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TEE AUSTIN DAILY STATESMAN, FRIDAY MOKMNW, 23, 1011 SCHOOLS GUARDIANS OF NOTES OF THE CAPITOL cially in this State, this winter has probably never been equaled in je-cent years. Yet nothing la done AUSTIN STATESMAN Published dally by the Austin Statesman Company. ARGUMENT IS NOW UNDER BAN AMERICA NO pervlslon to the schools of each county in-the State that has as many as HO00 children of siiolastic age. and granting local authority for providing artequato remuneration for county superintendents and necessary clerical office 'assistance. Every one of the educational laws enacted by the regular and the special sessions of the Thirty-second Legislatures is fundamentally sound and pedagogic-ally correct, and represents a decided advance over anv legislation heretofore enacted on the same subject.

is practicable and constructive, and all taken together, mark an epoch in the educational history and progress of Texas. YO UNO WACO, Dec. 28. That the ad vent of an almost pure Democracy in the United States, forcing the home, the church, tme State and the trades to lessen their moral demands upon the boys and girl has left the public schools the chief guardian of the moral life of young America, was the chief strain of the' leading address before the second day's session of the convention of the titate Teachers' Association here today. Admitting- that Democracy has brought advances," Dr.

W. Phelan, professor of philosophy and pedagologV In Baylor University, said there had been many accompanying woes and -he believed the woes outweigh ted the advances. As a result of tills the home has forgotten how to educate the boys and girls and rowdyism, mob violence and turbulence have ensued. There is no longer the old-fashioned hearthstone and homestead and in their stead In many States has appeared life in boarding houses, hotels and clubs. Along with the failure of the home to do its full duty In raisins- the children aright Dr.

I'helan mentioned the church and he said he regretted to note that the church has lost much of Its power and ability to cope with moral and socKal conditions as seen In tha need of the Y. M. C. A. and the Men and Religion Forward Movement.

The Sunday schools also have demonstrated their inability to pope with situations, he said, in that they lose from their membership the boys and girls when they beertn to bud "into manhood and womanhood. Trof. J. A. Brooks, professor of the Dallas public schools, introduced a resolution to the effect that the next Legislature be -asked to pass a statute permitting school boards to furnish needy school children In their jurisdiction with free text-books.

Action upon the resolution will be taken Friday. Discussing Possibilities of the Apprentice System of Training Teach ers." J. F. Kimball of Temple said the four requisites of a successful schenl were good plants a 1.4 well equipped buildings, raw materia? in the form of students, money with which to employ good teachers, and skilled labor in the for.n of competent teachers. It now seems assured that Fort Worth will win the 1912 conventicm.

as It appears to be the only city in the race. The presidency of tne convention for next year lies between V. B. Blzzell of Denton, president of he College of Industrial Arts, and J. F.

Kimball of Temple. BRALLEY'S ATKR. F. M. Bralley, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, read the following paper: The man who from day to day compares himself with himself is in serious danger of developing into an abnormal egotist; he who occasionally compares himself with the average man may with reasonable accuracy be depended upon to find his relative standing among his fellows; and a man wno aspires to be the best and the most useful man, and who compares himself occasionally with the best men who have achieved signal success may be compelled to confess his own infe riority or to acknowledge with becoming modesty hla own worth and accomplishments.

Likewise, if we from time to time compare the school system of Texas with our own schools, we are apt to think that our schools have attained the maximum of excellence; if we compare the school system of Texas with the school system of the average State in the Union, in the elements that determine Its comprehensi veness and efficiency, we shall arrive at the relative merits of our public school system; if we compare the school system of this State with one of the very best school systems of any of the States we may be brought to realize how far we are In the rear of the vanguard. Pursuing the plan of comparison mentioned, I shall endeavor to briefly indicate the educational status of Texas: "The educational pi-ogress from Aug 31, 1905, to Aug. 31, 1910, was as i thorlzlng- it to classify the country schools into primary schools, lnter-prescrihe courses of study therefor; to establish rural high schools and to determine their location; to consolidate common school districts In co-operation with district school trustees in the work of establish high schools; and appropriating $50,000 a year for each of two fiscal years to enable the State Board of Education, on recommendation of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, to grant htate aid In amounts of not less than $500 nor more than $2000 to any school district putting up the same' amount of monev for establishing, eguipplng and maintaining departments for Instruction in Qnrifiiimrp manual training and domestic economy In the public high school thereof. The new teachers" Certificate law, simplifying, unifying and making more pedagogical the certification of teachers, whereby they are authorized to contract to teach in the public schools of Texas. Hereafter all teacners certificates of Statewide validity, whether granted from the prescribed examinations or because of approved work done In State schools or other colleges, must be Issued by the State Superin tendent of PuDIlc instruction ana recorded in the permanent files of the State Department of Education.

