Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1924-04-25
Want Change in Free Tex Books.
Democrats Lining up Delegates
For National Convention
$4,000 Casualty Insurance Endorsed
Asotin County Democrats Indorse
Judge Stephen Chadwick for
Governor j.
by Jimmie K. browne /.

A movement has been started in the
State for initiating either to the voters
direct or the legislature bill whice
will require that the constitution Of the
United State be taugh4 in the seventh
and eight grades in@ the grammer
school and during the freshmen year
in the high school. There are num-
Der of states in the Union which have
already adopted such a statute.
In this respect there is also going to
be drive launched in the State to de-
mand there be radical change in
many of the text books now being u.s.
ed where free text books are supplied.
and that United States histories and
civics which are used as text books be
more carefully scrutlnized in the fut-
ure, to the theaching of American pa
trotism in the public schools. I:
The WORK of obtaining signatures to
the Bone Power Bill is now underway
in the various large cities in the state.
Something like 10000 signatures are
required to place the ballot next No.
vember.
Democratic leaders throughout the
State are beginning to line up on the
prospective delegates to the sanatonal
convention at New York. 1t is virtu.
ally assured to date that Edwin M.
Conner of South Bend will have one
of the third district delegateships, and
VIM. R. Rust will be one of delegates
at large. Rust lives in Tacoma, He
will not be candidate for natona
committeeship against Senator. Geo,
Christensen Of Stevenson.
Asotn County Democrats in their il
their county convection indorsed Judge
Stephen Chadwick for democratic nom
ination for governor This action com
ing from Southeastern Washington
where it was geliearally understood OF
the Westside that Mayor Ben Hill ,o1
Walla Walla had the democratic Gym
chez to hir support has tended to boor
the Chadwick stock several hundred
per cent
The State Chamber of Commerce
has Endorsed legislative program
which calls for the enactment of law
which will make it madatory upon
every automobile owner to take out
casualty insurance in a sum Of not less
than SIS, 900 before such person can OPP.
crate or have his car operated in the
state. The bill is designed, the apon-
sors say, to provide some curb on the
irresponsible autombile driver.
AS companion bill this one proposal
for afat automobile tax is being dis
cussed by the automobile owners. This
bill is intended to relieve the automo.
bile owners of the personal property
tax on the cars substituting for the
present tax fiat fee. The automobile
men are complaining that they not olny
pay two cents excise tax on all gasoline
used, but also pay higa automobile
license fee and on top of these two
taxes pay a comparatively high per-
sonal property tax They ask for leg
islative relief.
In the archives of the State Depart
ment of Public Works at Olympia is a
complaint filed by the City of Seattle
against private owned electric light
and power concerns operationg in Seat
tie which would max interesting read
ing at this time. The city complains
to the state that the light company is
engaged in unfair competition in that
its rates are lower than TIN city can
afford to make, and asked that the
company be ordered to increase its