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EL PASO HERALD EDITORIAL and MAGAZINE PAGE Tuesday, Aug. 17, 1920. TAXATION BECOMES ALWAYS MORE COMPLICATED, BUT NOT MORE JUST 'rHKBK is ao seeh thing as scientific tazation is actual A operation anywhere. No principle cnderBe; myzt schemes of taxation; the sole consideration in frann"; most tax measures of all gorermaeEts in all ages is expediency. Governments, whether national, state, or local, always try to collect their tax money in the easiest and cheapest way; they take mosey where they can find it, they force to pay those whom they can force to pay, and from those that they cannot force they get money indirectly. There is no such thing as equality or as equity In tax ation. Governments are insatiable in their demands for money. There is always a degree of resistance to over come. Governments impose the heaviest taxes npon those least able to resist, and the aglitest on tnose wno can ana do resist, or on those whom political policy in a measure Exemnta. Bnt those npon whom the direct burden of tax paying falls do not always bear the whole harden. They find many ways by which they can -pass me rax on ana oy cquctung the initial tax in addition to what would otherwise be the normal price or charge, they escape the direct deduction. In some lines of business this is generally possible; in others very diffkatt; fa some impossible. Governments seldom take note of these differences, and great inequality results in this and many other ways. In olden tiroes the poor were unfairly burdened by direct taxes while the powerful nobles escaped. As political thonght developed, the "masses" became more important as political factors and in time became so powerful that by their voting power in democratic governments they suc ceeded in shifting off their backs almost all the direct tax burden. They deceived themselves into thinking that the harder they made it for the business and industrial com munity, the easier it would be for themselves. They failed to take into account the economic laws involved, and only considered the direct and visible results of their taxing Twlicies. Even self-styled "scientific" tax students and "experts" have seldom attempted ta formulate a real soence ef tax ation, but have generally stopped with outlining plans by which governments might collect huge sums without caus iM revolution or actually wrecking business and industry. The "science" of taxation consists in extracting money from the different peepie in a nation, state, or locality in the ways least Hkely te overturn the existing economic and political system and least likely to be disastrous for the party in power. In practice, taxation often and in many ways directly violates economic laws that are universally accepted in theory. Taxation is the most inconsistent and indefensible branch of government so far as its actual methods are concerned. Only the ability of most direct taxpayers to "oass it on." and the nrevaiHne ignorance of the economic laws that inexorably make the majority share the pay ments though they cannot see precisely now or wnen iney pay, enable those who frame the taxing systems in all governments to carry oat their plans successfully. There is friction, but not enough to stop the machinery. Tax the minority the most heavily and thus avoid antagonising politically the majority that must be made to imagine itself exempted or favored that is one rule of those who make tax laws. Take money or property where you can find it, regard less of equity, is another. Take from those who seem to have large resources or large income, regardless of how they obtained them, and let them whistle or "pass it on." Tax everything in sight, and tax the honest and the just enough to up for what cannot be collected from the dishonest and the unjust. Some must and will squeal, but let the few be pinched tfll they squeal, and don't ever let the majority " it Is not being especially favored. These are all political "tt" of long standing and general appli cation. They have far less force, however, in municipal or countv taxation where relations with the people are dose, than in state and national taxation where relations with the people are remote and comparatively indirect. Thus it is that tax systems, especially national and state systems, tend all the time to become more and more i-ftmnlirxtMl and to overtly, alwavs tending to add burdens on the backs of those most easily got at, and to impose be sides a great variety of indirect taxes whose irnai incidence the meat majority of people are not able to trace. In considering only the prevailing methods of taxation in this country, it may be said that tax autcopties uiviae themselves into two principal schools. Assuming that all are substantially agreed that a highly diversified system of taxation is