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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH, UTAH ST DISPLAY HISTORIC DOCUMENTS WASHINGTON. Attorney General Tom Clark is hatching a unique plan for selling civil liberties to the American people. He will send a special train through the 48 states carrying some of the priceless treas- Released by Western Newspaper Union. TAXES FROM UTILITIES PAY EDUCATIONAL COSTS From the taxes collected by the states, the counties and the municipalities comes the money that pays for our public school system. I do not have available the figures showing the number of students in the primary public schools of the nation, or the annual cost per student of maintaining those schools. For one state, California, I do have such figures, and one other figure that is of interest when applied to the maintenance of the primary schools of that state. In California the average daily attendance of students in the primary schools, those embracing up to, and including, the sixth grade, is above 600,000. In 1944 the daily average was 630,648. For the same year the total cost of maintaining those primary schools, including all salaries and materials, but not the cost of construction of school plants, or any interest on bonds, amounting to The annual cost per student attending those primary schools was $105.99. The money to pay those bills in California, as in all other states, comes from taxes, but who pays the taxes? One very large source of tax money is the utilities the railroads, gas and electric companies, municipal transportation systems and others when they are privately owned. I do not know the total of such taxes collected in California. I do have the total of what the railroads pay as taxes to the state, counties and municipalities in the year 1945. That total was $13,475,805. Railroad taxes in the state, not including any paid to the federal government, was sufficient to provide primary education for one out of each five of the boys and girls attending the primary public schools in the state. If to that could be added the taxes paid by all the other privately owned utilities in the state the total certainly would be above one half the price paid for educating those primary school students. What is true in California would, on a percentage basis, prove true in all other states. A very large part of the cost of educating our little Mary Jones and Bobby Browns is paid by the privately owned utilities. It is such utilities that a minority of our people are demanding be taken over and operated by the federal government. If that were done the federal government would pay no taxes to any state, county or municipality. We, the individuals of each state, would be forced to dig down into our jeans and provide those many millions for school funds, or compel the little folks to face the problems of life without an education. Taxes paid by the privately owned utilities, including the railroads, can, and very largely do, represent the difference between a literate or an illiterate nation. ures of American freedom. It was Clark, working quietly behind the scenes, who had more than anyone else to do with organizing the presidents special committee on civil liberties, which will study southern lynchings and race prob- lems. Accordingly he has evolved the idea of sending a special $66,-859,4- ON TOP AGAIN . new . . Leon Blum, of France, recently was elected to Frances highest office. The Socialist succeeded in forming a cabinet. He is credited with arranging loan to France from premier-preside- nt who U.S. special train with showcases 'in which will be displayed the most cherished documents of American Soldiers will guard the history. NEW INVENTION TALKS BACK . . . Designed by Dr. Donald H. Andrews, professor of chemistry at Johns Hopkins university, a new method of radio reception through superconductivity is shown by Donald (Sandy) Andrews, 5, son of the inventor, who holds the balometer, which is the heart of the new method of radio detection. Using no tubes, antenna, transformers, condensers or even electrical currents, the radio waves can be received and demodulated. Material Is Columbian nitride. PILOT HERO . . . Roland J. Brown, Miami, Fla., pilot of DC-who was given credit for saving 56 passengers and crew of 4, when his plane collided with another plane over Maryland. He landed safely at Washingtons national airport. 4, BY COSMIC RAYS SOUGHT . . . Nobel prize winner Dr. Carl D. Anderson, seated, testing equipment, while Dr. Robert Brode, coSmic ray expert, looks on at ground laboratory, Inyokern, Calif. Worlds leading physicists have taken their ATOM-SMASHIN- G atom-smashi- .No day. more you buy meat on Mon- tells me when I can, or cannot, buy meat. Me! Im Kravenskey, president of the district Meat Cutters union, AFL. I tell you. I had thought I was living in a free country, where only the cop and the traffic officer could tell me where to get off. Then I find this guy, Kravenskey, president of the Meat Cutters union, and he tells me. He maked it stick for a week, for I did not get my pound of hamburger on Monday. And his name is Kravenskey, which sounds Russian to me. It is a multiplicity of such incidents that is