, 1922-11-16
"A FetU Good Reasons.
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year only-his expense for that N YEAR for
ONE CHILD will pay his 2-mill Cor less) tax on ST.
600 valuation in the Consolidated High School Dis
trict FOR ONE HUNDRED YEARS.
Your children are as good as any in the
world. Why not give them equal opportunity to go
into competition with men and women who come
from communities where education has been provid-
ed? They will soon be the taxpayers and the respon-
sible citizens. Will you handicap them by limiting
them to day labor, when they might through educa-
ton attain a much higher plane in the world?
You have never heard of anyone leaving a
community because it had good schools. Why not
induce people to remain in this valley to educate
their children? Can you not quickly bring to mind
numerous good families who have left this valley
seeking schools for their children?
You have heard of people refusing to come in
to a community because it had no high school. We
face that condition continually. You have the OBJ
portunity to induce these people to come and stay in
the Platte valley.
How many grown people, with families, do
you know of in the Platte Valley who have finished
the local grade schools and never received any fur
Their education-who are handicapped in their every
line of business because they could not get further
schooling without going way at great eXpense-an
expense which was prohibitive? There are MANY of
OIOM' Illus people are LOT Ine f1lSn ScnO0l DISTRICT
as one person. They want better educational facili-
ties for their children than they themselves had.
A good high school in the Valley will increase
materially the value of every acre of land here, and
of every building and every vacant town lot. If all
the districts come in to the consolidation it will not
prove a burden on anyone.
The creation of a real High School will not
affect in the least any grade schools throughout the
districts of the valley. 1t will simply provide higher
education for your grade pupils, which 95 per cent
OF them will not get otherwise.
AS an example or comparison between the eff
fects of ~ mills taxation for consolidation of dis
tricts for High School purposes, and the tuition re-
CURED to be paid, and which MUST be paid hereaf-
ter, take the Spring Greek district. This district has
a valuation of $406 800. The 11b-miI tax for HIGH
School purposes would amount to $40 per year. At
the present time there are either 13 or IA children
from the Spring Greek district attending the Sara
toga school. The average lawful tuition charge on
these pupils is $150-making a total of NINETEEN
and FIFTY DOLLARS that can be col
lected from the Spring Greek district for this one
years schooling of children from that district. And
this money MUST BE PAID by that district if the
present condition continues. Can any voter in that
district hoodwink himself into believing that he is
going to reduce his taxation by STAYING OUT of
the High School District? And the situation is prac-
tically the same with the other districts.
The only conceivable thing that could keer
any voter-any parent-any intelligent citizen from
voting In favor of the proposed High School, is a
mistaken notion that it is going to cost him a lot of
money and that he will save money by VOTING HIS
DISTRICT u And the fact is that in almost ev-
cry case-and probably in the course of a few years.
YER case-he will be placing his district in a po-
sition where it must pay out MORE MONEY every
year than it would be required to pay into the Con
solidated High School District-some of them
VERY MUCH MORE.