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THE CHEHALIS BEE-NUGGET, FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 131. TheChebalis Bee-Nugget Chehalis, Washington FRIPAT. Member EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION IfoathB, to Hi a fitottonal fldlUrlal a BliJireTON BdUor and City Official Paper. Chehalls, Friday, June 10, 1931 LITTLE COST IX GIVING, BUT IT ACCOMPLISHES MUCH. It was only a sunny smile And little it cost in the giving, But it scattered the night Like morning light, And made the day worth living.

Through life's dull warp a woof it wove In shining colors of light and love. And the angels smiled as they watched above, Yet little it cost in giving. --Selected. A TAX REDUCTION PROGRAM THAT HAS PROMISE. As will be noted in the news columns of the Bee-Nugget this week, the Lewis County Taxpayers' League held a meeting Saturday and adopted a program which may result in some constructive tax suggestions.

There is no more absorbing public question before our people today than taxes, and while there have been some good ideas advanced to reduce taxes, most of tho ideas have little or no value. But the program adopted Saturday may prove different. In brief, it is proposed to ask the commercial organizations, Granges, heavy taxpayer organizations and others to interest themselves in form- Ing a committee which will include meu who are heavy taxpayers and interested not only in tax reductions, but also in constuctive development, to study this tax question intelligently, and go before the tax-levying bodies of the county first, and seek a tax cut. In turn the same program of action will be taken before school districts and municipalities. Undoubtedly tax-levying bodies will be glad to listen to such a program, because we think they sense the desire for tax reductions, but they are puzzled to know where to cut.

We think committees composed of outstanding meu such as proposed, will be a real help to these tax-levying bodies, and it is possible to make some needed tax cuts and readjustments. A good many tax items are fixed by legislation, and cannot be touched by local bodies. There is little relief in lowering a salary of a deputy in some office. Of course, all such small reductions will help the aggregate, but after all, the tax cut must come from the large funds used for taxes if it is to be appreciably felt. There has been altogether too much talk and too little action about tax reductions.

This plan promises to really get somewhere, and we think the real efficiency of it lies in the personnel of the committees who study the taxes and meet with the tax-levying bodies. If this proposed plan meets with success in county, municipality and school circles, and a somewhat similar plan worked out in the various counties of the state, then it is a powerful leverage to be used when the legislature meets and is formed, to demand some state relief also. The Bee-Nugget has always been somewhat cynical about tax reductions, mainly because it has been difficult to interest the really heavy taxpayers In some program of action. The present times may be Just right to finally interest them. There is a lot of politics about taxes that should be eliminated.

The mouthings of agitators get us nowhere, but the intelligent study by men who can grasp the finance of government and taxes may prove at this time to be the plan that will bring the needed tax relief, and bring it about in a quiet, orderly and constructive manner, that will prove a tax benefit to all taxpayers. While figures are sometimes odious it la interesting to note that only 20.7 percent of the 1930 fatal accidents were between two automobiles. Col lisions with pedestrians accounted fo 45.9 percent more, non-collisions 1 percent, collision with fixed object 11 percent, and miscellaneous cause 9.4 percent. And- while we are on figures might say that 21 percent of th fatalities in automobile accidents oc curred on Sunday, 16 percent on Sat urday, 14 percent on Friday, and 1 percent on Monday, while the othe days of the week contributed 11 per cent. Now figure it out for yourself.

Yo need to be as careful, or more careful while you are driving straigh ahead as you do while turning, yoi need to watch even when there ar no automobiles in sight, and on Fri day, Saturday, Sunday and Monda you need to be doubly 1 you are to avoid an accident durin 1931, judging from the 1930 figures NEED MORE TEA PARTIES, SAYS THIS PERIODICAL. In its issue of May 9, the Saturda; Evening Post rendered a real publi service to the people of the TJnitec States in its der editiorial criticising the orgy spending by members of legislativ and tax disbursing bodies. It polnte out that spending other people' money is a favorite pastime of pol: ticians and that when they hav cleaned out everything and every body, they do not stop but simpl hunt for new ways to jack up ol taxes or to find new things to tax The people have stopped their wil spending, but the politicians are stil on a tax-disbursing spree. "Ways and methods of spendin; and financing that would meet the severest reprobation in the cas of an individual, are considered per fectly sound procedure by the poli ticians," said the Post. "Reckless and prodigal private ani public spending have exactly th same finish.

