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PAGE SIX THE COSHOCTON TRIBUNE TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 9, 1930. DANGER THE COSHOCTON TRIBUNE AND TIMES-AGE AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER Published each eTening and Sunday rooming by The Tribune Company. Entered as second clas matter at tbe postofllca at Coshocton, Ohio. PEOPLE'S FORUM MBS Member Audit Bureau of Circulations, Select List of Ohio Dally Papers. Associated Ohio Dallies.

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TAX IS ADDED TO PRICE Editor The Tnbune: Again our friend "A Mere Wo man, is in error as to my RATES OF BCBIPTION By Mall Nine Weeks. ...11.00 One Week .15 Six Months tlbO Four Weeks 0 One Year A0 In Cltj. by Carrier Per Year $700 Per Week I .15 desires and purposes on the jy tax question. I want everybody to be entirely free from all sorts and a a 11'fDl' Dl'DADT 7O.OFfcMVre till- f. 1 1,1 inr Cnsiffned Mien to The Forum cannot be published, altho upot? rquft the writer will be omitted.

The editor reserve he right to reject all communications tn excess of 600 woras. Manuscript will not be returned methods of taxation that take private property for public use, far mers and all land users included. would levy no tax whatever upon NEW YORK, Dec. 9. That sweep of Central Park West from 92d PLANNING AHEAD FOR ROADS a farmer's house, barn, fences, crops, orchard or anything upon his land that is the result of human effort or labor.

The farmer seems ACCORDING to the Sixth International Road Con fct-enn rorPTitlv hpld in Washington. D. al ating sncefs. The too, provided a sensation in hum-drum lives, especially that one headed: "Be ImportantGet Big Mail." The drawing accompanying It showed a postman, bowed double with the weight of a ponderous sack, ringing the door bell. to be unconscious of the fact that countries face the problem of providing secondary and local roads suited to the needs of the farmer and modem taxes upon mortgages, for Instance raise the rate of Interest upon farm loans, and to tax gasoline tends to motor traffic.

To do this, the Conference points out max it is necessary to create highway programs years in ad-vonog ViinHa must be carefully budgeted. Adjustments increase the cost of living to the to meet changing conditions or improved methods may be street to Columbus Circle has suddenly acquired a striking new architectural opulence. It bristles with dizzy towers a street that came back. Always geographically superb, it for a time somehow became shabby. Fine old apartment houses with genuine aristocratic pretensions went to seed and became the sort featuring those sullen West Indian hallboys and lacquered ladies whose companionship consisted solely of chows, colored maids and gentlemen who carried their own keys.

Overlooking the park, the thoro-fare was rightfully, next to River farmer who uses gasoline and upon all things the farmer buys that gasoline is used in making or trans made as the projects develop. Tn this country few states have given sufficient porting, for transportation is a step attention to their farm-to-market or rural road problems within thA last fpw vpars. however, the aericultural de in production and his urge to tax gasoline is in line with his attitude on taxing stocks, bonds, mortgages I have never quite forgiven the perpetrators of that flim-flam captioned: "Learn Ventriloquism at Home land Fool Your Friends." (Lock Box 86, Dept. Altoona, Pa.) I sent off 50 cents in stamps for the entire course. For five days after it came I went about uttering queer tight lipped noises, trying to make a voice In a closet say: "Let me out!" As an inglorious climax I was taken to the family doctor for a tonsil yanking.

But I kept my secret. pression has brot vividly to the front the fact that farm progress in the future will depend largely on good roads. Secretary of Agriculture Hyde has pointed out or other evidences of ownership or debt, it Just lays the lash upon his own back. side Drive, one of the most fashion that living standards are higher where roaas are gooa, than elsewhere. In short, fast and efficient, year-round A man got very, hot under the collar because I advocated the re transportation is as vital to the farm as to industry.

Rv tho sf of inpxnpriRive. waternroof surfaces. moval of all taxes levied bv New able on the West Side, But New York streets unless watched go into devastating decay. Like a spotted apple In the barrel, one shadv York City upon Macy's store and is nossible to build serviceable, year-round roads at lo the stock of goods therein. With cost.

