The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1929-06-13
COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT
RELATES SCHOOL GROWTH
Tells Radio Listeners How Edu-
catiOnal System Has Advanced

+. Rathbun, county superintendent of
schools, during the Oakland hour from
$3.50 to 1890 o'clock, in the address of
the evening.
The second weeks program also
included musical selections by Gil
bert's orchestra; Hawaiian trio, saxo-
phone solo, R. R. Gilbert; piano Sc
lections by julius Littman and Mrs.
L. K. Dixon and vocal numbers by the
Four Horsemen.
Due to particularly bad reception
by many radio listeners, L. M. Fraley,
one of the sponsors of the Oakland
Hour, has succeeded in having the
hour changed from to 9 o'clock, p.
m. Morning and afternoon programs
from the station are said to come in
splendidly, while the evening pro-
grams barely can be heard.
The entertainment and speaker for
next Monday have not yet been de-
termined, it was stated this morning.
Following is Mr. Rathbun's address:
Ladies and Gentlemen:
1t is a privilege to be able as the
county superintendent of schools of
Garrett county to join with the bust
ness men of Oakland, Maryland, in
putting this program upon the air
through station WMMN, at Fairmont,
West Virginia. All of our business
men have always joined US in our en-
deavors to have better schools in our
county for our young Americans, and
therefore it is a source of genuine
pleasure to assist in their present en-
deavor to provide an hours program
over this station for the pleasure and
profit of those who listen in.
Among the comments received upon
the program broadcast from this
same station one week ago was one
from a former resident of the county
in which he said that Mayor Fraley
had not told one-half of the scenic
beauty and attractive outpourings of
nature throughout Garrett county.
Many of these scenes, l am told, how
ever, are being reproduced in the
coming Sundays pictorial edition Of
the Pittsburgh "Sun Telegraph"
So, in your summer travels, include
Oakland and Garrett county in your
trip and come over and see our peo-
pie and our county for yourselves
both of which are the best in the
world. 1t is the superlative county of
Maryland-the largest, the youngest,
the most scenic and by far the most
vigorous.
However, I am to talk upon the
public schools of the county and shall
discuss only two of the agencies that
have contributed most to the recent
decided advancement of the public
schools of our State, and Garrett
county in particular.
These two agencies are:
Adequate financing and profession
ally trained teachers.
The success of the States efforts
to secure good schools in the % coun-
ties is evident when we study the re-
suits attained during the past ten
years as measured in the terms of
DR.. Leonard Ayres' somewhat SUI
preme Scale for measuring the eff
cheney of a school system.
The Ayres' scale consists Of ten
units, five of which bear upon fnan-
cial support and the remaining five
upon the attendance of pupils.
The ten units of measuring the eff
cheney of a school system followed by
DR.. Ayres, are:
Per cent of children and under Is
years in average attendance; Aver
age days attended by each child and
under 10, divided by 2; Average
days schools were kept open divided
by 2; Ratio of high school attend
ance to total attendance; Per cent
of boys and girls in high school;
Total expenditure per child in aver
age attendance; Total expenditure
per child 5 years and under 10; To
tai expenditure per teacher and
principal divided by "a; Expenditure
for other than salaries per child in
attendance; Average monthly sal
airy per teache-.
Measured by these ten units, the
% counties of Maryland in 1918 had
an index number o. ga trife less
than 1s efficient. During the follow
ing brief period of ten years, this
same index number, however, was
more than doubled, since for the
school year of 1929, it was raised
to 698-a gain of 378, which score
of 69.8 gives the rural and suburban
counties of the State a school sys-
tenn more than 2-3 efficient according
to the Ayers scale Of measurement