INK SLINGS.
—Vote for “Dep” Dunlap, the clean,
upstanding young ex-soldier for
Sheriff of Centre county.
—Frank Boal would make a good
‘Register for Centre county. Why not
elect him?
. —Every time we refer to the vote
«cast at the primaries it convinces us
the more that there was a Fleming—
Wilkinson—Holtzworth combination.
—God, how proud broad minded
people should be if Centre county
would overwhelmingly rebuke aspir-
ants for office who personally or
through their workers, attempt to
«drag religion into politics.
—Dr. Parrish guarantees that he
will see to it that if he is elected a Com-
missioner that the taxpayers of the
county will get one hundred cents in
service for every dollar - of public
money that is spent. The doctor has
been in business long enough to know
just exactly what that means and we
know that he has been successful
enough in managing his own business
to make a very profitable manager for
‘that of the county.
—If Mr. Wilkinson really is the
only man in Centre county who is
capable of being Prothonotary we're
in a helluva fix. He can’t live for-
ever—and what are we going to do
when the Grim Reaper cuts the ver-
satile Roy down. Old Charon is going
to pilot him over the Styx, some day,
just as sure as the Yank’s won the
world’s series. What are we going
to do then? Don’t let us wait
for the awful day. Let us start train-
ing a substitute. Let us put Claude
Herr in the office and see how near he
-can come to taking this super—Pro-
thonotary’s place.
* —The person who signs himself
‘manager of “Richelieu Theatre Co.” is
among others who are tryng to make
us believe they are putting Bellefonte
on the map. We are not supposed to
know, but everybody but this person
does, that it was only because Belle-
fonte stood out big on the map that
they found their way here. We have
always been told that fish is good
‘brain food, but we don’t think there
are enough suckers in this vicinity to
stimulate Mr. Richelieu’s gray matter
to the point of understanding that
“knocking” on “Toner’s bologna” isn’t
‘going to make the sucker business
any better.
-'—Howard Holtzworth is still stick-
ing to the idea that it is lawful to step
from the Commissioners’ office into
that of County Treasurer. The act of
1841 says it isn’t. However that may
‘be Howard is probably figuring it this
way: If] am elected and: my right 1%
a commission is successfully challeng-
ed I still have the chance that if my
friend Fleming is elected Judge ne
will appoint me to fill the vacancy
caused by my elective ineligibility.
Punch that theory full of holes, you
lawyers. It’s just as good law as the
advice that has been given to Howard
that he doesn’t come under the act of
1841 because he was appointed to his
present office and not elected.
—We know that the Patriotic Sons
of America in Centre county are be-
ing played up to by certain candidates
for office who are really only after
their votes. The Order is old enough
to have learned from experience that
the motives of those who join it only
after they have developed an ambition
to get a political office are not ‘patrio-
tism. We don’t care who he is, any
man who has lived in a community
long enough to feel that he has a
chance to be elected to office and then
joins a fraternity on the eve of his
candidacy, is worth watching. We have
known many “joiners” in our days.
Most of them have been sickeningly
loyal brothers until the election is
over and then—?
—In Pittsburgh it is openly charged
‘that one hundred thousand dollars was
offered as an inducement to a candi-
-date if he would get out of the way of
a machine aspirant for the same office
whose candidacy was imperiled. In
Philadelphia J. Hampton Moore, who
is a Republican and the Independent
‘Republicans nominee for mayor of that
«city, says that he was offered a big
bribe to quit.” Who are offering these
:stupendous sums? Why are they offer-
ing them? It’s the machine. What
is the machine? It isn’t real Repub-
licanism. It isn’t real Democracy. f(t
is a parasitic growth conceived in the
minds of rich men who want power
and reared by those who are willing to
be their tools. Tuesday, November 8,
will be the day when Centre county
«can throw a monkey wrench into the
‘machine.
—Have you seen “Metropolis,” the
movie idea of what the world might be
a thousand years from now? If you
have, you will understand what John
Mastermen typified. He was the
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VOL. 72.
Corrupt Politics at Both Ends.
It has been alleged that an inde-
pendent candidate for the office of
County Commissioner of Allegheny
county was offered $100,000 if he
would - withdraw from the contest.
