Pocahontas star herald., 1924-11-20
WOULD RAISE SCHOOL
PER CAPITA TO $40

The seth annual convention of the
Arkansas Education Association last
week was the most important and sig
nificant session ever held. Many be-
lieye that it marks a new epoch in the
educational system of Arkansas. For
years there has been Il course of train
ing of the public mind which is now
beginning to yield definite results.
Let the people have light, and they
viii find way" declared DR.. p. z.
ClaXtOn, former L. S. Commissioner
of Agriculture; eliminate colleges and
universities of the past fifty years and
you eliminate the industrial growth of
half century. The cry of increased
cost of education is heard on every
hand, but far in excess Of the cost Of
maintaining the public school system,
income, based wholely on the far-reach-
ing effect of education. The cost of
the World War alone exceeded the en-
tire cost of the public school system
of the United States since the days of
the Colonies. The so-called burden of
school taxation today could be met 10y
the sum spent for nOn-essentials and
luxuries in the United States last year.
Education is worth all it costs and it
is the duty Of the teachers of, Arkan-
Sas, as educators and as citizens, to
bring before the people realization
of education as an investment, secur-
ing the safety and strength of the
state and the spiritual and intellectual
salvation of the individual
Governor Thomas c. McRae and
GovernOr-elect Tom J. Terral address
ed the association and pledged their
support TO every measure that may he
proposed for the improvement and
strengthening of the school system of
Arkansas. In recognition Of Governor
| McRae's services in the cause of edu-
cation, he has made life member of
the Association.
"The schoOlhouse is the states pro-
lection against Bolshevism and social
ISM" said Governor McRae; ''if in
every rural district the state s0uld
build an adequate schOolhouse with a
highway passing its door and a church
nearby, there would need to be no fear
of social and civic unrest in Arkansas.
Education is the remedy for every evil
that confronts the state
Mr.. Terral pledged his administra-
tion to the support Of progressive
school system. Among other things he
will sponsor a Student Loan Fund, adj
ministered by state supported schools,
which will enable boys and girls, hand
icapped by poverty, to secure the educa-
tion they desire. He said also that il
will be his policy to strengthen the
/ University, the Normal school and the
four district Agricultural Schools.
The Association adopted recommen-
datiOns that the per capita for school
purposes be raised to an irreducible
minimum of $1,000; that the county
unit system be substituted for the pres
ent district system, which has proven
inadequate and inefficient; that free
/ text books be provided for children
through the sixth grade; that the state
tax be raised from three to five mills
and the limit of the district tax be in
creased from twelve to twenty mills
that laws be enacted for the equaliza'
tion of educational opportunities for
rural and urban pupils.
Those from Randolph county who
attended the meeting included: DAILY
Thompson, T.. Il. Hulen, Mrs. Il. r
Hulen, Horton Navy, Mrs. Horton
Navy, Mrs. Harnden. Mrs. Haynes,
Miss Mary Catlett, Miss Pearl Gibson
Mrs. II. A. Mock, Mrs. Berna Finley,
Miss Ouida Blankenship, Mrs. i. f.
Blankcnship, Stewart Hogan, 'Buel
LOFTS, Eugene Athy, Hollie Ennis,
Loral Redwine, Opal Allen, Christine
Poindexter, Paul Maynard, Mrs. Paul
Maynard. Mrs Glenn Cox, Jennie Jones'
Mrs. Zadie l.. Smith, Fredle BelfOrd
Miss Nell Hufstedler, Stella Mae Lucas,
W. |. Swink, Mrs. W. /. Swink, John
Timer, Mrs. John Timer, Bill Tom
Hulen, Zelphia Hulen, Newell Mock,
Mrs. Mary Pettijohn and Il. A. Mock