The New York herald., 1922-10-28
Miller's Big Work for Schools
and School Teachers.

Governor MILLER's fine business
mana cement of the State government
has meant and means dollars in the
pocket of everybody in the State
The direct taxpayers are far better
off than they were in the admin
istration before Governor MILLER's
because tk.~ are now paying $40 0,000,-
600 less in State taxes than they
were paying under Governor SMITH
All consumers in the State are better
off, because under Governor MnLEr
the State appropriations and spend.
ings have been reduced, and all gov
ernment spending figures in the cost
of living of every man, woman and
child.
Governor MLLER's exemplary busi-
ness management has been a further
financial benefit to everybody in the
State because while he has cut the
appropriations and cut the expendi-
lures and cut the taxes he has put
more money-money that he has
saved out of previous wasteful and
needless spendings-into State in
vestment to the permanent advantage
of the people of New York. He has
Diilt more roads, has doubled road
construction. He has started the de-
velopment of the State water power.
He has improved the Harlem River.
He has begun the Hudson River We
hicular tunnel. He has got under
way the great New York port termi-
nal project.
But big as are all these material
achievements for the people of New
York and much as his business way
OF working them out means to the
people Of New York in money. mill
ions of dollars of money, there is
nothing more important, nothing
could be more important to the State,
than the splendid work Governor
MILLER has done to improve the
public educational system, to better
school methods, to strengthen the
teaching profession. For, as Governor
MILLER said to the Teachers Welfare
League in Syracuse:
after all. upon the teaching pro-
fession, in the last analysis, upon the
personnel Of the teaching profession,
upon the character and spirit to rem
der service and ability to render
service of the individuals in the
teaching profession. depends the cause
of education, which I always say is
the very first function of the State
TO promote. That is obviously SO,
because the State rises no higher
than its citizenship. and the citizen
ship ig dependent upon education"
And Governor MILLER, once a
teacher himself, told those teachers
frankly that undoubtedly the State
had been derelict in respect of its
interest in the teachers, and in the
solution OF the two great educational
problems which have to be faced
But this is no longer so.
There is, on the other, hand, the prob
lem Of the rural school with its i'm
perative need for solid, fundamental
education. A committee is now work
ing on this problem and there will be
report to the Legislature before the
end of its next session, when the
State Government will act.
And there is the problem. on the
other hand, of the city schools, where
education so often gets mixed up with
politics, where frequently "the ap-
preparations for education have been
limited and in so many centers OF
the State children on part time, in
some school buildings with sanitary
accommodations that are a disgrace y
And this is a problem which Cover
nor MuLya says has now got to be
tackled.
In the meantime the things Cover.
nor MULLER has been doing and Is
doing to strengthen the educational
system and to help all children, the
sick along with the well, the injured
as well as the physically sound, to fl
themselves for useful lives must b,
of the deepest interest to every father
and mother in the State.
Governor MILLER has given $4,000,
900 more to the support Of the com
mon schools than they had in the las
administration. He has had the State
take over the training of blind ant
deaf children. He has extended the
institution for the care and treat
ment Of crippled children and has
still another institution Of the kint
under consideration. He has intro
duced plan for removing the physi
cal handicaps OF children in The