The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-01-02
Minnesota NeWs and
Comment
BY r. w. HITCHCOCK

1 she cnaracterlZeS IIlS main ODJeCllVe
of this conference to be an attempt ito
offer these unemployed teachers COM
munistic propaganda to be disseminated
by them without labels
An incident of vital Importance to the
people of Minnesota took place in this
class. DR.. John G. Rockwell, COM
missioner of education for Minnesota,
was one of the lecturers. DR.. Rockwell
advocated certain changes in the laws
as relating to the schools of Minnesota
particularly with respect to handicapped
children, subject which seems to be
obSeSSion with the commissioner. The
startling portion of his remarks, how
ever, was the expression of the hope
that no reporters were present.
Here, if we may believe the report
Of those who were present, We have the
commissioner of education for Mime
sofa public schools urging certain plans
and policies which he apparently fears
to have come to the ears of the fathers
and mothers of the children in his
charge.
The FL. strategy board, meeting a.
week before the special session, to cook
up trouble for the majority, pumped
roundly for a $50 pension for all over
the age of IS, irrespective of need. The
language was plain and unequivocal.
Everybody could understand it.
Governor Olson understood it and
. knew that it was bad business ard
promptly denounced it, whereat the
flabbergasted FL. strategy board pre-
served an embarrassed silence TO- full
twenty-four hours, when, bethinking
themselves of last years eXpedient, they
issued explanations and interpretations
to the effect that what they really
meant when they spoke so roundly and
so hastily was a pension equal to the
: difference between persons income
/ and $50 month
The FL. strategy board should have
S asked papa before they spoke out in the
= meeting.
!, Minnesota motor vehicle licenses for
1886 will carry white figures on a dark
/ blue background.
Up to December LIST total of TAI. 1926
motor vehicle licenses has been issued
in Minnesota by Registrar Mike Holm
5 as against 724, ITO for all of 1884. Motor
7 vehicle license receipts for the first IL
months of 1885 are $7,015, 747.42 as
: against $6,614,77174 for the II months
r of 1884. Minnesota registration for 1895
/. Is already the highest in the history of
the state, exceeding the total of the
5 peak year, 1880, by more than $500.
5 Governor Olson's message to the
special session of the legislature. while
, advocating the purpose for which the
/ session was called, the enactment of
, social security legislation to fit in with
the federal Social Security Act, was de-
/ voted principally to the suggestion of
tax measures with which to finance
old age pensions.
{ No recommendations which Governor
5 olson has made to the legislature in the
five years of his administration have
, met with such a barrage of criticism
as nave these which he presented last
week Tor financing social security. The
general point to which all these adverse
CRITICISMS converge is that the COVER
/ lofS TAX proposals are inadequate and
fundamentally unsound and, if applied,
| would work serious injury to the yerv
| elements of the states population for
whose benefit they are urged.
), Not all of Governor Olson's proposals
5 are objected to. Some of them were
included in the Omnibus Bill which he
vetoed last winter. Others, like the
money and credits proposal, have been
' trled again and again, and invariably
round wanting. Still others, manv he.
, ileVe, would so burden business and in
ouStry as to defeat their purpose bv in
creaslng unemployment.
Fefnaps the governors most amazing
proposal Is the tax on mortgages, All
: sorts of things seem to be awrv with
tiilS proposal: Cd The governor holds
, OUT the alluring prospect of grestIv in
creaslng the tax on $500,000, 900 of Min
iieSoGa mortgages. The governor ne
seo1s TO say that about one-half of
tneSe are state rural credit and fadaro1
loanS which cannot be taxed, and Low
yerS declare that not a cent of the
oaiance OF present mortgage loans can
NC taxed, and that any such proposal
as ehat made by the governor would
apply only to mortgages made in the
future 90 The governors proposal to
lower the interest rate would probably
oiiVe considerable portion of the
FUNDS now used for productive loans
into tax exempt securities and thus di-
fec'iy anJure the borrower by making