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County Superintendents
Favor Continuing High
School Normal Training
By County Superintendent
For several years there has been
a move on to defeat the normal
training high schools- This move
for the most part originated in
areas accessible to state normal
school and universities.
Ia an open discussion meeting of
the County Superintendents associ
ation, J. C. Mitchell, Director of
Secondary Education, voiced the
sentiment of the State Superin
tendent’s office. Mr. Mitchell laud
ed the normal training schools of
the State of Nebraska, coming to
their defense he stated that the
time was not yet ripe for the dis
continuance of the normal training
schools.
The matter was brought before
the county superintendents later in
the form of a motion. The group
was nearly unanimous in favor of
their continuation. A general ap
plause followed the discussion.
Talking as he did, Mr. Mitchell
assured us that we were in no im
mediatedanger of having our norm
al training schools abolished. He
farther stated that until financial
conditions were better we could not
expect teachers with two or four
years of college work to accept
wages as low as thirty dollars per
month,
Mr. Mitchell pointed out that the
compensation for teacher’s train
ing was a greut deal lower than
that of other corresponding pro
fessions, stating that teachers were
unable to live on the money they
saved from their wages, throwing
them on their parents for support
during the summer months.
Summarizing the content of his
speech he repeated that college
training at the present time was
not versatile enough for rural
schools. As a corrective meusure
the normal schools would have to
more nearly meet the requirments
of rural schools.
We people here in Holt county
should deeply appreciate the ef
forts of the state department in
preserving our normal training
schools. It will make it possible
for high school graduates to secure
teaching position s.\vithout a year
of college preparation.
In asserting himself as he did, he
said that they have had. no
qaairel with the state normal
schools, that their only wish was
that they could continue to make it
possible for many to secure certi
ficates who would be unable to if
normal training was discontinued.
PROJECT CLUBS
HAPPY HOUR PROJECT CLUB
The Happy Hour Project Club
met at the home of Mrs. Bernard
Hynes on December 14. The lead
en discussed the topic of the day.
There was one visitor present. A
delicious lunch was served. The
next meeting will be held at the
home of Mrs. John Hynes.
ASH GROVE CLUB
Members, numbering nine, met
with Mrs. Ralph Phillips on Wed
nesday, December 16. A cold and
frosty “baked, bean and hot coffee”
day, nearing the shortest one of
the year, therefor following our
repast, the fairies disposed of the
skeletons and the dishes, allowing
the Club to proceed with the busi
ness of the day. Distribution of
Christmas gifts, arrangements for
a mid-holiday party, the lesson and
installation of new members and
adjournment to meet with Mrs.
George Rector on anuary 20th.
WOODMAN CIRCLE
The Junior Woodman Circle en
joyed a Christmas party at the
home of Mrs. G. A. Miles. Gifts
were exchanged and games were
played, after which a dainty lunch
eon was served by the hostess.
Officers were also elected for the
new year as follows: Doris Scofield
guardian; Ilene Kelley, past guard
ian; Genevieve Graves, advisor;
Donna Jean Marcellus, chaplain;
Dlurere Loy, clerk; Gordon Hiatt,
attendant; Richard Tibbett, assist
ant attendant; Keith Vincent, out
er sentinal; Bill O’Connell, inner
sentinal; Margaret Jean Yantzi
musician.
BUSY HOUR CLUB
The Busy Hour club met at the
home of Mrs. John Miller on Dec
18. All members were present ex
cept Mrs. Gray who we hear is able
to get around a little now, and we
hope will be with us soon. There
was one visitor present, Stella Van
Every. After the election of of
ficers for the coming year the
afternoon was spent with games
and in the unwaapping of presents
as old Santa had remembered all.
A nice lunch was served by the
hostess. The next meeting will be
on Jan. 28 at the home of Mrs.
John Schmohr.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Sunday School: Junior Depart
ment 9:00; other departments at
10:00.
Morning Worship 11:00—“Build
the Walls.”
Evening Service 7:30—This will
be a Panel Service on the subject
of New Years.
Music by the choirs for both
services.
H. D. Johnson, Pastor.
METHODIST CHURCH NOTES
Sunday school 10 a. m.
Morning worship 11a, m., spec
ial music by the choir. Vocal solo
by Lewis Cambre. Sermon sub
ject, “Opportunities of Another
Year.”
Epworth League 0:30
Evening service 7:30. Y’oung
peoples choir. Sermon subject,
“Another Chance."
Meeting for Making
Agriculture Plans
Rural electrification and pump ir
rigation, two lively rural discus
sion topics now, will receive major
attention at thq, annual organized
agriculture meetings at the college
nf agriculture early in January.
Both will be discussed pro and con
by farmers and authorities on the
farm equipment association pro
gram.
While definite plans for the dis
cussion of these two topics were
being completed, it was assured
that the University of Nebraska
band will make an appearance on
the general session Thursday, Jar
7. Directed by Billy Quick, thi
musical organization has gaine<
fame as being the best college bam
in the country. The group will b
in full Press for the event.