In this Jaw proper recognition is given to the work of preparing teachers for first-class colleges and reputable State normal schools of other States, and to llf certificates issued on the pre scribed examinations of other States where the requirements therefor are equal to the requirements for such certificates In Texas. The county In Texas mav continue to Issue the-county second-grade certificate; but no person can be awarded such certificate but one time. The third-grade certificate mav no longer be issued; It Is now an unclaimed relic of history. The city may continue to grant certalln certificates of prescribed standards, valid only In the city Issuing them. A peda-- goglcal plan or system of building on a temporary State certificate to higher grade and life certificates Is provided and the holders of State and county second-grade cerflficatea and permanent primary certificates are authorised to contract to teach In only the grades below the high school.

The county-line school district law, authorising the organisation of either a common or an independent school district, including territory in two or more counties, in pursuance of the adoption of the constitutional amendment. August, 1509. The law empowering the Commissioners' Court to establish and maintain an agricultural experiment farm for the county, whereby scientific methods of farming may be demonstrated in the different counties of the State. A resolution providing for submitting to a vote of the people at the November (1912) election the constitutional amendment authorizing the Legislature to enact a law making the terms of office of all board of regents and managers of educational, eleemosynary and penal Institutions of th State six years, one-third of the mem bors of each board to be elected or ap pointed every two years, in iuch manner as the Legislature may determine. The Thirty-second Legislature, special session, enacted the following educational laws: The State Normal School Board of Regents law, divesting the State Board of Kducation of the control and '-management of the four State Normal Schools for white teachers in Texas and vesting their control and management In a board of regents com posed of five persons, four of whom are appointed by the Governor and one of whom, the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, is by the statute made the president of the said board of regents.

The new textbook law providing for the adoption of uniform textbooks for use in the public schools of Texas for a term of six years, beginning in September. 191 3. the adoption to be made not later than Nov. 1, 1912. by a board of nine persons, together with the Gov- Ter Cent of Gain.

1905. 1910. ernor and the State Superintendent of Tublic Instruction, the nine persons to be appointed by the Governor from a list, of thirty teachers of recognized scholarship and professional ability, and all of whom shall have been engaged In the school work of Texas for the past three years, nominated to the Governor by the president of the University of Texas, the president of the College of Industrial Arts anj the State Texas. 65.46 66.9 128 85.4 66.8 $18.65 2.71 Fred W. Cook of San Antonio was here yesterday on insurance business.

Governor O. B. Colquitt was not In his office yesterday, leaving early in the morning for San Antonio to con slder the question of Improving the Alamo property. Chief Clerk C. V.

Johnson of the Department of Insurance and Banking announced yesterday that a complete new digest of the State's in surance laws has JiiBt been prepared and will be received from the printer within forty-five d.ays for general distribution. Mr. Johnson has prepared most of the copy for this volume. He is an authority on insurance law. W.

H. Gray, relator in the ex parte W. H. Gray case, which is a companion case to the J. F.

Wolters case, arrived yesterday from Houston to study the four opinions written in the Court of Criminal Appeals when the relators were discharged. Counsel for the investigation committees have asked for rehearing, and this accounts for Mr. Gray's presence here. He did not care to discuss what steps his counsel will pursue in his defense in the motion for re hearing. Engineer Jt: T.

Parker of the Rail road Commission will be sent to maki; an inspection of the Jefferson and Northwestern Railway before Its ap plication to be recognized as a common carrier is passed upon by the commission. This announcement came from Commissioner Worthara yesterday. Engineer Parker will probably not be able to make the trip before some time next month. This is the 36-mile line extending from Jefferson to Linden. Captain C.

H. Danforth of the Sixteenth infantry. United States army, has been assigned to inspect certain companies of the Texas National Guard in the regular annual inspection. His itinerary will be: Orange, Jan. Grove-ton, Jan.

Timpson, Jan. San Augustine. Jan. Carthage, Jan. Marshall, Jan.

