The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1920-05-31

often q very inefficient one at that, in order that
\ his children may be educated 81 a5} +Ir 4
4tt Who pray, has greater right to have his chill !
dren receive the best there is in education than
the pioneer who braves the hardship Of an isolated
existence in order that new fields may Be opened
up and production the greatest need Of every coun
try, increased! @ @s &% nss$As.@& gf4.r::11 !
q Under the present system Of school government
and support it is almost entirely case Of local
support by taxes imposed upon the School district
II efficient instruction and adequate equipment is
to be furnished, the district must pay for it--and
conversely If the district cannot afford it the
children of the district do not get it. ~ y:
t* We cannot believe this is the ideal way OF ad-
ninistering our school system The child of the !
farmer in frontier district is much entitled to
H. thorough training the child of the millionaire
In the city-and who shall say that past history
and experience have not demonstrated that in spite
of it's handicap the little red country school house
has produced great, or greater, number OF lead
ers in our nation as the larger city schools? -
In short, why should not state educational
department become the School DISTRICT" Impose
an equal tax collect the revenue administer in
full the expenditure, supervise in detail the opera
ton of the large and small schools alike, and see
to it that because one community is in pioneer
district its children receive less chance for
training than those in more favorable situation.
Why should the daughter Of q pioneer
on the frontier be handicapped in the competitive
race of life because his or her father had the
extra grit and determination to move itno- the new
country in order to develop it and thus enrich our
nation?: -; '.'' 4. u" Z MI ~ XII
Many petty jealousies arising from local
board government; many ineficiencies now pound
ed over, and much that tends to prevent harmony
in the government Of schools would be removed.
All woults be taxed alike, all would share alike in
opportunity, and the standard of education in
the Lowell level of schools would be raised to that
of the higher. ! ~
The basis of state aid to the communities would
not be made on what vocational work is being
done in the schools, but the basis Of what would
be done would be. in proportion to what the state
aid it, The cart is before the horse at present
with regard to state aid to schools - L
Cities, both large and small, have grown up in
various parts of state because of the resources
of the state in this particular locations Some have
become immensely wealthy because Of having been
blessed byIa generous Providence who in His gen.
crosby made available such bound1ess storehouses
of wealth. Others less fortunate have struggled
along-not less energetically- with less orig
inal endowment. Shall not the children of those5
who have equally toiled be equally favored with
the opportunity Of the best of education? Thee:
best to be had in education to every child in its
borders, Why not do it,. :. !. . j: ~.
In Spanish Morocco, a lecturer tells us, there is "
tribe Of natives who treat their wives as beastss
Of burdens and their daughters are sold to; the =
highest bidder, But why pick on iliterate and
unenlightened Morocco? We have only to look i
around in our own land to- see the 'beast Of BURDEN
at her toll and the daughter decked out IN peekaboo
fnery to catch the richest husband <>5 ~
- The railroads want billion dollar increase in !.
freight rates, rather they want an increase that
will produce that much additional income. Give it
to them The consuming goat still has square
inch or two of hide left his lacerated back jl
=, With Carranza in his grave at the hands Of al,
treacherous and brutal assassin, there is a possf
*blity of return to something like normal condi-s
tions in Mexico. A possiblity-thats ALL - -
A merchant advertses "silk shirts one-third of. >"
Too short, brother too short for comfort. There's
nothing more exasperating than trying to keep an
abbreviated one down. I
people try to straddle through life with foothold,
in each place. " -,
Buy horn Blow into it. Make noise for
this town. You will be heard
,erican manufacture. - TX =
80 iii millionaire piloted Number ON
REc He is Cliff Durant of Detroit, drivin