The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1917-02-12
.SOLONS TURNING
OUT MUCH G0|sT
MANY FILLS HAVE BEEN PASS.
Ed DURING THIS SESSION
OF LEGisLaTURE.
Bill to Take Election OF County SUI
periutcnden,s Out OF Hands OF
the People Put TO
Sleep.
BY BILL cox.


tin il seems like an ago since had 1
9 good old fashioned chat with the I
readers of the Light and Enterprise. I
The Light comes every day but be-
lieye / would appreciate the Enter I
prise more for | have known 1t for i
more than forty years and I can not I
divest myself of a feeling that the |
Light is a kind OF interloper.
The legislature is working pretty |
steadily and is turning out a good |
amount OF grist, much Of which | |
fear is not for the best interest Of |
the people. | hope. however, / am
mistaken Last week we passed the
State Highway bill which viii result
in the building up of another large
and expensive governmental depart
ment and will eventually cost the
people vast sums of money. 1t be-
gins with three commissioners at a
cost Of $4,000 per annun and q state
highway engineer at salary such
as the commissioners may decide up
on. The original bill provided for
a tax on autos, two-thirds of which
the state would get and one-third
would go to the county. | believe
we succeeded in getting one-half for
the county finally. The proponents
of the measure try to convince us
that this autotax is all that will be
needed for the operation of the state
highway sysem, but to build roads
from Marshall to FL Paso, from Red
river to the gulf and a few other
thousand miles Of roads will require
q great deal more than the auto tax
and the little federal contribution,
offered as a sucker bate, TO build the
great system OF state highways con-
tenapleted 1t do not doubt but that
such roads as may be connected
will be good but by the time it be-
comes necessary TO send a man out
from Austin Or washington TO in
spect broken single-tree on Red
Oak creek it will be very expensive.
islation like this is contemplated By
the believers in big things, who care
nothing Tor the opinions of the peo-
pie al large, they all get together
and most of them being men of
wealth, they have no trouble In pull
ing sufficient number OF little fell
lows who look to them to do almost
anything they wish
Another bill which came up be-
fore the house last week was q
measure gotten up by the state SUI
perintendent of public instruction,
most of the county superintendent
and few of the common school
teachers. e. N. Braley, former state
superintendent, but now president OF
the Girls Industrial School at Den
ton, left his job for some time and
eamped with the members OF the leg
islature, spending a great deal of his |
time on the floor when we were In |
session. Another very distinguished |
gentleman, whose name | have for
gotten, camped with us and there was I
plenty of literature distributed TO the I
membership; but We put the bill to /
sleep for another two years at least. /
It is easy to understand why these /
n n f fhinIr /
1t safe for the people at large to at
tend to their own business. for from
the time D child enters the little
school house until it comes out a
finished product from university,
it is taught that an education places I
its possessor apart from common hui
The whole system teaches
children that education will fit them
for leadership and lift them out of
the humble station occupied by their
parents. The subjects of farming. [
digging bitches, house building, /
house keeping nor any of the useful I
productive vooatious are ever men,
toned. Ihe am0itlon Is lnstiiied III
to every boy to become a great law
yer. minister. u doctor. a states
man, or some other kind of a para
site to devour the products of the !
busy bees. The girls are not taught
that the office of wife and mother
Is the highest and nohlest position (
4 woman ever occupied. but are en-
outraged to teach, paint, play a piA ,
ano, become suffragette lecturers, or
10 almost anything so they escape II
the humdrum existence OF their I
mothers. Given such training 1t re-
luires years of contact with the real II
practical side of life and an init II
nate association with the mudslll- IL