As civilization advances, communication of al apartment house will spoil an entire street. great heat he said: "You want to make the Macy's store richer than kinds becomes of increasing value. Good roads produc The Family Fireside, too, recalls the home talent play It printed for free use of subscribers. It was called "Roanoke" and we presented It In the Gallia Academy hall. The benefits social and economic-that cannot be ade Central Park West began to take 'quatelv expressed in terms of money.

They are the ever." So I asked him if he thot the Macy's store paid the tax levied upon their building and stock of on a patina of pomp 20 years ago when the millionaire backers of the ground work on which to build a greater and more pros perous nation. goods. He said, "of course thev do, Ill-fated New later the Century performance was Interrupted at intervals by what seemed to be volleys of sudden hisses. Later we learned the hissing was merely members of and now being razed theatre chose "Well," I said, "that puts you among the street for its site. This vs the morons for a bov of sixteen LOSING A SENSE followed by other outbursts of build who has any understanding of eco the audience spitting against the red hot cannon ball stove In the TT sometimes seems as if mankind were losing the sense ing splendor.

nomic law at all, knows these taxes are added to the price of the goods middle of the room. The Ethical Culture school lodired 1 of wonder. Such extraordinary events and appar and Macy's customers nay them all In reviewing "Roanoke." the local ently incredible achievements have been piling up before the eyes of the world during the past few years that and no doubt with many additions. there. As did the First and Second churches of Christ Science and private schools.

Real Estate boom paper said of my performance: "He If we tax cigars one cent each, the men are tempted to think that anything may happen and acted his part naturally." I was dealer would add at least two cents ed and the street was widened. Then all at once there was a pronounced cast as the simple boy. to the selling price, to cover inter that everything is to be taken for granted. "When the seemingly impossible becomes the dem-onstrated actual, most of us take it as a matter of course est on extra capital and trouble." sag. Central Park West seemed on the skids.

The value of land is the only val Predictions which a few years agd provoked general and Utter stagnation seized It for sev ue that increases with the increase SMILES of social presence or service. Where en years. About a year ago it be scornful incredulity have materialized before our interested but hardly wondering eyes. Thus does the miracu cluded Crank Rlcketts, Dr. Georgs land value is the lowest, labor val gan to revive.

Magnificent anart- FROM THE TRIBUNE FILES lous pass into -the commonplace. Modern invention and m. Boone, Frank Ketzier and Jesse Haller. Exclted Tourist Information out here? Tired Attendant It has. the wonderful applications of science give fresh point to ues are the highest.

Go into the wilderness where there is neither social presence nor service and ments topped by pent houses shot up magically. The character of the residents completely changed. People of Importance moved in and the the saying of Whitman: "Every cubic inch of space is a 20 Years Ago Today their labor products will be dear, but were slightly Injured and shaken up when the Ford coupe In which they were riding was wrecked near the Junction of Main and Chestnut sts. miracle. If the world has come to take these marvels as mere Mrs.

Elizabeth Gephart, former resident of Fresno, died at her home in Strasburg- from complication of diseases. the cheapest labor products are to street is swanky again. DECEMBER 9, 1920 Owen Popham, for be found on the highest priced land Two of the finest residential ly "customed events" and to cease to feel astonished at apartments in town have recent.lv The selling price of goods is much i them, it has at least become newly conscious how small lower iwacy great store on been finished in the area of the 90's. merly head engineer at the Comp-ton-Price piano factory, was appointed chief engineer at the citv the world has grown. With such speed thru the air as "My poor woman," said the minister, meeting one of his congregation dressed In mourning.

"I had not heard you had again suffered bereavement?" "Well, I haven't, but my husband annoyed me so this morning that I decided to get back at him by again paying my respects to my first Mrs. Otto A. Olinger, Cambridge was rushed to the city hospital, where she was to undergo a major operation. Broadway, New York, than in any Mrs. Adam Royer of "outh Seventh was suffering from an abscess on her tongue.

man has come to command, and with instant commnni. The Dakota, considered by many the best built apartment house in country store In any village in Ohio water works pumping station to fill the metropolis, still stands at a The nature and genesis of land cation made feasible between the ends of the earth, nothing is remote, everything is near at hand. What occurs in one quarter of the globe immediately affects the vacancy created by the dismissal of George Scherrer. value Is the opposite from that of West 72d street corner about the last of the old guard. labor values.

