, 1923-06-14

Next Monday evening at 8 o'clock
in the auditorium OF the high school
building will be held the annual
school meeting OF School District No.
B.
Among other matters of business
to be brought before the meeting Will
be the election OF two school board
trustees to fill the positions to be
left vacant by DR.. A. F. Thode and
DIR. E., A. Kell, the retiring members
OF the board.
In addition to the annual elect
aon. reports by the Auditing Com
mittee, Clerk Of the Board and Su-
p%erintendent of Schools will be pre-
scented and the necessary funds VIII
he voted for the maintenance OF the
schools Of the district for the COM
ing year.
Rawlins may we'll be proud Of the
accomplishments Of her schools Tor
the past yea as set forth in the
report OF Superintendent OF Schools
C. A. Anderson. Altho Su%perinten-
dent Anderson has severed his con-
necticns with the local schools and
has left to complete a graduate
course at Stamford University. he
has no doubt left the community
with the knowledge that during the
four years he has been serving the
local schools he has succeeded In
raising them to a standard equal to
the best in he state.
The Superintendent In his annual
report to the school board treats at
considerable length conditions as he
has found them in the local schools
and his many observations and re-
concentrations show clearly that he
has studied the educational condi-
tons and problems closely and
D scientifically.
2 Among other recommendations
for the betterment of the. local
schools superintendent Anderson re-
ports that the High School Building
Is too small to properly serve the
rapidly increasing lumber of high
school students and gives II as his
opinion that the time will be soon
no at hand when It will be abso-
lutely necessary for the district to
erect a new and larger high school
building.
The Superintendent Annual Re-
port 4 be presented next Monday
evening Is az follows:
.Superintcndcnt's Annual Report.
June Z, 1923.
I. The School-Year 1929.
During the last two or three years
the favorite pastime OF many news
paper reporters and magazine writ
ers has been to attack the public
schools OF our country. subjecting
them to the scvercst kind of critic
Ism. In n few instances the writ
ers were more or less informed re-
Carding the subject on which they
attempted to write. in other cases
tnev were scarcely a, all c%onversant
with the problem. Our educational
system being n human institution Is
capable OF Improvement and progress
Just the same ms many other In
stitutIons OF society. To say that
our schools are perfect and inca
/. pnbie OF further Improvement is ab-
surd: TO say that they are a miscr-
nblo failure f. TO state an untruth.
II would he n platitude to say
that tho safety. welfare and progress
OF orr nation MS we'll ms Its future
history dcpcrSi upon the work OF
tho public schools. II has been
said 80 often and discussed so much
that II scarcely needs further mr.
rumont TO rubrt,ntintc II. Tho fact
remains TINT dc~nito cri,icitn md
rrwrr-an,cd condemnation tho mass
81 thu American people nre st'l
wiling and g'nd IN pny taxes for
tho genc-ou, support of public cdn-
cation. Tho average American ci'i-
ron feel, that tho school IL n vital
and important In III W why M "
tho church. And he II willing q,
mako sacrifices IN order that 10 may
g!vo 20 hin children tho best cdu-
cation that he can afford.
Since n T. trrc that there arc
somc people and n few publications.
that take delight IN spreading mis-
information regarding tho public
schools. tho taxpayers and tho pa
irons Of tho schools should he In
In Informing themselves rc-
RsrdtnG the work that Inc school,
arc actually attempting 10 do. Tho
annual report Issued BY the auperln-
tcndent OF schools 10 an attempt 10
tall briefly what the schools have &C.
complished In the past year. what
work Ia being attempted. and what
problems present themselves for
solution. Such q report IL not writ
ten up from hearsay. or peeconcetvsd
notions about what might BE-. could
~. Or should be. Il Ia . statement
6ase1 upon actual Performance.
eActs and figures. and a. sach should
- entitled 70 more careful consll.