The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1935-08-29
Letters From the People

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coo where we are to get our new
.soo, house after all, even II a
81 49,. If YOU sighted fanatics did
r 81. Il down the first time and think
w, had the question settled for an
s ..ner year. A good proposition is
W., s : good many you can't keep him
l Iawn and propaganda" like truth
a .rhen crushed to earth will rise
.cain to haunt its. destroyers ana
Ind elections like poor relations
we have with us always.
one thing I would like to know is
!. absolutely necessary to have so
,,onv schools and teachers and fuss
and feathers and is our so-called
higher education worth all the time
ond money. And are our young
neople being educated during their
four years in high school or merely
entertained and answer me this
vo,, fond parents. Do your high
school students show more respect
for you as their parents; for their
home as a home and for law and
order and disipline as such or do
Won find them a bit rebelous and
.narchistic at times. Are the con-
co1idated schools proving all the
nromises their advocates marie for
them wears ago? Are the children
being better educated than their
parents were and if so for what?
Do the girls make bett"r wives than
their mothers or merely better
bridge players? Of course, there
are a few of them in business. but
they had to be educated after they
o,1it school and BESIDES see where
business went. DO the boys make
better husbands and fathers or bet
ter providers than their pares'ts,
and frankly now did you ever see a
college graduate y:,l would hire to
run your business just on the
strength of his diploma and the
first thing they hear when they
finish school and look for a job Is:
aWait a few years until you've
learned something" Il
Do our so-called educated people
make better politicians? We don't
know because we haven't confidence
enough in any of them to give them
a chance. Has ever a young man of
twenty-five been elected to any
position of trust in our state OF
county or even the city? We spend
thousan.s of dollars C ling them
and then are af:a'i to Use them.
Has tie so-called bal trust sue
ceeded "a pulling the nation out OF
th depression or did our politicians
make monkeys out of thenle But
the argument my friends use to get
the people to rcct nsider tn. cues
ion that was inst turned down In
.ke first place this will not cost
us anything because we can pay It
out of the ten-mill levy aud they
assure us that our taxes for school
will be ten mills anyway. Ct looks
to me, poor ignorant farmer that
II we can stretch the ten mill levy to
pay 100000 bonds with four per-
cent interest in twenty years that
with out the bond issue we should
be able to SHAVE" the ten mill levy
a bit. And then where is all the
money we are going to save? Where
is all the great wealth we have saved
by prior election? Where is the
thousands we were going to save to
take up the warrants. I know a wo-
man who has saved hundred dol
lars a year for forty years just bak-
ing bread for her family-and she
hasn't a nickle to buy a spool of
thread. 1t seems to me that our
confidence in our institutions is
very CONSPICUOUS by it's absence and
yet we continue to pour countless
thousands of our hard earned dol
lars into this bottomless rat hole
and we do not even know what it
is being spent for.