Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1942-11-05
Copyright 1912

OLYMPIA, Nov. 4.-Newly elect :
ed members of the legislature are
facing a wild SO days at the session
Of the legislature coming in Janu-
airy. Problems for them to decide
will involve millions and some Of
the most difficult will have to do .
with meritorious matters suck as
the requests OF the school people
While no definite plan will be
decided upon until the meeting ~
the school directors convention .
which is planned for Lotgvisw alb
out the middle OF December, it now
appears that the legislature will be
asked for appropriations additional
to the usual amounts granted more
or less as routine matter. The
a,Etunt which will be thus request
ed, from estimates at this time will
be perhaps 5000 per year each for
two year, in other words $500 for
each of some $4,000 school en-
ployees, 1850 of which are teach
ers, the remaining number bus dri-
vers and other employees. While
this totals six million dollars. some
districts already have funds avail
able which could reduce the totals
a million or two
Amounts Would BE Paid TO
Districts-Then to Teachers
The plan suggested would be for
the state treasurer to pay the am
cunts to the clerk Of each district
in the state from where it would be
distributed to the employees under
rules set up to govern in each case.
As stated above, these payments
would be additional to the regular
compensation for' these employees
which is now provided for in n
plan in use for many years which
stipulates that an amount be made
available from the state treasurer
equal to rs cents per day for each
days attendance IN the grade
schools, 80 cents. per day in the jul
nior high schools, and IS cents per
day in the high schools This .is Just
one problem for the new legislature
to decads betweetss now and March
first. q H..
=
rs Our Purchase Of Cigarets
A Good Investment? ,a
We are told that our enemies in
this war say, and perhaps believe,
that we as a people are given to
indulgence, will not deny ourselves
our usual living habits and that we
are therefore a "soft' enemy. and !,
because of their sslf-denia, they are
stronger.
There is one item of news Of
which appears in dispatches and
otherwise which it seems might we'll :
be considered, and that is the Gig
aret.
Just what is this article which !
seems so universally accepted byl
our people. what does 1t cost, what
good does it do, and is It q sound .
investment?
Increase in Use More Than
One Thousand Per Cent
The Single cigaret, name perhaps
originally intended to indicate min
nature cigar. is little affair usual
ly less than three inches in length
and about as large in diameter as q
lead pencil, contained in tissue
paper, the contents being made up
of bits Of leaves from the tobacco :,
plant.
The internal revenue department {
says that in 1915 the production OF
cigarettes in the United States was
less than Is billion, while by 1899
the output was more than $50 bill
lion, or more than ten times as
great. Counting z0eto the pack, this
would make more than nine billion
packages. From this you can read
lily see how much money we are
spending for this item. OF course,
some one-half of the total price is |
tax, which means that the govern
1nent Is, using this method of get
ting revenue, which is beside the
point, for there are many other me-
thods we find of collecting taxes.
some of which might be substituted
should we as a. people decide to
eliminate the tobacco tax or even
the use Of tobacco.
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