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school, and the janitors are paid the
same: and il our principal rs paid Sl00
too much for the term | have only 10
say that Mr.. Forden helped to hire
him, | did not. We have had no other
expenses that amounted 70 very much.
except sn encyclopedia and q micro
sccre st E.snkon, and the eurbinR Of a
well at Columbia. so that II Barrett is
getting along with so light q tax they
must be a good deal richer than they
used 20 be. After attempting 10 show
that We are doing very little in our
high school Mr.. Forden says: "One
electric stove is about the only import
ant piece Of physical apparatus left. "
So What became of the rest Of il,
pray?
Prof. J. f. Stubs. who has charge
Of an eight room school in Gresham,
recently wrote as follows: you have
better physical laboratory than we
have" and adds. I'VE did every eXper-
iment in the physics manual year be-
fore last with the physics laboratory
at Frankon. and theIe is no reason
why il could not be done again. If the
apparatus has not been broken and the
one teaching il knows bis business. An
extensive laboratory is not needed. "
Mr.. Forden continues, Latin, French,
manual training, domestic science and
chemistry have been asked Tor at vari-
Gus times by the students, but it was
not possible or practical TO give them. f"
Well. this is not exactly college, but
high school, There Is no reason why
Latin and chemistry should not be
taught il the principal knows how to
teach them. As for French, il is not
usually taught in high schools; and as
for domestic science and manual train
ing, they can be added later, If needed,
by the addition of one small room to
the house as it stands. Superintendent
Thompson says: The two most vital
points relative to the high school are
efficiency and cost. cost is only rela-
tive term. if not exorbitant for returns
given, and should not enter into seri-
Gus consideration. How is that for
you? With the indebtedness in this
county almost as much as the assessed
valuation of all the property in the
county, his, (the superintendent's }
district in debt $40, 900 and our county
school superintendent says Cost is
only a relavtive term and should not
enter in to serious consideration.
| will admit that if ccst was not to
be considered, and time and distance
overcome, and the deep SHOWS kept
away that consolidation might be con-
sidered, but they can not, and those
things must and will be considered at
their full significance. Those who ad-
vocate consolidation on the grounds of
greater efficiency look at it only from
the teachers point of view, pupils al
ready there, and with all the conven-
fences at hand; but. the cost and in
convenience and often imposslbility of
getting there they never seriously con-
slider. And then, again, there is more
in the teacher than there is in the 10.
cality or equipment. Garfeld's idea of
college was Mark Hopkins on one
end of bench and himself on the
other. Frankton is now on the high
school accredited list at o. A. G.. and
the University of Oregon. Wen keep
it there. And | have too much conf
dene in the integrity and common
sense of the people of Frankton to
think that they will throw away for
mere shadow all that they have been
so long in building up.
+. X. Austen.