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Show OPPOSES KKTKKXCH.MKXT The State Fa.rm Bureau, through its tax committee, has addressed a letter let-ter to tho state hoard of education asking for retrenchment in the mat-tor mat-tor of handling the public schools in order to lessen taxes. While there' may bo Home abuses in tins handling I of school funds through careless purchase pur-chase of equipment, after reading the letter, one who has the future welfare wel-fare of his children at heart, and who' wants to see them equipped to meetj the world on an equal footing, when they are thrown .on their own re-1 sources, can only think that the State I Farm llureau has greatly over-j reached itself, In making its recommendations. recom-mendations. Retrenchment in the matter of taxes should be undertaken wherever possible, but when a body asks tho county commissioners of the state to make that retrenchment at the expense of the children of the state, it appeals that that body must be composed of about as narrow a lot of incompetents as could be gotten got-ten together. Ten to one, these same men are using every endeavor to house and improve their livestock so that it will bring them the greatest returns, and in doing so they spend hundreds of dollars on barns and conveniences, yet they a.re so blind that they cannot see that the generation genera-tion of hoys and girls must be equipped with all that modern education edu-cation can give them in order that they will make a proper showing when they get out in the world, and mingle with the educated of other states. The ireeommenda,tion that fewer teachers be employed per capita capi-ta of school children, and that the age limit for school children be reduced, re-duced, is the most asinine ignorant bigotry, and it is no wonder that the business world smiles when anything is said about farmers organizing and doing business for themselves, if this is a sample of the height of the farmers' farm-ers' vision. The greatest fault of our school system today is that so many think a school teacher can live on the same cash income as a farmer. They do not stop to think that a teacher must wear presentable clotthes In order to set an example before the scholars, neither do they stop to think that the school teacher is compelled to pay out cash for every necessity and convenience, from the food they eat to the bed they sleep in. Then they only receive pay for a part of the year, and must live between school terms. It is doubtful if the-net the-net income of ninet-tenths of the i school teachers in the state is that of the common sheepherders, and yet tho Kami Bureau has tlie audacity to ask that retrenchment be made In the matter of salaries and at the same time more children lie piled into the school rooms 'under one teacher, thus lessening that teacher's teach-er's ability to do the children justice in their education. Ball, such rot is tantamount to anarchy and Is a direct di-rect blow to the very foundations of American government and ideals. j San Juan Record, Jlarch 3. j |