3. All field and staff officers and noncom missioned staff officers who live in this territory are also commanded by Adjutant General Hutchings to re port to Captain Danforth on the dates named. Sheriff Tom McClure of Jones County was here yesterday on de partmental business. Sheriff McClure has frequently been mentioned for State office, and in the year 1914 may be found in the race for some prominent State office State Treas-urer, perhaps. However, he will again seek the position of Sheriff in Jones County next year.

Before removing to Anson, his present home he was Sheriff of Wise County and known all over Texas. Covernor Colquitt has received an urgent invitation to attend the New York citizens' peace banquet at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel, Dec. 30, as the personal guest of Samuel Bell Thomas, chairman of the arrangement committee. However, Governor Colquitt will be unable to attend. Mr.

Thomas is the son of Rev. O. P. Thomas of Terrell, Governor Col quitt's old home. He writes the Gov ernor that President Taft and many other prominent men will attend the meeting and banquet.

W. L. Hill of Huntsville, local at torney for the Penitentiary Commission, arrived yesterday to confer with Assistant Attorney General C. E. Lane with regard to legal matters connected with the penitentiary system.

He discussed with Mr. Lane the recent suit brought by W. T. Eld-ridge and associates for one of the penitentiary farms and what steps are to be taken in the matter. It is possible that some legal action may be taken with regard to some of the Prison Commission's accounts, defi nite conclusion upon this matter to be arrived at today.

NOVEL INSURANCE QUESTION. Amicable of Waco Wante to Give Deed to State. Allan D. Sanford of Waco, counsel for the Amicable Life Insurance Company, was here yesterday conferring with the Attorney General Depart ment and the Department of Insurance and Banking with regard to the authority of the company to sign a deed of conveyance of its real estate, the 2 2-story-office building in Waco, to the State Treasurer that the property may be held as security representing capital stock. The propo sition to transfer this building as security is a rather unusual one, and the matter will no" be finally passed upon until the formal request for an opinion is submitted to the Attorney General's Department by the Depart ment of Insurance and Banking.

It is desired to put the Amicable building in for security as capital stock and get credit for $1,0.00.000. The purpose of the company In -doing this is to get reserve securities on which to branch out into other States. CHARTERS FILED. The Secretary of State yesterday filed the following charters: Leader Printing Company, Welling ton: capital stock, $6000. Incorporators: Thomas Durham, J.

D. Camp and R. H. Templeton. The Firemen's Relief Association.

Houston; no capital stock. Incorporators: W. J. Kohlhauf, R. F.

Ollre, A. F. Anderson and others. The Houston Lighting and Power Company, 1905, filed one amendment to its chatter decreasing its capital stork from $1,500,000 to and another increasing its capital stock from to The object in filing the two amendments was to do away with preferred stock and make all stock of the corporation common. Certificate of dissolution was filed by the Texas Surety and Insurance Company of San Antonio.

about it. There is good reason for that. In the first place there is no co-opera tion between the Federal and State and county and city officers. For the most part, these officers know Just about as much about catching criminals as the average bookkeeper, and a lot of them are not nearly so energetic. The suggestion will never be given any attention, and we make it by way of enjoying our own cynical little Jke, but why not send gome of the scores of Government Secret Service men to trail the yeggs.

There's a chance to do something that every owner of a safe in this country would appreciate. There wouldn't be any Issue as to the usefulness of that sort of a mission. The safe-cracker represents scientific, daring, organized crime, openly challenging the State. But at present the owners of the cracked safes seem to be the only persons opposed to safe-cracking. THE NATION'S INSANE.

A special census of the insane con fined In Institutions In 1910 in continental United States was taken by the Bureau of the Census. The number of institutions canvassed was 372; the number of insane persons In the institutions Jan. 1, 1910, was i 87,454 the number ad mitted during 1910 was 60,603, and the number discharged in that year was 63,860. At the last special United Slates census of the insane the population in insane asylums Jan. 1, 1904, numbered 150,151, and the number of persons committed to Insane asylums during the year wai 49,622.

