Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1921-02-24
COUNTY SCHOOL NOTES

Nine Month Diplomas of Honor
were ISSUED to Fern and Ethe! Paine,
Glanavon; and to Mary Larvick, High
land, this week.
The following pupils received
Punctuality Buttons this week: Os-
car Ehrmann, Lydia Wolfer and Otto
Reiker, Wells; Floy and Ethan Paine,
Beulah Whitney and Lila Paine, Clan
avon; Henry Van Soest, Hague; Irene
Mary Irvine and Ralph Haugse, Win
chester; John and Mary Reinbo!d,
Union; Hazel Mausehund, Gayton;
Eugene Landsberger, Melville Steiner
and Elva Webert, Williamsport.
The Fourteenth Annual Interstate
High School May Festival will be held
at the Agricultural College May 10th,
goth and 21st. There are three con-
tests-Athletic, Literary and Indus
trial.
Lincoln No. 2, Stella Hermann,
teacher, gave a basket social under
the auspices of the Lincoln Mothers
Club. s57.35 was raised This
amount will be used for play ground
equipment. Another basket social will
be given at Lincoln No. soon.
On Feb. 11th, a Patriotic Program
was given at Dana No. l. After the
program all voted on name for the
school, and it was named "Sueltz" in
honor of one of the first settlers and
the cne who donated the land on
which the school house stands.
City children in Indiana attend
school on an avergae Of A days per
year more than country children.
More than third of the one teacher
school in the state were in session less
than six months during 1919-2O.
Stoves without jackets are used to
heat 76 per cent of the one-teacher
country schools of Indiana. Five
buildings used for such schools have
steam heating apparatus, and one is
heated with hot water. "School Life"
Published by U. S. Bureau of Edu-
cation.
Let us compare Emmons county
with the above for the same year.
Only 1878 of the schools were in ses-
sion less than six months, The aver
age length of term in the country
school was 147.4 days and in the town
180 days. Thus the country child at
tends school an average of 1926 days
per year less. Only 14.8 per cent
of the shcools are heated with unjack-
eted stoves. Three have steam heat,
and five have the pipeless furnace.
Let US compare salaries. In twelve
Indiana counties the highest salary
paid was $500 for the year in one-room
schools. In Emmons county the low
est salary paid was $525, and the high
est $765. The average Of the county
was $500. 90.
We compare the above items to
show you that while our schools have
lots of room for improvement that
they compare favorably with the
one-room schools of the east.
We are satisfied that our one-room
school buildings, too, will compare ia
vorably with those of any state. We
are seventy-five years behind Indiana
in age, and if they have gotten no
farther than the government report
shows, with one-room schools, is there
any hope Of our getting any improve
ment? Our conclusion is that there
is not. The one-room school will not
solve the educational situation. There
is no other solution than consolida-
tion. Other states have tried for
years to make good school out of
the one-room building and have failed,
and we should profit by their failure.
It cannot be done, and the sooner
everyone realizes that fact the sooner
will we have good country schools.
Not one Normal graduate in a hun
dred will accept a one-room school.
If we had consolidated schools, we
would have no difficulty in pers uading
Normal graduates to take them.
II spent week last September Wis
iting one-room country schools. I was
amazed at the small progress that had
been made in the last 20 years in
these schools. / was equally
amazed at the interest manifested by
the people who supported these
schools, doing whatever was neces-
sarv to improve them."-Goy. Hard
ing, Iowa.
I The school people of this state
had an excellent program worked out
provided the legislature would pass
the required laws, but up to dste most
of the bills have been killed. Perhaps
our Legislators know the needs of the
schools better than those in the pro-
fession, but we don't believe it.
Have you visited your school yet ?