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POLLEY HOTEL
LAND LEASES ANB OIL ACTIVITIES
ARE REACHING THEIR HIGHEST PITCH
A Nuisance Tax Review
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Friends of Mrs. W. C. Rob-
erts will be happy to know that
she is recovering after a severe
case of flu and will be able to i
return to her school work in the ■
next few days.
for another well to be spudded
in near the Cedar Yard Com-
munity.
With leases changing hands,
during the past few days, it is '
almost certain that Center is
going to see some active oil op-
erations in the near future.
The Magnolia Oil Company
is to start laying a pipe line
In beautiful Spring Dresses,
Hats and Shoes for the Girl
who cares.
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Mademoiselle Jeanne Juilla, brown-
eved and pink-cheeked, chosen as the
most beautiful.French girl, to compete
in international beauty contests.
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A short history of the trials and tribulations of the tobacco land leases
nuisance tax as a state imposition, was recently presented by the
Tobacco Barometer, a trade publication. It is of sufficient
publication. It is of sufficient popular interest, we think, to
justify the following summary. When the federal government
abandoned its war-time nuisance levies, students of taxation
will remember, searchers-out of new tax sources for the states
promptly undertook to reimpose them as state levies. Legis-
latures here and there over the country “fell for” the idea. The
nuisance tax on tobacco was almost unanimously selected for
the purposes of the experiment because it seemed easy of col-
lection. Sometimes, to disarm opposition from the rural dis-
tricts, the state tax was limited to cigars and cgarettes, with
chewing and smoking tobaccos expressly excepted.
When two or three states had “broken the ice” and piled
on the nuisance levy, tax hunters in many other states introduc-
ed similar proposals to their own respective legislatures. Foi
a time it seemed that the state nuisance tax might put on the
proportions of an epidemic. We are agreeably surprised,
therefore, to find that the tobacco nuisance levy has been re-
jected by no less than 33 of the 48 states. Louisiana tiied it,
but repealed it at the next legislative session. In Michigan,
New Mexico and Oregon it was beaten by referendum vote.
Wyoming’s Legislature voted for it on one occasion, but the
governor vetoed the bill and it could not be i epassed ovei the
veto.
In many states the nuisance-tax advocates were reluctant
to accept defeat. The tobacco nuisance tax was proposed at
four Legislative sessions—and just that many times defeated—
in Florida, Maine, Nebraska and Wisconsin. It was five times
introduced and beaten in Oklahoma and Texas, thiee times;
thrown out by the Legislatures of Colorado, Kentucky, Min- ’ 7g or 254,
nesota, Missouri, Montana, Ohio and West Virginia and twice!
voted down in Arizona, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, New <
York, North Carolina, Vermont and Virginia.
Maybe the nuisance-tax folks will try it again here and
there, but the showing that 33 states steadily—many of them
repeatedly—have refused to saddle this nuisance burden upon
their peoples encourages the conclusion that this particular
type of nuisance is permantly in retreat. Several of the states
which adopted the levy have succeeded in collecting therefrom (
only a fraction of the revenue promised them by its champions |
while the cost of collection has greatly exceeded the estimates.
Nuisance taxes of all types, being both unsound and unpopular
when imposed in peace-time and when conditions are normal,
should share the fate of the tobacco levy. Their discard entire
is earnestly desired, we believe, by an overwhelming American
majority.
The people of the Virgin Islands,
which the U. S. bought from Den-
mark, have been asking for a civilian
governor instead of an officer of Ma-
rines, so President Hoover has named
NOTARY PUBLIC — Phone £auJ Martin Pearson, of‘ Swarthmore,
: Pa., to that post.
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In the neighborhood of Short,
Jericho, Choice, and Neuville
; and oil activities
are reaching their highest
pitch.
With it almost certain that
a well will be drilled in each
community, the leases are go-
ing higher and more active
work is being done each day.
