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PAGES GAZETTE AND BULLETIN, WILMAMSPORT. TUESDAY NOVEMBER 22. W38. Gazelle Bulletin IS ate' 1 5 1 Sunday a Ka BS c. a I a federal, state or local demand for money, as the victims of the tax load Levies upon owners and users of motor vrhtclcfi furnish tixth all tbj.

n(S gathered by.all federal, state and local units of government. 1 The average of direct tax is found to have increased 545 per cent in the last years So I liat's I he Ki.id Of A World We Live In! 1 7. i A I a- A i i a a a Pa i pa A i to the 6 Ko it i Pa. 3i t. ch gan A 3 a OF HIGHEST IMPORTANCE pOMPOSFJl seasoned and ified laymen, the delegation which President Roosevelt has named to represent the United States at the Lima conference next month will enable this nation to put whose im- a L- I a ice a OF ASSOCIATED pounce to thjs country, and to other re, a on a 6 a a w' te cred ted lr i 1 oa i i of a i a "-eater tv illiaraaport.

061 a i a le a i 0 4 1 a a i JSU 00 City Debt--Citi a 4 1 i Debt--School strict. Tax Oafe" Litt IS Tai Mill' property Milla poor Tax rate capita a a Si A i a a i 51J 00 Tear a i roll --13 001 no 1934 I Workers and SalarlAd Workers--t So5 Fn sons i I i a and 094 "00 00 A a A. 60-PuMle Schools 11 i College, 1--Business Colleges Altitude 5:8 Sea Area, 9 Miles Surrounded and tt, 1938. HELP FOR INDUSTRY by a non-partisan, non-pohti- of thu hemisphere, has been mendoutly accentuated by recent world events. Included in the is the chief justice of the Supreme Ptterto Rico, Emiho del Toro whose character and ability are thus given deserved recognition along with the fact that one corner of the r.

S. domain. and culture. Equally important is fact that in the matter of foreign relations there are no Democrats or Republicans only Americans a fact to which recognition is given by the presence in the delegation of foraier A 1 nf Kansas, the President's defeated Republican opponentTtf 1936. And, giving emphasis to the belief that the Lima parley may prove of epochal importance in the history of 'the Americas is the announcement that the United States is thinking in terms of the Presidential Warning Very By I WASHINGTON--A more power- pressure CIO AFL peace man President plea to he dlionsi conventions of both labor groups evident the 19M It can be riimrerned the fact that Plptzix as gov errtors of great industrial sUtee from Pe' nsKania to Oregon including chigan and Oh al the year- Oood Mornin of And -a- li in office ith thai change tor 1 dealing fu'ure strike crises in those sutes from Demo- i 'o Republican hands The major cause assigned by ost c-bjeciive Analysts of the elec- on returns for Democratic upsets Senate House and state office as a ground swell of farm votes gdiast the New Deal a i that a second Hf, held to be delayer! irtimv to- strike violence such states as Pennsytvwira 31-uo, Michigan and Oregon, inci- ent to the intensive industrial niomzation drive and featured by requent jurisdictions! be- v.een AIL and CIO forces Background for Warning Lnder that interpretation of what lappened at the polls, the returns gubernatorial contests in the industrial sutes afford their background for the Roosevelt warning vo the CIO and AFL con- entions that continued dissension can only lead to loss of influence and prestige to all labor Neither side altered its policy of declaring the other responnWe tnvrnl n( lejs B.

can a and their of the new world to consider the possibility been at woik for six-months, or more, study-T of aggression from overseas this policy is, in ing plans for adjustment of excessive taxa- ent 01 excess industries. tion on Pennsylvania mduslrissc Tire results of this survey, tax methods of other states, have been into two findings: 1. That drastic economies must be made 2 That taxes be levied in a manner that "will notrbe burdensome to business. Plans covering these ideas will be presented to the Pennsylvania Legislature next January. These plans will have two main essence, one of Uncle Sam's oldest, the gerais of which are found in the Monroe itrine.

