Bellefonte, Pa., May 27, 1927.
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“HOW EXCESSIVE TAXES
BLIGHT A NATION’S LIFE.
The: blighting effects. of excessive
‘taxation, leading to a nation’s econom-
‘4¢ destruction, are described in the
current issue of the American Bank-
ers Association Journal by Garrard B.
Winston, Under-secretary of the Treas-
.ury. Citing. possible effects on the
Ford Motor Car Company, he declares
that “the value is so large and its
ownership so centered it is conceiv-
.able that collection of inheritance
taxes may check, if not destroy, that
unit of policy which has created and
expanded that industry and thus pre-
vent its future prosperity. Of what
avail, then, is it to any government if
it collects one hundred million dol-
lars once in estate taxes and destroys
a source of income upon which it can
rely for revenue year after year?
“Success of the Ford Company does
mot mean simply that Mr. Ford and
his son have grown wealthy. It means
employment of tens of thousands of
men and women; that mines, forests,
railroads and vessels are brought into
use; that the public has received an
efficient and inexpensive means of
transportation; that the farm is in
touch with the city, and the worker
with his office.” Mr. Winston says in
part:
Wezlth Flees Oppression
“Upon first impression ‘it: ‘might ap-
pear that. a nation could take all of
‘the earnings of its citizens or all of’
their property. The Soviet govern-
ment proposed to appropriate all in-
‘strumentalities of trade and com-
merce. Yet, when the state reached
out to grasp this wealth, it disappear-
ed and left nothing but a few tangible
.objects, such as gold and jewels,
, which were easily transported to oth-
or countries. Wealth in Russia ceased
to exist.
“Jf income tax rates are placed so
+bigh that capital in productive busi-
- ness no longer gives a net return com-
.-mensurate with the risk, capital will
go out of productive business, lie idle,
.-go- abroad, go into tax-exempt securi-
. ties, or find other ways of avoiding
the tax. If income tax rates are so
excessive that a man of ability finds
he must work more than three days
a week for the government; he will be-
come discouraged and decide that the
result is not worth the effort. Less
income will be produced and less will
be realized from the tax.
“Recently a letter came to the
Treasury from a small farmer. He
owned a few acres which in 1913 were
assessed at $900 and on which a tax
of $13 was levied. In 1924 the as-
sessed value increased to $3,200 and
. the .tax to $123, but the farm failed
to .produce any more. . Taxes exceed-
ed the rental value ‘of the‘ land‘ and
amore’ than the net. earnings : of ‘the
property were taken by the state. The
farm was abandoned and now
«duces no tax.
not started, because after deducting
taxes the risk exceeds the value of
the expected return. Men have drop-
ped business, spent their winters in
Florida and their summers abroad,
because what they are permitted to
retain under present tax rates is not
worth the labor they must give to
acquire it. They prefer golf to the
further development of the country.
Unscientific Taxes Destroy a Nation
“Unscientific methods of taxation
may actually destroy the very earn-
ings or property which it should be
the principal interest of a govern-
ment to foster. When it reaches the
limits of what is known as its taxa-
ble capacity, a nation has begun to
die. If taxes are raised too high, a
country will slowly but surely de-
stroy itself. It will use for ‘daily con-
sumption the seed corn on’ which. its
future life depends, and the spirit of
initiative and: adventure in its peo-
ple will finally disappear. One or
. more of three things happen: The
quantity of consumption is cut down,
which means a lowering of the stand-
ard of living; or capital accumulations
for extensions, improvements . and
new undertakings must diminish, re-
.gulting in a slowing up of progress
and lessening eventually of taxable
revenue; or, thirdly, a slackening of
effort on the part of the citizen will
take place when too large a part of his
earnings are taken in taxes.
“The effort in taxation should be
to find the tax which will continue
to raise money over a period of years.
Invariably, with an excessive tax, its
yield has fallen off year by year,
while each rate reduction is reflected
in an iecrease of taxable income. If
. the Treasury is to be assured a con-
tinuance of revenue, our citizens
must prosper. If they are to prosper,
the appropriation by the state of thefr
earnings and property must be based
upon economically sound principles.”
Wives Welcome Polygamy
The first wife usually is the head
wife in the Afriean jungle and her
rule is unquestioned except on those
rare occasions when a man actually
feels some glimmer of affection for
one of his wives, and promotes her to
head of the harem.
Polygamy not only is accepted by
the women, it is favored by them, For
one thing, each new wife proportion-
ately reduces the burden of the others.
Doctor Fowzer attended a palaver at
which an only wife, through her breth-
.er, petitioned the chief to compel. her
»<husband to take on more. - Shessald
“'the job was too much for one woman,
Pro- | ceout’s hat without any ill effects.—
Work on Odd Railroad
Cured His Dyspepsia
Sylvester Marsh, son of ‘ a New
Hampshire farmer, was made the butt
of many gibes. when he proposed the
Idea of building a railroad to the sum-
mit of Mount Washington, but he ac-
complished the project and it has been
called the most astonishing engineer-
ing feat that marked the early days
of the Boston’ & Maine system.
