Jacksboro Gazette (Jacksboro, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 51, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 16, 1912 Page: 2 of 8
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of a Consdtutional Amendment.
Other Important Moves.
CONFERENCE FOR EDUCATION, support and maintenance of the pub- be based contained tbe following'
lie schools. This amounts to a dis- . sal ent points:
crimination against these districts, j Education in Texas is making!
Has Declared For the Submission and calls for a constitutional amend- substantial progress and the people
men. to make uniform the law ap- are to be congratulated on the de-
plying to all school districts. gree of harmony which has been
The injustice of the present law shown by all classes of educators
is well illustrated in the election tending toward the common gopd. I
-i.— | held in Dallas on April 2 last which | The concentration of educational
resulted in a vote of 3232 for the forces on a few vital measures is
The Conference for Education in tax aijjj 1715 against the tax and recommended, these measure to be
Texas has d^pjared for the submis- -^as declared not carried, and there- practical and attainable,
sion of a ConstituLional Amendment by £be will 0f ^be majority thwart- j A request to the Thirty-third leg-
by the next Legislature providing ed_ Such a thing should not be pos- islature that the constitution be
for majority rule in school tax elec- gjbie in a democratic country, and amended to permit incorporated cit-
tions of ci.ies that have assumed the people should amend Section 10 ies and towns to levy school taxes
control of their public free schools Article II of the Constitution by majority vote and removing the
and removing the present maximum WbiCh. reads, as follows: | maximum tax rate of 50 cents on the
of district school taxes. “The Legislature may constitute $100 valuation.
The necessity for this amendment any c; ty or town a separate and in- j The six-year term for boards of
lies in the fact that there are two dependent school district. And control o: schools is recommended
classes of independent school dis- When the citizens of any city or to t:e voters of Texas,
tricts in Texas: 1. The incorporated to-vvln have a charter, authorizing the 1 The extension of county super-
city or town which has control of thj city authorities to levy and co.lect vision of schools to all counties
pub ic Iree schools within its limits; a ax for ^he support and mainte- ha/ing 2000 or more scholastic pop-
and 2, the town or village incorpo- nance of a ^public institution of u a on is recommended,
rated for school purposes only. In learning, such tax may hereafter j The support of the University, A.
1908 the people adopted an amend- be ievqedd and collected, if, at an and M. Co lege, four normals and
ment to Section 3, Article VII, of elctlon held for that purpose, two- industrial school at Denton by di-
the Constitution, raising the limit thirds of the taxpayers of such city rect taxation is urged,
of school district tax to fifty cents or town shall vote for such tax.” j The work of the Executive Board
and providing the authorization of Adopts important Platform. aad the General Agent is endors-
the tax by a majority vote. This, . ed
amendment was put into effect by F^th General Session of the
the legislature in 1909, and the in- Conference whichwas. held in San!
denendent school districts not rit- Antonio, April 19 and 20, was well > Another resolution was directed
ies and towns, placed on ’the same a tended, and that the personnel toward an investigation of what was
basis with respect to taxes and of hose attending and the high termed “the apparent inequalities
bonds as common school districts, character of the addresses deliver- and inequities ’ of , the present
the constitutional limit of fifty eL weie on a Par with those that method of apportioning state funds
eents being alloWed to both. tegs. for school purposes. It was urged
The statute of the independent* The Conference offers a common that an investigation would show
district gropes, or" town or village meeting ground for all who are in- what changes if any, were needed
incorporated for free school purpos- terested in educational progress, and in order that full justice might con-
es only, ae dhsAnguished from the u was gratifying to find at this trol the apportionment,
oivy or town which has control of its meeting practically all school inter- This does not mean that the con-
■cbnols iR that Dr taxPR fer mainte- ests represented. The represent- feronce is not interested in other
nance-and for bonds may be author- atives ,the State’s higher institu- worthy educational questions, but
teed by majority vote, that any rate tions, private and denominational that it will concentrate its efforts
up to twenty-five cents, or, if there schools, city and rural schools, state on these matters for the next few
are no utstamding bnds, the entire and county school officials, dele- months,
fifty cents, is available fr mainte- gates from Mothers Congress and j
Texa3 Federation of Women’s Clubs, (
Pronounced as Having No Respect
for Constitution, and No Inten-
tion to Defend It.
SOCIALIST LOSES CITIZENSHIP, the evidence introduced in this be-' train load last week. $30,000 was
half proved that the party with realized by the growers on this
which he is affiliated has for its shipment.
; main objest the complete elimina- Construction work will begin soon
tion of property rights in this on the $40,000 cotton compress at
country. * x San Benito.
“The evidence in this case does J Precinct No. 2 of Bowie County
not have to be analyzed to deter- has voted $60,000 in bonds fdr lev-
mine his (Oleson’s) attitude. He ee construction in that coupty.
The M. K. & T. Railway will be-
gin construction of a new $30,000
depot at Temple in the near fu-
ture.
