The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-06-23
DERIVE MUCH PROFIT
Employed OFFICERS OF School Director
ates Find Much Help in These
Meetings and Gain
New Ideas.

was AclQ at D0S MONIES last month,
and which he attended as Keokuk's
representative. Following is Mr.
Mlller's report as presented to the
board.
left Keokuk on the afternoon of
May 18th and arrived in Des Moines
on May 10Th at II o'clock a. m. It
was necessary for me to stay over
night in Ottumwa, as there is no
through train. l therefore did not
arrive in time for the morning ses-
sion.
The program for the morning, after
the roll OF members was taken, con-
sisted Of an address by the president,
Mr.. Charles P. Mason, secretary and
treasurer OF the board Of education of
st. Louis, Missouri, and an address
Of welcome by Governor George w.
Clarke. An Adjournment was then
taken till 2 o'clock p. m.
There were forty members present,
about all of the large cities in the
different parts OF the United States
being represented. There were eight
| cities in Iowa represented: Nevada,
| Mason City, Missouri Valley, Of
tumwa. Ames, Cedar Rapids. Dubuque
and Keokuk.
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The afternoon session was called
to order at 2 o'clock and an address
was given by Mr.. August Hitler,
| chief accountant and statistician,
board OF public education, Pittsburgh.
Pennsylvania. His subject was 1.-THE
Cleveland and Future Surveys Of
Public School Finance He recon-
mended that surveys In the future
be based upon comparable statistics,
when comparisons are to be made in
/, stead of using only such figures and
data as place In the best possible
light the system of the town in which
the author of the survey may be To-
Gated, as was done in the case of the
Cleveland survey. ut is usually the
minority which is sufficiently demo-
cratic to be interested in public at
fairs. Civic organizations, often
lguided by small clique, are apt at
times to do more harm than good
through destructive criticism, instead
OF cooperating by constructive effort.
The value OF the school survey lies
primarily in focusing the attention Of
the people on public affairs"
In the discussion which followed
Mr.. Killers paper, Mr.. Hiram G.
Case Of Albany, New York, chief
statistician Of the New York board
of education, outlined and recon-
mended the adoption of uniform
system of keeping financial statistics
of school business. He announced
that the system is to be adopted by
his own state this year, and urged
consideration of the matter by the
Representatives Of the boards Of edu-
cation in other states, who are at
tending the convention in Des Moines.
upon motion the matter was referred
to committee OF five, appointed by
the president, to make an investiga-
ton and determine II there were
any conflictions between the system
of keeping the financial statistics, as
outlined. and recommended, and the
resolutions that had been adopted by
the convention at a previous meet
ing regarding the financial statistics,
and If so If they could be made to
conform to the resolutions previously
adopted The matter Is to be taken
lup with the U. S. department of edu-
cation at Washington, in order that
no conflictions will arise with their
requirements, and to report back to
the convention their report, embody-
ing q Uniform system for the adop-
ton by the convention at its next an
nual meeting.
Aids Are Discussed.
The meeting then adjourned until
10 o'clock Wednesday morning. The
addresses were made by Mr.. Lewis
E. Larson, secretary, board of edu-
cation, Chicago, Illinois, and Mr..
Lorin C. Powers, chief clerk, board OF
education, Philadelphia, Pennsyl-
vania. The subject of Mr.. Larson's
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