The inventor was called “Crazy
Marsh,” and his proposed feat was
designated “a railroad to the moon,”
a writer in the Boston Post recalls.
But despite the public ridicule and op-
position he built the first railway of
its kind in the world. The formal
opening of the road to a point known
as “Jacob’s Ladder” took place August
14, 1858, and on July 3, 1869, the road
was completed to the summit, with
trains running.
Marsh once testified before a senate
committee that he built the road to
cure a rase of dyspepsia. He had re-
tired, and after a few years of idle-
ness dyspepsia forced him to do
something to save his health. He got
the unique railroad idea and worked
't out. It cured his illness.
Old Tower Once Home
of Distinguished Men
At Islington is the Canonbury tower.
It has the double attraction of a great
age and of association of famous and
well-loved people. Francis Bacon
lived here for nine years in the early
part of the Seventeenth century, when
it was called “Canonbury house.” One
of the upper roots has his name and
a Latin inscription over the doors.
Charles Lamb, who lived near by at
84 Duncan terrace, and Washington
Irving, before he went for his three
years’ visit to Spain, rambled over the
old tower.
The most interesting thing about
this old tower is that Oliver Goldsmith
wrote “The Vicar of Wakefield” here
when he had taken refuge from his
creditors in the lodgings of his friend,
Newberry, the bookseller, but any
small boy who inspects the tower will
decide in favor of the Compton room,
where he will ignore the lovely panel-
ing to inspect the very bullet, embed-
ded in the wall, that was aimed at
Sir Walter Raleigh.
All Food to Ostrich
A zoo ostrich nearly lost its life in
an effort to swallow five yards of stout
rope. When. the keeper made the dis-
covery more than half the rope, which
had been inadvertently left in the cage
by a painter, had disappeared down
the bird's throat. The keeper, seeing
that the bird was in difficulties, decid-
ed to relieve it of its five-yard meal.
Owing, however, to the efforts of the
ostrich to kick him away, the task was
difficult. By long and steady pulling,
“hawever, the keeper eventually recov-
ered the! rope. 'Ostriches: are not at
all particular what they devour. One
at the zoo recently swallowed a boy
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London Tit-Bits.
“Often there come to notice cases | =
where a particular improvement is
- not made, or a particular business is
Keys to Ancient Cities
WNhen tlie mayor of a city today
presents a “key to the city” to a dis-
tinguished visitor, it means nothing
more than an expression of good will,
but there was a time when it meant
actual access to a city. That was in
the days when European cities were
surrounded by walls. When such a
city was surrendered the keys of the
gates were turned over to the con-
querors. Gates usually were closed at
nightfall and if a distinguished visi-
tor wanted to go and come as he
pleased he was entrusted with the
key. It is upon this ancient custom
that the modern ceremony is based.—
Pathfinder Magazine.
Famous Eastern City
Alppos was one of the cities of the
vecapolis in Palestine, its precise lo-
cation being uncertain. In the Tal-
mud it occurs under the name of
.Susita, and the Greek name Hippos
is probably simply a translation. It
was the rival of Tiberias, and the two
towns stood opposite each other on
the sea of Galilee.
Hippos is spoken of as an example
of a heathen city in the midst of the
land of Israel, but it seems to have
been an important place, for the whole
region around it was called after it,
Hippene.
Cashmere Shawls Best
The most beautiful of the Indian
or cashmere shawls come from the
looms and handicraft of Cashmere
(Kashmir), a little country of Asia
situated just north of the Punjab,
among the Himalaya mountains.
Among the heights of this range are
found the sheep and goats which pro-
duce the fine wool used in the manu-
facture of these shawls. Shawl manu-
facturing is the most important in-
dustry of the Punjab, and the best
shawls are made at Univitzur, but
none can compare with those of Cash-
mere.
Perhaps He Was
Dora was interviewing the man ot
aer heart in the privacy of the draw-
ing room.
On the previous evening her fiance
had asked permission to marry her.
The father agreed immediately, but
his' wife was not so cordial and did
not approve.
“I'm afraid mother is going to be &
oit awkward, Dick, dear,” began Dora.
“She thinks that because you are an
actor you're effeminate.”
“Well,” he confessed,
with her, I suppose I am.”
“compared
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19—End pieces
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21—God of love
23—Prefix meaning “hefore”
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27—Sabers
29—Prefix meaning three
30—Part of “to be”
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34—10 throw off
86—Belonging to her
37—To make a mistake
89—To halt
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42—Wields
44—Man'’s title
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46-—King's homes
49—Sailors
52— Pastime
48—Behold!
