Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1920-10-01
YOU MUST VOTE
TOHELP SCHOOLS
Important Amendments TO Vir.
ginia Constitution Are To Be
Voted on by The Electorate
in November.

Either Cox or Harding will be our
next President. We are all getting
ready to vote for the candidate Of
our choice. Patriotic feelings prompt
us to vote for the man whom we be-
lieve will render our country the
greatest service. We a.. deeply col
ceri."d about the welfare of the ma
tion and the state and we eagerly
scan the pages of the daily papers to
see which candidates are leading.
Most of us would not miss the chance
to vote for our choice for president
OF Ior congressman for any considera-
tion: This is well. 1t is n matter of
vital concern who is to hold these
nigh positions. But so important are
these Offices and so distinguished the
men who aspire to hold them that
therc is little probability of utter
calamity to the nation resulting from
either the defeat or success of either
candidate. And yet so intense The
interest of the voter in the stage plav
OF national politics that he (and she1
Is likely to overlook matters of much
more vital concern on election dav rn
the average citizen it is a matter Of
much more vital concern that we
nave good schools in which to edu-
cate his children than that his favo.
rte candidate be elected to a hiph
position which his opponent world
probably fill just as we'll. On Novcno-
per per Ind, election day, there will he
tnree amendments to the Viro;,;o
constitution submitted to the annrov'
al OF the people. We want every W.
ter IN the land, white or coiorod
male or female, to vote for thosa
amendments. We have our chance %
40 what we have all been so,,;no ~
ought to be done. One of the amend
ments is to provide more money fo,
teachers salaries and for bettor tor
ouaidings and longer terms. anotber
is 70 require better attendance and
announcer IS to secure better odn,;,,is
'ration of the public school svsta,,
section 1876 of Article now MI
woes That the sum of county and J;s
lrict taxes for school purposcs sSn1l 1l
no. exceed fifty cents on the h,,rJnad sl'a,1
Goliars valuation. This constitnt;ona e
limit ties the hands onr on,. ',.u.iohal s',.i
sors and school boards when thpurvl- thp'
TO lay the levy each spring We A ~
long ago reached the lim;f an'I vi nave
Thar me schools. This ought Mt H 10 fua' ha
tLe uLnere ought not to be conJ,t;os ne
ban bna' required the school officials ~
suso eus roi special appropriations bv the oe
ssuperv,isors, sua,s by town councils o;sts s
from, n,,n:,l ,mul:v,iduals, and tuition charoes
run +ba pplis p m order to get funds r.
he bnnn e schools; The burden ought r.
,' ue oorne by all alike and tbe tb"S ~! So
way 70 get money enough. and fa;,s ,s
~, IS TO fix a tax lew sufI,c;anti, % .atL,
'Thee Thee 70 raise the funds necessar,s
Inc amendment YOU are "ec,essary ns,es
vote for is that the sum nm az asked to
Ira l;m;t district leyies shall not exeeed i's y
unit unit to be fixed by law ifea If a. !
;i,Gliiaments Viii carries as it undonhte ed'
WI, WI, only means that the h0su.eus su.als
,os ,l,soIs and the school board u,;Ii Iuper. Il.
longer work with hands tied h',4 WIN nc
os os a,.owed ano by law to fix such hi iov;a, Wn
efr;e;o eff are necessary to run the sobooIs SooGs
tha thn,clentiy and meet comnet;t;on rooi' -
nie Ie employment of teachers. The M :,
prs, p,e VIII thus have control of ' Pee peo
own affairs. They will se,oot 20 ot theil
county officials with the sI,res lna then
to "c carro rnose officials will have eus' no,ys'
n1a NJ carry a.; out the wishes of f5ap pUwe' I'VE
Th;s T1T "a making the schools m bAttor beU.
vnts s is a vital matter. Don't fail !,
vote Tor this amendment Ia adii z
mind your friends to vote fo,. ana =; re
want to appeal to the women oer ", no+o's W.