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Show „-apt'_ C. G. Hall -6- more than for the salaries they could earn* and that^if I took them over then and made them Government employes, it would relieve the money situation because they would be paid by the Government, and at the same time v/e could have an efficient school over which he would watch with something like paternal solicitude. Incidentally to this discussion, Bishop Spalding told me that at one timo the mission at IVhitorockc had proposed starting a little hinder garten class, but that, in view of your feeling that it would interfere with the Government school, the project had been dropped. I hope you will not oppose any movement of that kind which is made there. For my own part I would not care a snap if all the Government schools disappeared and nothing but mission schools remained, just as I do not care whether all the Government schools disappear in any quarter where the public schools of the State would take care of the children. My sole object is to get the children taught: I do not care what agencies are used,as long as they are respectable and good, to teach them. If the project of a kindergarten class is revived, it will be with a view to building up a little mission school which later we can undoubtedly take possession of and make into a Government school. This will save us a tremendous amount of trouble in doing our own organizing, will procure us equally valuable results.and will enable us to devote the time and energy which would otheriv/ce be expended in this one channel to others which need them more. |