The public-improvement-vote-buy ing legislator is worse for the country than fire and pestilence." It likens a majority of our publi improvements to yachts, where thi upkeep is worse than the first cost Such improvements bring a swarm public servants who must be paid ou of new taxes. It cites England, Germany and Russia where paternalism and actua confiscation of property have caused tax loads and destruction of wealth which can and will wreck any gov eminent. conclusion, it says: "Our great est need right now is fewer cocktai parties and more tea parties--of the Boston kind." In these days of readjustments am none-too-prosperous times, there are several ways that we can help our the aggregate help Farmers who fine selves, and in quite a little, grain and other crops at low marie prices, should as far as possible turn those products into feed for stock there should be more hogs raised in this section; there should be more local made bread sold here, which would mean five or six more families in Chehalis; clothing, dry goods and other products should be bough more generally from local dealers if all printing used in Chehalia and Lewis county was bought from loca printing offices, there would be mor men employed in them; money given to stock salesmen and high-powere salespeople should be kept in horn banks and our own home financiers consulted as to investments. If al these things were more generally fol lowed, times would be a lot better around here. AUTOMOBILE DRIVERS URGED TO "WATCH OT7T FOR SUJSTOAY." Say the words "automobile accident" to yourself.

Of what do you think? Grade crossings or skidding? Turning to the right or left? Or do you think of a car going straight ahead? Strangely enough, during 1930 more than 85 percent of the fatal accidents occurred while the cars involved were going straight ahead. Only one percent of them were turning to the right, and slightly more than three percent to the left. About one percent were backing up, about one percent standing still, less than one percent slowing down, and only 6.5 percent skidding. So It seema as though the generally held opinion about grade crossings and skidding: are not very valid. Most accidents occur while driving In a straight line.

One of the good results apt to come out of our present depression is thai it will hasten the settlement and productivity of our logged-off and other waste lands of the present times. With less jobs available more people will begin to Interest themselves in small tracts. Holders of logged-off tracts cannot afford to keep hundreds of acres of non-productive land and pay taxes and upkeep, hence will lower the price and make purchase easier. These lowered prices will be an inducement to more people to buy and clear them, when they discover they can make a living and profits easier than working at unstable employment for others. Thus time will solve in large measure a problem that has always been a knotty one in this section--getting more people on our idle acres.

The Bee-Nugget Is pleased that supervised play is to be a feature of the summer in Chehalls. Time was, which most of us can remember, when kiddies did not have the need for supervised play as there is need today. Things that Interested children 20 years ago cease to interest these days, and methods of living are different. Safety, good health, good morals and elimination of idleness are to be desired. Supervised play does these, and at the same time teaches the youngsters many things of value to them In later life.

With good supervisors, such as Chehalis has been fortunate In having, It cannot help but be valuable to the Che- halls young folk. Melvin A. Traylor, aged 52, now heads the fifth largest banking organization in the country, having completed a merger of banking Interests In Chicago last week. Traylor never had on a pair of shoes until he was seven years old, and never saw a railroad or train until he left Ms backwoods home In Kentucky Then ha was 19 years of age, and went to Texas to find something to do. He is a past president of the American Bankers' Association.

