The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1913-01-03
EDITOR ROASTS
SCHOOL BUDGET
Hilo Tribune Believes Taxpayers
Money Is Wasted Under
Present System.


No.. 80,
EDITOR hlhhey, OF the hllo Tribune,
mas slholl regard ior the eNlstihS sys-
ten whereby the schooi Dudget Is mace
up W tre uePa ,I Oh euucation ana
e so la.iy vans WlcNeu senene
i ioi mas.lns nnoney On tne utterly
lHpracticapie dreams Oh Duneh OF
po"er,urunA Peuasogues. IN the IS
sue ol ms paper appearing TINS morn
ing, nc says
This coming year, Mr.. Taxpayer of
the county OF Hawaii, one of the things
you will enjoy is the substantial in
crease in the taxes you will have to
pay.
"You think Won are paving enough,
But, hush. this money is being spent
for schools. Therefore show not your
Grass ignorance, your narrow-minded-
ness and lack of appreciation of the
boons of education by criticizing the
increased tax rate.
But will the cause of public edu-
cation better greatly through this ma
terial sacrifice? VIII the $229,00O
which this county must spend on it's
schools, greatly raise the standard of
these institutional
| "'Hardly yerv much. Every cent of
it is to be spent on buildings and the
| like.
"sSome people buy books because of
their bindings. Hawaii is to raise her
taxes to get money that she may i'm
prove her school system. not bv get
| ting better teachers. certainly not but
by building more houses.
'"Thinll of it, 1925, 900 for school
houses and the like alone. No deyasta.
ting hurricane has swept our old houses
away. We have during the past wear
been spending large. even very large
sums on our school buildings
"Why is it then. Won ask that we
are suddenly called on to pay extra
taxes to nut into school buildinps2
CIT is not because of any sudden
emergency.
CIT is NOT because ANYTHING like that
vast sum is really needed
"'It is because the leuislatnre foolish
" delegated the mower of manning nm
nronrintions and securing tho mnne,
TO carry these TO the school department
and the financial reconnaissance of tbn,
institution makes n drunken sailor seen
, like n model of niupardIiness and oyari
, ciouspess NV comparison
'.Even the most casual exominotior
of the scbonl bndget in tho anal form
makes this evident Take for instance
the exnerse for teocbors cot+aUas
UsHare II is. Kapehn $1,000 Panai
ken SoOO0 GIenwood $1,000 Kmlae,
= $1,000. Piibonua $1,000. Waiohinu $1,000
= HoIualoa $4,000 Mabukona 5000 Pualt,
: 5000 Kul,nibaaIe s15Oo pobalunul,,
: $1,000 Kaumana s1OOO Maintain View
4 soOOo' Uann,, Home s1OoO KananaI,
S $500 Nalialowena S3OO Kona.waen,
n S1oOo KohaIa Homestead $500 Wal
+ meo S4OO Honokaa $500 PaauiL
$1,000 Hopomu $4,000 pnneo s100O Pa
hoa $1,000 Waiakea 5000 Pabala $500
Kalaoa $1,000 Milolii 1850. Halaw,
$500 WAIKIKI $500 Paanbau $1,000
l. uThis makes n total of over S35 oOe
;. uI,ook nj some of the Items We ar
1 asked 10 spend $4,000 for a COTTAGE n
3, Waiohinu $4,000 for one Mt HoluaIoa
v and other amounts for cottages at othe
o places where il is possible to secur
l. excellent accommodations. We mus
}. build cottages nj Puueo and Waiak ga
/ Why NOT build houses for the Hill
. teachers7 If the county had a grea
d surplus to get rid of, the building o
n cottages for teachers might furnish
. nice outlet: but we are raising on
|, | taxes to build houses for teachers q
places where they may. in nearly al
r cases, secure accommodations elsewhere
They have, at least, done SO in the past
We NAV next expect to be called upo
to build houses for police officers, la
= collectors and poundmasters. Why not
Z n'That in some instances it is pre-
posed to spend as much on the cottage
= as ON the schools themselves; that i
i seems peculiar that suitable cottag
e for one teacher can be built for $50
= to $500 in Kohala, while similar col
e tage costs $1,000 or more in Hilo o
e Puma, are but minor flashes of insanit