Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-09-13

record. We ask our subscribers in
terest and help in making our cam
paign a decided success in every way
both for us and the contestants.
900
Here's for national legislation to
put farm hands on an eight hour day,
pay time and one-half for overtime
and make the basal rate $500 the
month anything is constitutional
nowadays, you know.
900
The only trouble with the above lit
tie idea, to which any congressman is
welcome, is that the average farmer
would turn over his farm to the hired
man and go to work for wages. If
the trainmen were paid their absolute
they would be, we will say, under
Socialistic method Of administration,
it is an even bet that their wages
would be materially less than what
they now demand. The reason being
that the meagerly paid employees of
other classes, such as section hands,
oilers, clerks, ETC., would be getting
much more than they do at present,
and as the latter classes constitutes
a large proportion Of the help, there
wouldn't be fat amount left for the
trainmen
900
Now that the primary is over let us
forget for a while at least any bit
terness arising from political differ
ences. Some people are so natured
that they can't harbor bitterness and
hatred, and how fortunate they are!
Did you ever see a man who hated
people who didn't have the marks of
his own unhappiness printed on his
countenance? When you do see him
don't you feel awfully sorry for him?
900
Advices from the west and south in
dictate that Grant county farmers
have nothing to grumble over in the
way of prosperity or poor crops.
With cotton worth nearly 16 cents a
pound Arkansas farmers are drawing
long faces with half a crop or less
due to drought lasting Y days.
Southern Kansas from one end to the
other corn is a complete failure. The
stalks are burned so bad, it is said,
that they are yellow from top to bot
tom. No dairy industry down there
mind you Grant county seems to
have plenty of hogs, and porkers
brought SLIGO on last Thursdays
Chicago market.
900
Why not instead of spending so
much money for the university, take
even 1.-THE of it and increase the eff
ficiency of the common schools? Prob
ably not one child in fifty ever sees
the inside Of college, Every child
should have the best education COM
mon school can give. The college ed
ucation works out very we'll for the
individual fortunate enough to be able
to obtain one, but does it benefit the
mass Of the people in any particular
way? Isn't the education received be-
tween the years Of five and sixteen
practically all the average child gets +?
Shouldn't we see that that education
is just as complete as possible?
Why don't we gradually work away
from the expensive, necessarily inef-
ficient and meagerly supervised dis
trict rural school toward the township
educational affair? Why shouldn't
our country children have the great
advantages accruing where large num-
bers of children rub shoulders to-
gether, as the children in the towns
do? Why shouldn't we have the SUI
pervision that comes by having a
graded school with principal, and
at the same time cut down the many
times duplicated overhead cost that
comes with a number of small teach
ing units? Let us think about this
township school idea. Let us plan
later.