The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1920-02-05
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pared to other lines of work. In a
store, there is one super
visor for about every forty clerks; in
the Bell Telephone Company, one for
thirteen; in bank, one fer six or
eight. A farmer would not send a
of men and boys to work his
fields unless he occasionally sent some
one out to see what they were doing.
Yet in Garrett county one Supervisor is
supposed to supervise 100 or more
teachers, scattered sometimes fifty
miles apart, 81 of whom have had less
than one years experience, in a coun-
ty as hard to travel over as Garrett
county.
Mr.. A. S. Teats was then given the
floor. He stated that he opposed the
bond issue and he had figures he
wanted to bring out to the people that
would show there was no need of such
a bill. Mr.. Teats' figures were taken
from the annual report of July 31st,
1919, Of the Board of Education. Mr..
Teats' figures were correct insofar
as they went, but as was pointed out
by Mr. Edward H. Sincell, he failed
to recognize the fact that the money
which had been levied in three years
for building the Garrett County High
School building in Oakland, was not
a continuing levy and that there was
not such fund at present being re-
ceived by the school authorities, their
receipts for the current year from
state and county sources not exceed
ing $98,O0O.
The meeting then adjourned until
1870, when Hon. Harvey J. Speicher,
Senator from Garrett county, was
given the floor. He offered this solu
ton for the problem under discussion:
Get money for the increase of teach
ers' salaries by direct levy; get money
for school buildings by floating bond
issue, but he would not advise the
floating of bond issue for the build
ing of roads throughout the county.
He felt that the Federal and State
governments are planning to take
care of that in the next ten years, the
same being definitely shaped now in
the General Assembly, but necessary
county aid not yet deinitly deter
mined.
Then followed some very interesting
discussions. DR.. Henry w. McComas,
Mr.. William Miller, Mr.. Josiah G.
Friend, Hon. J. C. Kendall, member of
the House of Delegates, and County
Commissioners George D. Browning
and Henry P. Miller participating.
Mr.. Kendall expressed his approval
of a bond issue, saying that other
states were doing and had done the
same thing. At this point a letter
was read from Hon. A. d. Naylor,
a member of the House of Delegates,
who was unable to be present, in
which Mr.. Naylor pointed out that he
saw no way to furnish the money
needed for new school buildings eX-
cept through an issuance of bonds.
Mr.. Browning, president of the Board
of County Commissioners, empha-
sized the fact continually that he was
there to be advised and asked Mr..
Shartzer if he saw any solution with
out increasing the tax rate. The lat
ter, after an attempt to straddle the
issue, at last reluctantly admitted he
did not.
AT this juncture Senator Speicher
made a motion, which was quickly
seconded by Mr.. D. NJ. Dixon, of Oak
land, that all of the great number
present in the crowded court room
signify by holding up their right
hands that they were favorable to
bond bill for 100000 to be issued
as necessary, with referendum at
tached, the same to contain a clause
whereby such funds should be expen-
ded for school buildings, repairs, etc.,
jointly by the County Board of Educa-
ton and the Board of County Commits
sioners. All right hands were raised
in favor of this motion with one ex-
ception.
The meeting was certainly worth
while. Many who came to it with
because of a lack of true
knowledge of conditions and because
of being innocent victims of incorrect
and in some cases purposely incorrect
information, had things explained to
them so that many assumed grievan-
ces no longer exist and those who are
for the Incorrect informa-
ton handed out are now bearing the
burden.
If it were possible, and we believe it
is, to hold more of these meetings, say
one or two each year, people would
become better acquainted with the in
ternal affairs of our school and other
public matters and being thus inform
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