Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1916-11-30

MINNESOTA SUPERINTENDENT OF
EDUCATION SENDS CIRCULAR
LETTER TO SCHOOL HEADS.
~" REGENTS TO ASK MILLIONS
To Present Budget of $4,000, 900 to Leg
isIature-Eoard Determines on Re.
trenchment to Include Economy In
Every Department of University.

St Paul |
Questions as to the policy regarding
tate aid to school to be advocated BY
school authorities before the next leg
stature are asked in a letter mailed
O superintendents and directors by c.
:. Schulz, state superintendent of edu-
cation.
Mr.. Schulz cites that there has been
4 shortage in the state aid for each
Of the last two years as appropriated
by the legislature. The failure of the
lawmakers to appropriate up to the
,ull amount for high, graded rural and
consolidated schools and for special de-
>artments in all these Is explained by
Ar Schulz as due to desire to re-
;trict the tax rate. The amount avail
lble for state aid the last two years
vas $3S25, 900, as against $4,77S.71S
necessary, If the full amounts earned
by the schools had been paid.
The state superintendent asks school
9nice"s to advise legislators in their
districts as to their own attitude to-
ward the questions
The move follows the recent dis.
which. although representing the
largest single disbursement in the his.
tory of state business, was only 70 per
cent of the total intended
1T is of the utmost importance
that we should have stable, pro-
3ressive and expanding public school
policy in Minnesota" Superintendent
Schulz states in circular.
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Millions For University.
With budget estimate Of nearly
100000 to present to the Legisla-
ture, the University of Minnesota
Board OF Regents has determined on
retrenchment policy which will include
strict economy in every department,
and restriction of enrolment wherev-
er possible rather than to increase the
teaching staff
More than score OF requests and
petitions for new buildings. increas-
ed equipment, increased salaries and
enlargement of teaching stats were
heutu Ny tlc bodl put oiES ~ A0W
Of them received encouragement
Among the expenditures the board
looked on favorably. however, are:
Erection Of a 100000 hospital for
patients for clinical study
Establishment of separate depart
nent of public health, requiring an
! initial expenditure OF $4,000.
Creation OF an associate professor
ship of railroad transportation.
| Provisions for giving women voca-
| tional training in lines other than
Enlargement of the Industrial work
| IT the college OF chemistry 10 meet
| the new demands brought about by
Additions to the university library
| and the engineering research labora-
| tory.
| Governor Names Delegates.
| Governor Burnquist has just appoint
cd twenty-four Minnesota delegates to
| the National Rivers and Harbors Con
gress on December 6 to S at Washing
ton. The list of delegates contains
| these names:
st. Paul-P. T Glidden, Paul Doty
krank, George Lambert and II. T.
! Quinlan.
Minneapolis-W. F. Decker. J. c,
| Andrews, J. l.. Record. Charles D.
Gould, Theodore Void. F. G. Win.
ston, r. w, Chadbourn and S C.
Woodruff
Delegates named from other Mime
sofa cities are: ". Hayes Laird, WI
mona; James X. Grondahl. Red Wing;
w. c. Masterman, Saltwater: E. C
Anthony. Hastings; ]. E. Reynolds
Mankato: Mile Bunnell and A. c
Weiss, Duluth; A. II. Reed, Glencoe
and j. Nj. Elder, Brainerd
Seed Wheat Shortage Seen.
The farmer who is forced to buy seet
wheat this winter will feel the effect.
of the prevailing high prices of farm
products Though milling wheat i,
bringing close TO So a bushel the mar
whose own product is too poor for seet
J purposes will have 10 pay as high as s;
or even higher in getting supply else
where. The corn crop. late in starting
rounded under favorable weather an,
there Is no seed corn problems, &C
cording to Mr. Bull.
. TO Check Baby Blindness.
~ regulation directed against bah,
blindness recently adopted by tn
state board of health has been signe
by Attorney General Lyndon A. Smitl
= and will have the effect of state law
1t requires all physicians or othe
; of newborn children with one per cen
port to health authorities any signs @
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Place Car Shortage Blame,