The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1919-01-11
UNIVERSITY EXTENSION
Proposed by the Palm Beach POST
It's Harder to Spend Than to Collect,
Sometimes


Sometimes
Whenever the tax collector does his
duty Gas all good tax collectors do
he decreases the product of days
lanor.
This then is the big idea-all taxes
are paid by all the people all the
time not by some of the people some
OF the time, as some have been sup
posing.
In preparing to fight-your country
calls for fighters. Some escape. Even
the conscript law was only about fifty
per cent catching as far as it went.
Not so with the tax law. None can
claim exemption and get by with it.
Do not think, that because you don't
smoke cigarettes, you sidestep the
tax of $1.25 per thousand which the
federal government collects. This tax
reduces the purchasing power of a
nickel or a dollar-in other words
taxes reduce the number, measure or
weight of things for which money can
be exchanged which calls for more
money, which calls for more labor.
Now, everybody knows that labor
is the only producer, therefore it is
easy for everybody to know, that, as
all must labor, no one can escape
taxes which go on producing.
When we started out we hoped that
we would be able to pass along the
suggestion that, as all the people pay
all the taxes all the time the nearer
You come to reaching all the people
all the time with what tax money is
spent for, the nearer you come to sat
| isfying the tax payerS-and maybe
we will, sorter, pass along the good
word-there's no telling who reads the
papers these days.
Quite large amount of tax money
paid by the people of Florida, is by
their direction, spent to maintain and
extend what are called the institu-
tons of higher learning-and we are
rot so sure that one kind of learning
can be higher than another, even if
it is more advanced-anyhow every
body is sure that the more people you
can reach with what these institutions
do, the nearer you get to distributing
the tax money like it is gathered
share and share alike.
And this is a good rule for every
one to follow who spends the peoples
money. And this is why we venture
to cut in on the thought wire of the
board of control.
Ebert Hubbard, who went down on
the Lusitania put personality, pep and
a peculiar phraseology into biogra-
ply, and brought it to life. His liter
airy output ran too much bunk to the
ton, to grade as first class ore, yet,
nevertheless and notwithstanding, his
I"Little Journeys" PANIED out mighty
well in the real stuff that -instructs
and entertains at the same applica-
I ton. He used one of these surprising
little. personal sketches, to tell about
the man who started a correspondence
school in Scranton, Pa, whom he pro-
nounced great, because he developed
a great idea.
He provided means for going tC
college for those people who have to
|, stay at home and work.
There are hundreds of correspond.
: ence courses now open, and learning
while earning" is about as easy now
as filling while eating used to be.
1t was easy to do after the man II
Scranton showed US how.
State universities have adopted
teaching by mail, as one of the plan!
to get to more people, with their frs
aid to the ignorance stuff.
Our own university at Gainesville
! offers correspondence courses in edu
cation, English. history, Latin, math
!, ematics, psychology, science ant
: Spanish. Last year 137 persons en-
rolled for this instruction.
Not very encouraging showing b!
the people of Florida. But just sucl
small beginning did the people o
Wisconsin made few years ago, an'
now the University of Wisconsin hai
! ninety thousand enrolled for one o.
more of its score or more correspond
ence courses.