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LOCAL TAX AND THE
PUBLIC SCHOOLS......
BY DR. GEO. W. CLOWER
of (i rantville, <5ti.
Various objections are urged by many
> taxing the j wo pie for the support of
nblic schools. Home whose homes are
npty of children, but whose pockets
e full of money, claim that it is unfair
id unjust lo tax his industry and ac-
limitations to educate another man’s
ild. lie forgets that hjs fortune is
e result of n tux iie levied in his busi-
ss dealings with the fathers of these
ildren. it is sometimes called “luck,”
irovidence.” “shrewdness,” but let it
what it may, there is the fact that
e man has money and no children—
u other man has children and no
nicy. ,Ma\ it not lie that tied lias
ought these two face to face, that one
ght be the complement of the other!
' it takes them both to make the full-
mded mini. If all men had nothing
t money it would make a sorry state,
d very shortlived, If all men had
•thing but children, it. Mould be a poor
oiintry, indeed; but the latter's eondi-
iion would have more hope in it for the
future than the former. The man with
a house full ol children is worth more,
prospect i\el,\. ton nation than tin* man
with a chest full of money, unless he is
very liberal with it. Help the man
who has the children. He needs your
help, and the nation needs his children.
I’ur** patriotism demands the tax for
public schools. Some men claim that
they lime educated their own children,
and it is a hardship now to ask them to
undertake the education of other peo
ple’s children. These men forget they
have grandchildren who would, in the
end, share in the benefits of this tax.
It is simply giving to his posterity,
through the tax-gatherer, what other
wise he would perhaps give to them
through an administrator, and letting
the grandchildren get some of the estate
a few years sooner. Over that part of
the inheritance the courts would have
no contest, and the legatees no conten
tions. It is the surest and most peace
able way of distributing an estate, and
every dollar of it becomes entailed and
is wisely invested—not in stocks and
bonds, which fluctuate and sometimes
vanish, but in brain, and thought, and
character, which will abide forever. It
is a good way to meet your obligations
to posterity. But another says, “Home
who are not kin to me would share in
if, and I am under no obligations to
help them.” Are you right sure you
do not owe them something! Who pro
tects your home! Who plays the po
liceman—the heir of millions or the son
of poverty! Who holds back the enemy
in time of war—the millionaire with his
automobile, or the plowman with his
children!
Who patronizes your business! Who
makes your investments profitable!
What would your factories and mining
industries be worth if it were not for
these same poor men and women, who
toil in the mines and labor in the mills
and drive the shuttles in the looms!
How much meat and bread could these
machines bring you if the hands of the
poor were paralyzed or should refuse to
work! Is your peace of home, your
property, your life worth anything! Its
commercial value depends upon this
very class that you hesitate to help ed
ucate. Your prosperity depends upon
the proper education of your neighbor’s
children, livery community is bound
together by a network of interlacing de
pendencies that cannot be disregarded.
The ties of blood, the bond of humanity,
the fold of patriotism, the fellowship of
Christianity, all tend to make our inter
ests and welfare a matter of common
concern. Mind measures the man, and
men make the home, the village, the
Htate. A community is ranked accord
ing to the intelligence of its citizens.
Its social standards are determined by
the culture and refinement—that is, the
education—of its people. Citizenship
is dignified, society is elevated, and
every secular enterprise is promoted.
1 now give a local application of these
general principles. Orantville and
Coweta county would be raised in the
estimation of mankind if we had a local
tax and good high schools made acces
sible to ail the people for eight months
in the year. The value of real estate
would be greatly augmented, and there
by the wealth of our tax payers would
bo enlarged. Much a tax would make
us richer instead of poorer. There
would be a greater demand for homes.
New citizens would move in and buy
and settle and improve our property.
Our sons w ould get a start to the best
manhood and to positions of honor and
profit and usefulness. To withhold ed
ucational advantages is to doom them to
an obscure life, to a useless existence,
and unless wo provide an education for'
our girls we simply condemn them to
the tread-mill of drudgery and to the
slaughter pen of passion and sensuality.
