SrEDFOttD MAIL TREBCTNT3. MEDFOKD. ORlXiOX. IQNDAV, MAY 21. 1020.
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IS NO. 20
START ED IN 1854
I RIPON, WISCONSIN
NEW YORK, May 24. The Btate
of Montana has the best all-round
public school system in the United
States according to the results of a
comparative Btudy of state school
systems made public today by the
Russell Sago Foundation. The re
port assigns second place to the
schools of California, third place to
those of Arizona, fourth to New Jer-.
sey and fifth to the state of Wash
ington. These findings are contained in a
report by the department of educa
tion of the foundation. The volume
is entitled "An Index Number for
State. School Systems" and the author
of Dr. Leonard P. Ayres, director or
the foundation's department of edu
cation. Other findings of the report are
that the school system of the United
States as a whole has doubled in ef
ficiency during the last 50 years, hav
ing an Index number or rating of 26
In 1S70 and one of 52 at the present
tlmo. Since these index numbers
are figured on the basis of 100, the
school system of the country has now
an effectiveness or efficiency of only
52 percent, according to the report.
The figures for the individual
states as given by the foundation
show that during the past 30 years
the west has been coming up educa
tionally while the cast has been going
down. During this time the greatest
incroase among all the states has
been made by Utah while the state to
which is attributed the greatest fall
ing off in relative standing is Mary
land. In the east tho only state that
has gained instead of losing New Jer
sey. In the west the state that has
tho best and most consistently high
record is California.
The standing of the -IS states, the
District of Columbia, and the three
territorial possessions is shown in
tho following tables
lCducatlonal Index numbers
1. Montana 75. K
2. California 71.2
3. Arizona (16.2
4. INew Joroey Iiii.9
5. District of Columbia GI.3
6. Washington C3.7
7. Iowa 61.9
8. Utah 61.4
9. Massachusetts 61.0
10. Michigan 60.1
11. Connecticut 59.8
12. Ohio 59.7
13. New York 59.4
14. Colorado 59.2
15. North Dakota 59.1
16. Nevada 59.0
17. Indiana 58.9
18. Idaho 58.6
19. Minnesota 58.4
20. Oregon 57.8
21. Pennsylvania :.....:..B7.7
22. Nebraska 57.1
23. Hawaii 57.0
24. Illinois 56.8
25. Wyoming 56.7
26. Rhode Island 56.3
27. Kansas 55.2
28. Canal Zone 55.1
29. South Dakota 55.0
30. New Hampshire 54.4
31. New Mexico 53.0
32. Vermont : 51.5
33. Wisconsin 51.3
34. Missouri 49.6
35. Maine 47.4
36. Oklahoma 44.4
37. "Maryland 43.2
38. . Delaware 42.3
39. Texas 411
40. Florida 37.8
41. West Virginia 37.7
42. Porto Rico 35.8
43. Virginia 35.3
44. Tennesseo ,..35. f
45. Kentucky 35.0
46. " Louisiana 33.9
47. Georgia 32.6
48. North Carolina 30.6
49. Alabama 30.6
50. Arkansas 30.3
51. Mississippi 30.0
52. South Carolina '. 29.4
The most notable educational
change that" has taken place during
the 50 years covered by the report, Is
In tho attendance In high schools.
There are now 100 times as many pu
pils enrolled In high schools as there
were In 1870. The number then was
19,000 and now it is nearls' 2,000,
000. The high school attendance has
increased with great rapidity but the
new pupils have been mostly girls.
In tho matter of teachers' salaries,
tho states show most diversified prac
tices.' Tho lowest averago salary Is
$25 per month for the state of North
Carolina, while the highest is $8S, In
California, both being based on a
year of 12 months.
Vhy suffer the discomforts and
embarrassments of a Goitre?
O. G. C. preparation (or goitre has bene
A ted many.
Whr Pt several handrM dollars for an
opi-ratton to remove a ROitrc when O.fi.C.
can he obtained for such a compar.ii.telr
small eipctiditurc?
