The McKinney Examiner (McKinney, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 2, 1939 Page: 2 of 12
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Our Poet’s Corner
Lasting News
McKinney Examiner
(Star-Telegram)
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National Reserach
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Use Common Sense
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THE SAME OLD IDEA
(Texas Press Messenger)
Delinquent Taxes
(Dallas News)
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Beautiful Gesture
That was a beautiful gesture
MAY TRY IT
Crazy Inventors
ALL COLORED LADIES DO
Turkeys
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WANTED REPAIRS
WHERE IT WAS SHORT
At same date this year the out-
you
Texas Federation
Of Taxpayers
SUBSCRIPTION RATE
Inside County, one year______
Outside County, one year_____
Entered at the Postoffice in McKin-
ney, Texas, as Second-Class Mail
Matter.
CLINT THOMPSON
J. FRANK SMITH
$1.00
$1.50
Let the
Then the
Gov. O’Daniel in his radio speech
Sunday morning said he would tell
the people next Sunday whether he
will call a special session of the leg-
islature. “Betcha he doesn’t call it.”
is
for
waiter,
shortcake
war
like
(Contributed Editorial by
Ashley Evans)
He built good roads from hill to hilt,.
Good roads from vale to vale;
He ran a good-roads movement
Till Rome got all the kale
He told the folks to buy a home,
Built roads their ruts to rid,
Until all the roads led to Rome,
That’s what old Caesar did.
And if pur Nation wants to be
The center of the map.
Where folks will wapt to settle down
And live in plenty’s lap;
If this broad land its own abodes
Of poverty would rid,
Then let us plan and build good roads
Just like old Caesar did!
—Texas Parade.
On Monday morning, the housewife
observed Liza taking an ice pick out of
the folds of her dress and throwing
it into the cedar ice bucket.
“Liza,” she asked, “what have you
been doing with our ice pick?”
“Land sakes alive, Missy, don’t you
know no colored ,gal ,what is a lady
would go to town Sattidy night withr
out a ice pick?”
My little ones are free from dread.
And sheltered safely from the storm
Their eyes are bright, their cheeks
are red,
Their laughter glad, their clothing
warm.
But other little ones must weep,
And face new dread with each new
day,
Where hunger’s fangs bite very deep
And want sits like a ghost in gray.
Irate Date: “You drunken brute, if
I were as drunk as you, I’d shoot my-
self.”
Escort (hie): “B^by, if you were as
drunk as I am, you’d miss yourself.”
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THE EXAMINER, McKINNEY, TEXAS, NOVEMBER 2, 1939_________________
Polish Gold in France Science Is Great
But is not Enough
Well, it is just this way: If Mr. Jer-
ry Mann continues to knock out our
laws at the present rate we are go
ing to have to hire more legislators
and get busy to “pass some more.”
Stockmen of the Southwest are up
against one of the worst drouths in
history and are now rushing train
loads of cattle to the Kansas City,
Chicago and St. Louis markets.
It is said that when one Mose Jack-
son was run over by an automobile, a
friend who had witnessed the accident
took Mose to see an attorney.
“Oh,” said the attorney, when he
heard the story, “I suppose what you
When Caesar took a westward ride
And grabbed the Gauls for Rome,
What was the first thing he did
To make them feel at home?
Did he increase the people’s loans,
No! he dug in and built good
roads—
That’s what old Caesar did.
“Willie,” said the Sunday School
teacher, “you shouldn’t talk like that
to your playmate. Have you tried
heaping coals of fire on his head?”
“No, Miss, I haven’t,” replied Willie,
“but it’s a good idea.”
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“Baked ham is ideal for holiday,”
is the attractive heading on an article
left on our desk for free publication.
