Timpson Weekly Times (Timpson, Tex.), Vol. 49, No. 43, Ed. 1 Friday, October 26, 1934 Page: 3 of 8
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TAXES ...... time to holt
1 don’t know of any com-
munity, county or state In
which taxes have not gone up
in the past two or three years.
Certainly there is none in
which taxes are not materially
higher than they were ten
years ago. I’ve just got my
tax bills for 1934, and perhaps
I’m nnduly concerned; but I
can’t help coming back to the
belief I have long cherished,
that sooner or later we’ve got
to abandon the tax on capital
and find other and more
equitable ways of raising mon-
ey with which to run our vari-
ous governments. .
The real estate property tax
is a tax on capital. Nothing
like it exists anywhere else in
the world, so far as I am in-
formed. It was adopted in
America in the pioneer days
when there wasn’t anything
else, much, to tax except land.
I like the English system
much better. The property is
taxed on the basis of what it
earns—the income tax carried
down to the income of every-
body who owns a piece of prop-
erty that is rented. Of course,
there are other taxes, but they
do not constitute a lien on real
property.
Property taxes can’t go
much higher, in most parts of
the nation, without stirring up
a revolt against the present
system.
• • •
INCOMES ..... the average
The average income in the
United States is said, by Henry
Wallace in his new book, to be
about or under $1,500 a year.
That includes everybody who
works for a living—except
farmers He figures that aver-
age farm income has been cut
down from about $1,300 a yeaf
to somethink like $500 a year.
Of course, Mr. Wallace is
talking about cash incomes.
Out of his $1,500 a year the
industrial worker has to pay
for food and lodging. If he has
$500 a year left he is either a
financial wizard or just plumb
lucky. But the fanner, out of
his $500 cash income, has to
pay taxes and. like as not.
mortgage interest, to say noth-
ing of insurance and other
items he can’t “work out,” so
it’s about as broad as it is long.
The fallacy, it seems to me
lies in comparing the farmer
with the wage-earner. The
proper comparison is between
the farmer and the business
man, owner of his own .busi-
ness. The farmer is a capital-
ist. and subject to the risks
that all capital is subject to.
That isn’t to say that he doesn’t
have plenty of trouble, but at
the worst he is not in such im-
minent danger of stravation as
the unemployed industrial
worker.
• • •
STAMPS.....for all taxed
1 don’t know how many
kinds of Internal Revenue
stamps there are, but it strikes
me that the easiest and most
painless way for any govern-
ment to collect taxes is by mak-
ing it illegal to sell anything
that doesn’t bear a Govern-
ment stamp. I know that’s
merely another way of saying
“sales tax,” which is a phrase
that always makes politicians
see red. Nevertheless, some of
our most important sources of
revenue are from the sales
taxes, already in force. -
There are revenue stamps on
every bottle of liquor, every
barrel of beer, every pack of
playing cards, every pack of
cigarettes or box of cigars.
. Shares of stock cannot be legal-
ly transferred without sticking
revenue stamps on them. Ev-
eryone is familiar with the
sales tax on gasoline.
The only reason why stamp
or sales taxes are not imposed
upon flour, potatoes, shoes,
hats and canned goods, is the
fear of the politicians in power
that the ordinary man would
thus be forced to realize that
he is paying taxes, and would
vote the politicians who im-
posed them out of office. There
isn’t any other reason at all.
• • •
REALITIES......are few
Most of us live in a dream
world, in which we think that
there is tome magic process, if
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* ON TEXAS FARMS *
* Minnie Fisher Cunningham, *
- Extension Service Editor *
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jfaid improvement demon-
strators have one eye ont for
native shrubs a3 they go about
1 the world these days. The plan
to mark them now while
they can be identified, and
transplant them later.
» • •
Mrs. Hope Porter of the
Maypear! home dem onstration
club in Ellis county did not
find it hard to persuade her
husband to put up' pantry
shelves to contain 1000 cans
and jars of home-grown food
after she had pot np the pro-
ducts.
, • * ■
J. L. Gore of Bellefonte com-
munity in 'Wood county says
that cutting the weeds in his
pasture proved to be as profits!