The Professional Commercial Ex-
ecutives of Texas will hold their
annua’ meeting in Houston May 16.
Six hundred and forty acres of
land between Magnolia and Houston
has bean soldd to the Magnolia
Park and Land Company for $550,-
000.
The Hampshire drainage district
Seattle, Wash., May 11.—On the ■ has no respect for the constitution,
ground that he had committed a | no indention to support or defend
fraud when he swore to uphold the j ...
principles of the constitution, Judge i 11 agamSt ltS enemieS and is not
C. P. Hanford of the United States I wel1 disposed towards the peace and
tion of the citizenship papers of i tranquility of the people. His
Leonard Oleson, a Socialist agitator.
This is the first case on, record
in. which a man has been deprived
of ci.izsnship because of alleged
seditious utterances and it is con-
strued today as a direct and far-
reaching attack on Socialism.
propaganda is to create turmoil
and to end in chaos.”
Texas Industrial Notes.
___„ _____________________ Prof. A. K. Short, recently con- - mwmammMEmpm
Oleson received his final papers nected with the Agricultural Col- of Jerferson County voted oh
from the Pierce county superior i lege a. Ames, Iowd, has been ap- ?100»°00 band issue for the purpose |
court, Jan. 10, 1910. He is alleged ! Pointed superintendent of the of draining 80,000 acres of land,
to have participated in the disturb- j State Experimental College at Tem-j ^ ®^e bas been purchased and
ces involving thel ndustrial Work- . P^e-
construction work will begin soon
Method of Apportionment.
ers of the World, and last week the | Statements of San Angelo banks on a preserving plant -at Genoa.
United States district attorney be- j show deposits of $1,000,000, at that Temple State Bank & Trust
fore Judge Hanford to revoke Ole-,0^- -Company of Temple, has increased
son s cit zenship. Two hundred and fifty head of its «»pital stock from $50,000 to
In his decision Judge Hanford beeves were shipped to England *20’000-
said: from Ellis County recently. The Attorney General has approv-
“He (Oleson) claimed tip have aj Corpus Christi is to have a newjed thiu$4|»,000 good roa'dd bond is-
clear understanding of the consti- $40,000 amusement park, and con-tsue/or D°s:iue County.
tution and he knew that by one of
its articles the deprivation of life,
1 berty and property without due
process of law is forbidden. Yet, j sailed from Port Arthur last week,
with a full cargo of Texas lumber
consigned to Jamaica.
’The Demons of the Swamp
struction will start in the near fu-j A civic league has been organiz-
ture. ed at Cuero for the purpose of beau-
The British schooner, “Invictus,” tifying the town.
- . j
The Commercial Club of Hillsboro ^i^oads Experimenting With Farm
is promoting sentiment in favor of
Products ka. Grayson Coanty.
a ra lroad, from Hillsboro to Whit-
ney a distance of twelve miles. Gas
fflectria mo ops will be used.
are mosquitoes. As they sting
they put deadly malaria germs in
the blood. Then follow the icy j Arrangements have been complet- the efforts of the Agricwltural De-
chills and the fires of fever. The led for the dragging of 100 miles of; partment of the Texas & Pacific In-
Sherman, Tex., May 10.—Through
appetite flies and the strength, pab’ic highways leading into Sher- ternational & Great Northern Rail-
fails; also malaria often paves the 1 man.
asm e purpses.
The class to which a given inde- J business and professional men, all j Kerrville has voted for the issu-
pendent district belong* must be mingled an<f were free to join in ance 0f $20,060 in bonds to be ex-
determined from its incorporation the dis u;sions and plans for approv- pended in street improvements.
record. There are 114 independent ed school conditions in Texas* j __
school districts of the first class in The declaration of principles, the ;
j way for deadly typhoid. But Elec-
; trie Bitters kill and cast out the
malaria germs from the blood; give
you a fine appetite and renew your
s rength. “After long suffering,
C., “tthree bottles drove all the
Eighty car loads of onions were
shipped from Laredo, April 25th,
making a total of 1,00© cars shipped
to ddate.
Cameron County has organized a
good roads association with a view
malaria from my system, and I’ve of creating sentiment in favor of a
had good health ever since.” Best $30,000, bond 5issue.
roads, land has been set apart in
Grayson County for demonstration
purposes and to experiment with
sugar beets, Frijole beans, Califor-
nia pink beans and Michigan navy
beans.
The tests will be watehed with
interest as the soi lin Grayson Coun-
ty is said to be peculiarly adapted ^
which two-third majority is necessa- platform on which the educational Cook County will build thirty-five for all stomach, liver and kidney | Fifty-three cars of cabbage were to the growing of the above prod-
ry in order to levy taxes for the campaign for the coming year will miles of gravel roads. ill
50cts at All Dealers.
t. shipped from Harlington in one uctg.
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Jacksboro Gazette (Jacksboro, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 51, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 16, 1912, newspaper, May 16, 1912; Jacksboro, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth729275/m1/2/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Gladys Johnson Ritchie Library.