Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-10-16
DAKOTA
LEADS UNION
DR.. A. E. Winship of Boston
Pays Tribute to
Schools
NURSES PROVE HELP
TO RURAL SYSTEM
Barnes County Consolidated
School Model of Its
Kinds

the union in county agents, Iconsoii
datel schools and county nurses. This
statement was made 10y DR.. A. 3. Win
snip Of Boston, who has just spent
some time Investigating education
al progress in North Dakota. Dr.. Win
ship is the best authority on educa
tional work in the United States
| Since the civil war, he has been in
practically every state of the union
every year studying educational work
He has already made five trips to the
Pacific this year and is now on .lis
way there again. He makes a special
study OF a few states each year, one
of which has just been completed on
North Dakota. d.
State Doing Things.
Below are a few of the statements
that he ,nade in an address before a
teachers institute at Buffalo Tues
day: North Dakota is doing tlings,
She has more consolidated schools
than any other state. In the last four
years 1888 schools have been consOli-
dated, e 1000 dinky one.room
schools have been closed and 22O,
more kept from starting by building
consolidated schools. North Dakota
also leads in county nurses. Seven
counties have made provision for
them already"
He cited one case OF where the co IL,
ty commissioner was a little opposed
to the county nurse. However, ne
voted for her just because the county
Superintendent said it was a good
thing. A little while after appoint:
ment tie nurse in visiting 4 school
found a boy who lad defective c.;v.
sight. She called the attention Of tho
teacher to it. The parents took the
boy to an Oculist and found out that
if the eyes had been neglected a.
couple of months longer one eye
would have become blind and that
soon the sight in the other eye would
have been lost too. But taking it in
time both eyes were saved. And the
boy was the son of that very county
commissioner. He related many Incl
dents to show how the nurse had de-.
tected things in time that if allowed
to go on would have lead to serious
consequences. North Dakota also
leads in county agents in proportion
to the population of the state. There
are q of these men who are bringing
to the farm the latest information and
Ire also organizing the farmers SO
that they will have the benefit of or
in carrying on their work
IS we'll as learning mere about. the
pest method of farming. He said that
some people are sitting on the tail Of
progress and shouting whoa. These
ire the ones wlo are opposing these
moves.
No One Objected.
He said that he would wager that
here was no one that objected to get
ing his mail by rural free delivery,
wen though it was a new thing. That
10 one would refuse to ride in an
automobile, yet it had not been in eX-
stence long. That no one would re.
use to use the telephone, another new
Nor that any one would
efuse to have his grain threshed with
thres:ling machine even though yer.
laps his father used the fail. These
:ew things are all accepted, yet many
hinh that what was in the school
Vhen he was a boy is all that is
in the school now. That
was good enough for MIN or his
ather is good enough in the schools
ow. Then he asked the question why
hould the sclool stand still, if all
ne other things were being improved.
md he brought out the fact that the
cnool is not standing still, but it is
rogressing. That it has progressed
o much that there r many things
4 the schools today that had not even
cen thought Of ten or fifteen years
go. The first teachers cottage was
uilt only six years ago, yet it has in
his short time become quite common.
he first county school nurse in North
was appointed less than a
ear ago yet seven counties have al.
eady hired n CIR made provision for
aving a nurse.
Red Letter Day.
He said that October second was a !
day in his life; ne was not
ire that he had any other that was
ute its equal. 1T was the LAYING of
corner stone for a consolidated
,hool in a township in Barnes coun :
There wa no town OF railroad in :
lie township. The building is to cost J..
1900 and will have all the modern =
improvements, including flush closets. :
will have as good accommodations :
!; any school in city or country, :
Tough others may be elaborate. The :
,ainman was one of the pioneers :
no came IS years ago and many of '
e others had been there over thirty :
ears. They came in OK carts then. .
Nv they come in automobiles. When :
came to laying the corner stone they
1t into it the names Of all the first {
wnship and school officers and they
ere all Scandinavian. Then they
in the names Of the rresent town.
Zip officers and school officers. and
lese We're also Scandinavian. When c
|e prayer was offered it was in Nor e
egian. The chairman tlen i%ntroduc-
his two daughters to sing our ma.
on hymn and America" pealed o
nth. These men who had come from o
foreign land and made their homes c
North Dakota were not only de- S
its resources, building homes o
I'd Showing patriotism, but they are i
tent on giving their children the n