the only practical system from a political standpoint however indefensible it may be from an eco nomic standpoint, there are some who believe that all tax ation should fall exclusively or almost exclusively on tangible and visible things, while others believe that tax ation should fall principally on intangibles and especially on incomes or revenues. In either case, the respective ad vocates urge their systems as most likely to distribute the total burden equitably, and all expect the "pass it on" system to be followed in practice in spite of every device of law and regulation designed to prevent this very thing. There is ao branch of governmental practice more com plicated than taxation; there is none about which more bitter controversies have been waged, none as to which special literature is more voluminous or less informing or helpful All states and nations have had their numerous successive "tax commissions" and exhaustive investigations, only to end up in the same way, with a confession that equitable taxation is unattainable, and recommendations for the more extreme diversifixation and complication of the taxing system. Very rarely has any real simplification or any greater equity of distribution of the burden resulted from these studies. The most that generally results is a new distribution of available sources among the various governmental groups, a pfling on or pyramiding of new taxes on those already heavily burdened, and perhaps a political sop to a specially favored class, in a measure of imaginary relief that says more than it means. Burdens that have long been borne and to which the people have become accustomed are always preferred by the great majority of voters and by their political representa tives to attempted changes whose exact effects cannot be known in advance and might tarn out to be worse than what they were designed to alleviate. Thus those who frame the tax laws have great hesitation about abandoning any of the old sources of tax revenue, for fear they might not ao easily succeed with a new scheme even though it seem, theoretically, to be better. The socalled "single tax on land values" has very many strong points in its favor from a scientific standpoint But it will never be widely adopted in this country, principally for the reason that no possible way could be found under our scheme of government to apply it universally, perma nently, and with absolute justice and equity, and to the entire abandonment of all other sources of tax revenue. All these are essential to the success of the "single tax on land values" and they could net be attained under our system of government. The nearest approach to it which has been found prac tical in this country is the partial exemption of improve ments and of "tools of trade" from taxation as compared with land values. This partial exemption is almost uni versal, and in a slight degree it is an admission that the "single tax on land values" system is at least not an wrong and not all bad. One reason the "single tax on land values" plan has never made much headway is that its original and most prominent exponent, Henry George, developed his plan in a way that did not take sufficient account of existing political' and economic conditions, did not conform to ac cepted scientific method, was rather "dreamy" or visionary, and never commended itself to serious students of govern ment and finance so much as to a loose thinking and by no menus influential group who were led by George and his disciples to expect altogether too much of it. A "single taxer" is still regarded as more or less of a fanatic by most people, few of whom ever took the trouble to find out what all the discussion was really about. In 1 Paso and in some other cities the basic taxing system for municipal revenue, from real estate principally, has been worked out as equitably as it is possible' to do under the prevailing general conditions, over which we have no control, or very little. Assessments in 1 Paso are at least not arbitrary for the most part. They are based on actual values as disclosed, by sales and rentals. . They are under constant revision. They are open, public accessible to all for comparison, subject to reasonable protest and modification at all times, and in line with the general esti mates of the tax payers themselves and of all wen posted local authorities. They may seem high to some, but at least they are not irregular or accidental. A tax payer can always know what his neighbor pays, and' he can always present his arguments.to a court whoso every in terest lies in the direction of avoiding unnecessary friction and keeping the community contented. But after all, it must be admitted that the taxing sys tems as a whole, not merely in the United States but in all countries, are crude, inequitable, often against good public porky, often violative of many sound economic laws and principles. There is no branch of political science more in need of being clarified and brought within the average citizen's intellectual grasp, than the subject of taxation, which af fects every citizen vitally, and yet is generally left to a few men, none too well informed, to deal with in mystery. o Although the price of the stork's visits has donbla In four years the frequency of his arrival will continue to depend more on the upkeep than on the first cost. o How can the rest of us be expected to know what's right in politics when the Soosevelts disagree? o SCHOOL DAYS Copyright. 