The Humboldt Republican from Humboldt, Iowa • Page 2

PAQIS TWO THE HUMBOLDT REPUBLICAN THE HUMBOLDT REPUBLICAN. HtTMBOLDT. IOWA 23. Published w.tkly at Humboldt, Iowa, every Friday by JAQUA PRINTING COMPANY Prank Jaqua, Editor at at, Humboldt, Iowa, a. second- matter.

Cash In Advance. notl 6B on the first page. Matter. wl ba In8erta wlth the new IT ISN'T THE TOD. You say the world looks gloomy; The skyles are grim and grey, The Bight haa lost Its You fear the coming day? The world is what you make it, The sky is grey or blue Just as your soul may paint it; It Isn't the you Clear up the clouded vision, Clean out the foggy mind; The clouds are always passing, And each is sliver-lined.

The world Is what you make it- Then make it bright and true, And when you say It's gloomy, It isn't the you! REORGANIZING THE G. 0. P. Plain Talk, Des Molnes, last week printed a very able editorial relative to the republican party of Iowa. The article was entitled "Must Drop After commending the ticket and the men on it, Plain Talk expressed the belief that strife within the party caused its undoing.

It was a good ticket, But, It was a ticket born out of factionism. It was a ticket which was compelled to go before the people, with the knowledge at the start, that large blocks of republican voters in all sections of the state had been practically alienated and driven away. Many of these dissenters had been forced away from the party by tactics inaugurated in a rather tactless primary election campaign. Others had found themselves left out in the cold, not because of any enmity they might have possessed toward the winning faction of the party, but because of fears on the part of the controlling faction that their recognition might bring new Richmonds Into the limelight of the political field for the future. The large continued and uninterrupted popularity pf the republican Iowa, coupled with Its overwhelming majorities as election succeeded election, had led many of the directors of the fate of the party into the fallacious belief that it was Invincible.

Secure in every office of state, and secure, decade after decade, In an almost unanimously continued partisan legislative assembly, as well as in the possession of practically all of the district and local offices, the republican party found It had no worthy enemy to contest with, so It began fighting within its own ranks. Recurring primary elections became the party's battle grounds. Each primary election, where ambitions were arraigned, ended with victory for this ambitious faction or that, and the usual rejoicings which were to follow personal victories. But each victory left its wounds and its sore spots. Those wounds and sore spots, accumulating and being added to year after year, eventually brought to the party the disaster which overcame it in 1932, and again this year in a more emphatic manner than ever.

The republican party can recuperate in Iowa. It can reclaim the state house. It can reclaim the congressional districts and the other public offices which have been taken from it. It cannot do these things, however, unless factionism is dropped. It cannot return to power until its daggers and firearms of suspicion and jealousies are turned in for destruction and burial.

Plain Talk sincerely hopes that such a happy condition may be brought to pass and we believe it can be brought to pass. New leadership will do it. New candidate will do it. But they must be named from the ranks of those republicans In the state (and there are many of them) heretofore unidentified with the turmoil and troubles which have of late assailed, and to all intents and purposes have practically put the party into the emergency ward of the state's political hospital. A movement along these lines should be started now.

Not just before the opening of another campaign. In the words of that gallant soldier, General Grant, "Let us have Talk, Des Moines. Plain Talk has touched the weak spot in the republican party in Iowa. We have to but read the history of the party to prove it. Any designing politician who could win a republcan nomination in the past was as good as in office.

The battle ground, then, was in the primary. All the bitterness of political defeat lay in the party. That Iowa is still republican Is proven by the late election returns. On county candidates Iowa republican. That is, more votes were cast for republican county offices in the state than democratic.

The Des Moines Register completed such a poll and found that the republicans won by a majority of approximately 18,000. The head of the republican ticket in the state could not keep step with the county candidates. Why? Dan Turner, in spite of his nomination at the primaries, was not a popular candidate and could not lead his party to victory. Senator George Patterson, third in the primaries, but boosted onto the ticket in the state convention, ran a poor second to Turner, and a much worse second to his Kraschel. He lost his home county by a heavy majority.