The statement, which is supported by
three or four credible witnesses, is
that the offer was made by an official
of the internal revenue service, an
emissary of the Mellon machine. Mr.
J. Hampton Moore, the independent
candidate for Mayor of Philadelphia,
has publicly declared that he was of-
fered a substantial bribe by an agent
of the Vare machine if he would with-
draw from the contest in that city.
Thus the Mellon-Vare partnership is
working at both ends of the State to
control the elections by corrupt meth-
ods.
The salary of a County Commis-
sioner in counties of the class in
which Allegheny county is listed is
about $8000 a year, and the remuner-
ation for a full term is $32,000. If
the Mellon machine is willing to pay
$100,000 for a practical guarantee
that its slated candidates will be elect-
ed it must have some sinister plans
in mind to make its books balance.
The Mellon candidates for the office
have denied personal responsibility
for the offer and demanded the name
of the person who made it. This de-
mand was promptly complied with
and the testimony of the witnesses
who heard it published. But noth-
ing has been done since to refute the
statement or punish the official charg-
ed with the crime.
The independent candidate who was
thus corruptly approached is the
present County Controller, having
been appointed to that important of-
fice by Governor Pinchot several years
ago. He has repeatedly accused the
County Commissioners of extrava-
gance and waste, totalling hundreds of
thousands of dollars. The anxiety of
the Mellon machine to prevent his
election to the office of County Com-
missioner is plainly evident in this
corrupt offer of a competency
for life in order that the ex-
trayagance and waste may be contin-
ued indefinitely in the future. If the
voters of Allegheny county are: true
to their obligations as citizens, Mr.
McGovern will be elected by an over-
whelming majority.
——-Press “agencing” is attracting
distinguished votaries. President
Coolidge is performing the service for
Secretary Mellon and Governor Fisher
for Congressman Vare.
Election Officers Convicted.
In congratulating assistant district
attorney Park, who conducted the
prosecution, on the conviction of three
election crooks in the Allegheny coun-
ty court, former U. S. district at-
torney E. Lowery Humes said, “these
convictions represent a splendid start.
They will throw a fear into the hearts
of dishonest election officials and form
the best guarantee, after a long per-
iod of fraudulent elections, of clean-
er elections in the future.” The de-
fendants were Charles Golden, J. W.
Bolster and Mrs. Anna Conklin, who
were members of the election board at
the 1926 primary election which
dumped the ballots into a sewer to
prevent a recount after a charge of
fraud. :
Golden is a captain in the fire de-
partment of the city of Pittsburgh
and chairman of the Republican Ward
committee, and Mrs. Conklin a clerk
on the board. The judge of the elec-
tion, J. A. Miller and Charles Carr,
the other clerk, have not been arrest-
ed thus far and John Downey, the
other inspector, was the principal wit-
ness for the prosecution. The defense
was that the absent judge did the
crooked work but the evidence revealed
the fact that Golden was the “boss
of the job.” The penalty is a fine of
$500 and imprisonment not to exceed
three years. The jury recommended
mercy for Mrs. Conklin, who appears
to have been a rather reluctant par-
ticipant in the crime.
Strangely enough this flagrant
violation of law did not occur in the
“strip” where such methods of con-
ducting elections have been the rule
for many years. But it was the more
alarming on that account. In pre.
vious elections the fraudulent prac-
character who, by force of ambition
and money, had subjugated a great
city to the degree of subserviency that
his wink or nod meant life or death,
sunshine or sorrow to everyone in it. | extended to districts which had pre-
‘He was the Boss, the arbiter of the
destiny of every creature in the com-
munity over which he had gained con-
trol. To be sure, the picture is only
an allegory, but it preaches a serious
sermon. In Centre county, today, the
question isn’t nearly as serious as to
whetlier its new officials are to be
Democrats or Republicans as it is as
to whether our.voters are going to
play into the hands of a would be John
Mastermen.
tices were confined to a small part of
the city. But in the primary cam-
paign of 1926, both in Pittsburgh and
Philadelphia, corrupt methods were
viously been regarded as independent
and conservative. Obviously the pur-
pose of the machine was to corrupt
the vote of both cities in all parts,
thus making more certain machine
control of the vote of the State. It
is to be hoped Major Humes’ predic-
tion will be verified.
Trans-oceanic flying females
enlist wide public interest but are
liable to make people “tired.”