19Z0, by llcClare Newspaper Syndicate. ByDWIG About Broadway Plays And Players Courtesy To Tourists II IS good advice the Bisbee Eeview is giving to cities of the aouthwest when it urges courtesy to tourists. It urges more, namely, that free camping grounds be provided for motorists and that other essential conveniences be pro vided for travelers in general. El Paso has a free camping ground at Washington park that has called out much appreciative comment. It is not only what tourists may purchase from local dealers wnen they pass through the southwest that entitles them to considerate attention. What tourists say about this country when they go up and down in the land and return to their own homes is most important, for it is such boosting as the tourists give us that brings us home seekers. The southwest is not yet made. There is room here for many times our present population. As a means of putting and keeping the traveler in a good humor some towns in Arizona have signs at the city's edge saying "Welcome" and others saying "Goodbye, come again." That is excellent. Free camping grounds are even better. And good roads probably cheer up the tourist more than anything else. Arizona is aware of that and is plan ning construction of 250 miles of hard surface highway in addition to what she has and in places that will particu larly benefit tourists. The tourist season will soon be on. In the fall no ulaee in the world is more beautiful than the "desert" stretches and mountains and valleys of the southwest. The south west is about the only section of the country that automo bile tourists can enjoy in the winter aside from Florida. Much of our increase in population is due to the liking that VU11U13 IUUA. VU U3 BQU U1B aQYEIUSUlg lUSy gSVe US. VMxrc enwe. ' T . lM!M Tea YWR. &&i$-On faj - I I I II MJ 4JK' jJFjuLfcx- ' ve's see. VfftKTcft got III!) imli lC---?" 9mmE(838ffiMbmffl MMZ& tn iB --& sCS-"" PS "VJtee Asset. Fear To Tread NE T.n. WrtDV A.a IT VJtaw V.. IiH Vfc. -Mft. . M .- Gregor is aruurancroK an pians . .U ....nn XT. w411 IOr IDS M.W UM.MM11 .. ..... bring "The Sweetheart Shop" from Chicago to Broadway on Labor day. A special company will otter this mnslcal comedy on tour. "Self De fence" will open in Chicago on August 2 and come to New York four weeks later. Early In October Mr MacGregtor will prodoeo "The Dream Girl." a mnslcal version of The Road to Yesterday." with book by Rida Johnson Young and music by Victor Herbert. In November he will stage "The Haunted Pajamas" and on Thanksgiving day he will launch a mnslcal version of "A Pair of Stxea ln association with Abraham Levy. Otto Harbach will write the book and lyrics and Louis Hirsch the rausic Later he will produce "A Dislocated Honeymoon." another drama by Myron C. Pagan entitled "Two Strangers from Nowhere." "Meg of the Mountains," a rural drama by Edward Peple, and a mnslcal version of The Misleading Lady." by Otto Harbach. with music by George Gershwin. BY 'WAY OP DIYERSIOX. I strolled along a path one day. No sun I saw on high. Great trouble clouds of darkest gray were hanging from the sky. And as I passed along the way. "So desolate!" moaned L -Why should those trouble clouds be near?" mused I white strolling there. And, as I thought, a smile of cheer came o'er my face; the air was changed at once: the sun shone clear and all about was fair. Henry W. Savage will call Mitel's new starring vehicle "Lady Billy." The book and lyrics are by Zelda Sears and the music Is by Harold Levey. THOSB TVJ3 LIKE. Minnie Dopree la in "The Cream 1 School." Her portrayal ef the school secretary is a worse or arc LB A RAPID THXMiKB. Leo Beers, who still retains his name despite prohibition, plays the piano in The Midnight Rounders" at the Century Promendade. Last night he discovered that one of the keys gave forth a hissing sound. itutg on a sudden Idea fee Invented and sang a snake song (also despite prohibition) and It made a hit. OVHRLOOKES'G SU3PMAN. Samuel Shlpman collaborated with Perdval Wilde In writing a comedy called "First Is Last." It happened last season and the play didn't last. Br BIDE DUDLEY. ... 