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Show Would You Believe It? There are some who believe that public education costs too much, yet if a tax of ten cents per day were collected from each person of twenty-one years of age and over in the United States the total amount so collected would pay the present public education expense for almost 26,500,000 pupils and students. In 1930 the average expense ex-pense per adult for public education educa-tion was $36.42, the total cost of which was something over" $2,500,-000,000. $2,500,-000,000. The cost of private education during 1930 was slightly over $500,-000,000, $500,-000,000, and the number of pupils enrolled in private schools was 3,-500,000. 3,-500,000. The above information was issued by the Office of Education of the Interior Department. According Ac-cording to these figures there were slightly more than seven and a half times as many pupils and students in public schools as there were in private schools, yet tho cost of private education was one and a half times more per pupil than public education. The amount of annual appropriation appro-priation asked for in the establishment estab-lishment of a Department of Education Edu-cation with a Secretary in the President's Cabinet did not exceed $1,500,000 in the Curtis-Reed Bill, the Capper-Robsion Bill or the present Reed Bill. This additional cost of a Department of Education to the nation's annual educational budget, both private and public schools, would be less than one-twentieth one-twentieth of 1 per cent, yet the saving to public education alone would be more than 10 per cent of the whole, or half as much as it took to maintain private schools for 3,500,000 pupils. |