Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1915-12-08

equipped normal or high school. Nor
is the service confined to schools. In
many cases the entire community is
invited to the meetings, social centers
ando EXAMINATIONS of various kinds
being regular or occasional patrons of
the bureau
AS financial proposition, the opera
ton of these circuits is an example
of a striking economy in the admins
tration of public funds. Had the
schools of the state secured on a rent
al basis from the commercial eXchang-
es the same service which they had
last year from the extension division,
it would have cost approximately 1884,
400. Had each school on the circuits
purchased outright the films and slides
of which they had the use last year at
the mere cost of transportation, the
expense to each school would have
been $4,025, or a total for the 160
schools on the circuits of $644,O00. The
actual cost of this service to the
schools of the state under the extern
sion divisions plan, including capital
investment was only $4,000.
| Many of the slides are accompanied
by lectures prepared by university fac
ulty members and the field covered is
widely varied one. Many of the
county training schools for teachers
and county agriculture schools are US
ing educational slides in work among
the rural schools and planning a more
extensive use of them for the coming
year. Art, history, travel, literature,
sociology, agriculture, and the various
sciences are represented in the gen
eral service to the circuits, and a
special series of slides for high school
work is now in preparation. Some of
the subjects to be treated will be his
tory, literature, agriculture, botany
art, geography, travel, home economics
and manual arts, birds, and Wisconsin,
| it's history, geography, resources and
enterprises.
This visual instruction service goes
| to all parts of the state. Schools and
centers which own their own motion
picture machines are located in Plain
| field, Hancock, Port Edwards, May
vile, West Bend, Menomonee Falls,
Oconomowoc, Milton Junction, Racine,
the State tuberculosis Sanatorium at
Wales, Waukesha, Rochester, Delavan,
Lake Geneva, Beloit, Brooklyn, Mt.
Horeb, Blanchardville, Belmont, Sank
City, Prairie du Chen, Amery, La
Crosse, Onalaska, Sparta, Norwalk,
Tomah, Fairchild, Owen, Osseo, AL
toona, Eau Claire, Thorp, ColfaX, Rice
Lake, Bruce, Cumberland, Osceola,
Grantsburg, Prescott, Menomone9,
Chippewa Falls, Black River Falls,
Humbird, Warrens, Neillsville, Grand
Rapids, Merrill, Green Bay, Two Riv-
ers, Brillion, Sheboygan, FOn du Lac,
Ripon, Markesan, State Hospital sta
| ton, Wauqacca, La Crosse, Madison,
Milwaukee and Lancaster
The list of communities which own
stereOpticons or which make other ar
themselves of the film and slide SER
vice is equally representative, the
number of small communities on the
list being regarded as most significant
This service is a striking illustration
Of the way in which the valuable re-
sources of the university are being
placed at the disposal of the people
Of the state through the extension di-
vision.
Judging by correspondence receiv-
ed in this Office" saiys Prof w. H.
Dudley, head of the bureau, "the de-
mand for slides and films during the
coming year will be so per cent great
er than it was last year. The need for
this service and the success of the bu-
reau are certainly proved by results
The bureau was organized in January
1914, less than two years ago and its
rapid growth has been most gratifying
And this is the service to which one
opponent of the extension division
objected during the recent session OF
the legislature on the grounds that be-
ing an opticion, he was mighty sure
that the bureau of visual instruction
was fake.
"You can't tell me anything about
it," he said. Its a fools idea, this
trying to teach folks how to fit glass
es by mail"
Which shows how much some of the
people know about work that is be-
ing done by an institution of their