The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-03-21
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than twice the total cost OF all hlghcr
education, and the $3.50, 000. 900 paid for
soft drinks is more than two and one
half times as much. 1t is more than the
total value of colleges and university
buildings, including dormitories in 1918.
Strangely enough the cost of toilet
soaps in 1920 and the total salaries Of
| elementary and secondary teachers in
1918 are almost exactly the same. But
why should soap be counted as a lux
ury? The cost of cigarettes in 1920 is
twice as much as the salaries of teach
ers in elementary and high schools,
nearly $40 900 900 more than the total
expenditures for elementary and sec
ondarv education, and almost the same
as the total cost of elementary and
secondary education, public and private,
including capital investments in new
buildings and equipment, and the cost
of the heating and lighting OF school
rooms, and all other expenses for up
keep.
In 1920 we blew away in smoke OF
cigars and cigarettes $500, 600 900 more
than the total cost of all education in
1918. The total cost for tobacco. in all
its forms, in 1920, was five times the
total OF teachers salaries in 1918 and
almost exactly the same as the total
cost for elementary and secondary edu-
cation for the three years 1916, 1917
and 1918. If in some moment of high
enthusiasm and patriotic devotion the
people who use tobacco had agreed
among themselves to smoke two cigar
cites instead of three, two cigars in
stead of three, take two "chaws in
stead of three and two dips instead of
three, and had paid to the support of
the schools the money thus saved for
the wear, the salaries of teachers in
schools of all grades, public and pri-
vate, could have been increased by more
than 100 per cent. For tobacco in its
various forms we paid more than We
have paid for higher education since the
founding of Harvard college in Massa-
chusetts and William and Mary in Vir
ginia.
Luxurious service, whatever that
NAV mean, for the single year cost
more than the total paid for all public
education for the four years from 1915
to 1918, inclusive, and as per cent more
than higher education has ever cost us.
So much for volunteer expenditures
for things ordinarily called luxuries
and not absolutely necessary.
1t is equally interesting to compare
the expenditures for education with
other governmental receipts and expen-
ditures. Receipts of the federal gov
eminent from customs and internal
revenues for 1920 were S., 30,9S7 Ill.
This is more than six times the amount
expended for education in 1918, and
more than one-third the estimated to
tai expenditures for public education
and all higher education from the be
ginning of our history until 1920 II is
fully ten times the total of salaries Of
all teachers in all schools, public and
private.
If to the income of the federal gov
eminent be added the taxes collected
by states, counties and municipalities
for other purposes than education, the
total will be fully 10 times as much
as the total salaries of teachers of all
public elementary and secondary
schools. normal schools. colleges, uni
versities and chronological and profess
sional schools of all kinds. To double
the salaries of all these teachers would
require the addition of only one dollar
in 10 to the total of federal, state.
county and municipal axes. For every
SIS paid, the average taxpayer would
pay SIC, and after his receipts are put
away, be would not know the differ
ence. If nothing were paid teachers
from public taxation the average tax
payer would still pay Sl4 Of the $40
he now pays, and would not remember
the difference after the tax receipts are
put away.
The comparisons made above are for
the country a. a whole. For individual
states the comparisons are sometimes
even more striking.
In the 30 years from 1870 to 1920 the
state Of Connecticut paid for public
elementary and secondary education
sls2 100000. The amount paid ia 1918
was Sl0.O69.G 63. In 1920 the people Of
Connecticut paid into the federal treas
ury in direct taxes the sum Of Sl1,
s4p.SSS: ten times a. much a. they
paid for public elementary and sec
ondsry education in 1918. and nearly
20 per cent a. much as they paid for
public elementary and secondary edu
in the 30 years from 1879 to
1920.
PENNSYLVANIA direct federal tax bill
in 1920 was sj57 .OOsR72 and It's bill
elementary and high schools in
1915 was S6g. 52O241. The tax bill was
times a. much as the school bill
Pennsylvanias bill for elementary and
secondary education for the % years
from 1870 10 1920 was Sl.l9l 100000.
only = little more than twice the direct
tax bill for one year.
Massachusetts has long held the lead
in public cdueation, but IL d.
rect federal tax bill for 1920 vas more
than ten times ne school bill for 1915 !
and more than twice it, school BIZ Tor
the 80 wears from $50 10 1920.
New York state and city have boast
81 IL rerent years n very large sppro
pr al ions for educatiou. but New Works
federal taN bill n Sl4lS3326 5l
n 1920 was more than 20 times a.
much - its school bill Tor 1915 and
only Sl45eOa.n00. or less than its
s,hool BILL for the % years from 1870
70 1920
D~rlsrares direct federal tai bin for
1920 vas almost exactly the same a.
iss erh,gl bill for the one hundred
vear from 1890 20 1924
Nirrihas diree federal FAX bin ~
s~as5l.lZ7 10 1920 vss more an