MONEYNEEDEDFOR STATE'S SCHOOLS Dr. Schaeffer Discusses the Situation in Regard to Appropriations Pennsylvania is called upon by Na than C. Schaeffer, State superintendent Of public instruction, to provide more money for the advancement of its system aijd to improve condi tions in rural districts in his annual report which was given out here to day. The report Is a summary of edu cation in the Keystone State and is rather seriously discussed. In the course of his statement on the finances Dr. Schaeffer says: The revenues of the State are di minishing, whilst the expenses are increasing. The demand for in spection in new fields has led to the multiplication of boards, bu reaus, commissions and other agen cies of supervision. In some States every thirtieth man is an office holder. At times the agencies of government control overlap in their Jurisdiction and issue conflicting , regulations. Constitutional con ventions have been suggested as the best means of wiping the slate clean and starting anew. If this were the proper place much rrflght be said In praise of the benefits which the publio has derived from the activities of our newly-creat ed governmental agencies. The fact, nevertheless, remains that the • school appropriation has not kept pace with the growth of the public schools. Whilst the local needs have greatly increased the appro priation per pupil and per school has annually diminished during the last ten years. The rural districts are especially in need of help. Dr. Schaeffer attacks the school buildings that exist in many places and the financing of education. "The sti mulus can hardly be expected to reach the districts where school buildings are at their worst and where the taxa tion has reached the limit of the bur dens which the happy taxpayer feels able to carry," he says. In discussing the system of county and State stand ards of buildings "which has been die vised by the State Board of Educa tion. "lis to be hoped that the State' school fund will grow rapidly enough to furnish revenue for aiding and stimulating the reconstruction of the schoolhouses which are a source of shame to the citizen of a rich State like Pennsylvania." Keep Up Efficiency "The efficiency of a school system depends more upon the quality of the Instruction than upon the physical equipment. The taxation In connec tion with the liquidation of bonds should not Interfere yrith the current expense Involved In the efficient run ning of the schools." declares Dr. Schaeffer after discussing bond issue. "The bondJ issue may be so large as to embarrass the treasury and check edu cational progress. It Is a doubtful policy to fool the public by the erection of 6. fine building when this must lead to a lowering of salaries and to a de terioration of the teaching force." The development of the high school Is declared "the most remarkable phe nomenon In American education." Build ings built for twenty years become overcrowded in five and "then comes the temptation to place the pupils on half time—an arrangement that is never I satisfactory." Dr. Schaeffer also says ' that "parents and teachers In general are beginning to realize that the youth who quits school before graduating from a high school is shutting against himself the door of opportunity in a hundred different directions" and he says that the school should educate for leisure as well as vocation." If the hours are not needed for bread winning are spent in dissipation and riotous liv ing. the eight-hour day, for which la bor is struggling, w-ill prove a curse Instead] of a blessing. Dr. Schaeffer commends drawing and music and remarks that while athletics and sports are used to develop strength "work In the fields and in the garden Beems to have been forgotten as a means of physical development." Should Insure Insurance in the State insurance fund against employers liability is recom mended as reciprocity because the State appropriates to the schools and Dr. Schaeffer warns against shortening school terms when epidemics come un less it is demonstrated as absolutely essential." "Employers have shown a surpris ing willingness to do all in their power to adjust the working hours of the minor to those of the adult,' says Dr. Schaeffer In discussing vocational edu cation and continuation schools. Ninety eight districts opened continuation schools with 24,000 children in attend ance and 350 teachers. The superin tendent says that there should be vo cational guidance as well as education and remarks: "The Industries should not look to the schools for their supply of unskilled; laborers. The lack of la borers on the farm and in the shop is an economic problem beyond the power of the schools to solve." Farmers who have "good bank ac counts and possess automobiles" are rapped for taking boys out of school to work on the farms when there is no necessity. "Is it any wonder?" asks Dr. Schaeffer "that in such instances the boys leave home to seek employ ment in cities and towns because they feel that if they remain on the farm they will be deprived of an education." The new agricultural high schools, of which there are twenty-four in the State, are commencing to show results in "community service." The 500. now enrolled should be 5,000. Bringing Up Father ($) $ Copyright, 