The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-08-19
SMALL CHILD is NEGLECTED.
Educational Leaders Say State is
Lame in kindergarten Work
in City Schools.


Kansas will endeavor to develop kim
dergarten work in the public schools.
The state is very lame in that depart
ment of education. In New Jersey
278 out of every 1000 children take
kindergarten; in Kansas only nine
teen out of every 1000 take it.
The reason stated in the large ma
jority of the replies received were:
Lack of funds" and Lack of room 81
Many superintendent added, how
ever, that they hoped ito give the mat
ter more serious consideration within
the next few years" This has been
done by few of these school men,
and as a result kindergartens are es-
tablished as part of their school sys-
tens; but the vast majority of the
superintendent and school boards of
our Kansas towns and cities have not
yet given to the needs and training
of the child of 4 and 5, and to the
kindergarten as an agency for meet
ing these needs the careful and thor
ough consideration which they merit,
and which has been accorded to them
in other progressive states, as for
example in Wisconsin, Michigan, New
Jersey and Colorado.
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School Fund Breaks Record.
The record year in the affairs Of
the state school fund commission was
disclosed recently in report issued
by W. E. Davis, state auditor. The prin-
cipal from school land sales jumped
from $54,511.50 last year to s93,381.73
| this year, an increase of more than 20
per cent. The interest fund from
school lands during the year reached
total of $71,285.82.
Burdick VIce-CslanceIIor Of K. U.
D. WilliaM A. Burdick has been
appointed vice-chancellor of the Uni
versity OF Kansas by the board of
administration.
81 Convictions Obtained.
AS result of the campaign now be
| ing waged in the state against egg
law violators by the state board of
health ten more convictions were OBJ
tanned in Phillips and Smith counties,
according to an announcement made
here.
Knock State Text Books.
That the State Teachers associa-
| ton will attempt to stay the state
| publication of additional school books
! is evidenced by the attack on state
publication in the Kansas Teacher, Of
fetal organ Of the association, recent
". The state is now publishing about
/ one-fourth of the books used and il
| is planned to ultimately publish all
books in the grade schools. The
knock" in the official paper of the
association has caused considerable
commotion in political circles.
Kansas Had 22s convicts in 1915.
Kansas sent a smaller number OF
men to the state penitentiary at Ian
sing in the fiscal year ending June sc
than in any Of ten previous years
There were 223 prisoners, and the
cost was $3.466.s6.
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Offer Skin to Aid Baby.
Two orphan girls have offered to
give any number OF square inches OF
skin from their bodies that an orphan
| baby might have a properly formed
upper lip when it grows up. The
| baby is known at the Topeka Deten
ton Home as 1.-THE baby who never
smiles" 1t will always be a cripple
but surgeons say that good face can
be made for her by grating live skin
on her lip. Lottie Price, 20 years old
and Mable Stitt, Is years old. nave Of
fered that the surgeons take the skin
| from their bodies.
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Car Shortage Hits Kansas.
| The annual car shortage has struck
Kansas. The fine threshing weather
of the last twenty days has filled the
elevators in ali parts of the state and
| the farmers have their bins full with
| the threshing machine still pounding
out the grain as rapidly as possible.
Assistant Bank Commissioner Cults.
The resignation Of P. e Laughlil.
assistant state hank commissioner, eff.
fectlve On August /. has been an
nouneed. ]. c. F'oulks % Eidorado
has been appoiated to the plaee.