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The School Question 
The Cost of Education 
If many farmers think as I do, the 
school unit should lie the county, with 
the county judge the head of it. There 
can be nothing gained by confirming the 
present order of things. A host of men 
and women who*are now receiving large 
salaries can be dispensed with. Can 
anyone see any assistance to the educa¬ 
tion of file youths in filing up stacks of 
documents at Albany? Neither is it nec¬ 
essary to file quantities of records in the 
county. This change would end much 
political graft which is really the only 
cause of its continuance. 
What it costs the State and every 
school district at the present time. If I 
am not mistaken, the State expended last 
year forty-five millions of dollars. The 
local school here received 8100 ami raised 
$1,200, If for every $160 expended by 
the State the districts have to expend Shy 
$1,000, what is ihe result? If would be 
about $281,250,000 annually for educa¬ 
tional purposes. Think of it. you farm¬ 
ers; it’s no wonder we have to go in 
rags to educate our children away from 
the farm. 
Look around your locality and count 
the sons and daughters, for whom you 
have denied yourself many comforts, so 
as to give them a classical education. 
Where are they? I am one of the guilty 
ones myself, so I am not “passing the 
buck.” I have no desire to criticize the 
Committee of Twenty-one; they cannot 
make a new garment out of a lot of old 
patches. The whole of it should be re¬ 
cast, beginning at the primary. , all 
through the colleges also. Think of it. 
you brother farmers, when the college 
would ask you to take some of the young 
men and give them the practical part of 
your profession. I would like to show 
the thin veneer of education the young 
people acquire as they rush up to the 
college, clamoring for all the education 
they can get. No wonder the colleges are 
glutted. One-half to three-fourths of the 
applicants should never have gone higher 
than the eighth grade, hut get that much 
to perfection. Many persons are delud¬ 
ed with the idea that their services will 
be in such demand when graduated from 
college that they can name any price and 
get it. D. B. 
The Committee of Twenty-one gave 
consideration to the county as unit for 
school administration, bur finally decided 
not to recommend it to the school patrons 
of the State for two reasons: 
1. Ir believes that the unit it has rec¬ 
ommended will better meet the needs of 
keeping the schools close to the people. 
This the committee feels is very desir¬ 
able. At the same time the proposed 
plan makes ir possible to have a unit as 
large as the county, or even larger if this 
is desirable, and the people of the State 
wish such an arrangement. 
2. The committee felt the change from 
the present system to the community unit 
could lip made more readily than could a 
change to the county. 
These were the principal reasons that 
lead to the suggested community unit 
rather than to the county, which does 
have certain very desirable features. 
The demands of the schools are so great 
nowadays that they could not be very 
well taken care of with the other duties 
that the eouuty judge has to look after. 
The committee agrees with the view 
that more practical instruction should be 
given in the schools and it believes that 
if its suggestions were accepted it would 
result in putting the school work of the 
State on a more practical foundation. 
ARE WAITING FOR YOU 
What crops will make you the most 
money? What enterprises? What 
methods? What plans will pay YOU 
on YOUR farm NOW—without add¬ 
ing to your machinery, acres or stock? 
Should you stick to the things your 
neighbors are raising or go in for some¬ 
thing new? Should you specialize on a 
few crops or diversify with many? 
Should you play safe or play big? 
The Country Gentleman has 
found out for you. Harry R. O’Brien 
traveled 3200 miles to ask successful 
farmers. There’s no wild theory in 
what he says—he has bank-balance 
proof for every line. It’s honest, sound 
stuff. 
One item, one bit of fact, may make the 
difference next year between profit 
and no profit. He gives you the se¬ 
crets of success—things that you can 
begin applying tomorrow to make more 
money. 
Literally, acres of dollars are waiting 
for you if you go after them right. The 
right way is in this series—in the ar¬ 
ticles that appear in the next thirteen 
big issues. 
on strikes from the farmer’s point of 
view will appear in the next 13 issues 
of The Country Gentleman. 
We will send you the next 13 issues of 
The Country Gentleman, contain¬ 
ing these and many other important 
features, for only 25 cents. 
The Country Gentleman is a prac¬ 
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It emphasizes the business end of 
farming. It shows you constantly ir. 
hundreds of different ways how you 
can make more money out of farming 
in your section of the country. 
40 pages, each week, packed with 
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Mail this coupon with 25 cents—coin, 
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Your first issue, mailed promptly, will 
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Only a quarter. Mail it now while 
you are thinking about it. 
Let me join you with others in thank¬ 
ing you for Mr. II, I.. I laths way’s -well- 
reasoned letter on “The Proposed Rural 
School System.” on pages 1333 and 1334. 
That which Mr. Hathaway speaks of as 
“the old township law" had one good 
feature in that it provided that school 
taxes be collected by onp officer in each 
town, who also had a known and perma¬ 
nent place of business and was paid a 
fired nabirp. The present system in this 
county of Putnam and, I believe, gener¬ 
ally throughout Ihe rural districts, is to 
have a separate collector in each school 
district, and to change collectors nearly 
every year, lie is entitled to collect anil 
apply to his own use. without accounting 
therefor, one per cent on taxes collected 
within 30 days after the uncertain, and 
to taxpayers unknowable, day on which 
he receives the warrant, and five per 
cent on al! taxes collected later. Col¬ 
lectors are human, and do not bother 
themselves in the first 30 days. Just 
how much is collected in the 13,000 or 
14,000 districts in this State 1 know not. 
It is, however, a very large sum. and 
somewhere between one and five per cent 
thereon a very heavy harden on tax¬ 
payers. lint the worst is that this tax, 
for commissions, nowhere appears in jiiiL 
lished reports and is not accounted for. 
New York. SifYVKSA.vt FISH 
The Muscle Shoals Project is of vital 
interest to ev’ery farmer. 
Will it go through? Will it fail? 
Will the great resources of Power be 
used to help the farmer? 
Philip S. Rose knows the story from 
the inside. His illuminating article is 
one of a series of six in The Country 
Gentleman on the Power Resources 
—water, coal and oil—of this country. 
This appears in the next 13 issues. 
THE COUNTRY GEN¬ 
TLEMAN 
3432 Independence Square, 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
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The Farmer Always Gets Stung 
The recent railroad and miners’ strike 
is estimated to have cost the farmers in 
California alone $25,000,000. 
How much did it cost YOU? 
No matter who wins in a capital and 
labor fight, the farmer has to pay—and 
pay big. A series of vigorous articles 
l he I ost Office Department has issued 
i at ructions regarding the shipment of 
the bodies of game animals and birds 
through the mails. Acceptance for mail¬ 
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in violation of the laws of any State. Ter- 
ritoi or district is prohibited. Game ani¬ 
mals and birds must be properly marked. 
Postmasters have been cautioned to en¬ 
force these rules. 
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