Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, July 26, 1911, Page 4

“PAGE FOUR. Brand Rapids Weraiae' Published Every Wednesday By E. C. KILEY. TWO DOLLARS A YEAR IN ADVANCE Entered at the Postoffice at Grand Rapids, Minnesota, as Second Class Matter. Official Paper of Itasca County TAX LEVY RAISED BY THE COMMITTEE Report At Saturday Evening Meet- ing That Levy Should Be Raised to $64,500. AMOUNT ASKED FOR WAS $63,000 Devise Means For Decreasing the Bonded Indebtedness—Tax Rate for Ensuing Year Will Be About 13 Mills. Following is the report filed by the commititee appointed to go over the tax ‘levy with the members of the school board and it contains so many good recommendations that we publish ft in full. It follows: Mr. Chairman and Fellow Citizens: Your committee on tax levy ap- pointed at the meeting held Satur- day evening, July 15th, 1911, now begs to report as follows: A meeting of the committee was held on Thursday evening last, the including all the mem- bers of the committee, Mr. Hughes as an ex-official member and = Mr. Dickinson and Mr. Doran of the school board. The committee under- took to thoroughly review and con- sider the needs of the district for the ensuing year and in this con- nection desire to acknowledge the courtesies extended by the school board. The several items of the propos- attendance ed tax levy were considered at length. We report the following as being the tax levy which in our judgment ought to be made for the ensuing year: Teachers’ salaries .. « $45,000.00 Janitor: «4,500.00 Transportation of pupils.. ..1,500.00 2,000.00 + -1,000.00, GRAND RAPIDS HERALD-REVIEW reason that the balance in that fund is adequate to carry forward that department for the ensuing year upon the same basis of expenditure as that which has been followed dur- Ang the school year just citsed. We recommend that hy uppropri- ate action the school meeting con- dition the expenditure ci the levy of $500 for an agricultural! trainjng de- partment upon the payment of $1,000 by the state, in the form of state aid. If it is impossible to secure the sum of $1,000 from the ?tate fur a department for agricultural train- ing it is the judgment cf your com- mittee and also the school board that at this time no expenditure for that purpose should be made. The bonded indebtedness of this district at the present time aggre- gates $145,000. The first of the out- standing bonds will mature within ‘the very near future. There is.a sufficient balance in the bond and interest fund to take care of the first of tihese bonds. It is very necessary and very im- portant, however, that as soon as possible this bonded indebtedness be reduced. With this in mind the following plan has been worked out and ig now urged upon the school meeting. the present time the balances are large enough to take care of all ex- penditures for the ensuing year and to leave a surplus in addition. These two funds are the manual training and building funds. After careful consideration your committee has concluded that there is a surplus of $2,000 in the building fund and $2,500°in the manual training fund which can be used as suggested. In addition to this total of $4,500 there is the income from the levy made last year for the purpose of adding to and improving the’ high school. It is probable that the amount so received this year from the levy made a year ago will run dicse to $12,000, if it does not ex- ceed and figure. All of the money which will be re- ceived into this fund can in the opinion of your committee be divert- ed into a sinking fund without any injury to the schoo) district. We, therefore, recommend in this particular that by appropriate ac- tion on the part of the school meet- ing $2,000 be diverted from the bujld- ing fund and $2,500 from the man- ual training fund into a sinking fund to be used for the retirement of outstanding bonds and that by appropriate action on the part of the school meeting all taxes col- | lécted and to be collected as part | of the levy made a year ago for im- proving the high school at Grand Rapids be diverted in the same way. If this is done the result will be to provide the district with a fund es- timated at about $16,000 and which Furniture and apparatus ..500.00|can be used to reduce outstanding | Text DOOKS.... ..65 eens ce eeee 500.00] indebtedness. The school board Library books... . «250.00 | should be directed in this connection Interest and bonds... -7,250.00|+5 retire as Jarge an amount of Salary: of school board... ./1 A000 leer og. ue etn Ghee. mndaye; eo Expenses of school board.. . 800.00 rendered available as the circum- | Agricultural training dept... . 500.00.) stances will permit. At this time | ————|bonds have not matured to the, Total.. - $64,500.00 | amount im question but we are ad- There is no levy recommended for new buildings. The reason for this is that there is a balance in the fund devoted to new buildings which will in the judgment of both your committee and the school board be ample to provide for all the ne- of ithe coming year. cessitios There are three improvements of which we wish to speak in particu- finr. It seems that there rae new schools needed at Carpenter and Balsam and that it is also necessary to move the present school building at Carpenter to a more suitable lo- cation. The balance in the fund in question is adequate for these pur- poses and we recommend that these expenditures be made upon the un- derstanding that the cost for each of the new school buildings, includ- ing furniture, will not in any event exceed $1,500, The outside estimat- ed cost of moving: the present school building at Carpenter is $250. At the school meeting a week ago it was suggested by one citizen that it was very necessary to provide a cement walk for the block on which the Grand Rapids Central schoo] now stands. Your committee has considered this matter and joins, with the school board in recommending that this improvement be made. We are informed that such a walk can be built, with