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TIMELY NEWS OF CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA AND CITY'S SUBURBS
BIG REUNION OF
PERRY SOLDIERS
Forty-third Annual Meeting
to Be Held at New Bloom
field, October 6
New Bloomficld. Pa., Sept. 28.
Preparations are going forward for
the annunl reunion of Perry county
soldiers here, on Saturday, October
6. This will make the forty-third an
nual convention of the local vet
erans.
Citizens have formed an organiza
tion to make plans for the borough's
reception of the veterans. James W.
Shull is chairman; H. E. Sheibley.
secretary, and D. C. Kell, treasurer.
Various committees have been ap
pointed to arrange for the evening
as follows:
Finance Committee—James L.
Rutz and E. A. Clouser; committee
on arrangements, James M. Harnett
and W. F. Swartz; committee on
music, M. J. Bower, J. T. Alter and
W. F. Swartz; committee on decora
tions, G. W. Garber, W. D. Ard and
Joseph A. Henney; committee on in
vitations. the Rev. J. Thomas Fox.
Joseph R. Adams, W. K. Clouser and
W. C. L®bo.
WHY WOMEN
DREAD OLD AGE
Don't worry about old age. Don't
worry about being in other people's
way when you are getting 011 in years.
Keep your body in good condition and
you can be as hale and hearty In your
old days as you were when a kid, and
every one will be glad to see you.
The kidneys and bladder are the
causes of senile afflictions. Keep them
clean and in proper working condi
tion. Drive the poisonous wastes
fiom the system and avoid uric acid
accumulations. Take GOLD MEDAL
Haarlem Oil Capsules periodically and
you will find that the system will al
ways be In perfect working order.
Your spirits will be enlivened, your
muscles made strong and your face
have once more the look of youth and
health.
There is only one guaranteed brand
of Haarlem Oil Capsules, GOLD
MEDAL. There are many fakes on
the market. Be sure you get the Ori
ginal GOLD MEDAL Imported Haar
lem Oil Capsules. They are the only
reliable, tor sale by nil tirst-class
druggists.—Advertisement.
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FRIDAY EVENING,
CUMBERLAND
GOOD PROSPECTS
FOR DEER SEASON
Handsome Animals Baiding
Fields of Farmers Near
State Game Preserves
Waynesboro, Pa., Sept. 28.—Penn
sylvania will have good deer hunting
this fall, according to reports from
districts near the game reserves and
mountain counties where there are
thick woods. In some sections deer
hove alredy been reported as raiding
fields and state game officials have
been investigating claims of damage.
The number of deer In the state
game preserves, which are closed at
all seasons, is said to be greater than
ia.it year.
Under operation of the new game
code, the deer season will follow the
bird senson, being planned for a
period of the year when the leaves
are oIY the trees. Deer may be shot
December 1 to 15, while the quail
and pheasant season will run from
October 20 to November 30.
BENEFIT FOR BOOK FUND
Mechanicsburg, Pa., Sept 28.
This afternoon and evening a benefit
entertainment will be given for the
Mechanicsburg fund of camp libraries
by Manager Jafte, of the Paramount
Theater. The sum of S2OO is the
amount Mechanicsburg is called upon
to contribute and as especially good
pictures will be shown a record
breaking crowd is expected.
DENTIST HAS APPENDICITIS
Waynesboro, Pa., Sept- 28.—Dr. C.
W. Beard, a well-known dentist, was
taken to the Hagerstown Hospital.
He was operated upon for appendi
citis immediately after at
the hospital.
PATIENT IN SERIOUS CONDITION
Waynesboro. Pa.. Sept. 28.—Jason
Crout, of Baltimore, who was op
erated upon at the Chambersburg
Hospital for appendicitis, is reported
in a very cirtical conditoin. Mrs.
Crout and their son Mervin, of the
engineer corps at the Gettysburg
camp, are with him.
WOMAN BADLY INJURED
Waynesboro. Pa., Sept. 28.—Mrs.
Roy Detrow, who lives on the Rine
hart farm, between Midvale and
Ringgold, nearly had her right foot
cut off on Thursday morning. She
was going to her husband, who was
cutting weeds in front of the house
wtih a mowing machine, and had,
her right foot caught in the cutters.
