The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1922-03-23

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home.
|, The city of Spokane has approx
;. mately q, 900 children of school age
= There are 35 graded schools and tws
d high schools. In attendance at the
high schools are 1000 pupils. The tas
: payers of Spokane county are men OF
the highest vision with an acquired
disposition to nab any investment foI
the welfare of the city, They appre-
ciate the knowledge that bread cast
upon the waters will return after
many days, increased many times, even
4 hundredfold. 1t has been agreed
that the best investment that has ever
come along has been in the care and
| education of the children, who in 20
years will be called upon to perform
the multiform duties of good citizen,
ship. Considering this investment in
its proper light and figuring the pro,
fits that will accrue from such a
source, the county has set aside over
SO 5000, 000.00-46 per cent of all taxes
raised in the county-for the purposes
of education.
The investment of this kinda good
one, too-that has been inaugurated on
the prairie already. if backed up with
the money as it is in an up-to-date
county, peopled with citizens of pro-
gressive nature-Lewis county would
set aside this year, approximately,
$l13,OO0.OO for the education of its
youth.
Five business men of the city, with |
an eye ever after a snap, knowing
what service means in its broad sense,
employed superintendent of city
schools at an annual salary of $4,000,
and for expenses, allowed $500 for
travelling and 5000 for gasoline. If
the powers that be in Lewis county
were to employ any man at that salary
for services of any kind and he should
earn his money, there would be few
of the assumed poverty stricken tax
payers of Lewis county set up howl
and perform the gyrations of jump
ing jack in anticipation of Immediately
taking trip to financial hell. Yet,
for wealth and undeveloped natural
resources, quarter section of that
rich Nezperce prairie land is worth
more for agricultural purposes than
any non-irrigated section within 20
miles of Spokane.
The writer recently visited the
Horace Mann school in this city. The
original Horace Mann school in the
east was for incorrigibles This school
is for sub-normals- children whose
mental age is far below the intelligence
IF children of the same chronological
age They are segregated from the
grade schools after test of their in
and are sent to this school
where they mingle with children of
equal mental development They are
aught to read, write, sew, embroider,
'asy lessons in drawing, and are adj t
,anced as rapidly as their capacity for t
work will admit. The writer only wit j
essed work in the End and Bird grades |
nd it was said that these pupils were e
ather above the ordinary of their kind
n advancement. If these children as
hey grow up are so trained that they |
an earn their own livelihood in ma
ure years and not become burden to I
he state, the money invested for their S
raining will have made good interest.
here are so such pupils in this school 1
n IA in the deaf and dumb depart 4
lent.
In this building is the home of the
unior Red Cross, which operates a
linic for the special benefit of the
nfortunates of the schools, and per-
orms operations in the way of ade-
ODDS, polypii, accidental broken noses, Ii
Il free to the pupils. The surgeon, ii
erforming these operations is paid by tt
he R. c., and the charge is meager, p
any is made. Owing to defective al
Nv, this clinic is not kept up by public CT