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PAGE FOUR THE CONCORD TIMES PUBLISHED MONDAYS AND THURSDAYS Entered as second class mail matter at the post office at Concord, N. C., under the Act of Mareh 8, 1879. 4■- - . J. B. SHERRILL, Editor and Publish** ' W. M. SHERRILL, Associate Editor Special Representative: FROST, LANDIS & KOHN New York. Atlanta, St. Louis, Kansas City, < San .Francisco, Los Angeles and Seattle r ■■ ■ ' ■ • ; SCHOOL EXPENDITURES IN NORTH CAROLINA. During the 25 : year period from 1900- 01 to 1925-26 expenditures for schools in Nprth Carolina increased -about $30,-; 000,000 annually. Thai is the total in 1925-26 was about 30 times the* total in 1900-01. . ' ' • This fact is established in a recent dis-: cussion in School Facts of expenditures, for schools in North Carolina. In 1900-01 the total school expenditures, exclusive ’ of debt service, was approximately one and a quarter million dollars while in 1925-26, twenty-five years later, approx imately thirty-two and a half million dol lars was spent for elementary and second ary education in the'State. School expenditures as used in this dis cussion includes all amounts spent for teachers’, principals' and supervisors salaries, salary and expenses of the sup erintendents of schools, salary and ex penses of the superintendent of public welfare, salary and expenses of the rural supervisor, the per diem and expense of the board of education, clerical,'office and other administrative expense of the sup erintendent df schdols v t The total expenditures also include the amounts spent for fuel and janitors, school supplies, rent, insurance, trans portation of pupils and other costs of op erations In addition to these, all repair Charges,, new*- furniture\ and apparatus, books for libraries, trucks, new build ings and sites and ajl other capital out lay payments are included in the total expenditures for schools. No debt ser vice payments are included in these ex penditures* for the reason that the expen diture for which the payment of a debt is being made was included in the items above at some preceding time. The fig ures presented, therefore, represent the actual cash disbursements for a particu lar year, but not including payments for debt service. They represent also the ex penditures foe all elementary and sec ondary public schools —white, colored, Indian—for the entire school term, whether it be six, seven, eight, or nine months, and from funds' received for school purposes from all sources —State, county, district and private. In 1900-01 there wefe 435,184 public school children. In 1925-26 a total of $18,739 children were enrolled in the ele mentary and secondary schools of the r State- In 1900-01 the per capita cost was $2.87 per year. In 1925-26 the annual cost per _ pupil was $39.63. In 1900-01, only 59 per cent, of the children enrolled attended school regu largly. In 1925-26 74 per cen4. of the en rollment attended school daily. In 1900-01 the average annual salary of a white teacher was $98.77 and a col ored teacher, $79.85. In 1925-26 the av erage white teacher received $853.23 and the average colored teacher received $467.43 annually. In 1900-01 the average length of term for the white schools was 86 days and for the colored schools 79 days. In 1925- 26, the white schools had an average term of 1,49.1 (fays and the colored schools 138.3 days- The data were obtained from the an nual reports of the s’everal superintend ”ents of schools and treasurers of the schools. For purposes of proper inter pretation and convenient analysis the , expenditures for the year 1925-26 for the -several systems are divided into two parts: current expense, which includes all administrative, instructional, opera tive and maintenance cost; and capital outlay, or that amount spent for new buildings, sites, trucks, furniture, appa ratus, libraries and equipment. The significant feature of the figures is the constant increase from 1900-01 to 1919-20, and then a decided jump from $6,708,062.03 the preceding year, to $12,- 214,258.20. That year, 1919-20, witnessed the beginning of the renaissance in edu cation in this State. The operation of the new minimum school term of six months went into effect. A more string ent compulsory attendance act was put into effect. A building program of mod ern schoolhouses was begun. Better trained teachers were recognized by be ing better paid. The State as a whole was i an . era pt prosperity. v? It is noted the -current expendi tures from 1914-15 tp : 1918-19! slightly in crease from year to year. Frpm 1918r19 up to 1925-26 there is a regular and mpre vigorous growth in current expendi tures. . In 1920-21 expenditures for building start and continue to increase vtry rap ! idly to the present. The past four years each shows very large amount of building activity, yet the year .1925-25 in dicates a slowing down tendency. While current expenditures have increased, cap ital outlay expenditures decreased from i $12,947,253 to $9,620,592—0ver three and a quarter million dollars- This decrease : in conjunction with an increase in school enrollment and better attendance has caused a corresponding decrease in per capita cost.