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Collection of Delinquent Taxes
Former Senator F. C. Weinerc is state tax com
missioner. He was a lawmaker for many years. lie
was chairman of the s'ate finance committee for
years. He saw service In many departments of go\ -
ernment. His was one of the first names sent to tno
senate for confirmation by Governor Moody when the
son of Williamson county assumed the reins of ad
ministration. In his report to the governor and legis
lature for the years 1927 and 1928 Tax Commi. sionor
Weinert said:
“It is not to be understood that your state iax
commissioner is opposed to a vigorous policy in the
collection of delinquent taxes. He docs contend, how
ever, that in no small number of instances delinquen
cies are the result more of exhaustion of ability to
pay rather than of disinclination to respond to the
public need. Toward such delinquents the state in
the majesty of its great wealth and power can better
afford to be tolerant than oppressive. Certainly it
should refrain from violating its own doctrine. To
crush down upon those who are already in distress
would neither promote the general welfare nor insure
domestic tranquility.”
Another excerpt from the report should have been
of informative value to the lawmakers in regular and
special sessions. It deals with the fees incidental to
the collection of dleinquent taxes. This is the recom
mendation of Tax Commissioner Weinert:
"Collection of delinquent taxes should proceed but
In a sane, sensible manner. The many fees and
charges now' permitted against the delinquent should
be abolished. In particular that usurious provision in
the statute providing that w’hen property is sold for
taxes the purchaser thereof may charge 100 per cent
profit should the distressed delinquent wish to re
deem. should be repealed. It has no rightful place in
a democracy. The interests of the speculator are in
no wise paramount to those of the delinquent citizen.
Although the provision of the statute referred to
seems to have gotten around the fact somehow still
there is more in life than money. Delinquents amply
able to pav should with a determined mind be made
to pay. Thoce who. due to adverisily. are unable to
pay should be given full opportunity to redeem, and
this with no usurious charges attached.”
Commissioner Weinert has teen a successful farm
er. a successful banker, a successful lawmaker, a con
structive maker of statutes, one of the leading build
ers and developers of his section. If the lawmakers of
the Forty-first read his report w’hat action did they
take on his recommendation dealing with the collec
tion of delinquent taxes?
English Cotton Trade Workers
on Strike
Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald and his labor
ftovernmrnt leaders are fare to face with an ugly
strike of 500 000 cotton mill workers. Fifteen hun
dred mills were closed when the walk-out took place.
All there mills are owned by the Cotton Mills Masters*
Federation and the strike was precipitated by a wage
cut of 124 per cent. Every city and town in Lanca
shire is affected. A loss in wages of about $5.000 000
weekly is the price that the strikers will pay as their
share of the losses.
A limited number of mills operated by manufac
turers who are not members of the Masters’ Federa
tion continued to pay the old scale and their em
1 ployes were not affected by the walk-out of more than
i 500,000 bread winners. It Is the contention of the
Masters’ Federation officials that the walk-out was
the outgrowth of continued depression in the British
textile trade, and that the 124 per cent reduction In
wages must be accepted by the strikers before the
doors of the 1500 plants will be thrown open again and
the wheels of industry given a whirl.
Prime Minister MacDonald may not visit America
in October. He is facing one of the most gigantic
labor strikes in history and the liberals and the con
servatives combined have a majority of 18 in the
house of commons. If the disputes of natinos should
be settled by arbitration then why not the disputes
which arise between employers and employes?
Tk© Guac© Gv®ir
By El PHILLIPS
THE VACATIONISTS’ RELIEF FUND
Have you helped yet? Have you done your bit to
ward the great humane work of rescuing people from
their summer vacations? Are you the sort of person
who can remain unconcernedly in a city hoB?e while
thousands of veur fellow beings undergo all the suf
ferings of a summer vacation? For shame! For
shame!
Vacationists are now being rescued and brought
home at the rate of 300 a day, weather permitting, but
unless the fund is materially increased at once many
poor victims of summer resort literature will be com
pelled to stick out their vacations to the bitter end.
