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The  School  Question 
Consolidated  Schools  in  Iowa 
I  have  been  specially  interested  in  your 
articles  on  the  consolidated  school.  Since 
the  Fall  of  1910,  with  the  exception  of  a 
year  in  the  service  and  a  year  at  college, 
I  have  been  in  charge  of  various  consoli¬ 
dated  schools  in  Iowa.  From  these  few 
years  of  work  in  this  line  1  have  had  a 
chance  to  see  the  inside  workings  of  these 
schools  and  the  development  in  this  State. 
From  a  small  beginning  consolidation  has 
spread  in  Iowa  till  today  we  have  one- 
fourth  of  the  State  organized,  making  a 
total  of  423  schools  in  operation.  The 
significant  thing  1  have  noticed  is  th.it 
when  one  community  consolidates,  it  is 
only  a  short  time  till  neighboring  com¬ 
munities  organize,  largely  because  they 
see  their  boys  and  girls  in  the  one-room 
country  schools  are  not  getting  the  ad¬ 
vantages  of  their  neighbors  in  the  consoli¬ 
dated  school.  More  and  more  do  our 
people  see  that  the  boys  and  girls  must 
have  a  good  high  school  education,  and 
that  it  is  even  more  important  that  dur¬ 
ing  those  years  in  high  school  they  are 
in  their  own  homes  every  night  and  un¬ 
der  the  home  influence. 
One  of  our  problems  has  been  to  make 
our  districts  large  enough  to  support  a 
large  school  without  making  the  taxes 
too  hisrh.  No  school  should  consider  less 
than  30  sections,  and  twice  that  would 
often  he  desirable.  In  the  Pisgah  district 
we  have  32  sections,  which  makes  our 
school  tax  about  $1,25  per  acre.  We  have 
a  small  town  at  Pisgah,  hut  are  transpor- 
ing  ISO  children.  We  use  motor  busses,  so 
even  those  on  the  edge  of  the  district  sel¬ 
dom  need  be  on  the  road  more  than  30  to 
40  minutes.  We  have  mud  roads  that, 
often  become  slippery  and  rutted,  but 
still  the  busses  get  through.  I  have  lost 
two  days  in  five  years  because  of  had 
roads,  so  you  see  transportation  is  prac¬ 
tical. 
People  who  live  in  these  districts  and 
who  know  what  their  taxes  are  and  who 
have  had  experience,  don’t  kick.  They 
boost.  I  even  know  of  one  man  who, 
when  the  district  was  being  formed,  ob¬ 
jected  so  strongly  that  his  farm  was  left 
out  of  the  district.  In  less  than  three 
years  he  sold  that  farm  and  bought  one 
in  the  district.  Our  modern  consolidated 
schools  are  just  as  much  a  necessity  as 
our  automobiles  and  our  up-to-date  farm 
machinery.  iienry  m.  immerzefx. 
Duties  of  School  Superintendent 
T  have  been  informed  that  an  acting 
county  school  commissioner  has  no  right 
to  practice  law  and  do  legal  business  for 
pay  while  acting  and  holding  the  afore¬ 
said  office.  If  that  is  so,  and  one  does 
act  as  an  attorney,  what  is  the  penalty? 
What  would  one  have  to  do  to  stop  com¬ 
missioner  from  holding  the  office  and  do- 
ing  legal  business?  t.  o.  r. 
New  York. 
The  following  quotation  from  Article 
394  of  the  education  law  covers  the  point 
raised  by  your  question  :  ‘‘A  district  su¬ 
perintendent  of  schools  shall  devote  his 
whole  time  to  the  performance  of  the 
duties  of  his  office,  and  shall  not  engage 
in  any  other  occupation  or  profession. 
Such  time  as.  shall  not  necessarily  be  de¬ 
voted  by  a  district  superintendent  to  the 
performance  of  the  clerical  and  adminis¬ 
trative  work  of  his  office  shall  be  devoted 
to  the  visitation  and  inspection  of  the 
schools  ^maintained  in  his  supervisory 
district.” 
“Minding”  the  Teacher 
I  have  just  been  reading  the  remarks 
made  by  Mrs.  IT  II.  Willis,  and  1  think 
she  is  right,  for  I  have  noticed  this  same 
trouble  here  in  my  home  town.  If  the 
parents  would  insist  upon  their  children 
being  respectful  and  obedient  to  the  teach¬ 
er  there  would  be  better  report  cards  sent 
home.  I  am  a  mother  of  five,  three  boys 
and  two  girls,  although  the  youngest  does 
not  yet  go;  three  are  out  of  school.  I 
always  told  my  boys  if  they  disobeyed 
the  teacher  or  were  punished  for  anything 
at  school,  they  would  get  the  same  dose, 
only  harder,  when  the  teacher  notified  me. 
I  sent  word  to  each  new  teacher  to  that 
effect,  and  I  never  had  any  complaints. 
MOTHER  OF  FIVE. 
Inheritance  of  Wife  and  Child 
What  amount  of  property  would  mv 
wife  and  child  hold  at  my  death?  Could 
she  come  in  possession  of  my  personal 
property  at  once  with  my  finances,  and 
would  not  my  child  hold  his  share  when 
he  reached  21,  or  in  trust  for  him  until 
i  o.  E.  M. 
Pennsylvania. 
Where  an  intestate  shall  leave  a  spouse 
surviving  and  one  child  only,  or  a  spouse 
and  descendants  of  one  deceased  child,  the 
spouse  shall  he  entitled  to  one-half  part  of 
the  real  and  personal  estate.  If  there  are 
more  than  one  child  surviving,  or  one 
child  and  the  descendants  of  a  deceased 
child  or  children,  or  the  descendants  of 
more  than  one  deceased  child,  the  sur¬ 
viving  spouse  shall  he  entitled  to  one- 
third  of  the  real  and  personal  estate. 
The  share  of  the  children  will  he  dis¬ 
tributed  by  the  orphans’  court. 
The  best  advice  we  can  give  you  in  re* 
gard  to  your  property  is  that  you  make  a 
will  directing  how  it  shall  be  divided. 
N.  T. 
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Grape-Nuts, with  good  milk,  is  a  complete  food. 
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