Cottonwood Chronicle Newspaper, January 24, 1919, Page 5

Felt Need of Change. . Charles was staying in the country where playmates were few.’ So long, as it was Hobson's choice he amused himself with a little neighbor girl some years younger than himself, but ~ on being invited to play with an older girl-well supplied with toys, he entire- ly abandoned his former playmate re- gardless of all her attempts to lure him back. On being remonsthated with by his mother for his neglect of Julia % he disgustedly remarked, “Oh mother, a T'li go back to Julia some day, but a | fellow sometimes wants a change.” Biblical Town of Gaza. Al-Mintar, or the watchtower, still exists to the east of the town of Gaza. It is where Samson is said to have car- ried the gates of the city. On the road from Gaza to Jaffa are ancient olive trees, many of them more than one thousand years old, with gnarled bark and immense trunks. There is an old legend which credits Gaza with the in- vention of the first mechanical clocks. These were perhaps the sand clecks which are still used in some mosques. Little Things Cause Sunshine. The sunshine of life is made up of very little beams that are bright all the time. To give up something, when giving up will prevent unhappiness; / to yield, when persisting will chafe and fret others; to go a little around rath- er than come against another; to take an ill look or a cross word quietly, rather than resent or return it—these are .the- ways in which clouds and Trials without discover forces with- in. Says Victor Hugo: “There are instinets for all the crises of life.” A deep perplexity awakens a flash of i {nsight; a bitter opposition sets the . soul on fire; a grave peril opens our eyes to horses and chariots of fire; a severe catastrophe evokes a heroism of which the sufferer had not thought . himself capable.—W. L. Watkinson. Be Kind Always. One great trouble with unkind thoughts is that it i$ so very difficult to keep them only thoughts; sooner or later they find utterance. We may fancy that we are keeping our un- charitable opinions to ourselves, but they are almost certain to express themselves in look or tone, if not in word. The only way to be really kind is to be kind clear through.—Exchange. “Gag rule” was a phrase applied to a resolution passed by congress in | May, 1886, that th fourths of all petitions, memor! resolutions, prop- * ositiops or papers relating in any way to the subject of slavery or the aboli- tion of slavery should lie on the table without being printed or referred. The rule was abolished a few years later. ——<$<$<$—$___<— Heroism. 4. Heroism is always the same, how- ever the fi on of a hero’s clothes may alter. Every hero in history is as near to a man as bis neighbor, and f if we should tell the simple truth of | q some of our, neighbors, it would sound P like poetry. eorge W. Curtis. Yes, Why Is It? . Said the facetious feller, “Why is it when a man goes to a butcher shop | and learns that the price of a chuck roast is 55 cents a pound he involun- tarily allows his mind to revert to thoughts of the flesh and the devil?”— Indianapolis Star. a, A Boston Child. . “Our child is backward. Four years old and takes no interest in Shakes- peare.” - “That does not necessarily in- dicate that the child is backward. He 2 tans 5 RC ie PARDEE ALE nee © Times of Life’s Deep Emotions, At certain periods of life we live years of emotion in a few weeks and look back on those times as on great gaps between the old life and the new. —Thackeray. . | Aim High. If you hit the mark you must aim storms are kept off, ard a pleasant and steady sunshine secured.—Aikin. Trials All Have Value. i | | | | | | The Equalization of Educational Opportunities 21.0 'or1.42 mills would pay the That wear-resisting finish on your broom handle is also varnish. 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To equal the salaries! |of teachers in Idaho, a 4.4 mill} taxisrequired. In Pennsylvania, | salaries of all public school teach-| The per capita wealth is very ers, | uneven in the different states. In! North Carolina it is $726.35. Similar computations may be In made for the taxing units within a little above it; every arrow that flies | Nevada it is $4,135.35. For the any given state, be they county feels the attraction of earth.—Long- fellow. How to Get Rich. Some men would have no trouble In ey they earn as they do to the money they borrow. ’ 4, Unfortunate Fact. There is one guess that is pretty ac Men who make speeches like fe them.—St. Louis Globe-Dem- . Confirmation. No woman is really ‘satisfied with the compliments her mirror pays her unless they are reiterated by some 6 man.