Pathetic letters are coming in daily, all of which pro
claim that the food is getting worse, the bathing
places more and more congested and the summer ho
tel dance music worse and worse.
The treasurer now figures that $9 will bring home
a full-grown summer vacationist, and that by a spe
cial arrangement three can be brought home for $25.
A check for $100. if any good, will rescue a round
dozen, transport them to their homes and provide
them with enough medicine to get over the vacation.
Most vacationists recover rapidly with a little lov
ing care, but they must be carefully watched. Often
a vacationist will be almost fully recovered when a
mere mention of hot dogs, ice cream cones, clam
chowder, soft-shelled crabs, red ants, flies or souvenir
postal cards will cause a relapse. For that reason a
little money is necessary to look after vacationists
after their return.
This week an anonymous contributor sent in a
Westphalian ham. a lady signing herself •’Mother"
sent in a photo of her lost husband, asking that noth
ing be done to find him. and from "three little Zieg
feld girls" came a sweater with a card labeled "For
the boys in France." (Evidently a lot of people are
net reading the column all through in the hot months
and do not know just what the fund is about.—Ed.)
A pathetic case called to the fund's notice today
Is that of Miss Dorothy X-. a charming young
weman. who left the city ten days ago for the moun
tains and who is now the victim of a nervous break
down. brought on bv the desperate battle to keep her
white shoes cleaned. (Every girl and woman vaca
tionist knows what an ordeal this Js>. Thousands of
women break down under the task everv summer.
Dorothy now lies in her bed daubing imaginary shoes
by the hundred. She is a pathetic spectacle. Re
m^mber that nine dollars will bring her home, and.
once she is back where white ohoes are not worn, a
speedy reeovery is certain.
Send in your contribution today! The fund now
stands:
Previously acknowledged . $25.4(12.85
Grover Whalen lawn party. 50,000.00
J. K L. 2.25
Lloyd George . 100
Charlie (‘Call Me Vice President") Curtis... 1.10
Total .$75,407.20
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LINKS TRAGEDIES
Oh. Jason Joggs he is in a cel!
Hound up in a strait-jacket:
Ho whacked the ball for a hole in one—
AND NO ONE SAW HIM WHACK IT!
• • • •
NEWSPAPERS GET A BREAK
Paris decrees that skirts must bo cut six Inches
below the knees this winter. Circulation managers of
newspapers are delighted .as they figure it will be a
tremendous boon to newspaper reading in the cars
and hotel lobbies.
It is absurd to suppose that the future of the
talkies is in the least degree doubtful. Anything has
a future which keeps people away from home.—New
York Times.
A jug of Jamaica rum was found in an excavation
for a building in New York. Which at least partially
explains the high prices paid for New York real es
| tate.—Arizona Producer.
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BRITANNIA RULES THE (CRIME) WAVE
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Jr Beatrice, burton, AUforj;•ssiSnSSS^
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READ THIS FIRST:
Charlotte Chatterton. nicknamed i
Chatty, is a born gossip and busy
body. She loses her Job in Mrs.
Mayberry's millinery shop because
she talks too much.
Her mother, a dressmaker, has
one wealthy customer, Mrs. Van
Nuys. an old Iriend. Through her
Chatty gets a Job in the filing de
partment of Mr. Van Nuys bond
house, down town. There she falls
in 1 vc with David Jordan, a your."
bond salesman whom she cnce saw
buying flowers for a pretty girl hi
a shop near Mrs. Mayberry’s.
Billie Langenau, in charge of the
files, tells Chatty that Dave never
pays any attention to any girls in *
the office except Agnes Herford,
Mr. Van’s secretary. When Chattv
repeats what Billie said to Agnes,
she adds a lie to it—and tells Agnes
that Billie said she and Dave were
in love with each other.
Billie and her sister. Sara, come
to live across the hall from the
Chattertons. Chatty learns that
Billie is separated from her hus
bands. However, no one at the of
fice knows she has ever been mar
ried, including George Mayhew,
who is in love with her.