)le work as he did on his farm
this year.' Mr. Gore has a sub-
irrigated area of one acre
where he has a stand of carpet
grass which has furnished
grazing for three horses and
two cows in spite of the drouth.
• • •
The value of conserved mois-
ture was proven again'by El-
mer Hitt in Garza county when
he outwitted the drouth by
planting a cotton crop in the
jasin of what in ordinary
years is a lake. Five acres of
this are giving Mr. Hitt be-
tween three and four bales of
cotton which he estimates ig
as much as the entire 32 other
acres he planted will yield.
With the help of the county
agent he drained the excess
water out to another portion of
his farm and this caught by
contoured rows was utilized to
make a fairly good crop of
maize.
only we could find it, which
would make us happy and
prosperous. When something
unpleasant happens we are
prone to attribute it to malici-
ous fate, which can only bo
overcome by finding some new
incantation which will woric
the right magic to set every-
thing straight again.
Few people are courageous
enough to face realities. The
realities of life are terrifying
to. those who have been
brought up to believe that
“somebody" is always going to
look out for them. • They are
not at all frightful to the
few who realize that nothing in
life is essential to happiness
except food and shelter.
I try to be tolerant of every-
body else’s foibles and frailties
but I get disgusted with peo-
ple who think they are being
badly used merely because
they can’t have everything
they desire at the moment
they desire it.
No String on Hu Finger
Waiter: “Haven’t you for-
gotten something, sir?”
Professor: "Why, I thought
I gave you the customary tip 7”
Waiter: “Yon did, sir, but
you forgot to eat.”—Exchange.
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Constipation produces many dis-
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Stith. of BamviDe, lnd, who
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needed. I hare a tight £eeHng In
my chest when I get bilious. I get
dizzy and feel yery tired, Just don’t
feel hie doing my work. After
taking Black-Draught, I feel much
belter, nils is why I continue to
use U when needed.” . . . Tbed-
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purely vegetable Imandra, obtain-
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We hL.-e already considered the writing of the four gospels.
The data of the first of them, Mark, is about. 61, and Paul
reached Corinth ten years earlier, in 51. Up to that time the
story of the life of Jesus had been told orally. , No one felt
the need of a written biography; no one felt
qualified to write it. So it was not with the
gospels that the tactual writing of the New
Testament began, but with the letter which
Paul in Corinth wrote to his old church in
Thessalonica, the Epistle to the Thessalonians.
You will be interested in the story.
.Go back to the period before Paul’s arrival
in Corinth, to his crossing from old Troy to
Europe. He had seen a vision of a man of
Macedonia inviting him into Europe, and'he
went. The little boat that carried him and his
three companions, Timothy, Silas and Luke,
bore the most precious freight that ever landed
on the western shore of the Mediterranean. But Paul did not
meet the man of Macedonia. For a good while he had a hard
time: As we have already noted, he was beaten and imprison-
ed in Philippi, mobbed in Thessalonica, driven out of town from
Berea, and floated in Athens. “Our flesh had no rest,” he
wrote about those days. “Without were fightings and within
were fears.” When he arrived In Corinth he was alone, having
left Silas at Berea, and Timothy at Thessalonica.
The weeks while he waited for them to come to him were a
period in which Paul was very near to nervous prostration. If
it had not been for Priscilla’s good cooking and the companion-
ship which he found with her and her husband be might have
broken down entirely. His whole work since coming to Europe
seemed a total failure; it had brought only hardship and
humiliation.
'He was afraid Timothy and Silas would never come. He
was afraid they would be mobbed to death. And if they came
he feared they would say: “IPs no use. These people just will
not hear the good news. In Philippi they say that if they had
Us back in jail we would never get out. In Berea they are
ready to quote the Je wish law against us and say that Jesys did
not measure un to the prophecies. In Thessalonica we dared
not go on the streets/in daylight. In Athens your sermon is a
So in his lonesomeness he conjectured and was tortured by
his imagination. But one day two dusty travelers arrived in
Corinth, found the Ghetto, and there inquired if a man was
boarding somewhere in town, a small, wiry, nervous man of de-
fective sight, named Paul. To their joy they learned that he
was staying with' Aquiia and Priscilla; they hunted him up,
and there was a glad reunion. Timothy and Silas had rejoin-
ed Paul.