Brother, “baked ham is ideal any old
day” with us. But we can’t buy a
pound of it from any of our stores
without some of Uncle Sam’s cold
cash. Savy?
commerce de-
Tuesday thac
The contention that U. S. ships
should continue the use of the high
seas and be permitted to enter ports
of countries at war, providing they
obey necessary maritime rules sounds
well. But the contention is founded
on “old timey” usage. We are now
living in 1939, not in 1839. Modern
warfare is of the machine age quality.
And what used to be common sense
and justice, is now, according to our
way of thinking just plain bull-headed
fool-hardiness. While those European
nations are engaged in a death strug-
gle and are at each other’s throats
they have no time to look out for the
safety of shippers who are only in-
terested in financial gain. If the
United States wants to keep out of
that European holocaust, let our
congress clamp down hard on ship-
ping interests, require them to ship
at absolutely their own risk. Also
stop Americans from traveling on
ships that are liable to be torpedoed—
except at their own risk. Our coun-
try ought not have to sacrifice mil-
lions of lives over such questions,
when shippers and travelers could
prevent it by observing rules that are.
made necessary by war conditions
The East Texas Taxpayers’ Asso-
ciation was organized in December,
1937, in Morris County. Their organi-
zation is of the bona fide grass roots
type. Membership is composed of
small town business and professional
men and dirt farmers.
The East Texas Taxpayers’ Asso-
ciation is patterned generally after
the highly successful Nebraska Fed-
eration of County Taxpayers' Leagues
which has accomplished its goal by
reducing Nebraska’s taxes by 40 per
cent.
The specific aims of the organiza-
tion are: \
1. To reduce expenditures whether
due to ignorance or wanton extrava-
gance.
2. To
France has cut down her armed
forces by 100,000. That many soldiers
of 42 to 45 years of age have been re-
turned to their homes, thus becoming
producers instead of consumers. Of
course they are ready to be recalled
in case it becomes necessary.
Felicitations are extended the Mc-
Kinney Examiner on turning that
splendid paper into its 54th volume.
That many years is something of
which to be proud for a paper to live
and serve, and publishers Clint
Thompson, J. Frank Smith and Wof-
ford Thompson have done a fine piece
of work and publishing one of the best
and most widely quoted weekly papers
in the state of Texas. One thing
characterizes the publication — it
speaks what it thinks on subjects of
public interest and a paper with that
kind of leadership will always have a
good following.—Denison Daily Press.
(Christian Science Journal)
Superificial sophisticates may have
credited the Illinois State Journal
with staging a mere publicity stunt
when the Springfield newspaper in a
recent issue relegated all the war
news to inside the paper and gave
front page space to the Sermon on the
Mount.
Instead the Journal was showing
preference to an item of eternal news
which transpired over 1,900 years ago
and has never been timelier than at
the present. Even the entire war
when it is ended will be only an
ephemeral event of history, of which
a day’s developments amount to min
ute trivia. The Sermon on the Mount
has already endured almost 2,000
years, and ironically contains a solu-
tion of all the problems of the world
for which war and its equivalents are
futile modern remedies.
That sermon, detailed in Matthew
and Luke, should be the starting point
for any diagnosis of today’s worries
such as war and depression. Its con-
tents is irreconcilable with many of
the ways of modern life, and hence
will provoke violent dissent or eva-
sion from the millions who have
thought the old, eternal truths have
been made obsolescent by the ex-
pedience and new discoveries of a so-
called new civilization.
The Sermon on the Mount is cur-
rently being studied by many denomi-
nations in this country. One of the
best sellers is devoted to it. Thou-
sands of books have been written
about it. One of the most penetrating
of them was by the great Russian
novelist Tolstoy, who discovered the
meaning of life in the Sermon on the
Mount and was called crazy by a
world which, however, followed the
opposite path to war, depression and
famine.
The Sermon on the Mount is both
timely and vital news for the present,
as the Illinois State Journal has held.
This is true because the “practical”
philosophy, which is a negative of
every proposition set forth in that
Sermon, has led the
Here’s something that ought
cause some thinking on the part
I wonder if I. have the right
To let myself forget to care
How children shiver in the night
When all is cold and dark and bare.
