Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1910-06-16
DIR. HAMMOND'S REPLY.
Asks County Superintendent OF
Schools A Few QuestiO1s.
SCHOOL EXPENDITURE IS
Are The Acts OF Late Legislature Re-
garding Schools Above Question?

Some time ago you were kind enough
to publish protest from me against seN .
eral proposed actions of our County
School Board and one was prompt V
abandoned, since tLen there has been
published in your paper a letter from
the County School Superintendent, in
which he states that the action taken in
teaching agriculture is due to the man
date of the State Board Of Education,
and that the same is 10 be taught in
certain grades during tie coming year
at such periods rs viii not Wierfefe rith
me rcgalar work In tho majority Of
our schools, therefore, it will not have 10
be taught at all unless the hours for
teaching are extended. So far as Balti-
more county having equipped Il high
school for teaching agriculture, | can
only say, that such place il the proper
one to teach the same and not in our ordi-
nary graded school, and further, that
Baltimore county is the richest county in
the State with low tax rate and perfect
" able TO equip and maintain the same,
and that Anne Arundel is in exactly the
reverse financial condition His query
as to Anne Arundel remaining behind is
met by the fact that she leads in tax
rate at present and that shOnld suffice
in questions regarding further eXpendi-
lures. As to willingness of teachers to
take summer course; if Mr.. Garner will
furnish a list of teachers to the Editor of
the Advertiser Republican, he TO CORES
pond with teachers and receive answers,
same to be kept in confidence in regard
to individual answers, / am sure Mr..
Garner will receive further enlighten-
ment. We have a State Agricultural
College which ought TO help rs some, but
so far as | can see teaching this subject
in public school only helps one indi-
vidual class, and that is the publishers of
text books, thus widening their market.
Mr.. Garner makes further complaint
Of criticisms in regard to appointment of
a Supervisor and teacher of Domestic
Science in the Annapolis High School
both Of these appointments have been
made since my protest was published 50
| dc not have to answer these, but would
like TO have the following questions an.
swered by Mr.. Garner if he is not toe
much pre-oceupied:
If a girl viii not learn cooking and
house keeping at home, is she likely to al
school!
Does not the sum of $500 drawn from
the State Treasury come from the tax
payers Of the State7
Does not the $500 come from the
same source?
Does he think the Acts Of our recent
Legislature are above question?
Docs he think the tax payers are tho
servants of office holders or does he real
ize that any man who holds public Office
with salary, is a public servant and Al
such may be occasionally reminded tha
there are other people on this earth be
side himselfq
| las the work Of the School Commits
sioners Office so increased, that the mum
Der now employed are necessary, whei
only few years ago the late F. Engen,
Wathen was compelled by the Board {,
| pay his assistant in the Office from hi
own poeketi
Does he really think that teachers neet
to be examined to find ont their fitness Il
teach elementary agriculture from
printed book II 50, had he better no
take a course in agriculture TO enabl,
him 10 give the examination
IF the present examiner had been sue
eessful when a candidate. at the time tn
late John c. Bannon was made examiner
would he have expected the presen
amount Of assistance
IF any one holding the Office in the in
terval from 1889 to date Of present in
eumbeney had said the same was neees
sary, would he not have questioned ii
Is not the work laid out for Miss Drurl
too much for one person, /. e., the train
ing Of all the no7iees in our sehoolsf