Show THE DOG IN THE MANGER AGAIN by J 13 JUIN JT jam r naturally I 1 e i i ie de of jr land empire love to talk ot of that spell growth vad aud daie fici sla rient ment we long tor for the railroad to hape and pray for favorable weather conditions that we may have bounteous harvests harvesta we wrestle water problems and tax ourselves to en joy good roads and other conven lences incident to a liable country we invite outside talents and rmon money to come here and participate in our industries and enterprises we resent any measure that will in any way deter our progress or prosperity yet without any resistance si or quest question lon whatsoever we allow a thing to go on ira unmolested molested that haz has done more and is doing more harm hiarm to the country than any thing that has come into the history of the basin this wolf in sheep clothes is the transportation of chool children from small communities to the larger centers it is by far the most moat inconsistent inconsiderate and abom nible thine that has been pulled off ini im the history of 0 this thil country and will be a blot forever it has thrown the whole basin into a turmoil it Is driving people to sell leape or leave their farms who never thought of such euah a thing before to ge get t to wit sile points where decent school facil facilities ides can ge be had bad it is breaking up somes and wrecking communities it la is robbing people of religious and rocial pilvi leg it is throwing health to the tour four winds by packing docking children into stuffy trucks by Iee ree pins them away from home from dpn en to twel houm daily arid and sometimes lotge loi hui hill ried breakfasts cold lun plies to coldi cold and fatigate fatle fatig ste being beine robbed of sleep fi I 1 eject the ul noise and con contus confuso fusa la of the sequent lowered bodily vitality vil make them thein an easy prey to dorcae e it them tor for study arid and prohibits normal development and as nine out of every ten and their parents can testify they are gettling practically nothing out of the schools after the hardships en counters cou coun tere in III getting there every one with any reasoning power would know that the individual student among forty others could not get the inspiration or help that he be would in a class of six even it if the period were ten times i as long furthermore these children torm from their own schools axe are harried and bandied by town children who consider these country students somewhat inferior to themselves and do not fall fail to make their feelings manifest these little strangers in rn a strange land have no privileges no freedom no liberty they go as helpless victims of an egotistical and inconsistent t whim of babool officials another phase of the question la Is the danger that these call dien are being thrown into the trucks are not efficient and aad in some cases the drivers ase are not what should be expected tor for so serious ani am undertaking the trucks are lacking ca the children are jammed in like sardines in a most indecent and uncomfortable manner it if any athing thing should happen to the trucks it would mould be impossible for any escape of injury or death true there Is an insurance nce but who of us has children to sell to insurance companies again it if any contag contagious louS disease should break out it would spread from one end ot of the country to the other over night with the dist distances anees the financial condition ot of the people the scarcity of 0 doc tois and and remoteness from medical centers it would be nothing short ot of a self imposed plague with devastating results from the financial standpoint this procedure would aseem more than practical oar i county comity la is low on means at least we have been told that money was waa and would mould seem queer to take lake such fanciful tul strides so BO expensive as this trucking business it really does seem inconsistent for our school officials to double the expense of school problems nis arid and give less in return they expect more from the people and at the same aade time tear down the country that is to finance them it reminds one of the dog in the manger story there are still other ugly reat feat ures I 1 ot of the situation I 1 wonder II if the he board imagines that the bond to build school houses bouses would have been voted had the people known their pla m I 1 wonder again if the the board dared to ask the consent 0 t the I 1 1 people e 0 p 1 e a and n d why w h y should s it 0 u 1 d our 0 ur s school aiho 0 1 s system y s te m ino not t b be e d democratic en i 0 c r a t I 1 c instead of whatever it is it would seem that the tiling was gone into rashly the truck lines as scheduled dont seem i to work out children who are just getting started are being asked now to change routes and schools I 1 this will retard them and put them to great disadvantage in that they will have to become accustomed to new surroundings gret get acquainted with new teachers and break int into a class that Is settled and wr tk il this can not be accomplished in a day or a week another thing them they solicited or at leas acor ted birb school tuff tuition lonz thi th lion that all high school stud nt would have tree free transportation now that the funds have been paid they say just get oft off the truck please and in all this the people who elected these men the people who have to finance the thing and tho the ones who have to bear the burden of it are not considered way any more tihan than if 1 they were up lip for public auction we talk of slavery and call it a blot in our count rys otherwise fair record it this slavery in the disguise of transportation tation Is any cleaner or better or more fair to the class it deals jl with is ia to be b questioned when other counties with better roads shorter distances and financial backing tried and gave up truck tag ten years ago as will be seen in several counties of our state why should we have this obsolete thing coisted onto us this thing w will III be a blot on the history of our county forever to rever it would seem that when a hoard thinks and feels that they have a right to dish out this sort of 0 thing on the people that they should not be tolerated longer |