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by January i, 1913 on industrial and agricultural education in the state. This commission 

 reported in December 1912, recommending: the establishment of vocational schools and 

 departments with state aid amounting to two-thirds the local expenditure; the presence on 

 the state board of education of three vocational experts; the employment of an agricultural 

 agent by the state superintendent, etc. Any city of the first class may establish and main- 

 tain a trade school. A tax of .02 mills may be levied in any city of 6,000 or more for the 

 maintenance of kindergartens. Night schools were authorised (1911) in cities of 3,000 or 

 more. In cities of more than 100,000, schools may arrange with art associations, museums, 

 etc. for art education. A minimum wage law for teachers provided that the pay of all 

 beginning teachers should be the product of the average per cent on a licence examination 

 multiplied by 2\ cents a day; and that for teachers who had taught more than 3 years the 

 pay should be the average percentage on examinations and for success (with 2 % added for 

 attending teachers' institutes), multiplied by 3^ cents a day. The previous rate had been 

 3 cents. The compulsory education law of 1909 was extended to deaf and blind children, 

 who must attend the state schools between the ages of 8 and 16. 



The Robert W. Long hospital was established in connection with the Indiana University 

 School of Medicine on a gift of property (about $200,000) from Dr. Robert W. Long and his 

 wife; the building was not begun in 1912. A state educational building or museum is to be 

 erected to celebrate in 1916 the lOOth anniversary of the admission of Indiana to the Union. 

 The legislature appropriated $100,000 for a library building for Purdue University, which 

 was practically completed in 1912. 



The school census for 1912 showed 761,494 children of school age, an enrollment of 532,- 

 821 and an average daily attendance of 430,862. The average school year was 140 days in 

 townships and 187 days in cities. The total revenue for the school year 1911-12 was $19,- 

 354.565 and the expenditures $18,784,426 (9,209,226 for teaching). In 1910 the percentage 

 of illiteracy in the population 10 years and over was 3.1 (4.6 in 1900). 



Charities and Penal Institutions. The age of commitment to the Indiana Girls' School 

 was limited to from 10 to 18; older girls are to be transferred to the women's prison. No life 

 prisoner is to be sent to the reformatory. The state and the political divisions of the state 

 must purchase goods made in the reformatory, except upon a release by the superintendent. 

 The legislature appropriated $75,000 for land for a colony for the insane in connection with 

 one of the state hospitals (and in 1912 a site was chosen for the colony under the supervision 

 of the Eastern Hospital at Richmond) and $25,000 for a new industrial school for negroes; 

 and it spent $25,000 for the installation of electro-hydrotherapeutic apparatus in the Southern 

 Hospital for the insane. In April 1911 the State Tuberculosis Hospital (established 1907), 

 3 m. E. of Rockville, was opened. In 1912 a former teacher of psychology in De Pauw 

 University was appointed associate superintendent of the state reformatory. 



History. The political history of the last two years centres in the movement, led 

 by Governor Thomas R. Marshall and opposed by the Republicans, for a revision of the 

 state constitution. The Democratic legislature elected with Marshall voted in vain 

 for his measure, which the supreme court decided could not be submitted to the people. 

 On January 18, 1911, it chose John Worth Kern (b. 1849), Democratic candidate for 

 vice-president in 1908, United States senator to succeed Albert Jeremiah Beveridge 

 (b. 1862), Republican, senator in 1890-1911. Beveridge used his influence for the 

 nomination of Roosevelt he was chairman of the National Progressive Convention; 

 and for his election, and was nominated (August i, 1912) for governor with a full state 

 ticket by the party; his opponents charged that he had the backing of the Steel Trust. 

 But the conservative Republicans, led by Harry Stewart New (b. 1858), a member of 

 the party's National Committee, carried the Republican state convention for Taft. 

 Twelve seats were contested by Roosevelt men, but all were awarded to delegates 

 pledged to Taft. Governor Marshall was the choice of the Democratic Convention in 

 the state for the presidency and of the national convention for vice-president. In the 

 election of November 5, 1912, Samuel M. Ralston, the Democratic nominee for governor, 

 received 275,357 votes to 166,124 for Beveridge, who did much better in the country 

 districts than in Indianapolis, and 142,850 for Winfield Taylor Durbin (b. 1847), 

 Republican, governor in 1901-05. The new state legislature contains 40 Democrats, 

 9 Republicans and i Progressive in the senate, and 95 Democrats, 4 Republicans and i 

 Progressive in the House. The Democrats carried all the 13 Congressional districts, 

 including the loth, where Edgar Dean Crumpacker (b. 1851), representative since 1807 

 and the only Republican from Indiana in the House of Representatives in 1910-11, was 

 defeated by his Democratic opponent, John B. Peterson. Although the Democratic 

 candidates were criticised because they did not break with Thomas Taggart (b. 1856), 