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AIMS TO STABILIZE
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BECOME SO POPUlAh.
College Station.—The sur-
vey of conditions in the chief
foreign cotton producing coun-
tries, completed with this arti-
cle which is the last of a series
based on figures of the Cotton
Section, Agricultural Adjust-
ment Administration, clearly
indicates that there is not
enough basis In fact for asser-
tions that AAA cotton pro-
grams have put America on the
way to losing her foreign cot-
ton markets.
The world has tried for
years and years to capture
these markets. Inroads were
made into them for 40 years
before the AAA program was
started. Some future inroads
may be made, but unless con-
ditions change a great deal
there is little likelihood of
any sudden', serious, big-scale
increase in foreign competi-
tion. As long as the South has
normal cotton supplies, reason-
ably priced, it is believed for-
eigners will find competition
ju3t as difficult as ever.
The huge world carry-over
of American cotton reached 13
million bales before AAA cot-
ton adjustment programs be-
gan. This excess supply load-
ed on to markets already re-
stricted by depression and
high tariffs ruined cotton
prices. In two cotton seasons
the world carry-over has been
cut down to 10,634,000 bales,
it- is now estimated. While
this supply was being reduced,
cotton prices rose from less
than six cents per pound to
more than thirteen cents per
pound. The Texas cotton in-
come doubled in 1938 over
that of 1932. It put Texas bus-
iness on ii-. feet and gave busi-
ness its first big push toward
recovery. In 1984, with the
worst drouth in history afflict-
ing the state, the crop insur-
ance benefit payments, includ-
ing sales of at least a part of
the unused Bankhead Act cer-
tificates, are maintaining farm
income and Texas business. ' )
Under the AAA one million
cotton fanners have cooperat-
ed to introduce temperance in-
to cotton growing with as-
tounding success. Price of cot-
tor. has increased far beyond
arv effect that the de-valued
dollar could bring. Total cot-
ton income has increased, just
as the South has always main-
tained it would if production
could be restricted. In addi-
tion, substantial benefit pay-
ments have helped offset the
penalties imposed on the
Southern farmer by tariffs,
and have given crop insurance
to the farmer.
The South has the greatest
opportunity in its history to
hold these gains and work out
a long-time program which
will help stabilize farm prices.
The AAA program does not
aim at permanent cotton reduc-
tion. The plan is to constantly
adjust production to effective
demand so that reasonable cot-
ton pricey and reasonable
Southern prosperity may be re-
stored and maintained. In the
long-time program there prob-
ably will be a gradual shift to
better use of land for all farm
crops which will further help
to increase farm income and
more nearly keep it steady.
The South must decide for
itself whether to go in volun-
tary cooperation down this
road with the Agricultural Ad-
justment Administration, or to
go off on another cotton drunk.
Crockett—Lack of a pres-
sure cooker and ; sealer and
other facilities for canning
did not keep Mrs. Vina Love-
lady, 4-H pantry demonstrator
for the Weches Home Demon-
stration Club in Houston coun-
ty, from providing 463 con-
tainers of food for her pantry,
according to Miss Orene Mc-
Clllan, home demonstration
agent Mrs. Lovelady made
a trade in which she agreed to
furnish the products and do
the canning and give half of
the canned goods in exchange
for cans and the use of equip-
ment In a cheek of accom-
plishments, , Mrs. Lovelady
found that she had provided
for her own pantry 84 quarts
of green vegetables, 24 quarts
of other vegetables, 81 quarts
of fruits, 77 quarts of toma-
toes, 31 quarts of pickles. 23
quarts of relish, 16 quarts of
jams and jellies, and 7 quarts
of honey. Other miscellaneous
foods made a total of 463 cans
Notice Ladies
We have supply of large
sheets carbon paper suitable
for transfering designs of pat-
terns for fanev work. - Size of
sheet 17x22 inches.
Timpsen Printing Co.
