Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-27
PEOPLE Do NOT.
WANT BO n DS,
SAYS MAYOR
Urges Delay Until Budget Is
Made-Board's Stand on ST.
100000 Plan Uncertain.

Mayor Woodward said Thursday,
commenting on the proposed $4,000.
600 bond issue for schools, that he
didn't think the people Of Atlanta
would vote a bond issue for any pur-
pose at this time
The Mayor was about as uncer-
tain ~ members of the Board Of Edu-
cation are as to what should be done
for the relief Of the schools. except
that he does not want bond issue
His plan is to wait until the FL
nance Committee meets in January
TO make UP the new budget, and then
decide upon a financial policy for
the schools
1t is doubtful what attitude a ma
jority Of the members OF the Board
OF Education viii take to the major
ity report OF the special committee
of the board urging the bond issue.
Anderson in Minority Report.
Two of the three members Of the
committee, W H. Terrell and w. r
Daley. insist that it's the only means
of providing the sort OF schools At
lanta needs
Marcellus NJ Anderson has filed a
minority report asserting that he
does not think it fair to ask the
people to vote a new bond issue for
schools so soon after they voted
81 10000 for the purpose.
A special meeting OF the Board of
Education has been set for Dcccm-
Der to consider these reports.
The items included in the majority
report are;
Increases in the salaries of teach
ers amounting to $66. $3.50 next year
Grammar Schools Wanted.
Erection of eight-room gram
mar schools in East Atlanta in the
neighborhood OF Moreland and Euclid
avenue. on Spring street.. in the
Eighth Ward, il the Battle Hin sec
ton, one for the Howell Mil and
Exposition Cotton Mills sections. 4
siX-room annex to the English Ave
nue. school a new building for the
Davis Street School and a new school
in Oakland City.
o. The cost of these is estimated At
$500, coo
A new Girls High School to cost
$250,000 and a new Boys High School
to cost s250,0OO
Globes, charts and maps for the
grammar schools that would cost
$4,000,
For Domestic Science.
That domestic science be taught
and that an English Commercial
H.. 4.
cd.
That the literary course in the ne.
gro schools end with the present
sixth grade, and that the time now
devoted to the seventh and eighth
grades be devoted to domestic science
and manual training.
Mr. Anderson's minority report
contemplates a much smaller eX-
penditure in repairs OF the present
schools He hopes to get this needed
fund in the budget Of next year.
G. Murray Taylor appeared at the
meeting of the board which was held
on Wednesday because the regular
meeting day Is Thanksgiving, to
speak for a new Davis Street School
building
Married Wom May Teach.
He declared that even the stoves
in that old building were so diplapi-
dated that they had to be held to
gether with wires, and that the tan
payers of the First an, Fifth Wards
demanded a new building.
The board went on record as OPP.
posed to discrimination against mar
ried women for school teachers when
the application of Mrs. Julia Gardner
was presented
She has a 5-year- old son, but was
given a place,
Members of the board declared that
the attitudes of boards OF education
in New York and other cities in de
Ginning to cmplo married women
was wrong,