The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-07-08
QUESTION OF COST
DOLLARS AND CENTS FURNISH
WEAK ARGUMENT VS..
COMPULSORY EDUCATION

Come From-Answering This He
Points to Amount Appropriated
and Says Pletny is Available. :
The matter of financing systems OF
compulsory education was given at
tention by some of the candidate FOL
governor in their speeches Thursday
before the Chesterfield audience
Lowndes J. Browning wanted to
know how any system was to be l.
nanced, while Richard I Manning
INQUIRED of John G. Clinkscaies how
he proposed to get the money to meet
the expenses Of schools and put up
enough additional buildings to make
Statewide compulsory education ef-
fectiye. Mr.. Clinkscales inferred IN
his reply that if the State could al
ford to spend thousands Of dollars
for higher education it could hnd
some way of SUPPORTING sufficient &C
commodations for the children unable
to get in at present. MI. Manning
declares compulsory education I'M
practicable
Chas. A. Smith developed his ar
guments in favor of submitting the
question OF Statewide probition to
the people.
zone OF the candidates has SHE'D
badly on this question" said Lieut..
3 Gov. Smith, referring to Mr.. Cink-
scales.
.sDoes Mr.. Clinkscales stand for
compulsory education among the ne
groes?" asked Lieut.. Gov Smith FUR
ther on in his speech.
..Mr Clinkscales' plan OF State
wide compulsory education is an I'M
practicable theory incapable Of being
nut into execution" declared Rich
ard +. Manning, who was warmly
greeted by the audience.
s.I ask Mr.. Clinkscales to- answer
in his speech today where the money
is coming from to run the schools
aad pay the teachers if Statewide
compulsory education IS put into ef-
feet
In Chesterfield county, Mr.. Mann
ing said that e third Of the boys were
not in the schools and quoted the
county superintendent of education
as the authority for the statement
that it would take a levy of Is mills
to pay the salaries Of the teachers
and the running expenses OF the
s schools, exclusive of erecting new
buildings, should all the children be
forced into the schools now.
eff you adopt MIR. Clinkscales'
plan you will give a backset to edu-
cation because you will not have the
money to make Statewide compul-
sorry effective" urged Mr.. Manning
sitter he presented his plan for local
option school attendance.
"I asked Mr.. Clinkscales, Mr.. Man
I Ming and Mr.. Smith where they were
going to get the money to run the
schools il any one Of the systems OF
compulsion they advocate are put
into effect, and they have not an
swered yet said Lowndes J. Brown
ing He held that the constitutional
state tax of 8 mills for school pur-
poses should be abolished in order TO
effect other tax reforms.
"If YOU are going to leave the L
mill tax in the constitution, then
make it a State tax and divide II
among the counties equally urged
Mr. Browning. He said that the
same principle should be applied to
5 the education Of children that now
anplied to the pensioning OF veter-
ans.
= "There are 39,7s9 white children
ont of school while the schools are
rnnning," asserted John G. C1nh'
scales.
."south Carolina gives Clemson
$500. 900 a year to educate rev
hundred boys, thousands OF doliars
to Winthrop and this year sSo'ooO
70 eradicate the cattle tick, placing
the tick above the children said Mr.
Clinkscales in taking up his oppo-
nents' query about how compulsory
school attendance was to be hnanceo
els this fair to the thousands OF chill
dren who are out of SCHOOL,
81 contend further that many thou,
sands of children out of schools can
be put into them now without IN
creasing the tax levy one cent III
sisted Mr.. Clinkscales.
"You d<n't have to force the ne
groes into the schools, declared Mr
C,inkscales after he ridiculed Mr.
richards declaration that he Wouio
nevet agree to spending an addition.
al dollar for negro education until al
white children were given equal ed
,cationaI advantages.