Ernet naturalist, thinks it wouldie wise to e. prairies back to the buffalo and the Indians. idea, 1. To relieve industry of its present heavy burden which, it has been shown, has been--- driving manufacturing -plants into states where taxes are less onerous. 2.

To give employment to idle men and women of Pennsylvania by enabling employers to pay wages with the money saved from taxes. Preservation of Pennsylvania's industrial supremacy of the principal issues in rpfpnt plprtion, the results of which left noj-oom for doubt concerning the attitude of the majority toward a very unwise tax policy. A typical example was that of the Curtis Publishing Company which, in 1936, paid state'taxes totaling in New Jersey it would have paid only $7.545. In other words, rennsylvanla imposed a competitive handicap of $700,000. Pennsylvania's supremacy can be re- but who would up the buffalo andln-- dians New York HayJiy Hay By Chmrles B.

DrbcoU Greatest rarm lcm Concerns Crop Distribution, Editorial Writers Contending try that a this ii morp nroduction at lower prices rather than less production at higher prices, and a Tn problem con- distribution instead of crop Philadelphia Inquirer, in an "Maybe Its the SecretaryWhcJtjat Sea," comments as follows: own crop control regulations, Sec- ix long years the administration has experimented with expedients solutions, Xx siatent long-distance commuters in the world. He is president of iranscontmcntal Western Air, so 1 don't suppose he needs to have a ticket punched every time he takes a ride in a transport plane But I often see him at lunch with the Banshees or Dutch Treaters on a when I know he has a dinner engagement in Kansas City Frye is a good-looking, active man of among ycmngMt of big executives A native of retary Wallace hit a new rhetorical high when, addressing Georgia cotton and tobacco growers, the" AAA progriui Ui ships 'in a sheltered haven, away from winds of the world economic storm' Could it be Mr. Wallace who was 'at sea "It is not inconceivable that a good many farmers this year, beset with surpluses, falling prices and innumerable government don'ts' "musts, 1 themselves at the Oklahoma, reared In a French girl, he is at home anywhere in the to world He is a pilot with many records to hu credit, and habitually flies own private plane He dotin't do that exclusively for fun, either. Recently he had built to his specifications a plane designed especially for flying at exceptionally high altitudes He wears a new type of oxygen quotas, while tooting along toward his New York luncBeon, almost any day of the -week He mercy of the gale and would have been glad to send up distress slgimU, cn-epl thai they couldn stand any more federal interference and still stay on the surface. "It is one thing for the secretary to warn the farmers to stick to the government crop program If yoi want to save your economic i But it has yet to be proved tha Mr Wallaces farm bounties, subsidies, "Toans, restrictions, curtail- allotments ufft the substratosphere and has collected much gained and preserved, but the will I valuable data on high-altitude flying for of the to the help of equitable tax re-' airhMS ision.

