Bogalusa enterprise and American. (Bogalusa, La.) 1918-19??, 1921-05-05
Louisiana's Schools Cost
Is One-Tenth of Luxuries


Louisiana has expended during all
Is history for education Of all sorts
14O,OG0,000 according to state
ment from the records Of the United
States Bureau of Education, first is
sued from Washington. This is al
stupendous amount. The heart of
the average citizen may swell with
pride and he or she may venture the
opinion that this state is not so slow
when it comes to iberaIity toward
educational institutions.
Coming down to date7 the estimate
of expenditures for education in the
public schools, university and coll
leges and normals of the state for
1920 was close to $8,50O,00O. This
is a source OF renewed pride and con-
graduation, but
For the year 1920 the expenditure
for food luxuries alone was $685.
900, 900; for joy rides, pleasure re-
sorts and races,-S51 10000; for lux
urious service, S51, 100000; for to-
bacco in all its forms, 38,870,0OO;I
for cigars and cigarettes, $22, 270,-
600; for tobacco and snuff, $13,000,-
600; for face powder, cosmetics and
perfumes, $12,750,000; for jewelry,
$500, 900; for toilet soaps, Sc, 8O0,-
600; for soft drinks, $5,95O,00 and
chewing gum, $850,OOO, indicating
beyond any doubt that the people
of the state do not hesitate to buy
and pay for what they want.
Taking the statistical proof, the
comparison viii afford reflection if
the public desire, and quoting from
the statement from the Bureau of
Education:
Chewing gum for one year cost
nearly as much as the normal schools
for four years. The bin for soft
drinks was nearly as much as the ex-
penditures for colleges and universe
ties for six years. Toilet soaps and
public schools cost practically the
same. Jewelry cost 100000 more
than the public schools, normal
schools, colleges and universities. In
the smoke of cigars and cigarettes
was blown away in one year as much
as al these schools spent in three
years, and the total amount spent for
tobacco in one year was eight times
school teachers for fifty years Face
powder, cosmetics and perfumes cost
nearly as much as public schools. The
bill for luxurious service and the bill
for joy rides, pleasure resorts and
races were each six times as much as
the cost of all public schools, univer-
sites, colleges and normal schools
In food Injuries the people ate up in
one year S10,0OD,0 900 more than the
salaries of all the public school teach
ers and professors in normal schools,
colleges and, universities for fifty
years; just about as much as the sal
aries Of all these persons in all the
history of the state. For Injuries of
all kinds, the people paid in a single
year more than two and a half times
as much as the estimated total cost of
education in schools of all kinds from
the beginning of history of the state
until now. The total expenditure for
luxuries and taxes for other purposes |
than education in 1919 was 81 times
the total expenditures of all public
schools, normal schools, colleges and
universities in that year.
"The figures Of public schools in
clude expenditures for salaries,
grounds, buildings, equipment, fuel
and all incidentals. The figures for
colleges and universities include all
expenditures Of all institutions of
higher learning in the state, however
supported. The figures for the nor
NAL schools include expenditures for
all purposes for all normal schools,
public and private.
''The total of all these items for
fifty years is a little less than S114,- |
100000. Twenty-six millions Of dol
lars Is probably fair estimate of the
cost of public schools and of higher
before 1870 and the cost |
of private schools below college
grade before and after this date, |
making a total Of $40, 0O0,00O paid
for education in the state in all its |
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