The Glenwood post., 1924-02-07
uacIe Ted's Bed Time Stories
Current Events for tho Children
and Grown-ups, Too
HELPING YOURSELF
AND HELPING OTHERS

1t had been getting colder and colder
all day long with a heavy wind that
whistled through the trees and through
the house, in some places as though
there were no walls at all. The tenn
perature had dropped steadily until by
supper time it was good many de-
grees below zero. There was no snow.
Just cold, and Ruth and Jack were
perfectly content, for change, to get
home as fast as they could from school.
Since that time, Ruth had been helping
her mother in the kitchen and Jack
was busy carrying in goodly supply
of wood for the big fireplace and help
ing around the house in general
tsI don't know what has struck
these youngsters" said their mother
at the supper table. "They've been
too good for words this afternoon.
"Maybe it's the cold weather that
makes them move so fast,' suggested
Uncle Ted.
"Maybe So" replied mother, "but
what ever it is I hope it lasts awhile.
They can be such help to me when
they want to-"
"You see what your mother says"
said Uncle Ted. "When you act as
you did this afternoon you are making
character for yourself. You are look
ing after your own interests and at
the same time helping your mother. 1t
is a good deal like our system of gov
ernment. Mother represents the fed
eral government and you two the
states. When you leave it all to moth
er you weaken your own standing and
at the same time pile unnecessary bur-
dens upon her, burdens she was never
intended to carry Now it has been too
much that way with our states in re-
cent years, and President Coolidge, at
the recent meeting of the business or
ganization of the federal government,
made an interesting and vital point
of that very thing.
"You see, great amount Of money
has been provided by the federal gov
ury, for use in the various states. This
is known as federal subsidies to state
governments. The money thus spent
covers very wide field. AS President
Coolidge so well pointed out, the drain
these appropriations make on the fed
eral treasury is not the only dangerous
point. 1t is bad for both federal and
state governments. When so much
money is appropriated by the federal
government for state use it not only
drains the national treasury, but it
states. One of our big metropolitan
newspapers recently pointed out that
the willingness with which the states
are letting go of their power is dan
gerous to the liberty of the people
That paper also pointed out that if the
states properly enforced the prohibition
laws there would be no need for the
federal government to step in and as
sumo control.
CHOW ] guess You can see what l
mean by helping yourselves and at the
same time helping your mother. So
long as / have started talking about
matters connected with the recent
budget meeting, / might as well tell
you something about other vital points
touched upon by the president in his
address.
''To me the outstanding point made
by the president regarding the idea of
economy back of the budget system
was when he said:
90 'There is scarcely an ecolom-
ic i'll anywhere in our country that
cannot be traced directly or indi-
rectly to high taxes. To increase
that burden is to disregard the
general welfare. Through construc-
tive economy, to decrease taxes is
to enlarge the reward of everyone
who tolls
elm other words, there seems to be
little reason for economy and studied
methods of reducing expenditures in
the federal government if it doesn 7
bring down taxes. Today on Capitol
Hill at Washington there is too much
radical tnlk-too much talk by those
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