Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1921-05-17

amount of material which might be-
used in return and assuming that
Prof. Fox is really interested in get
ting better school accommodations for
the children. though just now he in
dicated that he is more interested in
2 plan that is for private interests
first and schools afterwards. Doubt
less. more consideration will lead him
to adopt a view which Is for the in
terests of all school children all over
the county and not for favored few
I am unable to recall any CONVERSE
ton with Prof Fox about the West
Annapolis and Germantown Schools,
but it may have occurred, though his
statement OF Il is probably inaccurate.
Ny position then, as it would be now,
was that a certain sum having been
asked for specific purpose and ap-
propriated for it. the building should
have been made within the appropria-
ton.
Prof. Fox has, however, done exact
~ what may be expected when one
caves fair argument and permits ba
feeling to control; he has furnished
he very best kind of argument for
my suggestions as to raising money
in other ways than the bond issue.
Denying in one moment the right Of
| the county to borrow money without
| legislative authority, he has furnished
.wo examples of it being done within
the last two years, for the county did
10 this in order TO build schools at
| Germantown and Wess Annapolis,
md It's right to do it has never been
| Questioned. He sshas further shown
hat ii is quite the usual thing for
hose who concocted the present pro-
posed bond issue to blunder, for they
| proposed to build these schools at a
| .e-tain figure, and then found, ap-
oarntly, that the amount was made
| Iuate.
Prof Fox made no effort to dis
prove any statement made by me as
better plan for raising money for
;chool buildings, making only the
| )are statement that it was "imprac-
icabIe," and distorted an alleged
tatement of mine made about an en-
irely different matter. This is an IN
| enable stand for a man in his posi-
! ion, as he should welcome any con-
itructive proposal looking to the
| main end Instead, he has indi-
| ,ated that he is thinking only of the
me plan by whicl $150,000 is spent
| the schools and the courty las to
,ay $315,000 for It. NO one has ever
tempted to disprove this, for the bill
provides plainly that $10.5O0 must be
aid every year for thirty years, and
he conclusion is cn.y matter of
| multiplication.
| | showed clearly that it was perfectly
practicable to spend 100000 on the
schools and to pay only 1896 900 for it /;
| other words, to spend 100000 on
he schools and pay only $4,000 for
he use of it, while the plan Prof
OK seems to think is the only one
provides that $150.000 shall be spent
III the schools, and that the public
must pay S165.000 for the use of it,
$4,000 in all He has nothing 10
ny about this, for ii admits of no
| nswer.
The School Commissioners have
aade an honest effort to sell. the
londs, that being their duty, and have
OF received one bid for them 1t has
zen demonstrated that the plan fail
d in the prime essential of providing
scheme by which the bonds could
sell SO that the money could he pro-
gided
Nothing further can be required of
the School Commissioners as to these
,onds. and it is my conviction that it
their duty to think of other plans
% secure the money, much needed,
or additional schools. The plan pre-
icnts itself, and if those who are adj
coating this miserable bond issue
lrst, and schools for a part of the
'ounty, second, with the ultimate re-
suit of making impossible for decades
he proper housing of all the children.
! viii not consider it, they make it
plain that they are the ones and not
he opponents of the bond issue who
ire not single minded in their inter-
st in the schools and the school chill
| iren.
| | outlined but one plan of raising
money by borrowing. The exact plan
matter for further discussion by
hose interested. l favor borrowing
ii that We can to meet the most
| pressing needs for school buildings
Ne can borrow for term of years
i've or ten-for instance, paying back
| | substantial amount. each year with
he dropping off of the whole interest
IN that amount. or we can borrow IN
| il after the next session Of the legis-
ature, agreeing in the meantime upon
/ proper financial scheme by which
he county will get as much as posi-
lie of what it spends in actual school
buildings.
If We borrow 100000 under a
| modern plan, at five and a half per
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