The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1918-10-09
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
PICKING MR.. BRINSON'S
ARGUMENT TO PIECES


Editor Star: In your article OF
yesterday afternoon you turn loose
upon the public column and half
of about the most refreshing ignor-9
ance in regard to school matters that
could be condensed into that space.
(If our ignorance is so refreshing,
we wonder why Mr.. Crimson flies into
such fever about it. If it be ignor-
ance, the people of this county are
wise enough to recognize it,
/ again say that / do not want to
be construed as opposing in the
slightest the subscription for the
dummy guns and have not questioned
the good intentions of the Star IN
fostering the matter, but it surely is
inconsistent to oppose taxation for
needed school equipment and then
have to carry around subscription
paper for what is needed.
THE dummy guns. like the works
of the watch, have nothing to do with
the case. For two years we have
tried to get the school board enough
interested in the matter to procure
drilling equipment for the high school
boys. So far as we know, the matter
was never brought up. This year,
with the assistance of the principal of
the school, and the boys themselves,
we are trying to raise the money, and
succeeding. The matter has nothing
to do with the ten-mill amendment,
and If it had we would have as much
right to use it as an argument as
you. It would have been darned bad
taste in either of u.s.
In the matter of the salary of the
superintendent, do you suppose |
would have been drawing this salary
for nearly ten years without knowing
the limits of it? No, sir. You have
exhibited complete ignorance of both
the law and facts in the case and had
you called upon the office we would
have been glad to have saved you
from this exhibition.
The salary of the superintendent is
based upon the receipts of 100000
per annum for school purposes from
all sources, making the minimum un-
der the law of SITS per month and
this is the salary of the superintend-
net and he cannot claim more until
the receipts are as much as $4,000.
/ know that our board would not levy
more than one more mill and am not
at all sure that they would do this
oxJ ono v,,;II - +ho v,rocnnf xyo1,,o +; ion
of Marion county, $7,213,239, would
would be S7,213 and all of the levy
is never collected. Seven mills last
year yielded US for the county gen.
eral fund but 45,167.94 and one mill
would under this yield us but &c.
452.56. The exact income for the
school year ending June 80, 1918,
!, was $1O2, 1878 from all sources and you
see that it would require levy of the
full three mills to entitle the superin-
tendent to any increase whatever.
Neither will it increase the per diem
and mileage of the members of the
county school board.
well, Mr.. Crimson, we said we be-
lieved you were disinterested in the
matter, and If you been wise you
would have let it go at that. We
have always stood up for your ability
and honesty, and that of the entire
board; have we not? We hope you
will remain in Office until Abraham
gathers you to his bosom. But you
are not going to live forever, and
when you and Brethren Scott and
Stephens and Veal, and Colbert who
is to take SCOTS place, are picking
at the strings of your harps some
bunch of grafters may be picking
chunks out of that ten-mill levy. The
voters make mistake occasionally
And this amendment is not for Mar
ion county alone, but for the whole
state, in which are fifty odd counties
with the same number of school