Please note that la Warner M. Pomerene, Locust purchased from Mr. and Mrs. George W. Richie the Richie apartments on Mulberry st.

The residence ot C. M. Hay on Elm st. was threatened by a fire. Raymond, small son of Mr.

and Mrs. Hay, while playing with fire, allowed a cloth to become ignited. Ward Rinner and Reed Marshall bor value is the value of something produced. Land value is the value Overheard: "She has gone to Hoi- ine mnaDiianis 01 au tne rest of it. The thing truly to wonder at is that some men should still be oblivious of this mighty change and think it pos- "Mary, remember that you are lywood to play a character part in of an opportunity to produce some only a servant; I don't want you ony in Hawaii? a movie a virgin." thing.

Land is not wealth, but the eiuie ior one nation to live unto itseli alone. 4. What Is the capital of Portu to have so much company. Why, you have more callers In a day Clarence Brown, who had been seriously ill at his home on Elm was reported to be slightly source or wealth. A well is the gal? And on Park avenue this morn.

source of water, but a well is not Brent, the four-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Coverdale of Adams Mills, was seriously ill at the home from diphtheria. than I have in, a week." SAMENESS lng a platinum blonde bundled un water. "Well, ma'am, perhaps if you'd try 5.

What is gelatine made of? 6. Among what ancient Deonle WHERE lies the way of escape from standardized life ii i It will no doubt be some time be to be a little more agreeable you'd in chinchilla stepped from a block long limousine, titivated her face before a vanity mirror, lit a cigar was a "talent" a monetary unit? have as many friends as I have fore we can educate our good peo Miss Ruth Gosser was confined to her home on South Second with a severe cold. 7. From what country did gold ette and waited. Presently a mess pie to a clear understanding of these facts, but stiU these state fish originally come? Movie Director We want an au email town mio tne romantic realm of individual adventure? Does it lead toward the vast overcrowded city or back toward solitude? Or does it, perchance, lead in a circuitous way back again into the very streets of the community whence many have gone forth enger came up and handed her a 8.

In what town was John Brown dience for the opera scene. ments are true nevertheless. Igno I 10 Ago Today the abolitionist, hanged? Casting Director Any particular ranee has great tenacity. We have note which she tore up and threw away before reading. I'm still a- The residence of Miss Mary Moore on Vine st.

was slightly damaged by a blaze which was thot to have started from an open fire. The English Royal Society for' the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has raised $20,000 to build a monument to horses killed in the war. 9. Within what denominational types? been trying to put over Christianity in search ot the grail of individuality? The first hermit, twltter. Movie Director No, Just anybody church dqes the Brotherhood of St.

for 2000 years, up-to-date our sue Who can cough. Anarew exist? DECEMBER 9, 1910 Coshocton chicken fanciers carried away the lion's share of prizes awarded at the Gnadenhutten chicken show. Local winners in They had run out of every dish cess has not been marked. The late world war bears ample testimony to 10. What Is an alloy of Conner Bide Dudley ordered so he ate what "I'll give you $2 for this anec and tin called? that.

dote about President Hoover," said He who invests as you term it) they brot him. But at the cashier desk he exclaimed: "It's funny but I've run out of money." the editor. ma money in iana produces no "What's the matter with you?" wealth. He is in the same class as demanded the writer. "You cave In a second hand book-shoo the a man who bets on a horse race me $4 for that anecdote when it uu possessed Dy tne craving for earthly friendship, made the meadow, stream and grove his friends.

He lived utter simplicity and under no compulsion to conform to herd habits. There was no tyrannous neighborhood gossip about his penury or oddity. Monasticism, with all its self-denials and its promises of satisfactions, is not the bravest sort of adventuring. At the other extreme from its abnegations is life in the cosmopolitan city where narrow intellectual horizons, petty standards and small prejudices do not pen one in. At bottom the lure of the city is not the temptation of its base things but the greater opporunities for adventure in its higher things.

