We had the pleasure of meeting
Mrs. Emma Holbert of district No.
| 8 last week. We have correspondent
with her the past three years and
this Is the first time we have met
each other and become acquainted
She is very much interested in the
schools in her district. We believe
that every school board should have
at least one woman to help and adj
yise-as the perfect home needs
both man and woman to run it sue
cessrully so the school board also
should consist of both man and wo-
man. We have only three women on
school boards in Seward county
Mrs. Holbert, Mrs. Mosher and Mrs.
Edith Thompson, who was formerly
Miss Edith Campbell. Mrs. Thomp-
son was one of our teachers during
our first term in office. She is also
graduate of the Liberal High
School.
A letter from Grandma Lane tells
lis she is we'll and having good time
in Topeka. She is very much in love
with our State Capital, knowing as
she does, many of the old timers.
How can the high school better
meet the needs of the community?
The people in the little town of Cole
brook, N. H., think they have solved
the problem Their experiment is
described in bulletin just issued for
Tree distribution by the United States
Bureau of Education at Washington.
What the Colebrook plan is may be
guessed from the recent additions to
the school plant. A greenhouse.
dairy laboratory, domestic arts de-
partment, carpenter shop, and black
smith shop. Courses are given in
agriculture and domestic science. Yet
the school remains a general high
school, with the usual high school
courses.
There is some trouble in Saline
county. School was to have begun |
last Monday, but it did not. There |
are larger number of negro fami- |
lies, but there are more white chill |
dren to attend the school than col |
ored children. The negroes own the
most land and pay greater amount |
of taxes and they, standing on their |
constitutional rights elect negroes as
members of the school board. To
this the white patrons object, but it |
does little or no good. The school
board employed colored teacher OF !
Alma, Kansas to teach the school
but the County Supt. refused to in
dOrse 1t and she is therefore
barred from taking charge of the
school officially. She appeared but
the white people were at the school
house and the colored teacher, Mrs.
Rosa Johnson, did not call the school
to order. Two or three white teach
ers have been sent to the district to
get the job, but the board did not
employ them, saying that they had
already employed a teacher. Just
when the school will begin cannot be
told at this time and what the out
come OF the trouble in this district
No. 81 is also mystery. Seward
county is free from such troubles
Two of the common school gradu-
ates of Seward county, Misses Maud
and Edna George, started for the
Texas Presbyterian College at Mil
ford, Texas, last Sunday morning.
They will visit their grandmother,
Mrs. Whims in Wichita for a few
days Mrs. George accompanied