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The School Question 
The Committee of Twenty-one at Buffalo 
About 350 people, mainly men. attend¬ 
ed the rural school conference at Hutchin¬ 
son High School. Buffalo, on Saturday. 
December 10. and of these probably the 
majority were regularly appointed dele¬ 
gates of the various local farm organiza¬ 
tions. They thus represented, probably, 
more farmers than have those present at 
any of our other conferences. That there 
were more men in attendance than wom¬ 
en was probably due to the fact that only 
Erie and Niagara counties have Home 
Bureau organizations. There was no 
woman on the program, and the Erie 
County Home Bureau is having a strug¬ 
gle to get the appropriation desired from 
the Board of Supervisors. 
Mr. Dunn presided, and described the 
origin and purpose of the committee. He 
also spoke of the make-up of the survey 
staff. He conducted the discussions of 
both the morning and afternoon sessions, 
and a very large number participated and 
spoke apparently with entire freedom, 
either in favor of or in opposition to the 
work that has been done by the survey 
and the committee. 
Mr. Dunn introduced Prof. Brim, who 
took up some of the salient facts of the 
reports of Dr. Butterworth on buildings 
and equipment, and of Dr. Bagley on 
teachers and curriculum. Mr. Brim rep¬ 
resented the sehoolhouses, and then again 
the teachers of rural schools as in a line, 
and stated how many of them would be 
passed by, if they were grouped accord¬ 
ing to compliance with standards, before 
one was reached that complied with each 
standard. This method seemed to hold 
the close attention and interest of the as¬ 
semblage, whereas, in some other meet¬ 
ings the interest and attention seemed to 
flag under the big array of statistics of 
the shortcomings of rural schools and 
teachers. At the conclusion of a long 
and painstaking recapitulation of the 
principal findings of the divisions of the 
survey mentioned. Prof. Brim was hear¬ 
tily applauded. The discussion that fol¬ 
lowed was characterized by a great va¬ 
riety of comment—some to the point and 
some not. A speaker who said that the 
township school law was the best thing 
that ever came down thf pike received 
hearty applause from apparently a third 
of those present. Three or four Grangers 
rose to protest an attack on the Grange 
attitude as regarded the township law. 
One party said that the reason the 
schools were not good was that we do not 
get the right kind of trustees. Another 
farm delegate countered with the state¬ 
ment that if condemnation proceedings 
were in order they must start at the top 
with the Education Department. 
A farmer asked : “Are the city schools, 
with much larger facilities, turning out 
any better educated children, or at a 
younger age than are the little country 
schools?” (this applying to the elemen¬ 
tary work up to the end of the eighth 
grade). Mr. Snyder answered that city 
children at that stage were a year young¬ 
er and, on the whole, better trained. 
A man who had taught in both city and 
country asserted that a large grade in a 
city elementary school was not any easier 
to teach than a small country school of 
many classes but few pupils. Another 
said that there is more initiative in rural 
children. Another said that the shorter 
school year in rural districts and the nu¬ 
merous holidays and teacher conference 
days cut soi much out of a child’s school 
attendance that it is no wonder they are 
a year longer than city children in get¬ 
ting through eighth grade. 
A woman collector complained that in 
her district the teacher had averaged 
nearly a day off each week since school 
opened. Her statistics were disputed. A 
long discussion ensued. It was shown 
that Labor Day. Election Day. Thanks¬ 
giving, Columbus Day, Christmas. New 
Years. Washington’s Birthday, Lincoln’s 
Birthday and Memorial Day and four 
days for teachers’ conference actually 
came out of the 36 weeks of school in 
some districts: altogether, 13 days. The 
consensus of opinion was that this was 
too much, but that teachers’ conferences 
properly managed were a help to teacher 
and school. A teacher present told of 20 
teachers in her county going to confer 
with a leader of junior project work and 
all voting to hold another conference, the 
next time giving a Saturday out of their 
own time. 
A trustee observed : “Teachers differ. 
The one I had last year would not profit 
if she had three a week, and she was al¬ 
ways going to them and asking for a holi¬ 
day. The one I have this year can have 
anything she asks for. because she likes 
her work and does it the very best she 
knows how.” 
Another speaker said: “The average 
teacher, in going to conferences, gains in¬ 
spiration. I do not believe our district 
superintendents have got where they do 
not give inspiration in these conferences. 
Teacher", ought to meet their co-workers.” 
At the afternoon session R. P. Snyder 
of the State Department of Education 
gave a description of the committee’s pro¬ 
posed scheme for rural school reorganiza¬ 
tion as regards tax units and administra¬ 
tion. The proposed new community unit. 
