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BILL WOULD i ABOLISH AD VALOREM TAX Moody to Appear Be fore Committee Wednetday Bv RAYMOND BROOKS AUSTIN, Feb. 27 —Former Gov. Dan Moody has been Invited before the senate constitutional amend ments committee Wednesday night to discuss the proposed amendment abolishing all state ad valorem taxes Jan. 1, 1933 it was announced by Sen. Tom DeBi rv. Others also asked before the com mittee include Highway Commr. Cone Johnson. Former Sen. Thomas B Love, Dallas. Maco Stewart. Gal veston; Richard Kleberg, Corpus Chriati. and representatives of or ganized labor. The advice and counsel of such men " Sen. DeBerry said, "will go a long way toward establishing the reasonableness and need of this amendment. Every person is Invited to discuss this subject. The most regrettable feature of this hearing is that the average cttizcn interest ed in this subject cannot be here If the opinion of all those who are now suffering from the present injustice of too much tax on real property could be heard, there would be no doubt as to the passage of this amendment through both bodies of the legislature The elim ination of the state ad valorem tax will naturally call for other taxes Thosa who fear that such tax might be levied on them are able, and will certainly be here " Sen. DeBerry declared, "Much has been said by tax experts, politic ians. members of the legislature and governors about the unjust tax bur den on farms, homes and real prop erty. but nothing specifically has ever been done about it. "Nothing will ever be done about it untU the state »d valorem tax is absolutely abolished . . . When this is done, those who are now en joying the protection of this gov ernment and are not paying their fair share of taxes will be forced to make up the deficit. "The tax survey commission re port, made a few years ago, recom mended this method of securing tax equalization. Ex-Tax Commr. John G. Willacy, and Ex-Tax Commr F. C. Wetnert also agree with this plan. ■ When taxes prohibit the owning Of a home, and when taxes prohibit the owning of a farm, it is certain ly time that something should be done about it. "When the government makes taxes equal and uniform according to the ability to pay and when the government gives * dollar’s worth of service for the dollar thus ob tained. and when it distributes priv ileges and restraint equally, this In deed will be a government that lives up to our democratic funda mentals of equal rights to all and special privileges to none The per petuity of a democratic form of government depends on reasonably successfully doing this." Battle of Words Features Strike NEW ORLEANS. Feb. 27 — fJPU The four-dav-old longshoremen's strike today had evolved Into a battle of statement* from officials of opposing groups while strikers brushed shoulders with heavier de tails of police who were squelching Street rumpuses. The announcement of steamship officials that more than 1.000 work ers were successfully working the ships, brought retorts from Union officials that “riff-raff" was being employed. The unions condemned activities of “outsiders'’ attempting to excite strikers to violate the fed eral Injunction protecting the prop erty and business of the shippers. Fight hundred delegates from 35 countries attended the recent Inter national Congress of Building and Public Works Contractors in Lon don Weaver Elated Over Results Tvs spent lots of money on dif ferent medicines—but Sargon and Bargon Pills did me more good than A. C. WEAVER everything else put together,’ de clared A. C. Weaver, RFD No. j, Dallas. • As far back as I can remember I have suffered with dyspepaia. constipation and billousneaa: final ly got so nervous and rundown I could hardly work. Saigon was the onlv medicine that ever master ed m Jrtroubles. Now everything agrees with me perfectly. I’m not nervous either; sleep like a log. and get on the job feeling fine. Sargon PUls ere so far ahead of anything I ever used for constipa tion and biliousness there is no comparison. They are effective, but mild at the same time.” Hold by Cisneros Drag Stores - BAN JOHNSON SERIOUSLY ILL ' -- Associated Press Photo Byron Bancroft Johnson, for msny years baseball's dominant figure, it critically III in a St. Louia hospital. Two pictures of the for* mar American Issgus president are shown here. Picture on right was taken recently when he was a patient at Hot Springs, Ark. 1 VALLEY FINISH PLANS Meeting To Be Called Some Time Next Week to Make Arrangement* Although * definite date for tht next meeting of Valley Irish has non been set by John C. Fanning Brownsville, Tim O’Leary ant! George Scanlan of Port Isabel an busily completing arrangements t< handle the large crowd that is ex pected to gather at the port city March 17. St Patrick's Day. The