232 THE FISCAL PROBLEM IN MISSOURI

TasLe 76: Functional DistriBuTioN oF PusLic ScrooL
ExpeNDITURES IN Missouri, 1915-1929
Source: Reports of the Public Schools of the State of Missouri
Computed by National Industrial Conference Board

Year Ending |
June 30

Teachers i Incidental | Building
Wages Expenses Purposes

$10,840,862
4 11,362,964
N7 11,654,376
918 13,498,882
1919 14,207,200
00 16,831,754
91 21,352,796
02 24,303,157
1923 24,569,268
1924 24,499,347
1925 26,849,061
1926 28,008,577
1927 28,605,160
1928 29,638,311
1999 30.847.374

“61,07%
5,542,560
3,709,997
4.387.226
4,485,939
5,432,867
6,677,720
7,644,421
8,176,034
10,104,416
8,322,619
1,663,998
9,631419 |
9.791.776
0 £14 270

45,360,598
4,584,931
4,368,790
4,929,503
3,249,279
5.783.431
7,138,247
8,552,361
9,565,140
11,090,590
13,588,379
13,244,531
16,917,461
13,065,083
10.949.967

Total
Expenditures

$19,662,728
19,490,455
19,733,163
22,815,611
21,942,418
28,048,052
35,168,763
40,499,939
42,310,442
45,694,353
48,760,059
52,917,106
55,154,040
52,495,170
"1.311.573

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1917
1918
1919 64.
1920 50.0
1921 60.7
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1923 1
1924 23.5
1925 5.0
1926 2.9
1927 51.9
1928 54"
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20.6
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Table 76 that the total expenditures on account of public
schools were more than two and one half times as large in
1929 as in 1915, while the total for teachers’ salaries was
almost three times as large. Expenditures for building purposes
 have been more irregular than have those for teachers’
salaries. The latter showed an almost uninterrupted increase
throughout the period of fifteen years, while expenditures for
building purposes showed rather wide variations, as did those
for incidental purposes. For example, total outlays for
building purposes were much smaller in 1929 than in 1927,
and decreased expenditures for buildings accounted for the
decline in the total after 1927.