Turkey shippers are having trouble
this year because there are fewer
turkeys ready for market. A Chicago
dispatch says the turkey production
this year is the heaviest in history
but the percentage of marketing this
month—when Thanksgiving is observ-
ed1—are expected to be smaller than
a year ago. The reason is given that
turkey is no longer merely a holiday
food but, more and more, is being
“eaten around the calendar.” The tur-
key crop this year has been estimated
by the government at 32,000,000 birds,
an increase of 22 per cent over 1938.
The largest previous production was
27,700,000 turkeys in 1936. The drouth
may have had something to do with
the maturity of the birds, depending
on range.
to teach the children in the home, the
student in the school, the man and
woman in the church that the man-
or the state that forgets God flings
away their one source of life and
power.
The Pauls Valley Enterprise
carrying the delinquent tax list
Garvin County, Okla., which indicates
that people up there are same as down
here in Texas, away behind in paying
their taxes. There are 49 columns
of these delinquent taxes, approxi-
mately 9,800 lots and tracts of land on
which taxes are due, running from 50
cents up to $60.
Our country may yet be glad that
we have a surplus of wheat. America’s
318,000,000 bushel wheat surplus—
heretofore something of a headache to
federal farm officials in their at-
tempts to hike prices to the growers,
is now causing joy to these “regula-
tors.” Because of serious drouth con-
ditions in the winter wheat belt of the
Midwest, a short crop next year ap-
pears a strong possibility. These con-
ditions were described by Agricul-
ture Department oficials as. “about as
acute” as in the fall of 1932, which
preceded the harvest of the smallest
wheat crop in more than 20 years.
With war conditions as they are, it
may yet become necessary to “turn
the farmers loose” and let them run
their own business without so much
monkeying with the machinery by
politicians.
Where would Jacob have been if
Joseph hadn’t had a surplus of corn?
We believe that it would be a won-
derfully wise thing if Congress should
“pass a law” stopping these crazy
radio artists and newspaper reporters
from telling of dire misfortunes
that are yet in future store for the
people. We see where another H. G.
Wells alarm has been sounded where-
in an inventor, scientist or crazy
somebody is about to perfect an in-
vention for projecting an electric ray
to distant points by which stores of
munitions can be exploded, thus enab-
ling “us” to wipe out the enemy, etc.
Whole cities can be set on fire by
this remote “death ray” and de-
stroyed.
Can there be any sense whatever in
permitting some crazy scientist to
carry on his “research” studies until
he discovers a means by which to de-
stroy the world and humanity?
Last year, up to October 1st. Col-
lin County gins had put up 52,992
bales. At i'u:~ ~z— U'2
put was 54,949.
One of the first acts in the Nazi
invasion of Austria and Czecho-Slc-
vakia was to rush to the banks and
seize those nations’ stocks of gold.
Reports from Paris state that Hitler's
lightning war on POLAND was not
swift enough to permit the grab of the
Polish gold supply, worth $65,856,000,
which now is in French vaults.
The loss of this precious metal may
prove to be a costly result of the con-
quest of Poland if Stalin demands
gold from Germany in exchange for
Russian war materials as reported.
All supplies which Russia sent to
Spanish Loyalists during the civil war
were PAID FOR IN GOLD, which in-
dicates Stalin will be a CASH trader
with Hitler.
No one save Hitler can quarrel with
the fact that Poland’s gold supply
is SAFELY STORED IN FRANCE
When peace is finally restored and
GERMAN AGGRESSION is halted,
the metal will be devoted to REHA-
BILITATION of POLAND. This use
will be preferable to employment of
the gold for financing the Nazi
machine in further devastation
that in Poland.
“One Touch of
Nature”
We are glad the Dallas News has
begun discussing the delinquent tax
question and calling attention to the
fact that much of it is caused from
politics.
