Show TO HELP RURAL SCHOOLS 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 for the purpose of cooperating with the states in paying salaries of Ite teachers achels tea cheis supervisors and principals and other current expenses of elementary schools in rural areas adeas the bill provides that the money be distributed tri buted on oil a 50 50 basis and in accordance cor dance with the rural school population of the states wishing to participate in the fund representative brand in a communication muni cation to the office of the utah education association says I 1 it is known that money is escaping fron from imal sections into more populous centeio in a greater and greater deg degier gice chain stores ale sending their out daily aily d buying fencing and farming fanning 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 docs not halt in very many of the states but coagulates in a few large ce centers 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 goca acs to the city for nothing I 1 refer to the boys and gills who graduate at a cost of 2000 a piece for education and 2000 a piece for keep and the country loses them to the city permanently and the money they have cost never returns to the lural section the U S department of agli agriculture culture 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 out of every net dollar of profit on the farm for taxes and fifty three per cent of those taxes are for schools and the price of land has broken down so that state tax commissions are being forced to reduce valuations of land for taxation and this reduces school money if the farmer is to have e quality equality of opportunity he must first have bave equality of education and we vc have come to a place where this equality of education cannot be maintained by the local rural units |