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
one that should be associated lez
Judge.
chooses to do so.
regularity. And what for?
for no other reason than that the
What happened then? The State )
the Capitol building scandal was
That, as well as the many o
in choosing your local officials.
- worth while, just as sure as the
your ballot on Nov. 8.
plunder out of the State Treasury.
color or their creed may be.
As we have said so often about county officials; there isn’t one of -
them who has the slightest legislative function that could effect the
fundamental principles of any of the great parties. In their official
capacity there is no party platform, no policy, nothing they can do that
would uphold or tear down the tenets of either Democracy or Republic-
anism. Everyone of them, from the Judge down to the Auditor, has to
do solely with affairs as they are found in Centre county and no where
else. The only possible way this statement might be distorted into even
a slight deviation from the fact is through admission that the newly
elected judge becomes the titular head of his party’s organization, if he
The traditions of the law itself are against partisanship in the
Judiciary. Partisanship means partiality and partiality is akin to favor
itism and all of them contribute to the defeat of justice. :
Notwithstanding this self evident truth the exigencies of machine
politics never have and possibly never will cease their attempts to grasp
for this exalted position through the plea of party loyalty and party
. The machine doesn’t care a baubee . about the qualifications of the
candidate it attempts to elect. All it wants is a friend in the office.
That accomplished, it works subtly to get the rest. Its candidates may
be eminently good or notoriously bad. That depends on its psycho-analy-
sis of the public temper at the moment.
No one can say that the laté Samuel W. Pennypacker was not a
good man. It is a matter of political knowledge that a machine threat-
ened with destruction by an outraged and indignant Commonwealth set
him up as its candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania and elected him
rs that have followed it, was the con-
tribution of machine politics to the record of the Republican party in
Pennsylvania. Yet the Republican party was not in sympathy with it.
It should be held to accountability only for its negligence in having per-
mitted its organization to fall into the hands of men who had no ideals.
Nothing but lust for power and plunder.
We are not wandering from our suggestion that we have a non-par-
tisan judiciary in Centre county. We are only trying to bring home to
you the danger that lurks in it before we ask you again to cast it aside
Bellefonte, long ago, discovered that a councilman who happened to
be a Democrat, couldn’t destroy the tariff and empty the full dinner
pail, so it discarded partisanship im its local elections and who will say
that we haven’t been the better for it? :
This would not have been so, however, had their been any borough
offices fat enough to have furnished grease to keep the wheels of a ma-
- chine turning. Were there enough.in the offices of our town to make it
machine attempting to lash the dominant Republican electorate into line
with the false plea of party loyalty and reguarity.
Morally, mentally and physically, man for man, the candidates on the
Democratic ticket are the equals of those on the Republican ticket. In-
deed, in some. instances, they are notably superior. With such a condi-
tion: why should you let partisanship guide your pencil when you mark
It is not only proper to dicard partisan feeling when one visits. the
polls on election day. It is often a patriotic duty.
We believe that the zero hour for those who will respond to duty’s
call has arrived in Centre county. No matter how honorable Mr. Flem-
ing may be; no matter how learned he is in the law; he is not more so in
either than was Samuel W. Pennypacker and there is a machine in the of-
fing that ought to be wrecked before the tentacles of the Philadelphia
octopus wiggle up into Centre county.
Keep in mind the fact that we are not striking at Mr. Fleming. He
might be as guiltless as the sage of Wetzel’s swamp who was so busy
chasing butterflies that he didn’t see the machine grinding millions in
might be wise to keep partisan politics out of the election of local offi-
cials, especially so in the selection of a Judge who is to sit in judgment
of all the peope, no matter what their politics, their nationality, their
NO. 42.
BELLEFONTE. PA.. OCTOBER 28. 1927.
Let Us Have a Non-Partisan Judiciary. |
Of all the offices that are filled by the suffrage of the people’ the
st with partisan politics is that of
eople knew he was a good man.
d its head in shame as news of
“over the land.
ill rise tomorrow, there would be a
We are only suggesting that it
Philipsburg Journal Pays Tribute to
Dr. Parrish.
In its issue of Oct. 5, the Daily
Journal of Philipsburg made the fol-
lowing complimentary reference to
the candidacy of Dr. C. M. Parrish
for the office of County Commissioner.