Another difficulty was met fn county organizations that took personal care bf the state campaign in their sections. They were'also, as a rule, antagonistic to anyone supposed to be a republican and who did not endorse everything they did. Tho atmosphere was to "get In or got out" and to hell with those who hesitated. The result was that a large number of people were driven out of the party oi: state Issues. In short, the bouses of the republican party laid down Its principles, selected the Issues, picked the candidates and left It for the rank and file to get In line.

In the past that was sufficient. But this Is is another day. There Is no part of the republican party in Iowa that can be sacrificed. If the organization is to carry on It must do so through united interests. It must be remembered that the real battle will be In November, and that the June skirmish Is merely to select policies and candidates that are acceptable to the gi eatest number within the party.

The leaders of the party must be understanding Instead of dictatorial; reasonable Instead of unreasonable. The old leaders can not adopt the new ways. That Is why they will have to make room for new leaders and policies. With these changes the republican party of Iowa can come back, and will come back. In fact, It has never gone away.

Some of Its members have been kicked out of the door, but they are standing by the door ready to come in it they meet with reasonable treatment. THE PUBLIC ENEMY'S ENEMY TAMA COUNTY FAIR GROUNDS SOLD. The Traer Star-Clipper, of Tama county, last week contained the Information that the local court had ordered a foreclosure against the fair grounds there, and that they will be sold to satisfy the judgment. A portion of the article from the Star-Clipper follows: M. J.

Krezek, Toledo, and B. P. Skrable, Elberon, trustees, were given Judgment against the Tama county fair association for plus interest from October 23, attorney fees of $179.44 and costs of $231.99. Foreclosure and sale of the fairgrounds property In Toledo, consisting of a fractional 31 acres of land and buildings, was ordered. It was further ordered that the proceeds of the sale, after the payment of costs, be paid to Mrs.

Rebecca Smith, Toledo, the Iowa Investment company, of Gladbrook, and D. B. Bricker, Toledo, in the proportion that the amount due on notes given by the fair association, held by each, bears to the total indebtedness, and If any money remains after payment in full of the indebtedness due these three creditors, it shall be paid to the subsequent lien holders in the order of their priority. These include the Toledo Chronicle, with a Judgment against the fair association for a printing bill of nearly $800, and J. H.

Hartshon, as trustee of the Traer band, whose claim is around $110. There are other creditors who appear to be "out of The judge ordered that the temporary receiver, F. B. Carson, shall continue to serve until disposition is made as to the application for a receiver under the Star-Clipper. County fairs throughout Iowa haVe been meeting with various degrees of success or failure the past few years.

The Tama couiity fair seems to be on its last legs, while the Spencer fair cleared this year, and experienced the best year in its history, it is said. The old Webster county fair went by the boards, even though it did promote and build and wonderful equipment on splendid grounds. The Humboldt county fair has not met with much financial success the past few years. It has struck inclement weather and its leadership has been in parts found faulty. If it is to have the complete co-operation of the people of Humboldt county there will have to be a more strict alignment of its finances and new methods in its purchasing department.

The board of directors have been found willing and fair but their authorities have sometimes been usurped. Someone must be at the head of things that can hold the good will, confidence and of the people if the fair is to come back and accomplish what it Is capable of. saves $500 and invests it in a home, he should be encouraged, not penalized. Or If an ambitious youth and maiden Join In the holy bonds of matrimony and invest $1,000 as a down payment on a $10,000 farm, why, should they be taxed for the entire value of the farm? Our present laws penalize thrift and enterprise. They are seemingly made for the spendthrift and profligate.

ASQUCRADt by FAITH BALDWIN love and admiration. But she dared Lovely Synopsis Fanchon Meredith is wanted by the San Francisco police in connection with a murder committed by her sweet heart, Fanchon did not know he was a gunman. She escapes by airplane under the name of Aboard is Evelyn Howard, whom Fanchon had met on a voyage from Hawaii. Evelyn is going to New York to live with her the wealthy Mrs. Carstairs, whom she never saw.

The plane crashes and Fanchon is the only survivor. To get away from Tony and the past, she goes to the Carstairs home as A strong bond of affection grows between Mrs. Carstairs and her Collin Carstairs, the son, is at first antagonistic because of his "cousin's" Hawaiian escapades and her self-righteous attitude not look at Collin again as she answered. "The truth about myself. He is quite right.