We are urged on to the local tax and
good schools by every consideration of
kindness, of community pride, of patri
otism, and of general good.
Let us have the tax and good schools,
and make Coweta the (pieon county of
the Htate, and (irantville the brightest
gem in her crown.
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OF WIND AND WAV! INUUbS'
OF THfc StA OTTfc.ll.
Il.il.ll4.ik la til,* V,-r> lll.'iir.tl.-
of tT,t» St.inii Ita.-lf ... Tlir>
t 'I'liii.iKti Surf mill I4o,<1.h In
l-'r.iuill,' Ill.lfirUna,
westward of ilit* A lent Ion
dnuds, a ml Kndiuk, just
'treat Alaskiui peninsula.
. ,vo main pulais whence ra
tio hunting ilottllas for the son
ounils, Formerly a single Bus-
homier or packet boat woutil
i way with a procession of u
il hldarkns. Litter schooners,
r forty of them. gathered the
at some main fur post, stowed
t tklu eaitpies In piles on the
iu. carried the Aleuts lo the
Hi mis This might he at Ailka,
lie finest otter hunters lu the
veil, or ou the south shore of
a, or in Cook Inlet, where
if the tide runs a mill race, or j
Kiulink on the south count,
veuty miles of bench bowlders
waters nml little Isleis of sen
■ Ideal lielils for the sea ot
sweeping tides and boom 1
keep up such a roar of I
but tlic shy, wary otter,
gle, does not easily get i
4 of human intruder,
s out tlic scent of the man '
•urf outso.mds noise of the man ;
, and no tires are lhflucd, be It
liter or summer, unle*s tlic wind ts
night from tin* southward, for the |
i oiler always frequents the south I
ires. Tile only provisions on the ear I
ng selioolter are hams, ram-id butter j
grease, some rye bread and dour; j
• only clothing, what the Aleut hunt
; wear.
No sooner lots the schooner sheen’d
oil (he limiting grounds i mu the Aleu.s
are over decks with the agility of per
forming monkeys, the so.iooiier captain
wishing each good lu« K. the eager iiuul
ers leaping into their hidurka.s follow
ing tile lead of n chief. The schooner
then returns lo the home harbor, leav
ing ilic humors ou islands ns bare as
a planed board for two, three, four
mouths It poll the Commander group
otter limiters are now restricted lo the
use of the net alone, but formerly the
nature of the limiting was determined
entirely by the weather. If n tide run
w ith heavy surf and wind landward to
conceal sound amt sight the hunters
lined along shorts of the kelp beds and
engaged In the limit known ns surf
shooting. Their rifles would carry J.0U0
yards. Whoever saw the little round
black head bob above tho surface of
the water shot, and tin* surf wash car
ried in the dead body.
if the weather was dead calm, fog or
clear, bands of twenty and thirty men
deployed In u circle to spear their quar
ry. This was tho spearing surround.
Or if such a hurricane gale was churn
ing tin* sea that gusty spray and sleet
storm washed out every out line, sweep
ing the kelp beds linked one minute,
Inundating them with mountainous
rollers that thundered up the rocks the
next, the Aleut hunters risked life,
scudded out on the luck of the raging
storm, now ruling the rollers, now dip
ping to tlic trough of the sea. now
scooting with lightning paddle strokes
light through tlic blasts of spray
athwart wave wash and trough,straight
for the kelp beds or rocky bowlders,
where the sea otter must have been
driven for refuge by the storm.
This limiting i> the very incarnation
of the storm spirit Itself, for the wilder
the gale the more sen otter have come
ashore, the less likely they will he to
see or hear or smell the hunter. Caff
or paddle in hand, the Aleut leaps from
lock to rook or dashes among (lie tum
bling beds of tossisl kelp. A quick
blow of the bludgeon the otter never
knows how death came. This is the
club hunt. Hut where the shore Is
honeycombed with eaves and narrow
Inlets of kelp fields there is a safer
kind of hunting. Huge nets, now made
of twine, formerly of sinew, with
wooden floaters above. Iron sinkers be
low, are spread athwart the kelp lielils.
