The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1920-11-12

quired. AS a result the board will be
able to keep its estimates up to date
and a much better system will obtain
Deficiency Now Exists
The school budget adopted by the
1919 session of the legislature and
the amount of money raised for the
pay of teachers has been found in
sufficient and there will be presented
to you a bill asking for the funds nee
essary to carry on the department pro
perly for the next calendar year.
From time to time it has been
found that there have been uneXpend
ed balances in the school general fund
and in the fund for the pay of teach.
ers and as the money is raised by di-
rect taxation for the particular year,
the auditor at the end of the year
charges these balances to the sus.
pense accounts.
There will presented to you a bill
providing that when these balances
are known the treasurer shall be in
formed and he shall deduct them from
the amount estimated for these ap-
preparations for the ensuing year, so
that there shall be raised by taxation
the total amount necessary minus the
uneXpended balances.
Pay of Teachers
Section 297, Revised Laws of Ha-
waii of 1915, provides a method by
which the DepG rtment of Public In
struction shall frame a salary budget.
The people who framed this act evi-
IDENTIFY gave the matter much study.
However, during it's passage through
the legislature proviso was put at
the end of the section which practi-
cally nullifies the purpose of those
who framed the act. This provision
stipulated that the pay of teachers
shall be $4,000 per month plus $50
for every 35 pupils registered since
1911. This proviso was amended in
1917 by Act 60, increasing the basic
sum to $73,500 and changing the al
,lowance rate from $50 to $50. In
1919 this was further amended by Act
1p7 changing the basic amount to
$11S,000 and an additional allowance
rate from $50 to $S5. This proviso is
absolutely wrong. Such method
does not properly handle the situa-
ton. Since meeting the first Difficult
ties with this section in 1917, | have
firmly believed that the proper solu-
tion is to eliminate the proviso.
"If the law is changed in this man
ner the pay of teachers can be pro-
perly regulated by the department Of
public instruction and there will be
no necessity of taking up the time
of the legislature at each session in
making amendments.
"The number of pupils in the public
schools has vastly increased since
the first of July, 1911, when the pres
ent system was inaugurated. | have
prepared a statement showing the cost
of schools each year beginning with
1912 and including 1920, which will be
found in the appendix.
"Bills have been prepared and will
be submitted to you covering this pro-
posed change"
Foreign Language Schools
Coming to the subject OF foreign
language schools which was consid-
cred by the last legislature, the bill
finally failing of passage in the SEN
ate, he says:
"The United States of America, com
posed as it is of many races blended
into single nation, depends for its
safety and its very existence, upon
the homogeneousness of these people.
It's welfare can only be maintained
by putting all these races through the
same educative process, so that they
will emerge as true Americans.
"If in this so-called melting process
one race is given different treatment
than the rest, trouble will ensue. The
nation has already seen some trouble
of this sort and invariably it has been
found that the trouble makers were
either foreigners or the children of
foreigners educated in the language
and customs of their forefathers with
out a proper conception of the Amer
lean form of government and the prin-
ciples for which America stands. Al
though they regarded America as a
good place to make a living, they did
not feel that the American govern
ment was their; they were still alien
at heart; their every thought was for
the government of their ancestors.
"To correct this serious evil, many
states have adopted legislation forbid
ding the teaching of children below
a certain age in any foreign language.
Hawaii faces a similar problem, one
that l trust may be solved by the
legislature at this session. The issue
must be met squarely and with de-
termination to legislate for the hest
interests of the Territory and the
Nation.
THE taxpayers Of the Territory con-
tribute a very great amount of money
for the education of its children, andS
in return should receive full assurance
that this is being given on purely
American lines.
"The bills which will be presented
to you, in an effort to remedy the sit
uation, have been prepared with care
by persons who have given the sub
ject earnest consideration. trust
that you will enact such legislation
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