Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1921-02-05
WANT $4,000, 900
APPROPRIATION
Will be Used in Betterment of Pub.;t
Schools Throughout The
State.


gether with the School Authorities Of
the several counties, have been hold
ing meetings in Baltimore this week,
ostensibly to consider matters look
ing to the betterment of the Publ
Schools throughout the State, but lii
reality to perfect plans whereby they
nay be able to persuade the Genera.
Assembly next Winter, to appropriate
nearly two million OF dollars dor them
to expend over and above the apprO-
priations in effect at the present time
How they are going to bring this a
bout, did not seem clear to most o
them-and, in view of the fact tina
all the outside experts, and wise mel
from Gotham, and elsewhere, nav
pronounced the Maryland Public
Schools about the worst in the coun-
tyv, and the Maryland teachers thI
limit as to inefficiency it would seen
that instead OF asking for vast sums
of money in addition to what they are
receiving at the present time, II
would be the part OF wisdom for the
assembled school pundits to make
some explanation and reply TO the as.
Suits that have been made upon them
If all that is said about them ana the
Maryland schools is true, they are re,
ccjving more money now than they
are worth, and there should be /;
wholesale lot Of designations and dis
missals. If these charges oil lghot
ance and ineificiency are wlthou'
foundation, they should be spurnet
and repudiated with indignation. l..
large proportion OF the money now
charge of the Public schools and haV@
been in charge Of them to9 man!
wears, and are practically responsible
for their condition. whether 1t
Good, bad or Indifferent, and sem;
among them should be bold and coui
ageous enough to come out in thcI'
defense and not allow a cotcne
self interested professional forelg
experts traduce them as they are DO
ing at the present time.
News from every section OF tn
State is most encouraging to the III
ture of the time-honored old Demo
cratic Party Of Maryland. The Coun
ty people are waking up, and aifeady
candidates for nomination to local OF
fees and the General Assembly, ar
coming forth to make up inquiries
to their strength before the people
November next. The indications al,
strong that the white men and Won
en- of Maryland do not intend to al
low the party made up of most
crowd negro men and women, hora
Of central European foreigners, ant
a handful of renegade whites, moStl
from outside the State and recent al
rivals here to take possession OF tn
State and County Governments, a.
thew have the National Government
While some prominent MaIylander.
who are false to their State ana fam
" traditions may be unable TO sec
ANYTHING good here, and may dcsire
to import all sorts of Alien profes
SIGNALS to teach our people what thcN
should do, and how they should ed4
cate their children and how they
should live. the great mass OF whit,
reople of the commonwealth have III
little pride in their home institutions
treir home customs, and above all II
home people and their ways. While
the school teachers, the educatloha
authorities, and the Baltimore city
newspapers may sit quietly and en-
dure the pharisacial criticism Of these
arrogant outsiders on all our lnstltu
lions and ways, the real backbone
the people that have made the STATE
what it is right now, and what 1t ha'
in the past, are as proud as ever o
their old home and all that pertains
to it. and intend to keep it in the con
troll of the white people in the future
as it has been in the past, ever since
it's foundation nearly three hundred
wears ago. The sycophiants, the TIM
servers, the boot-licks and the trlci.
sters, may submit in silence to tn
sneering criticisms of the impertinon
end conceited critics, but the real me
and women OF the State will soone
G.. later rise in thei rwrath and drlV
them out together with all those VIII
have been responsible for their I'M
portation. Sooner or late the peopl