The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1919-01-10
CITY WANTS COUNTY
TO INCREASE MONEY
FOR HIGH SCHOOL
PROPOSED INCREASE IN SALAR-
les BE PRESENTED TO coUN.
Ty HIGH SCHOOL BOARD.
PROPOSE SCHOOL ST., PAVING
Education Budget With Increases
Held Up Pending Conference of
Committee With County School Au-
thorites.
Thursdays Daily Herald. J


Unless the County High School
Board increases its appropriation for
the maintenance of the County High
School it is doubtful whether the
COLUMBIA Board of Mayor and Al
dermen will grant all of the $3,5O0
increase in appropriations asked We'd
,nesday afternoon in the city school
budget submitted to the board A
committee has been appointed from
the city board of education to present
the matter to the county high school
board and no action will be taken until
the result of that conference is known
In addition to receiving the propos-
ed school budget, which asks for a
total of about $4,000 for the year,
the board of mayor and aldermen
passed on first reading an ordinance
to pave School street from Seventh
to Ninth streets, and passed on sec
ond reading ordinances to pave blocks
on Garden, North Main and Fifth
streets. No other budgets were pre-.
sented and the board adjourned until
Friday afternoon at o'clock.
The board of education presented
budget calling for about $4,000, an
increase of $500 over last year. due
to proposed increases in salaries of
and IA committee composed Of Judge
E. E. Erwin, Judge w. B. Turner, j.
M. Dedman ana R l.. Harris was ap-
pointed to confer with the County
Superintendent of Schools and the
County High School board for the
purpose of securing an increased ap-
preparation for the high school from
the county. Ii this increase is allow
ed it is probable that the city will
make a similar increase
Some members of the board Of
mayor and aldermen feel that the
high school already is receiving it's
proportionate support from the city,
more than half of the high school pup,
lis being from points out side of the
city, it was said.
Judge W. B. Turner was sworn in
as a member of the board of educa-
ton for terri Of three years.
The report of the committee rela-
tive to the increased cost Of education
follows:
To the Board of Education:
A decided increase in salaries paid
teachers, we believe, is both neces-
sity and an act of justice at this time.
It is necessity because consider
able number of our teachers have
taken other positions because they
thus secure more remuneration for
their services. Others may be OK
pected to follow their example, and
as such are usually among our best
and most experienced instructors,
our children are the real losers and
the efficiency of our schools must
suffer And, too, good teachers are in
greater demand now than ever before;
other cities pay better salaries, they
cannot be blamed for leaving when
they can do better, and with our pre-
sent scale of salaries we cannot eth
er do justice to those we have or
attract the better type OF teachers
from other places to make up for our
losses.
Increase of salaries is an impera-
tive act of justice to our teachers at
this time because of the fact that we
have had no general increa Sc for sew
eral years, anil because the greatly in
creased cost of living and the conse.
quent decreased purchasing power OF
the dollar. The value of our unit oi
money in purchasing power, compar
ed with three years ago, is probably
not more than three-fifths, pos sibly
less. Teachers must dress neatly
must live fairly well, must purchase
books and attend schools; they must
somehow pass through the summer
vacation, when they are paid no sa:
arg.
To teach well, they must have as
| few as possible mental worries, and
there is no worry more distracting
and nerve-racking than that of finan
cial difficulties. We are sure that
most teachers teach efficiently even
If paid low salaries, but we are equal
ly sure that nothing will conduce
to the proper encouragement and in