curbing, for probably $1,000 or less. The balance in the building fund is sufficient for this purpose. We suggest that appropri- ate action on the part of the an- nual meeting will authorize the con- struction of this walk and curbing. In this connection we suggest that if considered practical by the school board there should be some addi- tional walks built through the grounds which now form the site for the Central school. In this way the school grounds can be more freely used by the, public and school children. No levy is recommended for the manual training department for the vised by Mr. Spang, the county audi-| tor, that the county in times past has succeeded in retiring outstand- ing bonds before maturity and we believe that it is entirely practical and entirely possible for the school district to do the same thing. This will not onilly be good business but will mean an immediate economy in the item of interest saved. H We further call attention to the | fact that if a sinking fund is provid- ed as suggested by this report, the money in question will be available without any tax levy for that pur- pose or any additional contribution | on the part of the gitizens. We re- gard this step as sound business judgment and practical economy. No reference has been made in the | levy to the school building at Cohas- | set. This has been unnecessary be- cause all contemplated expenditures in that direction have been taken care of in ‘the $35,000 bond issue re- cently made. Your committee makes a further recommendation that the commercial department of the high school be done away with for the ensuing year unless a contract has been already signed with the teacher in that de- partment. This course of instruc- | tion has cost the district this last | year more than $1,500 and the num: | ber of pupils so imstructed has not exceeded 24, or an average of more | than $60 per pupil per year for this particular course. It is true that a portion of the amount expended has been for equipment, etc., but your committee recommends, after consideration of all circumstances with which the committee has beeu able to obtain information that this course be discontinued for the en- suing year and that the course shall not be again added to the high school curriculum until some appro- priate action in that direction has been taken by an annual school meeting. There are two funds, in which at} We take pleasure in reporting that Midicttline Af bed 26, 1911. on an estimatsd valuation of #5001 ARE USED TO BEING CRUWDED 000. in this district the foregoing p: posed tax levy will mean a rate of about 13 mills, which with the one mill state tax makes a total of four- teen mills as against a rate of 21 mills for the present year, or a re- duction of approximately one-third of the tax rate: In addition to this the recommendations of this report, if adopted, will mean that the dis- trict wilt be able to pay off about $16,000 of outstanding indebtedness without levying any taxes for that purpose. We beg to say finally that from the brief experience of your com- mittee in dealing with school district matters, we are convinced that a school board will welcome any fair and intelligent interest on the part of the public in school affairs and that if such interest in school af- fairs is maintained on the part of the public very substantial results can be looked for in the effort to maintain an efficient school system at such reasonable expense as is con- sistent with efficiency. H. G. BECKER, Chairman. W. C. GILBERT, DR. F. R. HARRISON, EMIL LITCHKE, M. A. SPANG, GEO. H. SPEAR. CHAS. MILANEY. (Note—In signing the above re- port, W. C. Gilbert excepted the plan to do away with the commercial department, he being in favor of continuing it.) Nothing like being well dressed. The Art Tailors can keep you so. suits, coats and skirts ordered _ be- fore August 15th at the Art Tailors. METHOD OF INDUCING SLEEP Self-Suggestion Plays a Great Part—= Worry Is the Main Thing to Be Avoided. The next point to bear in mind fs that self-suggestion plays a great part in the production of sleep, writes Dr. 8. McComb in Harper’s Bazar. Ordb narfly we do not sleep by accident or haphazard. We resolve to sleep. We go through a variety of actions all suggestive of a change from our nor mal waking condition. We undress, we place ourselves in a comfortable position, we close our eyes. We be Neve and expect that we are going to sleep, and the result is—sleep. One of the great preventatives of sleep is the fear of not sleeping. Once this fear is broken down, we sleep. The insomniac worries about his insomnia, and this very worry deepens the mis» ehief. Hence the sufferer should sug: gest to himself again and again: “If I sleep, well; tf I don’t sleep I will at least gain rest by keeping my mind | ealm and my body relaxed.” In a word, our chances of getting sleep in- trease if we assume the external physical attitude which corresponds | to sleep, if we relax every muscle and | let it stay relaxed, if we breathe light |ly and regularly, if we call up the fmaginations of a sleeping person, and talk and think sleep to ourselves, re | peating silently and in a quiet dreamy fashion such a formula as_ this: “There is no reason why I should not sleep. My mind is at peace. Sleep is coming. I am getting sleepy. I am , about to sleep. I am asleep.” ORIGIN OF BRITISH SQUARE | Battle Formation First Used by , Scotch Troops at the Battle of | Bannockburn, The greatest of all Scotch anniver saries is that of Bannocburn, fought bn midsummer day in the year 1314. Apart from its bearing on the inde- pendence of Scotland, the battle will always have an exceptional interest | trom the military point of view, as Bannockburn may be said to have |been the birthplace of the British | square. “Proud Edward’s” army ;mainly consisted of cavalry, while | hat of the Scots, on the other hand, was almost exclusively composed of foot-folk, armed with the spear, and these Bruce threw into “schiltroms,” or oblong squares—a