“C. M. Parrish, business man of
Bellefonte and one of the Democratic
nominees for County Commissioner,
was a caller at the Journal office this
afternoon. He is friendly, sensible
3nd apparently possesses sound judg-
ment, and if elected would doubtless
prove a valuable member of the board
that has disposal of the people’s taxes.
With his pleasing personality Mr.
Parrish is sure to make many friends
during the campaign.
—We notice that the Gazette, last
week, challenged the accuracy of our
statement that the Prothonotary’s
office pays approximately seven thous-
and dollars a year. If the Gazette
can prove to us that we were in error
we shall be glad to revise our belief
that Mr. Wilkinson has already taken
down fifty thousand dollars in emolu-
ments and has been very well served.
We based our statement on the opin-
ion of two attorneys who examined
the records in his office, checked up
the fees that he had charged and
{agreed that they are even in excess
'of the amount. We have been told that
Mr. Wilkinson, himself, has said that
the office is good for nine thousand a
year. While we know that Roy is a
very garulous gentleman—almost we
regard him as a personal competitor
in that respect—we can’t believe him
to have been silly enough to have re-
i vealed a goose that is laying such
| golden eggs.
—1It is gratifying to be able to
announce that Princess Ileana, of Ru-
mania, has not eloped with a naval
Charles P. Long Will Not Run as an
lieutenant or anybody else.
Independent.
Charles P. Long, of Spring Mills,
Pa., who was a candidate for the nom-
ination for the office of County Treas-
urer on the Republican ticket at the
Primaries, held September 20th,
wishes to express his thanks to those
who supported his candidacy and vot-
ed for him. Mr. Long, it has been
rumored, would be an independent
candidate for ‘the office of County
Treasurer at the coming election to
be held November 8th, but when inter-
viewed by the writer states that he
will not be a candidate for this office
at that time.
_ —Ordinarily a candidate for office
1s content with claiming a favorite
son’s share of the vote in only one
home town. Not so with Mr. Flem-
ing. He claims two, both Philipsburg
and Bellefonte.
sR RL
past week he,
| December Court Session Changed to
Suit Deer Hunters.
Judge James C. Furst, who loves to
follow the trail of the wild and 20
gunning for small game and deer, has
taken compassion on the hunters of
Centre county and issued a decree
changing the date of the December
term of court so that it will not con-
flict with their sport. Heretofore the
court term has begun on the second
Monday in December but the court’s
decree makes the date the third Tues-
day. The decree is as follows:
In the matter of changing the time
for the meeting of the grand jury
and the regular December term of
court for the year 1927, only.
And now, to wit, October 20, 1927,
it appearing to the Court that a large
number of those men-who would ordi-
narily be drawn for jury duty at the
December term of court would desire
to go to the woods for the deer sea-
son, which runs from December 1st
to December 15th, and because of the
fact that those men look forward
throughout the entire year to their
annual vacation to be spent in this
way, it seems like an imposition to
deprive those persons of the pleasure
and benefit they receive from their
annual outing, and on the oiler hand
it seems unfair to the Commonwealth
and to the litigants to try cases be-
fore juries from which men of the
type who go to the woods are stricken
off .by excuses. or lem
Under the regular rules the grand
jury would meet on December 5th, the
traverse jury for the quarter sessions
on December. 12th, followed by civil
term of court on December 19th.
The Court’has concluded to make a
change for this particular term as
follows: The grand jury is directed to
day, December 19th; the traverse jury
quarter sessions court will appear on
Tuesday, December 20th, at 1:30 p. m.
The “traverse jury called for the civil
week of court will appear on Tuesday,
December 27th, at 10:30 a. m. This
order shall not effect the regular
standing order for the calling of the
regular terms of court. :
.~ By the Court,
BRST, P. J.
JAMES C. F
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5
Game Commission Will Not Kill Does
Unless Requested.
Hunters all over the State are up in
arms against the proposition of the
pert marksmen into the woods to kill
off the surplus does, but according to
game protector Thomas G. Mosier the
purpose of the Commission
much misunderstood.
deer promiscuously.
The Commission has issued a small
card on which is asked the questions:
“Are the deer doing excessive damage
to your crops? Do you want the
Game Commission to send men to kiil
them or do you not?”