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LATEST
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SNBY RESCUED FROM
28-FOOT WELL DETER
Lawton, Okla., Oct 20.—
(UP)—Baby Rickard Leon
Toombs was rescued today
from a well where he had
wedged tightly when he fell
into it while at play.
The 30-months-old child
worked a rope under Us anus
and bravely held another in
his hands so frantic workers—
including his father—could
pull him up 20 feet through the
small bole.
He had been buried three
boon.
Twenty-five firemen and
HERA workers had dug a hoi-'
four feet deep beside the old
well and were installing a
drill to rush the rescue work
when the baby solved the
problem for himself.
His father pulled on one of
the ropes that brought him to
I the surface.
1 Richard Leon, tow-head in
‘black and white striped cover-
alls, had mud in his hair, in his
eyes and aU over his face. He
had been crying at interval*
but stopped at his mother’s
command.
There had been no cause
for him to be afraid of the
dark. The rescuers rigged np
a lamp and battery andlower-
ed the lamp for him.
Earlier he had failed to ret
the rope under his arms, be-
cause of the darkness and the
close fit.
Designed in SiM«: 36, 38, 10, 4t.
44, 46, 48, 50 ud 68. Sii* 44 re
ircirM 444 janh *» Mnk sistoist
LARGE, BUT YOUNG
Pattern 8325—The frock
sketched is so smart and tailor-
ed in its simplicity that it looks
just as nice on the older wom-
an as it does on the young
matron. It is youthful, attrac-
tive and comfortable.
The square line of the neck
is repeated in the clever
squaring of tie line from neck
to hem in front and back. The
skirt has just the proper flare
at the -lower edge to insure
freedom of movement. The
sleeves are different in the way
they button over below the
•lashed opening and the belt is
cleverly drawn through a slash
in the front and buckled in the
back. Use a printed cotton or
a plain linen.
•*••*•••*••••••
* For pattern, send 15
* cents in coin (for eseh pat-
* tern desired), your Name,
* Address, Style Number -•
* and Size to Patricia Dow, *
* Timpsen Times Pattern *
* Department, 115 Fifth *
* Avenue, Brooklyn. N. Y, •
GatesvSle. — Provision for
adequate storage space for the
836 containers she has canned
this year is bring made by L.
O. Perryman, pantry demon-
strator of the liberty Home
Demonstration Club , in Coryell
county, according to 'Miss
Gladys Martin, home demon-
stration agent. A concrete
room 8 feet by 8 feet by 7 feet
has been built and shelves 10
iuehes in the elear will be
nude for canned products.
Wider shelves will be made to
accommodate cans of lard and
dried vegetables.
STOP THAT ITCHING
If you suffer from a skin
trouble, such as Itch, Eczema,
Athlete’s Foot, Ringworm, Tet-
ter or Pimples, we will sell
you a jar of Black Hawk Oint-
ment on a guarantee. Price 50
cents. Bussey's Drug Store.
BITS O’ PHILOSOPHY
Dean E. V. White, Texas State
College for Women (CIA)
The existence of life is evi-
dence of immortality.
Don’t covet a reputation so
good that yon can’t sustain it.
—0—
Possessing all you desire de-
stroys the hope of the future.
— 0—
One’s manners depend on
how he acta when company
has gone.
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Without Surgery
Fistulas, Fissures, itching aad
all rectal troubles successfully
treated while you work-
EXAMINATION AND
DIAGNOSIS FREE
DR. W. N. HANKINS
711 Slattery Bldg.
All kinds of Watch, Clock and
Jewelry Repairing
J. B. DAWSON
Timpsen, Texas
Bring your repair work to me
for prompt service.
Ali work guaranteed.
Located at Bussey's Drug
Store
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DALLAS' LEADING HOTEL
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'Uhe Souths finest bedroonts awuro
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tourists and busbiesi executives find the
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Molloy, T. J. Timpson Weekly Times (Timpson, Tex.), Vol. 49, No. 43, Ed. 1 Friday, October 26, 1934, newspaper, October 26, 1934; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth765002/m1/3/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Timpson Public Library.