The tendons and all the flesh back of
the ankle were cut to the bone.
AID SECRETARY RESIGNS
Mechnnicsburg, Pa., Sept. 28. —
Miss I-.Ho. M. Neidig, of Mechanics
burg. who was one of the assistant
secretaries of the Associated Aids So.
clety of Harrisburg, has resigned her
position to accept that of commer
cial secretary of the Young Women's
Christian Association at Pittsburgh
and leaves to-morrow for her new
work. Miss Neidig, who is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. O.
Neidig, is a graduate of Irving Col
lege.
liODGF, EI.ECTS OFFICERS
Dillsburg, Pa., Sept. 28. —, At a
meeting of South Mountain Lodge.
No. 1200, Independent Order of Odd
Fellows, the following officers were
elected: Noble grand, Ferd W. Floyd;
vice-grand, John A. Grove; third
member of relief committee, George
A. Dill; -secretary, M. G. Sheffer;
tresurer, L. L. Bents;; delegate to
state convention, Bennet H. Karns.
MTKRARY SOCIKTY PROGRAM
Hummelstown, Pa.. Sept. 28. —On
Friday afternoon, October 5. the High
School literary Society will render
the following program: Music, or
chestra; song, high school: essay,
James Cassel; oration, Elsie Mumma;
piano solo, Pauline ljauck; referred
question, William Grill; recitation.
Muriel Rhan; debate, "Resolved. That
the Allies Were Justified in Rejecting
the Pope's Peace Proposal", affirma
tive—Miriam Cassel and Leta Hitz,
negative—Charles Hoerner and Ethel
Hartz; song, high school; oration,
Ethel Smith: Tattler, Russell Seaman
and Archie Shiftier.
MRS. MARGARET MARKEL DIES
Columbia, Pa. .Sept. 28.—Mrs.
Margaret Markel, widow of Emman
uel Markel, and mother of Dr. C. F.
Markel. president of the Central Na
tional bank, died at the home of her
son here, aged 86 years. She was
born at Shrewsbury, York county,
and resided in Columbia a few years.
Another surviving son is James Mar
kel, of York.
BE PRETTY! UN
GRAY HAIR DARK
Try Grandmother's Old Favor
ite Recipe of Sage T<;a and
Sulphur
Almost everyone knows that Sage
Tea and Sulphur, properly com
pounded, ""brings back the natural
color and lustre to the hair when
faded, streaked or gray. Years ago the
only way to get this mixture was to
make it at home, which is mussy and
troublesome. Nowadays, by asking
at any drug store for "Wyeth's Sage
and Sulphur Compound," you will
t-et a large bottle of this famous old
recipe improved by the addition of
other ingredients, for about 50 cents.
Don't stay gray! Try it! No one
can possibly tell that you darkened
your hair, as it does it so naturally
ant" evenly. You dampen a sponge
or soft brush with it and draw this
through your' hair, taking one small
strand at a time; by morning the
gray hair disappears, and after an
other application or two, your hair
becomes beautifully dark, glossy and
attractive.
Wyeth's Sase and Sulphur Com
pound is a delightful toilet requisite
for those who desire dark hair and
a youthful appearance. It is not in
tended for the cure, mitigation or
prevention of disease. —Adv.
HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
| All Bank Employes
Are Expected to Attend
Organization of Institute
| The local committee on the organi
zation of a Harrisburg branch of the
American Institute of Banking has
extended a general invitation to all
officers and clerks in the local banks
to attend the get-toeethor meeting to
be held to-night, at is o'clock, in the
lower hall of the Harrisburg Board
'[ of Trdde Building. Prominent bankers
from this city anu Philadelphia will
give short talks on the advantages of
the institute.
A number of applications have al
ready been signed by local bank em
ployes. ixica-t bank officials have
promised their moral and financial
support to the establishment of u local
chapter. Some of the officials who
. will be unable to attend have wrlt-
I ten the committee expressing their re
i grots. Chapters which have been or
ganized in the larger cities have in
creased in membership in great num-
I bers, inasmuch as there is a social
( side as well as au educational one
i connected with the lnstittue.