I am not your niece. I am not Evelyn Howard. I am Fanchon Meredith." gasped Collin Had she looked at him then she would have seen that a flash of most incredulous joy swept over his face, blotting out the amazement. Then the amazement returned. He darted a look at Tony who, hands still high, leaned against the dresser.

Tony smiled evily. Nothing was apparent in Collln's face now but sheer male 'r "I'm getting rather tired of this position," said Tony blandly. "Wait a moment," Fanchon step- she is not. That she Is with him. Mentally, a child." "My God!" exclaimed Collin, low.

Jennie said, Her lips shook. She turned to Fanchon. There was no anger in her eyes. Only a vast bewilderment. She said: loved you very much.

Somehow, we still do. Will you tell us as briefly v.s truthfully?" Fanchon had an impulse to cast herself on her knees beside that still, waiting figure. She clenched her hands on the desk. The knuckles were white. She leaned against the desk.

She said: ''Yes'V She told them, low almost In a monotone. The entire story. Who she was. How and why she had left ouo JJ.UVY nuu Wily BI1O Imil 1QIL ped forward. She put her hands on Hawaii for San Francisco, meeting My mother's at the club today! I don't know jus' which one; But, anyhow, she's gone away To have a lot o' fun! She's got a dozen clubs, I guess, An 1 every day or so She's lookin' up some new address Where she's supposed t' go.

When she's at home, she's busy, She's always at the 'phone Advisin' someone what t' do; An when she's left alone She's writin' what the speaker said; Or checkin' her accounts T' find out why they're "in the red In such absurd amounts." Las' year my mother said that she Was through for good an' all- She simply wasn't goin' t' be In any clubs that Fall! But when she told 'em she was done, An' all her friends got sore, She kept her place in every An' joined a couple Hawthorne in the Sac Sun. Everyone that has read these columns regularly knows that this paper Is in favor of a sales tax or a tax equivalent to a sales tax. They know also that the present sales tax, or the three-point tax system enacted by the last legislature, but which the republican state campaign attacked as a democratic mesure, is giving us a sales tax, an income tax and a tax on the receipts of the corporations in the state. This is the first step in gales tax development. It may be that the people will demand a reduction of the tax in the smaller sales brackets or the abolition of the tax on the necessities of life.

And it may be that they will demand higher taxes on luxuries Or it may be that they will adopt a gross income tax in lieu of a sales tax. The principles of removing taxes, from real estate and real property or corporate holdings by a sales tax or gross income tax is the solution of our present tax evils. The present theory of taxing a farm or home in total regardless of the fact that the man In whose name it stands haa nothing more than a thinking equity in it, or that he owes $100 an acre on a farm that is worth no more than $50 an acre, or that his home is worth $1,000 and is cumbered with a $2.000 mortgage, is all wrong, it cau not en dure. When a young man Collin sat in an easy chair opposite Tony, the gun steady. when his mother offered aid, but Fanchon's sincerity overcomes his objections.

They fall In love. After a happy summer at Southampton, Fanchon makes her debut in New York. Collin, thoug realizing their relationship is a barrier, cannot resist professing his love. Fanchon cannot acknowledge her's without revealing her Identity. Later, Tony locates Fanchon and informs her that Evelyn is alive, but has lost her memory.

He threatens to expose Fanchon -unless she introduces him to Mrs. Carstaira as "Cesare He calls at the Oarstalrs home and is accepted by Mrs. Carstairs and Collin although thsy are skeptical of him. Fanchon has no alternative but to agree to Tony's demands that she induce Mrs. Carstairs to wear her emeralds to the -Van Suydam Ball.

Tony wears a Romeo costume similar to Collln's. On the way to the ball, Collin and Fanchon profess their love. Fanchon slips away and returns home with Tony. The latter stays on the terrace awaiting an opportunity to seal the jewels. Fanchon frustrates Tony's plans and has Mrs.

Carstairs summon Collin. Tony reveals Fanchon's Identity. CHAPTER XXVII. "What truth?" asked Mrs. Carstairs quietly.

She spoke, reaching for her robe and slippers. Her face had aged terribly but her voice was low and her expression had not changed. Fanchon's heart went to her on a wave of sorrowful Tony. She loathed touching tonight But she felt in hta overcoat pocket, she took out a wicked looking gun, and kept it in her hand. "Now," she said to Collin, "take him in the library." Tony went first, prodded by Collin's revolver in his ribs.

