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I SCHOOL EXPENDITURES IN
|- ~ NORTH CAROLINA?
I P : During the 25-vear period from 1900-
to 1925-20 expenditures for schools in
Carolina increased about $30,-
I pOOOIOOO annually. That is the total in
|sTß2r>-26 was about 30 times the total in
**oo-01.
■'jwThis fact is established in a recent dis-
Pcufcsion in School Facts of expenditures
||ifor schools in North Carolina. In 1900-01
ftthe total school expenditures, exclusive
If of debt service, was approximately one
I and a quarter million dollars while in
| 1925-26, twenty-five years later, approx-
I imately thirty-two and a half million dol
-1;-lifers was spent for elementary and second
1, ary education in the State.
School expenditures as used in this dis
y cussion includes all amounts spent for
gctSSChers’, principals' and supervisors’
salary and expenses of the sup
itefimtendents of schools, salary and ex-
Ppftnses of the superintendent of public
salary and expenses of the rural
«'SHpervisor, the per diem and expense of
|>the board of education, clerical, office and
■jollier administrative expense of the sup-
Xerintendent of schools.
The total expenditures also include the
|samounts spent for fuel and janitors,
gschool supplies, rent, insurance, trans
gpprtation of pupils and other costs of op-
Ijerfetion. In addition to these, all repair
*charges, new furniture and apparatus,
books for libraries, trucks, new build
p:ings and sites and all other capital out
; lay payments are included in the total
|f expenditures for schools. No debt ser-
payments are included in these ex
-1 petiditures for the reason that the expen-
I diture for which the payment of a debt
■ is being made was included in the items
■ above at some preceding time. The fig-
Hl'tires presented, therefore, represent the
IF actual cash disbursements for a particu-
K lai* year, but not including payments for
E debt service. They represent also the ex-
Bjienditures for all elementary and sec
wondary public schools—white, colored,
ip Indian —for the entire school term.
J| whether it be six, seven, eight, or nine
Il||aß*hths, and from funds received for
Hh|&pl purposes from all sources—State,
fjgfetnty, district and private.
HHfr 1900-01 there were 435,184 public
! plglool children. In 1925-26 a total of
'HHp$39 children were enrolled in the ele-
I'Jpttary and secondary schools of the
• j§?|lir 1900-01 the per capita cost was $2.81
Riper year. In 1925-26 the annual cost per
900-0l!| only 59 peT cent, of the
enrolled attended school regu-
P darkly. In 1925-26 74 per cent, of the en-
Bprdltthent attended school daily.
iMn 1900-01 the average annual salary
|o{ l white teacher was $98.77 and a col-
BRbred teacher, $79.85. Iri 1925-26 the av-
Hprftge white teacher received $853.23 and
H||he Average colored teacher received
Kin 1900-01 the average length of term
*|for the white schools was 86 days and for
■gfe colored schools 79 days. In 1925-
|K the white schools had an average term
days and the colored schools
data were obtained from the an-
[iretaffion and conventant analysis the
expenditures -fdr the year 1925-186 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 j decided jump from
$0,'768,062.03 the preceding year, to $12,-
1 14,258.20; 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
em schoolhouses wias begun. Better
trained teachers were recognized by be
ing better paftd. The State as a whole was
experiencing- an era of prosperity,
i It is noted that the current expendi
tures from 1914-15 to 1918-19 slightly in
crease from year to year. From 1918-19
up to 1925-26 there is a regular and more
vigorous growth in current expendi
tures.
In 1920-21 expenditures for building
start and continue to increase very rap
idly to the present. The past four years
each shows a 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
$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 j
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
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 following 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 $74.96.
In the same year the five leading states
spent per child the following amounts:
1— Nevada—sl32.23.
2 New York—sl2s-97.
3 California—sllß.B4.
4 New Jersey—sllß.B4.
5 Wyoming—sll2.B7.
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 the
past decade."
ABOUT NAVAL ARMAMENTS.
Great Britain and the United States
are not 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 hot
necessarily mean, of course, that agree
ment cannot be reached, and before the
conference is over the three nations 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.
William G. McAdbo declined to discuss
politics when seen by newspaper r me*i in
Charlotte- He was there on,business for
a rail company and apparently he devoted
all of his time and talent to that task.
reporters sought some
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[THE CONCOR&. thtfLV fhlßtlNS
iften mentioned as possi
bility but he has been quiet on this sub
ject recently. He has been innnany states
but in none-of them has he directly dis
cussed politics and the approaching presi
dential campaign.
