Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-03
OPINION OF JUDGE
BLOW TO TEACHERS
Can't Use 100000 Saving
Fund Until $4,000, 900 is Bor-
rowed, Jenkins Asserts
WILL KILL BOARD PLAN

Doubt as to the fate of the plan to
provide for the school teachers pay
bonus out Of proposed advance OF
100000 by the Philadelphia Savings
Fund Society has been intensified by
an opinion given the Board of Edu.
cation by former Judge Theodore F.
Jenkins, that this sum cannot be legally
borrowed in advance Of the $4,000, 600
loan.
He does hold that under the school
code the board may replace the SIOO,ooO
appropriated out of current expenses
! for repairs with money obtained by
permanent loan.
One great difficulty seems TO lie in
the fact that the time limit set by the
Savings Fund Society for the loan has
expired and that it may not be further
renewed.
George W. Norris. governor of the
Federal Reserve Bank and member
of the citizens committee which under
took to secure the 500, 900 advance, ex-
pressed regret at the opinion of Mr..
Jenkins.
Lauds Committee Work
"The committee has laborcd hard,
he said. ''to find way to meet tho
problem of paying the teachers more
money at the earliest possible cppor
tunity and finally succeeded in evolving
a plan which would have solved it. Blu
after all our hard work the Board o
Education simply backed and filled oil
our proposition without doing any
thing.
"The time limit on the S700 900 ad
vance set by the Savings Fund Socict
was June %. but at the request of tn
committee they have several times sc
back the date pending a decision to &C
on the matter. In view of what has hap
pened / don't see any use in furthe
prolonging the matter and asking for
further extension.
1--WE have done all that we can dc
as far as | can see, and for my part
am through with the proposition
T.. Pusey Passmore president of tn,
Bank of North America and anothe
member Of the committee. was hopefu
that a meeting of the committee coulC
be called shortly to consider whethe
anything further could be done in evolv
ing a plan to solve the teachers salary
question.
Hope was expressed by Maurice Fels
also of the committee, that Mr.
Jenkins's opinion might be interpreted t
have only temporary effect, and tina
within a few weeks the plan could g
through without any question OF lega
Or any other kind of bitches.
Bids for Loan July 21
Bids will be opened in connectio
with the $4,000. 900 loan on July y
ana the settlement is to be made O
August .. On that date. if the loan
successfully foated, it will be possibl
to replace the repair item eXpenditul
of the 1920 budget with the S1OO, ,0Ot
Without that amount. however. ar
cording to the report of the finance com
mittee adopted at the last meeting. Il
board has on hand S240 900 and con
templates an arrangement with tn
Land Title and Trust Co. for the trans
fer of three properties which will Civ
them $500, 900 in cash.
1t was pointed out by officials thG
should the board at its next meetin,
July 13, decide the manner Of distribu
ton, this sum of 500 900 could
Immediately given to the teachers, an
that means would be found whereof
they could be immediately reached. re
gardless of the fact that the schoo
have closed for tho summer.
The effect of the opinion OF Mr.. Jcr
kins is TO delay the final Distribute
of money available for the incrra>ir
of teachers salaries until August =.