Meanwhile plans progressed fo
holding the annual small grail
utility show during the week. Im
proved varieties of oats, barley am
wheat will be on exhibition.
The New Cars Are Out
Last month the automobile show!
were held thruout the country.
The new cars are more beautifu
in design and finish than ever be
fore. They offer much in the waj
of improvements and gadgets
Their power plants deliver stagger
ing performance—you can pus!
the throttle down and run up t<
eighty or ninety m. p. h. without
trouble—so far as the mechanics
of your car are concerned.
However, the emphasis on speed
has been productive of one of the
gravest national “troubles” Amer
ica has known—the growing ac
cident toll. And the driver who
thinks that seventy is safe because
it seems as slow as thirty used to,
should think again.
Silent engine performance won’t
help if we encounter a cement guard
rail at high speed. Effortless steer
ing won't make a head-on crash
less destructive. Lack of vibration
won’t help the undertaker patch us
together after the wrecking crew
gets the body out with blow torches.
But these modern cars are mag
nificent examples of safety-engin
eering—blue-print safety. Brakes
stop a hurtling machine in amaz
ingly short distance, without sway
or shock. All steel bodies will take
a lot of punishment without serious
damage. Steering mechanisms are
next to fool proof. And the tire
manufacturers have done their bit
by reducing the blow-out hazard to
a minimum.
Yet each year's safety improve
ments have been followed by more
accidents, not fewer accidents—
and by more serious accidents—not
less serious accidents. Why? Be
cause we, the motoring public, have
overestimated the safety factor of
[he new cars, just as we have over
estimated the safety factor of wid
er, better surfaced highways. The
ears and the roads are improved—
NEBRASKA PETROLEUM
INDUSTRIES COMMITTEE
Press Statement of Frank S.
Henline, Lincoln, assistant secre
tary.
The rupid growth in the cost of
special additional taxes paid by
motor vehicle owners and other
consumers of gasoline, and the
rising cost of taxation imposed
upon the activities and products of
the petroleum industry itself, has
forced, oil men throughout the
country to organize for the pro
tection of ther customers and
themselves. Their activity repre
senths no attempt to dodge fair
und reasonable taxation, but is a
nationwide movement for tax jus
tice, economical government, and
effective administration of public
revenue.
Oil men, forming Petroleum In
dustries Committees in every state
and county, are prepared to work
with other organizations of tax
payers which believe that reduction
in the costs of government and the
establishment of sound spending
policies are essential to good gov
ernment, They are becoming
active not only because in the past
fifteen years petroleum taxes have
been several times petroleum earn
ings, but also because taxes paid
by the industry's customers largely
have offset the extensive reductions
in the price of petroleum products
which the industry has made
through scientific progress and
improved methods.
These oil men, like their custom
ers, believe that excessive gasoline
tax rates should be reduced to
reasonable levels, and that the rev
enue be used for the original and
only justifiable purpose of the tax
—the construction, improvement,
and maintenance of the highways.
This tax cost our customers more
than $800,000,000 in 1935 alone.
In Nebraska gasoline tax col
lections amounted to more than
$80,000,000 covering the period
from 1925, when the gasoline tax
went into effect to July 1, 1936.
Only two-thirds of our present six
cent gasoline tax is intended for
roads although the need for better
“Farm to Market” roads is very
urgent.
From 1919 through 1935 our cus
tomers (entire U. S.) have paid
more than $3,618,000 in gasoline
taxes, yet barely 360,000 of the
1,000,000 miles of road in this
country have been even improved
Some states have used a large part
of the gasoline tax revenue for
other than roads. Others have
repeatedly increased gasoline tax
rates, and have spent the revenue
upon unnecessarily expensive
roads. Since 1932 the federal gov
ernment also has imposed a gaso
line tax, which must be paid by our
customers in addition to state gaso
line taxes. These duplicating
levies on motor fuel now constitute
a retail sales tax averaging 46 per
cent in Nebraska, but in some cases
costing more than the gasoline it
self. They cost the average motor
ist nearly $35.00 a year in addition
to all other automotive taxes he
pays.
We regard federal gasoline tax
as an invasion of the states’ tax
field and believe it should be elim
inated, especially since the income
is not earmarked for roads. We
contend that state gasoline taxes
should be imposed at reasonable
rates, so that it will be welcomed
and paid willingly, and so that it
will be renumerative ami cause no
loss or expense to the states thru
tax-evasion. Since farmers pay
one-fourth, or more, of the gaso
line tax bill, it is only fair that
these long-term highway programs
which must be based upon com
prehensive traffic surveys, shoulc
include low-cost farm to-markd
and secondary “service” roads.
Recent studies of the U. S. Bu
reau of Public roads show tha
every $1.00 spent upon roads in
itiates a movement which result;
in the distribution of $3.15 foi
material and wages in twenty-foui
different industries* Every floui
men put to work on roads create;
jobs for seven additional men ii
industries which supply road-build
ing material, equipment and ser
vice. By spending the revenui
from reasonable taxes for econ
omical, planned roads over a lonj
period, we automatically and inex
pensively promote highway pro
gress, reduce unemployment am
inaugurate trade activity. Oi
men everywhere have welcomed th;
taxation of gasoline to financ<
roads. But they insist that th>
tax be reasonable, and the mono;
raised spent only for roads.