Billie brings Chatty and Dave to
gether outside the office, and is
\ery friendly and kind to Chatty,
lending her clothes, showing her
how to do her hair, etc. Jordan
begins to make love to Chatty, and
finally conics to call at her house
Chatty is ashamed of her poverty
and of her young brother, Pud,
who works evenings in a drug
store, where he helps the owner sell
alcohol for drinking purposes.
Chatty steals Agnes Hcrford's
keys in order to search through her
desk for a note that she sees Jor
dan give her. The note is a harm
less one, but Chatty also finds Ag
nes’ diary, filled with notes on
Agnes’ mild love affair with Mr.
Van Nuys. She sends the pages
of the diary to Mrs. Van Nuys,
hoping that Agnes will be discharg
ed before she has a chance to go
to Mr. Van Nuys with Chatty's
falsehood about Billie Langenau.
Chatty, answering the telephone
the next day in the absence of the
regular operator, giggles when she
hears Agnes telephoning her home
about the keys which Chatty her
self has dropped into a sewer.
Dave Jordan comes upon her
when she is laughing to herself
about it, to ask her about going out
with him that night.
• • •
(Now Go On With the Story)
CHAPTER XV
Very little nonsense and lov-»
making went on in the busy of
fices of the Van Nuys company.
Mr. Van might take Agnes Her
ford out to lunch. George May
hew might drive Billie Langenau
home from work every night In the
week. Winnie Talcott might be
making dinner and dance “dates’’
with Jim Bowen every Saturday
night, as everyone suspected her of
doing.
But all of these thing* went on
outside the office. During the work
day everything was strictly bus
iness—as it is in most offices.
And so Dave did not linger for
very long at Chatty’s switchboard
that noon.
"What do you want to do to
night?" he asked her. He was lean
ing over the back of her chair as
he spoke, and one of his hands
Just touched her shoulder.
“Anything," Chatty answered, her
breath coming thick and fast in
her throat i s it always did when
he stood close to her. ’So long as
I m with you—I don t care what we
do or where we go."
She was ashamed of herself when
she raid things like that to him—
when she showed him so plainly
how much he meant to her. But
she couldn’t help saying them. They
just slipped out. somehow or other.
"I wear my heart on my sleeve,
don’t I?" she asked him, tilting her
head back to look up at him. "I
should pretend I don't care whether
“Oh, don't be so sure of him!"
I go out anywhere with you or not,
shouldn’t I?”
Dave shook his red head. “I like
you the way you are—heart on your
sleeve, cr any other place,” he taul.
“And I/f come for you at seven?”
She nodded, and he went across
to iiis own desk against the south
wall of the main office, and very
near the door of Agnes Herford’s !
room.
Presently Agr.es came out into the
office.
“Hell, Dave Jordan,” Chatty
heard her say. 'Tve done the Fu
llest thing—I've lost all my office
keys. You haven't seen them, have
you. by any chance?”
He shook his head, jumped up
and offered to help her hunt P;r
them.
“No—I've sent for a locksmith,
and he'll be here soon,” Agnes said
"But I've wasted the whole morn
ing, trying to get that desk open
and Mr. Van's personal letter file i
open—and he's SO upset!”
Chatty giggled to herself. “Hes
calm compared to what he will b»
when Mrs. Van gets through read
ing that diary!” she said to her
self . . . She wondered if Mrs. Van
would come rushing down to the
office and make a scene.
“I hope she does!” Chatty said
to herself. “And I hope she
throws Agnes out on her car!”
She hated Agnes.
She hated her because she had
called her “the silly little Chatter
ton.”
She hated her because she was
such a good friend of Dave Jor
dan's. and because she was stand
ing there, on the other side of the
office now. talking to Dave.
She hated her most of all because
she was afraid of her—afraid that
she would go to Mr. Van with the
story that Billie Langenau had
been talking about her behind her
back.
“And if Billie finds out that 1
told a lie about her,” Chatty told
herself, “she’ll never speak to me
again! And Dave will find out
that I told it, too!”
