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About The Scio tribune. (Scio, Linn County, Or.) 1919-19?? | View Entire Issue (June 9, 1921)
flh ■ Hi ui » place a limited college education UnM. and not very far distant at THE SCIO TRIBUNE to within the reach of «very boy and k that, property will be sold to pay Jl_ Sanitary Meat Market girl. It bripgs the limited college th« tax gatherer, and who will be to our doors. Probably not five per able to buy It but the state? cent of our school boys and girlscan We know thia is the view of th« ever expect to attend college They pessimist But what other view can can and do attend our high schools, i *<me take with the ever increase of 11.75 If we should scuttle our high the tax burden and the continued LOO school we do injury to every boy refusal of tax levying bodies to re »I MONTH« and girl in our community *n in trench? APVKKTWNG «ATU: jury which will be s handicap to, Now it was a hard matter tn vote Local advertising per line first in- Mirti on........................................... .10 them all through life. And thine "no** on the soldier bonus bill. We Earh »ulxirqurnt Insertion per line. .06 boys and girls, as before said, are to know these soldier boys and the Display advertising - First Insertion dangers of th« duty they had to per per inch ........................................... 26 become our future citixenry. Each sutMequent inaertion ........ .18 So let us not cause Scio to take form. They are our neighbors and AdverUsements shoukl rearh thi» office noi le ter than Tuewtsy to inauro publi- this important backward step. I jet I friends. And many voted for the eation in thè eurrvnt iseue us not deny our boys and girls, es measure when they knew they ought All fumgn advertiaement» must he pecially those not financially aide, to vote “no.** But if we ever stop petti for in ad rance of publicalion. this limited collegiate education. thia increase of taxes, no matter We who are in active control of ' how meritorious and seemingly nec achool affair« of today can confer no essary the matter mar he, we must greatei blessing on future genera commence voting NO emphatically. We have accumulated a «mall ar tions than to maintain and make better our high echoed system. my of tax eater» who pay but small. Scio's high school supplies a nec I if any, tax««. Theyseem tn have / pledge allegiance to my flag ana It I «stated a death grip on the state the Republic for uhkh It itami, ont essary need to our community. treasury. When a man succeeds in is a drawing card to cause the home ¡Notion. InJtiUible. with liberty ana gelling his name on the state salary seeker to settle in our town ami vi tuitice for all. cinity. Let us not become ths scorn ' list he seemingly at once liecome« of our neighl«*ring t«wp» by taking I an enemy to th« taxpayer and uses SCIO. OREGON. JUNE ». 1021 I his influence tn prevent the legiala- this destructive backward step. SAVE THE HIGH SCHOOL iture from «euttiing this or »hat - commiMion. especially the one he is WE MUST RETRENCH. attached to. There is a quiet rumor on the I ------------ a There is a very large proportion street that an effort will be made to The burden of taxation is growing of voters who pay but small, if any. scuttle our high school at the com so rapidly In Oregon that all tax i tax. He never refuses to vote for ing annual school meeting. If this rumor is true and the scut payer» are grumbling at the load a measure even if it will increase tle should win out It would be both which ha» been pushed upon their taxation, for it will not affect him to a wan dal and a disgrace to Scio. It shoulders. This is particularly true any great extent. Now suppose a measure i» pro would lie a block to the progress of of the farmer and producer in gen posed to levy a poli tax on «very the town. It would mean that the eral who cannot shift the burden voter , say of |5. See how quickly 50 boys and girls who attend the from hi« shoulders, as for instance these non taxpayers would lie up in high school would lie denied the two the merchant. arms against it. Yet he enjoys the The farmer cannot mark up the years of advanced study, for but a protection of our law* which be pays very few if any would attend col price of his produce as the merchant does his goods, who simply adds th nothing to support and travels upon the cost of his goods the extra taxes our roads which he doe« not help to * he is forced to pay. The farmer build. The people are beginning to get must simply take the market price, in which he has no voice in the mak ma<l and will be willing to resort to deaperate actions before they will ing. for his stuff. The price of farm produce has have their homes taken from them depreciated fully 100 per cent from by the tax gatherer. So lawmakers what it was one year ago, while the and all tax levying bodies had better They must depreciation of what he must buy chsngr their tactics. retrench in their demands upon the will not average more than from 25 to 50 pet wot. except upon a few taxpayer else the taxpayer will do a staple groceries, and taxation has little retrenching himself. Cut off the