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REMARKS BY SENATOR CHAS. F. CARTER. 



(Mr. Carter, whose Home is in Clark County, is a Member of the Missouri Senate, 



Representing the Twelfth District.) 



I came in to learn and listen this afternoon. I did not sup- 

 pose anybody would disturb me in the audi- 

 ence, but I see Mr. Nelson is present and 

 has invited me up here for a talk before you 

 good people. 



I am glad that it has been my privilege 

 to be interested in school legislation. This 

 State, I believe, in the Forty-sixth General 

 Assembly, passed more good school bills 

 than had been passed in a quarter of a 

 century. You will pardon me if I tell 

 you I feel somewhat gratified for the part 

 I played in the passing of those bills. And 

 I have hoped that the present session — the 



Senator Carter. i^i. j_ia ^ ^ •^^ j^ ^ -, 



Forty-seventh Assembly — will take up and 

 pass even a larger number of good educational measures. Just last 

 evening I was called to the State Superintendent's office for a con- 

 ference with some of the leading educators of the State. I found pres- 

 ent at that conference such men as Dr. Kirk, President of the Kirks- 

 ville Normal, Dean Phillips of Warrensburg Normal, and representa- 

 tives of this University, together with other men of that calibre. 

 I am pleased to report to you we worked there all evening and away 

 into the night, trying to draft some good school measures. One of 

 the measures that was under discussion, and I believe it was the 

 request of the conference that I should take it up and try to get it 

 through, was a measure that has been referred to in this meeting. 

 I am sorry I missed the speech of Mr. Brydon, who I believe was 

 on the program, because I was a little late. He is picked out to 

 introduce one of our school bills and we feel that with his energy 

 and his ability it will soon be upon the statute books in this State. 

 This is a bill that would give certain aid to graduates of high 

 schools and then permit those graduates to be licensed to teach. For 

 twenty years the normal schools and university leaders have fought 

 that proposition, but last night all were unanimous, saying this was 

 the time we should put forward that measure and all our high 

 schools that are worth while receive State aid. 



Another bill is to aid weak high schools. My friends, there 



