The farmer and mechanic., 1914-03-10
THE COMMISSIONS FOR
HANDLING SCHOOL FUNDS
Iicurse- ior iFedcii Dag Up II ir.
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Statesvnle Landmark
In a recent issue The Landmark
copied from Published sIatemeD5 81.
AIR A. 3 Andrews. II. of Raleigh.
showing the excessive commissions
allowed county treasurerS for hand
ling school funds From the report
Of the State Superintendent OF p4btc
instruction Mr.. Andrews found that
out Of each s10o expended for r4ral
schools the county treasures Eol
s162 simply for paying out the
money; that on the same basis they
got s2.65 out of each s1oo pail ID
salaries to teachers and county sU-
perintendents. In other words, ior
handling rural school funds = The
amount Of $21e39a0.12, the county
treaSurers Of the State got S44, ,o9 i6@.
and that in eXpendinS Sis l19.o2
for city and town schools, Sa.s>6..f
was paid TO town treaSurers III COM
missions.
Taking note of The Landmarks
comments on the figures he has dug
up from the biennial report of lhe
State superintendent Of schools for
the years~eJ910-11 and l911-l2. NJ.
Andrews directs attention IL the fig
ures for Iredell county. Page 1o4 ~
the report shows that the eNpendi-
lures for rural schools III lredell in
1o11-12 were $3995S51, and IN
Statesville the amount expended was
SIS, 1925. Page III shows the coun-
ty treaSurer'S commissions Oh the
rural school fund were SS13.ST, While
| the city treasurer received SI00
| (These figures are transposed in tha
! report by error and the treasurer of
| Statesville, who is paid q salary, does
not receive a commission for hand
ling the school fund, but the amount
charged for handling it is 5000. The
! commissions paid the Iredell treas
3.S6-for handling S39,-
95S.5l of the county school funds
amounted to s203 for each $1o0
| spent on the rural schools for all pur-
| poses. Page 109 of the State super
! intendent's report shows that Iredeii
| spent for teaching in the rural
| schools and for supervision, in the
| periOH under consideration, S24,
| l06.79, OF which $99l.63 was paid the
county superintendent, leaving $22.-
115.16 Us the amount paid rural
teachers, White and colored The
s813.83 commissions paid the Iredell
! treasurer, measured on the tea cheers
salaries alone, would amount to So
out OF each 500 paid for teaching,
which is 20 cents higher than the
| average for the entire State.
Page 1876 of this report shows that
there were in Iredeil in 191i-12 l24
white rural school teachers, who
| taught an average OF 80 days For
this 95 days those 124 white teachers
received an average of S163 while
the 81 negro teachers taught an
a<rage of rs days and received an
average of S95.42
These figures are in the rural
schools not helped by local special
! district taxes. The S163 average
white salary divided by the 80 days
! average length Of time shows the
of .l,
white teacher, which makes s172 30
as the average cost of running one
DAY term OF the rural schools for
each OF the 80 days. This sum di-
Eldeu into the treasurer's commits.
slons OF s8l3.66 shows that the treas
nfers commissions weuld have ex-
tenQed the white schools 41-1O DAYS.
which is practically one week. il that
sum could have been paid for teach
lhS alone instead of for treasdreI's
cOmmisSio ons
| AS 1redell county officers will go
on the salary basis the first of next
December, this exhibition IS nor rar-
fTInane TO that point in this county
buI 1t gives some idea OF what tha fea
system and commission basis have
{ Deen costing and is valuable inior-
NATION for the people II took =
o"i" i'alsh extending over d dozer
years 10 secure the abolition - mi
E system in lredell, and then the nol;ti.
clans. who yielded only when they
. ioHna the people would MOI ia~yc,
z st4hd 1or 1t, put as far into lie fu-
tufe as possible the date for tho -
:. 70 80 INTO effect. We might nav.
: | naa 1T q year ago IS wen as !. vaa,
| later. -
ms iniorma,ion ~in be sNsi,.e.I,le
n .u"' 70 "fter counties that sill hav.
: .he anr4natcd Zee system ana MIR
11htie US has done the State 4 seryjc,
+ by directing attention to it. III rar
9 - mat II any private business Wa,
MAJ ged IN rs unbusinees-Iile man
". ana as eHtravasantly as thc Dusi
n ness OF goTernment@rnunic conn
h,.,;,->~> io l"ttoIlai-the priNat'
COO, NJ, "'uio go bankrupt Ver.
, hac.,,ea peopit stand Tor il onl.
- doii TeallZe the f4ets
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