Fanchon followed closely, turning on the lights as she went In the big book- lined room Collin indicated a straight chair. He said, briefly, looking at Fanchon: "Strong cord In the desk drawer. Get it for me, will you? And call Jameson." "No," she said, "better not. If you'll do what is I'll keep him covered. I promise," she said bitterly as she saw the Ipok of mingled distrust and question in Collln's eyes.

By the time Jennie Joined them it had been done. Tony sat, as easily as possible, on the straight backed chair, his hands and arms tied behind him, his legs lashed to the rungs. Collin sat in an easy chair opposite, the gun steady. Fanchon, in her plain tweed frock, stood against the desk. Her eyes were dark In a perfectly white face.

Only her lips lived. Jennie came In, and sat down by Collin. He gave her a reassuring glance. "If you are not Evelyn Howard," asked Jennie, evenly, of Fanchon "where is she?" "I thought," said Fanchon, as evenly, "that she was dead. In the accident.

But indicated Evelyn Howard enroute. How she had met Tony in the library How she had gone on seeing him caring for him romantically, as an Inexperienced girl cares and how she had out who he was and what was his means of livelihood. A lethal business. How there had been a murder; and headlines In How 8he had hunted by police and press and how Tony, learning of a vacancy in the chartered plane, had given her money, and had reserved her flight passage for her under the name of Miss Smith. And how, here again sue had encountered Evelyn.

She spoke of all Evelyn had told her, she spoke, In dry phrases of her own envy and despair; of their likeness in coloring and height of the photograph taken of them together on the boat. She spoke of telling Evelyn her own story that stop overnight in the little hotel and, briefly of how Evelyn had refused help saying her aunt could not "afford" to help. "she was quite right, of course," said Fanchon at that point. She told of the second flight; of the accident. Her voice roughened and was dark with horror.

She had not spoken of this before. Her listeners, Jennie Carstairs and her son, shuddered with her. And Jennie's eyes were soft with an understanding compassion. Fanchon went on doggedly, steadily. She was swaying a little.

The solid wood and metal of the great modern desk was some support She leaned against it gratefully! She told of holding Evelyn's hand bag before the crash. Of how, ai terwards, she bound her arm wit Evelyn's handkerchief. Of her be lief that Evelyn had died. Of he frantic escape toward help am freedom, Of the men whom she me and her lapse Into unconscious ness. Of the name on the handker chief, the name which the strangers called her, and of he: dangerous resolve.

She told them of what the doc tor had said, that Evelyn could no live; and how therefore, In her mad and desperate desire to bury the dead past, she had let them think Evelyn "Miss And how, armed with Evelyn's nam and credentials she had come on to New York, meeting the reporters on the way and hearing her that the other girl was dead con firmed by them. (To be continued) GROSS INCOME TAX WILL REPLACE TAX ON REAL ESTATE The following from the Storm Lake Pilot Tribune is self-exphinatory: How the gross Income tax wll replace present taxes on real estate, was explained to around twenty Buena Vista countyans at a meeting at the Chamber of Commerce Monday night. J. C. Vant Hul, formerly secretary of the Storm Lake Chamber of Commerce 'but now secretary of the Iowa Association for Tax Justice, was the chief speaker.

John T. Edson of Hayes township was chosen president for a county wide organization. W. C. Jarnagin was chosen secretary.

From the nucleus of those preseni Monday night, it Is proposed to organize a non-partisan organization which will have for its purpose securing the enactment of a gross Income tax bill at the coming legislative session. Non-Political Movement. Plans were made for a countywide non-political mass meeting to be called soon. It is hoped to have Clarence Knutson of Clear Lake, chief adherent of this plan, as speaker at the meeting. Those who attended the meeting Monday night were Chris Mickelson, John L.

0. Moldovan, Henry Bletzer, Charles Matson, Ben Kraemer, Jack Schultz, W. J. Julius, Chas. L.

Johnson, W. C. Jarnagin, W. J. Robinson, J.

Park Bair, Dave Hughes, Albert E. Cattermole, Robert McKenna, Ernest Hout, D. G. LaGrange, George Angier, H. C.

Caldwell, and A. P. Sprague. Two farmers from Pocahontas county, whose names were not learned, also attended. In his address, Secretary Vant Hul asserted that the gross income tax plan seeks to abolish four forms of taxation and money needed public revenue from every citizen in direct ration to his income.