1 In fact. It failed. The other day Mr. Shlpman had a good laugh over a wire he received from Mr. WUde reading: "liave just learnea -nnos wno Tries To Fiddle 40 Years; Then Comes Jazz and He Does It! Best Summer Resorts In Country Are At El Paso's Doors Cantu asks to be allowed to remain on" the iob until December at which time he says te will quit. He feels sure he will get hia by that time. The reason the Juarez gambling house owners can pay tSQJXtt a month for a concessional, that 23 times out of . !. A.tc.t. ... .Civ ..m.h 41. wm. .m.'i.. w j. 11 inmnj t. tutu WUUtJ VU fcMC .WU JIUUVHi o The man arrested because he was thought to be Bergdoll may as well be heH, for the chances are he has done some thing. Host folks have. A Young Man's Age EL PASO is essentially a young men's city. Comparatively few of the leaders in the city's civic, commercial or political life are over 45. The big things are being accom plished by young men, and it is the younz men of the cirv who must accomplish the star bigger things which will be come realities within the next decade. It is the realization of this fact which mokes the or ganization of the Young Men's Business League at this time peculiarly appropriate. The objects of the body as outlined in its constitution include the active cooperation with the chamber of commerce in all activities in which it may engage, and assures the parent organization of the support of the great body of young men of the city, who, because of their junior capacity, have heretofore been given little opportunity to study and take hold of projects for the dry's betterment 1 Paso s strategic position insures a prosperous com mercial and industrial career. The city is predestined to a tremendous growth, and with this growth come obligations to its citizenship which community leaders may not ignore. Cities in other sections of America are realizing that a communitv's ereatness lies not alone in the volume of its commerce, but Jhat the development of recreational centers, parks, museums, and places where the residents of the city may find relaxation also affects the public's judgment of a city's desirability. Millions of dollars will be spent in El Paso in the next few years for civic betterment, and it is well that the younger generation of business men, who win be entrusted with the work of carrying through to ultimate completion such projects, should also have- a band in their initiation. The Young Men's Business League has an ambitious program -before it, but fortunately its membership is com posed of men who are entirely capable of carrying out am bitious programs, and who in the course of a few years win take their places as successors or tne men wno now arc ai the head of affairs in 1 Paso. u A FEW days ago The Herald pub A lished an editorial on the sub ject of jazz music." said George Kjej. of Pantano, Ariz, "and I cannot refrain from giving the benefit of my knowledge of the subject "For 48 years I have been trying to learn to play the fiddle. With the exception of being unable to get a good tone ou of It. to get my fingers In the right place onHhe fingerboard to ttrodnce any Dartleular note, to bow the instrument properly, and to get any expression out of it, I have practically mastered this beautiful Instrument. "Now along comes the jazz stuff and immediately I become an accomplished violinist. It happens thusly. Most of my notes are squeaks, and what Is more true to form than a fiddle squeak In jazz? Another thing: If I go up In the third or fifth positions after a note and miss It by an Inch and a half, any person wrth an ear for music would at once recognize the effort as a rotten discord; unless he had the jazzy foxtrot, which I am trying to play, before him. he cannot, nor can anyone else, say that the piece Isn't written that way. ' "Now. If you have tried for years vb learn to play an Instrument and have been unable to do so. and along comes a bunch of composers from New York and write a lot of jazz for you In such a way that no one can tell when you are playing It whether you have learned to play the Instru ment or not, then you wonld not writs editorials slammlne the lazz bova. L "I have an old jazz tune before roe. wnuen oeiore uer maoe em as iazzv as they do now. It Is entitled "What 1 do You want to Make Those Eyes at Me For?" It was written by Joe Mc Carthy. Howard Johnson and Jimmy Monaco, arranged by Wm. Schulz, and published by Leo Feist. Now look over those names and see what chance Miss Harmony has to break Into a combination like thai " "El Pasoans are beginning to ap preciate the fact that we have some of the best summer resorts In the nation right at our door." asserted J. Y. Fraser, superintendent of the city employment bureau, who has just re turned from a 15 day vacation spent in New Mexico and Arizona. "As In the case of home town colleges, there seems to be a prevalent belief that the further one goes