—Boston Transcript. clea Optimistic Thought. a! The king cannot always rule as he wishes. j Daily T* Hie is foolish to blame the sea who &9 & shipwrecked twice-—Syrus. country asa whole, it is $1,712.77. oF school district. ( The population » back of each the schools within a given state | teacher employed in the ppblic Vary almost as much as do the schools is also uneven. i : getting rich if they held on to the mon- | there is one teacher for a popula- } tion of 81.52 persons. oA i equi liana, there is one teacher fora efficient schools in all districts. | population of 240.01. country asa whole, there is one teacher for a population of 163.91. ‘ The wealth back of each teach- tributed in proportion to econom- ler also varies | states. jwealth of $119,271.88 for each | In Illinois, there isa wealth of $437,491.52 for each region of Missouri, Southern and | In Nevada, it is $671,- Northern Illinois, or the fertile| 815.56. For the United States as belt along Lake Michigan with | la whole, the figure is $280,754.08 the Sand Belt of Adamsand Mar- | | per teacher. A tax of two mills on each dol- Sense the differences in ability to |lar of wealth in the United States Pay for good schouls. would equal the salaries paid to | P all public school teachers of the! vids $50,000,000 annually ‘“for|common school branches in alj In Mississippi, there is a Pare Lancaster and Tioga Coun- Consequently, In Iowa, Schools of different states. More must be done to equalize taxation In Louis- Within the states to insure equally In the The movement must be toward a larger distributable fund raised by state-wide taxation and dis- in the different icand educational need. Com- tries in Pennsylvania, the Miss- | ouri River Valley and the Ozark | quette Counties in Wisconson to | The Bill betore Congress pro- | the improvement of public schools of less than college grade, with} the definite aim of extedning school terms and of stimulating state and local interest in improv- ing, through better instruction and graduation and through con- solidation and supervision, the rural schools and the schools in spaksely settled localities.’ An equal amount by thestates would provide $100,000,000 annually. | The fund is to be distributed on} the per teacher basis, and amounts to $80.34 for each public school teacher employed. Idaho has 3,506 teachers and would receive from Congress $281,672.04. An equal amount by the state for these purposes would make available $563,344.-| 08 for the purposes mentioned in | the Bill. The Bill provides that no State shall share in this fund unless it has at least twenty-four weeks of school in each district, unless it enforces an adequate compulsory school attendance law, and un- less it provides that “the basis language of instruction in the y believe that Bi vrote th ay OOO go ———Ee—EEE>>=E—EEEI ESSE h—>]E—aweE_>~_=S=ay schools, public and private, shall be the English language only.” Aerial Compasses. Many difficulties had to be overcome in the production of a satisfactory compass for aerial work. Chief among these was,that of neutralizing the mag- netism of the engine (and in particular the magneto) and of preventing the effect of centrifugal force, which caused the card or dial inside the com- pass to swing in a direction quite inde- Weather is relentless in ite attacks on egposed to hi cold, rain or snow, or even subme under water, and still retain its lustre and ll give you pendent ‘of north when. the airplane was banking on a turn, However, & truly excellent compass is now in use. ——— Pleasant Old Age. What blessings are these—that the soul having served its time, so to speak. in the campaigns of desire and ambition, rivalry and hatred, and all the passions, should live {n its own thoughts and, as the expression goes, should dwell apart. Indeed, if it has in store any of what I may call the food of study and philosophy, nothing unter than an old age of xchange, can be p telsure. Do Your Own Thinking. You can’t become a man of mark, @ man of real achievement, so long as you are but an echo of other people. You can’t possibly progress as you should in your chosen life work. For the highest success demands vigorous, alert, independent thinking. And your thinking is the opposite of this, as re- vealed by your blind, uncritical assim- dilation of other, people’s ideas. [MAP NOT || REXPA Floors are walked on, danced on, and Scots All’ Lovers of Dogs. Scotland is a great sheep-growing country, yet it loves the dog; gives him his due in life-and reveres him in death, At the castle in Edinburgh there is a little plot of ground where the dogs of the Scottish soldiers are buried; it is a charming spot, and on many little tombstones there are ten- der tributes to departed friends. In front of Saint Giles cathedral. ii the same noble city, there is a monument to a little skye terrier, and upon it, carved in stone, an inscription to Rob- bie, who refused to, leave the church yard where his master was buried, and died upon his grave. i ‘ The True Artist. The artist is always a child tn fresh- ness of feeling; in unworldly delight in the things which do not add to one’s estate, but which make for Inward joy and peace, and that easy posses- sion of the world which brings. the sense of freedom, the right to be hap- py, and the faith that life is greater than its works, and a man more im- portant than lifsteil, A race, like an) individual,-must get this consciousn of possession before the work of t day becomes imperative and absorbing. --Hamiiton W. Mabie. Well Called Devil’s Belt. Long Island-sound, in New York, was known before the revolution, and per- haps later, as the Devil’s Belt, as may be seen on Sauthier’s map of New York in the Revolution. It had, Hell » gate at one end and the nearly #5, tu- ganituons Race at the other. terete er vere s. -<