Hidden Taxes Dull Taxpayer’s
Feeling
People who are close to this ad
ministration admit that this gov
erment will never go back to the
old-time budgets which used to be
around four or five billion dollars.
If good times come, these people
say, we may get below a seven bil
lion dollar a year budget, but not
r for long. They know that the bud
get will always go up. It always
has gone up.
In answer to the many questions
asked by newly arrived visitor
here: “Where will it all come out?”
The answer is that it will come out
of the pockets of the people. It is
argued that the people continue to
want more and more. Thai costs
money, people’s money. So that
why there is so much talk right
now about our tax structure. Some
are advocating the repeal of “hid
den taxes” which now produpe
most of the government revenue
and enact instead direct and visible
taxes that touch the pocket nerves
of the largest number of voters.
These people figure that when they
touch the individual pocketbook,
they touch the heart. They feel if
the people or voters actually felt
the hidden taxes which they do not
feel so much now, they might sud
denly realize that they are hiring
somebody to actually spend their
actual cash in hand.
Want An Embargo on Junk Metal
Although it has been going on
for quite a few years, members of
the House and Senate have sudden
ly awakened to the fact tnat Amer
ica is being denuded of scrap tin
JL- and scrap iron, which is being
shipped to Japan and European
countries, where it is being turned
into engines and munitions of war.
Junk dealers all over the United
States have been gathering the
cast iron metals in quantities and
shipping it out, until at last the
metal interests of the United States
are crying for an embargo before
^ our country is stripped of metal
which is needed here. Only a short
time ago we went into a war to
end all wars and to make the world
safe for democracy, and now a bill
has been introduced in the Senate
asking for the control of junk
metal and it may come up for dis
cussion later with some very inter
esting revelations.
City Wants More Money
So fast is this City of Washing
ton growing that the commission
ers of the town are formulating a
five year—seventy-five million dol
lars improvement program for the
district. Although plans are under
way by the city government to in
crease taxation here, the people of
the town are focusing their eyes on
Congressmen, wanting the taxpay
ers of the forty-eignt states to con
tribute a little money toward the
expense of this,city. ^
Crowds of Employees Amaze
A Nebraskans
Wonderment is written on the
faces of Nebraska visitors who go
down town at 9 o’clock in the morn
ing and see thousands of well
dressed young men and young wo
men hurrying to get into the office
buildings. They come out again by
the thousands at four or four thirty
in the afternoon. During those
t hours the streets are jammed with
busses, street cars, taxis and pri
vate cars. It is a street traffic
problem twice a day, morning and
afternoon.
Nebraskans say they, see such
' crowds once a year— that’s when
the circus comes to their town.
Washington has a circus crowd
twice a day, only the Washington
crowds are about twenty times the
size of our Nebraska circus crowds.
“What God Hath Wrought”
On 14th and F streets here in
Washington, stands a telephone
pole which marks the spot where
the first telegraph office in Jne
United States was located. It might
be of interest also to know thatihe
first telegram ever sent was “clrck
ed off” on a telegraph key by Sam
uel F. B. Morse on May 24, 1844
and this telegram was sent from
the old supreme court room in the
capitol building to Alfred Vail, who
was a partner of Morse and who
lived at Baltimore. The telegram
read as follows: “What God Hath
Wrought.” Vail had gone to Balti
more which is a short distance from
Washington for the express pur
| pose of receiving this message and
testing their new invention.
The old supreme court room
which was the first sending station
of telegrams, is threatened to be
come an inner room, because plans
show a bill has already passed the
Senate to change the entire front
of the nation’s capitol. The bijl
will be given a hearing in the
V House committee on buildings and
grounds, which committee, a year
ago, defeated such an attempt.
Need Efficiency and Economy
People at home ought to know
that several committees have been
appointed to study government
bueraus and government spending
and that these committees have
made their reports. The President’s
message on executive reorganiza
tion was the result of a committee
which was appointed by the ex
ecutive. One committee dwells
much on “economy” and the other
on “efficiency.”
The committee on economy has
given some unusual facts which
should be of interest. While these
facts were called to the attention
of home folks in these column*,
several times last year, they are
given again.to refresh the memory.
Government agencies offices are
scattered from Washington to
Alexandria in Virginia all the way
to Baltimore in Maryland. These
offices should be located at the seat
of government in Washington. The
Resettlement Administration has
thirteen addresses in Washington.