from home to spend his vacation the more enjoyable time he will have. It Is usually a fact at southwestern summer resorts that, while they attract vacation seek ers from all portions of tb TTnitMi States, most of them are from lone distances and few of them from southwest This has not been th.. case this year. Everywhere I went I saw people from El Paso, and thv were unanimous in expressing sur prise that so many advantaees vrA to be found so near home. It i a After Wilson's through, whoTl we hlame-f or everything? o Mother's vacation wOl start soon, for BUI win be la school. Murder win out and in some states so will the murderer. o One man called 1 Paso Bevo because he said it is near teer Th:y ore noer dons thai ere accompanied Teiih nolle thoughts. Sir FhUlp Sidney. Homesick By WALT MASON. JACK JOHNSIHG, of the golden smile, remained abroad for quite a while. And when he left our well known shore he thought he would return no more, for prison doors were swinging wide, with warders beckoning, inside. He'd lead a llad free fife abroad, and gain and blow a princely wad, and chum with for eign earls and dukes and baronets and other flukes. He stood the gaff for tight long years, still gazing homeward through his tears; at last he rose and oied, "Oh, gee, my native land looks good t6 me! These foreign countries aU grow stale rd rather be at home in jail!" Said Bnma Goldman, when she went. "Your boasted land's not worth a cent; I shake its dust from off my boots; it's ruled by grafters and by plutes; in Russia they've the proper plan It's founded on th rights of nun." She's had some months of Russia now, and grief is throned upon her brow. She, like a dead game sport, admits that she is tired of Russia's fits, and she would give her roller skates to see again the good old states. Unhappy is that weary wight who to this country says "Good night," who sees the lights upon our Bhore, and knows hell see them never more. Copyright by George Matthew Adams. WALT MASON. Hou) I Earned -My First Money I OPHELIA I I EARNED my first money by getting Zl and fonr passes for distributing handbills In a little Mississippi town for a Ten Nights in a Barroom" barn storming company. Bob Page. DETECTIVE FINDS STOLEN ATJTO STORED IN GARAGE. A touring car, stolen here Sunday night was recovered late Monday by detective Frank Williams, from a garage where it had been stored by an unidentified man and women. Po lice believe that "Joyriders" were re sponsible for the theft of this car and five others- which were reported stolen Sunday night Two of the six remain to ce round. VSHKldBnJhUBnB 1 fjES-fSMu i Vy wMiffTrV'" ' commendable thin?. In my opinion, to encoarage snen a spirit, ior ine re sorts of the southwest do most of their wholesale and part of their re tail buying in El Paso." V- "Raw saffar is selling- in New York at from 7 to 9 cents a pound less than it sold for last May." said J. D. Kirk patrlclc "This fall In price U only be ginning- to be reflected in wholesale prices of the bis sugar refiners and has therefore not yet brought down the price much for the retail buyer. Bat thfse movement Is expected soon, with the result that sugar may cease t& brine the high prices that have been quoted since the early part of ApriL "The price that the corner grocer asks Is dependent on what the refiner charges him. The refiner. In turn, regulates his price by the cost of raw sugar at New York, allowing X or 3 cents a pound for his own profit- Bnt today raw sugar is only bringing from 14 to 16 cents, while the "refiner is keeping his price at 22 cents, which prevailed as far back as Hay. when the price for raw sugar was up to S3 cents. At that time the refiner was suffering a loss, but that was a con dition, which lasted for a very short time. There Is every reason to believe that the price will now be forced down, and that, though there will be no return to the old price of cents, there will be a considerable decrease." "Thi KJuukAn i trt 1m th htmreat for season In the history or American fashions.' said David Klein, "and the odd thing about it is that prices mo far are much less than were to be ex pected and compare most favorably with those or last year. The fashion able woman is going to use fur not only for wraps and coats, bat many models in salts, dresses, blouses and hats, show a far trimming, lavish and rich. "Hie short haired furs, such as beaver, nutria, seal and moleskin, are oecoming much more popular the foxes and long haired furs of other seasons and. though the initial expense is much greater, they axe mucn more economical in the ions; run. for they wear years to the months of the others and look well as long as they last. And. though dis plays now seem extensive, the de mand, which will grow throughout me xaii ana winter, xs going' to ex ceed the supply and prices are bouaJ to go