The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-10-17
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The Democrats charge that the
Republicans are spending more
money than they did under thei
good old days OF the MacCorkle adj
ministration This is once they tell
the truth. or at least half the truth
which is usually nearer than they
get to it.
The people are spending more
money because they are prospering
and have more money TO spend. TheI
state is spending more money fort
similar reasons but it IS not going
into debt cas- the Democrats did, !
and IT. is not squandering the money. (
but using it for the good OF the peo-
ple. The bulk of the states ex-l
lpenditures at the present time is for
schools and education Nobody
would charge a man with extraV-l
agance in spending money for
good home for his family, nor
viii they charge the state with
leither folly or extravangance in pro-
viding literally for the schools so
that the boys and girls. Of all the
people may have an opportunity to-
secure a good. practical enduea-
ton.
Just to show what the Republi-I
cans have given the people for the
money invested in schools, let us
!contrast the conditions in 1895 with
those Of the present year In 1896
Won WIN md by. the Official reports
that there were only six high schools
/. in the state with a total attendance
] Of less than 900 All OF these were
Located in the larger towns and
some of them were hardly worthy OF
the name. at that suppose an ambi-
tious boy in Webster Pocahontas'
Green brier or some other county at
. that time desired to secure a high
school education. The best he could
do would be TO tramp
hundred miles in any direction to
find such a school, and when he
picked it out, he would be obliged
to put up with its meager course and
equipment, but today instead OF six
! high schools we have I25 lin the
/ state OF the modern and standard
variety, equipped with books and
apparatus and situated out in the
country sections as well as in the
cities. There are more than two
high schools to a county. and the
help that they are giving the amoi-
tious West Virginia boys and girls
is worth ten times what .hey cost
Just to show how many more OF
these young folks are getting the
proper equipment now than in 1895,
let us refer to the official reports OF
the state superintendent OF schools,
where we will find that instead OF a
little less than 500 as formerly, we
now have over 5000 boys and girls
in the high schools of the state. IN
the earlier time as at present there
were a good many young folk who
wanted to prepare themselves for
teaching either as a profession or
as a stepping stone to some other
line of activities, but at that time IL
? boy or girl looked around for
real normal school training for
teaching. he was unable to find 4
single one in the state. True we
had six schools called normal
schools but they were not even OF
the rank of high schools. These
schools are all now Offering in add
ton to a cuu high school course an
additional year or two OF special
, training FOR teachers with model
schools. libraries, apparatus and
teaching facilities that compare IA
vorabIy with the best in the United
States. OF course, it costs money 20
coup such schools, but everybody
knows that every dollar invested in
Ijthem is returning two dollars in
benefit and upHft to the state com
mercfally. socially and Intellectual
jly.
we have seen that :he children
in the state in 1896 we're practical
" compelled to depend upon the ele-
mentary schools for their general
education. Now, what kind OF
show did they have in these schools?
# Well. we will tell you. They then
had about 1000 schools, one-ffth Of
which were in old log school houses
with the crudest kind of heating
and venulating apparatus, furniture
and fixtures as we'll as books. Two