Aid to Education Real Monstrosity

By EDWIN B. PETERSEN

HELLO FOLKS — They called it 'aid' to Education. It was declared to be free of controls on schools. Yet it laid out what each one must pay in order to be eligible to receive the 'aids'. It was a multi-billion dollar monstrosity that said, "Let's add it on the national debt".

I can't see that there is anything wrong with Federal Aid to Education if it is really that. But just to dish out money and charge it to the coming generations, then scatter it to the schools without providing incentives for the schools to do their bit themselves, is pure folly.

That is what the Murray - Metcalf Bill would have done. It seems that the spending Congressmen are so anxious to spend that the don't particularly care how it is spent just so the debt gets bigger — or at least the tax load.

Under "Murray-Metcalf," money would have been taken out of Minnesota and put into states such as Mississippi. Mississippi in turn is cutting her tax bill so that she can draw more industry (some of it probably out of Minnesota.) Under the Murray-Metcalf bill the states who are doing less to provide good education would be given windfall, while the ones doing their part would carry the lions share of the load.

This is typical of the spenders and points up how necessary are those who have more sober heads.

A POLITICIAN KNOWS you can not fool all the people all the time, but it isn't necessary, A majority will do.

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A COLD IS both positive and negative; sometimes the eyes have it and sometimes the nose.

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IT'S A GOOD thing to get in and dig, but be careful which way you throw the dirt.

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ONE OF THE most fascinating stories I have read in a long time is the story of the quick-frozen mammoths. The Readers Digest had a condensed article about them taken from the Saturday Evening Post.

The story, as no doubt many of you readers realize, is about the prehistoric animals that have been found preserved in the arctic. If you haven't read it, do so. I am sure you will think about it for many a day.

The explanation is that at some time the crust of the earth has shifted and the gasses formed beneath it cause such a gigantic explosion that the top of the earth blew off. The air that displaced is was the outer air and was so cold that it froze the animals before they could eat the mouthful of feed that they were eating.

There are a lot of things about the old world that we don't even suspect. And a lot of things yet to happen that we don't anticipate.

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Dictionary

folly |ˈfälē|

noun ( pl. follies )

1 lack of good sense; foolishness: an act of sheer folly.

• a foolish act, idea, or practice: the follies of youth.

2 a costly ornamental building with no practical purpose, esp. a tower or mock-Gothic ruin built in a large garden or park.

3 ( Follies )a theatrical revue, typically with glamorous female performers: [ in names ] : the Ziegfeld Follies.