Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1912-04-11
SMALL CITIES PAY
MOST FOR SCHOOL
Interesting Comparative Fig
ures on Police and School
Expenditures Compiled by
Educational Specialist.


Especial Correspondence 20 HcraI.i)
Washington. d. c.. April S.--Com-
pare the cost of city's police force
With the cost OF rs school system
and You have one Indication OF that
municipalities interest In education,
according to Or. Harlan Updegraff
Or Updegran Is specialist in school
administration Of the United States
bVreau OF education. which has just
published for free distribution a mon
.ograph containing the results OF his
investigations
In discussing his monograph Dr.
Updegrai said that every American
city spends more money on It's schools
than on It's police "@ut the value OF
this comparison he said comes IN
finding how much more the public
schools get il Is an interesting. and
possibly a significant fact, that the
larger the proportion of total munioi-
pal revenue given 10 enc OF these
branches OF city government the
smaller the proportion received by the
other This ruln is practically invar
liable IN an the cities investigated.
again, Il has been found thar the
smaller tho city IS. the larger ~ che
proportion Of It's income spent on
schools
"This investigation embraced fOs
of the iS4 American cities which the
census OF 1910 showed TO have pop
ulation OF 10000 or more We divided
the list into four groups. In the first
gFuup, which consisted of i3 cities
with a population Of 100000 or more,
We found that the general practice gsas
to spend about 20 per cent Of the total
reYenues on the public schoOls or
SIP for every dollar spent on the
police force. Minneapolis made the
best showing. giving It's schools 90
per cent OF IT'S entire income, or four
and one-quarter times as much as It
spent on It's police.
There Is a tendency on the part OF
the older high school pupils TO over
dress and adopt the styles and fash
ions that make them seem more ma
ture In nature and appearance. The
younger pupils are quick 10 initiate
the. dress and manners Of their older
schOOlmates. This leads them into in
discretions and robs them OF an im-
portant part OF childhood. The ex-
pense OF oyerdressing falls heavily
upon most families and tends to dis
caurage many parents from keeping
inelr children lu 81 A0ul
These assertions are made IN
circular OF information Just issued for
free distribution by the United states
bureau of education, which deals with
an educational experiment at Dayton.
Ohio. whereby the school children are
segregated IN a special high school for
their first year after graduation from
grammar school I'm this school.
says the circular OF Information, there
re no older pupils and the simplicity
of childhood Is maintained Ia dress
and manner for another year. The
children are able 10 develop more
naturally without the influence Of old
er pupils" The bureau OF educa-
tion's circular of information was
written by J. II. Painter. principal OF
the FIRST year high school at Dayton
The second group Of clues which
includes 20 communities with a pop
ulation Of 100000 10 100000, generally
speaking devoted a little more than
one-thrd Of their Incomes 10 educa-
tion, or three times as much as they
save their police. Here Scranton did
the best by It's schools. with oxpcnGl-
lures for them amounting To practlC-
ally half OF all rs income whereas
Us police force got only ono-sixth
that amount
Going stll farther to the third
group, comprising i2 cities having a
population OF $4,000 10 100000, we
found that they are spending about
365 per cent az all the receipts on
education or three and twoiilths
times the police appropriations Johns
town, Pa, takes FIRST prize, standing
about where Scranton does Ia the list
ahead
Finally, 2s cities investigated.
which have a population OF 10000 20
80 600. lay out practically rs per cent
OF their money on Schools This Is
four aud one.thlrd times az much as
the guardians Of lie peace receive
Here Topeka, kans., and Joplin, MO.
are Sled for FIRST place. each with "A
showing OF an even 90 per cont of an
Ireycnnes 10 educate their children
This was 40 times as much as Joplin
save its police, ana more than eight
Times az much as Topeka devoted to
The same purpose"
DR. Undegraffs bulletin. which Is
entitled "A Study of Expenses of CITY
School systems was prepared to
provide those charged with the adj
minisirntlon OF public schools Ia the
largest cities of the United States the
means OF making exact comparisons
OF cost between any two or more
cities.
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