The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-01-22
FREE TEXT BOOK TROUBLE
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 +bat there was not money etioush to run things properly in the senools ln tbat section of the city, and thla' some thing must be done right aWes'
 Professor George L. Fox was present at the meeting and said that ne "isneu to be heard at length by the poaru ol finance in reference to the situatloh. The board of finance decidsu to auJourn the meeting to two weeAs rom lasI night when those wh' desire 10 De heard will be given a c,anee
 ing topics were the one ne piopo'eu 'o speak on at the next mesling
 r.-,.. oon+ If t,e 17,0OO pupils ,u .,.a eis s;t,r iAe ara in inc bgh school
 ?. Twenty-Five or theey per cent. ol the free appropriatifi iei .iee .eA1 books goes to per cii'' ol 'iie popi's'
 oan,taf for free text books
 ,ieess Iss' sa,,ooI n,,,is is four times the - ..''sla aar,;+, fc free text books for sos. s,,l re ;r +ba ershmar schools.
 ,,nted sum of money is
 sato5 e all the schools the s,oI,ol pupils suffer to the ad- 4ana s-as- os t,,S nigh school pupils.
 ...;u free text books to high .araa1 ,a,,,,;I the board is taxing the se. ,s,,i,7 taxpayers for the benefit se ss,;1dra,,f wealthier people. Not osa = t,an per cent. of wage earning 4as ,.arsJet the benefit of the appro-
 .;atio,, ,, free text books in the high sahaa1s.f-any one year
 ns injustice is heightened in the
 the Roman Catholic wage earn .etaxpayers. who are accustomed to 1.sdpport in addition the parochial schools.
 (. In giving free text books to high school pupils the pupils are deprived of one of the most valuable factors in education, viz, the possession of a small library of books for further study and review of their studies.
 s. The original promoter of free scheoi books (Walter Leigh), am told. said that it was not intended in the original proposition to have to apply to the high schools.
 g. The annual cost to parents of high school pupils for necessary books, if bought secondhand, need not exceed any year $5.
 10. The city of Norwich requires every parent of grammar school pupils to pay for his text books, and in the case of high school pupils in the Nor wich Free academy every one is requir- ed to pay $15. It will be no hardship to require the parents of high school pu- pills in New Haven to buy text books for their children
 II. When every household in every city in the United States must pay cost price or more for water, necessity, it surely is not wrong to require the par ents of high school pupils to pay cost price for their text books.
 12 The constitution of California for bids the use of any money appropriated by the state legislature to be devoted to the use of high schools. That is frank justice to the wage earning taxpayers, those whose annual income is from $1, 200 year downward. The citizens of New Haven should take the same stand with regard to free text books in the high schools.
 IS. The general points for each izen zealous for justice to the welfare O. his fellow taxpayers, especially the wage earning taxpayers is to consider the following questions:
 ta) Who pays for high school text books?
 (b) Who gets the benefit of them?
 Co For how long does a taxpayer pay for high school text books?
 (d) For how long. and under what conditions does any taxpayer get the benefit of the appropriation for free high school text books?