. ami so we take the chances that
3 lead to disaster.
1 The new, super-performing cars
1 are out. Maybe you are lucky
; enough to be able to buy one. Have
a good time with it—but treat it
* with respect and remember that
i 36,000 people'die and many times
• more are injured and maimed on
1 our streets and highways every
year. Don’t add to that list.
TRUE COOPERATIVES
Considerable misapprehension as
1 to the functions and financial set
up of agricultural cooperatives
! seems to exist in the public mind.
There is a feeling, for example,
that a co-op its financed by govern
ment, and babied along with the
aid of public largesse.
There may be cooperatives of
which this is true—but they are
not the true farm cooperatives that
represent the collective production
and marketing efforts of the pro
ducers of an area. These agricul
tural producers put up their money
to establish their organizations.
They hire their managers and they
take all the risks.
Thus, if the cooperative manage
ment is capable, the members re
ceive the economic benefits. If it is
incompetent, the members take the
loss. There is no financial Santa
Claus to help them.
Such producer cooperatives are
business-like in set-up and in op
eration. They apply proven busi
ness principles to the problems of
agriculture.
THE NEBRASKA
SCENE
by James R. Lowell
Nebraska has sacrificed during
!the depression to keep its schools]
up to standard, and the state educa
tional system is a source of pride
to most inhabitants of the state.
A primary subject in the legisla
ture next month will be any action
taken in connection with the
schools, and the present indications
are that considerable legislation
will be introduced anent schools
and education.
The Nebraska state teachers as
sociation is recommending creation
of a state department to “adminis
ter the business of our state schools
endowment, lands and funds.”
Also recommended are a request
for the unicameral to order a “com
plete audit of educational lands and
funds from the time of its organ
ization to Dec. 31, 1936,” and leg
islative and court action to “stop
the diversion of fines, fees and
license monies which by constitu
tional provision belong to the state
school funds.”
State Superintendent Taylor, who
was defendant in a recent suit in
which the supreme court found that
certain new liquor licenses collect
ed under the state liquor law should
go to the county or school district
in which the license was paid in
stead of the state school board, has
put the issue up to the legislature
rh is will mean increased money for
school districts if the legislature
Follows up the dictates of the court.
As concerns federal aid to the
states, the teachers lay down the
Following recommendations:
1. Appropriations should be
made directly by congress to the
states.
2. The funds should be distrib
uted to the states by methods pre
scribed by law and not at the dis
cretion of any federal official.
3. The states, in turn, should
use these funds in accordance with
their respective constitutions and
statutes in whatever nvay in their
judgment will best serve th eedu
ional needs of their people.
4. Administration, supervision
and control of education should be
specifically reserved for the states
and denied to all federal officials
and agencies.
A state system of retirement
for teachers based on sound actur
ial principles ana supported by con
tributions from the state and par
ticipating teachers is also urged.
The “right of the pupil to learn
and the right of the teacher to
guide in learning about the facts
in and around our evolving social
order,” also is demanded by the
teachers.
Teachers also want the state to
know “that a teacher after being
employed by a board, shall be con
sidered re-elected from year to
year unless dismissed by a majority
of the board.”
Representatives of Nebraska ed
ucational institutions are drafting
legislative requirements for a draft
requiring all teachers to have two
years college training before elig
ible for an instructional position.
The proposed bill would discon
:inue high school normal training
Instruction. Rural teachers now
ire required to have only 3rd grade
certificates, obtainable after two
years of high school normal train
ng.
Nebraska county superintendents
nave expressed favor of continuing
normal training courses in high
schools “until such time as econ
nmic permit would allow teachers
with two years of college work tjO J
be placed.” f
A new record of success with op
eration of the parole system In Ne
braska penal institutions has been
set up during the last biennium.
Violations figured less than 9 per
cent—“the lowest in history of-the
pardon board.”
Of the 39 parole violations dur
ing the last two years, 31 have been
returned. There were 338 parole?
granted by the board and 135 com
munications. A total of 997 prison
ers were discharged from the peni
tentiary, the reformatory fo<r w6
men at York, and the men’s re
formatory during the same period.
Six hundred men were discharged
from the penitentiary, and many
of them were persons who cOuld
classify as good citizens aside from
their record. n- n
When thefirst state pardon board
was created in 1920, pardon boards
were trying to find Out something
new. They were going to let pris
oners out of the state correction
institutions—notably the peniten
tiary—on the promise that they
would go straight and get a job. • i
Recently, M. F. Kratcher, chief
state probation officer, compiled
figures showing that violations of
paroles have diminished.
Kratcher reveals that 338 parole?1
were granted, 39 violated, for a
batting average of about 9 per cent.
This is the lowest in the history of
the board, compared favorably with
14.5 per cent in 1932-34. * '
Proudly says Kratcher: “I think
this is a remarkable record; be
cause chances for jobs and echh1
omic conditions have not been the
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