These cards have been distributed
among the farmers and property own-
ers adjacent to the mountains, where
the deer are the most prolific. To date
two hundred of these cards have been
filled out by Centre county farmers
and returned to the game wardens,
and only one of the number has asked
that men be sent to kill the deer. That
one is a Mr. McKivison, living near
Pennsylvania Furnace, in Ferguson
township. Al the others state posi-
tively that they don’t want the deer
killed.
In this connection it might be stated
that some of the land owners on the
Seven mountains are putting up “No
ing the Game Commission’s purpose
to kill the does, but this is really an
unnecessary precaution, as men won’t
be sent to kill the deer unless they are
requested.
Game protector Mosier believes,
however, that five thousand does could
be killed in Centre county and not
affect the hunting at all. During the
accompanied by Joe
Compani, took a drive through the
{wilds of the Seven mountains, going
in at Walter Gherrity’s and coming
out at Colyer, and on the trip counted
——The “balance” of export trade
for September was the greatest ever |
but when the rest of Europe adopts
the French tariff system the record |
will be different.
an
——Senator Borah no longer wishes
“to be placed in the attitude of criti-
cising the State Department.” The
President has probably hypnotized the
Idaho Warwick.
i
——The Mexican system of shoot-
ing opposition candidates reveals less
finesse than the methods used in the
“neck” of Philadelphia and the “strip”
in Pittsburgh.
——Speaking of glass house dwell-
ers the New York World admonishes
young Roosevelt against throwing
stones. ne
216 deer. The biggest herd they saw
contained 27 deer.
——The Bishop of London, address-
ing American Legionaires, asks that
American children be taught to love
rather than hate England. His idea
might take better if it were made
reciprocal.
——A convention of aviators will
be held in Washington in December to
consider means of promoting commer-
cial aviation. A plan to decrease the
number of fatalities ought to be part
of the agenda.
The number of prisoners in
custody has increased thirty-four per
cent. in four years. The number of
bootleggers has probably increased in
greater ratio.
convene at 10 o’clock a. m. on Mon--
called for the regular meeting of the:
ee eee RRR RRR OOOO I,
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Four men and two women are being
held in Pittsburgh by Federal authorities
investigating an alleged counterfeiting
ring which has flooded Pennsylvania and
Ohig with spurious $20 bills raised from
$5 bills. : sh he
—Mrs. Jacob Kanagy died at the Lewise
town hospital on Sunday, from. a fracture
of .the skull sustained a few hours earlier
when she fell down the cellar stairs at the
home of Rev. Hess in Belleville, where she
was a guest for the day. Mrs. Kanagy
opened the cellar door in error, believing
it to be the door to an adjoining room.
—Mrs. Hannah Holmes, of Lansford, Pa.,
last Friday celebrated: the arrival of her
forty-third grandchild, a daughter having
been born that morning to Mr. and Mrs.
Isaac Granger, of Singston. Mrs. Holmes,
widow of the late John Holmes, mothered
five sons and five daughters, all of whom
have followed her example in rearing large
families, ;
—Alfred B. Bowe, who was removed as
post-master of Port Carbon last week, sur-
rendered to the authorities when he learned
a warrant was out for his arrest, and on
Monday was held in $1000 bail. There was
a shortage of $1800 in his accounts, but
this has been made good by friends. Ed-
ward Beddall, of Port Carbon, was ap-
pointed acting postmaster.
"—H. CA. Moyer, a Norristown lawyer
and real estate operator, and his stenogra-
pher, Isabel Thomas, 23, 103 West Wood
street, Norristown, were publicly horse-
whipped on the street by Moyer’s wife last
Saturday night. Mrs. Moyer had pre-
viously bought the horsewhip from a Nor-
ristown harness dealer, and several pass-
ersby witnessed the flogging.
—George Bell, aged 15 years, of Tusca-
rora, can thank football for the removal
of a .22 caliber bullet from hi§ head. where
he carried it for nine years. When six
years old a playmate shot Bell in the fore-
head and the ball could not be found. In
a football game he was bumped and a
lump appeared over the right eve. A doc-
tor who lanced it found the bullet inside.
