The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-08
NOTED EDUCATORS OF SOUTH SPEAK
 ON LEGISLATION OF
 PROGRESSIVE KIND
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taxation added to the present constitu- tional state support of our public schools is the very basis, the foundation, upon which rests the success or failure of all our other administrative school measures It must not be allowed to fail when the reople come to vote on it in the Novem- Ter election of this year.
 We rejoice that our educational sys- tenn occupies higher ground today thar ever it reached before; that the future is more roseate with promise than Alabama las ever known. At such moment it is especially fitting that we should render our tribute of praise to the men and the women and the agencies that have really wrought these betterments for us.
 Who are they?
 First, of all and deserving the chief place of honor is that noble band of men and women who together have consti- tuted Alabamas s teaching force in the years that are gone. They are as much deserving our tribute of praise as are those who have occupied the highest places. They share the honors of the unknown confederate soldier
 The second influence. silent yet power full, is the press of Alabama. The dailies and the weeklies have spoken, they have urSeu, they nave ueIHdHueo improved GU uoational conditions for the youth of this state Then there is the teachers monthly journal of education-the Educa- tional Exchange. For more than 9 years it has been the official spokesman of the teachers of Alabama.
 JUST BEGUN TO TRAVEL
 What of the future? Have we reached our goal? Mo- we have just begun tc fraN n1tr Sn,of od, ri r, cry, 25 years hence, will be remembered as ludicrous patchwork, and most of il will have been consigned to the scrap near in the march of progress to better things
 "A bit of progressive legislation touch iEg our public school laws in the near fu- ture and requiring a constitutiona change should be the creation of state board of education modelled in part after the ideas of the county board recently provided. The state superintendent should be it's secretary and executive officer, but he should not be member of it. Such 8 board should require state sIperintend- ent to devote his whole time, like a county superintendent. to professional duties without feeling the necessity of managing all the business details of all the schools of the state.'
 At the conclusion of the address of Dr Willngham, Mrs. Chappell Cory spoke or the work of the Womans Christian Tenn perance union and pleaded for the coop eration of the teachers in this movement for temperance.
 DIR. JOINER HEARD
 Dr. J. Y. Joyner, state superintendent of education of North Carolina, spoke or ''1 he Teacter. Citizen and the Citizer Maker He urged the teachers to return to their home from the conTention ano labor in behalf of the amendment fol loca! school taxation He advocated tho equitable apportionment of the taxation so that every school in the state couc enjoy full term each year.
 Dr. Joyner expressed the opinion that the sparsely settled communities could bt aided by state funds so that the children in those communities would not be de prived of the advantages given childrer where the population was greater. How ever, he stated that the state should not in any case pay all the expenses of tho schools, as that system was conducive te extravaganoe and inefficiency