Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1922-07-18
NORMAL REGENTS
LOWER SALARIES
In Making Reappointments To
Staff of School-Transsct
Considerable Business

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Regents of Eastern Kentucky
State Normal School and Teach
ers' College which met in regu-
lar session here Saturday. All
the present employees were re-
elected for the next school year,
some of them at Slightly reduced
wages. There are some vacan-
cies in the faculty yet untitled.
Music Professor Barnes has in
formed the Board that he can
not continue as Professor of Mu-
sic and there arc few other va
cancies to be filled for next
school year beginning Sept. |,
1922.
To the surprise and gratifica-
ton of the board the attendance
Of the present summer school is
over 20 per cent the largest III
its history and most of the stu
lents are high school teachers in
both city and county and are col
lege and high school graduates.
There are now 20 new summer
Normal schools in Kentucky and
t was expected that the opening
IF these schools would reduce
materially the attendance here,
out they seem on the contrary,
% have increased our attendance.
Can any stronger evidence be
wanted to convince all but the
most narrow selfish anti that the
1eople of all Kentucky have fl
lallv resolved to be all educated
pcople along practical lines and
,ompete, even in business, with
heir neighbor states? For many
generations the most aggressive
md progressive youths of Ken
lucky have enigrated to other
states and aided in building up
and adding to the glories of
those other states. Men like
Justice Sam F. Miller, Gov. Da-
nd r. Frances, Senator w. j.
Stone, among others, would
-ather to have remained in Ken
tucky if there were a field for
heir great and wonderful abili-
ties.
One of the board also told a
reporter for the Register that ev-i
cry memper of the Regents and
Of the faculty feels very grateful
to the good people of Richmond
who have furnished rooms to stu
dents at reasonable prices and
and who have aided Eastern in
every way. But the board re-
gretted that there are SO many
in Kentucky who have the an
tiquated views of the 18th CEN
tury, to-wit, that education is
Tor the few who are born to rule
the many 'of whom they are
which," and who can not or will
not see that "them days are gone
forever"
The board told the reporterI
that it learned with regret that
not single house in Richmond
had been built or enlarged to;
take in students as roomers Since
the Normal, School was located
here over 10 years ago and that
there are, still those who doubt
if the Normal School is. to re-
main here forever. In some states
like Michigan and Missouri there
are normal schools and colleges
which have no state dormitories,
and the local communities fur
nish at reasonable prices, suffi-
cient rooms for the thousands of
students. This is all simply al
business proposition which the
people of Richmond and Madi-
son county have failed to see or !
take advantage of like those of
Bowling Green and Warren
county and other places, regent
said.
Saturday was the birthday of
Judge 7. w. Cammack, as he
was born at Lafayette, Indiana,
on July IS, 1869. His fellow
Regents congratulated him on
reaching the 53rd milestone in
life's journey in such splendid
mental and physical health and
vigor, with such good and useful
life of results for his fellowmen,
so brilliantly Illustrated, not only
in his private life, but also his
record as state senator and two
terms as circuit judge of his dis-l
trict, and also his more than 10,
years of service as Regent of
Eastern Kentucky State Normal
School and Teachers College.
Judge Canmack is a man of
whom Kentucky is justly proud.
A Regent stated that both the
present and former regents are
proud of the successful record
of Eastern in every denartnenf