Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-01-25

above $40 per child, but I do know
it is still due us, as well as our share
of one million two hundred thousand
carefully checked over records
December 20 and found only two in
come receipts in over two years, one
for $154 and the other on August
is for SIPS, census for two years
is % and q. The law calls for
semi-annual distribution. asked
for an accounting of this fund.- Why
aren't boards entitled to statement
from the superintendent office as
to the amount we are entitled to and
reason for any difference in receipts;
also the year. Since all that fine
advice on how to run a bank and
make money, l am sure one of these
bankers would be glad to show him
how to keep books.
I never was offered a free trip
to st. Paul by anyone mentally,
morally or financially responsible or
l surely would have gone However,
a good bit of my information has
come from that city.
If we. could get our just share of
income tax and our share of in
come from the trust fund of about
S70,000,000 we could operate fine
without levy. l feel it is a dis
grace for board to spend more than
they take in for running expenses
You could select a board from
feeble-minded school and spend mon
ey on hand and go in debt, but 1
believe board should endeavor to
leave the district in just little bet
ter financial condition than they
found it.
An editorial appeared in the Askov
American a good many years ago,
the spring number Of Pine coun-
ty districts first started running over
100 mills, in which the writer warned
us that when taxes run over 100
mills history told us we were in
danger of a revolution.
The Communists know this hence
their enthusiasm to raise mill rate.
They want to drive us all into bank
ruptcy, then sieze the reins of gov
eminent, then shoot all of us that
disagree with them
District SO is collecting less now
from 30-mill levy than we did in
1886 from 10-mill levy l checked
our fall tax receipts with district "a
where they still have a 1O-mill levy
and found they collected Is percent
more from 10-mill levy than SO
did with a 30-mill This means that
our 20-mill raise has reduced our
tax base 70 percent.
l believe in American liberty and
justice, social and political, but
believe its future security rests on
sound economic structure l know
some peoples hearts are so depraved
from governmental gifts, ETC., they
don't care what happens to our future,
and others are so stupid, mentally,
they can't comprehend, but l hope
there are still enough level-headed
sane people to straighten out our ship
of state Many hate politics, but if
we let this mob, dominated by philo-
sophies of Moscow, destroy our in
come tax and apportionment aid rev.
enue and drive all our property tax
delinquent, we shall soon see our
common school pass and with it all
we hold worth living for.
The joker in this law is after you
have qualified for, say $1,000 easy
money and it has been spent on nom
essentials or on keeping up big
front, the state only reimburses you
$3.50, leaving you in the red $3.50.
What future is there in store for
district which goes back $3.50 an
nually? l heard some Communists
from a neighboring state criticizing
their state aid law because it never
allowed any tax delinquency, thus
making the people even in poor Sec
tons independent, thing very I'M
desirable to them
I belive it is necessary to get the
mill rate below 100 to save our coun-
ty and it should be lowered to so
to restore confidence and put our
county on sound footing. Our tax
eaters will never do this. Taxpay-
ers must take the upper hand.
If taxation without representation
is tyranny, representation without
taxation is worse tyranny. No man
should be allowed to vote on tax
levy unless he has tax receipt for
$40 paid during the current year.
Education is like a fire. The fire,
while under control, warns our
hearths, cooks our meals, disposes of
rubbish, creates power and does many
other things to make life pleasant
so education, while under control,
brings the discoveries, of the world
newspapers and radios, hospitals with
their disease destroying equipment,
dentistry and their pain alternating
abilities, ETC., but when out from
under control, it drives pioneers from
their homes, embitters young people
against society. Lenin and Trotsky
and their henchmen, the modern
butchers of Russia, are illustrations of
education out of control. If we mort
gage the future to educate the pres
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