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NEW SCHOOL LAW Drastic Measure That is Now Pendiog io the General Assembly. CHANGES ARE RADICAL Take the Schools Out of the Ilamls of the People niul Puts Them in the Hands of Seven Men, Who Appoints Practically All School Officials. There is a most drastic bill now pending in the General Assembly, which, if passed, will take the management of the schools of the State out of the hands of the people and lodge it in the hands of a few men, who are appointed by the State Superintendent of Education. It is a bill that the General Assembly should consider and let the people discuss before it is enacted into law. The bill was introduced in the Senate by Senators Sinkler, of Charleston, and Senator Christensen, of Beaufort, and makes most radical changes in our present school law. The Columbia correspondent of The News and Courier says "while some mention has been made of the report of (he commission appointed at the Inst session or tno uenerai Assembly to look into the present school law and to report at this session needed legislation, it is doubtful that ten members of the (lonera 1 Assembly, aside from the educational committee of the Mouse and Senate, have gone fully into th" bill drawn up under the comm: -ion's report and know exactly what will he accomplished if such a measure passes." That is why we s.iy the bill should not bo rushed through the General Assembly. The law declares that a libera! and efficient system of free public education shall he maintained throughout the State. Separate schools and institutions of learning shall be pro?Idea for persons of the white and colored races and no child or person of )ne of these iu-j shall ever be permitted to at'.? n ! a school or educational institutional provided for children or persons of the otner race. The system shall embrace elementary schools in every school district or city or town where such city or town is not embraced in some school district for the education of children between tlie ages of six and twenty-one years; high sihools, as hereinafter provided for, the University of South Carolina, Clemson Agricultural College, Winthrop Normal and Industrial College, the Institution for the Deaf and Tflind, :he State Colored College of South Carolina, Agricultural and Mechanical College, and such other special and technical uchoois as may from timj to time he established in wln rj or part at public expense." The bill would give the State "Superintendent of Education $2,5 Ob per annum and $G00 travelling expenses which would make him the highest paid State ofiicer, except the Governor. The State Superintendent, by Section 4 of the hill, would he given division supervisors. "It will he exceedingly profitable to have all of the county superintendents of the State assemble at least once a year to discuss matters pertaining to the educational advancement of their resnective counties," says the report, and the bill provides for this. It has been pointed out from time to time that the reports of school officers have heen incomplete as to the State department of education. The commission provides for this in its recommendation and the hill could enact it into law. "In order," writes the commission, "that the statistics of the State Superintendent may have real significance it is highly important that tne reports of all school officers shall be complete and be promptly sent in." The hill makes the board of education consist of the Governor, the State Superintendent of Education and five members (instead of seven ns now) to be appointed by the Governor upon recommendation of the State Superintendent ef Education. The term is four years. A difficulty Ik avoided by providing that tho appointive members shall servo out the terms for which they were appointed At least three members of those tc be appointed shall be professiona teachers regularly employed in edu cational work. Instead of a per dlen the board is paid only actual travel ing and hotel expenses. A text-book commission is ere ated by the bill. "The meeting a which the adoption (of text-books is finally made shall be open to th public," says the bill. The commit sion is to be composed of five schoc men. The report says: "In creal ing a text-book commission it is nc intended in any way to interfer with the powers of the State boar of education; but simply to give th board the benefit of the co-operatio of live school men whose successfi experience should render such co-oi eration or great value." (Certain changes in the text hoc matter are made in the bill, as sui gested by the commission. A blm Ing contract with all publishers < the text books adopted is necessai In order to render the adoption e RsS fectlve. Section 12 provides, in accordance with the commission's recommendation: "There shall be appointed by tha State board of education three division supervisors, who shall constitute the Slate board of examiners for teachers, and who shall have full power and authority, subject to review of their action by the State board of edocation: 1. To formoiate a system for the | examination and certification of teachers in the public schools. 