The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 21, 1919, Page 8

PROGRESSIVE PROGRAM FOR NORTH DAKOTA SCHOOLS IS PROPOSED BY STATE SUPERINTENDENT NIELSON} Popular Public Official Advocates Many Reforms Which Are Gain- ing World-Wide Recognition—Believes in Teaching Grain Grading and the Theory of Practical Road-Building—Would Develop Students Physically as Well as Mentally—Avoids Any } Reference to Political Matters. Minot, N. D, April 21 era in educational work A __new,ties such as Grand Forks, LaMoure in North|and Barnes where county nurses have in educational work in North | been engaged for some time. The re- Dakota when education will be} cent session of the legislature passed more practical and will fittingly pre-ja law making the employment of a! pare the future generation of. this;county school nurse compulsory in! state for meeting and solving the!any county where the majority of problems they will meet in their every| school officers petitioned the day life, was predicted by Miss Mi commissioners thus affording, sc nie J. on, state superintendent of! officers an opportunity to secure a public instruction, in an address de-; nurse should they desire one. livered to the several hundred: Advocates Grain Grading. teachers attending the morning ses-| Among the sujects to be taught in second day of the North- North Dakota sc! $s for the ex- ion association meeting. | pré purpose of a ting the chil- Nielson, who was making her| in future life is grain grading, public appearance im this part of Miss Nielson deelared. A bill was North Dakota since er election, was! passed at the last session of the legi given a splendid ovation by the tea ature making the teaching of t ers and educators when she was very important subject compursory in troduced to them ag. “North Dakota's! consolidated schools and. summer able state superintendent.” When/schools, which many older boys at- she took her place on the platform)tend. Every consolidated school is jcompeled to have grain \grading and cream testing equipment and every county must have such equipment for the use in schools other than consoli- plauded. Her reception was conced-j da schools. Jn this connection ed by many of the older educators to| Miss Nielson paid tribute to the be the greatest reception ever given a hearty co-operation the schools will re- state superimendent at any educa-/ceive from Commissioner of Agricul- tional meeting in North Dakota. ture oJan Hagen and thd state agri- Avoids Political Tinge. cultural colege. | Commissioner Ha- Despite the desperate attempt which|8en and the officials of the Agricul is being ifmde by the forces aligned | tural college will place experts at the wit: hthe socialist leaders of the Non-/services of the educational authori- partisan league and former State Su-|ties for instituting this new line of Perintandent N, C, Macdonald, to} study. avenge the overwhelming defeat Miss Neilson administered to'Macdonald in the last election, by making her of- fice subject to the wishes and desires of “a4 board to be composed of ap- pointees selected by the present state administration, Miss Neilson entir ly avoided anything political in her address. She lived up to the general helief that in her the state had a state superintendent who did not be lieve in making the highest education al office in the state a political foot- ‘ball and who could administer to the educational wants of the city and country children of North Dakota iwthout playing politics, Miss Neilsons subject was “The State Progress of Education,” and her remarks s6unded the death knell of the old fashioned system ‘of education many subjects of vital import- ee the future welfare of the chil- re eglected or considered out- e sare of common schoo! edu- cation, ) eralded a néw day in edu- cation in North Dakota when particu- lar attention will be given fto subjects which will help the men and women of tomorrow to solve the ‘problems they are likely to meet in after years. a OR Dr, George D. Strayer, ee at “ot the National Education utlined ““A’ National Pro- ‘ Education,” and Miss Nie'- #0n’s address brought owt what North Qakoté in cooperation with ‘the na- tional program. Her discourse point- ed out what the state will to doward Americanization, health, consolidation. | © better teachers, ‘scoring of schools, grain grading and good roads. Defects to be Corrected. | “The great war which has just been brought to a successful termination, Drought home to us in America many defects in our national life which ould and must be correct,” M ielson declared, Continuing she sa d, ‘Americanization is the theme ot this! meeting of the Northern Education as- sociation and it is the theme of edu- cators throughout the nation, and must} fhe the theme of educators in North Dakota. At the recent convention of} country superintendents the slogan adopted was ‘Eliminate lllitera North: Dakota in.1924,, and we musi make good that slogan. Statistics pre- | pared by the United States war de-! partment snow that 000 men of| the American army could not read or write. These men did not all come; from the mountains of Kentucky nor; from thé negroes of Tennessee. y o fthem came trom North Dako! tak of Americanization confronts this| state, this community, just as it con- fronts every ‘other state and every) community in the land.” To Eliminate Illiteracy. Explaining how North Dakota pro- poyes to eliminate illiteracy the spea er emphasized the necessity of night! schools both in the cities and in rural Gistricts. To this end the state legis- lature appropriated $7,000 and eac county is authorized to spend $5 along the same line of endeavor. Every county, Miss Neilson hoped, would take advantage of this oppor- tunity and bring education to those who are working yet who need more education to come up to the required standards of American citizenship. The state superintendent touched briefly on the Smith-Towner bill now ‘before congress, which aims at the formation of a department of educa- ‘ tion with a secretary of education hav- ing a seat in the president's cabinet. _ This bill will, if it passes, appropriate $100,000,000: for oat menage ante and of that amount, $7,500, go for Americanication work. Of this|90m’s run. Doubtless one of the ~ seven and.a half million dollars, North | first things that you will have to = Groat will be your tires. our line of Kelly Springfield {casings and tubes we believe that iwe have something that will |merit your investigation. That | they cost more is true, but as:has been said