Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-01-28
All Sub.Stations
To Be Done Away
With If Possible
NORMAL SCHOOLS WILL NOT
TEACH AGRICULTURE AND
OTHER SIDE LINES.
PRESIDENT BLACK YESTERDAY
Head Of the Normal Industrial
School at Glendale Was
Quizzed.

The special investigation commit.
tee empowered to act under the Lath-
rop concurrent resolution will recon-.
mend that all of the agricultural SUBJ
stations and experimental farms be
done away with. This was learned at
the meeting of the joint committee
held yesterday in the state auditors
office when President r. NJ. Black of
the State Normal-Industria school at
Ellendale was ION the carpet"
Duplication of agricultural work at
the various normal schools of the
state will be cut out if the committee
recommendations are adopted. The
idea of the joint committee is to cut
out all agricultural work in all
schools with the exception of the az
ricultura! college and to eliminate all
side lines from the agricultural col
lege curriculum-making it purely an
agricultural school.
NormaIs Were "Infected."
President Black argued that the az
ricultural course at the y. !. is a good
thing for the students in attendance
at that school, as agriculture is the
principal industry in the state.
you've got big enough field as
it is said one member of the com.
mittee. ITS your work to turn cut
blacksmiths, carpenters, seamstress.
es and cooks, as well as teachers, and
to let the farmer go to the agricultur.
al college,
Another member of the joint com.
mittee asserted that all of the Nor.
mai schools seemed to have been "in.
fected' by the agricultural course bug
at the same time and that four years
ago the normals did not think of
teaching farm subjects. There is no
excuse for normal school teaching
agricultural said this member,
There is a little more of an excuse
for an industrial school to attempt
it,
Strike Trial Balance.
The joint committee is going over
all Of the items in each of the bud
gets Of the various institutions with
the institutional heads and is trying,
in the words of one of the commit
tee, ito arrive at trial balance now
but we don't know where it will
land US
Item for Item.
Yesterdays session was a regular
one and the committee treated Presi-
dent Black with the same courtesy
and consideration as any of the 9TH
er institutional heads summoned to
appear here.
The president of the Glendale
school brought with him the books of
the school and each item in the bug.
get was gone into thoroughly, with
the idea Of eliminating all of the un-
necessary items therefrOm.
MIR. Bla>k was asked such ques.
tions as: "How much is it going to
cost TO repoint that wall, and how
many feet is it?' What do you
mean by this item of $1,000 for such
a purposes, etc.
Don't you sell some of the prod
ucts of your domestic science depart.
ments?' asked one member of the in
committee.
"Oh, most of those aren't fit to
SELL replied the head of the institu-
ton at Ellendale
Kitchen is Upstairs.
One thing which caused the COM
mittee to wonder was the fact that
the kitchen in the domestic science
hall is upstairs and the sewing room
IS downstairs. Mr. Twichell vowed
that such a state of affairs did not
seem home-like and asked many ques-
ions about that upstairs kitchen"
It did not seem to the committee that
girls taking domestic science and
household arts course should be forced
% take their instruction in conditions
which are met with in flats, where
kitchens are OF necessity upstairs in
many instances. Domestic science,
according to their idea, was more
han teaching girls how to cook and
eW.
Educators Junketinq Trips.
The committee must have found in
stances Of some of the institutional
reads going on junketing trips and
'harging same to the state for Mr..
Black was asked several times if he
lad not taken a trip to New York,
<ew Orleans, st. Paul, or other plac-
s and if he did not contemplate 60
ng to the fair at San Francisco. 1t
inally developed that the next meet
ng of the n. f. A. is to be held in
his latter city this year.
McVey is Coming.
President McVey of the state uni
ersity will have chance to explain
II of the university budget items to
he joint committee this week. He has
cen summoned to appear before the
on Friday and the univer-
lty budget will be taken up on that
ay.
All Members Present.
All of the members of the special
,int committee were present at yes
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