2. To grant teachers' certificates which shall be valid throughout the ;si are. 3. To revoke teachers' certificates for immoral or unprofessional conduct. of evident unfitness for t.eacning. It is also provided that no diploma or certificate from any university, college or normal school or other mitution of learning, shall erempt -older from examination as to his or her qualilcation to teach, unless the course has been approved by the Stat? board of education and the Stat? board of examiners for teachers. Looking toward stability and continuity in the work of the county boards, says the report, certain changes are made, one being that the county superintendent shall not lie a member of that board. No person is eligible to the county board who is not a qualiled elector. The compensation is limited to a per diem. The allowance of mileage in the old law is stricken out. The number of nays' service is made the same in all counties, not exceeding twenty days. The per diem is live dol lars. The most drastic provision of the new school proposed law, in the words of the commission, and in the opinion of main, is that section pro- I viding that the county superintendents of education be selected by the county boaid of education, instead of by the people in the primary as at present. The section of the bill providing for this says: "To select and employ for a term of four years a suitable expert, as lwiminn ftfir ni'nviflnrl for POIIIlIv superintendents of education, and to fix his salary, which shall be paid out of the special county tax: Provided, that 110 county superintendent of education shall be paid less than twelve hundred dollars a year." The commission says that there is a very general demand that some means be -secured for expert supervision of the schools. The following safeguards are thrown about the employment of county superintendent the commission claims: First of all the county superintendent is made an employee of the county board and not an office-holder. The evils attendant upon the political securing of a job are too w^'l known to need rehearsing. The superintendent must be not less than 2b years of age, thus insuring maturity and professional experience in the works of the commission. lie shall have been a resident of 1 the State for not less than one year prior to his election. lie shall have served as a regular teacher or superintendent in some organized school or school system at least two scholastic years before iie is eligible 10 the position. The bill makes provisions to prevent the waste of inonev on int-ITeo tive plans for school buildings and guards against incompetent teachers. What the Commission Wants. Here are some of the radical recommendations of the commission put into the 1)i 11 now before the General Assembly bearing favorable report from the committee on education: 1. An amendment to Section 2, Article II, and to Section 24, Article III, of the Constitution, will remove the obstacle that presents many of our best men from serving as school trustee. Though tho Constitution forbids the holding of two offices, this provision has, by common consent, been widely disregarded. This amendment seeks merely to legalize service to education when rendered in connection with other service tc the State. 2. The State Superintendent oi Education is held responsible for th< acts of the State hoard of education and, in the opinion of the commis sion, lie should have some voice i) - selecting its members. It is, there . fore, recommended that Section 2 , Article XI, of the Constitution, 1m amended so that henceforth the Gov } ernor shall appoint the State boar< j of education, upon the recommends . tlon of the State Superintendent, j 3. The commission recommend . the appointment of a State hoard o examiners for teachers in order tha . the present varying standards ma t he harmonized by the estahlishmen ) of a uniform method in the exam in a 0 tion and gradation of applicants t 5_ teach. )] lion and gradation of applicants t [_ teach. >t 4. The county board of educatio e is given larger and dictatorial pov d ers in throe important respects: ie 'First?It is .given the right to lev n a special county without taking il vote on it. p- Second?If is given the right t apportion all school funds. >k Third?It is given the right t g- choose from eligible applicants tl ri- county superintendent of educatic of to servo for a term of four year ry This takes away the right of the pe if- pie to vote for this official in the pr mary as they now do. f?. The right of all special school