And still some people say there are no more opportunities for young men of limited means and who lack of special training and education. Over in Yakima county this week the man who murdered the Mablon marshal, George- Warring, was found guilty by a jury and the verdict carried the death penalty. And this verdict was reached in spite of a plea that the murderer was the son of Insane persons, hence he too was insane. The jury that did its duty in this case should be photographed and the pictures hung In Jury rooms over the country, as one Jury that refused to be swayed by this "insanity" bunk so often used to shield criminals. The automobile association of this state has figured it out that if you do not drive your car in excess of 8000 miles the coming year, you will really be ahead of the gasoline tax and 3 auto license fee.

Therefore, watch your mileage, and when the dingus registers 7999 miles, better put the car up for the rest of the year. The president of a national music organization says that music is a cure for gangsters. The next time a gangster shoves a gun in your face, just start to sing to him "Nearer, My God to Thee." Either he will be cured or maybe you will be singing an appropriate hymn. Scientists claim that they have Just confirmed a theory that the universe is expanding, and that the nebulas is receding into space at the rate of 12,000 miles a second. That is the 1929 prosperity they see flying off into space.

Federal authorities arrested Al Capone of Chicago for evading the income tax for six years. Al wil keep foolin' around until he breaks some law and some justice may fine him $10 and costs. EARLY DAYS IN CHEHALIS 42 YEARS AGO. (Chehallfl Bee, June 14, 1889.) Tie wals of the brick block being built by the Chehalls Land Timber Company had been completed and the structure was being rushed to completion. This Is -the building which has since Its opening been occupied by the Coffman-Dobson bank.

N. Irish was erecting a number of buildings in Chehalls for rental purposes, so great was the demand Tor housings. The Bee- contained a story of the great fire that swept the city of Seattle on Thursday of thw previous week. Damage was estimated at insurance at Generous citizens of Chehalis had subscribed a large sum of money for the benefit of the sufferers from the Seattle fire whose homes had been burned. At a recent Chicago meeting of scientists, a speaker said that It takes an adult twice as long to get to sleep as a three-year-old child.

That is true--in a home where there is a three-year-old. Don't need to feel so very sorry for former King Alfonso. He is said to have a fortune of 58,000,000, so he can probably get along fairly well if he-doesn't own a crown. Modern science says it is now possible to foretell weather conditions 25 years ahead of time. That makes It safe for you to arrange your golf dates now for 1956.

Gandhi burned his foot on a hot cinder and has started wearing shoes Maybe if someone would place a lighted cigar on his chair it would help some, too. A scientist annonuces that mosquitoes can travel long distances. It isn't their distance of travel that worries most people, but their stopping place. A British writer says America has no picturesque public inns. Apparently he never saw some of our filling stations that look like the rajah's palace.

A California scientist is experimenting with the measurement of the speed of light. We bet he finds it gets here too early in the mornings. The price of silver Is said to be less than at any time in history. Well, there aren't as many silver weddings these days as a few years ago. A middle west man started out to walk backward around the world, and Dad Gummitt says this indicates that his future is behind him.

This is the time of year to bring out-that old saying that "an apple a day will keep the doctor not green ones. Judging from the crime reports from the southwest, the iourts should appoint a guardian for one Alexander Pantages. Speaking of walkathons, the prize go to the girl who can stage a walkathon around the home kitchen and laundry. Try This One on Your Saxophone One thing has never been satiefac- orily settled--if the Harrington went In search of the Chehalis Bee-Nugget, wearing a Montesano Vidette, and found that the Demlng rospector, "by using the Bremerton Searchlight, already had discovered he treasure and had the Monroe Monitor and the Goldendale Sentinel guarding it, would' he get out a Walla Walla Bulletin and send it by Camas Post with all Dayton Dispatch or would he hire the Lewis County Advocate to bring the caae before he Puyallup Valley Daily Times. Mrs.

Harrison B. Pearne returned aturday after a visit in Tacoma with rlends since last week Tuesday. Tuesday evening Mrs. Pressy McCormack of Tacoma entertained with a llnner honoring Mrs. Pearne; Thurs- lay Mrs.

