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POtniCSRUINOF
PUBLIC SCHOOLS
That And ‘Red Tape’
Scored In National
Survey
NEW YORK, Aug. 2—Two prime
causes of the present “deplorable"
condition of American public schools
are red tape and the handicapping of
Boards of Education by politicians,
according to a survey of public
school boards and their receipts and
expenditures, directed by the Nation
al Committee for Chamber of Com
merce Cooperation With the Public
Schools and the American City Bu
reau made public here today.
The survey which covered conui
tions in 377 cities showed, it was
said, that in 47 per cent of cases
where Boards of Education were “in
dependent” or free from pul.tical
manipulation or control, that the
most efficient administrative and ed
ucational results arc obtained.
“The best interests of the public
schools,” says the i\port, “cannot be
served in a city where the budget of
the Board may be reduced or remod
eled by the city officials who have
not made ad definite study of the
needs of the schools.”
Boards which are really a sub-divi
sion of the municipal government and
whose budget may be changed by mu
nicipal authorities are classified as
"dependent” and undisirable from
the standpoint of the public good.
It is thus pointed out that in the
case of cities in New Jersey, the bud
get must be passed upon by a special
Board of School Estimate; in Okla
homa cities the school trustees are
dependent upon an Excise Board; in
Ohio cities, school budgets may be re
duced by a special county tomnjis
sion; in New England, school midgets
must be submitted direct to a town
meeting and in many Western cities
the budget is determined by some
county authority.
The survey shows i\at the school
receipts in the 377 cities for the past
fiscal year were $353,260,000 and
that the expenditures of these same
cities during this period were about
$2,000,000 less than income. The
funds arc from five sources and are
supplied in the following proportions:
From the states 11.6 per cent; from
the federal government 0.3 per cent;
the county 5.7 per cent; local taxes
65.4 per cent; non-revenue or mis-
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cellaneous sources, including from |
sale of bonds or short-time loans, 17.0
per cent. The survey shows that of.
rail cities reporting, 70 per cent do
pot receive a dollar from the Feder
al government. Teachers’ salaries ag-i
gregated $180,000,000 or 64 per cent
of the total of the current expensei
of the schools.
The total expenditure for debt ser-<
vice, varies from four-tenths of one
per cent in the eastern cities, one and
one-third per cent in the Southern!
cities and up to nine and one-half|
per. cent in the Great Lakes group. ,
In one-fifth of the Great Lakes cities ■
the expenditure for this item is more
than 20 per cent of the total expen-'
diture for all purposes. In a number !
of Ohio cities it is between 30 and 35
per cent. ; a
The relation of capital outlay, ag
gregating $51,727,554, to the tota’
expenditures, showed that nearly b
per cent was utilized on sites and new
buildings. A total of $1,341,000 was
expended fcr medical inspection and
dental and nurse service in the •377
cities named. The part, of the total
expenditure spent for the alteration
and equipment of old buildings was
only 1.8 per cent. Commenting on
tjiis the committee sail?:
“The smallness of this amount is
of particular interest jjt connection
wit hthe findings of this committee
in their report on school housing con
ditions in American cities. This re
port shows that a large percentage
of the children in the public schools
are continually menaced b;. the un
sanitary conditions and fie hazards
in many old school buildings now i.j
use. In Eastern cities the conditions
are particularly bad.”
An intermediate class of school
boards, designated as “special,”
which are neither dependent nor in
dependent, are also discussed in the
report and held to be contrary to the
best educational policy.
The basis for the committe’s sur
vey was an inquiry sent to the super
intendents of schools in cities with
population in excess of 8,000 . The
present survey is the third of a series
The first -report, published last Oc
tober, presented the facts concerning
salaries, training and experience of
teachers. A second report, published
last March, dealt with school hous
ing conditions.
LETTERS FROM
THE PEOPL E
Editor Times-Recorder—The bank
er, manufacturer, merchant, laborer,!
doctor and lawyer all want to know :
when the hard times will end. 1
can’t name the de.v, but i can show
what must happen before v.e will
have a revival i>. business.