barnacles who are liv increased instead of depreciating. Last year the farmer who paid ing al the expense of the taxpayers. Slot) to the tax collector could do Dispense with the barnacle« and we so wi-.h the proceeds from 50 bueh- can continue to build roads and re els of wheat. This year it would tain our high schools. take full 100 bushels of wheat to pay the bill. That ia to say if the taxes on his holdings had not been The drift of the time« both in increased as above stated. Because stale and nation indicates that a new of this increase 200 bushels of wheal deal of some kind it drawing near are required to pay his tax bill which Il mar be a revolution in the gov could last year be discharged with crnment in some form and it will be 50 bushels. due to the ever increasing burden Is it any wonder that the farmer of taxation and the neglect of poli grumbles and that he is willing to tician« to make their campaign pro sell the old farm st a less price ¡>er mises good. The people will revolt acre? The capitalist is situated dif if a new leaf is not turned soon in ferently. If he has a few thousand both slate and nation. People will dollars tn invest does he buy prop not become mere slaves for govern erty which would be subject to tax ment willingly. Are we not follow ation with it? Not at ail. Hr in- ing of European nations? vests it in non taxable bonds, ami thia process is going on in a much I larger extsnt than people auppoee. It is said the larger cities were What will be the result? Next responsible for the cheng« in the year these non taxable lionds will be high school law in order to fore« the far more numerous than this year country to help maintain the city and the burden on visible property high schools. They figured that will be increased accordingly. The many of the country high schools consequence will be farms will de would be forced to close and thia preciate in value, for no one will would ease the burden of mainten want to buy them. They will invest ance of the city high school. their money in non taxable bond» instead Nor can they be blamed for doing ao. Self preservation i> said to be the first law of nature, and it is absolutely true of the money investor. This situation is rapidly growing serious. The price of farm com modities next year is not likely to vary far from what it ia now and the demamle of the tax gatherer ia likely to lie more than lea«. When taxation and the upkeep of the farm consume« its rental value why has U m purpose of the high aehod is not U m farm I mo confiscated? How President Harding and Sec retary Hughes expect tn have an in fluence in the affairs of the world, yet stand aloof and refuse to accept any of the responsibilities, is a ques tion not easily solved. They will soon have to either fish or cul bait. (xmgrwi got so accustomed to do ing nothing when It was fighting Wilson that it does not seem able to do anything with a president of their In own choosing in the chair. PRTXiciai ani Sonni ——-Dealer» io —— Fresh and Cured Meats Poultry and Veal •uMoumoN. in apvancb lege, and they would have to meet the vlcisitudee of life with but a grammar school preparation. While it is true that taxation is unusually high, for the welfare of our future citixenry let us exert our economical efforts to other fields Far better we cut out some road work, important as is the good roads system we are Irving to bring about, than to send our boys and girls out into the world handicapped with but * public school education. In the future the battle of life will be more strenuous for the boys ami girls of today than it was when we older ones were boys and girls In our young days government land was plentiful, simply for the taking it. The land was rich ami produc tive and most anv kind of crudv farming would produce abundant crop«. Such is not the case today. Gov ernment land can no longer be con verted into good agricultural homes at comparatively small cost. Our old, worn out lands will no longer respond with the prolific crops as of yore. The farmer of today must necessarily be more skilful than the farmer of 50 years ago. He must know soils and which field is best adapted to certain classes of crops. That knowledge is taught in our high schools and colleges And the farmer of today feels the need of this knowledge; as is evidenced by the numbers of gray haired farmers who attend the farmers' short course at 0. A. C. It is true that our high schools are not.equal to the Oregon agri cultural college, but they do teach a limited amount of knowledge which these gray haired farmer» go to Corvallis to learn, They place the pupil in a condition that he can go ahead and master many of theae necessary problems, if he has the will to do ao. The day of book farming is at hand. The same may lie said of stock raising and horticulture. The farmer or other citizgp who starts out with a good technical knowledge has a vast advantage of his neigh bor who haa not this technical knowledge. DR. A. C- PRILL Calla Attended Day or Night I ORE. -. SCIO Shelton & Co. Props "ÌI S( IO. OREGON C’IIIHOI’14 A<~1X»U DH. 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