The efficiency of the bank employe
in the cities in which the American
Institute of Banking has been estab
lished is beyond question better than
those cities in which no branch Is
found.
MARKET HOURS FIXED
Columbia, Pa., Sept. 28.—Begin
ning next wook, the market hours
in Columbia will undergo a radical
change, and buyers will not be ad
mitted into the markethouse before
8 o'clock in the morning. Hereto
fore, there has been no fixed time
and there was much complaint on
the part of patrons and farmers.
CLASS PRESIDENT ENLISTS
Hummelstown, Pa, Sept. 28.—The
public schools ended the first month
of the term on Thursday. During
the month sixty-six pupils were en
rolled in the high school, thirty-five
of whom attended every day of the
month. The attendance for the month
was weakened by the calling out of
schol of the Boy Scouts on several
occasions by the scoutmaster to as
sist in the harvesting of the crops
on the Walton Farms. The percent
age of attendance for the girls dur
ing the month was 98 and that of
the boys 94. Ten boys attended full
time and twenty-five girls. During
the month. George Hoerner, president
of the senior class, enlisted in the
medical corps of the United States
Army and is now stationed at Fort
Benjamin Harrison, Indianapolis, Ind.
HARRY A. SNYDER DIES
Kli/.abethville, Pa.. Sept. 28.—Harry
A. Snyder, a well-known resident of
Dietrich, died at his home on
Wednesday evening, after several
years' illness, the result of paralysis.
He was for many years mail carrier
from the place to the Dietrich and
Central View post offices, now dis
continued, and conducted a small
farm where he lived. He was 67
years old and is survived by his wife,
I two sons, William and Samuel Snyder,
lat home, and two daughters, Mrs.
Reid Collier and Mrs. Curtin Bordner,
j both residents ct Elizabethville. Fu
t neral services will be held on Satur
day morning, with burial in Maple
Grove Cemetery here, and services in
the Reformed Church. The Rev. C. P.
Wehr will officiate.
INSTALLS LINOTYPE
New Bloomfield, Pa., Sept. 28.
James R. Magee, editor and publish
er of the Perry County Democrat,
has installed a new model 15 Mergen
thaler linotype machine. This is the
fifth machine to be set up in Perry
county. The Newport News, the Dun
cannon Record, the New Bloomfield
Advocate and Press and the Tressler
Orphans' Home Prlntery, at Loys
ville, own the first four machines.
Suburban Notes
LIVERPOOL
Miss Jiella Cathcart has returned .o
her home here after visiting at Mil
lers town.
Mrs. H. A. S. Shuler and daughtws
have returned to their home here a:.'t
er visiting Millerstown relatives.
Mrs. Joseph S. Jury is spending a
week at Harrisburg as the guest of
relatives and friends.
Miss Adda Shunmker has returned
to her home here after spending sev
eral weeks at Philadelphia.
Schuyler Stailey. of East Orange,
N. J., was a recent visitor at t.-ie
liDme of his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Jacob Stailey.
LOYSVILLE
j Mrs. Sdlonie McCoy is spending
I some time as the guest of her Drot'ier.
; Lfervin Evans, at Harrisburg.
Mrs. Frank Patterson. of. Wilkins
burg, is being entertained at the
home of her mother, Mrs. J. J. Wolfe.
HVMMKLSTOWX
Mrs. David Burns is visiting rela
tives in Philadelphia.
Mrs. Caroline Nissley and daugh
ter, Miss Catharine, are the guests
of the former's sisters. Misses Mary
and Elizabeth Fox.
Miss Lillle Gresh has been housed
several days with throat trouble.
Mrs. Annie Rousch was a visitor in
Harrisburg the past week.
Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Conrad will
spend Sunday with relatives at Ship
pensburg.
Carroll Light and John Burkholder
are spending a week at Washington,
D. C.. the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Clin
ton Light.
Miss Margaret Mullin, of Halifax,
spent the week-end with her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. William H. Mullin.
Dr. Samuel Light, of Key West.
Fla., was a recent guest of his
brother, George W. Light.
Harry E. Gresh spent Tuesday eve
ning at Harrisburg.