A real, honest-to-goodness remedy
would be to appoint the tax collector
so that he would not have to play poli-
tics every day from the time he took
over the job, until his second term
was assured. Tax collectors are hum-
an and not one of them is going to
cut himself out of a $5,000 job by forc-
ing anyone to pay the state and coun-
ty what he honestly owes,
office be made appointive,
state deficiency will begin to melt
away like a snow drift.
cies ACCUMULATE until they be-
come of MONUMENTAL proportions
and then trying by HIGH-PRESSURE
methods to collect.
their complaint QUESTIONABLE methods.
on. Some respite h*vc beer.
A YWIUU UpCU,
Then, over the
broadcast,
I’d scatter the smiles to play,
So that careworn people might hold.
them fast
For many and many a day.
If I knew a
enough
To hold all the frowns I met,
would like to gather them, every
one,
From nursery, school and street;
Then, folding and holding, I’d pack
them in,
And, turning the monster key,
I’d hire a giant to drop the box
To the depths of the deep deep sea.
—Unknown.
negative
Ah in t
world to its
present predicament of war, depre-
sion and a threatened return to
dark ages.
If I knew the box where the smiles,
were kept.
No matter how large the key
Or strong the bolt, I would try so-
hard
’Twould open, I know for me.
Then, over the land and the sea,
And knowing how they weep at night,
Where all is dark and cold and
bare,
I wonder if I have the right,
To let myself forget to care.
—S. E. Kiser.
Sun-
day by the British and French navies
when they buried those dead German
submarine victims with full honors of
the navies of Britain and France.
Those sub operators were doing their
duty as soldiers of their nation. They
had no other alternative but death at
the hands of the fiend Hitler. The
action of the French and British will
show the masses of the German peo-
ple that Britain, France and the rest
of the world do not hate them, per-
sonally. But that it is Hitler, the as-
sassin of women and children that
they hate. And that Hitler MUST GO.
Maybe the German people will see the
light. God grant that they may, be-
fore it is too late..
reduce TOP-HEAVY PAY-
ROLLS in state departments.
3. To reorganize, consolidate and
eliminate overlapping departments.
4. To stop the use of tax funds for
the building of PERSONAL POLITI-
CAL MACHINES.
5. To remove HIGH-SALARIED
YES-MEN from office—stop the state
from PAYING $4,000 a year SAL-
ARIES to $1,000 a year BRAINS.
6. To collect DELINQUENT TAX-
ES. (60 per cent of the taxpayers are
PAYING ALL of the taxes.)
Our original and unchanged posi-
tion is that there is no need for any
NEW or ADDITIONAL taxes. The an-
swer lies in the COLLECTION of DE-
LINQUENT TAXES and the inaugura-
tion of a program of genuine econo-
my, efficiency and retrenchment.
There is a strict ban on all parti-
san politics. No candidate or state
official is admitted to membership.
The organization has been financed
to date from the PERSONAL funds
of the chairman of the board of di-
rectors and the executive secretary.
We take the position that to best
control and improve the unsatisfac-
tory situation in Austin we will in-
vestigate to the best of our ability
and turn the SEARCHLIGHT OF
PUBLICITY on irregularities or
Hear, hear. Listen to this: J.
Goss, Monkstown farmer has sold.
1,276 bales of cotton to a Dallas firm
for $58,899.44. He has 2,500 acres in
cotton this year. The government
must have overlooked Mr. Goss when
it started in to regulate the cotton
farmers up in Red River County. May-
be the income tax man will make up
for the oversight. When asked how
much it cost him to make that crop
he replied, $59,000.
A drive out through the country
Sunday was greatly enjoyed. We were
glad to note the fine stands of wheat
all along the route. A good soaking
rain is needed now.
PRYOR, Okla., Oct. 27.—A 46-year-
old mother of four children entered
the “hibernation” stage Friday of a
nine - day “freezing” treatment,
science’s latest weapon against can-
cer.
