Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1921-02-23
DR.. Johnson DISCUSSES -
... NATIONAL PROBL EMS

Il = z3..*Ea 81 S6Z1 CAKES Avenue,
s !s.z, i. Everett, Wash,
Editor Willmar Tribune: %* IN IN b III
+. I have just received the Tribune
OF Feb. End and see there nice letter
from Mr.. S. A. Rasmussen of Fern HNl;
Tacoma, Wash. We have been Con-
templating visiting the Rasmusen's
and hope to do SO soon. / want to
state that Carl Carlson and family
are nicely located about l mile out
from Everett on a 5-acre ranch. Will
mar people will remember the Carl
son family that lived just east Of the
crossing east of the city. The Carl
sons have very fine fruit ranch. !
also can state that Julius Helmers at
Bellingham are O. X. They have q
very nice home at 1910 Mason Street,
Bellingham, Wash. = +.
They5say we. have had more rain
this winter than they can remember.
We have not found the weather dis
agreeable. =
A wave of crime has been sweeping
the coast cities this winter. The pub
lie mind is at loss just how to handle
petrated by youths and not by the
classical hardened toughs. Undoubt-
eddy the movies have something to do
with this. The immature mind sees
these rough scenes enacted and the
impression stays in the memory until
some Occasions-or circumstances
calls for some such enactment in
their lives, and those who lack inhib-
tive power enact the scenes suggest,
ed by the memory pictures in their
mind. Democracy is not tried out yet.
We in this country are just now fac.
ing the great crisis-to:wit: whether
we as people can learn to pull to-
gether in harmony without develop:
ing a Napoleon or Hohenzol1ern.
The public question here in Wash.
ington now is tax reduction. It has
got to come or business will go to
smash. Nobody wants to. own prop.
erty that is taxed for all it brings in.
1t has been demonstrated that in this
state 400 of all money collected by
taxation is wasted. Hence the Ques
ton is how to eliminate waste.
To this end civil case has been
passed lately at Olympia which Great
ed commission to be appointed by
the Governor, to reform, consolidate
and govern and eliminate all waste
1t is an experiment only. A new
school code also is up before the leg
islature; centralizing the whole sys
tenn to promote efficiency and econ
omy. However, it is not probable
that it will pass, as it would practical
ly take the control of the schools Out
of the hands of the public for all time
to come, as the State Board of Edu
cation would also be appointed by tn.
Governor, and it could not be recon
stituted for many years, should tn
public desire so.
The fact is our school system i:
not on scientific practical basis
Our system was designed for the les!
than 2% of the population that get,
college course. The average com
mon mass of the youth that gets onl!
, common school course or less, ar
voters and are becoming class con
scious, if may use that term, and will
not continue to stand for the expen
, SEES of the higher schools. Very sool
, our school system will be adjusted
, so that public money will only b.
, used for a common school course TO
, all. Whatever that may be, 8, 9 o
10 .n., In fact, that is all that tax
alton can stand. That idea is no
clear yet in the mind of the publi
but it will soon be.
l Heretofore we have lived and NOV
) ed in the unlimited wealth of the nat
}. ural resources of a new continent