Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1917-03-16
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! PUBLIC SCHOOL NOTES )
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cur the first week in April.
The joint scitv and county teach
ers institute will be held tomorrow
at 10000 a. m. and 1:15 p. m. Visit
ors are welcome.
Albert H. Johnson, director OF the
Northwestern Conservatory School
of Expression, Minneapolis, will deliv-
er the commencement address this
year on May 81.
Owing to the severe storm last
Wednesday, the south side mothers
meeting was postponed. Rev. Blrrell
who was scheduled to speak, will
speak at the next meeting in April.
Miss Leona King, sixth grade
teacher and principal of the west
side building, will be back for work
next Monday Miss King has under
gone hospital treatment in MllWau-
kee for two weeks. Mrs. r. W. Lane
substituted for her the past week.
The Mother Goose Festival, one Of
the biggest spectacular affairs ever
presented in Ladysmith, will be Civ
en- in the high school gym tonight,
Miss Kathryn Lyle Yory Of Chicago
has been training over one hundred
and fifty school children the past
week and the audience will be treat
ed to some splendid entertaining
numbers.
The girls basketball game sched-
uled with Barron for March % has
beon indefinitely postponed. Instead,
on that date, the girls will play the
city girls team. There is consider
able rivalry between the two local
quintets and a lively game is sure
to result.
1t is planned to hold the prelim-
mary declamatory contests for the
highschool students some time be-
fore vacation, and the final contests
the latter part of April.
The silver loving cup, won by the
boys basketball team at the Stevens
Point tournament for their conduct
and appearance, has been placed in
the j. D. Shumway's jewelry store
window. where it is attracting con-
siderable attention. The boys are
certainly to be congratulated on
their fine showing, which is an hon
Or and a credit to the school as well
as to themselves.
The state legislature now in ses-
sion is being bombarded with the
usual number Of educational bills all
designed to improve the educational
conditions in the state. In the opln-
ion of the writer, however, there is
small hope for an early permanent
advancement of educational ideals In
the state unless the warning factions
come to a realization that a unified
system of administration is essential
to the effectiveness in all branches
Of educational work. The citizens OF
Wisconsin have seen for years a
spectacle of strife in educational cir
cles that could hardly be equalled in
partisan politics. The university has
fought the state superintendent and
the normal schools; the normal
schools have sought to acquire func-
tions of the university and Of the
state department of public instruc-
ton; the state board Of industrial
education, through it's president and
| its representatives, has duplicated
| the supervisory functions of the state
superintendent office and has sought
| to increase it's power at the expense
of the latter. Every session Of the
state legislature has seen the enact
ment of laws which tend to destroy
the unity of the state school system
and which confuse the functions and
limits of the numerous boards, com
missions and supervisors. The state
superintendent has been robbed OF
influence and power by edch new
law so that his office is not as 1t
logically should be, the center which
controls and co-ordinates the educa-
tional activities of the state. In the
lopinion of the writer, a radical change
should be made. This change should
include a clean sweep of the present
entire complication of laws and the
enactment in their place of a strong
| ly centralized form of control such
as exists in New York and Pennsyl-
vania. Then, and not until then,
will the school system of Wisconsin
progress in it's best strength.
AOJUDGED INSANE