The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-01-22
ASK MORE MONEY
FOR OUR SCHOOLS
OF MOTHERS CLUBS
ON COORDINATE COLLEGE
FOR WOMEN.

FOR WOMEN.
The executive board of the Fed
Grafton of Mothers clubs and Parent
Teachers associations, Of Richmond
and Virginia, held their regular
monthly meeting yesterday afternoo
at the home of the president, Mrs
William A. Burrows. and after a free
discussion OF the proposed measure
for a woman's coordinate college be-
fore the legislature. passed the fol-
lowing resolutions:
Whereas. there has been presented
to the executive board of the Fed
Grafton of Mothers clubs and Parent
Teachers associations Of Richmond
and Virginia, n circular which has
! been widely distributed through the
State, the purport Of which seems
to be opposition to a coordinate COL
lege for women In affihation with the
University Of Virginia; and
Whereas. resolutions have been
adopted by the West Lynchburg
School and Civic league In opposition
to such college: and
Whereas, there appeared in the
Tmes-Dispatch of January 9th a let
ter signed by Mrs. A r. Montague,
arguing against a woman's coordinate
university at Charlottesville. and de-
lclaring that the public school mothers
of the State are really also opposed
10 such an institution: and
Whereas, the executive board of the
Federation of Mothers clubs and Pa
rent Teachers associations of Rich
rnond and Eirkinia represents the
largest organizAIor OF public school
mothers In the State. the present en-
rSllment Of the schools represented
being 2a.0S2: and
Whereas. so per cent Of the high
school teachers are women, and are
not only training the -hnYas- zEhn- Mill
go on to the universities. but are
training nearly as many teachers who
go direct to the elementary schools
az all the normal schools put togeth-
err; and
Whereas, If. therefore. the high
school teachers have not the proper
background OF training and education
such as the desired college would
bestow. and are weak. such condition
reacts downward upon the whole sys-
tenn of elementary schools. and up
ward upon the higher institutions OF
learning and ultimately upon the
male citizenship of the State; be 1t,
therefore,
Resolved. by the executive board of
the Federation of Mothers clubs and
Parent Teachers associations OF Rich
mond and Virginia:
| First. That the argument In the ur1-
| signed circular sent out from Lynch
| burg In 60 far as II proves that the
| funds placed at the disposal of the
/ public schools are too small. receives
| our approval, and we respectfully ask
the legislature to increase taxes for
school PURPOSES
| Second. That we endorse the reply
made by our chief executive officers
! to the circular ard letter above men,
toned. and published In the Times
Dispatch OF January goth.
Third. That we would further call
attention to the fallacies of the cir
cular by stating that the normal
per capita instead Of SIS. and that
this sum should properly be credited
| to the State as expended on the pub
| he schools instead OF on higher edu-
cation. inasnuch as said normal
schools are giving nothing, which can
justly be called college work, and are
merely supplying teachers to the ele-
mentsry schools.
Fourth, That we call attention tn
the further falIacy Of both letter and
circular IN assuming that nothing
should be done 10 provide college
| training for the women of Virginia
until everything conceivable has been
done for the public schools, since II
| IL well known TO educators that prog
ress tn such matters works from the
top down rather than from the bot
/ tom up--the psrlor taking more
/ thought for the kitchen than the kit
chen for the parlor. And
Fifth. That We respectfully petition
the legislature to largely increase the
annual appropriation for educational
purposes: to inaugurate Statewide
system of compulsory education. and
to esta blssh a coordinate college for
women at the University Of virginia
1t Is our desire that all the edncsa-
/ tional interests OF the State should be
cared for, and that no one Of them
be arrayed against another. And be
/ Ii further
| Resolved, That the chairman OF the
press committee be and hereby Is In
structed and authorized to have these
resolutions printed In convenient form
and sent to the members Of the fegis-
| Iature, the school authorities of Rich
| rnond, and to the press OF Richmond
| Lynchhurg and Charlottesville with
request to publish the same; and
| That the chairman of the press com
mittee be and hereby is further IN
structed to have a reprint made OF
the letter by our president and first
vice president, the same to be also
supplied to the members of the legis-
| nature the school authorities of Rich
mond. and to the press OF Lynchburc
and Charlottesville.