The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1917-08-28
Communication
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VII. INliOI
In the Neck district the taxes have
steadily increased and 50 rapidly that
mine are quite doubled. During this
same period our SchoolhouSeS have
been going down. Our teachers are
paid the smallest OF salaries. Except
in a single instance, no teacher re-
mains in any of our schools. L am
very closely connected with two OF
our schools, viz, Castle Haven ana
Beckwith \ friend visiting in Cas-
lie Haven remarked as We We're pass
ing the SchoolhOuSe: Il see your ne
gro schools are not very we'll kept.
the house ought to be painted. L
was ashamed and at once joined with
the teacher and children to raise the
money and paint the building. Dr.
stokes saw one of the COMMISSION
ers OF the schools about the condi-
zion OF the BeckWith schoolhouse,
stating that it was unSanltary and
unsafe; it was dangerous for the
children when the fire was going.
The authority made answer. MOTH
ins can be done for the BeckWith
SchoOlhouSe.
| became very much Interested in
the children of Hudson. | was amaZ-
ed that such town had no school.
| thought, of course. it was one OF
those freaks OF administration occa-
sionally occurring in we'll regulated
communities. | made inquiry OF the
Commissioners of the special school
fund, and learned that after build
! ing for the children of Cambrids.
| lbIack and white) and for the chill
dren of Eldorado and TayIor's Is
! land. the balance (if enough was to
90 to Madison-nothing for Hudson.
! Alike the rest of the Neck district
! people, | am ignorant of the situa-
| ton all over the county, and don-S
| know what became of the Schoolhou-
ses on TayIor's Island-the ones our
| fathers built-fOr they were careful
! to erect one wherever il was needed
and | suppose they We're sold and
| the money put into the treasury, but
! if there were schoolhouses on Tay-
| lor's Island. and at EIdorado, and in
! Cambridge, and if there is school
| house at Madison. and none at Hud-
SON and Beckwith SchOOlhOuse so
sadly out of repair. why over DuIIc
in one section of the county and re-
| fuse to build or even repair in anoth-
er part of the county?
! If Hudson We're a cOlOred mans
| town, | believe Il schoolhouse would
| have been given them long ago. !.
write this because of what has been
| done for the colored people in anoth-
er part of the county. In Cambridge
a new schoolhouse has been quilt TO-
| them. and three extra teachers pro-
yided at extra salaries; one of them
I is supervisor, another is principal,
and yet another is teacher of dOmes-
! tic science. These are all high sal
! aried teachers, and the res, are pa1o
! as much as any teacher in our dis
triCt. Hudson gets no school. Beck
with is continued physical derelict,
! while Castle Haven has to be cared
for by the teacher and children. Does
the same acreage on Taylor's Island
and in and about Madison, pay more
| taxes or produce more grain and chill
dren than the Beckwith district? Are
the people so utterly depraved both
there and in Cambridge that oul
school funds have to be Sequestereo
to their relief or is it because the
people eof the Neck district are such
numb-skulls that all attempts to edu-
cate are abartive? If neither OF
these reasons are the truth, must we
believe our authorities have deliber-
ately robbed us Of our school fund!
If we dare not say we have been
cheated by gentlemen entrusted with
our interests. we are forced to con-
clude that incompentency has caused
our ruin, and a change is absolutely
necessary. There is some reason,
and it must be fOund-it will be
found.
Now, Mr.. Editor, you ought to
know about these things. We have
a right TO think our newspapers OF
the county know what is going on in
the county, and the editors should
be voice in the Wilderness for an
even and fair administration of the
county affairs. | believe you WIZ
help, for your pride must be great
for Dorchester. | cannot believe you
are unwilling to stand four-sQuare
touching the spending of the peoples
money. You may be timid about
telling all you know, and wary OF
hurting friends feelings, but salt
has been rubbed into sore and eY-
cry man will be expected TO show his
part. In the past the gum shoe
will soon blow over" not in this
Neck, on your life. this once. Hud-
son Will have Schoolhouse, ana
now while We are about it, we migns
as well have one like the Taylor's Is
| land one. and on the same lines. ThiI
territory is too far from any high
school opportunities to be advantag-
ed thereby. Tell me, then, Mr.. Ed
| tor-put it in the paper-What has
gone with our part of the school
fund secured by direct taxation? And
what has bone with our part of the
$500 We must pay by indirect taxa
! ton" Why. sir, last winter. in one
Of our sections, our children who
walked TO school had to De sent to
| the neighbors to find fire enough to
warm their feet. The stove in the
| schoClroom couldn't be made to heat,
nor the authorities made to repair it.
| Shame on such management.
Sincerely,
F.. /. HUBBARD.
August %. 1917.