Fred Tubb of Sumner enter- ained with a luncheon at Sumner; and Friday Mrs. Stewart Davis enter- alned with a beach party on the beach at her home at 20 YEAKS AGO. (Chehalia Bee-Nugget, June The city council had opened bids for the planking of a long list of streets in the southeast part of Chehalis; also for paving part of Division street with bitulithic. The growing of small fruit was beginning extensively locally. A shipment of 700 berry crates had been received, together with 50,000 containers.

The deposits of the Chehalis banks totaled $1,449,488 June 7, 1911. This was a. gain of $70,735 in 90 days Today's deposits aggregate close to four millions, with another two and half million more in the savings and loan associations. D. W.

Boone had sold his 280 acre farm on the Lacamaa to S. E. Petersen of Illinois for $20,000. Mr. Boone later moved to Chehalis to make his home and was afterwards city commissioner.

The Chehalis ball team in the Southwest Washington League won three games with Centralia over the previous week end, scores being 4-3 7-5, and 7-3. Bert Fichtner pitchec two games and Kane one. The vet eran Joe Wilkins was behind the bat Baseball was a great sport those days Newaukum Grange Plans Exhibits ls ewaukum, June the last egular meeting of Newaukum Grange No. 198, many topics of business were brought up and discussed. Arrangements are going forward for an excellent exhibit at the Southwest Washington Fair.

There wai also some planning made for a July 4 celebration and get-to-gether social evening. After a most interesting lecturer's program supper was served and dancing was enjoyed until a late hour. Mrs. 0. Hansen Entertains Evaline Club Evaline, June afternoon Mrs.

O. Hansen entertained the Cmmunity club. Present were Mesdames Taylor, Watson, Evans Renika, Verner, Cooper, Jensen and J'ennings; Misses Vera Jennings Alma Hansen, Velma Jensen, Dorothy Burk, Bulah Vener, Mrs. Conradi and the hostess, Mrs. O.

Hansen O. M. Vincent and daughter Elaine of Portland called Wednesday evening on Mrs. Ranbauch and family and Mr. and Mrs.

G. M. Jennings and daughter Vera. Mr. and Mrs.

David Carson of Spokane visited over the week end with Mr. Carson's sister, Mrs. Mary Johnson and family. Mr. and Mrs.

Frank O. Miller of Newaukum and Mr. and Mrs. Orvle Roundtree of Cougar Flat visited Hope Grange Saturday evening. Juvenile Grange was reorganized.

Stanley Rich of Dallas, Ore. spent Sunday with his parents, Mr. and Mrs Frank Rich. Mrs. Laura Sprague of Portland is visiting a few days with her brother Edward Hale and family.

Mrs. Bounds and children returned Monday after spending the week end with relatives in Portland. Miss Beatrice Nelson of Centralia come Thursday to spend the summer with her sister Mrs. Edward Hale. A children's day program was given at the Grange hall Sunday by the Evaline Union Sunday school.

Mrs. S. H. Evans called at the hospital In Oentralia Saturday to see Mrs. Bradford, who hos been confined there since her accident.

She is now out of danger and doing nicely. ST. URBAN NEWS. Winlock, 2, June 17--Mr. and Mrs.

Rex Smith and Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Rarey motored to Newport, Ore.

over the week end. Mrs. L. Legal has been on the sick list the paat week. Rudolph Willrich and family of hehalis were dinner guests at G.

L. Albrecht's Sunday. Real ECONOMY Whether It's Big Spots or Little Spots As long as you are practicing economy, why not have your clothes dry cleaned by us and make them last longer? We CaD For and Deliver Phone 96 972 Pacific Ave. rAMADA'S EVERGREEN PLAYGROUND HORSE RACES SET THE PACE for your HAPPIEST VACATION OLORFUL as an old Kentucky Derby race courses at three beautiful parks with smart club among clover-scented meadows mountains in the distance a parade of fashion, jockies in gay fluttering silks. Down the stretch your horse comes romping home.

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