While the small town is more traditions, it can be adven- he is betting that his choice of land was President Wilson." site will go up, the race track gam other day I came upon a yellowing copy of the Family Fireside, that weekly literary wallop of the Gay Nineties. Its fiction dealt almost solely with dukes, Lady de Veres Doremifa Did Fussleigh take his misfortune like a man? bier bets his choice of horse will come in first and neither of them produces any wealth or renders any "HIS ART ALONE ENDURES" Story of the Author of Famous Sun Editorial, "Is there a Santa Glaus," is retold and how it came to be written. The world never knew the name of the editorial writer until after his death. Francis Pharcellus Church was the writer and he did not know when he handed his copy to his chief that his brief article would bring him enduring Fame. From The Publishers' Auxiliary Solasldo precisely.

He blamed it and curse-you vlllians with lnsinu- service. Land is not wealth and if an on his wife. he reaps a reward, he does so at the cost of the producers of wealth for it simply means that wealth producers must pay a hlght tribute i uvic mi mure individualism tfff0? of thot and action in communities of this Author Question for permission to use the gift of na ture in which there is no production cost. When a man- invests his money in shoes, wealth is produced yC man was even 10 years ago. There is little difference today between "Middletown 'and New York and no more difference between the "types" on Main Street and the "types" on Broadway.

AND VOCABULARIES I rimnteft aPPreciah.hw the spoken word has SimDllned ntprcnuron r.f service has been rendered, the world is richer. No man is entitled to wealth who has produced no wealth. Land speculators do not produce, wealth, therefore' are not morally entitled to any wealth. into a fnrpio-n Jo 7 1 unui ne wanders LT Fevails. Not Only taxes upon can be added into the cost of living.

No tax on rent can be added into the selling price of land. This truth of 14 I "I ij jo 1 lb 'TfH rli ii i.U tsr irft rrts z'pf i i ii mm ipii.il. Ijfttuk IttUMH ii i i n.i. rf 1 11 economics is admitted by all econ omists and on one who does not desoair of 10 "erstand has been the th re sine anAthe immirant thruout rEt gi? since.ma first learned to exchange ideas and thot by word of mouth. With the exception of a 1 uperhaps a stiI1 tribe of iorfMhlVi! Wtrld if nT communLation thru woras.

if they cannot write, the most illiterate and nr. civilized can at least talk and be understood Altho the whole world can be said to be in mutual conversation, yet it can also be said that hardlv two inHi- understand this economic principle can do anvthine but flounder around when trying to discuss tax ation. It is a pity the "Mere Woman" cannot stick to principles in this discussion and not indulge in matters and statements of a purely personal nature. She is as far from the truth in her remarks about me personally as she is in her statements about taxation. I have not FRANCIS PHARCELLUS CHURCH is dead these score of years and had it not been for an article of some -four or five hundred words which he dashed off hastily at his desk in a New York newspaper office it is probable that his name would have been forgotten for as many years.

You will look in vain for mention of him in most encyclopedias of biography. If you happen to get the right one, you will find seven lines devoted to him but these as a part of the sketch of his father, Pharcellus Church, a distinguished New York clergyman of the last century. In those seven lines you will learn that he was born in Rochester, N. February 22, 1839, was graduated from Columbia college with honors In 1859, studied law, but gave it up because he discovered that he was more Interested in writing than In legal matters, became one of the editors and publishers of the Army and Navy Journal and later, with his brother, William Conant Church, founded and edited the Galaxy Magazine. Old-timers in newspaper work (perhaps some of the Silurians, whose meeting is chronicled in this issue of The Auxiliary) may remember him as one of the bright young men with whom Charles A.

Dana surrounded himself on the New York Sun to give to American journal-Ism a new and brilliant tradition and recall that he was once an editorial writer on the Sun. But, there were several brilliant writers on the old Sun and only a happy accident gave Church his chance for enduring fame. One September day In 1897 a queer letter came to the editorial desk of that newspaper. It was from a little girl, who was greatly troubled because her playmates had tried to shake her childish faith In Santa Claus and who wanted the question of whether or not there was such a person settled once and for all. The letter was handed to Church for a reply and he, according to the testimony of a contemporary, "bristled and pooh- poohed but he took the letter and turned with an air of resignation to his desk." A few minutes later he handed to his chief a few pages of handwritten copy and promptly forgot the incident.