Roy Brightbill has returned to
Mercersburg Academy after spending
the summer vacation with his par
| ents, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Brightbill.
Lawrence Wolf is able to be out
after an attack of typhoid fever.
Mrs. H E. Gresh left on Friday for
Philadelphia, where she will visit
her mother. Mrs Burns.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank H. English and
son Richard, of Altoona, are visiting
Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Geesey
MILLERSTOWN
Jacob Deltrick, of Lemoyne, vis-'
ited his son, John Deitrick, over
Sunday.
Nelson Rounsley. of the Base
Hospital Ambulance Corps, No. 34,
.stationed at Allentown, spent Sun-
I day at his home here.
! Miss EUa Tyson is visiting rela
! tlves In Harrisburg.
| Foster Bollinger has resumed his
I studies at Cornell College, Ithaca,
In. y.
Miss Anna Menghes. who is em
ployed at Harrisburg, spent Sunday
with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ed_
ward Menghes.
Mrs. Thomas Crane, of Harris
burg. visited at the home of J. J.
Crane on Tuesday.
Kdgar Ulsh has returned to Phila
delphia, after spending a week's
VHcation with his parents, Mr. and
Mr*. A. G. Ulush. -
Mr. and Mrs. C. ra Rlppman were
at Harrlsburg on Wednesday.
Mr. and Mrs. James Rounsley a,t
--i tended the funeral of the Rev. W. B.
I Glanding In Newport, on Wednesday
afternoon.
WESTSHORENEWS
Personal and Social Items
of Towns Along West Shore
Mrs. Frank E. Wallace, Sr., and
daughter. Miss Vivian Wallace, of
Shiremanstown, are visiting the for
mer's sister, Miss Clara Markell, in
New York city.
Mrs. Ralph Smyser and son, Ed
ward Lee Smyser, of Shiremanstown,
and Mrs. Charles Ebert and son,
Stewart Ebert, of Mcchanlcsburg,
spent Wednesday with Mrs., George
L. Romberger at Harrisburg.
Mrs. Charles L. Wolfe and soi# 1
Milton, of Shiremanstown, are home
from a visit with relatives at Harris
burg.
Miss Blanche Howry and Miss
Diftenbaugh, nurses at tho Harris
burg Hospital, spent a day recently
with the former's parents, Mr. and
Mrs. William E. Howry, at Shire
manstown.
Mrs. J. Henderson Stock, of Shire
manstown, Is home from a visit with
friends at Wiconlsco.
Mrs. John Whistler, of Harrisburg,
spent Tuesday with her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Charles B. Islng, .at Shire
manstown.
Mrs. H. M. Rupp, of Shiremans
town, entertained the following
guests at her home during this week:
Mrs. Harriet Berger, E. S. Gland, of
Harrisburg; Mrs. H. O. Dodge and
daughter, Miss Joan Dodge, of Camp
Hill, and Mrs. Prisclila Miller, of Mc
chanlcsburg.
Mrs. William Braught, of Shire
manstown, visited her daughter, Mrs.
Harry N. .Cronileigh, at Mechanlcs
burg on Thursday.
Mrs. Willlapi Powell, of Washing
ton, D. C., is visiting her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. E. E. Fleurie, of Bridge
street. New Cumberland.
Mrs. Harry Serf and daughter Mar
garet, of York, are visiting the for
mer's grandparents, Mr. and Mrs.
George Mathlas, of Bridge street.
New Cumberland.
Mrs. Singiser, of Mechanicsburg,
and daughter, Mrs. Greene, of Clarks
burg, N. J., called on frtends at New
Cumberland yesterday.
Mrs. Paul Hastings will entertain
the T. N. B. Club at her home In
Third street. New (Cumberland, this
evening.
The T. W. B. Club will meet at the
home of Mrs. Paul Hastings, in Third
street, New Cumberland, this even
ing.
Horse Thought Dead
Surprises His Owner
I Marysville, Pa., Sept. 28.—Wednes
day night before retiring John W'eise,
a farmer of Center township, was
! bemoaning his misfortune in losing
one of his best horses while plowing.