formation bor | towed by Wallace from the Flemings, who had employed it with success at Courtray—to resust the charge of the English cavalry. Hitherto the mounted mail-clad knight had carried everything before him, but Courtray and Bannockburn proved that he was powerless to break resolute, spear-armed infantry drawn up in “schiltrom” or hedge-hog formation, and these two battles revo- tutionized the tactics of the continent and of our own island. Profiting by the lesson which had been taught them at Bannockburn the English ap- | Fallacy as to Drowning. There is a popular fallacy about a drowning man sinking for the third time. The number of times a man sinks has nothing to do with his drowning. He may sink but once, and he may go beneath the water any number of times. It all depends upon the person who is drowning, his phys- ical condition and how quickly the lungs fill with water. That cycle of three is carried along by those whe’ insist that a person dies in his third congestive chil]. But that is not true. The same rule holds good in conges tive chills as in the case of a drown. ing man. A person may die in the first, or he may have half a dozen, and still live. The rule of three doeg Bot obtain there, either. Passengers on New York Street Cap Sit Close Even When It Is Not Necessary. The woman with a sense of humor tmiled. “It is funny,” said she, “how content some people are to sit jammed together in the cars.” “But they can’t help themselves,” protested her companion. “1 know, but I refer to the times when they are not obliged to occupy the same six inches with their next neighbors. When a crowded car be gins to thin ovt, most people expand, but some forget to. I have seen th: women who has been shoppinj' squeeze into a seat beside a laborer a the rush hour, and, just as often a not, she continues to tickle his nos: with her plumes clear up to Harlem after the car is half empty, and t rest her bundles on his lime-coatet overails. “One night, quite late, away up town on a Broadway car, a young mas and young woman sat propped to gether midway of a long, empty seat There was not another passenger left in that side of the car. They paid no attention to each other, and I sup posed that they were too tired to talk. It was quite a shock to my calcula- tions when the young man got off and left the girl sitting apathetically in the empty seat. I had estimated them as first cousins at the furthest.”—New York Press. NO FOREST FIRES IN EUROPE There Every Part of the Tree Is Uti! ized, Leaving Nothing to Start Conflagration. The question has been asked why there should be so many fires in our. American forests when there are so very few or none at all in the forests of Europe. The answer is this, says Outing. When the trees are cut in the forests of Germany, France or Switzerland, the entire material in the tree is marketed and removed, leaving no inflammable litter on the grouod In our American forests, ow ing to lack of market for such mate- rial, fully one-half of the tree—the limbs, smaller branches, twigs and foliage—are left upon the ground, where they soon become dry and fur- Bish material for a forest fire. In the European forests every part of the tree, including the smaller twigs, is sold. The sale of this minor product constitutes over one-half of the revenue. Hence, when the for. ester is through with his tree cutting no inflammable material is left upon the ground. Now, if our Adirondack lumbermen could sell the limbs and tops of the trees instead of allowing them to go to waste for lack of a /market, they would not be obliged to leave the ground encumbered with the inflammable debris and litter which is such a prolific source of fire, and which when ignited is so difficult to extinguish. THAT SETTLED THE QUESTION Youngster’s Explanation of His Fa- Away Behind. The story, long since familiar, of the little boy whose boast that his fa- ther had put a cupola on his house was capped by his playmate, who re- marked, proudly, that his father had just put a mortgage on theirs, is brought to mind by an occurrence which was told the other day by a prominent politician. The small son of a man who was in politics for revenue only, on moving into a new district this summer, went out and struck up an acquaintance with two other kids of the same age | who lived in the neighborhood. They were interested in the newcomer and began to try him out as to what his parents amounted to anyhow. “My father is a window trimmer and an awfully big man,” said the first kid. “Ah, that’s nothin’,” said the second. “My father’s a dump trimmer, and he’s twice as big as your's.” It was plainly up to the stranger to make good. And he did it with much gusto. “My father is a politician,” he said, “but I heard a man tell him last night that he was the biggest trimmer in this ward.” And it was apparent to any one | that the new kid had made a strong impression upon the neighborhood. PUT ART BEFORE APPEARANCE. Painter’s Effective Rebuke to His Over-Dainty Pupil. An old pupi! of Conture tells how the master came into his school room ome day when the model was in excep- ‘ionally good condition, the light espe- cfally fine and the circumstances of the seance altogether auspicious. As he entered one of the students got up and went to the tub of water in the corner, leaving all the rest buried in their work. “What are you going to do?” asked Conture roughly. The student showed his hands, which had some paint on them, and replied that he was going to wash them. Conture labbed his thumb in some paint on the palette of the nearest student and made a smear on the dainty pupil’s ‘orehead. “You ha” hetter wash your ‘ace, too,” he said. The face washing was the last act of the students when they had finished their work for the lay. The dainty pupil took the hint to heart, apologized and sat down at nis easel, without visiting the tub. 'f£ he had not done so he wonld never have entered the school again. — W. 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