She grew cold all over at the
thought of Dave Jordan finding out
about that story she had told Ag
nes. It would mean the end of his
liking for her. The end of his
friendship, but something more
something that made him take her
in his arms, hold her close to him,
and kiss her as if he never would
let her go.
“But if Mrs. Van starts to make
trouble about that diary, Agnes
won't get much of a chance to go
to Mr. Van with any tittle-tattle at
all," thought Chatty. “She’!! be too
busy trying to explain what she
and Mr. Van were doing, keeping
lunch dates with each other—” And
ail afternoon she fairly prayed that
Mrs. Van would come down to the
office to have Agnes discharged
that very day.
But nothing happened.
Everything went on just as usual
in the big, bu^y offices.
The locksmith arrived at one
o'clock and opened Agnes’ desk.
At half past one Mr. Van “knock
ed off” work and went away to play
golf with some friends at the Sun
nyside Country club.
At two o'clock Agnes went to keep
an appointment with her dentist.
At three she called up to say she
had a tooth pulled and that she
was going home to bed.
And then at four o'clock—Mrs.
Van called up:
"This is Mrs. Van Nuys. I'd like
to speak to my husband.
Chatty’s eyes flashed with excite
ment.
“Mr. Van Nuys has gone for the
day.” she said.
“Then I'll speak to Miss Her
ford!*
Chatty drew a long breath. "She'«
read the diary!” she told herself
with enormous satisfaction.
Aloud she said sweetly: “Mis?
Heriord has gone for the day, too.’
Mis. Van hung up the receiver at
her end of the wire.
“It looks like a hot time in the
old town tonight for Mr. Van!’
Chatty told Winnie Talcott at hall
past five, when they were in tht
cloakroom together, getting reaaj
to go home. "Mrs. Van called u;
this afternoon to find out whert
papa and Aggie were ... I had U
tell her they both had gone Xo;
the day!”
Winnie’s eyes grew round anc
wondering. "Do you suppose the?
were out together—Agnes and lh<
Big Shot?” she asked. Winni<
loved & bit of gossip, just as wel
as the next one.
Chatty shrugged her shoulders
said she. 'But—they were both oui
of the office all afternoon. Now
#
Men and women are only grown
up children. The ailments they
have are much the same as those
experienced by an infant. The only
practical difference Is that older
persons have gained strength and.
with it. the ability to resist disease.
In the long list of human ail
ments. troubling us from the cradle
to the grave, is that old enemy of
mankind. Indigestion. You have it.
your father and grandfather suf
fered from it and your grandchil
dren will have It. From babyhood to
old age. it is the most common of
complaints.
Why should indigestion be so fre
quent an ailment? You will ask this
question, but you know the answer
! as well as I do.
Too much food, unsuitable food,
contaminated food—in one of these
is found the answer to your ques
tion.
You can "choke’ the machine of
your automobile by giving it too
much gas. It rebels at once. Like
wise. your stomach and digestive
organs rebel against an excess of
food.
A tiny baby must be fed in exactly
the proper way or there will be
trouble, trouble which starts more
quickly than it does in an adult
The symptoms produced by the
wrong feeding are likely to be
much more violent than in the
grown-up.
Vomiting is a common sign in in
fants. If fed too fast, too often, or
too much, the baby is almost sure to
vomit within a few minutes after
the bottle is finished.
It is a very important thing to
have the hole in the rubber nipple
exactly the right size. If the open
ing is too large, the milk is received
so rapidly that the stomach resists
Five minutes is too short a time to
empty a bottle. A quarter of an
hour or even twenty minutes is
abqut right.
Let me warn the mother, however,
that it is almost as bad to permiv
the child to nurse too slowly. If it
lingers at the bottle for a half hour :
or more, it is likely that a lot of air j
will be swallowed with the milk*|
Then there will be colic and vomit
ing
This ts one o? the things that hap
nens when the hole in the nipnle is
too small. By taking note of the
time required to emntv the bottle,
it will not be d'fficult to select the
right sort of nipnle. The 'ceding
should be comnlete in a period of ,
time not to exceed twenty minutes
and net less than fifteen.