Now he feels better, for his "dead"
horse has returned to the land of the
living.
Weise was harrowing in his fields
when one of his horses fell over and
mule to the "dead" horse, Weise
mule to the "deda" horse, Weise
turned it over, removed the harness
and went to his home, leaving the
horse for dead and bemoaning his
luck.
Determined not to lose the full
value of the horse, Weise went to the
field early this morning with the
intention of taking the skin from its
body to sell it. As he approached
the place wher ehe ha® left the ani
mal he could not discover it. He
started a search and at the rear of
his stable lie was surprised to find
his "dead" horse quietly munching
the grass.
CHILI) HAS NARROW ESCAPE
Marysville, Pa., Sept. 28. A
3-year-old daughter of Clarence
Foitz, of Spring township, narrowly
escaped serious injury at New Bloom
field when run over by her father's
buggy. The child was riding beside
her father and fell out of the buggy.
The rear wheel passed over her chest
and leg, but she escaped with a few
i bruises and scratches.
RALLY DAY AT RAUGHMAN
New Cumberland, Pa., Sept. 27. —
Next Sunday morning a congre
gational rally service will be held in
Baughman Memorial Methodist
Church at 10 o'clock. The Rev. Dr.
Morris E. Swartz, district superin
tendent, will be present. The an
nouncement of the result of the
whirlwind campaign to provide for
the debt will be made.
HI RLE CLASS TO MEET
Enola, Pa., Sept. 18.—This even
ing the monthly meeting of the
Men's Bible Class of the Zion Lu
theran Sunday School, of which the
Rev. M. S. Sharp is teacher, will be
held at the home of H. H. Way, on
Ehola road.
CORN SOUP SUPPER
Marysville, Pa., Sept. 28. A
chicken corn soup supper for the
Sunday school class of Mrs. Frank
Bowers, of the Shermansdale Pres
byterian Church, will be held in the
Shermansdale hall on Saturday even
ing.
FOUR HAVE DIPHTHERIA
New Cumberland, Pa., Sept. 28.
Four children of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar
Bair, of Tenth street, are ill with
diphtheria. The Elkwood schools
where the children attended have
been fumigated.
FOG CAUSES ACCIDENT
Lewißtown, Pa., Sept. 28.—Heavy
fog yesterday morning caused an ac
cident to a party of Standard steel
workers returning to their homes in
Snyder county. When their auto left
the roadway and crashed into a tele
phone pole, several of the workmen
were injured.
RIG CORNSTALKS
Lewlstown, Pa., Sept. 2 8. —Samuel
H. Hartley, living .near here raised
a 13-foot cornstalk on his farm. Now
comes A. C. Helfrich, a farmer liv
ing in the eastern part of Mifflin
county, with a cornstalk IB feet, 9
inches in height.
NEW DEPARTMENT ADDED
The Imperial Hardware Company.
James R. Ryan, proprietor, of 1202
North Third street, has added a new
department which will be devotqd to
the gale of the "Pipeless Calonic fur
nace," which is radically diffeernt in
theory and operation from the con
ventional hot air furnace. A number
have already been installed in Har
risburg and vicinity.
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SCHOOL DEFECTS WITH
REMEDIES POINTED OUT
[Continued front First Pago.]
respects to the accepted standards of
modern schoolhouse construction.
Elimination of politics In the se
lection of janitors and other em
ployes of the board; all janitors to
be instructed in care and operation of
buildings in such manner as to re
lieve principals and teachers from
some duties now devolving upon
them.
Substitution of cheaper grades of
coal for some of the larger and more
expensive varieties now in use.
Employment of expert accountants
as school auditors and all sinking
funds to be placed at interest In
school and local city or iocal indus
trial bonds In order to earn a larger
percentage of interest.
The surveyors also made the point
that school treasurers could get away
with taxes paid them without any
body being the wiser. School Treas
urer Oves to-day denied this. He
said tho system of accounting might
need revision, but that careful ac
counting makes it Impossible for the
treasurer not to be found out if dis
honest. He also pointed out that
school funds in his charge are at
Interest at rates as high as the banks
will pay.
