The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1913-06-20

ed back taxes that were placed to the
credit of the school fund this year.
The schools have very little more
more money on which to run now thar
they had when there was only one
graded school.
Today we have two additional
schools and are doing our share to-
/, ward West End school, This has
made it necessary to employ addition
al teachers, pay two extra janitors
and buy fuel for two more buildings.
With all these new and additional
obligations to meet the board has had
to constantly puzzle its brain as to
how the yearly expenses could be met.
We have managed to just about make
clean balance each year. But it
can readily be seen under these cir
cumstances that it will be entirely
beyond the range of possibility for
the board to make the necessary re-
pairs on the various buildings without
! the aid contemplated under the one
mill levy which the people of the
community are to decide. The trus-
! tees are thoroughly alive to the fact
that greater teaching force is badly
needed at Speers Street school, where
one teacher has the first and second
grades with an enrolment of "a pu-
pills, and one teacher has the third and
fourth grades with an enrolment of
40 pupils. Yet what can be done?
The High school has three and 20
teachers with an enrolment of ITO
pupils. Four teachers would give us
much more efficient work Our High
school is doing splendid work and
we must see to it that the relations
it has assumed with the various COL
leges is maintained.
We hope to add musical depart
ment to this school next year, and it
is also our purpose to add a depart
ment of domestic science. Several
of our leading citizens have made sub.
Isstantial gifts to this department al
ready. The board appreciates these
gifts; they will go a long ways to-
ward making the department sue
cess and popular among the pupils.
Were our income sufficient we
would like very much to add one year
to our High school, also a department
of industrial commercial training.
But with our enrolment increasing
every year and our income decreasing
it is necessary for US to economic in
every way possible to meet present
obligations.
The one mill levy for two years
will net about s3,7OO.00 after the in
terest is paid, this will hardly be suf-
fcient to make the necessary repairs
to the buildings, and certainly will
not aid the trustees in making the
improvements to the system which
we feel our schools should have. But
if our citizens desire part of this levy
can be made permanent after two
years. The board of trustees cheer
fully give their time and study to the
progress of the schools, but we feel
at the same time that every citizen
ought to have the same interest in
the welfare of the schools that the
board has. The trustees, like the
teachers, come and go, but the schools
with their equipment are here to stay.
Let US all get together and make
the schools What they ought to be,
and in the years to come it will make
no difference who your trustees and
teachers are so long as they are good
and true and able, the schools will
be the pride of our city
"He VINO is false to a present duty
breaks a thread in the loom, and
will find the flaw when he may have
forgotten the cause
J. NJ. Davis,
Chairman.
w. G. Mayes,
L. W. Floyd,
w. A. McSWain,
Trustees.
News From st. Phillips.
st. Phillips, June 19.-The farmers