Therefore, in the six years, from 1904 to 1910, there was an Increase of 37,303, or 24.8 per cent, In the number of patients confined in Insane asylums; and an increase of 10,981, or 22.1 per cent, In the number annually committed to such asylums. An Increase of 37,303 In the population in insane asylums taking place In six years is an annual increase of 6200. While the population of the United States increased about 11 per cent in the' Interval between 1904 and 1810, the population in insane asylums Increased about 25 per cent The number of insane in asylums per population Increased from 186.2 in 1904 to 203.8 in 1910. Thf number of persons annually committed to hospitals for the Insane per 100 000 population Increased from 61.5 in 1904 to 65.9 in 1910. If these ratios are accepted as representing insanity rates, it would appear that the number of persons becoming Insane, In a community comprising 100,000 persons, was greater by 4.4 in 1910 than it was in 1904.

It must be remembered, however, that these figures include only tu insane who -are committed to his-pitals. As to the number of cases of Insanity not resulting in commitments to hospitals the census has no data. It Is entirely possible that tha Increase In the number of commitments per 100,000 population Is not due to any considerable degree to an inerensed prevalance of insanity, but simply to the extension of this method of caring for the insane. It Is a change which might result from an increase in the number of Institutions of this class and from an Increasing disposition on the part of the public to resort to such Institutions. In this connection it may be noted that the number of Institutions for the Insane reported by the census increased from 328 in 1904 to 372 in 1910, an increase of about 13 per cent.

The average number of in mates per institution increased from 458 in 1904 to 504 in 1910. The figures compiled by the census afford a striking indication of the prevalance of insanity, If not an exact measure of it. It is somewhat startling to reflect that the 187,454 patients confined In hospitals for the Insane make up a population larger than that of the city of Columbus, Ohio. Our Dumb Animals for January shows a notable change In style heavy covers, four colors, larger type and other Improvements. Having had a continuous existence for nearly forty-four years, Our Dumb Animals, though never self-sustaining, has now tuken a radical forward step.

is published by the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Truly Texas is only another name for diversity. While the oitixens of Amarillo are shoveling snow from their back stoops, the people of La redo are sitting down to breakfasts at which are served cantaloupes, tomatoes and lettuce fresh from the garden. A Unite, husband "So your husband approves of bridge?" "Yes." replied Mrs. Fllmgilt, "he Insists that (lit) ready-made conversation kind than what liable To in- vut fur ouiisseives." A.

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It lias been customary for centuries to believe that the only facta which constitute murder are those showing tin attack by one person upon another with malice aforethought. As a matter of fact, the person who puts poison in food or sells implements which are of such faulty conduction that they endanger the lives of the persons using them are also guilty of murder. The man who houses his: employes In a structure which offers slight possibility of escape In case of fire, when fire Is a constant and dreadful danger, la a murderer even before the fire ever occurs. He is scarcely guilty of murder In the first degree under the law, he would probably be guilty of man slaughter; but he ought to be given the punishment which goes with murder in the first degree, because the greed of employers has caused far more deaths than the bullets of as sassins. In the horrible fire in New York which wiped out the lives of 147 em ployes of the Triangle shirtwaist fac tory, it was fairly well demonstrated that the owners of the company were morally.

at fault. Investigation developed the fact that they should be prosecuted. Evidently the prosecution has been a failure, either because of the manner In which it was conducted by counsel for the State or bf.cause the law in the case is not adequate. The Associated Press dispatch reporting the acquittal of the two defendants in the case also tells of a brother of one of the girl victims falling in convulsions ofrage when lie hoard of the acquittal. It Is the province of a newspaper always to counsel law and order.

We ate, in our humble way, the of the dignity of the State and propounders of the theory of government. But here is a case In which Justice has failed absolutely. There are other shirtwaist factories In New York which, should they catch fire would be charncl houses In five minutes. It is a widely known fact that the employes are little better off than galley slaves In time of battle. We would recommend in all seriousness that some brother of one of those burned girls nail the ears of her murderers to the floor and stamp the life out of him.

Probably if this were done a half dozen times or more after fires of the nature of that Triangle shirtwaist factory fire, New York would discover a way to return verdicts of guilty the next time such a case 'a tried. Champ Clarlt fays the tariff will be the Issue In 1912. Yes, as we remember it, the tariff has been the issue ever since they built a wall around Rome. It is interesting to learn that Zby-szko is a restler. We were in some doubt at first as to whether he was a product of the National Biscuit Company or a Pullman car.

