superintendent has no authority to make the town superintendents send 

 in their reports. 



Attention should be called to the higher per capita expenditure for 

 town pupils than for country pupils, also to the lower number of pupils per 

 teacher in the town schools, together with the higher salaries paid there. 



Attention should also be called to the low expenditure for the colored 

 pupils and to the excessively high number of pupils per teacher. 



There arc six circulating libraries among the country schools, with a 

 total of 600 volumes, and seven such libraries in the town schools, with 

 a total of 900 volumes. These libraries are paid for partly by the com- 

 munity, through basket dinners and socials, and partly by the State, 

 under the new school library law. 



A few of the schools make an effort to provide playgrounds. The 

 investigator came across one country school with basketball grounds and 

 one with croquet grounds. Usually, however, such facilities are lacking. 

 There is occasionally a social or entertainment in the schools, but the 

 school buildings are not important social centers. They do serve, how- 

 ever, as meeting places for most of the Farmers' Unions. 



Most of the schools teach a little agriculture and nature study, but no 

 domestic science or manual training. Most of the secondary schools 

 have music and some have elocution. Some of them have special music 

 rooms. The music and elocution teachers are paid by private subscrip- 

 tion and by tuition fees. 



In some of the schools the regular appropriation for school puqioses 

 is supplemented by private subscriptions, making possible a longer term 

 of school and the employment of better teachers. It is in these cases 

 that leadership and community spirit are most in evidence. Schools 

 whose income was supplemented in this way were found in the communi- 

 ties which have the really live Farmers' Unions. 



The most interesting of all the country schools is the Laneview College. 

 This school is supported partly by county funds, partly by tuition fees 

 and partly by direct subscription from the community. The people of 

 the community — and it is not a wealthy community — dig down into 

 their pockets and pay out $800 a year for its support. In their devotion 

 to the school and in the sacrifices they have made for it, they have built 

 up an unusually tine community spirit. Hand in hand with the school 

 has gone the church. The Baptist Church in that community, the one 

 to which most of the people belong, is the only country church in the 

 county that has a resident minister, and is one of the two that has 

 preaching more than one-fourth of the time. Results like this indicate 

 the presence of a persevering, self-sacrificing leader. This man we found 

 here, a fine country doctor, where work has been splendidly seconded 

 by loyal friends. 



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