The Marble booster. [volume], March 04, 1916, Image 2

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THE MARBLE BOOSTER
BY FRANK P. FROST. - KIHTOK AND PROPRIETOR.
Entered iu the potitottic** at Marble, Colo., aa second class
matter, under Act of (’ouRress oY March 1879.
I MEMBER OBUPRiDO EDrTQRlAL ASSOCUtHOK : r :!!S z 'KS:H ; vr
OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE TOWN OF MARBLE
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Thanks 50c: Resolutions of Condolence 5c a line.
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MARBLE, COLORADO, SATURDAY, MARCH 4, 1916
FIGURES DON’T LIE.
Discussion of school matters in the
columns of The Booster has brought
out some additional facts which are
worth considering, as for instance:
The tax valuation of School District
No. 4, which includes the town of Mar
ble, is given in the assessor’s books as
$1,526,000 in round numbers. We pay
eight-tenths of a mill tax toward the
support of the county high school, which
is located at Gunnison, and might as
well be located in Constantinople or the
Fiji islands, as far as its benefits accrue
to Marble. This district never has had
a pupil in it.
At eight tenths of a miil on $1,526,000,
our tax for the county high school
amounts to $1,220 yearly. We paid this
for about ten years without getting any
part of it back. In the last two years,
by reason of repeated protests and per
sonal appeals to the powers at Gunni
son, we contrived to get a concession
of half the salary of one teacher in our
high school at Marble, which, at $45 a
month for nine months, amounts to $405
per annum, this being the sum given
back to us as a concession.
This still leaves $815.00 of our taxes
each year going to the county high
school, for which we receive no bene
fit. For ten years the entire sum paid
went to the county school and we got
nothing back at all.
Take your pencil and figure out how
much of the taxes of District No. 4
have been of no direct benefit to the
district during the past twelve years.
A similar situation has existed for many
years in the distribution of road taxes.
It is only within the last two years that
the roads of the Marble district have
received any fair attention. Previous
to that time all the road money, or
practically all of it, was spent else
where in the county.
These true statements simply em
phasize the need of a non-poiitical vot
ers’ organization here, an appeal for
which is printed on this page.
A TICKLISH POSITION.
With all due respect to the excellent
purposes served in bringing the patrons
of public schools to an interest and
pride in their local schools, the grading
of these schools in the standardization
plan is not going to amount to any
thing, in the judgment of this paper.
This grading is to be done in each
county by the county superintendent of
schools. Each of these county super
intendents is elected to his or her office
by the votes ot school patrons. Let
one of these schools receive a low grade
and what happens? Every voter in
that district will turn down that super
intendent the next voting opportunity.
The position of the superintendents
making the grades is a ticklish one. If
they want to be re-elected to office they
will give each of the schools in their
district a first-class grade. If they do
this the purposes of standardization are
defeated and the whole plan is a farce.
If they don’t ‘do it they dig for them
selves a political grave.
The editor Of this paper wouldn’t
care to do this grading if he were a
county superintendent of schools.
CLIPPED.
Eaton Herald:—The Marble Booster
says: “Weather becomes settled and
company makes hay.” Say, that’s the
country to go to, Where they make hay
in February.
Steamboat Pilot:—In an article which
he wrote to his paper while visiting in
Denver Frank P. Frost, the brilliant
editor of the Marble Booster, among
other things, said: * * * and I have
just refused my 2,700th offer to dnnk.”
When the next number of The Booster
reached our exchange table the editor
ial page was printed upside down. Can
you beat it?
Paonia Paonian:—Ordinarily, we don’t
go much on Fay King’s work, but she
hit thd nfcll on the head the other even
ing, when, in cartooning her idea of a
“nap,” she had him reading the Post.
feW • -
IN UNION STRENGTH.
Some time this summer at least be
fore the election next Fall it ought to
be the solemn duty of Marble people to
get together and form a non-political
organization of voters to stand for bet
ter advantages and better treatment
for this community.
The organization ought to enroll as
members practically every voter in
Marble who has the interests of the
town at heart.
Those citizens who are aligned with
politics probably won't join, but, for
tunately, they are few. The great
majority of our citizens don’t give a
whoop whether a candidate for county
office is a Republican or a Democrat;
what they do care about is what kind
of treatment he is going to give this
district of Gunnison county.
With such an organization of voters,
any candidate for county office who is
keen to his own interests will give very
serious consideration to any demands
made upon him in the way of post-elec
tion pledges.
This organization, if rightly organ
ized, would easily hold the balance of
power in elections in the county. The
votes between party candidates on the
other side of the range are, as we un
derstand it, about equally divided. Let
Marble determine to gi down the line
for any particular candidate and that
candidate is pretty sure to be elected.
This is an advantage in county poli
tics which has never been seized by
Marble. It is quite evident that we
have been overlooking a splendid op
portunity for years to accomplish a
great deal for our district. United we
gain; divided we lose. United we se
cure concessions and privileges we nev
er have had; divided we get the neck of
the chicken while the other fellows di
vide the thighs and wishbone.
Palisade Tribune: -Legal action is be
ing taken against some of the mail or
der houses of Chicago on the ground
that they resort to unfair methods of
trade. Whether oc not the complainants
prove their case to the satisfaction of
the commission, there is no doubt in
the minds of the public that mail order
houses are far from scrupulous in the
way they try to cut the ground from
under the feet of the country merchant.
Possessing well nigh unlimited capital
the big city houses have a great initial
advantage over the retailer in the small
town whose capital is necessarily limit
ed. When to this is added unfair
methods of trade it is easily seen that
the local merchant has no easy road to
hoe. If only every man who sends to
a mail order house for almost every
thing he wants would only realize that
the money he sends out of town in that
way serves to increase the fortunes of
people who do not contribute one cent
to the building up of his home town,
and to impoverish the local merchant
who pays in a dozen ways to advance
the town, there would be a radical
change. Every man should have enough
local patriotism and sense of justice to
do this but there are many people who
sink patriotism and fairness out of sight
if it interferes with a supposed advan
tage <jf only one cent on the dollar.
Henry Thode lit on a live topic in his
talk at the schoolhouse last Friday when
he called attention to the absence of
any “bubbling fountains” around the
school plant. He might have gone fur
ther and pointed out that the Colorado-
Yule Marble company, a local industry
in which all of us have great pride,
make various designs of beautiful foun
tains in their novelty department. Ser
iously, however, the absence of drink
ing fountains at the school is regret
table.
Of the five editors of the state who
voted “no” on the proposition to re
turn to the exchange basis with rail
road advertising, twenty-eight have so
far acknowledged being of the “five,”
and the returns are not all in yet.
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