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Your letter of March 18 has been unanswered, but Wednes day morning I read ar. account of a oeech you made in Winston Salem in which ? i are quoted as aying : "When the schools al most literally had not a single friend to fight for them ? that was the :ime I fought hardest for schools." Is this an indictment against the members of the 1935 Se^ion of the Legislature? Tills statement was made in reference to your legislative record of 1935. It so happens, as you will recall, that I was a member of the same General Assembly and a member of the House Com mittee on Education. I believe that I know what happened with reference to education in that General Assembly, and so I have decided to reply to your letter. You state that heavy burdens were heaped on the schools by the legislature of 1933 by a de termined bloc of school reduction ists. Surely you will recall the Hoover depression when teachers were carrying unpaid vouchers in their pockets, beeau.se the tax on farms and homes could not be collected, when many schools were closing their doors at the end of six months, when banks were closing every day. when busi ness concerns were going bank rupt. when county newspapers carried full pages of advertise ments listing property for sale for taxes, when the State itself had a fourteen million dollar General Fund deficit, when both political parties in their plat form agreed for the first time on one question : namely, to take the tax off land for schools. I thought you were familiar with the depression years, but I recall that during this period you were cloistered In security In a private ly endowed Institution. You were not present in :he Legislature of 1933 when Governor Ehringhaus, with great resolution, came be fore the joint assembly on Marcli 16 and stated that as much as he disliked a new tax that when it came to choosing between the sales tax and the children he would choose the child: and so for the first time in any state all the children of the State, white and black rural and urban, were guaranteed an eight months school term at State expense, and since that time no teacher in North Carolina has had to carry an unpaid voucher and no child has been denied school opportuni ty. This legislature laid the foun dation for the present school sys tem. The 1933 General Assembly realized that the program was inadequately financed, but it had the courage to write a tax bill to take care of the expanding totake care of the expanding r.eeds of the schools on a more adequate basis than any other southern state. In 1935 when you were a mem ber of the legislature from Forsyth County and I was one of the rep resentatives from Wake County, you did advocate increased appro priations along with many oth ers: but you did not vote for a revenue bill that would have pro duced enough money to have met the appropriations you suggested. In that legislature you spent most of your time fighting sales tax. It is true that we did get an ap propriation that increased teach ers' salaries 20 percent the first year and 25 percent fhe second year of the biennium. Times had improved since 1933 and the esti mate of the chairman of the Fin ance Committee, Gregg Cherry, was that the revenue bill proposed by his committee would produce enough money to provide these increases. This bill, of course, re enacted the sales tax and the journal of the House shows that many who were opposed to the sales tax explained that they were voting for it because they believed this form of taxation necessary for the preservation of the schools. As a man who has spent his life in the classrooms of the pub lic schools of the State and as one whose living for his family has come out of the public schools. I have more than an academic interest in education. I am in terested. of course, in theories about school support, but I find it difficult to work up very much enthusiasm for one who makes speeches for schools and then re fuses to vote for a revenue bill that will produce the money with which to pay salaries. That is the position you took in 1935. much to my surprise and disappointment as a fellow school man. When you introduced an amendment to increase aprpopria tions to twenty-two million dollars and then voted "present" on the revenue bill, it looked to me like an empty gesture ? possibly a poli tical gesture: because within a few months after the close of that legislature you were running for Governor on an "anti-sales tax" platform. Like many other democrats in 1935, including Cherry. I did not want to vote for a sales tax. As a matter of fact, that General As sembly did not enact a revenue bill which carried the sales tax until the appropriation bill had been agreed on and it was under stood that the sales tax was nec essary in order to raise the teach ers" salaries during the next two year*. I have often wondered what would have happened to the schools if I. along with others, had fol lowed your example and voted "present" on the revenue bill that produced the money for the school program during the next expanded program during the past two years and the money for the ten years. Had the majority of the 1935 legislature voted "pres ent" as you did. there would have been no money to pay even the curtailed slaries that were paid. This revenue bill on which you refused to vote either for or against ten years late has pro vided the money for the highest salary schedule in