The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1933-11-09

n YOVEMBER to IL is National Education week
~ and while the occasion is observed quietly
pared with other "weeks" it is an ideal time for
sober thought on schools and the changes they
have been forced to make during the financial drouth
which fingers with rs.
To date no Minnesota schools have been forced to
close for lack of funds However the situation Min
neapolis and in northern counties where tax
paralyzed places the schools in grave dang
Everywhere expenses have been reduced, some
times with loss in efficiency but in too frequent
instances at great sacrifice in personnel and curri-
culum.
The following paragraphs from material sent out
by the office of education in the department Of the in
terror at Washington are thought provoking:
Thirty million young people and million
teachers, one-fourth of population, engaged
in getting giving education.
One of every two farm children enters high
school and of ten enters college. (The Min
nesota figures better than this)
1t is estimated that 100000 teachers
employed, including 1000 in Minnesota.
One of every four teachers is getting less sal
airy than the blanket code minimum for unskilled
labor, on annual basis.
School terms in great cities will be short
this year than they were century ago.
Exactly half of the school children of the
United States are in rural schools, where the
age cost is $72 per child, per year. Five thousand
schools have five less pupils. In such the
cost sometimes to $500 per pupil per year.
The child labor ban is expected to add 100000
pupils to American high school rolls.
In other states 1900 rural schools are closed,
depriving 100000 pupils of the right to educa-
ton. Hundreds of teachers receiving little
as $25 per month.
There are 247,2s9 school buildings in the
ton of which 145oOO are one room schools.
The average college with 100000 to spend
four years ago will have ST. 900 this year.
We Gve on
as we do on education
aastres, for tourists, but there is no better
appeal than low rates of taxation" says a
Taxegram sent out by the Minnesota Taxpayers asso-
citation.
Settlers came here before there such thing
as taxes in Minnesota but they paid tax of another
when they set off to market the toughest kind
of trail It not strange that they wanted roads,
schools university, fine state house, police protec-
ton and service bureaus. Minnesota wouldn't be a
very attractive place to Settlers industries or tourists
if it hadn't been for taxes If they exorbitant at
times it's because we want too much luxury are
or have been too careless whom elect to spend the
tax money.
The association is doing good work but the impress
sion not be created that all taxes are liabilities
~ TORIES of vandalism in Minneapolis and st. Paul
- to public schools church schools, Boy Scouts and
boys organizations of every kind.
1t is almost unbelievable that awlessness to the
extent of destroying hundreds of thousands of dollars
worth Of property and endangering hundreds OF lives
broke out this year evening when harmless
pranks customary, still are, thank goodness in
rural communities.
It is challenge to the educational advantages so
often boosted of in large Cities to the advanced
civilization sometimes claimed for these points, to the
environment youths of large cities reared in. The
greater cultural advantages of slight benefit if
their product is "the likes of this"
A bit of publicity which came to our desk this
week says the GAINESVILLE Wisconsin, assembling plant
of large automobile manufacturing will be
re-opened This is interesting because the closing
of the plant than a year ago used to defeat
the state income tax amendment. 1t pointed out
as an example of industry being forced to leave state
causing unemployment, due to the income tax Anti
income tax workers certainly created the impression
that GAINESVILLE had lost it's principal industry for all
time.