The weekly true Democrat. (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1905-1912, 1907-09-20
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the public schools, and the supply Is not
keeping pace with the demand FOR the
reason that there is no public instftu-
ton since the State Normal School was
abolished by the Buchanan folly where
our young people can be educated for
teachers. At the Female College there
was one graduate, at the Unigersisv
none IL was told the Legislature that
there was not an instance on record
where a normal school in conjunction
with, or as a department Of, college
or university had eyer beer a success.
and Florida is not proving the excep-
ton. The young men and women who
wish to 6t themselves for teachers do
not come from the class that attends
colleges and universities and do not feel
at home with them, and will not attend
such schools. Neither have they the
means, many Of them, TO attend the
private institutions where normal train
ing Is a specially. AS a result we are
being taxed to support two Institutions
OF higher education and our boys and
girls cannot get education enough TO
attend them for the lack of teachers IN
the primary and grammar schools To-
day an investigation would show that
large per centage Of our high school
teachers are from other States, simply
because our own children are shut out
OF normal training by the Buchanan bill
which was passed on the alleged score
Of economy. -DeFuniak Breeze
The Breeze, in the foregoing, plainly
shows that it has not forgiven the re-
moyal of the State Normal from DeFu-
MAX.
Perhaps this, alone, would be re-
garded as a complete answer to its wall,
but we take pleasure in pointing out the
fact that Florida is not without places
"where our young people can be educa-
ted for teachers. Ii has normal de-
partments in both the University and
the Female College, equal to the best
anywhere, and largely patronized by
those who desire to become teachers.
Whoever it was that told the legis-
lature" Git may have been the Breeze)
about the lack Of success in normal
departments of colleges did not know
the facts-or suppressed them; and
such an assertion has been abundantly
both at the University and
the Female College.
The boys and girls of Florida most .
emphatcally are not "shut out of nor (
NAL training" but have better oppor-
tunities and facilities for securing it .
than ever before
The one truth stat by the Breeze is
that there exists dearth of teachers. .
Perhaps the methods pursued for the /
of teachers anterior TO the 4
passage of the Buchanan law (only two I
years ago. may have had something to
DO with the present dearthof teachers,
but according to the opinion of State
Superintendent Holloway the lack of
desirable material is largely due to un-
axampled prosperity Of the South, so
many who might otherwise turn to
teaching as an occupation are able to
earn much larger compensation in other
ines of employment. And this is true
not only as 10 Florida but in many other
southern and some Northern States
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Before the big freeze the tax rate of
he State was Ia mills. After the
freeze twas reduced to ID mills But
since then, although there has been
arge increases in taxable property and
.axable .values, the rate has steadily
increased under each succeeding admins
stration till now under Broward the
ate this year is IL mills thribble
what Il was in i90j-and yet, It is said,
his is not enough 20 ply the expenses
u government as enacted by the last
.egisllture and approved by the Gov
mor The people are beginning to
hink and win hold those who IRE guilty
esponsibe for the high tax rate TO- be ,
elected this year --Tayares Herald.
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The Gainesville Elevator, 10 noting
he delay suffered by patrons of the
ostofIice department in the filling of
rJors for stamped envelopes. takes oc-
aston 20 write the following TRUTHS.
While It Is a great convenience 20 se-
are stamped envelopes, the Govern !
tent should have stopped there and not
one into the business OF a job printing
ihce At the price charged there Is !,
othipg made for the Post Office de- :,
artmen and il takes many a dime from +
he tax paying job printer. Il is IA
mall business for a magnificent gov
Tument to enter into, b