Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1919-05-29
Educational Law Is
Worthy OF Support
Opposition to Dssirabls New MEASURE
I. Prensssd by PeHHeiaDs says
Pref. George Wilsen

IlOI. 0SOI8c W1ASO1lS uc0U VI t1e
extension division of the University
of North Dakota, is one of the
educators strongly in favor of the
law by which the educational in
stitutions Of the state are unified.
He says that Senate Bill 1874 is one
of the most educational laws passed
in this country, and asserts that it
is better than the same kind of laws
passed in other states. Mr., Wilson
is well known throughout the state
for his lectures on marketing
problems.
II am unqualifiedly in favor Of
Senate Bill 1874, because by this bill
the educational institutions of the
state are unified" he said in an in
terview with the Grand Forks
American. This is one thing
which no educators, both state and
national, have long desired. y
Many people in the state have
asked my opinion on this bill.
Farmers. business men, and school
teachers, wherever l have gone on
my lecture trips, having inquired
of this bill about which there seems
to be much misunderstanding.
Oklahoma, my home state, has a
somewhat similar bill, as has
Kansas, its neighbor state.
In my school work in Oklahoma
and the south, ! studied the same
question. 4have studied carefully
the North Dakota bill and i seems
to be the best ono ofsthem all" s.
The staong feetnre Il the Sen.
ate Bill 1874 Is that it WILL bring
educators and business men together
on the board Of administration. At
present under our system of having
about fourty people administering
the institutions through various
boards either there are too many
;. business men or too many educators
>senR seR. ths board" osFd = ! : : = +.
There is n9thipg VICIOUS in this
bill: 1t is, as I have said, 4 better
system than We have In Oklahoma,
better than the people Of Kansas OF
New York have. Aud these two
states pride themselves upon thel.
good institutions.
Great Saving IN Kansas
The superintendent Of public in
struction Ct Of Kansas q. last M year, a PER.
aoaal friend Of miae, told me that
with their uniAcation Of the control
their schools were the best that they
had ever been and he stated that
the reason that the Kansas schools
and institutions are 90 good, is that
they are under one board.
He told Of the hundreds Of thous.
ands of dollars. which were saved
for the Taxpayers Of kansas because
df'ecohomles, got only through the
uni6cation. . The law will have the
same effect in North Dakota; with,
out q doubt.
"There are some people who
think this is 2 new thing. Here il
what We did in Oklahoma and
Kansas, and New York did tn,
same thing before we did:
"0klahoma we accomplished
very good results by passing a Law
abolishing the board Of .Universit,
regents, board Of the schools o
Mines regents, the board .khF; ki = tai
ReFmal school, the hoys' tFaininl
school "a penal institution) ane
girls industrial school, and othe
boards. Instead Of having all these
boards, which conflicted with eact
other. running the institutions, W
put them under the control Of ONE
board, consisting et seven people
ai1of whom Are appointed BY tn
governor
I'VE put y institutions unde
one head Every institution in tn.
state save the. penitentiary is ad
ministered by{his board.
''The bill of3Sorth Dakota is bet
ts1 than '''' oasba IL that oYt " e''ds :!
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