I BE HER, CHEAPER GASOLINE? ARGE at lunch at the W.ldoif Because I have had few hours at the controls of a plane, this veteran aviator dis- technical affairs with, me as though iale production of more efficient glvmf me credit for really knowing rom a long-range approach CRACKF51S of ing statement are true Some are false Whic' tare which' 1 1 Indians in the United State jjj TWTiig i -with indignation' because for are decreasing in number in her AT lut, ment The police coin And preparing to jo day VISITORS at our IB logoi, ot tE fiirt the alwavs marks other a a depart the pe 2e 0 i Yesterdav a while and ae behind a M- one of the tising kjid i ejj could be dr a 3 Panama hats are made in Pan- palliatives, at that. 4 Rabbtts do nc 5 Ireland is called Emerald 'For six long years Mr Wallace Isle has tried one after another panaceas wfeich have proved failures in other if all, for six long done little years Mr or nothing to lay for a sound, long term agricul We say this with full appreciation of Mr Wallace earnest eagerness to help the farmers. We say it with respect for Mr Wallaces high ideals and his warm emotional-ism. "But we submit that good intentions and kind heart are not enough to solve the farm problem "irue, the or rather certain groups of them, use of public money, have Answers on Page 10 Looking I From Gnette and Bulletin Sixty Years Ago Today gotiations Yet both factions are ttllyjware that the political situation has been changed by election returns Executive responsibility has been on a group of Republican governors-elect in the main theaters of action of the industrial unionism movement That may prove an important factor in the shaping of plans by both AFL and CIO leadership for the next two years In Congress next session, debate over proposals to revise the Wagner laBor act probably will be the anvil "upon which Republican labor policy for 1940 will be hammered, out But what happens in the industrial states that will pass next year under Republican political control could have even greater influence on shaping the labor policy plank of the next Republican national platform before that platform is shaped might go a long way io- wSrd influencing just what that plank says. Flexibility Expected In that connection, information in Republican circles in Washington as to the date when a report from the party program committee, headed by Dr Glenn Frank, Is "be expected seems to be vague There appears to be no more hftrry in national committee quarters to hasten its proceedings after election came durr1g a one look 'be robbery the Charley Ross cas.

William delphia on business Stewart grave ere were in ontrary Than "There" was ftefJt Fifty Of all the Ago Today streets in the city West Third between Pine and Elmira is the worst From curb and all Uie uthci most the abundant We. Secretary Wallace was rhapsodrcally defending his farm program in Georgia, and even urging more crop control and a cotton received subsidies which have their month-to-month living easier refinancing of some of the distressed farm mortgages under government supervision undoubtedly eased the burden of numerous other farmers. "But it is only at this late date that Mr Wallace is at last recognizing the long obvious need for wider diversification or and suggejt- ing the -possibilities inherent n. seeking out new industrial uses for farm products. date the entire empfiasis has on restriction of production artifical increase or prices at threufh the use of a new refining process is forecast by the American Petroleum Institute.

The new process, it is reported, will en-1 the subjeat makes me squirm I- really know almost nothing about the mechanics of flight I once took up two but I hope the government at Wash- into eighty per cent (in gallons) of gasoline, compared the present average return lt WM my daughter mgton never Friend He troubled with corns that day, and processing tax. Assistant Secretary rcguU Qf eorabimn these two Harry-tr. Brown wfti admitting, be-1 obpectlyes was plainly forseen -ft fore the Tennessee Fami Buieau haJ made more difficult for those Federation, will agree farmers who specialize in the great staples ta sell thetr products competition with foreign farmers and it has-upset the nations farm Dalance 'The record speaks for itself that almost direct proportion to the I thmk. that the Agricultural Ad- something Justoem act is not perfect It should be improved and this im k.nd of flattery that prow(nfnt merits' "After the nation's experience this year with increasing crop sur- restnctlon acreage of restnctlon Amprican acreae pluses and falling prices, it ought has mcreased. pla.nly-appTent to Secretary policr A to cllib it is a bed of liquid mortar Col Alfred Stead is hunting sQuUitls in trie Tvluni-j' nMt Forty Ajo Today I The Y.

A team defeated, Dickinson Seminary, 40 to 0 John Eder A Jaggard left for North Carolina on a hunting trip The Rev Edward Miller was installed as pastor of St Mark Lutheran Church Carl Herdic Ihe game Saturday. Years Ago Today 4 ''Well drillers at Newberry Junction encountered gas Mrs Robert A Schlegal is suffering from a fractured ankle Twenty Ago Today Twenty submarines were surrendered to the British by the Germans The last detachment of German troops has left Brussels Fifty wounded American prisoners were found in Metz Dr William Konkle of toursville suggests making Nov ll a world holidaj Ten Years Ago Today Floods have taken a heavy toll Congressional Republicans are apt to disclose next session a liking for flexibility on issues Election successes give them an up-to-date "partjLDoli'cy-making mandate with two years--ahead to work at it ir preparation They are apt to show no with platform pre-views via committee than did party cumbents before election. GOD'S MINUTE bers of Congress that the policy everything find Crop markets, at. home, perhaps even of forty-four per cent. The petroleum industry, the report says is spending thirty-five million dollars for I i had brilliant suggestion, as thought o-aanlino Vv thfs new neiabbor of mine" tdM not complete overhauling ff f- rnarKeis.