What he had written was printed unostentatiously In the editorial columns of the Sun on September 21, 1897. It was his reply to little Virginia as to whether or not there was a Santa Claus. The next year. Just before Christmas, ths Sun received a request from a reader that the editorial be Reprinted. The same thing happened the next year and the next and the next.

Thus was a newspaper classic born. Church died April 11, 1906, and the following day the Sun lifted for a moment the anonymity which veiled its editorial writers to tell its readers that the reply to Virginia O'Hanlon's letter, which they had grown to love, was from his pen. For his editorial was already famous and every year since that time, sometime before Christmas, the New York Sun has reprinted what Francis Church wrote away back in 1897. More than that, it has been reprinted in countless numbers of other newspapers either upon the initiative of the editor, to forestall such requests, or after the request has been made. The annual appearance of the request has become a tradition in many newspaper offices.

The Auxiliary is one of the newspapers which expects such a request every year either that we reprint it or that we send a copy to some editor who wishes to reprint it. Already this year two such requests have come to The Auxiliary desk, one from the editor of a printing craft magazine In Minnesota and another from the editor of a community newspaper in Ohio. (And by a queer coincidence, as these lines were being written, the afternoon mail brot a copy of The an international magazine, which is carrying to all corners of the globe a reprint of Church's famous editorial as the leading article in its December Issue; and immediately thereafter the editor of The Auxiliary received a telephone call from the editor of an agri-cultural magazine, requesting a copy of tha editorial for use in its next Issue!) It can be said without fear of contradiction that no other newspaper article has been reprinted so many times and In so many 88 has ncis Church's editorial Is There a Santa Claus?" It is undoubtedly the supreme newspaper classic. Some supercilious critics are accustomed to dismiss all newspaper writing with the contemptuous characterization of "journalese." Newspaper writing needs no defense against such charac-terlzat ons, and no apologies for Its technique when it can produce such things as "Is There a Santa Claus?" Self-created arbiters of lit-wary style may confer and solemnly agree that a certain piece of writing will become a "classic" but. often as not, their guess 5 Piece of Titln' wheth It appears in a newspaper, a magazine or a book has a chance to become a classic only so far VaUest PeopIe' Francis Pharcellus -Church's editorial has passed that test.

His name is all but forgot, ten. His art alone end- 30 lle atisp spent my Jife in the top of a sky 1 Where is the 31 Tp rot Hai 32 Stepiied. louvre? scraper. My experience has reached from the farm to the center of our greatest I am familiar with Krr nzy. 0 Hunillo.

2 Herb. 3 Corded cloth. 4 Subsist. 5 Heavenly body. Mountain.

7 Northeast. Dwelling. Where is John Hopkins I'nlver- life in all parts of this country from the Arctic Circle to the everelades 10 SImm bottom. 1 1 To exist. 13 On ton 8.1 To hip.

.11 Half an cm. 83 To whII. 87. Metal. 38 Hungc.

VERTICAL 1 Courtyard. of Florida and from Sidney Mines to Nanaimo. The people I associate ouais nave the same number of words at their command for speech or writing and that man's stock of words extendsfrom a few hundreds for some to high in the thousands for others. Shakespeare is reputed to have had a vocabulary of 30,000 words. Several of the Vic-tonan poets used vocabularies approximating in size that of Shakespeare.

The new. world knowledge scienrV in yentions and discovery has given several moV writ vocabulanes exceeding 40,000 words. Hut in marked contrast to these large vocabularies is that of the averaee man and woman. This average vocabularly has bJfn SKf 7 estlInate4(i from 500 t0 1000 word The more literate use less than this minimum for the averse and men and women who boast of a fair education nroLrSv arerdintimately acquainted with few ThaTOO The tragedy of words lies not in the distressingly limited vocabulary of the average individual but in the opportunities for large vocabularies, offered but ignored Tho striving to write to the average man, the newspaper uses words unknown to this average reader, thus offering to that reader a daily opportunity to enlarge his or her stock of words Few are willing to grasp this opportunity. The dictionary, encyclopedia and thesaurus have now been brot within the financial reach of all There will always be some with more words than others, just as there will always be some with more moneyand more ideas.

with are well read, well informed 14 To halt. 15 Seed bag. 16 Falsehood. 17 Hammer. clear thinking folks, who note dif ferences and weigh facts.

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