Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1921-04-25

and girls for INN ediate
entrance into the battle of life. To
get this education taxpayers have.
always shown a willingness to
pay the bills. and if economy is.
to come in the expenses Of GOV
eminent. they will most likely in
sist that it take place in some
other direction than molesting
the system of free public school
education.
Mr.. Worthington, long the
school superintendent in Har-
ford. points in the Aegis the Har-
ford budget. and writes that
while we have no hostile criti-
cisin to offer, we do have in com
mon with the other $4,000 citizens
|'of Hartford very serious prob
Hem to be solved 1t is proper and
appropriate for the Board to
itemize the various sums needed
to meet the work to be properly
done, but taxpayers can meet
such bills only as they are able
and the serious problem is whe-
ther we are not being taxed be-
You'd our ability to pay. Present
crowded conditions in certain
schools, notably Havre de Grace
and Aberdeen, are due to no act
Of our people and should be pro-
vided for by the source respon-
sible for the crowding, the ma
tional government We would
gladly assume Uncle Sans bur
dens which he is finding unduly
heavy just now; but hardly think
that this is the time to ask il Of
us."
This public school problem is
not agitating Hartford alone
Frederick. Carroll, Anne Arundel.
score OF other counties and Bal
timore City have the same situa-
ton. One of the foremost prop
ositions Governor Richie is
working on to lay before the Leg
islature in 1922 is the "way out"
of the serious situation confront
ing the State public school sys-
tenn. Either the teaching corps
Unjust be fettered, or suffered to
become worse; many communi-
ties are now doing grevious and
lunestinable harm to the mental
and physical constitutions of
their boys and girls by part
time" instruction in crowded and
insanitary classrooms. The edu-
lcational facilities in whole sec
tons of Maryland are a reproach
to any civilized people.
In matters Of this public nature
Il is unavoidable, of course, that
there should be wide divergence
lof opinion as to means and meth
DDS OF getting the results which
all agree are necessary for the
welfare of the schools. One adj
vocates consolidation" as a pa
Inacea for all the woes of the sys-
tenn; another harks back to the
ldavs of the "old field school," and
dilates on the accuracy with
which the youth of a past gen
Grafton was taught the three RS
still another would conhne all
public school education to the %
per cent. who never reach the
high school grades, and fourth
would ignore the elementary
schools for the purpose of taking
care of the ) per cent. or so sur
vival OF the fittest" who get to the
high schools and colleges; a
fifth argues that the public
schools exist only as feeders" to
the colleges and universities. and
maintains that the Johns Hop
kins should be the head of the
Maryland public school system,
while a sixth bitterly denounces
the Johns Hopkins ''outlanders"
for putting their fingers in the
Maryland educational pie.
AS DIR. George w. Ward said
in a letter in last Saturdays Sun:
AT this stage of our affairs, civil
and industrial as well as educa-
ltional. let us show respect for
each other as the only enduring
Foundation on which a construc-
tive program can be built" 1t
behooves every man and woman
interested IN the nrooreSS and