The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-04-01
President Butcher of EmpOria
Normal Advocates New
Educational Plan.
WOULD REACH MORE PEOPLE
Many More High School Students
Could Receive instruction in High
er Branches Under System

the Kansas State Normal says that
| the establishment of Junior colleges"
in high schools would materially in
crease the number of college trained
people in the state.
In his address at the high school
teachers conference at K. U. recent
ly he said that under the California
law of 1911, more than a dozen high
schools in that state are doing fifth
and sixth year work. Three high
schools in Minnesota have established
junior college departments. The pub
lie schools at Grand Rapids offer I'M
derclass college work. Junior colleges
are located in ST. Louis and Kansas
City and one year of junior college
work is being given at st. Joseph with
the intention of establishing a sec
ond years next year.
1.-The purpose of the junior college
is to prepare the high school gradu-
ate for entrance into the sophomore
or junior class of the college or uni
versity; or, in other words, to offer
work equivalent to the freshman or
freshman and sophomore work, Presi-
dent Butcher said.
"
to raise sufficient funds to support
adequately the regular high school,
will be found establishing Junior col
| Ieges as soon as this movement be-
comes popular" says Professor Butch
er.
California has pointed the way, and
| that way is through state aida policy
already adopted in our own state for
certain phases of high school work
There are arguments in favor of
| the junior college. 1t offers college
! opportunity to the student whose par
ents can not afford to send him away
| to school It takes care of the stu
dent who can not for other reasons
leave home 1t solves the problem Of
the immature student whose parents
are unwilling to trust him, more fire.
| quentIy her, away from home influ-
ences 1t sets a new standard of edu-
cationaI attainment in the community
| It causes more people to go to col
| lege In many instances a student
would get more scholarly, certainly
more mature, instruction in a good
junior college than in the large insti-
tuition of learning where too often lack
| of funds and consequently crowded
conditions, make it necessary to put
! the freshmen in large groups and IN
der advanced students and inexperi-
! enced teachers"
Cake Killed chickens-When a
young wife of Chicopee had bad luck
with a cake recently, she threw it to
the chickens. The chickens died. Then
the young woman decided there was
poison in the baking powder and sent
for a state food inspector. Harry Bell
of Leavenworth investigated. He
found the baking powder blameless.
The woman had used salt instead OF
sugar. The chickens ate the cake and
died from thirst, the inspector says.
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Wheat Outlook Is CARBOHYDRATES
Board of Trade members who have
been into the country and have made
an inspection of the wheat conditions
say the grain is in splendid condition,
but a bit backward. The outlook is
fine.
Big Fire at Perry-Fire recently de-
stroyed six business houses at Perry
with a total loss estimated at $4,000
c. L. Lawson, a fire fighter, was in,
iured when an ammonia tank in the
ice plant exploded, hurting him to the
ground.
K. U. Man Won a Debate-Support-
| ing the affirmative of the question
Resolved, That the United States
! Should Permanently Retain the Phil
| ippine islands, the University OF
Kansas won unanimous decision over
Colorado university in the annual Kan
sas-Colorado debate at Lawrence.
Mayor of Atchison Quits.-Dr. c. G.
Finney has resigned as mayor of At
Gibson. Contempt proceedings had
been brought against Doctor Finney
in which an Atchison benevolent lodge
was named following a raid of the club
rooms last November.
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Kansas Boy a Villa Vctim-P. Y
Davis of Columbus has received notice
that his son, Arthur Davis, a soldier
was among those killed in the Villa
| raid on Columbus, n. NJ.
High School to Test Crops.-The
Mcpherson high school is preparing to
have an agricultural station in connec
ton with the school work. A plan is
being developed to use a vacant lot IL
making agricultural tests in germina
ton and the growth of grains and
| flowers.
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An $4,000 Land Saie-The best spot
cash land sale in months in Russell
county has just been made by Henry
Strecker, who sold a half section tc
\ Carl A Absolute for $4,000 MI
| Strecker win retire from the farm.
Augusta Oil to EIdorado-The Praf
| RE Oil Pipe Line Company, which is
constructing a pipe line from the Au
gusta wells to Neodesha, has a por
| ton Of it finished and recently turned
the oil into the pipes between Angus
Ia and Eldorado- The Prairie Oil and
| Gas Company has begun erecting
| derrick south of Florence This is fF1k