Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-05-04
THAT REDUCTION.

pres" assisted by two or three mem
serss, that two columns OF childish
drivel In last weeks issue, tells me he
fused such facts as they brought him
without the least effort to investigate
or verify"
To all fairminded people this admis-
sion will seem sufficient answer to
this entire composition, and personali-
tiers are repulsve in the last degree.
since no public good or individual harm
results therefroin.
| merely wish TO cite one or two state
ments of this article as showing the
degree OF credioility of the whole.
First: the entire board of brave and
experienced men OF 1896 are presented
as throwing up their hands to one new
member who had been such for only II
month, leaving him to determine the
levy and financial policies of the board!
Then we had only learned that the
building fund OF s320S9 60 was practically
exhausted (notin building) that slT4i.54
was still due contractors; and as tor con-
tingent and tuition funds, we had no
use for anything called by that name,
nor has the board since had, only as
adaptations to old forms OF expressionl
The old members named the rate of
levy l3 mills, in 1895, the new ratifying.
We just let 'em buy the cloth and we
proceeded to cut the garment and
made a remarkably neat and good fl
considering the deformities en-
tailed. We Topped off the suburban
school, two teachers and one month,
reducing expenses just $1,000 yearly,
and the end Of that year showed sur
plus OF Sl79.5S the only surplus year
in six!
II this reduction Of expense had been
made five years before we would have
had no deficits and better schools all
along. Why did not some one there
think OF 1t, or why do not the people
try to do some OF their own thinking,
while this playing politics is going on
at such fearful cost to the village and
its prosperity?
That s6932 "deficit" in 1897 which
''more than surprised the board"
(knocked 'em silly perhaps) and sent
them Topping about the Office like
flock ot simultaneously beheaded spring
chickens, is pure fabrication.
Think OF these nervy, seltpoised men
quailing before 500 deficit when they
had for more than two years been con-
fronting a deficit OF their own making
of more than $4,000 in contingent and
tuition funds!!
The men fool the lawyer or the
latter the people about that order No.
6S, authorized in August because the
board would not meet again before the
! new year when interest on the bonds
would be due. 1t was not an expense
OF the year ending Aug. 81, 1897 ,and is
not SO entered in ledger as they all
know.
"In JULY 1897" he says, "the finance
committee levied 10l mills, realizing
$4919.9S" thus making another "deacit
of 1901 .sl!"
Now, this is the proof that
lawyer or members are playing the
taxpayers for "chumps!" With the
ledger right before them, showing in
clearest possible figures that we real
lied on that levy S6ll6.04 mot 1919 9S)
on valuation of S47S0S0, being levy of
II mills, a reduction of one mill, which
every member knew to be the facts, our
total receipts being S7497 so and tota,
expenditures s763O SO, leaving a deficit
OF Sl33.1 .16.
Having reorganized the year before
and gotten the schools on paying basis
by closest sort OF figuring, how did We
slip up and make this deficit in 1898?
The answer is at hand and carries with
1t my first explanation for leaving the
board: Mr.. Thompson himself had
entered the board to "fght" our re-
forms and inducing the older members
to repudiate their action of the year
before, forced upon us superfluous
teacher In November who received
Sl72.5O and transformed my preordained
second surplus year into deficit year
as above!
The lawyer says that but for a def
cit of $50 in 1897 and S2O1 in 1898
caused by myself "the borrowing and
paying interest could have been
avoided"
Do these men wish it believed they
paid S2S4.4l interest on two small def
cits amounting to $270. in two years
and few monthsp Why, the $2S4.4l
is per cent on $476O for an entire year,
the sum OF admitted deficits!
Mindful OF our $1,000 annual reduction
in 1896, OF the $4,000 increase of valu-
ations; OF the boards increase of levy
in 1898; of the acknowledged receipts
for 1899 OF S40l3,12 more than the en-
tire cost of Operatinp the schools In