The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-06-06
WANT MONEY
FOR SCHOOLS
Discussing Plans to Meet
the Shortage in
Funds.

| No official conclusion has yet been
reached as to what method shall be
| followed to meet the deficiency III the
school appropriation. There We're,
| however, various suggestions made
yesterday. One of these was that a
| and act on the matter, and that Gov
| ernor Carter be asked to take the chair
| at this meeting. Whether the Govern
| or would consent to this or not, is not
| matter is grave enough, when some of
| the schools of the Territory are likely
| to be closed, and when the entire
| School Department is seriously Grip
pied.
Another suggestion. made by Super
intendent Rabbit was that some one
of the big financial institutions in town,
| run by public spirited men who are
| themselves men of fortune, should be
| asked to take up the vouchers of the
department from this time forward,
and meet all demands that may be
drawn against the incidental fund,
trusting to a deficiency appropriation
by the next legislature to cover the
money advanced
It realize that this would not be a
business proposition" said the Super
intendent, nevertheless, it might be
done. Or, some good might come out
of mass meeting. Honestly, I do not
know how the existing condition is to
be met unless somebody will advance
| the money needed to keep the depart
ment going
NOT A REAL OBJECTION
The objection to the mass meeting
plan lies in this, that such meeting
would include only the Honolulu peo-
pie. But that is not really an objec-
ton. The people of Honolulu who are
interested in the schools at all, and
that includes all good citizens, are as
much interested in the schools of La
mai or of Maui, or of any other island
as in those of Oahu. OF course they
have not the same immediate interest
ia the outside schools, because their
children do not attend them, but they
have the same kind of interest, and
are large enough to consider the public
schools a whole.
1t is as important that the children
of Kauai should have public school
advantages as that the children of
Oahu should-as important to the Ter
ritory and to the future.
This is not matter that has any
thing to do with the restoration Of the
salaries of the teachers. Restoration
has advanced a long way already. The
politicians have taken it up, and the
statesmen, and that fight will be won.
WILL RESTORE SALARIES.
I'VE will get the restoration plank
in the platform of the Republican
party said Sam Johnson, the other
day. cit is a winner. There is no OPP
position to it,
1t remains, therefore. to meet the
immediate need of the school depai =
ment in the raising of money for the
incidental fund. One point developed
yesterday, was that at the opening of
the present biennial period, when the |
$4,000 for incidentals was made avail |
able, the announcements was made that
the money was on hand and that need |
ed repairs would be made. OF course !
all the school houses wanted repairs, !
and in that way a good deal of money |
was expended.
No doubt the repairs were needed
but it has developed since then that |
other things are needed. likewise. and |
$4,000 is not a great deal of money to |
run on, especially as $4,000 of it is yir- |
tually hypothecated in advance to pay |
rentals.
superintendent Rabbit. at all events, |
has husbanded his resources down to |
almost the last dollar. He has actually |
husbanded them down to the last ten |
dollars. There is not quite that sum |
left in the fund, as was stated yester-
day 1t is a condition that calls for |
immediate action.