The speaker listed these four systems and the reasons they should be abolished, as he views it, as follows: Property Tax on Real Estate: Because it Is obsolete and unworkable; it has failed and will continue to fail further in producing anticipated revenue, thus making imposition of other forms of taxation increasingly necessary, if citizens are no longer to be permitted unhampered, to work, earn, buy, pay and own, neither can they pay taxes with anything except income The property tax is a first permanent Hen. Completion of the purchase contract means nothing at all If the right of ownership is abrogated when taxes can no longer be paid, and tho property can then be taken from the owner by mandate of law The Tax on Personal Property i Here the same argument holds good. Full payment of purchase price does not constitute full ownership, since this tax is a permanent obligation to pay "rent" or a license" in some form as long as the goods endure. The "Net" Income Tax: is pure fiction as a revenue producer, since the residue is not worth mentioning after the cost of collection and administration Is deducted. Hence can never be anything but an "added if, as some people want It to be, this were the only form of taxation, there would be practically no tax revenue at all since all money would be spent to avoid any "net" remaining to be taxed- ust as surplus money now being Invested in tax-exempt securities, for exactly the sTrae reason.

Moreover, it is double tax- atioa so long as the Federal Net Income Tax remains, (which fo endlne 30, 934 30 1934, in Iowa, produced only a little more than $4,200,000) The Retail Sales Tax: While this is being hailed in a certain pom! cal camp as a veritable "savior" and disguised as the "replacement" of an infinitesimal portion of the property tax, it Is in reality a form of cradle-robbery, coming aeTt does. the heaviest proportion ou of the pockets of those who have least, and are by virtue of the fact fo, fh 8Peni1 what the for the elemental necessities. No Income, jf 0 Tax. This gross Income being the one and only tax shall not be Lied on property, commodities or and has nothing to do with what you own, or the raanWln which you make your living" Mr. Vant Hul.

"It wlll only upon the dollar of income yon receive irrespective of how ed and only so Iong as lt ece celved. If there be reduced Income here is reduced tax in If there be no Income at all, ne hl er is there any tax to be paid When we have an Income and do Pay weal, pay in the same pro tlon, because no matter what the size of the Income, the fate of tlon will be exactly the sanis tateof levy will bft one mor or less, with nomlc conditions. The tat rate no longer be determined by dividual Judgment of, the nor will It be dependent on peculiar notions of property 8 "Under this plan, all who to under the same government automatically help to pay of 1 rather than the one-third who bai been doing It since time ImnW orlal, because they were ''proneM. Tax on the Spot "Under this plan it will again be possible any one ta lose his home or place ot business because of Inability to taxes. It will put the tax scavenYe, on the spot, and he.

will be interred together' with hlsb uslness ot steal Ing people's property for a sone "It will take due cognizance of that patriot who puts his surplu. funds Into tax-exempt securities In order to avoid doing his share In maintaining government, except at a profit. It will see to it that "tax- getting good salaries shall not escape merely because they are not property owners. (This does not mean that there are not many such who would not cheerfully pay if they were never haw- been, because they were Invisible to the eye of the tax-assessor, and therefore did not stand out like a locomotive headlight on a dnrir night.) "These are Just a few examples of untouched sources of revenue that would help materially to spread the burden and remove the excessive load from the of the few whoh ave been carrying It so long." FABLE: Once upon a time there was a youngster who would not be disappointed if turkey were left off' the menu for Thanksgiving dinner. wonder, dad, how Thanksgiving originated? think, son, it was probably instituted by parents whose sons had survived the first football' Be Thankful It Isn't An Ostrich.

The turkey Is a noble bird, It has a lot of points, 3ut still it how absurd Sufficient second points. The turkey makes a nation glad, Uuch happiness It brings, But still I some how wish It had neck and tail and wings. So you have a volunteer ire department, with engine and hose cart and everything, eh? How are you when called out to save some home from being destroyed by the 'flames? Brushville Native Wall, we always manage to keep he cellar can't save the "rest of the house. THE WORLD ISN'T SO SMALL AFTER ALL. JUST TRY GOING SOME PLACE WHERE YOU DON'T WISH TO BE SEEN.

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