Indiana daily times., 1920-02-20
GENERALIZATION

''I can't see no sense in them school
fellers allus knockin' the tax board" re-
marked Miss Samantha Nevermore at the
meeting of the Pulltight Civic Better
ment association last Monday afternoon.
I'll say that the tax board seen it's duty
and done it from the mint 1t was ap-
pinted by the guvenor. Didn't attend
one O. Its hearif's when Chairman Sims
was supported from the room in
nervous swoon after fggerin' all day on
whether the new school buildin at Hard
scrabble ought to have FIVE winders in
the side next to the road or, considerin'
the high price o. glass, whether they
ought to get along fer a while on four?
Didn't l hear Mr.. Zoercher rise to the
supreme heights o. passionate oratory in
defendin' the law as the greatest statute
ever struck Off by the mind o. man since
the constitution was writ In 1857 in spite
O. the fact that he-was a uncompromlsin'
otmmycrat? And didn't Mr.. Cragun
agree in resistin' the demands o. the
people to right to spend their own
money as foolishly as they wanted to
without waNin' fer the aid or consent O.
any tax bosrd on earth?
who said kumthin' about local self
government? Look at Germany fer an
example o. the danger o. too much rights
an freedom fer the individual an the
local community. But them Germans Is
learnin' better. The crown prince has
just come out with an interview from
Holland that he could a captured Verdun
II he'd had a central tax board. Now
nalf the school men don't know how to
spend their own money to say nothin' O.
public funds. Take fer instance Prof.
sImpurse who used to be principal here.
ou all remember how be invested Se867,
mis- savin's fer twenty years. in Kossack
county, oklahoma, oil stock, and after
waitin i've years fer dividends he would
throwed good money after bad by eoin'
down there to see about it only the ticket
man couldn't find Kossack county any
"nere on his time table. Look at the
fellers that's hnancin' educational issues
out O. their Thrift stamp savin's. When
tney git through with that scheme they
Won't have enuf money left to make the
nrst payment on a clay pipe at pre-war
prices
Seems like educators change RIley's
pome to III The speculator sends blue
sky, wy blue sky's my choice Even
In normal times the people way out
on the rim o. Indianny don't know what's
good for 'em TO say nothlu' o. trustin'
to town boards since Aprile,~ 1915. 10
hgser tax schedules within a 100 miles
o, Louisville, er Cincinnati. er Terre
Haute, where the police almost caught
man with 600 bottles o. licker In his
cellar, er Gary. where there's only one
industry and they've been & irwin 10
quit workin' at that, er Michigan. where
the voters is all puffed up financially
over electin' Newberry senator. And he
side everbuddy knows that even the most
enlightened people is helped a hun lot
by interducin' wisdom from outside.
wy even Washington Irving never
wrote pome that wuz worth reaVlfn'
until tramp come along one day and
dropped copy o Burns into his hands
And then the children's youne and the
schools can wait fer their money and
that's nore'n ! can say fer the tax board.
And II the normal schools an universi-
ties can't take care O. all the Young
folks that's jammin' their registration
books let 'em go down into Mexico.
where they don't believe In crowdin'
the schools out o. their efficiency. II
might be, II somehuddy'd 20 down there
that wuzn't lookin' fer oil. maybe Car
rauZa'd git hair cut and shave and
feel better and act like a human bein'
part o the time at least An as fer a.
that's CONCERNED didn't one O. the county
supeFlhtendehts say - public meetiu
that bis county got everything IT needed
after some o. the boys had seen the euv.
enor7
mo stree the people don't have no
idee o. what's good fer EN-. II wuz
the guvenor I'd invest the tax boaro
with power to build school houses and
to tear 'em down. to license and IN
license teachers. give 'em their success
grades and hire 'em and fire 'em 10 every
town and township in Tudianny Then
wed soon put the old Hoosier state on
the map where she belongs and we'd have
tax law that wuz a tax law. II fr
wuzn't fer nine-tenths o. the people con
tinualiy naggin' at the law they'd all
be tiekied 20 death over bavin' It. But.
jist as I said before. If you'd give the