The News has gathered the from here to‘ Kilgcfe so as to
information that a well will be (
spudded in near Jericho at a from1 Arkansas, south to the /^s'ocia°Jone Amateur 1 rapshooting:
very early date, and another to
be spudded in near Shelbyville j be at a cost of $850,000. Con- i
in 10 or 15 days. Also that j struct! on is to start in two!
the deal is practically closed : weeks. •
You’ll find the very smartest;
in new Spring Dresses at—
WEAVER DRY GOODS CO
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■ Names appearing on the reg-
! ister at the Polley Hotel for
• February 17th were:
T. J. Melton, Lufkin; S. Er
(Scales, Marshall; W. M. Pink-
| erston, Tyler; S. J. Sloane,.
Houston; W. V. Dillard, Dal-
las; O. Ellinger, Tyler; R. E.
McAlister, Dallas; D. D. Daw-
1 son, Houston; F. E. Duraway,
Austin; W. R. Thixton, Tulsa,
Okla.; H. B. Gage, Beaumont:
Clark Davis, Oklahoma City;
John Tipps, Dallas; D. C. May,
Dallas; H. F. Parish, Tyler; W*
! J. Reily, Tyler; M. J. Summers,
St. Louis; W. J. Johnson, Paris;
!J. B. Strong, Paris; T. E. Mil-
ler, Ft. Worth; J. T. Farley,
Hemphill; Miss Bertha Good-
rich, Hemphill; J. M. Picked
and wife, Tyler.
Electricity
runs a Fan two and a half hours for the price
a stick of Chewing Gum . . .
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' Miss Marie Kautzky of Fort
Dodge, Iowa, whose official records
. . ifor 1930 gave her a rating of .9286
connect With the Magnolia line ^average score and won her thel
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^Association..
The line is to i
caused the depression, there will .be new forces which will ■
bring the world back to normal. Perhaps the war debts owed
to the United States had more to do with the hard times in this
country than most people realized. But just now the pendulum
is beginning to swing back to normalcy; and all the explanations
and reliefs will have come too late.—The Texan.
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If you have no affection for your home town, your heme
town can’t be expected to have much affection for you.
General Manager
........Editor
TOM E. FOSTER ......................... '
JOE B. FOSTER ...............................................
MEMBER UNITED PRESS
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CENTER DAILY NEWS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1931
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ELECTRICITY IS THE CHEAPEST THING YOU BUY
Southwestern Gas and Electric Company
Electricity
will wash three meals*
single Pen Point . . .
Curtailment of commerce as a result of1 the pressure from
war debts and tariffs is the cause of the economic depression in
the opinion of William Clayton. The Unted States, as the
richest nation of the world, is being looked to as the savior of
the situation.
The cry is heard in the United States that the cause of the
depression was over-production; and the claim is made that
international trade is the cause of the trouble; and then the
claim is also made that the whole thing was psychological.
There have been numerous explanations of the causes and
proposals for relief of the hard times which have prevailed in
the country since last year. But no two seem to have the same
idea in common. It must be borne in mind that the periods of
depression always follow periods of inflation.
The world war broke into the sequence of things, at a
time when the economic world was normal. Because the
United States was not in the war at first, the demand for
American goods was enormous. There was a boom in Ameri-
can industry.
There ha’d to be a break; and then following it came the.
period of depression. When the Federal Reserve System was
put into operation in 1913, there were those optimists who felt
that the bank would be able to prevent the recurrence of those
periods of hard times which had come over the country in cycles
of about twenty years.
But when the crisis came, the Federal Reserve System
did nothing. The laws of economic consequence went on just
as they had in the past. There will be explanations of the
depression and suggested remedies; but as in the past the re-
commendations come just as the depression is being lifted.
Just as the people are {fully realizing the forces that
at the cost of a
Electricity
for one hour’s Radio Program costs less than
a Stick of Candy . . .
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Foster, Joe B. Center Daily News (Center, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 214, Ed. 1 Wednesday, February 18, 1931, newspaper, February 18, 1931; Center, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1354144/m1/2/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Fannie Brown Booth Memorial Library.