Dr. V. D. Herrington, operator of a
hospital, said the cancer mass in the
patient’s intestinal tract had been re-
duced by half.
to Europe like a scourge of death,
leaving a long line of burned cities
and towns and countrysides, and mil-
lions of corpses rotting on the ground
behind a conquering foe. But the
cruelty of the present master of Rus-
sia, who knows no mercy save that of
the sword and no pity save that of
the eagle for his prey.
Today half the world is at war, and
the other half lives in deadly fear.
There is no security for life nor lib-
erty nor property. Even in the Unit-
ed States, the land dedicated to
Liberty, our liberties are being con-
stantly restricted and seriously
threatened at home and abroad. Who
can claim that we are secure? Hate
reigns and love of power strikes down
all freedom.
What cause lies back of all this
chaos? There may be many answers
to this query, but there is just one
right one. That answer is that we
have forgotten the value of the in-
dividual, the preciousness of human
life, the infinite value of the living
soul, and prize the gewgaws and the
tawdry trappings of material adorn-
ment that pass away with the day.
We have established a wrong standard
of values. We reach out to grasp
pleasures that abide but a moment,
and think nothing of the values that
must endure through time and eterni-
ty.
A man may change his coat from
one of elegance to one of rags and
not be seriously affected, but no man
can stain his hands with blood, or
sear his soul with vice and crime,
without inflicting on himself deadly
wounds.
What can one profit if he be en-
abled to buy ascheapicar while being
denied the right to use it? What bet-
ter off is he if he furnishes his home
and his ofifee with all luxuries and
comforts and then find that he has
no freedom to enjoy them? What
matters it if he hears the voice of
friends calling him across the ocean,
if a tyrant directs what the^ speak?
Science has no power to purify the
heart, no secret formula for content-
ment, no wonder worker that can
silence conscience, no wand whose
waving brings happiness. Only faith
in a Higher Power than man, and
obedience to laws that govern the
heart and mind of the righteous, can
do these things.
We need not give less attention to
science, but more to revealed truth
and revealed love; not less to seeking
comforts, but more to seeking se-
curity—security of character, security
of life, security of peace. We need
When you go out driving on the
country roads now, you may notice
groups of town chidren busy picking
up something under trees at the road-
side. They are after pecans and per-
haps persimmons. This cold spell
has caused both to rippen. Pecans
are not fat this year. Too dry. Per-
simmons, though small, are of de-
licious flavor.
want is damages.”
“No, suh,” retorted Mose. “Ah’s got
plenty ob damages. Wot Ah wants
is repairs.”
A new twist is given the dog-and-
master story by a development at
Sing Sing prison. Stories of canine
affection for no matter how degraded
a master are common enough, but here
is a tale of how a group of convicts
—against all prison rules—adopted a
miserable pup which had lost its
mother and successfully hid it for a
whole year within the grim gray
walls. And Warden Laws, discover-
ing the- conspiracy and how the men
nourished and cherished their pet,
even teaching him to perform a series
of remarkable tricks, permitted
“Stooge” to stay. Truly “one touch
of nature makes the whole world kin.”
After all, there is nothing strange in
the love of these incarcerated law-
breakers for a motherless puppy.
Many of these men in gray probably
were themselves “stray dogs,” the
products of broken families and vic-
ious environments. Some doubtless
had known the cuffs and kicks of the
world and had gleaned a means of
existence in devious byways or snatch-
ing it from a neighbor. There is a kin-
ship between the unfortunate.
Sing Sing’s conspirators proved the
underlying humanity in the children
of men when they saved a friendless
dog. But perhaps “Stooge” has done
far more for his befrienders than
they have done for him.—Christian
Science Monitor.
We have before us a report of the
Council showing
the great number of important dis-
coveries made by scientists and re-
search workers within the past few
years, discoveries that have benefit-
ted business, and increased the num-
ber of comforts that have been placed
within the reach of the average fami-
ly by reason of decreased costs and
the discovery of new products.
