The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-08-30
(By Alice Stone Blackwe,l.)


II is the general Testimony OF edu-
Gators that the amount of money
appropriated for schools is not nearly
as large as it ought to be. Both pu-
pills and teachers suffer from over
crowding, and from the necessity OF
giving each teacher too many pupils
for the best educational results.
What is the reason for this lack
of money for the schools? One reason
is that the mothers and the teachers
have no votes. Money can be found
for purposes in which voters are in
terested. Hon. Frederic c. Howe says
1--WE spend millions for business pur-
poses. for the promotion Of industry.
And vet. when any organization goes
to the city hall for thousands for
school purposes. it is met with the
response that the city is too poor.
We can spend millions for docks, but
not thousands for Fairgrounds.
In New York there are so many
more children Of school age than
there are accommodation for them
that many hundred are always on
half-timG. This is an injustice both
TO the children and to the teacher
The children get only half the time
in school TO which they are entitled,
and the teacher has her strength
worn out by having to teach two re-
lays of children daily.
In Philadelphia, in the very year
that the superintendent OF schools
caIIed attention to the fact that there
wore % 400 fewer seats in he schools
,bo, tbnre were children applying for
admission. when thousands could not
get in and when for those who did
Get in the accommodations were so
Nom. that children were sitting on
broken benches, on boards stretched
across the aisIes, on window stills and
oven ON the door all this was for
Ioct ar money-the city fathers voted
Sso OoO of public money to entertain
Tho Elks. and $4,000 more to enter
tain tho Order of Patriotic Sons OF
America This 100000 came largely
from women's taxes. but the women
Ma M vote ns TO how 1t should be
a """
-. ,.o,,,r,oro tho schools are
Almost sNu ,,on " w. h,,t IN tho equal
pin 1, ~, t ,"V1 M is not the case.
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u puplie In'' =, SoioroTo umble
some peo ,,,o 80 80 ,Lo scboOl fay hit
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our Scho , "% NJ 80 nouyar saws.
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! ne sA W, :, aos ~ 70 SECURE liberal
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rauo %pplopl ,.oet,on ~ onv ~ the
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VI IIe iH t"u noraoI '''' Durnosas the
po,iNst ,o . 49, ~ not aot their fair
% VIM W. NIasso cb tbe average
Snaie - ,ra ,%"'n'' ,aacber In Tho pubiic
p%y " "V nh""+ onaItbird That NJ A
ScnoOls ~ %DO" vi, No richest citv
nun IN t''W w. ! " ,,,a ~ ,oocbars for
, IL, A.'' ',sn "a +h"Ir .gndirect influence
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~ we ~, I'i ~, aooUring aonai nav for
Succe , ;" ' w W W. in coIo-
r reG" ana ND n in all ne states where
woman vote men and women teach
women wa. zen 49, eOue' I nsr for %u oouai work
CTS set S squ"' T No. Of Rryn Mawr
coi raesiue savs. My "Tynerience proves
G ,,. a"' &C. VOL as men need the
L tnT. IN" ~ orotoct Nom in their special
,tnD ~ p anS IN tbnir noyFer to gain
interests 5is,i,, o anI IN pbiIadeInbia no
,., l'Seit tnocbor receives the same sal