Show TUB SCHOOL BOARD I It Is proper roper to talk taUe a little a about out the school board There are arc several severa candId candidates tes aspiring for tor membership on the tho board So far as as the writer knows the are all worthy and competent competent competent com com- men And when two competent competent compe compe- tent men are ara pitted against each other the question naturally arises as to which is the more competent and desirable The test of a pudding is the eating The s same mo Is true of a school director and as as to 0 o whether this man Is better than that man or not Is a mere guess an anc unC opinion nut But there is one thing that everybody is entitled to know If ne no wants lo Io know and and that is how does noes this or that man stand on a question of tax tax- Taxes is the question question question ques ques- tion of the time Ralston Won out I as senator in Indiana on tho question of orl reducing taxes and that is the uppermost thought locally all over the country Probably all of these candidates are in favor of holding down the taxes and costs They all should be and if it should develop that any candidate favors an increase In expense then the taxpayers are aro entitled to know that Early In 1920 there was an extra 16 15 mills tax levy put up to the tilt IJ people pee peo OpIe O- O pIe to be paid in five years That was a proposition to compel the taxpayers taxpayers taxpayers tax tax- payers to pay at least dol Lars taxes over and above what whaL we have been paying in the period of five years That proposition had the teeth and the ear marKs marxs of pf a disaster a a dragon and if u It nad flat been Deen voted voted voted vot vot- ed It would have been and a large part of it spent at t this time lime and the people would nave nava left the country much more than they have at this time left it there was a persistency and from tha the same quarter quarter quarter ter came another proposal to levy 5 6 mills and that was beaten Some very good men stood for levies Strange that a seemingly level headed headed headed head head- ed man wil wll sometimes none and innocently stand for and a advocate a disaster You have to watch out uit for him He may be your best a and d nearest nearest nearest near near- est neighbor and yet a dangerous man in a place of public trust A Aman Aman Aman man in public business must hart hall lie it the same as a sound man will handle his own business and generally generally generally gener gener- ally the man who makes a 1 success in his own business can be trusted bu Im buu sometimes not for a man in a public public public pub pub- lic trust sometimes loses his head The way to act in this matter 1 Is to adopt the motto of David Crockett Be Be sure youre you're right then go ahead L. L. L. L A. A H. H |