causing the real, liberty loving Americans to get fed up on labor union activities. Again, his name is Kravenskey. Who are you who Another Christmas has passed into the limbo of years. How different from those of boyhood days in Iowa. Then my one most cherished present was an orange, always in the toe of a Christmas stocking, and the only one I saw during twelve months. Now I spend Christmas in the midst of or anges . They are growing all around me, and are as common as Were apples of the long While they would be ago years. as Christmas presents by spurned children who live around my home, there are grandchildren in Minnesota and Canada who appreciate it when old Sants leaves, not one but a box, of the golden yellow fruit. As for my neighbor children, they consider apples as a holiday luxury. It is of such things that markets are made for all America. There is a difference between a desire to have' and an ambition to secure. ng train, just as guards stand watch continually over these documents in the Library of Congress. In addition, as the train arrives at each state border, an extra car will be added displaying the historic documents and civil rights mementoes of the state. Finally, Clark plans, to have large-siz- e duplicates of the freedom documents blown-u- p as permanent exhibits to be left behind in the high schools of each city through which the train passes. IRON CURTAIN STAYS DOWN Assistant Secretary of State Bill Benton, who has tried desperately to lift the iron curtain, recently was prevented by the Russians from visiting Moscow. Benton was scheduled to fly to Moscow with Chester Bowles, his old advertising partner. But the Russians found Benton had only 48 hours in which to make the trip, let him get as far as Berlin, then stalled him for 48 hours, claiming Moscow weather fnade it impossible for his plane to land. Finally, Benton went back to Paris, where he checked by cod-- . ed cable with the American embassy in Moscow, found that the weather in Russia had been perfect during the time he was being barred from the Soviet capi- tal. laboratories into the stratosphere for the first time to seek answers to bombers were used to take scienby cosmic rays. tists to 40,000 foot altitudes during the search. atom-smashi- train across the United States containing the most sacred documents of American history which guarantee our freedom. At first Clark proposed equipping two special cars with showcases which would display the Bill of Rights, the Declaration of Independence, the Emancipation Proclamation, the Constitution and so on. However, he found that the Proclamation of Emancipation by which Lincoln freed the slaves was in the hands of Abraham Rosenbach of Philadelphia, famous collector of old Clark, therefore, manuscripts. called Rosenbach to tell him about his plan and ask for the loan of the proclamation. Rosenbach agreed to cooperate, and suggested an entire train instead of two cars. He offered to help raise the extra money and, as a result, it now is planned to equip an entire B-- 29 MRS. AMERICA ... Mrs. Fredda Acker, Anderson, S., C., who assumed title of Mrs. America, when the winner wouldnt go on a tour. She will use $5,000 prize money to build home and endowment for her baby son, John. ek Benton, who is in charge of state department information, has tried to beam radio broadcasts into Russia in order to give the Russian people the real truth about the USA. Many Russians dont even know that the American army and navy participated in the war against Japan. NEW WAGE POLICY A new policy line in preventing strikes was agreed on at a secret meeting of Secretary of Labor Schwellenbach and his top advisers. Hereafter, government mediation machinery will swing into action four to five months before union contracts expire in major industries, instead of waiting until union demands and strike threats are in the air. It is felt that many serious work stoppages can be avoided if union demands are anticipated and negotiations begun well in advance of contract expirations. First major industry on which the new policy will be tried will be the maritime, which faces another possible work stoppage in June. At that time, union contracts of seamen of the AFL and CIO on the west and east coasts expire. PROBE MONOPOLY The department of justice is to decide whether to bring anti-tru-trying st JUNIOR GROWERS PREXY . . . Jim Spell, Columbia, Miss., high school senior who has been elected DISPLACED JAPANESE . . . Among the war orphans back from Mukden and Hsinking area pictured arriving at Shinagawa station is Ishiko Hosoda, 10, right, carrying the ashes of her mother in a white bag around her neck. president of the National Junior Vegetable Growers association for 1947. He is shown with some of the vegetables he raised in A & P contest, which brought him first honors and a $500 scholarship. . proceedings against American Telephone and Telegraph company for freezing out small Competitors. Independent would-b- e manufacturers of telephone equipment have little chance to break into the market because of the A. T. & T. policy not only of owning all its own equipment but buying it from' its owp Western Electric company, a 99 per cent A. T. & T. subsidiary. |