To have the milk too concentrat
ed. is another cause for bahv's in
digestion. It must be borne in mind
that cow's milk is different from
mother’s milk. It must be nroperly
di’uted or its richness will upset!
th° digestion.
These are a few of the many
things that the young mother must
consider. I trust thev are sugges
tions that will be helpful.
ANSWERS TO HEALTH QUERIES
N. T. Q —What do you advise
for ringworm?
A—Send self-addressed, stamped
envelope for further particulars and
repeat your question.
• • •
C D. Q.—What do you advise for
col it is ?
A —Send s<»!f-addressed. stamped i
envelope for further particulars and
renrat your question.
• • •
M D Q —How much should a
girl aged 14. 5 feet 2 inches tall
weigh'*
A—She should weigh about 111
pounds.
L. W. Q—Ts diet important in
cases cf goitre?
A—Yes. The general health rc
whcrc were they—unless they were
together? Figure it out lor your
self.”
Winnie swallowed the story, hook
line and sinker. "I'll just bet you’re
right!” she cried. ‘They’re prob
ably been out riding in that big bus
of his all afternoon—and him with
that lovely locking wife of his and
all! That's the way homes are
broken up. I suppose! First thing
we know he'll be divorcing Mrs. Van
and marrying that pasty face—’’
The door opened, and Billie came
In. ‘‘What are you two talking
about so busily?” she wanted to,
know.
It was Winnie wTho told her.
"Mr. Van and Agnes have been
' out somewhere together all after
’ noon!” she declared, just as if she
; had actually seen them together.
| "Mrs. Van has been telephoning—
‘ trying to find out where they arc1
; Isn’t that terrible? And who’d
| think that Agnes would try to take
■ another woman's husband away
from her? That goody-goody!”
Billie did not say a word. She
; put on her hat and coat.
"Come along. Chat!” she said,
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quires first consideration. Eat •
meals at regular mtervals. Add V
your diet milk, fresh eggs, plenty ok
green vegetables, fresh and stewed
fmit. Internal medication should be
prescribed by the family doctor?
• • •
J. F. Q—Would diseased and en
larged tonsils cause choking spells?
A.—Yes. It would be wise to have
them removed.
• • •
A. O. Q.—What causes the feet
to be cold ail the time?
• 2.—What causes pains across the
heart?
A —This is usually due to poor
circulation. Build up the general
health and your circulation will
improve.
2.—It would be wise to have your
heart examined to make sure that
it is normal.
>. —.——. —
mi 1 ail If v ha\'- I
represented in the senate? To what
post have I been appointed?
Who shot the late President
James A. Garfield?
Where is the scat of the govern
ment of the Netherlands?
‘ He that belleveth and Is bap
tized shall be saved; but he that be
lieveth not shall be damned."
Where is this passage found in the
Bible?
Today's Horoscope
Persons born on this day are
trustworthy and capable of holding
good positions. They fill an impor
tant niche in the world's affairs.
Star Lore
THE ZODIACAL LIGHT
<By Arthur DeV. Carpenter)
After sunset and the vanishing
of the last traces of twilight, an
other glow in the west in the trail
of the sun presents itself. If one
views this glow from within tad
tropics and in a distinctly clear at
mosphere, he will see It extending
entirely around the ecliptic. In tha
morning, before dawn, the sama
glow appears in the east. It is pro
duced by sunshine reflected from
infinite millions of tiny moonlets.
Every one of these tiny worlds is
moving rapidly In its own orbit
around the sun. Since the glow ap
pears along the belt of the ZodMC,
it is called the Zodiacal light. ▼
iMore tomorrow )
Answers to Foregoing Questions
1. Walter E. Edge; New Jersey:
ambassador to France.
2. Charles J. Guiteau.
3. The Hague.
4. St. Mark, xvi, 16.
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Years pass ... and the brother *
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