* In 1900-01 it cost an average of $2.87 to “educate” each child in the public schools. Now (1925-26), it takes an aver age of $39.63 to pay for the education of each child enrolled in school. This is $2.33 leSs than it cost the preceding.year. The same general trend is shown in per capita expenditures as was seen in to tal expenditures. There was a regular increase every year except 1923-24 and 1925-26. In the year preceding the first i of these two years an excessive amount of building was done by the cities to make up for the little building activities during and immediately followings the war. In 1925-26 there was a general de crease in building activities in both* rural and city schools. The latest available data . for other states are for the school year 1923-24. In that year the average per capita cost for the United States as a whole was $74.&6. In the same year the five leading states spent per child the following amounts: 1— Nevada—sl32.23. 2 York —$125-97. 3 California —$118.84. 4 New Jersey—sllß.B4. 5 Wyoming —$112.87. School Facts explains that “these con trasts are presented not so much to show the progress that has been made during the last quarter of a century as to show some of the parallel advances with the growth in school expenditures. We might just as easy add other items: in crease in number of teachers, increase in training of teachers,:better buildings and equipment, increase in attendance in the high schools where maintenance costs -are almost double that of the elementary schools, and, possibly greatest of all, the increase in cost of living, better describ ed as the decrease in purchasing power of the dollar; but these will suffice to prove that expenditures for schools have not increased alone, even though they do show a phenomenal growth within tjie past decade.” CUTTING DOWN FIRE LOSSES. 1 North Carolinians apparently are be-j coming more careful about fires. At any rate the fire rate in the State is decreas ing, with Concord leading the way for other cities. Over a period of three weeks there was not a fire call in this city, indicating that the public here is more careful than for merly. It is rare for a city of 12,000 in habitants to be without a single fire call in three weeks. Official reports received by State In surance Commissioner Wade, showing steadily decreasing fire loss toll in the State, have caused much encourage ment. “It is most encouraging,” Com missioner Wade said, “when you consid er that for every one of the five months of this year there has been such a sub stantial fire loss reduction until the ag gregate decrease fpr the first five months of the year is exactly $1,140,859, an av erage of over $200,000 per month and a 36 per cent falling off in fire damage.” The official report for May, prepared by Statistician Andrew Joyner and made public yesterday, revealed that the fire loss in May was below the total for May of last year and included no large confla grations. Total loss for last month was placed at $384,220, as compared with $476,950 for the same month last year. The May record showed that there were 189 Area in towns, causing a loss of $238,555, and 3? rural fires reported with a loss of $145,666. Os the urban fires, 101 were in dwellings with a loss of $62,559. • In the country 23 dwelling fires caused a loss of $41,965. The dwelling loss was un • usually high for May, and took a heavy ’ toll of better class rural dwellings! There were 22 fires in the major loss ■ class, causing loss of $293,284, with an ! average of $13,331 each. The other 204 ; fires were responsible for loss totalling $90,936, or an average of $4£Q each, a rec : ord in insurance department annals. The heaviest single losses were r Lum ber plant in Cumberland County, $45,000; • business block hi Waynesville, $40,000; towel factory at* Saluda, $27,000 ;liospital ■ for babies at Wrightsville Beach $25,000; s department storey in Durham, * $22,500; store and negro dweltinge in Gibson, - $20,000 ; s4ore and pressing club in Kin ■ ston, $16,000; box and barrel factory at ) Aurora, $12,500^ : In classes of property damaged or de stroyed dwellings headed the list witlr ',124"; unstored autos and trucks, 14; stores 12; garages, ■9s factories, warehouses, 8 each. Principal causes of fires were: Shingle roofs and defective flues, 65; un known 56; adjoining building, 31; care lessness, smoking, 10 each. WATCH AVIATION DEVELOPERS. The Kansas City Star warns its read ers not to buy stock in any aviation com panies promoted on an impossible basis. “Stop, LooH and Listen!” it says, before being tempted to buy such stock.; The Salisbury Post wisely agrees with The Star, pointing out that “in a few months the air mail will be full of schemes, some pf which may in time be* worked to a success, but* there is danger of our enthusiasm whipped up over the Lindbergh success; runniilg too far.” This is timely advice for the aviation business will be developed unusually fast now and all sort of stock promoters will be running about the country swindling ( the people. Tfie Star says further: “Whatever the future may hold for av iation, every sensible person knows there are present limits to its possibilities. Air transportation has certain hazards that cannot