WHERE A HE THE OFFICERS? It is a widely known fact that the safe-blowing industry in this country is one of the most thriving. Every winter, when the money for the crops is in the country banks and business is pood with the country merchants, the safe blowers sally forth from the browthnls and opium dens of the larger cities of this country and pro-ctjed to use nitroglycerin to such good effect that they are saved the disgrace of having to work. Year after year this goes on, and not once in fifteen Imes are the robbers prevented from cracking the safes they choose. Not once In a hundred times Is an arrest mftde. But scores and scores of times officers are shot and killed when they respond to an alarm after the safe is blown.

The safe blower is known to all the police of i-ciols of this country as the most dangerous of all criminals. If you have been reading your newspaper regularly you Mill have noticed that the number of safes tracked in this country, and espe- MOTION'S FOR REHEABIXG MUST BE OX WRITTEN BRIEF. TOO MUCH TIME IS USED Court of Criminal Appeals Declares It Will Invoke Old Rule Doesn't Apply to Wolters-Gray Cases. The practice of continually argu ing orally motions for rehearing be fore the Court of Criminal Appeals is to be stopped. There is a rule that no motion for rehearing shall be heard on oral ar gument unless the court invites thlt-- argument.

That rule has been disregarded, and the court has heard attorney after attorney arraign its opinions on motion for rehearing In protracted oral arguments after the oourt has considered the case on brief and oral argument when it was first submitted. It has doclded the oral arguments on rehearing motions consume too! much of Its time and the rule will now be enforced. The court will ask for oral arguments on rehearings only where there is some new point raised and after it has passed mature Judg ment on a case when it is first sub mitted, it will not permit attorneys to come before It again and argue the same old points. This will not apply to the ex parte W. H.

Gray and J. F. Wolters cases for Cullen F. Thomas was informed Wednesday that his request for oral argument In this case would be granted. But It will apply to others Motions for rehearing rarely avail anything, for the court usually abides by its first opinion, and if It is will ing to change Jt the Judges believe the matter can be presented equally as forcible by brief as in oral ment.

Judge Prendergast said yesterday the court will henceforth apply the rule with regard to oral argument on rehearing motions rigorously. TRANSFERS JOIN'S HOI State Now lias Legal Possession of Austin Institution No Contest Over Transfer. The State yesterday afternoon for mally took over from the United Daughters of the Confederacy, Texas division, the Confederate Woman's Home in this city when the title to the property passed to the State and was accepted by the State board of managers of the Home In Attorney General Lightfoot's office. For the past several months the State has tented this property from the Daughters while their organization determined what disposition to make of the property. It was agreed at the Houston meeting that it should be turned over to the State, and the transfer has been made, the consideration being a nominal one and the State now assuming full control of the institution and paying all expenses incident to its maintenance.

Mrs. A. R. Howard, of Palestine gave notice that she would fight the proposition to transfer the property to the State after the Houston meeting, but the transfer was made without any action on her part. INSURANCE COMPANY DISSOLVE.

San Antonio Concern Reimburses Its Risks and Withdraws. The Texas Surety and Insurance Company of San Antonio yesterday furnished the Department of Insurance and Banking proof of the fact that it has reinsured all of its business and is now ready to dissolve. The proof having been found satisfactory, the certificate of authority for the company to operate was cancelled and It was allowed to withdraw from the State Treasury In securities placed there to protect Its policy holders and others. Certificate of dissolution was also formally filed by the concern. Vice President J.

O. Terrell, Secretary Thomas G. Leighton and Counsel Chester Terrell of San Antonio were here representing the company. RAILROAD COMMISSION HEARING The Railroad Commission yesterday gave notice of hearing Jan. 9 to consider the application of Lovelace, on the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway near Waco, for separate depot facilities for negroes and whites.

Notice of hearing for the same date was also made to consider an amendment to the gravel tariff, applying a rate of 60 cents a ton on gravel from Columbus to Houston in carloads. Notice of cancellation of the exceptions in the livestock tariff for the dipping in transit arrangement on the Fort Worth and Denver City Railway pointsand the rate on beef cattle from liyers to North Fort Worth, effective Jan. 1, was also made. THEY URGE DEATH PENALTY. The Board of Pardon Advisers has received a vigorous protest from the District Attorney and other, officers of Washington County against commutation of the death sentence assessed against Charley McClecnan, a nego, to life Imprisonment.