A CITIZENSHIP CODE.
W i»»ton-Sal«arß«iitim4; *
A good deal of emphasis was placed upon char
acter building in the public schools by the memr
bera of the Fourth Reynolds Conference held laat
week at Reynolds Ohirch. The conference mem
bership was composed of principals and ministers
of religion, Jewish and Christian. Various plana
and suggestions for developing character were con
sidered. One contribution made to the conference
was the code-of'citisenship. for boys and kirls of
Calvin H. Wiley School, which was explained by
the principal bf ‘the school, W. B. Owen.
This code was placed before the notice of the
pupils some four months- -before the end of the
term just closed. Every article in it was suggested
iby some pupil. The code, according “to Principal
Owen, had a marked eifeet upon the children in
that brief time and still greater things are expect
ed of it during the next school year. He code
follows:
A good citizen should be —
• HONEST
lie sould not. cheat nor steal. He should pay
what he owes. He should vote honestly.
TRUTHFUL
Hd can always be depended on. He can be
trusted any where and under any conditions.
FAIR
He* should be fair in his criticisms, judgments,
and treatments of others. He should be fair in
play.
INDUSTRIOUS
He should never be satisfied until his work is
done the best itossrble.
OBEDIENT
He should keep the laws of his country, city,
home, and school.
PROMPT
He should always 'be on time. He should be
prompt to begin and finish work.
POLITE
He should listen while others are speaking. He
should not distudb others, but in every way show
courtesy. and -thoughtful consideration for others.
KIND
He should be gentle and sympathetic in his
treatment of others. He should -be helpful when
ever possible.
GENEROUS
He should be unselfish; willing to share with
others; willing to forgive. •
IiOYAL
He should be loyal to his country, his city, his
home and his school. He should tjiink enough of
his school to take care of the buildings and ground*,-
and to guard in every way its honor and interests.,
CLEAN
He shoml be neat about nil work. He should
keep liis body, clothes, speech, and mind clean.
He should help to keep a clean school.
BRAVE
He should have self-control; should keep on even
if lie fails or is made fun of; if he does Wrong he
should own up and try to make it right.
• THRIFTY
He should save money, things, and time for him
self and as fur as possible for other iieople.
RESPECTFUL
He should be respectful to parents and teachers,
to all in authority, and should have regard for the
rights and bekmgiugs of ail people.
HEALTH
Continually striving for the best health he should
keep the good health rules aud in every way guard
his body and health.
CHEERFUL
He should not be stubborn, but pleasnut and
agreeable in work and play. He should keep his
temper when things go wrong.
A GOOD SPORT
He should know how to take a joke and lu*w to
play fair. He should not show off. He should he
a good loser and a modest winner.
THE NAVAL CONFERENCE
Asheville Citizen-.
Uncle Sam goes against a tough game in Geneva
today when the Naval Arms Limitation Confer
ence, called by Mr. Coolidge, -begins play. There
will be only three players, the United States.
Britain and Japan, but France and Italy will be
sitting in the grandstand ns interested observers
of what transpires on the field.
Mr. Coolidge's Adminstration wants, generally
speaking, whatever? it can get in the way of limita
tion on naval strength among- the big, powers.
Britain has already politely announced that she
will serape none of her cruisers. Japan has pro
claimed her opinion that she shouid have as much
auxiliary tonnage as either America or Britain and
that she needs more cruisers than America's total.
France and Italy are saying, in effect: “No matter
what you fellows do. we shall do wliat we think
best for ourselves!“
That, we submit, is a tough game for the Ad
ministration to beat, It sounds like going into a
fixed game. It undoubtedly is a game in which
two of the players have already doctored the rules
by which they will compete. Moreover. Britain
and Japan are adepts in diplomacy. They have
m%n who have been trained from early youth to
fling the double entendre, juggle the status quo,
hurl the mystifying silence and dance lightly on the
cobweb net of diplomatic procedure, while-the Ad
ministration is about as rich in thoroughly trained
diplomats us it is in advocates of- free-trade.
The most optimistic and patriotic of us can
hardly insist that we got the best of things in the
Washington Arms Conference when none of the
players sat iu the grandstand instead of appearing
on the field. Now. when France and Italy are
making faces at Britain and reserving tbt right to
go ahead of any limitations she may put upon
herself, the outlook is even more discouraging.