The introduction and summary ac
companying the report are as fol
lows:
This report deals with the or
ganization and the procedure fol
lowed in administering the physical
and business functions, and in pro
viding for the general regulation and
control over all of the activities of
the school district of Harrisburg.
While no inquiry was made into tho
work methods of the different edu
cational services, 1. e., instruction,
medical inspection, enforcement of
attendance, etc.. yet the general or
ganization for the administering of
these services and the relation there
of to the business and physical ad
ministration of the schools has at all
times been taken into account. Both
the criticisms and recommendations
of this report are made in the light
of what is deemed necessary in
order to produce a well balanced
and regulated school system for
Harrisburg. Due to the limit of the
survey, this report necessarily gives
much consideration to the construc
tion of buildings purchase of sup
plies. maintenance of accounts,
rendering of statements, etc. How
ever, it is realized that no school sys
tem exists only for these particular
purposes. The real and prjmary
objects of any school system is the
provision of efficient instruction for
the children of the school district.
With IliiS' in mind, therefore, any
form of organization or procedure in
connection with the general control,
tho business, or the physical admin
istration of the school system which
tends to inhibit, retard, or to make
less important the real end and aim
of the schools, has been criticised.
In securing the information upon
which this report is based, the min
utes of the board for the last five
years (1912-16) and the minutes of
each committee from January 16th
to March 1917 were studied inten
sively. The minutes of the board
and the four committees for the
months October and November, 1916,
were carefully analyzed and the dif
ferent actions were tabulated. At
least one meeting of the board and
each of its committees was attended
during the period of the survey,
February 13th-March 24th.
A careful study was also made
of the organization and functions of
the school system as set forth in the
state education laws and the rules
and regulations of the board. Each
of the three members of the sur.
vey staff in Harrisburg was in dally
contact with either the president,
certain members of the board, the
secretary or the superintendent.
More than three-fourths of the
school houses were visited where
jthe building and the operating
plants were inspected and confer
ences held with the respective prin
cipals and janitors.
The findings and recommenda
tions of this report were discussed
and approved in a conference be
tween members of the survey staff,
the civic committee of the Harris
burg Chamber of Commerce, and
the president, superintendent sec
retary and chairman of the finance
committee of the board of school
directors.
The Bureau of Municipal Re
search desires to make a matter of
record its appreciation of the splen
did co-operation which was given the
survey staff continuously throughout
the conduct of the survey by each
and every official and employe of
the school system. Such co-opera
tion was at all times given zealously
and in many cases at the sacrifice of
their own time.
(iencrnl Administration
"The present organization and pro
cedure obtaining in the Harrisburg
school district by means of which the
provisions of ,the state school law
are carried out has developed (1)
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SEPTEMBER 28, 1917.'
in accordance with statutory re
strictions and prescriptions, and (2)
by socretKn rather than as tho re
sult of constant readjustment of tho
old organization or a realignment of
functions in order to accommodate
the several new and Increasing ac
tivities.
"That the responsibility for the
conduct of the school system is at
the present time widely diffused
among the board, committees, mem
bers of the board, secretary, super
intendent, etc., is largely ascribable
to the present state law which does
not expressly pormit the superin
tendent of schools to be the real re
sponsible leader of the school sys
tem.
"In spite of the fact that during
the last ten years the expenditures
of the system have grown 100 per
cent., the school population nearly
25 per cent., and many new activi
ties have been added, there has
been no appreciable corresponding
change either in the number of per
sonnel of. or in the practice followed
by the central office staff. The ef
fect of this has been that (1) re
sponsibility has been diffused among
the several executives and board
officials, (2) the central office staff
has been greatly overworked,- (3) it
has not been possible to secure
proper information upon which to
base administrative policies.
"The board, its committees or the
individual members as well as the
l executive staff are most conscien
tious and zealous with respect to
[their work, in fact the willingness
of each official to take a practical
[port in tho administration of tho
schools is indeed extra<rrdinary.
There is a tendency on the part of
all to "volunteer" their services and
to perform functions for which tho
others should be held wholly respon
sible. Thus we find that the board
or its committees, or its principals,
have assumed functions which should
be performed by their executives.
