| Show ille liew SCHOOL BILL moyles school bill was Al londay introduced into the Le gials tire Is 9 very important measure its adoption would completely thol present school an end much to be the present law has served it purpose and full time that a change frere mado as advancement to any tory results Is well nigil impossibly under the present system it may be well to call attention to some of the anges that it would make first place it makes one district of all in each county it would 1 then do away alth the surplus olover gorlod and underpaid under paid trustees and concentrate their present power in a county board 0 education i it does not take great knowledge of school affairs to understand the benefits that would result from such a change it would give tile important powers m aich the trust ceA have in to tile hands of men who could be paid for their services and who would th e refojo have to be proficient and q for the tasks imposed upon them all the power of the local trustees is averted in the county board except the taking of the census and a few other minor duties which are imposed upon one trustee in each school district which now casts and which in the new provision of the county district this trustee will be elected annually tile form ng of new districts the rc g of sub districts which has hereto for been doto by the county court is given to the board which is aleo given the power of building levying taxes collecting tuition employing teachers au in fact all the trusts and which are no vested in the trustees TO this board of education is given the 0 levy taxes just as they are now levied by the various boards of trustees and under the lume restrictions abe examination of teachers also remains the game the examining board being composed of the president of the board af pf education the county superintendent and the secretary of the board all the benefits of con Wi dation and union will accrue from the measure and for them reasons it should be encouraged by all who hav the interest of education at heart the present is ruinous no I 1 system can prosper or insure the do girad benefits to the children where such a diversity of methods and such w variety of inharmonious ideas are employed as is at present the cue with our schools eich district has its own way of running a school of biring te achem of grading of payment and this is not all but often there are ailred ways in eacel bacu true tee constituting himself the champion of his own way to the min of the school interests to have a anif orm system carried out alid by capable men qualified by and education to ade mister the pro per remedies for the needed progress Is certainly a desirable end A provision however in the bill that all cities with over inhabitants may become school districts se parale and distinct from the county districts with the same powers by action of the city council bedy shall then occupy the same relation to the city district that the county co urt does to the county district may not at first sight find favor with the pe who live outside of the wearthy cities it has the effect of establishing just as they have in the east a city ays tent and a country system the plan will be awl for the city but it will cut the country off from the assistance which it his heretofore hereta fore enjoyed from the city an amendment provida i ag a general county tax which in addition to the district tax should not exceed say 1 14 per bent per year might be a remedy for this this general tax to be distributed to each distri ct and aub district pro rata according to the population the law should be in itself and should not be an man d ment to the old laar the provisions in the old law that it Is desirable should be ancor pora additional sections of the now it not the useless provisions in the present law will tend to confusion the argument might be used that to gi vw such power toa to dangerous centralization but it should be remembered that the reme ay lies with the people as they hava the power to elect a majority of the board as at the present with the true tees there is nore however why two of the membeni should be ap pointed it weakens the power of the people when there is no necessity f or it no doubt amendments will be made to cover these and other minor points I 1 which might be mentioned when I 1 e bill comes up for discussion on tha whole he measure Is good and should receive the careful consideration and favorable action of the assembly tut drw independent has the following paragraph dr ful ton delivered a sermon last week in boston for which he announced the topic the priests substitute for mar ariage 1 it was crammed full of ch yge and stories of licentiousness and punctuated with loud laughter from the boys and young men pre split the boston advertiser says it was slander ow and so indecent as to be unfit to print that may be for his book on that subject was just being printed at one of the very best press rooms about boston when the copen employed as printers refused to proceed with the work declaring that the COPY WAS at for them to handle Tho managers then examined the manuscript and declared the printers to be right and broke their contract with dr bulto 11 AT A REC it Rep bucan gathering jn new york rev WAS called upon to offer up epmyer T le following Is a part of his supplication to the throne of a race we besbeck them thit may prevail wa all mhd take part laro m ay be guided by the highest the purest principles and the noblest policy may they remember that nothing can be right in lipics I 1 abich is wrong in m ajr that be for the good of a treal party that Is not foi the good of men and the glory of may we all remember that he serves ills party beat who serves his god and ills fel lowman low man most 11 imagine itou tan dear reader a democrat Domo crat making such a prayer |