Among the enumerated items that
are listed as being produced much
cheaper now than in 1929 are motor
cars, which can now be purchased k-.t
a cost almost a third less than they
sold for ten years ago, without being
in any way inferior in quality. Radios
and refrigerators have been reduced
in price by half. Air cooling systems
for business houses and homes have
added to our comfort. The expan-
sion of the radio systems have
brought the news and the business of
the world to our firesides and busi-
ness offices. Television enables us to
see faces and to hear voices at the
other side of the world. Improved
means of transportation of passengers
and freight enables us to fly around
the world in only a few days or to
eat fresh fruits and vegetables and
meats only a few hours after they
leave the places a hundred or a
thousand miles from where they grew
—in tropic climes or in arctic cir-
cles. Science has revealed to us how
many new products from old ma-
terials may be produced to please and
benefit man. Wonderful indeed are
the hundreds of new discoveries that
we read of daily and have the oppor-
tunity to enjoy.
All these things are wonderful, and
most of them are useful in one way
or another. But when considering
these wonders, one must be impressed
.■by the fact that none of these wonder-
ful things has, so far as one can dis-
cover, resulted in the improvement of
the most vital of all things—man him-
self. One who considers conditions
as they exist today must be impressed
with the statement made about three
years ago by one of our most able
students and best known scientists
that “We have, allowed our progress
in material improvements to out
march our growth in moral and
spiritual matters. We need to revive
our spiritual growth if we are to build
a secure structure for the life of
future generations.” These are not the
words of the pastor or priest, but the
mature conclusions of a man of great
affairs, great scientific attainments
and great business interests. They are
enough to lead the man concerned
with the future of his government
and of society to do some thinking.
Along with 'our many discoveries
how to make life more pleasant and
more secure, we have also discovered
how to kill and maim and enslave
millions of our neighbors and fellow
men. Just now the power to kill is
greater than the power to bless. The
college student of half a century ago
read of the sacking and burning of
Rome by the Goths and Vandals, and
shuddered to contemplate the hor-
rible cruelty and butchery that fol-
lowed the saturnalia of war. But the
Goths were mild butchers and kindly
tyrants compared to their descend-
ants who bombed and burned Warsaw
a few weeks ago, murdering tens of
thousands of helpless and innocent
women and children to satisfy their
thirst for blood and power.
These same students read of the
Diner: “Say, waiter, I ordered
strawberry shortcake and you
brought me a plate of strawberries.
Where is the cake?”
Waiter: “Well, suh, dat is what we
is short of.”
Traffic Cop says:
Drive safely. Save a man,
save one person. Save a boy and you
same a whole multiplication table.
SEARCHLIGHT
on irregularities
Some results have been obtained °f Genghis Kalin-v£ho swept in-
by this method that have been high-
ly satisfactory; an example being
this organization’s clash with the
Board of Control and other officials
over the purchase of HIGH- PRICED
AUTOMOBILES for STATE EM-
PLOYES to use. In this case we dis-
covered that------automobiles rang-
ing in price from twelve to fourteen
hundred dollars were being purchas-
ed in violation of the state law.. Our
searchlight method completely elimi-
nated that practice.
Another activity of the East Texas
Taxpayers’ Association was the inves-
tigation of the state TRAVEL BILL
for 1938, which was over $1,800,000
—an average of EIGHT CENTS A
MILE.
The organization believes a PEO-
PLE’S LOBBY should be established
as a permanent thing in Austin to
watch constantly activities of state
departments and aid in working out
methods of RETRENCHMENT and
ECONOMY, and in this connection
keep its membership fully informed
as to governmental activities with
proper recommendations, etc., in
order that the membership may intel-
ligently protest and block INANE
IDEAS and ASSININE legislation. We
'believe that our present day con-
dition is due largely to the lack of
specific information on the part of
the TAXPAYING VOTING PUBLIC
The organization proposes to be-
come state-wide; therefore the name
|has been Changed from the East
Texas Taxpayers’ Association to the
Texas Federation of Taxpayers with
headquarters in Mt. Pleasant.
