Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1922-07-12
INSTITUTE WORK CLOSES
ATTENDANCE WAS LARGE
State Superintendent }. B. Brown
Gives Splendid Talk to Teachers
and County Court.

Monday marked the hnal close oi
everything incident to the institute
that has been in progress here since
June 26. The work of selecting the
teachers will commence July 20 and
continue until completed and the
schools will open for work July 81.
The total enrolment for the entire
institute term was 67.
State Superintendent J. B. Brown
was here Monday and delivered a talk
to the teachers and citizens in the
high school building of half an hour
he then went to the court house and
addressed the county court for another
half hour. Numerous citizens were
present at both talks and were highly
pleased with the information he im-
parted and the unmistakable interest
he manifested in behalf of the schools
in both talks.
In his talk to the teachers he urged
most earnestly that the teachers make
it a part of their teaching efforts to
visit the homes of all the patrons to
the end that they may become tamil
lar with the home conditions and thus
be better able to understand the needs
of the student and how best to render
the largest possible service He also
urged that the teachers make it part
of their work to be seven-days-a-Week
teachers and by so doing to lend all
possible aid in every movement both
church and otherwise, that is calcu-
lated to be helpful to their respective
communities. +,
In talking to the court he rehearsed
briefly the history of public schools
of the state and showed how tor sew
eral years the state had taken larger
and more active part in both directing
10 W xodts ~ in providing an ever
ss,.s<e5 = = & r Hon of the money for
condudfi}lf i schools.
3&sy4< Moved HAT the state furnishes
sti,e sni3ne ~ four and half months
III fhe Aeh term of this county. ne
! sixo fn]d M Shelby county pays IN
rs tkes school fund more tnall
Ssnfi IA takes out only a little
1ver GOO. How Davidson county
navs .some 100000 and receives
k.TL m the state around 100000.
~ her two counties having the
& -. ~. k;t;es contribute in a like man
49, be;r large parts and receive back
49, .ho,t one-fourth of what they
pay in. r A..
He further stated that some OF the
counties in the state that pay into the
school fund more than they receive
are very much dissatisfied with tne
present arrangement and that an e.
fort will surely be made when the ieg-
;sIature convenes again to have tne
nresent system changed so a mucn
larger portion of the money the large;
counties pay in to the state scnool
end will be returned to them. oome
of the larger counties are now say
mo "Let the little counties look a1tei
their own schools and we VIII loon
after ours" Thus declining to recog'
nize the pressing necessity lot m .ns
wealthy counties to help the poor ones
He made it very clear that in vie"
rs the effort that was sure to De fnaas
to change the present system 10 III.
detr;ment of the counties OF smal
taxable values, the strongest Posslpi,r
Goht this and other counties OF smai
+axable values can make is Tor tns
teachers and board of education ie
cooperate in the strongest poss'D.'
wav to bring the largest possiple re &c
suits so that it may be clear tnat W. ",
anDreciate what is being done lot "
apd thus strengthen the hands o
thos. who will make the Fl ght to pre-
vent any weakening of the preseh
The efforts of both the Count:
SUPERINTENDENT and her assistant 1ac
,,itv have been directed along tnes'
lines during the institute just ciose'
and while some may feel that the line
have been drawn too rigioiy' ~ wa t.
not with that purpose put WIN tI
nurpose Of making the best possiJ,,
ahow;np this year to the end that IN
hain received from the state next yea
NAV be greater than this rather 'hs'
III. work for each succeeding Ga.
,,.s carefully planned and gone owe
y, ADVANCE and most earnest ana g.
saot;v. e. work was done. Practicali:
~, thr teachers entered into the spur
&C th. work and their efforts sno'
splendid results. -. ~,
The Superintendent called the ro o
4,v;ce each day and kept careful rec
ard touching attendance and punc.uas'
;ty and we give herewith the resu''
in part: ,,p.u
Those who were present every ID
and never tardy:
Anderson. Nancy