1916, International News Service § <JJ> By McManus ■ fOR - ' _ 8 / ~ What*, M S n R U WELL- THE MATTER dav THEM"* ? • B w doctorIHAVE I OVEN HIM UP: I f 1 S M V , '• ' r f" • -7 •• 9' ■ SATURDAY EVENING, PENN HIGHWAY' BOARD TO MEET Will Perfect Plans For Mark ing Road at Session in Johnstown The board of governors of the Wil liam Penn Highway will hold its Oc tober meeting: in Johnstown next Mon day, and will perfect plans for the marking of over 400 miles of main ana alternate roads, as well as complete ar rangements for the formal opening of the New York extension at Easton, No vember 2. At this opening, which oc curs near the center of. an eight-mil* stretch of new concrete road. Governor M. G. Brumbaugh, of Pennsylvania, and Governor Fielder, of New Jersey, will be central figures. At Monday's meeting, also, road gov ernors will be chosen for Montgomery and Washington counties. Announcement Is also to be made of the association's attitude toward the road question as Its exists in Pennsylva nia. It la expected that the association will urge voters to cast their November ballots for Senators and Assembly can didates who are modern in their road views. Several delegations from various Sarts of the State will be present at the ohnstown meeting. One Is from State College, which wishes the William Penn Association to designate a detour from Lewlstown to Tyrone, through State College, as "the State College Detour." A delegation from Wilkinsburg will be present in refernce to the William Penn route through Allegheny county. Easton and Allentown people will be present to discuss plans for the road opening at Easton. The good roads committee, of the Johnstown Chamber of Commerce, will entertain the board of governors and committee chairmen from va rious counties at luncheon at the Fort Stanwlx Hotel. It will cost the Berks-Dauphin Turn rike Road Company from $75,000 to 300,000 to place Its pike between Hum melstown and Womelsdorf in condition that will be satisfactory to the Public Service Commission, which recently or dered the company to have the entire distance rebuilt prior to July, 1918. The placing of this stretcli of road In good condition will mean continuous, Permanent highway from Cresson, Cam ria county, to Philadelphia, over the William Penn Highway. It is not yet beyond the range of pos sibility that the turnpike company may decide not to febuild at all, but to sell to the State, In which event the' total road tolls remaining on the William Penn Highway between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh will be only forty cents, and fifteen cents of this toll will have ben removed within a year. Charles M. Schwab, of Bethlehem, and Colonel Harry C. Trexler, of Allen town. will be among the notables wno will attend the ceremonies incident to the formal opening of the William Penn Highway New York extensiom at Easton November 2. An effort is De intr made to secure the attendance of Governor Whitman, of New York, as well as Governors Brumbaugh, of Penn sylvania, and Fielder, of New Jersey. Maxwell's Comeback Told by C. W. Barron The Inauguration of dividends at the rate of 10 per cent, per annum on Maxwell Motor common may awaken the public to a realization of the pace at which Maxwell is now coming for ward. Maxwell antedated Ford In large output In the popular-priced field, and there are probably more Maxwell en gines of early datej still on the high ways than of any other make. But there came a time when Maxwell had to rebuild financially from the founda tion up. How efficiently was the re building is indicated by the inaugu ration of the present 10 per cent dividend rate. To find out what is under It in fac tory, organization and management, the writer took a little tim# recently to get down to fundamentals at De troit. He found Maxwell motor cars being turned out of the factory at such a pace that an enormous circus tent had to be provided for their cov ering between factory and freight car until more buildings now under way could be finished. The record hung up the day he left was 412 cars, and the previous day was also over 400 for output, a present capacity and output at the rate of 120,000 cars per annum against 60,- 000 put out the past twelve months and 30,000 the previous year. The progress of Maxwell has been town talk in Detroit. Its success is due: First, to the one model policy. Second, a good name, never changed and always mechanically maintained. Third, a sound financial policy. Fourth, good generalship manifest ing itself In every detail from labora tory and shop efficiency to an educa tional advertising campaign and an Intelligent selling organization cov ering the entire country. Fifth, consistent large educational newspaper advertising. When Walter E. Flanders, Presi dent of the Maxwell Company, was selling heavy machine tools made in Rhode Island, and getting in touch with everything in manufacturing or ganization from chemist to salesman, he little dreamed of his future. The industry where he was to make his mar* had not been born, but uncon sciously he learned who was who and what was what and how to put them together. In the Ford factory his ability in organization and in economical me chanics had full play. To-day, it has fuller play in the