Mr. Snyder said, would be made up of 
undivided common school districts, grouped 
according to trade and social relations 
and topography. No district boundaries 
would he disturbed' in this grouping, and 
this district organization would remain 
with each trustee retained along with the 
members of the village school board, as 
members of a community school board 
that would have charge of the affairs of 
all the schools in the unit. Taxes would 
be at a uniform rate throughout each 
unit, and be assessed on the true valua¬ 
tions. 
A new method of apportioning the 
State school fund quotas on the basis of 
ability of the districts and of their will¬ 
ingness to provide good school facilities 
was also explained. Mr. Snyder showed 
that the proposed change seemed abso¬ 
lutely necessary to secure that equality 
of educational opportunity for rural boys 
and girls which is the aim of the com¬ 
mittee. It was thought that pretty much 
all the local school problems that now 
perplex those who wish well for the rural 
districts can be colved by local initiative 
and under local authority, if the new plan 
for tax and administration unit be car¬ 
ried into effect. 
The present antiquated rural school 
machinery for accomplishing educational 
results. Mr. Snyder said, dated back to 
1795. The rural communities must he 
given the tools and then must assume re¬ 
sponsibility for the job. Certain things 
are. of course, the professional educator’s 
job. and the duties of the layman and 
the educator must ho differentiated. As 
to consolidation. Mr. Snyder said to re¬ 
peal the compulsory consolidation law. 
give the people the machinery and say: 
“Consolidate or not. as you see fit.” 
Different members of the conference 
asked the following questions, answered 
as follows: 
“Who is going to do the grouping of 
the districts?” “A commission of five, 
appointed by the Board of Supervisors.” 
“Is joining these community districts 
to he compulsory on all districts?” “Yes. 
but each district retains its local organi¬ 
zation intact.” 
“What controversies will arise where a 
district has been bonded and others not?” 
“The survey workers of the division of 
administration and supervision are now 
working on that point.” 
“Will there he a high school in every 
community unit?” “Every community 
should have.” 
“Is the committee in favor of doing 
away with the office of district superin¬ 
tendent ?” “Is it in favor of electing dis¬ 
trict superintendents by direct vote?” 
“The committee does not favor electing 
district superintendents by direct vote.” 
A delegate arose and read resolutions 
passed by his Grange, calling for direct 
vote for the superintendent, good build¬ 
ings. no consolidation, a larger unit of 
taxation. Another said if a board to 
elect and advise superintendents he elect¬ 
ed to serve five years, such a board should 
not be so chosen as to be easily handled 
by the superintendent. Another expressed 
the opinion that the new proposed system 
would be no improvement. 
Still another expressed the opinion that 
the expenses of a common school district 
would be higher under the proposed sys¬ 
tem. A Niagara County farmer thought 
it impossible to transport children to a 
central high school in throe feet of snow. 
He was answered that more and more 
rural people insist that roads shall be 
kept open in the Winter. A counter re¬ 
tort from another farmer was that even 
the mail man failed to get around in their 
section when the roads were bad. “It 
would bankrupt Niagara County to break 
the roads out and keep them open some 
Winters,” said still another. “When they 
want to open the roads, they can,” was 
the final observation. “There is never 
any failure to get the milk through.” 
A lady who had lived in Idaho de¬ 
scribed the fine results obtained in consol¬ 
idated schools in that State. A school 
principal described a* successful consoli¬ 
dated school of which lie is principal. 
At the close of the meeting there was a 
general request for printed matter ex¬ 
plaining still further the work of the com¬ 
mittee and the survey staff, and many of 
those representing farm organizations left 
their names and addresses that they might 
receive such information. There was an 
apparent desire to follow up the work of 
the committee, and to aid in the solution 
of the rural school problem by taking up 
the studv in the local farm organizations. 
n. G. R. 
Tenant’s Rights in Annual Crops 
A dies, leaving a will, giving B the use 
of his farm during his natural life. B 
rents said farm to C for one year from 
April 1. 1921. Be dies on .Tune 1. 1921. 
Can C hold said farm for the remainder 
of the year? E. B. 
New York. 
The estate of the tenant holding under 
a lease from a life tenant is extinguished 
by the death of the lessor. B could con¬ 
vey no greater estate to the tenant than 
hf himself had. Where a tenant’s estate 
is terminated by an unforeseen event 
which the tenant could neither foresee nor 
control, he is entitled to the annual crops 
which he sowed or planted while his es¬ 
tate continued. Such crops are called 
emblements. A tenant for a year, how¬ 
ever. who plants crons which he knows 
cannot be harvested during his term, has 
no right to return and harvest the crops. 
N. T. 