be overcome. A good ship in the hands of an experienced and skilled pilot, under decent weather conditions, is safe —provided there are plenty of available landing fields- But so long as the British Imperial Airways kills one passenger out of every 5,000. carried, while the Ameri can railways kill one passenger out of every 4 1-2 million carried, it is evident that air travel will not be general. Ob viously, too, in view of the very great danger involved in crossing the ocean, there is no reasonable prospect of estab lishing Trans-Atlantic service. “There is another consideration, not generally understood. Promoters talk of building multi-motored planes with a ca pacity of a hundred or five hundred pas sengers. But, beyond certain dimensions a plane becomes unwise, and extremely dangerous to handle. There is not the slightest possibility of building planes on the scale of ocean liners.” BUSINESS IMPROVING. Reports of building operations in all the Southern indicate that busi ness in the South is improving. The Manufacturers Record sees now “a big forward movement in building and in dustry in the South.” The Record finds that throughout the section building and industrial expans ion are under way on a big scale, and this view is supported by reports covering building operations, engineering and gen eral construction work gjnd the voting and sale $f municipal securities. „ “Throughout the year,” says Thurs day’s bulletin issued by The Record, “construction and building has progress ed steadily, but during recent weeks there has been a noticeable increase in activ ity in practically every line of work; the localities represented are widely scatter ed throughout the territory from Mary land to Texas, indicating a generally healthy condition of business and indus try. “A strong market now prevails for Southern securities, and there have been I many recent sales of municipal, county, district and state bond issues at remarka bly attractive prices. “\Vith the funds available from the is sues recently marketed and the funds to be obtained from sales scheduled for the immediate future, there will be in the ag gregate a vast sum of mopey available for public improvements of all kinds in the Southern states.” ABOUT NAVAL ARMAMENTS. Great Britain and the United States are pot in agreement now as to naval armament limitations but apparently the Japanese and American viewpoints have much in common. The British proposals, in fact, have been rejected by the United States whereas the plans from the Japanese have won our approval. That does not necessarily mean, of course, that agree ment cannot be reached, and before the conference is over the three natibns may be in perfect accord. • The '(United States hopes the Geneva conference will bring a solution but in case it does not President Coolidge may call another conference. That holds out the hope that before the matter is finally disposed of at present the armament ques tion may be settled insofar as these three powers are concerned. 'Then, again, when one observes certain type.s of the new and perky generation, one is moved ,to repeat with the poet the for < the smack* of a vanished hand on ttfe fiiiace jwhere ihe spank oyght to be.”—Lafayette journal ancl Courier. Too anany of the Hollywood films have happy endings, says a director. But then the actors per sonally furnish a little variety.—Huntington Advertiser. “Shoot to kill” is a new order given Chicago police. What were their former instructions, “Aim ' to please?”—Brooklyn Eagle. THE CONICORb TIMES T POLICE OFFICERS* WILL REPORT ALL ACCIDENTS HERE It Is Thought That by Re porting Accidents That the Number Will Be Greatly Reduced. Police officers of^Concord along with the officers of the other cities of the State of North Carolina will, begin ning July Ist, make a detailed report of all motor car accidents that occur here, L. A. Talbirt, chief of police, said today. The report of the accidents will be made to R. A. Doughton, commission er of revenue, and he will keep a com plete file of all accidents , that occur in the state. Mr, Doughton has expressed the opinion that this law of making a re port of the accidents will materially reduce the number of accidents in this state and will tend to safeguard human life. \ A letter received by Chief Talbirt is as follows: The last legislature enacted a law requiring all motor vehicle accidents resulting in personal injury to be re corded in this office. (Section 5, chap ter 122, public laws 1927). I am mailing you a supply of forms No. 1000-A which you are requested to use in reporting accidents that come to your attention. This report should be forwarded to this office as early as possible after an accident as you can conveniently prepare it. For your information and conven ience the motor vehicle bureau will maintain a record of character and location of the accidents of each in- WASH FROCKS AT $4.95 $5.95 $6.85 $9.75 22 South Union Street Season after season. Washable Frocks have grown in importance as they have developed , in beauty. The Wish Frocks of today are far different dresses from those of a decade ago. 2They have —or should have —the charm, the youth fulness, the variety of style ideas