The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-03-21
LETTERS TO
THE EDITOR
Hendersonville, N. G.
NIL 10 FOOD


March Is, 1888
Edditor Times-NCws:
l address you with relation
to the public schools and
through you the public.
| have been favored with
space in your valuable paper on
MANY occasions to express my
self on public matters, under
the head of Letters to the Ed
tor. | realize, Of course, that
as far as getting my views to
the public is concerned that this
is not the same thing as Large
Type Headlines on the front
page introducing the opinion OF
some gentleman or gentlemen
of the Kiwanis or Rotary clubs,
or the doings of the Chamber Of
Commerce, interviews with heads
of departments, and the like.
Nevertheless / appreciate the pa
thence which you have shown me-,
for it is hardly thinkable that3
you have agreed with me in all
that | have written as appear
ing in the above mentioned LET
ters to the Editor" column, but.
YOU have never "come back" at
me. This may be because you
know that l have been sincere
in my views, and actuated only
in the public interest. Or may
be my shot have been too small
to brighten chg game" Never
theless, Mr.. Editor, know you
we'll enough, and know that
you know me we'll enough that
VIC may mutually hold each 9th
er in the esteem of at least not
being public enemies
am addressing you this time
on the school situation. have
been in favor of a state wide
uniform public school system for
many years. l stated In tor
mer letter to you that | realized
the difference Of opinion on the
subject that exists throughout
the state and that ! thought |
realized the difficulty in the
way of getting such a system.
r am persuaded to address you
AGAIN for the reason that some
of the difficulties in the way
of getting such a system are
presenting themselves at this
time.
If I write at length | do so
with a full realization of the
value of your space with its
relation to presenting the news
and at the same time the neceS-
sary advertising. However, II
there is anything more import
ant at this time in the nature
of an unsolvcd problem it IS
the school problem as it relates
to education and finance.
North Carolina is not alone
facing this problem, the matter
| is before the public everywhere
throughout the length and
breadth of the land. What are
we going to do about it? That
recent report of the Hoover Spe-
cial commission carried, | think,
statement that some nine mil
lion children were being denied
proper school facilities - that
their education was being cramp-
ed to the vanishing point-by
reason off the crazy quilt cdu-
cational systems prevailing in
the several states. 1t called at
tention to the fact that North
Carolina and three other states
had done more to eliminate this
situation than any other Of the
forty-eight states. This is man.
ifestly not because of our school
term, for the school term is
much longer on the average in
many states than it is in North
Carolina and the standards in
many states are broader than
in North Carolina. II is evident
that they had reference to that
degree of uniformity which was
arrived at through the 1881
school law and in the fact that
North Carolina had assumed the
education of her children on a
state basis in principal, and that
as to administration under this
law we have arrived at con-
siderable uniformity.
The problem now arises as
to whether or not this legisla.
ture is to complete what the
last one endeavored to do. That
is if it is to take off the re-
naming lucent tax levy on
land and make the support of
the schools come from other