The tide sweeps in. washing the net
flat. And the sen otter swims in with
the tide. The tide sweeps out, washing
the net up, hut the otters are enmeshed
In a tangle that holds nock and feet.
This Is perhaps the best kind of otter
bunting, for the females and young can
he thrown hack In the soil.
For provisions the Aleut has brought
very little from the ship, lie will de
pend on the winds driving In a dead
whale or on I lie flail of the shore or on
the eggs of the sea birds that nest on
these rocks millions upon millions, such
myriads of birds they seem to crowd
each other for foot room, and the noise
of their wings is like a great wind. He
himself is what any race of men would
become in generations of such a life.
Ills skin is more like bronze than leath
er. Ills eliest is like a bellows, but his
legs are 111 developed from the cramp
ed posture of knees in the manhole.
No landsman's still hunt affords the
thrilling excitement of the otter hunt
er's spearing surrounds. Fifteen or
twenty-live little skin skiffs, with two
or three men in each, paddle out under
a chief elected by common consent.
Whether fog or clear, the spearing is
done only iu calm weather.
The long line of bidurkas circles si
lently over the silver sea. Not a word
is spoken, not a paddle blade allowed
to click against the hone gunwales of
tin* skiff Double bladed paddles are
frequently used, so shift of paddle is
m;|de from side to side of the canoes
■pear throw secures the quarry.
Perhaps forty men have risked their
lives for n Nlugle pelt for which the
trader ennnot pay more than .$40, for
he must have his profit, and the skin
must be dressed, mid the middlemen
must have their profit, so that If it sells
even for $1,100 In London, though the
average Is nearer $150, the Aleut is
lucky to receive $40 or $50. Day after
day three months at a time, warm or
cold, not daring to light (ires on the is
land, the Aleut hunters go out to the
spearing surround till Hie schooner re-
lui'tis for them from the main post, and
whether Ihe hunt is harder on man or
beast may he judged from the fact that
where the hunting battalions used to
rally out in companies of thousands
they today go out only iu twenties and
fort les.
True, tho sea otter lias decreased and
is almost extinct in places; but then,
where game laws protect it, as in the
Commander islands, it Is on the in
crease, and as for tlit? Aleut hunters,
their thousands lie beneath tho sea.—
Agnes (’. Laut in Outing.
without u change of hands. The skin
hldarkns tiiKo to the water as noise
lessly as the glide of a duck. Yonder,
where tile bowlders lie mile oil mile
awash in the surf, kelp rafts—forests
of seaweed—lift and fall with the
rhythmic wash of the tide. Hither the
otter hunters steer, silent as shadow’s.
The circle widens, deploys, forms n
cordon around the outermost rim of the
kelp Helds.
Suddenly a black object Is seen flout
ing on the silver surface of the waters
—a sea otter asleep. Quick its a flash
the steersman lifts his paddle. Not a
word is spoken, but so keen is the hear
ing of tlic sleeping otter the drip of the
lifted paddle has not splashed into the
sea before the otter lias awakened,
looked, dived like lightning to the bot
tom ere one of the Aleut limiters cun
hurl his spear. Silently, not a whisper,
the steersman signals again. The
hunters deploy in a circle half a mile
broad around the place where the sea
otter disappeared, for they know that
in lift ceil or twenty minutes the animal
must come up for breath, and it can
not swim further than half a mile un
der sen before it reappears.
Suddenly somebody sees a round
bin ok-red head poke above the water,
perhaps close to the line of watchers.
With a wild shout the nearest hldarkns
dart forward. Whether the spear
throw lias hit or missed the shout has
done enough. The terrified otter dives
before it lias breath. Over the second
diving spot a hunter is stationed, and
the circle narrows, for the otter must
come up quicker tills time. It must
have breath. Again and again the lit
tle round rufous head peeps up. Again
(lie shout greets it: Again the light
ning dive! Sometimes only a bubble
gurgling at the t >|> of the water guides
the watchers. Presently the body is so
full of gases from suppressed breath
ing ii can no longer sink, and a quick
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