Secretaries keep records and render
statements which should be the duty
of the treasurer or the superintend
ent. The direct result of this has
been that (1) prompt, definite and
responsible action has been lacking,
(2), the paid experts have been Ig
nored in the initiation of plans and
the execution thereof.
"In criticising the general organ
ization and procedure of the board,
its committees and executives, cer
tain principles or standards for the
organization of their work are laid
down in this report. Briefly, these
principles, which it is believed will
make for efficient and responsible
administration, are as follows;
"I—The executive (preferably one
executive) should be responsible for
the initiation and the execution of
plans.
"2—The board should be respon
sible for the critical review and ap
praisal of the plans and work
executives.
"3— : The board is accountable at
all times to the electorate and there
fore should keep it constantly in
formed.
"Wherever the findings of the
survey indicated that the present
general organization deviated from
the above principles, such conditions
are pointed out and the netiessary
remedial measures are indicated.
"In brief the major recommenda
tions with reference to the general
administration are.
"1 —That the committees of the
board be abolished.
"2 —That a dual executive system
be established (until proper legis
lation can be secured by virtue of
which the superintendent of schools
will become the chief executive).
"3—That the board modify Its pro
cedure so as to be able to consider
only the essentials of the school ad
ministration, and that it give more
attention to the report of its chief
executives.
"4—That the board adopt a more
scientific form and definite procedure
with regard to the making of its
budget.
"s—That the administrative year
be made coterminus with the fiscal
year in order for the people of the
school district to be able to place
responsibility for failures or successes
of any one school administration.
Construction, Maintenance and
Operation of Buildings
"The survey discovered that the
building problem of the board has
not been handled on the broad lines
warranted by the magnitude and
importance of this subject:
"I—Too many small cheap build,
ings have been built. In some parts
of the city these are located in close
proximity to one another.
"2 —Standards of construction have
been years behind the times.
"3—The financial program of the
board with reference to new con
struction does not seem to have been
well proportioned to the resources of
the city.
"4—The board has taken upon it
self responsibility for certain tech
nical phases of construction instead of
delegating such matters so techni
cally trained men and holding them
responsible.
i "Better supervision over the re-
1 pair and operation of buildings Is
Kreatly needed. . It was found that
the administrative procedures relat
ing to this phase of the board's
management problem present much
opportunity for improvement. Here
also the board has been assuming
responsibility for the nolution of
certain technical matters which it is
not qualified to assume, while other
phases of plant care and operation,
the study of which would undoubt
edly result in substantial economies,
have been neglected.
"The present organisation of the
board is not well adapted to cope
| with the problem of building man
n remont, which involves an annual
expenditure of over $65,000. The
| chief recommendation of the report
'wearing uport this subject is that a
I competent, broad gauge superin
tendent of buildings and grounds be
employed.
I iiiiiiiiTH and Accounts
"The chapter on 'Finance and
Acjour'ts" brlrtfly described the pres
ent bookkeeping n.ethods, discusses
them critically, and sets forth definite
recommendations for an adequate
accounting system. The chapter is
largely critical for the reason that
the nresHjit methods tiro so woefully
inadequate. It shows that In fall,
inn to maintain a general ledger and
other subsidiary record"? necessary
to produce complete operating state-,
ments and a Ulltct sheet, the
board lacks much of tho current in
formation almost essential for effi
cient administration of the school
district. It likewise shews that the
present, situation presents no compli
cation but what can be easily cor
rected. The solution is the adoption
of a comparatively simple system of
accounts, stmilar to that found in
progressive municipalities and cor
porations. Such a system is fully
. described herein.
Purchase Storage nnl liwuranoe ol
Supplies
"The purchase, storage and Is
suance of supplies presents a prob
lem large enough to warrant consld
eration in a soparate chapter. Con
sidering the lack of sufficient help
and storage facilities, the serious in
convenience resulting from certain
features of board administration'
and other handicaps, the purchase
storage and issuance of supplies has,
in general, been fairly well managed
There is, however, need for much
improvement and it is therefore the
purpose of this chapter to present in
detail the defects, showing at the
same time both the expense and in.
convenience resulting therefrom, and
ways and means by which they may
be eliminated.
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