Everybody hopes, of course, that our men will
sweep the field and come off with vast aebiev*-
ments iu the matter of holding down naval arma
ments. But nobody can deny that at th* begin
ning of play they face terriffc odds. If they <d* ac
complish anything constructive, they will defcerve
such a welcome home as will make people think
that tlfe-Lindbergh affair has started all over
agaiu.
A MISTAKEN FOUCfI
Raleigh News and Observer.
A Boone correspondent of the Winston-Salem
Journal says the award of ftoaafi thh
Btate equalization fund to Watauga county “wHI
reduce taxes at least 20 cents on the $100,” and
news comes from other counties that do not give
jin eight mouths schools to aU its chitficu
1 This is a mistaken course.* The equalization
fund voted by the Legislature was devised solely
for the- purpose of eaabUag the poorer x-eusties to
increase the school ter** up to or noair to the
length of the richer counties. It see** that the
desire to participate la this fund has caused W
of thf 100 1 counties to certify tffct they belong to
the “poorer counties.” 4 feofue of the: 90 are' among
the richer counties and,! if- their peeperty was
'ptoperlf assessed, comht either-get-no't»rt of the
equalizing fund or very ! little.
The fund was established to increase the length
of the school tern and not to reduce the school
tax. No county la excusable ia reducing taxes if
any child-in. that coew# is thardhy dewed an,
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PE NNY*IN-ms EYE |
mCKtSS XVAMBOLDT
, * There was a druggist. He had
gotten hold of a prescription for mak
ing a pleasant, efficient, effervescent
headache remedy. He put-it up in
hdtttes under bis own label and sold
(Ain his own store. From the start
fee remedy was popular. It became
ae well-known locally that other drug
gists, competitors, came -to him and
paid. “We are having calls for your
headache remedy; cell it to us at a
'price so that we can sell it and make
money and we'll help you push it.”
• ; "Sure, - ' replied the apothecary who
made the headache remedy, “I’ll do
that.” Soon every druggist in his
{own was selling hie headache rem
edy
* The fame of the preparation spread
to other townk. In course of time
fhe druggist sold out his drug store
and devoted himself solely to manu
facturing his headache remedy, which
eventually was carried by drug stores
Over all the United States. -He be
came enormously wealthy.
. There was another druggst. He
got hold of a formula for making an
affective cold cure. He put up that
fold cure in packages bearing his
name. From the start the remedy
teas popular. It became so well
known and so well liked that other
druggist* came to him and said, “We
arc having calls for your cold cure:
Sell it to us at a price so we can sell
It.”
. "Nothing doing,” said the druggist
who made the cold cure. “I want
to toll people into my store, not into
yours. I won’t sell my cold cure
to any other druggist.”
That druggist is doing quite n nice
little business, probably alwa.vs ( will
do a nice little business*—nnd that is
all he ever will do—a nice little busi
ne.-s. He is a nice little man with
a nice little vision, nothing more,
toothing less. He cannot vision thou
sands and .thousands of druggists
throughout the United States selling
|is cold cure and paying him tribute.
Be cannot visualize himself at the
head of a great manufacturing plant
yitli the dollars rolling in so fast and
piling up so high that he has to hire
somebody to count them for him. AIL
he can see is the little profit that he
would lose if somebody bought a twen
ty-five cent package of his cold cure
(through some other druggist.
X These are not fables. These two
instances nre true. And the same
port of thing has happened thousands
ami thousands of times. The short
sighted man with his short-sighted
policies will ulways stand on his own
coat tail; he will step on his right;
foot with his left foot and wonder
irhy he>doesn’t get anywhere.
| Generally speaking it is the broad,
liberal practice that w'ims, and that
does not mean giving away everything
{ton 1 has either; but it takes a gener
pu>. open mind to 1 see large possibili
ties. A map can hold a penny so
dose to his eye that it will shut off
Bis view of thk entire world.
Solomon's favorite wife was one
in a thousand.
JUST how to ewe much unneertaary »uf
ferine for yourself Is one of the most
important Brizes in the world for you
to * know, right now, e
mother-to-be I
the truth; follow I
simple method of J
eminent physician who /<A
dedicated his life’s
•rork to this great «c- H
co7npli*hment for your Ml
benefit! fj QHHwD|
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ist child, but suffered: ■ '-
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Begin now and you srfll realise the wisdom
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