Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 294, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 December 1920 — WOULD IMPROVE SCHOOL SYSTEM [ARTICLE]

WOULD IMPROVE SCHOOL SYSTEM

GOVERNOR-ELECT M’CRAY WILL NAME LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE TO INVESTIGATE. Governor-elect Warren T. McCray has been a very busy man in receiving numerous callers, in replying to the 300 letters which reach him daily and in selling an occasional car load of blooded cattle from his stock farm, but somehow he has managed to find time to prepare his inaugural address to be delivered Jan. 10 when he steps in and Governor Goodrich steps out. On his return to Kentland this morning after a two-day visit in Indianapolis he will begin in earnest on the preparation of his first address to the Legislature to be delivered soon after he has taken the oath. Using spare moments, he already has written a few paragraphs. He promises that both his inaugural address and his message to the Genera? Assembly will be short. School Improvement*. One of Mr. McCray’s chief interests lies in an improvement of the Indiana public school system. Indiana public schools now rank thirteenth. He wants them nearer to the top. He conferred yesterday with L .N. Hines, state superintendent of public instruction, and advised him of McCray’s intention to dame a personal committee, composed of three state senators and three representatives, to act as a clearing house in advance of the legislative session to consider proposals for promoting educational matters. He will name this committee within a few days. One thing that impresses Mr. McCray is that there should be more centralization of the township schools in several of the counties of the state. He believes that centralization contributes much to a higher standard of schools. The committee Mr. McCray names will do its work before the beginning of the Legislature and will have no connection with the legislative committees that'the presiding officer of the two branches of the Legislature will aP Among Mr. McCray’s callers at the Hotel Severin were George A. Elliott, editor of the Newcastle Courier, and Ed J. Hancock, editor of the Greensburg News, who came to tell him that they are not applicants for jobs. "Hiey r^ ei L® d a hearty welcome. Charles G. Sefrit of the Washington Herald also called and confirmed the report that he favors the repeal of the statewide features of the primary election law. Prepare for Editor*. Mr. Elliott, Mr. Hancock, J. W. Pierce of the Clinton Clintonian, L H Hamilton of Rensselaer Republican, and Leo K - F ® sler ’. a ”fl' tor of Marion county, had met earlier in the afternoon to make Preliminary plans for the meeting of ’ the Iliana Republican, Editorial Association. The date is ; Jan. 27 and 28. Frederick Schartemeier, secretary of . the ..? e £“j ) J l lCa ß state committee, met with them. 1 is the hope of the committee to have either President-elect Harding or Vice President-elect Coolidge as a speaker. The first day’s meeting will be for -the editors exclusively, but the second day’s session wi take the form of a Republican love feist and jollification with a banquet as a feature. —Indianapolis Star. December 10. ,