“Too much effort has been spent
by Texas business men fighting
SPECIAL taxes when it would have
been much more profitable for them
to co-operate in the interest of a
GENERAL ECONOMY PROGRAM
and against an increase in any type
of taxes.
“When the different groups of busi-
ness men quit fighting among them-
selves and realize that the COLLEC
TION of DELINQUENT TAXES will
put Texas on a CASH BASIS and pay
a REASONABLE PENSION to the
DESERVING NEEDY the tax prob-
lem will be solved.”
Recently the Dallas County fiscal
program was thrown entirely out of
balance by Attorney General Mann’s
ruling that the remission of one-half
of the state taxes was unconstitution-
al. Yet, it is reported that delinquent
taxes had, covering the period .from
1919 through 1938, amounted to $2,-
344,779, several times the amount that
was subtracted from the country’s
tentative budget by the Attorney Gen-
eral’s ruling. It is true that most of
this tax is against personal property
and that a good part of it may be
classed as insolvent. Yet, a small por-
tion of the delinquencies due from
personal property added to amounts
due from real property would equal
the amount that the county would
have gotten from tax remission.
Possibly the foregoing comparison
of figures illustrate better theory than
practice. Indubitably, delinquent tax-
es are hard to collect, but it is also
indubitably true that part of the dif-
ficulty is of a political nature. Delin-
quencies of more than $2,000,000 have
accumulated partly because some peo-
ple were ABSOLUTELY UNABLE
TO PAY, and partly because tax col-
lectors MUST BE ELECTED EVERY
TWO YEARS. The unfortunate thing
about delinquent taxes, especially
with respect to delinquent taxes on
PERSONAL property, is that the
chances of collection are approxi-
mately inversely in proportion to the
length of the delinquency. For this
reason, the collection of RECENT de-
linquent taxes should be emphasized.
Delinquencies for the PAST YEAR
amounted to $324,926, according to
Auditor Charles A. Tosch. If a siz-
able fraction of this could be collected
it would go a considerable way to-
ward relieving the county of its
present embarrassment. Certainlv a
CONSISTENT POLICY of delinquent
tax collection would be a great im-
provement over the widely prevailing
Editors and
WOFFORD THOMPSON J Pr°Prietors
to
of
everyone who stops to consider the
drift of the times. A dispatch from
New York of October 28, tells of the
wild antics of thousands of children,
as follows:
“Ten thousand (estimated) signa-
tures, scrawled with pencil and lip-
stick on the dignified plaster feet of
George Washington statue, bore testi-
mony Saturday of the wildest day in
the history of the New York World’s
Fair.
Some 200,000 teen-age kids and
younger jam-packed the $155,000,000
exposition Friday, drawn by a special
nickel admission price and a free holi-
day from school.
Like a plague of jitterbug grass-
hoppers, they swarmed over the Flush-
ing Flats in a crush so great that
more than 200 hard-boiled Gotham
police gave up hope of keeping
order. Fair officials were forced
several times to throw open emer-
gency gates and let thousands of per-
sons in free to save them from be-
ing pressed to pulp by shouting
throngs behind.
Robt. Quillen says: “Japs
Chinese love their ancestors, but wait
till they begin paying war debts their
ancestors left them.”
Il -----------
Well, Mr. Quillen, the Japs and
Chinese will have plenty of company
. * - in these U. S. A. in xK-:- ----
Texas practice of letting delinquent -about war debts later
American firms have recently sold
17 huge locomotives and 1,000 freight
cars to be shipped to Brazil. The news
dispatch says: “The
partment announced
four American firms have sold 17
locomotives and 1000 railway cars,
with a total value of approximately
$6,000,000 to the Central Brazil Rail-
way Co.,” which would indicate that
Brazil intends to do business
usual.
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