The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1910-10-27


had only one Board OF Trustees for
each township and gave ali the school
funds for that township to this Board
OF Trustees so that they could dis
tribute and apportion it to the schools
in their township as was best, taking
some from the strong schools and
giving 1t to the weaker ones, and in
this way give that elasticity TO the
schools they could get In no Their
way.
The Best School Law the State Ever
Had.
This was by far the best school law
this State has ever had, and Hon.
George E. Butler, the present Repub-
lican nominee for Congress in the
Third District, deserves the credit
for 1t, for 1t was he who wrote every
word of 1t and introduced 1t in the
Senate and had it passed.
No better evidence can be given Of
what this law means than to state
what were it's results.
Testimony From Democratic Hand
Book.
On page IS of the Democratic
Handbook for this year we find 1t
stated that under the old Democratic
law the total school term in the State
n 1897 was 11.73 weeks, while the
yery next year under our new law it
vas increased to 14.06, Or nearly two
md a half weeks more.
Democrats Give Only Half Results
With Same Money.
On the same page of the Hand
Book we find we did this with only
1888, 409.11, while last year, accord-
ng to this same Handbook, the
Democrats had $4,000, O23.77, or
more than twice what we had for
'ural schools. This being so, had
hey shown the same desire to edu-
ate the children of the State as the
republicans, they would have taught
It least twice as long as We did, or
more than twenty-eight weeks, but
his same Handbook says they
aught only 1876 weeks, Or just four
&eeks longer than we did, SO that
his additional four weeks cost more
lnder the Democrats than the whole
t4.06 weeks did under the Repbuli-
.ans.
Extravaganza for Salaries snd Man
agement.
On page 81 of this same Hand
look We find the expenditures for
schools in 1898 and 1909 particular
itemized, and this shows that OF
| he $S94,e0755 spent by US of the
| chool fund in 1898, our last year
he teachers got $40, 4S9-30, while
| Of the $2,O29,023.77 used by them
asst year, the teachers got only 81,
| 264, 955.76. We find also, that thi.
! same statement shows that there wa:
spent by the, Republicans in 1898
| s21, 283 0S for the supervision Of thu
schools, while last year the Demo
rats spent $71,910.32. which show
| hey received about three and hal
lines as much for this service as tn,
Republicans did, or to make it plain
ar, where our school superintendent
got one dollar for supervising tn
school, theirs get $3.50. Let the tax
payers ask themselves, Do they &c
three and a half times as good Sci
vice now as then?
. This same statement shows tina
the Republicans paid s54,0O0.ez flo
: .chool-houses sites in 1898, and tina
f he Democrats paid 1927, 647.T9 las
, year. Adding tire amount paid t
; teachers for supervising the. schoo
nd for houses and sites, We get til
otal amount that the school childre
: If the State got the benefit of. Thes
8 | TENS are as follows:
1 Republican
# Paid teachers ....... $40, 49,;
l. Paid for supervision. =. 1,2S2.(
paad for houses and sites $4,000
&c Total $715.IT3t
IS
d Paid teachers ,955.
" Paid \for supervision. 1910.
id Paid houses and sites. 279,647.
lg
I'd Total 81 SIG ,513.
The totals spent were 1894 DOT.
and $2,029, 02S.77. which shows Il
he the Republicans spent in 1898 for
other purposes than teachers. sup
&c visors, sites and houses $178,234..
4 ~ Dorp ~