The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1930-05-16


Some people talk very glib,
of voting against the levy: Yol
have a right to vote against tn
levy if you wish but the price
for such voting must be paid
Vote against this levy and yol
will take $4,000 from our budget
We shall be forced to cut Blu
where? The rural schools cos
SIS, 200. Do you rural voters
want them closed? Our high
school costs about $4,000. Dc
you city voters and rural voters
want it closed? Our elementary
town school costs about $3.50 0
Do you parents want 1t closed
oh, yes, it is easy to say cut the
levy but you level-headed tax.
payers-before you vote against
the levy-find out where the axe
is to be used. The other fellow
who urges you may be willing
to use the axe on the limb that
you want to sit on and leave his
own untouched.
Between now and May "a you
will hear all kinds of propaganda.
Have you heard this? Livingston
wants Is mills levy because he
wants a new high school?" I'd
like a new high school to take
care of your children who are
crowded into our inadequate
space, but don't expect to get
it unless John D. Rockefeller be-
gins to throw $1,000 bills u
way instead of nickels.
What / want more than any
thing else is to get out of debt
SO taxes may be cut down to a
reasonable figure. | don't like to
e people loaded with taxes. 1t
takes the joy out of life. But this
is a new country. Our schools
are ahead of the natural devel-
opment of the country. We want
ing them and they must be paid
for. None of us would. stay here
if we didn't have good schools.
New settlers won't nov in,
houses in town will go begging,
farms will be abandoned-if the
schools are closed or If they be-
come inefficient. This has happen
ed in the vicinity Of Wolf Point
but thanks to you-taxpayers-
not in school district As.
Again have you heard this one?
Wolf Point is educating the chill
dren of the surrounding districts?
There is some truth in this but
let US look at it before we jump
and hurt ourselves. McCone couu-
Ly has "a children here for which
will be paid $1,000. We were paid
over $500 last year by McCone
This amount is not
enough and my recommendation
g that next year the full appor-
comment be turned over or a
of 800 tuition he made.
AIll liz lo0l lC6lSlolQ4O lA6 Iull
.pportionment could not be made.
Now it can. The new law-Sec-
ion 3, under section 1913 on page
z of the school laws Of the state
nits the county superintendent
o turn over the full apportion-
nent and we have good reason
o believe that this will be done.
The outside tuition problem has
many angles, but misunderstood
ngs easily arise. The McCone I
ounty farmers have my sympa-
by and they have shown an I
agerness to cooperate in every '
7ay. However, we have had to '
FORK slowly and most Of our t
FORK has had to be done through r
he state Legislature. The last leg y
did much and we expect c
ne next one to do more to set [
this knotty problem. Why '
hould a child who lives one mile I
Wolf Point be forced to go u
3 miles over winter snowbanks g
Circle to high school because L
e lives in another school dis C
let? The tax money should fol- v
w the child. 1t should be paid t.
the school that educates him. t
tanks are being filled out now Il
nd we are sure that this pro- s
sdure will be followed for the Il
,ming year. The 1929 Legislature
ade this possible. |
Have you heard this? The Wolf W
Oint school officials are e~xtrava- m
INT? They spend money reck-
ssly. This is not a true state Il
ent. If you want the truth you IL
n get it from the Office of the cl
'unty superintendent of schools. IL
be per capita cost of the Wolf al
1int schools is among the low te
t if not the lowest in the coun- o.
-. Our school is the largest and dl
2 have to spend money, but we III
Iucate almost double the pupils IL
any other district. A 300-pound NJ
an eats more than a 100-pound cl
an, Or should. Because he does of
is Is he an extrayagant man? eC
he fire box in the big, new al
eat Northern locomotives takes dl
ore oil than the little box did. pr
this extravaganza? The Great
orthern officials say that the In
9 fellow is more economical. or
by? Because he does more work pr
the money. We contend that
9 Wolf Point schools do more