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20—Stops
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THE SKUNK TO CLEAR
BRAZIL OF SNAKES.
The skunk is that little white and
black creature so well known in
America that no description seems
necessary.
cunning little animal in terms of fi
coat, thief, of smell, a few see him as
a great benefactor, not only as a
ravenous eater of destructive mice
and insects, but of the dreaded rattle-
snake.
It is frequently asked how it hap-
pens that rattlesnakes multiply no
more rapidly and what are their nat-
ural enemies. The skunk is the an-
swer. Science knows no other animal
immune from rattlesnake poison.
Hence, anyone who dreads snakes
should hesitate to kill a skunk. As
skunks should not be killed for fur,
and only rarely for their raids upon
hen nests and tiny chicks, the only
objection left would be the cdor emit-
ted when molested. This may be
avoided by not disturbing the skunk
while it slowly waddles through field
and orchard searching for food.
Brazil has a pest of poisonous
snakes. There the snake is a nation-
al problem. Each year more than
twenty thousand persons are bitten
and five thousand die annually of
snake bites. While a serum has been
discovered to save the people bitten,
Brazil has no animal which preys up-
on the snakes multiplying rapidly in
the cultivated areas where man has
overturned the balance of nature. No
dnubt in the jungles there are snake-
eating animals, but they do not fol-
low into the cleared regions where the
poisonous snakes go to feed upon
mice and other creatures upon which
snakes thrive. Thus it happens that
in Brazil snakes menace the land
most desired by man.
The Brazilian scientists have turn-
ed to America for relief. They have
chosen that little smell maker, the
skunk, to help them rid their coun-
try of their dangerous snakes and to
keep down the creatures upon which
the snakes thrive.
For years Brazilian scientists ex-
perimented with various animals to
find an enemy of the venomous snakes
so abundant there. Two birds, the
emu and the jaburu, eat snakes as
does the wild pig. A pet skunk at a
Brazilian snake farm pointed the way.
It wandered about at will, frequent-
ly receiving snake bites, but whenever
it was hungry, it simply picked out
a choice rattler, bit off its head, and
ate it. That caused the Brazilians to
turn to the skunk for relief.
The knowledge of the use of the
skunk shouid cause one to hesitate
when this provoking little creature
makes a raid on a hen nest or turns
a pet dog into a temporary odorifer-
ous abomination. The offending
skunk may have been hunting for a
fat rattlesnake in the hen roost, or
clearing the mice out of the garden
when it was molested by that favor-
ite dog.
Use of Vacuum Cleaner Soothes Army
Mule and Gives Him Better Coat.
_The army mule is having his in-
nings. Information from the War
Department is to the effect that
mules and horses in the stables of
various army depots throughout the
United States are now being cleaned
by vacuum cleaners instead of curry-
combs, says the Pennsylvania Public
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The procedure is still called “ex-
perimental” but both soldiers and
animals are said to be pleased with
the invasion of modern house-clean-
ing methods, even though there is
less “kick” in the process. The vac-
cuum cleaner is said to be especially
soothing to mules, a phase that makes
i extremely popular with the sol-
iers.
The Slaughter of the Seals.
The killing of 60,000 seals, an-
nounced recently, led a correspondent
of The Royal Gazette and Colonist
Daily, of Hamilton, Bermuda, to call
attention to a letter from Dr. Gordon
Sables, of the Royal Navy. We deem
it well worth reading.
“Take this one day’s sealing as an
example:—The ice was strewn thick-
ly with baby seals, and not even a
lamb itself is more lovely or innocent
looking than one of these. ...Barring
the wee black nose and the jet black
tender loving eyes, there is hardly
another feature distinguishable, so
well has Nature wrapped them up
against the cold. They never attempt
to move off....... One blow from the
sharp end of the club and the skin-
ning takes place immediately.
Oftentimes the baby is only partially
stunned, and when flayed may be seen
to roll in agony on the snow.
“On this particular day I frequent-
ly saw the gunner trample on a baby
seal to bring up the poor mother who
heard its cry. She was then ruthless-
ly killed. Could anything be more
brutal or less humane?”
Real Estate Transfers.
Mary E. Loveland, et bar, to Rus-
sell D. Confer, tract in Milesburg;
$3,700.
Mary M. Dunaway, et bar, to Jo-
Joh T. Law, tract in State College;
Joseph T. Law to Mary M. Duna-
way, et bar, tract in State College; $1.
Anne T. H. Henszey, et bar, to Del-
ta Sigma Chi Fraternity, tract in
State College; $2,450.
Harry C. Bailey, et ux, to Theodore
D. Boal, tract in Harris Twp.; $1.
J. C. Karstetter, et ux, to Herbert
S. Smull, tract in Miles Twp.; $198.
William R. Campbell to O. E. Miles,
tract in Milesburg; $450.
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the news fit to read, take the Watch-
man. It has no comparison in news
value.
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