Show PEOPLES COLUMN ANOTHER PANACEA By Dy T T. W W. Jones Junes It is taken for granted that we will willbe willbe be te obliged to pay payoff off our obligations just as fast and as far as possible even though these obligations were contracted contracted con with high security values and must now be paid when securities s shave have reached almost unheard of low levels It Is also taken for granted that we must somehow get along without contracting contracting contracting con con- new obligations by simply doing without every luxury that cannot cannot cannot can can- not be paid for and even a great man many things which we have been in the habit of calling necessities This may require a lower standard of living as that phrase is popularly interpreted To my mind however the gratification tion of appetites is not necessarily a masure of the standard of living DoIng Doing Do Do- ing the first may break many of us financially and doing the second may humiliate some of us but a few ma may have to suffer that the whole community community community com com- be relieved Now the question arises where can we look for relief We have been forced to curb our personal gratification and to hold our desires with a firm hand then why should not the tha community's ambitions and desires be brought under lash I refer r now to public expenditures which al' al are arc supported by taxes It Is undoubtedly true that in recent I years the people have demanded more government better school buildings more extensive schools good roads paved pa streets and walks more water sewage and other public desires Now as our personal expenditures are woefully woefully woefully woe woe- fully restricted it occurs to me that our Dur public expenditures e- e wise be curtailed You ask where shall we begin Salaries Salaries Salaries Sal Sal- aries could be reduced probably 25 per percent percent percent cent without reducing the proverbial standard of living New projects could wait walt a while In ten years most us will not remember her ber whether a certain piece of road was finished with oiled capping in 1931 or in 1933 Schools Well that is where a high percentage of our taxes go so we should see if school expenses could not be reduced I take it that our schools are for far forthe forthe the purpose of training our boys and girls to be self supporting loyal loal and happy citizens an and in my opinion It would be accomplished just as well Uthe it U the compulsory age limit were reduced reduce d fr m 18 to 16 18 or even 14 U. Whatever the age I feel sure some reduction could be made safely The school I feel sure should be reduced re- re re reduced eliminating purely entertaining entertain entertain- ing subjects and placing more stress on the tra fundamentals especially the I three Rs I am of the opinion that children n nIn in the grades would be as well off with mothers lesson sin cooking and sewing sewIng sewing sew sew- ing as they are with Instruction In Domestic Art and Science at their age by expensive Instructors The main thing after afler all for most of us and especially in times like these is to be beable able to make g good od gravy the kind kina that mother makes and to patch the theold old Did Id garments Teachers salaries should be reduced at least in proportion to the lower cost of ol living The school year might also In emergency b ba shortened without with with- cut out serious loss To make these re reductions reductions reductions re- re would not in my opinion re retard retard retard re- re tard our cultural progress nor dwarf our personal ideals The most worthy progress is not al always always always al- al ways mad mado by the student who has the most money to spend upon whom the most money is lavished We must learn to step to the music |