The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1932-04-15

Eleanor Alrick, Patsy DeWane and
Walter Rem.
Several of our grade and high
school students are working on
the American Auxiliary Poppy pos
ter contest. These posters are to
be completed by May 4.
G. B. Bjornson, tax commission,
st. Paul, Minnesota, recently pre-
scented his viewpoints on the school
tax situation in a speech given be-
fore the Minnesota school board as
ISOLATION. In part, he said:
There is a danger Of becoming
too hysterical over the tax situa-
ton, because, after all, schools
must be maintained, roads must be
kept in a passable condition and
| government activities must be car
rid on. We must go at the matter
of reducing taxes with a thought
out program, and not h~aphazardly.
To slash levies regardless of con-
sequences, is merely jumping from
the frying pan into the fire.
Many school boards, when it
comes t o reducing school taxes,
think first of the teachers wages.
forgetting that letting a good teach
er go because of a few dollars a
month difference in salary may
cause a serious setback to the
school. To my mind, the most i'm
portant element in the whole school
organization is the teacher. In ev-
cry enterprise the human equation
is the most important, and this is
probably more true in our schools
than anywhere else.
Some kind of county administra-
ton of the financial affairs of ru-
raj schools is desirable in order
that we may have some equality in
the matter of rural school taxation,
and get away from the ridiculous
situation that we have in so many
places reflected by a situation in
a certain county where we have a
mill rate for school purposes of
12.3 on one side of an imaginary
school district dividing line, and
ZIG mills for school purposes on the
other side of that line. This may
be an extreme illustration, but
there is not a county in Minnesota
but what has greatly varying rates
between the rural school districts.
The cost of education in the rural
districts should be more on a par
ity than it is.
1t may be advisable to enact a
tobacco tax made to cover all to-
bacco, which at a reasonable rate,
might yield from two million to
2R million dollars annually. This
would be in the nature of a sales
tax, but advocated only as an en-
Urgency measure under circumstan-
ces such as we have now"
The above article was recopied
the Poplar Standard.
All teachers of the Sweet Grass
school system have been offered
-enewal of contracts without a re-
iuction In salaries. Kalispell city
schools are cutting s percent next
year while the Flathead county
high is reducing 10 percent. Albert
schools do not expect to cut
salaries. Hinsdale cut 10 percent.
The Juniors gave an excellent
comedy for our assembly.
t was entitled, Who's a Coward?"
Jimmie Graham, the husband, Rol-
ind Nelson; Bessie Graham, the
wife, Irene Pipal; "Dippy Hogan"
he robber, William Lindsay. Miss
Olson coached the play.
The seniors of 1882 have select
ID the following:
Glass Motto: Backbone, not wish
zone.
Class Flower: Sweet Pea
Glass Colors: Green and Pink.
The Big County Meet Day is Fri
lay, April %. All roads will lead
0 Wolf Point. Spelling contests. de-
contests, music memory
ontests and art contests will be
he program of the day. The CON
ests will begin at 10 a. m. in the
YIN and high school assembly.
he order of events is not definite.
he art and music memory CON
ests will be completed before ey-
ming. The preliminary declamatory
nd preliminary spelling contests
yill take place during the day. In
be evening the final spelling and
NAL d~eclamatory will be held. !
No preliminary declamatory con-
est will be held in District As this I
ear as each school is expected to !
ave a contestant.
Admission in the evening to the {
ontests is Csc.
On April 90 the school will take {
art in the outdoor Arbor Day pro- t
ram to be held in Memorial Park. t
ee the program elsewhere. Z
Mr.. Livingston was invited to c