Putnam patriot., 1928-06-28


 tion of the department of interior reveal.
 During the year of i918-14, total of Ss,10S.003 was expended b, Connecticut in the maintenance ana operation of the public schools of tn, state. For the year of i925-26, tn, most recent figures available thrOuel the bureau of education. expenditure. on the public schools of the stnts amounted to S32 ,765.727 These fg. ures reveal an increase of S2a.65T,. 724 or slightly more than four hun. dred per cent in the cost of the pub. lie schools of Connecticut.
 Connecticut ranks first of the New England states in the percentage in. { crease in public school costs since 1 1913. Rhode Island comes second with an increase of 390 per cent, fol lowed by New Hampshire with an in- crease of 370 per cent, Massachu- setts with an increase of 300 per cent, Maine with an increase of 260 per cent and Vermont last with an in- crease of 230 per cent in school ex- penditures.
 Fewer Deaths
 The death rate in the state of Com neeticut in 1927 showed a decrease of ten per cent below the mortality rate of the previous year, the depart ment of commerce announces. The commerce department has just com pleted a survey of the death and birth statistics of the state for 1926 and 1927.
 | While the death rate for 1927 was lower than for 1926. the birth rate also showed a decline in Connecticut in 1927, falling three per cent below the rate for 1926.
 In Connecticut 2s.s births were recorded during 1927 as against l6.- 75h deaths. Of this number of deaths. i..Q2 were infants under one year of age. A e9nsidefation of the population of the state reveals that in 1927, births within the state boundaries average 17.6 for every 1000 persons as compared Co 1s.2 births for 1000 population in the previous year. The mortality rate averaged l0.2 deaths ] per 1000 people in 1927 and ll.4 deaths per 1000 population in 1926. The infant mortality in the state showed a marked decline in 1927, ] falling to 50 deaths per .000 births as against 72.1 deaths per 1000 births in 1926.
 The state of Vermont reported the highest death rate in 1927, l3.a deaths per LOGO population.
 Utilities cateehism ! Propaganda activities of public utility organizations of Connecticut have once more been brought to the attention of Washington by an edito- rial written by Edwin J. Clapp of the Washington Herald and printed in the Congressional Record at the re quest of Senator Robert B. Howell oi Nebraska.
 "Without any doubt the sensation of the day was the Connecticut pub. lie utilities catechism revised and dis tributed to schools annually by the Connecticut committee" the editoria declares in referring to the testimony brought out before the federal trade commission.
 eIn the committees annual report for the year ended March 3I. 1927 appears the item: Church press f0i printing catechlsm, $694.S9.' The cost of this years edition was ap proximately $500.
 According 10 the testimony oi Secretary Willard there are lO.lle of these catechisms in use, copies hay ing been ordered by 70 high schools.
 Ia .4HAFaA fHt Connecticut schools with all th' solemnity of Q research document 1 On January 6, 1927, Willard wrote to Frank W Strong, principal oi Durham High School, thanking hin for ordering 60 copies of the cate chism and adding. 1t took us si' months Co compile it, most of tho time being spent in verifying tho text and making certain that every thing was exactly according to facts.
 "The catechism went like ho' cakes in the Connecticut schools Robert c. Blanchard of Lewis Higi School. Southington wrote in October 1926: Your catechism ss a req contribution to secondary education we would like l50 copies
 "The most glowing eulogy of tho catechism was given by Ralph W Hedges, principal of Warren Harding High School of Bridgeport. in a let ter to Willard dated September l6 1927.
 "He wrote: will you kindly send us 1900 copies (of the new editionl. We wish to thank you very much for this material and to congratulate you upon the splendid work which you are doing for the public schools for the state of Connecticut We not only make use of the material in many of classes, but we also have placed a copy in the hands of every pupil in our school.'
 The State of Connecticut boasts four colleges and universities approv- ed and accredited by the Association ' of American Universities, according to a survey by the bureau of educa- tion of the department of the interior.
 Trinity College .at Hartford, Yale University at New Haven, Connect.- cut College for Women at New Lon don and Wesleyan University at Mid dlctown are approved by the Assoeia- tion as accredited higher institutions of learning, the bureau of education report states.
 Connecticut ranks second of the New England states along with Maine | in the number of educational insti- sutions recognized by the Associa-