before—“the , When she was introduced, i several times during the course of her! remarks, 3 Nielson was loudly ap Good Roads. Good. roads, that. is the theory of road building. will likewise be taught to the children of North Dakota, Miss Nielson | + In every state there! have been miles of roads built at great] expense because the builders did not understand what good road building was. “In many places in North Dakota,’ the speaker declared, “men have built roads which were merely piles of dirt. We plan to oversome that by learn- ing the boys how to build good roads. A great many other states have tried this plan and the results have been re- amrkable. Contests will be arranged between various, schools so that the standard of work will be kept high. In the’ future when men of North Da- kota build a road it will be.a road the neighborhood can: justly ‘be proud of.” The speaker concluded her fice would co-operate in- every way possible for. better education in the cities and’ in’ the country in North Dakota, and. she asked like: co-opera- tion from her listeners. It is not the quality of a cigar when made, but when smoked that counts. EL DALLO ‘Fach Cigar in its own fumidor” There would be little use in our making ELDALLOSs0g unless we could keep them good. The double wra) per does the trick. qT 8¢ 3FOR20¢ 2 FOR IS¢ WERTHEIMER BROS., B.ttimore, Md. “The Home of Service” MR. CAR OWNER ' you will be getting out your auto- mobile and Breparjag fr the sea- | Prediction Made by Government} ;, works and construction development, | Within the next few weeks| BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUNE IN BUILDING. FOR MONTH OF MARCH Construction for Perigd Almost! Doubled Average for Last Eight | Years PROSPERITY IS IN SIGHT Burean.of Big Construc- tion Year} Careful study of conditions during 1{ March made by the U. S. department } Monday, the 34st, are-not counted. It; of labor through the division of public ‘shows a gain in building of eighty per | cent more than the actual average} information and education _ service,! 80 PERCENT GAIN| estimating projects Eprenented at the present’ cost of: buildin; During the first reek of March, from the 22nd to. the: 28th inclusive, building and engineering contracts were awarded in districts adjacent to five principal cities of the United States as follows: District— |Boston.. New Yorl ie Philadelphis ry Pittsburgh . Chicago ... | Total $43,590,325 * The reco: or four cpmplete weeks Jin the month of March, as shown by ithe weekly reports,.is as follows: Week ending 3-7-1919*..$ 27,751,076 Week ‘ending 3-14-1919... 29,851,407 | Week ending 3-21-1919.. 39,017,308; Week ending 3-28-1919*.. 43,590,325 Total :.. 2. .$140,210,116 + *Minneapolis® district’ not included. The weekly report#: represent Zour | f six busine iness days each, or} twenty-four bu: lays. Two busi- ness days, ‘viz. Satara y, the 29th, and yh: Amount 376 2,880,000 106,524 5,641,008 7,177,680 19,685,163 seems: fair, icularly since the | amount of contracts: is steadily i creasing, to. ad das the estimated fi, ure for these two days one-twelfth of the total fo rthe twenty-four days for which actual amounts are available. | for the month of March for the pre- ceding eight, years. Jt represents an! increase of more than thirty percent, ! TOURING CAR $925 £12 6A1gg1 car buying. And, as a -result; Its pronounced operative cost at the toad. £ Wire Wheels and DO There is noticeable everywhere a dis- tinct change in the trend of métor It is evident that a’sharp preference ° has sprung up ‘fer the solid virtues. of : reliability andieconomy.__ f year drove other types of cars are thits year placing orders for Dorts. 4 smoothly and comfortably, to endure capably hard usage, and to keep matter of exact record. It handles lightly, turns in a small radius, picks up nimbly, and holds ly at all speeds. JACISa i car that you can rest assed , will satisfy you fully. Sed Prices F.'O. B. Factory Spare Tires Extra Bisnarck Motor: Company (B20). KT MOTOR CAR COMPANY Attention We have several teams and men that are available for imme- diate work—hauling, teaming or cleaning uP, algo plowing, before our regular ICE SEASON OPENS up to’ $151,894;292. This brings the amount for the month These ‘figures show, in ihe steady | g i numbers who: ability to travel a_low level, is a ini increase from week to week, that there is. a progressive movement io resume building, Figures for the month of March for eight years, to the nearest million dollars, are as follows: 1911 1912 1913 1914 1916 1916 nu 69,000,000 73,000,000 64,000,000 59,000,000 76,000,000 + 95,000,000 1917 + 133,006,000 1918 - 11 ,000,000 The average for the eight years is $85,625,000. It thus appears that the amount for the present March is greater than any corresponding ‘month, atleast for|/ years back, or 80 per cent larger than the average for these years. It. isto be remembered, however, ; that costs are higher and that the amount of construction of one of ‘the. carlier years would now, in common Parlenee,| “run into more money.” Index figures have been compiled, | | as carefully as the nature of the case/| would permit, for the general cost of construction for the years Zrom 1913 on, and the figures for these years have been converted in to the cost: iny 1918, or at the present time. The re-j sults, in round numbers, aes below: 1913 ...8 94,000,000 ° | 1914 “1 $9,060,009 i 1915 ; 1916 1917 1918 -. Move miles pergalton More miles on tires MONDAY, APRIL 21,1919. The average for the’ six years is $117,000,000. From this it appears that, even with the proper allowance made for inc jing cost, March, 1919, is almost 20 per | cent above the average for the last six years. March, 1917, is the only month Which probably slightly exceeds in presen value the past month. [{Govern- ment contracts are included in these figures and undoubtedly during March, 1918, they represent a considerable vercentage of the amount, since for the entire year of 1918 they constituted 32, percent, The only months on -‘ec- ord in which the permits equalled or exceeded $52,000,000 were during the years 1917 and 1915, WANTED—Chamber maid at Grand “Pacific Hotel. 4-18-tf z 300 000 Persons Who Value a Dollar Drive a Maxwell. NE reason—and the main one—why persons change from one car to-another after a veers use is on. \the i, GPSte is is too much to keep it running. ° ; ‘A Maxwell possesses the prized virtue of ahve out of the repair shop and running and running and funning. 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