—Arthur R. Thompson, of Middletown,
on Tuesday paid a fine of $7.50 for playing
football on Sunday in violation of Penn-
sylvania’s blue laws. He announced that
another game between Middletown and the
Ephrata Yellow-jackets would be played
next Sunday at the Middletown aviation
*| field, which is Federal property. If Dau-
phin county officials have jurisdiction over:
thie field no more games will be played, he
said.
—One workman was killed and two
others hurt when a five ton radiator they
were moving fell in the basement of the
First Presbyterian Church at Greensburg,
on Friday.” Robert B. Sweitzwe was
‘caught. under the radiator and crushed to
death. - ‘Charles EB. Altman narrowly es-
caped death. Although pinned beneath the
apparatus he suffered only from shock.
John Carrol, the third workman, suffered
lacerations.
—Three members of Homestead borough
council and two other men entrained for
the Atlanta penitentiary on Tuesday to
serve sentences imposed in the Homestead
liquor conspiracy case. The three coun-
cilmen, president Edwin Kline, John Rich-.
ards and James L. Oates, are to serve one
year each and their codefendants, Joseph
Frank and. Sam ‘Stein, are under sentence
of fifteen months each. Two other Coun:
cilmen convicted took appeals. :
—H. H. Spayd, of Minersville, Pa., form-
er department commander of the Grand
"Army of the Republic, died on Thursday
State Game Commission to send ex-
is very speaking, but
It is not the : until he was prevailed upon to stop when
intention to send out the marksmen in a state of
willy nilly and have them kill off the prominent educator in Schuylkill county.
|
night in a hospital at Washington, D. Cc,
where he had been taken after collapsing
on the speakers’ stand with President
Coolidge at the dedication of the General
Meade monument. He was taken ill while
insisted upon continuing
collapse. He once was a
—Several hours after she had -been
stricken suddenly with a heart attack, the
body of Mrs. John Hillpot, Lansdale, was’
found on the steps of a Columbia avenue
house, a block from her home, on Tuesday
morning about 3 o'clock. She attended a
masquerade party at St. John’s Reformed
church on Monday evening and started for
her home alone. When she failed to ap-
pear at midnight Hillpot became alarmed,
a searching party was formed and the en-
tire borough was covered. - About 3 a. m.
her body was found at the home of Isaac
Trumbauer, No. 631 Columbia avenue, ‘A
physician said death had been due to heart
disease.
—After camping in an auto for three
days along the Slatington pike, several
miles from Allentown, George Rado, a
tramplike Frenchman, was taken to police
headquarters in Allentown, on Monday and
detained for the night. On being searched
! prior to a hearing he was found to possess
Trespass” signs as a means of thwart-
$400 in cash, $800 in good checks and
$32,000 in bonds. Owner's card and
driver's license showed that the auto is
the property of Rado, and a receipted bill
proved that he had bought the machine
several days ago for $1350 in cash. It
developed that he had worked as a laborer
in and about the city during the summer
-and was looking for a pick and shovel job
- when suspicion was aroused.
‘to pay the tax.
—Two perfect bridge hands and two
other bridge hands lacking but one card
each of being perfect were dealt at one
table in a game at Bloomsburg, one even-
ing last week. The players were 50 ex-
cited they exposed their hands and did not
play them. Mr. and Mrs. Richard White
and Mr. and Mrs. Edgar McHenry had
been playing about an hour when the in-
cident occurred. The cards had been well
shuffled prior to the deal. McHenry re-
ceived 13 spades, White 13 hearts, Mrs. Mc-
Henry 12 clubs and one diamond and Mrs.
White 12 diamonds and one club. With a
perfect hand held only once in some mil-
lions of times, it is figured such an ineci-
dent could occur only about once in a cen-
tury.
—Because she repeatedly refused to pay
her 1926 school tax, amounting to $5.25,
Mrs. Lillian Reed, Amagh Township, Mif-
flin county, must remain in ‘the Mifflin
county jail until the tax and costs of $4.40
are paid, President Judge Bailey, of the
Mifflin county court, ruled on Saturday.
Mrs. Reed spent two days in the county
jail about two years ago, when she refused
Last month Mrs. Reed
again was arrested and after spending
three days in jail was released pending a
decision in her case. The woman has made
no attempt to get bail and is said to re-
gard the matter as an attempt to gain a
decision exempting housewives from pay-
ing this tax. Her husband has taken. no
action in the case.