the State, for teacher retirement, for the twelfth grade, and for the ninth month. If the majority of the 1935 legis lature had given lip service to the schools as you did by asking for more money and voting against the revenue bill, would we have the present fine surplus of twenty million dollars? Gregg Cherry fought the sales tax as hard as anyone, but when it came to a choice of a complete break-down in the schools, payless days for teachers, and school doors closed to children, he had the courage to vote for an un popular tax in order to save the schools. Having this example of Gregg Cherry's rugged honesty in 1933 and his courageous oppo sition to undermining a tax pro gram that would produce revenue for the schools in 1935, I have fol lowed his legislative record on schools with an especial interest since that time. He has always rung true: here is that record ? one in which he may well take pride and one for which the school people of North Carolina should be thankful. In 1937. he was speaker of the House and in that position had a good deal to do with the framing of legislation, the appointment of committees, and in seeing to it that still further progress in the way of school finances was made. You may recall that the 1937 legislature increased school ap propriations for the next biennium by over six and one-quarter mill ion dollars. In 1939 Gregg Cherry was again a member of the lower house and as former Chairman of the Fin ance Committee was not without influence. The 1939 General Assembly added another six mill ion dollars to the biennial appro priation. After the Appropriation Committee closed its hearings and reported Its bill to the House, the school people Insisted that they needed another quarter of a mill ion dollars very badly. Their ap peals to the Chairman of the Ap propriations Committee were of no avail. Finally. Gregg Cherry agreed to introduce an amend ment to the appropriation bill, increasing the schools' part a quarter of a million dollars. He did this from the floor of the House and successfully fought it through the lower house. In 1941. Gregg Cherry was a member of the Senate. He sup ported all school legislation which Governor Broughton suggested, fought for the retirement bill, and increased appropriations. In 1943. he was again a mem ber of the Senate and headed the fight in the upper house for the enactment of the law which pro vided nine months of schooling at State expense for every child in North Carolina. In addition to these services to the Schools, Gregg Cherry fathered the text book rental plan in 1935 and sup ported the free textbook measure in 1937. It is true that great progress has been made during Governor Broughton's administration. Un til I got your letter, however. I was under the impression that Governor Broughton himself had taken the lead in this program, that he had provided the leader ship which gave us the retirement law, the twelfth grade, the ninth month, more money for vocation al education, and more money for salaries. I also had a feeling that during the ten years you speak of Dr. Clyde A. Erwin had some part in the progress made. I do happen to know that Gover nor Broughton was interested in schools many years before he an nounced for the governorship. If my memory Is correct, he offered an eight months term bill In 1927 when he was a member of the Senate. I recall that several years before he came out as a candidate he made a speech at a teachers meeting in Greenville ad vocating retirement and gave the late beloved John H. Cook large credit for building up sentiment for the retirement plan. I also judge from action of the Teachers Association at various meetings held during the past ten years that the Association was under the impression that Governor Broughton has had much to do with progressive educational legis lation and was himself largely responsible for engineering these progressive school matters through the legislature. In the light of your statement about your part in the Broughton administration and your closeness to the administration, I have been unable to discover that the present administration is support ing your candidacy. As a North Carolina democrat who has lived and voted here all of my life and as one who has taken pride in his party's record on schools, I was somewhat sur prised to find a candidate for democratic nomination for gover nor claim that it was not until he left the academic cloisters for the political arena that the democrats had shown the proper interest in education. I was un der the impression that the reviv al of interest in schools was start ed by the matchless Aycock before 1900. when you were a knee-pants boy in your native state of Illi nois. It is also recorded that such stalwarts as James Y. Joyner, Charles D. Mclver, Edwin, Alder man. E. C. Brooks. Arch T. Allen. Clyde A. Erwin. and numerous others had contributed mightily to developing the proper philoso phy of education within the ranks of the democratic party before you came to North Carolina. I am sending this letter marked "Not Confidential" because I think the teachers and the public are entitled to a statement of facts. I regret that I am unable financially to send a copy of this letter to all teachers. I will, how ever. see that every County re ceives a few copies. Yours very truly, E. W. THOMPSON. Principal Burgaw High School. 'Political Advertisement)
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