Items of Interest April 1, 1916 Issue

Items of Interest

Teachers' cottages, crected by the community in or near the schoolhouse, and used not only as the teachers' residence but also as the community center, are advocated in a bulletin prepared by R. S. Kellogg and distributed by the department of the interior through its bureau of education to county superintendents and other officers in charge of rural schools. Lack of suitable boarding accommodations is one of the most serious difficulties in the way of securing suitable teachers for country schools, the bulletin declares. There are more than two hundred thousand rural school districts in the United States and over sixteen million children of school age who live in the country or in towns of less than twenty-five hundred population, yet it is impossible because of the living conditions to get teachers of the highest type to remain in the country.

The Shields water-power bill, which was passed by the United States Senate, has been reported in amended form by the House committee on interstate and foreign commerce. To meet the demands of conservationists, it is expected that many amendments will be made in the House. The Adamson dam bill, similar to the Shields bill, was vitally changed on the floor at the last session of Congress, the conservationists winning on the question of a Federal charge for the use of water-power, adequate provision for termination of the leases at the end of fifty years, and provision for Government acquisitian, if desired, at the end of that period by the payment of actual cost.

New York has made an innovation in municipal jurisprudence. A court devoted exclusively to the hearing of actions in which city departments are concerned will be opened in the Municipal Building. It is said that this is the first court of its kind in the country. Chief Magistrate McAdoo says: "Property owners and all classes of citizens who may offend against laws and ordinances involving city departments will hereafter not have to enter the unpleasant atmosphere of the police court. They will be brought to the new court by summons, never arrested unless it is impossible to get them to court in a less drastic way, and their cases will be treated by one judge."

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