The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-11-30
INSTRUCTORS PAID
AVERAGE SEVENTY
DOLLARS MONTHLY
Normal Schools Conducted at
Minimum Expense. Audit
System Apparently is Well
Conducted One.
Virginian Reporter Inspects
Records on File in the Office
of Department of Public
instruction and Gamers
Facts.

Following ID = list of the normal
schools. the amount of salaries paid.
the number OF instructors in each and
the attendance:
Big stone Gap--Amount salaries
paid Instructors. sl.45o: number in
structors. Is; attendance. $40. Chase
City--Amount salaries paid instruc-
tors. $3.50: instructors. z: attendance.
12s. Covfngton---Amount salaries
paid instructors, 3l.3Is: Instructors.
II; attendance, 204. Emory-~Amount
salaries pai1 instructors. $l.l2S. in
structors. 10: attendance, 149. Farm
ville--Amount salaries paid instruct
ors. 32,25o; instructors. II: attend
ance ass. Fredericksburfg
salaries paid Instructors. si.7s5; In
structors, n; attendance. 322. Gaiax---
Amount salaries paid instructors, ST.
l60; instructors. IL; attendance, z4s.
HarrisonburG--Amou salaries paid
Instructors. t3,665.26: instructors 20.
attendance. $50. Luray--Amount sal
aries paid instructors. 5000, instruc-
tors. s.. attendance. los. Martinsville
Amount salaries paid instructors,
$I,475: instructors, 10: attendance.
500 Norfolk--Amount salaries paid
&isftc. A&toArr
attendance. 100. Richmond-~Araopnt
salaries paid Instructors, s2.a6s.5o.
Instructors, 20; attendance. 236; Uni
yersfty of Yirginia----Amount salaries
paid instructors. $12.01i.25' instruc-
tors, IS; attendance, zoos. William
and Mary--Amount salaries paid In
structers, So 600: instructors. 10. at
tendance. 100.
Colored schools. Chase city
Amount salaries paid Instructors.
445e instructors 8 -attassaa sscn,-l2n--
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. salaries paid
instructors, $40: instructors Z; at
tendance. IS. rencevfIle--Amount
paid instructors. $500: In
etructors. 6. attendance. ITO. Ma
naa9Ax---Amount salaries paid In
sfructors, S4i1.4s: instructors, Z: al
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ssIs @.;;{sn g,n!sss.It ssIsalls ssis
X1lUS ,pSid instructors. 9i,It0: m
atf43ct6fs, ~: attendance, i4o.
These are estimated hgprts as the
reports were returned to the conduc-
tors for correction.
About $4,000 Of the $50, ono ex-
handed for summer normal schools In
Virginia last summer, according To
vouchers and audited accounts and
vouchers on record IN the office or the
OF public instruction, was
expended In the payment Of instrnc-
tors, and the balance for printing.
hire OF janitors, kilograms, and other
incidental expenses arising in TWEEN \
~ normal schools with an attendance
ranging from one hundred to more
than one thousand.
In the twenty schools maintained by
the State there were a22 instructors
irawtng an average salAry OF seventy
dollars. though tho faculties included
such men as Charles G.. Maphis. OF the
University OF Virginia; ". p. Painter.
II Roanoke college: J. A. G. Chandler.
aupcrintendent OF schools OF Rich
mond, ard many other Well known
college professors and educators.
In view Of the present discussion
OF the schools The virginian has I'M
dertakcn 10 get at the facts about the
sonduct OF the summer normais and
10 publish what II could discover from
public records without relying upon
the statements OF any officials.
Goes Through Records.
For this purpose a reporter was
nAnt TO detve into the records on file
n the office OF the department Of edu-
Gators. to inspect the vouchers OF the
and TO secure the NUM-
ber Of instructors In the summer
rchonis and the amount paid them
IN salaries. He found that there are
twenty schools: that the number of
instructors Is s23: that little less
tlfan $4,000 is paid them, and the
corductors Of the schools: that the tut
hon paid by tho teachers ranges from
u to s6 per session: that a good
system or bookkeeping IL required:
that the books were audited by an