higher." BTBRMAN GOBS TO CAMP I SCOUT TEAR A SUCCESS Glenn O. Everman, Bl Paso scout executive, has gone to Camp Satis faction, the scout summer camp Bear Clonrcroft, to take charge of break ing camp. He reports the season as having been one of the most suc cessful In the historr of th imit council of El Paso. Bedtime Stories For The Little Ones imCLE WIGGILY'S HOT DAY. By nOWARO R. GARI&. Uncle Wiggily." said rKAR me. Uncle Wiggily." U Nurse Jane Puny Wuzsy. the musk rat lady housekeeper, one morning. "I want you to go to the store for me, but it is such a dread folly hot day I don't- like to ask yon." "What Is It you want? asked the bunny rabbit gentleman, as he twinkled his pink nose, and put a cabbage leaf In the top of his tall, silk hat. for cabbage leaves are good to keep the sun from making your head sizzle. "I want a sprinkling can so I can water the garden in the cool of the evening," answered the mnskrat lady housekeeper. "Our old sprinkling can has a hole In the bottom, and isnt worth fixing." "All right, TH get yon a new one," promised Uncle Wiggily. "Bat. if you find the dav Is too hot. don't go come on back." begged Miss Fuzzy Wuzzy. as Mr. Longears started off. swlnciiur his red. white and blue striped barber pole rheuma tism crutch like a policeman's club. For the hotter the day the better the ounnys rneumatism xeic .TH take care," promised Uncle Wiggily. So. keeping as much as possible on the shady side of tha nath. UneJe Wiggily started for the store where the old gentleman hand organ grinder monxey sola sprinkling cans. The bunny bought a blir one. that would hold lots of water. -Ton could take a regular shower bath under that if some one would hold it up over you and pour out the water," said the monkey gentleman as he gave Uncle Wiggily the can. indeed I could," agreed the bunny. "And it Is just hot enough for a shower bath today." Then he started back, turning over the cabbage leaf In his tall silk hat. and soon the rabbit uncle was on his way back to his hollow stump bung- i aiow. I But he went by a different, and more shady path this time. and. when he was almost home. Uncle Wiggily heard a sad voice saying: "I am sorry, ray children, but I have no money to take you to the seashore this year. I wish I could, as I know you feel the heat of this day dreadfully. But sit down in the shade, think of Ice cold cheese pies, and try to be happy. "On, but mother. said another sad voice, "we want to go In bathing, and have the water splash on ns the way Jollie and Jillle Longtall went to the seashore once, with Uncle Wiggily." "Alas, my children, that cannot be!" spoke the first sad voice. "I wonder If these are any friends ot mine." tnought uncle wigguy. "it "Why goodness me! DWa't yoa ever hear it said: As poor as a church moaser" asked the Ion? tailed lady. "Well, they're always poor, church mice are! So my children cannot go to the seashore to cool off." "And we want to go so much!" cried" the seven little cirl and boy mlee. "Bow would It do If I brought the seashore herer" asked unoie vrigguy. "Pooh! You can't r said the oldest moose girL "Have you any salt!" asked the bunny of the mouse lady. "Yes. I am not so poor bat what 1 have that." she answered. "Then please get me a big1 box that win now water, and some san, spoke the bonny. And. when this was brought, he filled the box with water, put some salt in and stirred it up, and then he heaped sand around the box. There, now, you mice children can put on ynr bathing suits, and jump water, saw "Swim around. in the big box of salt water,' uncle w ik any. it will be like a little ocean to you. And then come out and sit on the sand." "Oh. what fan! cried the mice chll- "ft&ArTtttt : ! ., .. ' r w fc-Vfe. J2tr 4fg-' mmm &F&2 raw-icz ! ' ai?-z CJ BH7fc&- L?!TS"S3C,S' Rives me entire credit for authorship of Tirat Is Last.' Greatlr regret that credit Is not given yon tor jour share In It.- MISS W111TK EAST. Frances White has left the first -Greenwich VTUaee Follies." now playing In Chicago, to begin rehears ing in Arthur Hammerstein's sroduc--Uon of 'Jlraraie.' COLUMBIA OPEXS. The regular season at the Columbia. theater began Monday afternoon. when "Hip. Hip. Hooray" was pre sented. The theater has heen reno vated, redecorated and refurnished. SHOWS WrLI. ASSIST. The casts of four Broadway mosleal ahoucs.wilI participate in the carnival at Lose Beach to help raise J3.000.0" i for the Amy and Navy club of America. The carnival began Mon day and huts a week. The shows are. -The Poor Little Bits Girl." "Scandals of 1539.