Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 58, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1908 — FARMERS GET A HEARING [ARTICLE]

FARMERS GET A HEARING

Say Better Teachers Are Needed and Object to Paved Roads.

Champaign, 111., Dec. 15. —The commission on country life, appointed by President Roosevelt, held a session at the University of Illinois. One farmer said that country schools should be more consolidated and that better school teachers should be employed. He said that half of the teachers employed in country schools have no better than a common school education. The hard road question was thor-’ oughly discussed, and it was stated that at leasl two-thirds of the farmers would oppose paved roads.