Show SCHOOL HEADS ASK appropriation AT millions Illions are arc being spent in main C C C ca camps ps with but I 1 nominal beneficial results the 1 N NHA R A pr program Is being bolstered with huge administration costs and tile the governmental heads are I 1 building roads to parks and other places but little heed Is being paid to the maintenance of tho the public schools tile source from which boys and girls are fit it for future life throughout vie united states many of the projects di drawing awing heavily on oil the funds set aside tor for unnecessary things lings ti are AT robbing tile the child e and aspiring students from an ambition commenting on the educational situation as a result 91 it of tho shortage of funds to properly pio perly maintain the schools tho the scottish rites news bureau lias has tile following state to superintendents and commissioners llast ss ners of public schools will who ruet met in ill washington D C on september ab 15 and 16 on rail call of U S coal commissioner missioner of education george r P zook all and ir dr carlos carloa A lee state of missouri and president of the national coun conn ell of superintendents and of education are alarmed over what they call educations worst crisis basel on their deliberations erat crat ions they are preparing to ask congress tor for a special emergency lap appropriation of upwards of 0 GO at the conclusion of the session four committees which had been named by the council began immediately fla tely to prepare data bearing on tile the situation the most important la Is the committee on federal relations which Is headed by superintendent tel ident sidney 13 hall ot of Virgin virginia virgilla la dr lee selected to head the state superintendents superintendent 4 a and 11 d colu commissioners during tile the ensuing year said at in part the opinion Is pretty general that the government must extend aid to tree free education in its crisis my aly own opinion Is that this ampro pria privation tion need not exceed fifty million to sixty million the crisis faced by the public schools this winter Is tile the worst in history while the has released front from day labor an estin estimated boys boya and girls of school age the schools have been pinched to such an extent that there will be fewer teachers at their klecks this winter than last the teachers on the job will vill i be forced to take an average ot of 2 20 0 per cent reduction in tin pay Y and as high as 60 per cent in some communities muni ties continuing superintendent lee stated that the schools la in now new england and the far west have not been so BO badly lilt hit but the cone con in the south are terrible there ho he states whole counties hove have shortened ther terms to three tour four and five months unpaid warrants war ranta of teachers total in some borne communities of the middle west high schools have been put on a tuition basis and public school teachers will receive less than per year during the ensuing year la in communities of tho the south teachers will draw 35 per month this year which Is less than the day laborer gets under tinder the dr lee declared gunelson Gunn lson val ley news |