Me-Clennan was convicted for the death of a Deputy Sheriff. His mother is attempting to obtain commutation. Prosecuting officers have asked for a formal hearing to protest against commutation and the hearing will bo erauted. OTHER SIGNIFICANT WORK. The people everywhere are manifesting a deeper and a more intelligent interest In education than ever before the conclusion that the most serious and fundamental need of Texas is a efficient system of public education, properly articulated and adequately supported, from the rural primary gchool up to and in! eluding the University in which Ihl Ifvin weJltr shall lb.

fe' training and development son Ule "'dividual a perl son of high character, of strong intellect and of business and social eff I cieney seems to have be ie popular mind; and the chief State, department of lTdu-tlon and other educational agenclej en arrived at by me 11 ca ofnUthT1St by wh the p'eopU comi.lish th-i- ual intIu'nty'ser. Kducation indicate u. MT WIO riTHIA Plui'tmnn 1 iMtii more than 1 funderhh viuuiun ncnool dis "he" schools Education six oard of rapidly districts is than 8700,000 of bonds have have been issued construction of llv i ls univer- acceptable, and as a 7 there are gOKUB nt th Tv.I peua- compelled to There will nndar lTfTa'ch'! gE ine count I farm should experiment farm be correlated in its' -wo," county. This strength aA armed both jhe farm and "tchool. W' of vldini.

amendment pro rrio.ni "'j-jear term of office for managers of "IV" and nenl CT 'mosynary cated by every MinkotAuonaM ii -niuuuuiia snou (i ulonXmnf" ShUld "ntVe th. adoption of this amendment at tha November, 1913. election. ne resolution providing for the submission of a constitutional amendment giving majority to the 11 4 cities levying local school lVV now resting both indenpnilortt i uoopieu tiy nil eI the rchools of every count of the State and conferring local author-and "munerate capable and efficient county superintendents and to provide needed office assistance to the county superintendents of the larger and more populous counties of in P''POHltlon involves, in my opinion, the greatest need of the "ci'ooiB. The further establishment of rural hmh solidatlon of common school tne proper classification of the country schools, the efficiency of the teaching force, the intelligent promotion of agricultural and industrial education, the establishing of social centers at the schoolhouses.

all depend for their permanency in "large mensure upon the quality and quantity of service that comes from the office of the county superintendent: nnd and masculine women may continue to oeautinu essavs on these subjects until tli and well-meaning but misguided pub licists may orate and exhort ir. their behalf and inveltrh against present educational practice, until Gabriel blows his horn; but unless the office of county superintendent i and strengthened, this Important work' can not go forward In sn orderly and efficient manner. Efficient sunervloinn 89 necessary for the mnni as It is for the town and cltv schools-and no city In Texas or out of It has ever been able to build up a system of swim scnoois witnout efficient professional supervision. We are all, of course. Interested in the proper financial support, expansion and development of the State normal schools, the College of Industrial Arts the Agricultural anA i lege, the University of Texas and tha endowed and denominational colleges and schools of the State.

Let it be understood that there are to be no Jeal- in tne ranits of the men and women who believe in the efficacy of education and who have a genuine desire to assist in making a greater State, a liannler. mors perous people, and a more glorious his tory for this mighty commonwealth. Standing together and working together, each for all and all for each, should be the motto of every educational Institution In Texas State Teachers' Association. EXAMINERS TO BE Here Is a List of Districts With Xuni-ber of Ban Is. The Department of Insurance and Banking will all of the State bank examiners to their respective districts when they meet here Jan.

2, and has practically redistricted the State for them. As has been previously indicated, there will be fifteen districts after the first of the year and all vacancies on the force have been filled. The largest district will be the Tyler territory, with fifty'-eight banks. The smallest will be the.Austin territory, with nineteen banks. However, the examiner in this district will be used as a sort of utility man.

The number of banks assigned to each territory depends en tirely upon their accessibility as well as their size. The new territory will be as follows: Amarilloi 37 banks; Austin, 19: Beaumont, 62; Brownsville, 48; Calvert, 54; Dallas, 48; El Paso, 41: Port Worth, 50; Houston. 50; San Antonio, 40; Sherman, 54; Stamford, 41; Tyler, D8; Waco. 52: Wichitt mum a the reg. antniun or tne Thirty-third Legis-lature, and will be adopted if the friends of education do their duty The next Legislature, in obedience to the will of the people, should na 1 1 YV Scholastic population TS 2.R93 949,006 21 Matriculation in public echools 694,708 821,631 18 Average daily attendance 457,510 644,691 20 Average length of school term 116 days 131 days 13 Number of school districts 7,796 19 Number- of separate 11,096 11,668 6 Number of high schools 440- S20 41 Number of high school children 25.850 49,4.17 91 Number of high school yraduates 4,484 124 Number of public school libraries 938 1,978 111 Number of volumes in libraries 166,113 267,679 61 Number of districts levying local tax 2.359 4,369 85 Amount raised by local school tax 2,197,590 7,103,735 223 State per capita apportionment 5 6.25 25 Total State apportionment 913, 465 5.