two Port Isabel Irishmen are doing the bulk of the work, it was reported, and the city of Port Isabel is standing expenses for the fish try and dance Prominent speakers are to be in vited to attend the meeting, and a large parade with a green motif is to be held In Brownsville during the morning of 8t. Patrick's Day One more meeting is to be held at the El Jardin hotel, possibly next week, during which Irish from over the entire Valley will gather and determine definite plans for the celebration, and the numerous com mittees that have been named will report their activities > Britain’s national birth rate is again increasing HUNDRED MILLION PLANTS ARE PACKED FOR SHIPMENT TO STRAINS OF RADIO MUSIC BY HARRY FOEHNER (Herald Staff Correspondent) RAYMONDVILLE, Feb. 27.— While they listen to radio broad casts from four countries, some 200 employes of the Dodge Plant Farms here, pack for shipment one hun dred million cabbage, pepper, onion and tomato plants a season Although housed in an unpreten tious building much like a fruit or vegetable packing shed, this is probably the largest single industry in the Raymondviiie community with the exception of farming it self. So great is its volume of bus iness. in fact, that its stamp bills have helped th** local postoffioe secure a raise in rating several times. While the laborers are busily sorting, cutting and packing the plants, a loudspeaker brings to them the program offered by radio sta tions in the United Slates. Canada. Mexico and Cuba. Most of the laborers are Mexicans and frequent programs in Spanish are tuned in from Mexico and Cuba It not only entertains the laborers while they work but It keeps them from talk ing which causes them to slow up The loudspeaker is an extra one attached to a radio set at the res idence of C S. Dodge, owner of the plant industry. Either or both the loudspeaker at the house and pack ing shed may be operated at the same time Late at night, long after all except the most ardent of radio bugs have switched off their re ceiving sets, the laborers hear the most distant and some of the small i rr stations which they cannot get when other broadcasts are oper ating on the same channels. Much work Is done through the night at the shed. From October to June, the com pany is busy shipping plants to all parts of the United States and i ports of Canada Its last order last June was from Canada and was for a million onion plants. The first orders usually are from thi , Valley because it is a winter grow ing section Then the company keeps sending plants further north as the season advances. For a few months during the summer thert is comparatively little activity. Not only does the company havi 200 acres of its own for growing plants but it buys many plants frorr farmers when they thin out theii i crops. Many farmers buy their seed from this company It requires from 200 to 230 per sons at one time to keep the busi ness gome during the shipping ►Cason. This accounts for a heavy payroll Then during the seasor the stamp bill amounts to aboul 1100 a day which accounts for the heavy postal receipts of the Ray mondville office. The express bus iness also is large, solid carload! of plants sometimes going out. More ground is being planted tc vegetables and the de nand for | plants is heavy, according to Mr Dodge. More persons are inclined to grow their own food since thi drought and depression over th« country, he said. Plants of this company ari ! grown in the open field withoui Irrigation or protection which causes them to he better rooted and to be more hardy. Mr Dodge say* 1mm IF SORE HROAT ftlipEf l*m eefe Mutterofe — 'counter irntnnt" unualtjr effective in one aopheetien — belter when applied " w W-* V V V *1 What Price Genius? Grant Injunction i « I CHICAGO. Feb. 3ft.——when it comes to electrical currents, John A. Weber knows a thing or two. His wile, who is suing him for separate maintenance, told a su perior ccurt judge about it yes terday. asking for an injunction. | to curb his genius “What?*’ asked the court, ‘did he do?" "He rigged up a device." she said, "by which he rang three ; door belts and two telephones *n the hoase at the same time. They would ring when I would be going to sleep " “The Injunction." said the court, i "is granted.” Plants grown by this company are i larger than those offered by most I other growers and also are In big demand for this reason Several varieties each of onions, cabbage, tomato and pepper plants are j 11 grown fjTONSTIPATiD? # Taka M—MATtfM? BSM10T . —tonight. Year eliminative I li organ* will bo functioning prop- f arty by morning and your eon- * w atipatioo will «ad with a bowel f 1® action so free and euy m no ® taro at feor be*t— po«itivtly no ^ | P»»n. no fhpmg. Try it MiM. 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