Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1919-06-19
|DR. LADO FAvoRS
EDuCA1'ION LAW

EDuCAT|0N LAW !
10 Signed Statement A. c. Pres
ident Reviews Harmonic
ing Effect on SchooIs.
DR. d. =. Ladd. president Of the
North Dakota Agricultural college,
has been 10 often asked to express
his opinion Of the. Board Of Admin
Iistration" law (the educational act)
that he has written and issued q
signed statement covering five type
written pages, In which he discusses
at length the merits Oh the law and
gives his reasons for his strong sup
port OF the law, which will be voted
upon June 18th. The following are
some of the striking portions Of DR..
Ladies statement:
Dr. Laid Writes. * :.
You ask several questions which
may be briefly summarized as follows !:
1. Did you give approval to the
Board Of Administration bill before
the legislators? ..s
2. If SO, now as enacted, do you
still approve the measure as a for
ward step for North Dakota in the
interests Of better schools?
8. What, Il any, are the advantages
of the proposed measure over our
present law7 81.
II may say that I was in favor of
the; educational measure after 1t was
modified at the hearings at Bismarck,
and In the general form in which it
was finally enacted, I AM NOW EVEN
MORE STRONGLY IN FAVOR Of
THE LAW. It is altogether a step
forward for North Dakota in an edu-
cational way, but Of course we must
remember that politics does not make
good bed-fellow for successful edu-
cational growth.
"Just as present, in my humble
opinion, 1t is the politics that have
been injected that Is binding the
public to the real merits Of the 4
measure itself and befogging the
mind as to any defects which may
develop.
A few years ago there were as many
boards MS there were organizations or
institutions in the state and each with
its administrative officer and ablest
politician striving to convince the leg
islature that their particular institu-
ton was the one In need Of most Of
the available funds of the state. The
state took a long step forward in edu-
cational affairs when It began to CO
ordinate the work and place the higher
institutions under one board and the
so-called penal institutions under a
second board.
Why the stisma7
ssBut can you give me any. reason
why the stigma Of penal institutions,
IL such there be, should be attached
to the School for the Deaf and Dumb,
the School for the Blind, or the School
for the Feeble Minded? Why should
not these institutions have been orig
inally placed where they belonged
under the control Of an Educational
Board or Board Of Regents? No one
can say that those who 60 to the
Sanatarium at Dunseith are there for
the purpose Of discipline and punish
ment. Then that institution may as
well have been under an educational
board, for 1t is In a measure. educa-
tional, through sanitation, food and
therapeutics. The people Of the, state
have come to feel that even the SO
called Reform School should get
away from the unfortunate name and
have changed the name to Industrial
School recognizing the educational
side, rather than that Of punishment
Our Insane Asylum patients may be
considered as made up two. classes
the incurable and those who may be
benefited by treatment. The insura.
bles are not to be punished but rather
cared for, for, their own protection
land that Of society; the other group
to be benefited through better care q
themselves, through sanitation, by.
giene, food and therapeutics, and Il
purely an educational problem. There
are those Of us, whether right OF
wrong. who believe even our peniten
tiaries are not intended so much as
place for punishment and brutality al
they are; first, to protect society and
second, through education, employ
ment, kindly treatment and neces
saryi discipline to make better citizens
that society may be benefited wher
these unfortunates are given theil
liberty.
one Board Tor All. /,
.'In other words, for all Of these IN
stitutions the educational feature Il
now coming to be emphasized. Ther
why is It necessary for more than on,
board to manage all the institutions
A board made up Of men selected be
cause Of their fitness as administratiy'
officers, as the law states. and 4 y
assumed that men who are to be en-
trusted with the executive and admin
istrative management Of the institu
lions are to be selected on the sam
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