nomc, didnt care whether he lived any longer or not My 01 1 drastic revision mofe abroadi by developing present ambition is to fly the stratosphere with Jack Frye No urge to handle the controls thanks new uses for larm produc ts and If there are amendments, they wherever possibleAb encouraging should be the direction of less I lncreased purchases through lower- in 17 of the A fcttrte their diplomas "If a man love Me be will keep My words." Thy al chiefly in showini mercy and pityT kindly grant unto us such a measure of Thy grace that we may obtain Thy kindly promises and be made partakers oi Thy heavenly treasure Thou almighty and everlasting God Who art always more ready to hear we to prav and art wont to give more than either we desire or deserve, pour down upon us the abundance of Thy mercy, forgiving us those things whereof our con- iCieute iS dfiaid, and giving US those things which we are not ment with one ihe lla erators who MIS up our That It wish that the pod IM India Sir Riflhuhjatj AN Aged down vesterda 1 her children A as window sil L' a bell Strpf standing there live murrnjr up a i us to ect right TO be Jiat she i The mother a a- E-g HOW a knoHlnt omi "Dear. I wish to uk yol thm diu I yoor mother ding?" AFTER The Ba 1-rUs is a cjmo many men to spend urs trying to make others, sets another task of trvmg to get a -3 one fall "of grandstand' ana oleat: people covered one i it sends still ar "e- -the front doors of a p.acs of them nangmg er there is footba.L change the "a the Bali A Happy c1ul in collfdini lie confidtd ili 1" bill I when he writes to college NATIVES Are-Ger ing person" v.ro a for the place born but i the females be rg It is off at lea a plus female There for an i favor i a ra desirable a surplus na Next daughter rr native dishes Ta-e rule, must Ce not bur- wisely a dish asks for once h- 15 a a i worthy to ask Grant that we may faithfully serve Thee this life, that we will finally attain to Thy heaveplv promises Grant unto us an increase of faith and hope and charity, that i a we may love that which Thou dost Command Became will, out Thee cannot but fall, keep us by my neip-irom all things hurtful and we beseech Thee. The Wilhamsport High School Lord, to let Thy continual pity rilants to produce gasoline by this new neighbor of mine" I taM a Flagg tuthority not more government "A crops and farmers control of 1 reducing costs oi method on "a large commercial scale. The prospect of better, cheaper gasoline will interest all motorists, who, it may be said, have protested less, against quality and on anaesthesia, ventilation, artificial and everythint to breathing wouldn't it be a good idea to call him in for consultation JM souie of these usual somebody had beaten me to has tccn woflong on these "Doctor prices than against the practice of the federal, state and writing use Ton Lindberth and for a of all sorts of excuses to impose additional onf imt Mld taxes on automobile owners, or to divert yea. I must with thia taxes levied for highway purposes.

Figures isAued by the United States Burefu of Public Roads show that 13 6 per cent of automotive tax receipts were Averted in 1937, which compares with-liTpeT ce'nt in 1936. -In Pennsylvania, the Associated Petrol- eviiii Industries announces that" at the reg- man njt' Hube.l Herring. Internationalist, returned to Wichita, where he and I were co-workera 'of a tort very loftg time ago we met tec ten conversation over till r't-ft buttermilk all about it," I you rcpUtrf Hubtrt, gets it into his head that what this country at lower ntfes rather than less production it higher prices, and that the greatest farm problem concerns distri- mtion instead of crop curtailment, 'sbelteitd haven' of federal control gnng to remain a area fen which fanners fail to get anywhere. And the New York Herald-Tn- commenting upon Secretary Wallace's "waAmg' to the South and by implication, to the the country--averts that 'in tlmoat direct proportion to the production--musj? be the objective 1 his pipe "I was in the town only two and a half ular session of the Legislature next January houfl made my tpf ech and to touie Tt constrtutional anfPndiiient He mtro- and had to-. 'H the duced prohibiting' the use of motor funds for other than highway purposes.