- "The Night Boat" and Honey GirL" FIL3I STARS SAHIXC. Norma and Constance Talmadge. accompanied by Joseph M. Schenelc and their secretary, niald and family physician have sailed for Europe for a vacation and to get film material GOSSIP. George Marlon Is to appear la The Toreador." Max Spiegel. Just bade from Cleve land, says his new show, "Abe Rey nolds Review." is a hit. Lou Holtz has Introduced a new song called "Rock the Baby to Sleeps in "Scandals of ." A certain press agent wants ss to believe that several of the chores girls in "The Midnight Rounders" at tended a recent lecture on Freudian psychology. A THOUGHT FOR TO DAT. Reversing in round dances isn't fashionable now. A year ago It was just the reverse. FOOLISHMBST. Little WQIle had a guns Pulled the tiiaxer for funi No one chanced to be la range Ta!s sound, very, very strange). FR031 TUB CHBSTCTrr TREE. "Why Is it that lightning never strikes twice tat the same placer "Because after the first ttoe th. place isn't tu.re any more." YE TOWNE GOSSIP - - - w IUstotnd XL S. Patent OtOce) EAR K. C B.: Suggested by you, I motored out to a little village with a little hotel on the main street. I stayed one night and In the evening sat on the norch with three old men. And listening to the conversation I was reminded of a tale of Norwegian mythology. Up In the mountains of Norway there lived enormous men. as big as the mountains tnenwelves. Xrolla, they called them. One day three of them were sitting down In company. One of tbem asked a question. One hun dred years passed and one of them answered. Another hundred years, as the third Troll arotm and stretch id and said: "If yoa renews are going tj talk so much. Tm going." Where do yon get this staff about village hotels? H. M. HOLT. YOU'VE FOTJXD the place. I CnOTVTf SAXE again. ITB DREAMED about. A'D I want te ask. ... JUST WHERE it la. ... SO I may go. ... AND SIT out there. ... WITH tour three old men. ... AND JUST pretend. ... THAT THE four of us. ... WHBRE THE mythical men. ... OF YOUR Norway hills a AXD TVUBRB we were. "WAS A quiet place, s OP MOUXTAJX tops. WHBHE XO one came. AD NO word came. OF THE world below. OK OF Its wars. OR ITS ElweH murder. OR OF its strikes. m m OR ITS profiteers. OR ITS Juarez gamblers. OR ITS Bl Paso road houses. OR ITS polities. XXD "WE oouM walk. WHERE'ER TVE wonld. AXD TIATE ao fear. ynBTD BB ms down, BY ARMY trucks. ID UKB to be there. FOR A day or two. AND IF ob of the fonr. SlIOULD BREAK the spelL LIKE TUB first Troll did. I'D GET op and go. m m LIKE TUB other Troll.' AND IF I COVM. IT) STAY away. FOR OXB hundred years. AND MAYBE then. I'D FIND the world. I THAXK yo-8. TOM CRUTCHER IS EXALTED RULER OF EASTLAND LODGE Tom W. Cruteher, formerly of FT Paso, fa at present exalted ruler of the lodge of SDts of Eastland. He has Just returned to Eastland fxca, attending the grand lodge convention. of the eider in Chicago. I Fill Out With Pencil mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmMBaammmmman i 3. T s V - .34 ! ? A- ''4 r s? Trace tte Enes and tnen an Looks down wi& a sleepy scowL Draw front one to two and so on to the end. certainly doesn't sound like the Pip 1 sprinkling can up on a branch In a or Skee. I'm triad to savJ So he looked over the top of some lollypop corn bushes, and there the bnnny saw a poor mouse ladyjmd her seven little boy and girl children. They had no very ragged clothes, and looked very poor and unhappy. "Ha! What seems to be the trou ble?" asked Uncle 'Wiggily, in his most kind of jolly voice. "Oh. Mr. Iiongears!" exclaimed the monse lady, "how yoa surprised me! WelL the truth of the matter is that the children want to go to the sea shore, but I have no money to send them. I am a church mouse, you know." "What difference does that make?" asked Uncle WieirilT'. twinklinsr his pink nose. Tm a church mouse. 70a know. dren and In they EDlashed. They didn't have to put n bathing salts. xney jast wore tneir regular raggea clothes. The salt water got in their mouths ana noses jnst as it ooes at the seashore. And. while they were splashing. Uncle Wiggily hong the tree, after he had filled the can with water. He also tied a long string to It "Whars that fort" asked Mrs. Church Mouse. "That's the shower bath! laughed the bunny. And. when the moose children stood under the tree, the rabbit pulled the string, tilted the sprinkler up and down showered the water. So they had fresh and salt water baths, and it was a most lovely time for a hot day. And, if the elephant doesn't step on the rubber ball and make It squeak like a mouse, of which he Is very much afraid. Ill tell you next about Uncle Wlfrellv and the red flower. Copyright, is-20. by McClure News paper Syndicate. Kabibble Kabaret OriSIM. Hl, !itrutfeul futot Scnlct. lac-Jhslstaid C. 2. raust OSes, rJffi JP-lT AM WSB&-ND TO WJDCR Afc COOWNGTD-mg NBlffH&OBS ACKOSS THE HRL? T OOrATftTr lilUM t Hie -m Tv t- f.icrvt -am-M APE ON1LV ACROSS THE Wftll ' EL PASO HERALD DEDICATED TO THE SFRVICE OI THE PEOPLE THAT SO GOO) CAUSE SHAIJ. LACK A CtlAMPlOJi. AJiD THAT EVIL SIMM, SOT TITTUTE UXOPPOSEIfc" H. 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