French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1916-10-05

snellbinders may have raised in the
mind Of any voter rational enough 70
formulate an idea and receive a
thoughtful suggestion: Today, after
| sixteen wears of continuous hard Work
on the proposition, the State OF NortA
lCarolina. under Democratic ADMINS
tration of affairs, is educating properly
288.O00 school children for Ia days III
the wear at a cost of only 2 IL Genus
more than the Republicans spent TO
educate" in an inferior ann less
than half that number for only 7S days
of each year..
Under the Republican regime the
children attended school in the poorest
lsehooI houses known wherever people
wear clothes with apologies to Mr..
B;ckett). and were taught" by the
n%oorest paid teachers" under the sun
1~eclipses not excepted), and the chance
tn pct much OF an "~eddicashun under
those conditions was dim enough-to
simply everything else needed to com
plete the deadly parallel of the con-
trast between then and now. is there
a well informed father or mother IN
North Carolina who would t for, or
desire the election of the Republican
ticket in this State this year. because
of any possible advantage that mght
accrue TO their children? l don't be-
lieve anybody else believes it.
If there is any one thing. of the
many splendid accomplishments OF the
Democrats in North Carolina during
the last sixteen years, that towers over
all the others Important and valuable
as they are), tit is the growth of the
public school system, viewed from all
angles. and as was emphasized in these
letters last week, it is being done in a
more economical manner, so far as
spending money goes, than in any
other State in the American Union
save and except one.
1t is a record of which the Demo-
Gratis of North Carolina are proud, a
record of which all the people should
be proud, when they come to know
the truth and disabuse their minds of
the impressions made by the shyster
tricks of the Republican speakers
made at the expense of the truth in
the desperate game they are playing
to fool the voters" For they are not
going to "stay fooled"
School Funds.
superintendent JoyneE says this
about Candidate Linney's absurd Sug-
g~estion that the sparsely settled
ties like Ashe, Allegheny and Watauga
should have as long school term as h
populous counties with large cities,
l lie Durham and Forsyth, for instance
(Which annually contribute over $15,-
600 each through their five cent Stale
tax on the 500 valuation OF property,
to the State eQUaliZing fund for the
benefit Of Allegheny, Sampson and
other counties having less than five
months school in any school district.
DR.. JOyner says, and what he says IS
the last word" as far as one qualified
70 speak on the subject in this latitude
is cOncerned:
From a moments reflection ii will
be seen that unequal distribution of
population must be taken into cOnsid-
Grafton as we'll as unequal distribution
n fwealth in the equalization of educa-
tional opportunity. In the equalization
of advantages there must be taken into
consideration term, house, equipment,
number and qualification of
teachers. No exclusively per capita
distribution of State and county school
funds can take all of these into con-
sheraton, and C~-5eTCcItly cGcA a
method cannot equalize educational
~-1rtuni v. Under the present plan
Ci@..tu = !yaool funds in North
Carolina, all of these things are taken
into consideration. The county and
State school fund is so distributed as
to give equal length of term to all dis
tricts in each county according to the
number Of teachers required in each
district irrespective of sparsity or
density of population, and the State
equalizing fund further taking all Of
these things into consideration is used
TO correct anv inequality in length of
term and educational opportunity that
may be found to exist in the various
after the distribution Of the
general State and county fund in each
county"
Fair Ground improvements.
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