Pennsylvania, colonial and federal : a history, 1608-1903 . y superintendency was saved. The method of selecting county superintendents at a triennialconvention of school directors w-as wisely conceived and hasshown itself superior to the method of choice by popular from every other election by being held on the firstTuesday in May, and thus freed from the entangling alliances ofcounty politics, the choice has generally resulted in the getting ofthe right man for the right place. Legislation can instil neitherhonesty nor infallibility into a school director, but it can removehim
Pennsylvania, colonial and federal : a history, 1608-1903 . y superintendency was saved. The method of selecting county superintendents at a triennialconvention of school directors w-as wisely conceived and hasshown itself superior to the method of choice by popular from every other election by being held on the firstTuesday in May, and thus freed from the entangling alliances ofcounty politics, the choice has generally resulted in the getting ofthe right man for the right place. Legislation can instil neitherhonesty nor infallibility into a school director, but it can removehim as far as possible from influences which aim at some-thing outside of the ef^ciency of the schools. When new otificesare created, the payment of the salaries is a question apt to agitatethe public mind. The salaries of sixty-five new officials had tobe paid out of the school appropriation, which was not large inthose days. The salary which the directors voted in some coun-ties was ridiculously low—in one case being only two hundredand fifty dollars. 52. John Gottlieb Ernestus Heckewelder Missionary; assisted war department in ar-ranging treaty with Indians 1792 and 1793;lived in Bethlehem 1810 to 1823; student oflanguages, manners and customs of Indians andauthor of historical books and papers on kin-dred subjects. Reproduced for this work froma canvas in American Philosophical Society The Educational System During the session preceding the second election of countysuperintendents, Andrew G. Curtin rendered conspicuous servicein organizing a movement in the house to fncrease the annualState appropriation to common schools from $230,000 to $300,-000 to give more margin for a needed increase of salaries and toprevent an open revolt on the part of the oppressed taxpayersagainst the school law of 1854, many of whom had been payingtwenty-six mills upon the dollar every year for three successiveyears for only a four months term. It was carried in the house,and Mr. Curtin returned
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