931,288 6i Total State apportionment and local 6,111,055 13,035.023 113 Value of permanent school fund 54.723.ln0 83,176.398 62 Value of schoulhouses 10.704.003 21.098,933 97 Value of equipment 1,175,750 2,026,230 72 Number of schoolhouses constructed. 2X6 770 169 Value of schoolhouses $650,470 12,578,780 296 Number of county superintendent 39 112 187 Number of teachers 16,626 20.742 25 Average annual salary of teacher $34 $391 29 Number children scholastic age per teacher. 47 46 2 Number children matriculated per 42 40 Number children average attendance per teacher 25 28 The gain 'n number of districts is due to aboMshing old so-called system in a number of counties. Decrease. All w-ill admit, I think, that this statistical evidence of five years' progress is sufficient to stimulate pride and to beget a feeling of self-sufficiency, considered alone; but let me know present a comparison of the public school system of Texas with respect to certain vital elements that determine its comprehensiveness and the efficiency with the public school system of the average State of the Union, the statistics being taken from the 1910 report of tre United States Commissioner of Education: Average State.

Texas. Per cent school population enrolled In school 7 2 66 Per cent average daily attendance in relutlon to 73 67 Number of days schools were kept open 155 128 Kxpenditure per capita of average attendance $31.65 1 8.55 Expenditure per capita of entire population 4.45 2.71 Cost per dav average dally attendance per pupil -21 ,16 Average number of days attended by each child 113 85 Average number of days' schooling each child received. 81 66 Per cent of school revenue derived from permanent S3 21.6 Per cent of school revenue derived from local tax 71.6 33 Per cent of school revenue derived from State tax. 15.7 39.5 By this comparison we are forcibly reminded that our school system is not Superintendent of Public Instruction as well provided for in the items men- af.tinK, together as a committee. This tioned as Is the school system of the COIrlmittee Is to make its nominations average State in the Union; and I now to tlie cjvernor by not later than Aug.

submit the last statistical comparison i912i the Governor has until of the school system of Texas with the Aug, 15, 1912, to announce the appoint, school system of one of the more advanced tSates in educational matters; California. Per cnt school population enrolled 1n school 68.08 Per cent average daily attendance In relation to 77.4 Average number of days schools were kept open ..185 Average number of davs attended by each pupil. ..143 Average number of davs' schooling each child received F.xpendlture per capita of average attendance 59.01 Expenditure per capita of entire population 7.05 Cost per day in average daily attendance per pupil .32 By this comparison It is seen that Texas is far behind in the Items considered, and all people who study the statistics in the three comparisons nrade will doubtless arrive at the same conclusion; to-wit, that while liuhsstan-tial and commendable progress has been made during the last five years, there is i crying necessity for further progress tind development in the school system of Texas, and that every statesman and educator of this Commonwealth should be willing to co-operate along well thought out and definite lines of work for giving the 1,000.009 school children of Texas a school system which, when compared with that of fhe most advanced Strite educationally in the Union, will be a source of prtde re 'her than of humiliation. The Thirty-second Lepii.lature. regular session, enacted the following tducatinral laws: The rural hiKh school lnw.

creating the county hoard of education and au-mediale schools and high schools; to ments. The law attempts to completely eliminate all improper influences in the adoption, and provides a practical plan for keeping the adopted books revised and up-to-date. The scope of the subjects upon which book, are to be apopt-ed Is somewhat wider than the old law on the same subjeet provided. The two following bills, vitally Important to education, failed to pass during the regular session of the Thirty-second Legislature: The resolution providing for the submission of a constitutional amend, ment to a vote of the people giving majority rule in elections to authorize the levying of local school taxes In the cities of the State that have assumed control of their public schools, of which cities there are 114, and removing tha 60 cents maximum limitation of local school tax in both Independent and common school districts. The bill extending professional iu- Falls, 43..