The Sentinel=record., 1913-11-16

School White. 5,O31, ne gro, 2,S57.
 School Enrollment-White. 2,550; negro. 716.
 Average Attendance-White, 1914: negro, 607.
 Percent of Children Enroued- White, 90; negro, 25.
 Percent of White. 3G; negro, q 1-3.
 These figures mean that only 50 per cent of all the white children ot school age in this district are en- rolled in the public schools. and that only 36 per cent of all the white chil- dren actufally attend school
 There are two pa.ochial schools in this district which have a small per centage of the children net in the public schools, but even incudlns these. there are over 90 per cent of our white children who are not re ceiyng school training.
 The Waste EntaIed
 The schools are not being used up l 1 our buildings are, it is true es .)e. cially this year, but the schools which are not in the center of The town are not nearly filed and it is in those neighhorhoods that the greatest per centage of children are our of schooi You are paying for the maintenance 1 of buildings which are half empty. You are getting about 30 cents re | turn for every dollar spent, because you are Spending $S4,000 year to make better citizens and over half of | the children you are spending it on are being allowed to grow up into 1 umhnkiug untrained voters. You are striving for better busi- ness future for Hot Springs and over half of your next generation of busi- ness men are growing up without proper mental discipline and without | training that will make of them skill | ed artisans.
 ! Your state educational system is trying to train your future legislators and voters through the schools so that Arkansas may vote intelligently for 1 the legislative changes that are immi- nent and vital. but half the thinkers Of your local district are growing up without the development that will en. l able them to think straight.
 A Poorly Provided Law.
 Our educational law has tried to guard against this. but it has not pro- i yided against the negligence that we are dis1laying.
 Whose business is it to see that the law is enforced? Why isnt 1t your business? How School Appropriation Is Spent
 Current operation of schools, $53,- SSO56
 Maintenance of building and equip ment. S2,2O923.
 Bonds interests, insurance. etc. $16,3S390
 County treasurer's and collectors i commissions, $2.44S.6T Old warrants, $1&93.&5.
 Expenditures. $S2,3157l Cash on hand, $6,S5t33.
 Total $S9,17004.
 Of the S5S,SS0 operating expenses, 74 1-2 per cent is paid for teaching and 9 1-2 per cent for administration.
 Some interesting points:
 The highest salary paid to an ele- mentary teacher is S75.
 The highest salary paid to a school janitor is $60.
 The lowest salary paid to eiemen tary teachers is $50.
 Four school ianitors receive $50
 School Notes.
 Hot Springs reached same conclu- sion as Indianapolis
 Dr. Ernest P, Wiles, principal of the Junior and Senior high school, oi l Evansville. Ind. yesterday advocated a change in the method of education that would reyolutioniZe the high ana elementary schools system in this city The division between the ele mentary and high schools in vogue here, as well as in the majority oi cities in the country at the presen, time, he said, is the direct cause of the failure of many children to re- ceive a high school education.
 Doctor Wiles was the principal speaker last night at a meeting ot the Schoolman's Club, Sixteenth and Summer streets. The subject of his address was The Junior Hign School" In the discussion that fol lowed many of those present express ed themselves in favor of Doctor Wiles' views and believed that the new method should be adopted in this city l. Briefly, he is of the opinion that children should leave the elementary school when they reach the seventh grade; that a junior high school should De established for these chil dren, and that after three years they should enter a senior high school
 The following are set forth as the thief advantages of this change:
 It fits the work more closely to the pupil. thus retaining many wto dror out under the present system because of lack of interest.
 It shifts to less dangerous period