The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1914-10-29
Negro Can Go Along. Too.

the school" men authority to travel
anywhere, everywhere, whenever they
pleased
Hooper doesn't like this; in fact
he says that he thinks it clearly il
legal, and yet he goes ahead and lets
them do it. Hooper wasn't at the af-
ternoon meeting, when this resolution
went through. He was probably en-
gagged in writing a campaign speech
boasting about a business administra-
ton and reform government
The upshot of this unprecedented
action is that the negro Hale, presi-
dent of the negro normal school, can
light out whenever he pleases, stay
as long as he pleases, and charge his
expenses up to the children of the
state Of Tennessee. So can Bourne,
Robinson, Brister, Jones, Gilbreath
and Thompson.
Bourne Gets Mixed Up.
These high school inspectors,
Bourne and Robinson, have lead
pipe cinch of it. Nobody in the world
knows what they spend unless it is
the state auditor. Under the general
education bill these high school in
spectors have an unlimited expense
account. 1t comes out of the high
school fund, which is per cent of the
general education fund.
The books in the comptroller's Of
fee show that since March 10, 1913,
the sum of $115,405.S4 of the high
school fund has been distributed. OF
this S103,90618 has gone direct to the
high schools as the law directs.
Where has the other 11,499.66
gone? Bourne and Robinson ought
to know
Like the other school men, Bourne
got into the habit of shooting in ex-
pense accounts which do not pretend
to show to and from what points he
travelled the accounts are not ite-
mized at all But Bourne undertook
to itemize one. The result? Look:
We find this on one of his expense ac-
counts: June IL to June Is, Hotel
Atkins, Knoxville, $1195; June IL,
Pullman, $1.25; June 13, Pullman, 60
cents; June 13, Colonial Hotel, 50.
Total, $3.50"
OF course, these school men at the
capitol may be able to ride on a pull
man and stay at two hotels all at the
same time, but no ordinary man can
do it. Mr.. Bourne may be able to ex-
plain this. If he can't he ought to be
fired.
AdcOck on the Firing Line.
There never was law in the world
that authorized a chief clerk to the
state superintendent of Tennessee to
travel around at the expense Of the
state. He's just clerk, that's all. |
Yet we find an item of $1S.75 expense
incurred by Mr.. Adcock. What for?
Thompson may know.
All the boys are long on incidentals. |
OF course, it may be inherited, but it |
ought to be stopped.
Frequently, when monthly expense |
account comes in, unitemized and |
heads or tails to it, we find |
at the bottom this: "Incidentals $780,"
and things of that kind.
A business administration wouldn't |
allow that. Mr.. Thompson, if he was
mindful of his business. wouldn't al
low such things to go on to the wrong
Of the school children of Tennessee.
A business administration wouldn't |
allow high school inspector or any
body else to stick in an expense item
Of $50, and when called upon to ex
plain, say that it went to pay the ex-
pense of some lady on the famous
state agricultural train that the Hoop
er administration has been running.
That Common School Fund.
lHiS SCHoOl SySleHl 10 dH llIiICdIe
hing. There are more different kinds
IF funds than one can throw stick
At, but the people supply them all.
For instance, there is common
school fund. the basis of the states
system, a high school
'und, a general fund, normal fund,
l library fund, and so on. The COM
non school fund is supplied by the in
crest on the imaginary school fund
treated by the legislature of 1873. 1t
to $150,500 a year
This fund is distributed in direct
alto to the schalostic population in
January and July. The appropriations
or maintaining the superintendent's
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