The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, February 09, 1911, Image 4
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.
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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.
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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
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e These lands are perfectly levc
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9 not looking.
i- "But haven't you been askin
o yourself, lly what right does the Go\
?- eminent suspend the tariff law fe
ir a single hour in response to an
o kind of appeal? It has no such ai
thority?it is a violation of oaths c
is oillee. Tf they can suspend one lav
i- they can suspend them all. Who
it Government is operated after thi
?r fashion, it is not one of Law, bi
le of personal whim. Under such
9t system, nobody and no business
r? safe."
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