The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1903-06-13
The School Tax.

year lJUf, IS HOW a4 t4afe'Y Oel1Te tue
people of Lafayette parish: aud next
Thursday, Jane Is, has been fixed
for taking the sense of the tax
payers on The question. All she facts
and figases obtaihablc on the subject
go to prove beyond any doubt That
The present revenues for public school
purposes f,iI far short of the actual
requirements uf the educable white
children iii the parish.
There are nearly seven thons,nd
edueable white children in The parish
now, Two thousand Of this nun her
wese eutoilel III the public schools
this session. as against only nine
hundred last session. The increase
III number over last year made ii
necessary for the School Beard /.
employ fifteen teachers more this
year than were needed the year be-
FIRE, Instead of having two lhons-
aud children to educate IN the pnhlic
schools next session, The School
Board will he called on to furnish the
means Of education for three or, may
be, four thousand children, because
the number is bound to go on inc,eas-
ing from ole year TO another The
present sch oi ho ,sea are already
overcrowdtd (being much too smalD,
and are po ,rIy arranged and insult
able for modern school methods. The
School Beard has not enough funds
10 do all the work that is needed in
the present, bow, then, is this pres
sing demand for additional! school
facilities going to be mets Sha! we
some Of the children and al
low The rest to 60 without education,
by refusing to build larger school
houses aud refusing 10 provide all
The teachers nece~ss,y? Or, will we
Try to make the a, " funds now avail
able for public education reach every
nook aud corner in the parish by cut
ting down the school term to } Or 4
months in each yeas2
These are the cold facts of the
case, and there is 10 way Of getting
around them. It IS now for the fa-5
theirs and mothers If these children to
decide what shall be d me for their
Unless more money is
raised for sckool purposes the child
ren will suffer for lack Of school
facilities and will find the battle of
life that much harder to fight. There
is bnt one fair and equitable way to
raise more money for the schools, aid
that is by taxation.
Gov. Heard explained clearly in
his recent address ut CareDcro that it
Is impossible for the State 10 increase
its appropriations For schools without
nm increase in the rate Of taxation,
which is now limited to 6 mills by
the constitution. Aud the governor
strongly advocated special school
tax as TIE best solution of the problem.
The Police Jury has declared that
the general revenues Of the parish
do not admit Of lalger approptia-
tions for schools than what the jury
now gives, aud has officially recon-
special tax il: further aid Of
The schools.
The School Board has adopted
special resolution insisting that the
levying IF The proposed school tax
is absolutely necessary 70 the proper.
and saii-faclory administration OF the
public schools in the parish.
Many of the leading citizens Of the
parish recognize the need and the
1t levying 4 special school
lax. From among large lit OF oor
parishionsrs who are in favor Of the
schnol tax Of 8 mills for 6
years. we mention the folloHing we'll
known citizens: NJ. Billeaud. Jr.,
Alcide Judice, Habfard Giroaard, g.
G. Brown, Father Roguef, Alex Del
homme, Jasper Spell, DR.. ]. P. Fran
cez, Aurelie,, Olivier, Albert G,idry,
Dr.. Roy O. Young, Dr.. A @ Cla,k,
Saul Bruussard. Mar.iaI Btlleaud, !
@. Broussard, r e Landry, Sidney
Greig. Calvin Mosa, DR. P NJ Gi.
rarj, Toledanp Bagnaud, j. Ovey
Savoy, ALI a. DslhoDme, P. A.
Chiasson, NJ. I.auglinai-, Louis g.
Bresnx, Israel Prejean, Geo. Malaga
RE, P. r Landry, j. Arthur Roy,
Charles Burke. Jules Girouard, j..
n Bernard, francois Comeaux, r. b
Roy, Bapliste P-rea, Il g. Sicily,
Martial Lahbe. @. Blanchet. Marcel
Melaacon, u Fl. Theriet, c. Doucet,
s. Begneaud, Gns.ave Bac.lue, 8 j.
Montgomery. ] n, Breaux. Ociave
Bertrand, Darmas Landry r E. De-
Clonet, Ben Ava,,t, Alex Hoffpanir,
r s Singleton, jules Langlinais,
Alex Al. Bro,lss.rd E,ienne Nfouton,
Alex VeIret, A u. DYER, j r. Da-
Wis, Geo E. Brown, D1. w w Less
ley,J p Mouton alefy Bpudreaux,
Ghas a Beudreanx. Hugh Wager.
Adrien TheaIl, u H Prej-an, john
Roger Aimee Laaslsy Louis Ar
eslst, D. r D,lI,IsIx, arll others
wh,,se nniBes cxu.,ol be published for
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