Maxwell works, where armies of wheels and trains of bodies move over and under each other and pass off the platform in completed cars for final inspection. But it is the steady march of Max well motors over the country from factory to individual operator that has put $3,500,000 clean cash in the CARS the calls—the customers —the profits and by a deferred payment plan a Vim pays for itself out of its earnings. r|| With a Vim you can cover three times as much ground as with a horse and 1 f it keeps right on going day after day, satisfying customers —■advertising your busi- jr '^ w°ri^— it rigfit thorough- by ing space _(106 cubic feet)-—low in gasoline Merchants big or little may purchase Vim Maxwell hank acount with no debts. I The outlook, the orders ahead and J the manufacturing, selling and dis tribution organizations have placed j Maxwell on its present dividend base. ! Yet this 10 per cent, dividend on | present output does not represent as much as sl2 per car, or 2 per cent, of the $595 selling price. Like Beth lehem Steel, the common stock, about $13,000,000, is in relation to the gross business relatively small. Ahead of the common stofck is about $13,000,- 000 of 7 per cent first preferred stock, and about $10,000,000 of 6 per cent, second preferred. The company has no debt, funded or floating. The divi dend charges ahead of the common shares, including sinking funds, are under $1,750,000. Yet the company has earned this past year about $5,- 500,000 with reduction in the price of its cars, and proposes this fiscal year, beginning August 1, to again double its output, reaching a total of 120,000 cars per annum, and Increase its net earnings by 50 per cent while reduc ing the selling price S6O per car. It is the business of tho directors, particularly of an executive commit tee of five—J. C. Brady, William 0. Potter, Eugene Meyer, Jr., H. Bron ner and Henry Sanderson, all of New '• ELAJEtRISBTTRG TEIEGRAPH • | York—to keep the financial sheet clear ; and conduct a responsible executive I committee management. J It was the great task of the direc -1 tors a few years ago to comb over the field and find the man to head the organization. Error in choice might j mean failure, and success opened great possibilities. This man they found in I Walter E. Flanders. After this came ithe forming of a policy and then the I push for the goal. I And the goal is the first place In the popular price automobile field. HUGHES LEADS IN BETTING Odds Ltn Than 2 to 1 With Plenty of - trwilaon Money at Hand I New York. Oct. 14.—Stock Exchange ! members, speaking of election bets, told of a wager on the floor of 4700 for Wil son against SI,OOO put up by a Hughes backer. Another wager of $3,000 by a Stock Exchange man on the President against $5,000 on Mr. Hughes Was rei ported. These transactions indicated the Irregularity of odds. HIKE THROXGH PARK Members of the Harrlsburg Natural History Society enjoyed a hike through t SVildwood Park this afternoon. t POWELL POINTS TO STATE FINANCES Auditor General Shows That Millions Are to Come in Before Long Receipts of $1,699,670.34* in the first half of October are reported by the Auditor General's department, which to-day issued a summary of the op erations of the fiscal department of the i State government and called attention to the fact that tax settlements for large sums of money are in process. This means that big payments will be made before the end of November. The statement issued is as follows: "Receipts since October 1 of $1,699,670.34 are shown by Auditor General Powell's statement at the close of business for the first half of the nonth. Receipts for the fiscal year o that date are $23,813,811.08. Ex- OCTOBER 14, J916. penditures for the first half of Qctober were $984,636.27. The disbursements for the elapsed portion of the fiscal year were $24.?38,647.52. The deficit so far is shown as $1,124,736.44. The balance in the Treasury is given as $3,492,46&.95, a gain of $715,034.07 since Sej/tember 30. "In the year the Auditor General has signed tax settlements amounting to $2 6,125,691.71, sending them'to the State Treasurer for his approval. The Treasurer has returned settlements ag gregating $23,11T,572.80, leaving set tlements to l a total of $3,008,118.91 still in the hands of the State Treasurer for action. I "The balances in the Treasury at the close of business on October 13 were: General fund, $2,233,138.32; sinking fund, $651,110.02; game fund, $224,- 910.47; school fund, $5,371.40; bounty fund. $64,689.77; Insurance fund. $106,338.97; motor fund. $131,907; prison manufacturing fund, $75,000." AIDS NEED MONEY Appeal to tne people or the cjty to help care for a destitute family, which was reported yesterday to the Asso ciated Aids Societies, wai #iade to-day through the newspapers by Secretary John Yates. Contributions should be sent to the Associated Aids Societies, 5 North Market Square. J. M. SMITH Hard Wood Floors LAID AND FINISHED OLD FLOORS RENOVATED ITAIKS COVEIIED WITH HAKDWOOD rLOOUS KEPT IN CONDITION UU Pbanei ISSI It. Kill Brook wood St. Uurlnkari, Pa. BeU I'lioue 2423 Doited 271-W 6-Passenger Tpurtng $695 Roadster Typ SS4O Ensminger Motor Co. THIRD AND CUMBERLAND STS. Bell Pbone 3515 11
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