characteris tic of frocks selling at many times their price. You'll find excellent demonstration cf what style in genuity can accomplish in Washable Frocks on individ uality, in our many new originations now on display. / ——-— — ——^ I AI/E I D¥ CHAMPION I I SELF-DUMP RAKt I “Sure-shot, DoiAkp^^reled”ITrip 1 Trip I An AVERY PLUS Feature ■ A dependable, self-dumping rake has ■ for years been listed among the wan t.es i implements. Not a rake that dumps ■ now and then or in light crops. Eut a 1 rake that dumps every time —whether ■ handling hay or cotton stalks —a “sure -9 shot” self-dumper. I Here again Avery designers and in -1 ventors prove the Value of the Avery system of thinking and'building. For f on the Avery Champion Self-dump I Rake you find the Sure-shot Double si barreled Trip—the first tripping device t Avery Plus Features Save You Tinae and Money I a implement coot, *!** rood quality h worth. These 1 Av l ry P/us Features—•-createp by Avery designers, inventors and I l ±l\F7u ’ "• dividends which your money earns when you I■ . }j. /Sr VA »nvfst uj the name Avery. They «u? 5 both time and money That ia / |\ |*y#) o”^ VCryP/! * lo * tea “ t i 3 :hc mJ> |JL» ■ /•o*\ Call upon ua lot information. V. 1' J y Yorke & Wadsworth J 1 ' - ■ -■' r— dividual. Upon request you will be furnished a report on any particular driver as to the number of accidents 1 in which he -or she may have been ‘ involved. In cases of arrest this in formation would enable you to ascer * tain whether you are dealing with a , chronic violator of safety laws or a j mild offender. It is suggested that you use two of these forms in making out a report, retaining the carbon copy foi! your 1 own files. f It is felt that a strict compliance with- this law will materially reduce - the number* of accidents in this state and will tend to safeguard human life. ’ It follows reason that a driver will be more careful when he knows that s each accident will be recorded against him and that the courts have author ity to deprive him of his license to ' | drive an automobile and will doubt j less do so when shown that he is a -, menace to the safety of the public. THE BETTER HOMES COMMITTEES WILL MEET ON SATURDAY Will Be Last Meeting Before Better Homes House Is Opened to the Public on June 28th. The different committees of the Bet ter Homes campaign are called to meet together in the Concord Y. M. C. A. at 3 o’clock Saturday, June 25th. j This is a final meeting before the j demonstration of the better home to be opened Tuesday, June 28th, at 3 ‘ o’clock. j The committees follow : House planning committee —E. L. I “ — — 1 Morrison, Miss Ophelia Barker v ! D. B. Castor, Mrs. W. A Fnii ** Mrs. R. A. Sappenfield. IoU and j Beautification of grounds—Mrs 1 O. Caldwell, R. D. Goodman. Rev i D. Miller, and Mrs. W. A. Sifford ’ House furnishing committee—M r Edd Erwin, Mrs. Hagler, Miss ij' becca Castor, Mrs. W. A. Foil M E. Myers, Mrs. Frank Morrison Mr< R. A. Sappenfield, Mrs. John Mom!' Mrs. P. M. Morrison, Mr s . Hard! Moose and Miss Mary Harry. Culture —Miss Lena Moose. Mrs J. R Cook and Mrs. Richmond Reed" Program—Dr. J. C. Rowan, Mrs D. B. Castor, Mrs. W. A. Foil MiU Ophelia Barker. Reception—Mrs. W. A Foil \r r C. S. McCurdy, Mrs. W. A. Sifford Mrs. D. B. Castor and Miss Ophelia Barker. Publicity— W. M. Sherrill. Miss Ophelia Barkery Mrs. R. A. Sannen field and Mrs, D. B. Castor. NAME W. G. BROWN COUNTY ENGINEER FOR ANOTHER TERM Cabarsus County Highway Commission Re-organized Monday Afternoon at a Called Meeting. Re-organization of the Cabarrus County Highway Commission was ef fected Monday afternoon at a called meeting of the commissioners, all of ficials being re-elected. T. H. Webb was chosen as chair man with W. A. Brown as vice chair man. W. G. Brown was named as secretary, and engineer for his third consecutive term. The CoHCord Na tional Bank will act as treasurer of the commission. John W. Cress is the other member of the commission. Wilcox-Ludwig. The following announcements have been issued : - Mr. and Mrs. Charles 8. Wilcox announce the marriage of their daughter Cleff Marie to Mr. Harland A. Lud\v : g Saturday, June eighteenth Nineteen hundred and twenty-seven East Lansing, Michigan At Home after July fifteenth Albion, Michigan. Mrs. Ludwig was for several years a member of the faculty, of Laura Sunderland' School,' And is pleasantly remembered by many friends here. Freeman-McSallie. The engagement of Miss Martha M. Ereeman v to J. B. MeSallie. was an nounced at a party given in her honor' at the home of Mr. and Mrs. D. IV. Miller, .in Charlotte. The wedding will take place in Hickory, July 2nd. 1927. Miss Freeman is the daughter of Mrs. It. 8. Freeman, of Concord. Mr. MeSallie is the son of Dr. and Mrs. D. H. MeSallie, of Washington and is employed with Cohn and Myers, Inc., New York City. It is with much interest and pleas ure that the friends of Earl Hender son, Brown lgarn that he has been pronounced out of danger by the at tending physicians. He is sitting up some, but is not able to leave the Uni versity of Pennsylvania Hospital yet. wi thin our experience that actually and reliably dee3 the work every time. 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