Show BETTER R RURAL RAL SCHO SCHOOLS from the day dr P p claxton assumed his duties as united states commissioner of edlea cioll a nationwide nation wide avide campaign has been waged for better rural schools commissioner claxton claton is now in his fifth year of ser vice and every evely year during his administration he has insisted on advanced steps being taken by the bureau itself for rural school progress as well as to urge upon administrative school officers teachers and patrons throughout the nation the imperative pera tive necessity for improving the rural schools secretary lane of the department of the interior in ids his annual report for 1915 to the president of the united states sounds a clarion call for a nationwide nation wide campaign for better rural schools he urges upon congress the appropriation of for two or three years with which to wage this campaign for a cabinet officer to take such a bold stand for the long neglected rural school gives new hope bope to the friends of ru rural ral education throughout the country in educational opportunity the city boy and girl have privileges far superior to those of the farm boy and farm girl iri in funds in bength of te term rm in in equips equipment ent in buildings in administration and supervision in courses of study in in efficiency of the teaching force and I 1 in n s salaries alari es pal paid d the superiority of the olty city schools is so far above that af the rural schools as to make situation in many sections of thi the country deplorable it has been so desperate in many instances during the past 25 years when contrast cd with the splendid opportunities of the city school that it is ia gi given ven more times than any other reason by fathers and mothers for M oving moving from the farm tay t the city for as secretary lane declares declare z an ambitious people will vill go where education can be had for their children there is ia no sense in talking of the charm s of country life and the 0 nce ence and dignity of producing from alie soil if the school ss command is no more modern modem than a wooden plow therefore let every agency of state and nation be organized and put in motion for the purpose of giving the rural schools a square deal a |