The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-04-12

teachers also fill thousands Of posi-
tons although the preponderance OF
women over men is greatest in the ele-
mentary schools. Since many of the
children V nav anything more
than a common school education, it is
safe to say that fully half of the men
of this generation have received their
entire education from women. Their
ideals of manhood, honor, patriotism
and morality, as we'll as their knowl-
edge of the three RS must, there
fore, be the result of women's work in
education. With all their admitted de-
fects, the American public schools are
doing a work SO beneficent in estab-
fishing the citizenship of the future
that women well may take pride in the
work they have wrought.
The work of women in education is
not confined to teaching. 1t is extend
ing each year more broadly into the
fields of superintendent and direc-
ton. In most large American cities
women are filling places as members
of the board of education, and in many
rural districts the woman school di-
rector is credited with bringing newer
and better equipment into the schools
" WHICH she IS responsible. In some
states, the office of both state and
county superintendent of schools is
occupied more frequently by a woman
than a man. Often these women
originate new ideas which men super
intendents are glad to copy. Mrs.
Josephine Preston. state superintend-
ent of schools of Washington, who
formerly was a county superintendent,
is credited with being the first super
~intendent to devise the plan of cottage
homes for rural school teachers. This
is said to solve the housing problem
for women teachers in rural localities
which frequently has rendered it diff
cut to secure the class of instructors
desired for country schools.
The state of Wyoming has women
as superintendent of schools of 20 out
of its p counties, as we'll as a woman
state superintendent. In Colorado for
years the state superintendent always
has been a woman While the western
states are ahead of the eastern ones in
awarding women the office of superin-
tendent, 1t has been pen to them in
most states for years. One of the first
women to hold the office of county SUI
p~erlntendent in an eastern state was
MISS Anna Buckbee of Potter county,
Pennsylvania, who for quite a long
time rode over long, lonesome roads,
driving her own horse and buggy when
the numbering interests of that coun-
try brought to it a great many foreign
workers who lived in camps in some
of the forests through which the little
superintendent nae to pass. She
claimed many adventures which sound
ed as though they might have occurred
in the great undeveloped west, but her
influence in the school organization of
the country made even the most conser-
vative man do homage to her ability.
There are now 495 women county SUI
perlntendents distributed among 26
states.
The success of Mrs. Ella Flagg
Young, who is serving her third term
as superintendent of the public schools
or chicago, demonstrates her ability to
handle the complex problems which
come up in the direction of the many
classes of instruction which are re-
CURED in a great city. the population
of which includes almostevery known
nationality. Mrs. Young has - assist
ant superintendent under her direc-
tion, four of whom are women.
Tomorrow-The Modern Woman.
AIN.-Women in Philanthropy.