districts organized under special Acts of the General Assembly to adopt their own text-books has been withdrawn. The State Superintendent of Education is empowered to appoint a text-book commission, composed of five public school men, to act concurrently with the State board of education to adopt a dual list of text-books and to prescribe the unified courses of study for all tho free public schools of the State. (?. The members of the State board of examiners for teachers shall servo also as division supervisors of schools, who, under the direction of the State Superintendent, shall audit school accounts and perform such _il na m (1 U !1 C U I i> tl 1 uuier tinI^UD cio iii'v wv 7. The county superintendent of education is to be elected by the county board of education, in order that restricted qualifications may be demanded of all applicants. The term of the county superintendent is made four years, and the minimum salary in any county is $1,200. 8. The State high school law is simplified and strengthened, and the high scool appropriation increased to $75,000. 9. The Slate hoard of education is authorized to classify under a recognized nomenclature the schools and colleges of the State. 10. County boards of education and school district board of trustees are made continuing bodies in order that a majority of their members may he able, at all times, to form legal contracts. 11. An adequate system of reports is provided in order that school statistics may be reliable. 12. The State Superintendent of Education is required to keep a correct account of all school bonds and tax levies provided for their retire ment. 1.1. Each county superintendent of education is required to submit ?o the grand jury a wi n it u rt.-pui l showing, by school districts, all receipts and disbursements made by him. 14. All alterations of whatsoever kind in school district lines must be recorded by the Clerk of Court. Since the school district has been made the unit of taxation for school purposes, it is absolutely necessary that school district lines be clearly and definitely established. If). The most fundamental change recommended in the report is the new definition of enrolment, which bases the apportionment of public school funds on the average attendance of pupils. Under this definition the teacher, the school, and the district. lose money every day a pupil is absent, and gain every day he is present. 1 6. An attempt is made to establish a permanent State school fund and a permanent building fund. 1 7. The additional expenditures required by this report will be increased salaries for county superintendents of education, a small appopriation guaranteeing to each school district one separate school for three months for pupils of each race, the salaries of the division supervisors, all of which will impose only slight expenditures above 'present appropriations made either by the several counties or by the floneral Assembly. Should this bill become a law it will virtually put our school system in the hands of the State Superintendent of Education. Are the people ready to give one man such a vast power0 + ? I'ltOVM SUM IS ALIVE. \ Woman Ends Dispute Over liody by Appearing Alive at Morgue. When a Worcester man iccompanied by an undertaker, appeared at tie Morgue in Boston to claim as that of his sister, Mrs. Lillian Hastings, the body of a young woman found dead on the waterfront, he was met by the Misses Donohuo, of ' Randolph, who also claimed the body nt> that of their sister, Miss Mary Donohue. While the rival claimants were discussing. the matter Mrs. Hastings walked into the morgue, * finally settling the dispute, and the body was given to the Donohue sisters. The death of Miss Donohue was at first believed to be the result ' of foul play, but the medical examiner later declared it to be due to 1 r Rtural causes. ^ Sisters Elope Together. _ Misses Alice O. and Georgia Tait j daughters of George C. Tait, of Springfield, Mass., eloped togothei last week and were secretly mar riot s to Joseph B. Mark man and Leo G f Bloom, respectively. The wedding! ( were announced by long distance v 'phone to their parents who felt sun \ there was a mistake. L- # n Another Killing. As the result of a row hetweei o Will Nance and Dempsy Potter, tw< young wh.te men, of Little River n in Ilorrv county, Saturday night a rr_ a party, the former lies dead, ha via been shot and almost Instantl ,y killed by the latter. Nance was 1 a liquor, and attacked Potter. * 0 Changed Her Mind. Mrs. John Leslie Momand was er to gaged to marry a Chicago man bu ie at a dinner given in honor of her er >n gagement at a New York restauran g. she suddenly decided thaf she pr< 0- ferred Mr. Momand and they promp 1- ly eloped from the dinner table. TOOK OF THE DUTY OBJECT LESSON OF HOW THE TAB IFF RAISES PRICES. No Better Proof Nee<le<I to Show That