Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1913-10-02
THE HIGH SCHOOLS
SHOW B|GGROWTH
Gain no, Per Cent in Last Six
y Years..
tFEEE TUITION THE CAUSE
State Superintendent w. D. Ross Says
That So Counties Now Have One
or More Schools Where
Teaching ls Free.


office Of w. d. Ross, state superin-
tendent of public instruction. show
that since 1906 the increase OF en-
rollment In all the schools of the
state has been less than two per
cent; in the same time the increase
in the high school enrolment has
been ITO per cent. These figures did
not include the figures for the school
year of 1913. all of which are not
yet available. Those already in In
dicate that. more than 80 per cent
of the graduates of the graded
schools in the cities started to high
schools last fall, and slightly more
than 80 per cent of the rural graded
school graduates also enrolled for
high school work.
Phe increase in high school attend
ance the last few years is attributed
by Superintendent Ross largely to the
increasing number of free tuition high
schools. Sixty-five counties in Kan
sas now have one or more high
schools where tuition is free not only
to children in the city or district, but
to other districts in the same coun-
ties. Forty Of these are under the
provisions of the Barnes high school
law, whereby the children can go to
the nearest high school In the
county without paying tuition. The
other twenty-five have a designated
county high school, where tuition is
free to all pupils from that county
One further step is necessary be-
fore the high school can come into
Its own and the children of Kansas
get its full benefits, according to Su-
|fperintendent Ross. This is a law
similar to the one now in effect in
Pennsylvania, which provides, briefly.
that in school districts where there
are no high schools, the school dis.
trict must pay the tuition for pupils
from that district who may attend
a high school in some other district
that has high school.
The board Of administration in
charge of the Kansas educational in.
/ stitutions Is having big hunt for
professors and instructors for all the
schools. Since the end of the school
| year fifty-six men and women have
left the agricultural college, sforty.two
have left the university and forty.four
the state normal schoal and its
branches. Most of them left because
they had better Jobs offered them by
other colleges. Last winter the Kan.
sas newspapers and educators pleaded
with the legislature to make adequate
appropriations for higher salaries for
the bright young men and women who
we're doing real work at the schools.
Other states, with larger appropria-
tons, were hunting FOR these Kansans
who were doing things and every year
Kansas was losing good men and
women because It could not meet the
salary offers Of other state school
boards. But the legislature paid no
attention to these pleas and the board
is hunting for new people to take
their places and competent people are
hard to find at the salaries Kansas
pays.
The date for pond week has not yet
been decided, Governor Hodges said
the other day. 1t probably will be SET
for some time early in November.
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Gov. George H. Hodges has been
asked to locate lost Republican.
The request came In the form OF a
letter from J. l.. Bushnell of Chicago.
asking the governor to help him To-
cate a nephew, Walter Bushnell, who
Is supposed to have come to Kansas
several years ago with one A. NJ.
Records. No description OF the miss
ing nephew was given, nor the year
In which he was thought to have come
to Kansas.
The state grain Inspection war is to
be carried to Kansas City by George
B. Ross. state grain inspector. Fol.
lowing the successful outcome OF his
fight with the Wichita board OF trade,
II
which resulted in an agreement that
all grain handled on the Wichita board
should be inspected by the state, In
spector Ross said that his next fight
would be waged against the Kansas
City board OF trade.
o.
Forty-seven persons in the penlten-
tiary sent from Shawnee county are
now earning 10 cents per day, which
will be sent to those dependent on
the prisoners at the time OF their con-
flnement II they are in need
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It was said here recently that Judge
Charles w. Smith of Rocks county
would be an almost certain candidate
for the state supreme bench at the
next election. Judge Smith has pre-.
sided over the Tbirty-fourth judicial
district for twenty-six years.
Do
A bigger and better show for 1914 is
the slogan already adopted by the Of
ficials OF the State Fair and tentative
plans looking toward the Improvement
OF the grounds and the securing OF