Show U S AID FOR SCHOOLS PROPOSED representative charles brand of ohio has introduced a bill in congress for an appropriation of a year to help rural schools of the nation this sum according to the bill would be paid to the states tor the purpose of cooperating with the states in paying salaries of teachers supervisors and principals and other current expenses of elementary schools in rural areas the bill provides that the money be distributed on a 50 50 basis and in accordance with the rural school population of the states wishing to participate in the fund representative brand in a recent communication to the office of the utah education association says it Is known that money Is escaping from rural sections into more populous centers in a greater and greater degree chain stores are sending their profits out dally buying fencing and farming machinery at present prices with wheat corn and oats leaves the real profit deposited in the manufacturing centers this wealth Is leaving the rural sections and in fact does not halt in very many of the states but coagulates in a few large center where it pays income tax to the national government and the only way to ever get any of it back is to send it back from the united states treasury the biggest product of the farm goes to the city for nothing I 1 refer to the boys and girls who graduate at a cost of 2000 apiece tor education and 2000 apiece for keep and the country loses them to the city permanently manent ly and the money they have cost never returns to the rural section the U S department of agriculture advises me that such children leave each county in iowa annually for the city a drain of each year from each county education in the country Is more expensive than in the city farmers are paying 50 cents out of every net dollar of profit on the farm for taxes and 63 per cent of those taxes are tor schools and tha price of land has broken down so that state tax commissioners are being forced to reduce valuations of land for taxation and this reduces school money it the farmer Is to have equality of opportunely he must first have equality of education and we nave come to a place where this equality of education cannot be maintained by the local rural units |