Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-01-28


youth of school age. In other words
to support the common schools of the
state in 1914, during the Cox admin
istration, there had to be taken from
the general revenue fund in the state
treasury $303,566, while in 1915 in
Gov. Willis administration there had
to be taken from the general revenue
fund of the state for the same pur-
pose $2,171 $40 due to the cut in the
tax rate ordered by Gov. Cox.
The State of Ohio has an irredu-
chile debt upon which the interest
amounts annually to 1922, 800. There
upon all the taxable property of the
state to raise money to pay this in
tersst. The rate prior to July 20,
1914, when Gov. Cox ordered it cut
was $0335 mills and this produced
$225, 5,086, which was used in the Cox
administration toward paying inter
est in 1914. Gov Cox had this rate
cut from .0335 mills to OOPS mills
which produced $17,250 to be used in
the Willis administration in 1915 to-
ward paying the same debt that the
Cox administration had $225.086, to
pay with. This meant that instead
of taking from the general revenue
| fund of the state $97, Ala as the Cox
administration could do in 1914, the
Willis administration had to take from
the general revenue fund of the state
S3O5,25O to pay this debt owing to
Gov. Cox cutting the tax levy for the
sinking fund.
At the first extraordinary session
of the legislature called by Gov. Cox
| in 1914 the school laws were material
" changed. These laws did not go in
to effect until the middle of that year
so the Cox administration only had g
part of the added expense to pay that
these laws brought, but the Willis ad
ministration in 1915 had the entire
years expense to pay, and all thi:
money comes out of the genera
j revenue fund of the state. Some o.
these items are as follows:
88 county superintendents. IS $1,000
450 district superintendents. 270,00I
72 normal school superintend-
ents 49,. .............. I1'UO
Model rural schools. .,...... 11,OO
.
Thus in the year 1915 the Will
administration had to pay out of tn
general revenue fund of the stat
$438,0 900 for the purposes show
above, while the Cox administrator
had to pay only $150,000 for the sam
service owing to the law being effec
tive in the latter part of the year.
In 1914 the Cox administration pal
to the weak school districts of tn
state 1000 to enable these district
to maintain eight months of school re
quired by law. In 1915 it cost tn
/ Willis administration $125,000
| maintain the weak school district
! and this money all came out of tf
general revenue fund of the state.
The Cox administration receive
from taxation for 1914 for the SUI
port of the common schols and inte
est on the state debt $2,413, 500, viii
the Willis administration receive
from taxation for the purposes on
i $396,750. This means that in ord,
for the state to support its commc
1 schools as the law provides it shou
| and that it pay the interest on i
| debt, the Willis administration hs
| to take from the general revenue fur
| of the state $2,076,110 more ths
| was taken for the same purpose |
| the Cox administration in 1914. TIL
means that if the Willis administr
ton in 1915 had spent from the ge
eral revenue fund exactly for 9th
items what the Cox administratit
spent for those items in 1914 the
ficit would be $14,211 more than VIII
the "Expositor" claimed it to be.
other words that much money h
been saved. ~
II But this is not all, the Willis a
ministration paid from the gener
revenue fund of the state, as is poir
ed out above, more than the Cox a
ministration paid for supervision
rural schools, ETC. S288.00 and
weak school districts $4,000 makil
| a total of $328,O00 and add to tt
amount the $14,211 making a gra
| total of $342,211. According to t
| "Expositor's" reasoning then IL
| $342,211 represents the savings of t
Willis administration in the genel
revenue fund of the state, shown
the cash balance December 81, 49,
as compared with the general reven
| fund of the state as shown by the ca