Tliej' Are Framed for the Benefit of Trusts. In The Jeffersonion of last week Ex-Congressman T. E. Watson s.ijb we have at the present time, an illustration of how the removal of a tariff duty reduces the price of the commodity upon which the iiicy was levied. Here is what Watson says about it, which you can read for yourself: "You remember the groat forest fires which recently devastated so many hundred square miles in Minnesota. and other states lying along the Canadian border. Hundieds, perhaps thousands, of people were burned out of house and home. Thetr misfortunes, like that of the sufTerers of the Sicilian earthquake#, w^s of a dramatic character which appealed to the imagination and aroused human sympathy. A great cry for relief went up from the sufferers?and what shape do you suppose it took? It was a demand for the removal of the tariff duty upon lumber. "Of course, they wanted to rebuild their dwellings as soon as possible, also their outhouses and fences, and therefore they wanted lumber at the lowest obtainable price. Some of the very men who, in Congress, had voted in favor of the Lumber Trust and who had argued that tie tariff duties were an unalloyed and bountiful blessing, used all their influence with the Taft administration to have Canadian lumber admitted free of duty. The Administration yielded, the tariff law was set aside i!i so far as it related to lumber, and the riiiztMis of those nort^-^estern states bought lumber at about half the price which you and I have to pay. "Could you want any better proof that tariffs are framed for the benefit of the cruel trusts? Do you any 'oncer doubt that the increase of tariff duties in the Payne-Aldrich bill, which went into effect last summer. was the true and only cause of the immediate advance in the cost, of living? Can you have any further doubt that those who pretend that t n ri ff s are made in the interest of labor and for the general welfare of | the country, are unmitigated liars and hypocrites? "Consider the injustice of the thing; see with what favoritism our government, is run. We must not begrudee the enormous benefit of cheap building material to those burnt-out unfortunates of the Northwest. But why shouldn't the same benefit be enjoyed by all the rest of us? What have we done that we are less entitled to have the cost-increasing tariff on lumber removed in our favor? Why should we be held down by the government while the dumber Trust goes through our pockets. "There is not an hour in the day when somebody is not burned out; there is never a nieht when the alarm-bell does not strike its terror into son1" town or city. The number of dwellings, barns, gin-houses and other necessary buildings that go up in flames every year, far exceeds the number of homes and other buildi""" fnnciinu>fi )tv the forest fires I II r,0 V'WHWUn.v .. , , j of tbe Northwest. Therefore, when you take a bird's-eye view, mentally, of the entire United States, you cannot fail to realize that there are lust as many unfortunate burr-outs outside the burned-over area of the Northwest, as there were within it. When you think of this and bear in mind that the T,aw should be no respecter of persons, and should treat us nil alike, you will deeply feel the injustice of our Government, in compelling millions of people to surrender a part of their money to the Tyiimher Trust to gratify its inordinate yreod for pain. "If you can think up any Rood reason why the American saw-mills in the Kreat lumber regions of the Northwest cannot produce lumber profitably, as choaply as tho Canad( inns can do it, please tell us what It is. T venture to say that the steam whistles of some of the America? snw-mills on tho border, can he heart by some of the saw-mills of Canada ' and vice versa. The labor suppl] is practically tho same on both side! of the line. The wapes paid by tin - ? n 1 -- ? ? no tn 11 nil I? lanaoian itiimh are wuiiu on ,, ' Canada as those paid by the Ameri 3 ran mills are worth in this conn 3 try. The lumber is cut. from th< same continuous forest growih Why, then, should the Tmmbor Trus of the Northwest he Riven power t< shut out Canadian lumber and t< i extort monopoly prices from th n Americans who have to use their pre . duct? t "Evidently the Taimber Trust wa K afraid, or unable to prevent the tem y porary escape of their victims. Th n burned-outs were desperate; the dc niand which they placed upon thel representatives in Congress was to passionately imperative to the r< i- sisted. The Taft administration h<i t, long been tempest-tossed on a troi \- bled sea, therefore it was thougt t, good politics to let the Lumlu 3- Trust release its prey for a littl t- while, leaving it to make up for loi * time later on when the people ai I LEE'S HEADACHE & SAFELY. SURE Cures Headache and Neu cause. 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