O.G.C. when proiKrlr applied then satis
factory results, or your money -will be
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CHICAGO, May 24 In assembling
at Chicago in June the republican na
tional convention will be silting In
the section where the republican par
ty was first named and within 200
miles of where the first recorded re
publican meeting was held 66 years
ago. The approach of the convention
recalls this en;:y history, tho with
the passing of the years and the de
velopment of new Issues the first
steps of the party hae passed from
common view.
"It will probably not be possible
to trace to tho earliest date the first
positive meeting which led to the
formation of the new party," writes
Francis Curtis, in his history of the
republican party. "It is quite likely
that there was no considerable gath
ering of men, nor discussion of plans
and policies, until Mr. A. E. Dovay,
a whig of Kipon, Wis., together with
a Mr. Howen, a democrat, and a Mr.
Baker, a free-soiler, Issued a call for
a public meeting to consider tho now
alarming situation."
The great issue of tho hour was tho
extension of slavery. Of the political
situation prefacing the formation of
tho republican party, Mr. Curtis says,
"No political party was able to elect
enough members of congress to over
rule the united will of tho slavehol
ders, and until the anti-slavory senti
ment of tho north should be so weld
ed together, and Its exponouts should
be so united In one party as to be
ab.e to send to Washington enough
men to outvote tho representatives of
slavo power, there was no hope that
its advance could be checked.'
Reference was made to the Ripon
meeting by Henry Wilson, when vice
president of tho United States, in his
book "Rise and Fall of tho Slave
Power," published in 1874. "One of
tiie earliest, if not the earliest, of the
movements," he said, "that contem
plated definite action and the forma
tion of a new party was made in
Ripon, Fond du Lac county, Wis., in
the early months of 1S54, In conso-
quenco of a very thoro canvas, con
ference, and general comparison of
views inaugurated by A. E. Bovay, a
prominent member of the whig party,
anion:; bhe whigs, free soilers, and
democrats of that town. A call was
Issued for a public meeting to consid
er the grave Issues which were as
suming an aspect of such alarming
proportions."
The meeting thus called, wrote
Charles M. Harvey In the Chautau-
quan. September, 1S97, "was held In
the Congregational church at Ripon,
February 28, 1854. A resolution was
adopted in the meeting that if the
bill then ponding in the senate to
throw open to slavery the territories
of Kansas and Nebraska should pass,
the old party organization In Ripon
should lie cast off, and a now party,
to bo called the republican, formed
on the sole issue of opposition to da
very extension.
"The bill passed the senate, in
which body It originated, on March 3,
1854, and on March 20, the second
meeting, participated In by men of
all parties, was held, this time Jn a
schooihouse, at which Bovay was the
leading Bpirit.
"By a vote of the assemblage, the
town committees of the whig and free
soil parties were dissolved, and a
committee of five, three whigs, one
democrat and one free-soiler, was
chosen to begin tho task of forming a
new party.
"At these two meetings was started
the earliest systematic work begun
anywhere in tho country to bring
about the coalition of tho enemies of
slavery extension, who were even
tually fused into a homogeneous and
aggressive party, adopting the namo
republican."
$250,000 REVUE
BIG FEATURE OF
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theatre goers will have an opportunl-
altogether pleasing musical Bpectacle
as tne one scnenuiea ior ine j-use
theatre, Tuesday night, June 1st, if
we are to believe advance reports of
this attraction. It is none other than
"The Passing Show," the big iNew
York Winter Garden's seventh an
nual revue. This mastodonic enter
tainment comes to this city directly
following record breaking runs In
New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Chl-
norrn anrl Kan I'mnniflPfl And Ir Khnrt-
ly due to open an eight weeks return
engagement in Chicago. It ib ae-
aprlhpH nq ft 1250.000 DrodUCtlon.
and, Judging from the magnitude of
its fifteen colossal stage settings ana
the gorgeousness of its thousand
marvelous costumes, this seems to be
no exaggeration. Fully 20u people
nro rnntiirnH tn nripn lint Plv nrpsent
this wonderful entertainment. Of this
number about one hundred ann twen-tv-fivp
nre choristers, and in this case
size does not Interfere with ihe qual
ity tor, according 10 uuvunce repuns.
never in the history of Winter Gar-
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