of 4o itot object 4o building and mwntaming good roads, but they do object to being singled out, every time there Something had tip, you know, I bt 4 to be in Sioux City that evonlnf. By way, Tm mg for Ltona, Peru, tonight stuff down Any frleWUr fWTtf So I itarted making out a lift (Copyright, 1939. McNaught In urging diversuication Mr Wallace is indicating an important tep in the right directon It i take time to work out such a program, but as a by product of the six has been obtained by farm ex- perta which wOl "Incidentally, the stressing of building is not unrelatetd to of ftfilfn Amencan acreage, ot- HeraM-Tr with mingled relief and indignation read A secretary of agriculture, has wawixi the South and by implication, the of the country-- furttoei- ot together wllh tccHnxaJ for farm may be the only i Mutton oi the naUon'i torrn progrtm 'with relief. 1 because looks at ax if Mr Wallace were larra probleflv years of with informs- diversification But it has narrow end and serves the narrow purpose of furnishing a method oi subsidizing "Long ago preparations and extensive studies should have been itarted with a view to such sound- conceived pivciiuu It 'not too late, even now, and we should of course "be grateful That alter six long vears Mr Wallace last tseginning face reallUra But the conclusion is inescapable that the country u. not better, but class rf has donated $600 to the school librarv Scout awards i be given to 278 boys thF" NuvemWi of the Scouts court James Gleason is seriously ill in The Jefferson Hospital ih Phila- delph fa 1 1 BEES IN WAR The conflict in China has promoted the bee from a gatherer ot honey to a mail earner for the Japanese With the help of modern photography, messages can be reduced" to a tiny flJttrau trf- tllcil normal sue The bee with its burden, like the carrier pigeon finds its way home unfailingly from a- distance of as much as three or four mile As long as the queen remains the even its home can be moved Bees are not only reliable, but also speedy, making from 30 to 40 rmles per hour of Wallace's long for short- term, semi-political panaceas rather lot long If the charging ratejrf an auto- gcneriitor Js set too high it the battery, reducing We.

4 I The Canton WPA flagman-who His flag to fiahnig pole so that he coold balance it the crotch of a tree and wave it while sitting on a chair is fumbling uath a revolutionary device When he attains a level of experimentation that will enable him to make fa-M. tlie pofe chair, and wave the flag meks and roeltx the time away, he will really have something Harrisburg Telegraph. native leanse succor us, preserve, us more by Thy help and goodness and through the of Thy Jesus Christ, Our Lord. Amen TODAY'S i YARNS General John Byme, of the Military Order of the World War was evoking war memories at i uncheon. slacker--how he was hated, especially in-UpglarKk" ral Bytiie "One night in a slacker xarded a London tram that crowded wvth muddy, uruhaven Tommies back on five-day furlough from the trenches "The slacker -in evening drew silk tined hair and spotless white gloves.

he stood strap-hanging, the lommies of them got up, touched him politely on the arm and said Have my seat, miss' A had presented a puppy to fwnd who called up in a few days, all dUUess and excitement. "Oh," she wailed, "SJtippy nas off the corners of-our best Oiieetal What shall I do'" "Never mind." arv-er the dog' lover, soothingly TM Often' tal the colors won't harm arc the worTu testing world ii are when the r- than tion but divided ro-s" groups -Whose "i those icr heard of -ic heard better Natives tor their Y. of their v. because they affirm deny it case prose of app'' the ceties Ordinar of holding people the alien his side and fr 1 Ufui and own ul because of "Contentme" than or the Star..