We always know" that trade and I
traffic will improve in the fall. Why? '
Because we know the farmer will I
gather in his crop and sell it—pay
his debts to the merchant and begin '
to buy more products of others. The
retailer then buys from the whole- i
saler, and the wholesaler buys from '
the factory. Thus, beginning with 1
the farmer, we all get busy and go ’
to work.
Did the farmer pay his debts to
the farmer last fall? No. Why? Be- ■
cause the prices of cotton was less by i
75 per cent than his debts to the
merchant, hence the stagnation J
closing of factory and furnace, and ;
unemployment. Therefore, the buy-1
ing power of the farmer must be I
revival of business.
restored before! we will have any '
The city man’s, as well as the far
mer’s sole dependence for a living
is from cotton. We get our share
for the service we render the far
mer, and the higher the price he re
ceives, why the bigger the share we
get, and the lower the price, the less
we get. The whole state had a full
dinner pail when the farmer got 40
cents a pound, and our present short
rations is because the farmer is get
ting only 10 cents a pounds for his
cotton.
Many men nrominent in politics
and banking told the fawners to hold
their cotton for 50 cents a pound, and
the farmer is still holding. These
same men then told the farmer ‘‘cut
your acreage for 1921,” and the far
mer did it. A cut in acreage of the
fanner means a cut in the same pro.
portion of labor and stocks of goods
and earnings for city folks. All this
is bad advice, and disaster to ail
alike.
The trumpet of the optimist blares
that, because the Federal Reserve
Banks are piling up percentages of I
reserve^ —hoarding, taking the life
blood opt of American commerce—
“ The tide has turned,” and “Confi
dence is restored.” How does the
slogan of the optimist sound to the
6,000 families being fed by the City
of Birmingham, where one bank in
that city has $6,000,000 cash in its
vaults?
Reserves of money is idle money,
and it indicates idle factories and
hungry people. Money is of no value
to man unless it is working in circu
lation, and any government financial
svstem that retires or hoards money
destroys trade and commerce.
The only hope of salvation for al!
the people, is for the cotton farmer
to sign the contracts to sell their cot
ton through one agency, which can
finance a great volume of the crop in
such away as to draw out these
monep reserves with safety. The
banker, merchant and laborer should
get behind the organization commit
tee of the Georgia Cotton Growers’
Co-Operative Association and call
meetings of your chambers of com
merce and other trade organizations
and the organization committee will
explain the plans for restoring the
buying power of the farmer, and the
we will have “good times” again.
We must put a value in the cotton
now held by the farmer, or else our
own product and property v
“shrink.” Isn’t it worth the effort?
We often give time and money to fai
less worthy objects. Let’s aid thr
farmer to help himself and thus get
a full dinner pail ourselves.
MARTIN AMOROUS.
Atlanta, Georgia.
Hudson, Held As Boys’
Slayer, Now Cheerier
i MACON, August 2. Attorney
Claud Payton of Albany, chief conn
i sei for Glen Moore Hudson, in jail
i charged with murdering his two step
■ sons near Albany on July 12, held
a long conference Sunday with hir
. client. R. E. L. Spence, of Macon,
; employed to assist Attorney Payton,
was at the conference. Both attor
neys said tlfev went over the details
of their side off the case with Hudson
and beyond that would make no com
ment.
Hudson has improved wonderfully
in spirits during the last week. He
does not seem the least, depressed
new, according to his jailers. No
one outside his attorneys are al
lowed to see him under instruction
issued by Sheriff Tarver, of Albany.
Sheriff Tarver was in Macon to see
Hudson last week, but he declined
to state what the prsioner had to
say. The sheriff expected to call
again this week.
Hudson has been occupying a cell
all to himself for about a week and
he says he likes it much better than
being associated with other pris
oners. He spends practically all his
time reading, mostly from the Bible.
When a highbrow spe»ks of Hom
er, the baseball fan thinks he might
have sonic sense after all.
When the boss comes to work
feeling all cut up, probably lie and
his wife have been looking daggers.
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the best woods for tool handles.
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