There are over 104 information and
publications offices for the govern
ment here. The government rents
a building where government em
ployees can get information about
what government agencies do and
where they are located, but changes
are so fast that offices do not have
all the information. There are 126
agency libraries here. There are
fifty-one traffic managers in Wash
ington — these arrange personel,
transportation, freight and also
make purchases. The federal gov
ernment now pays for more than
32,882 telephones in this town as
compared with 17,000 telepnones in
1930. The government now has
114,792 listed civil executive em
ployees, not including those em
ployees on the judicial, executive,
military and relief payrolls. There
are twice as many employees in this
town alone as we had in the rosy
days of 1927. Taxpayers pay near
ly two million dollars a year for
rental.
There have been more new jobs
created since 1933 than during the
first century of our nation’s exist
ence, and rgiht now we are still
adding at the rate of 100 new em
ployees for every day and every
month, and the town has been over
run with men and women looking
for government jobs. Back in 1916
our total cost of government in
cluding interest on our public debt
was around one billion dollars.
Now the interest on our public debt
alone is nearly as great as the total
cost of government in that year.
Not counting recovery and relief,
we are spending nearly six times as
much as we spent in 1916, so it is
no wonder that both sides feel that
the major problem is going to cen
ter around “what are we going to
do with these hundreds of govern
ment agencies doing about the same
thing.” The question is will it be
economy and efficiency, or will it be
efficiency alone?
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PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Sunday School 10:00—Mr. C. E.
Yantzi, superintendent.
Morning Worship 11:00—“Let
ting the Truth Shine.”
Evening Service 8:00—This will
be a Union service. Rev. A. J. May
will preach and the singing will be
led by a Men’s chorus and orches
tra.
In these days of uncertainty and
tragedy we ought to turn to God.
H. D. Johnson, Pastor.
METHODIST CHURCH
A. J. May, Pastor
Sunday school at 10 a. m.
Gospel service of worship at 11
a. m.—Vocal solo, Clarence Selah;
Sermon subject, “Sameness in Re
ligious Experiences.”
- Epworth League at 7 p. m.—
Frank Reece, leader. A special
meeting.
Evening Union Service at the
Presbyterian church 8 p. m. Ser
mon subject, “Is Doing Good Being
Religious?” Men’s chorus special.
Official board meeting Tuesday
at 8 p. m. at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Archie Bowen.
STATE HOUSE SHORTS
L. H. Bucholz, successor to W. B.
Banning as state director of agri
culture, has"begun his new work.
Otho De Vilbiss is Governor Coch
ran’s new private secretary. Theo
Osterman, former private secretary
succeeded Thomas Gass as a mem
ber of the liquor commission.
Ten Nebraska cities have been
named by O. S. Bare, United States
extension service entomoligist, as
key centers for the distribution of
grasshopper poison. These are Mc
Cook, Scottsbluff, North Platte,
Sidney, Alliance, Columbus, Lin
coln, St. Paul, Holdrege and Frank
Uim If necessary county seat cen
ters may, in some instances be
made distribution points for ad
joining counties.
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Over the County
SOUTHWEST BREEZES
By Romaine Saunders
Mr. and Mrs. H. L. James spent
Sunday in Atkinson.
Farm-to-market roads make fas
cinating pre-election talk.
Maurice Kentnedy was over this
way from Amelia Saturday.
E. E. Young took a trailer load
of hogs to the sale ring Tuesday.
Agricultural experts say the wind
helps the grass grow. We’ll take
ours in showers.
Ray Bly and family spent the
day Monday at the home of Mrs.
Bly’s parents over in Wyoming.
Monday morning an airplane
droned across at a height that put
it above the low drifting clouds
headed due north.
The editor can have this column
for the following few weeks for
something worth while, as I will
be away for a time.
Mrs. Welton was over in the
southwest Friday, accompanying
her husband, with the baby, on his
mail route out of Amelia.
Mrs. H. E. Eno of Lincoln, ac
companied her mother, Mrs. Saun
ders and brothers on their return
home Tuesday. Her two boys are
with her.
If the Russians want a—what is
it they have?—the Germans a Hit
ler, the Italians a Mussolini, the
Spaniards a revolution, that’s their
business.
What Bernard Kennedy regarded
as his choicest of the milk stock
died a day last week. The cow had
been unable to get onto her feet for
some two weeks previous.
Mrs. Roblyer of Atkinson, ac
companied by her nephew, Lee
Smith of Burwell, stopped in the
neighborhood Monday while on her
way home from a trip to Lincoln.
Something is always taking the
joy out of life for certain groups.
Italian winebibbers are in distress
because there are “only 3,750,000,
000 gallons” in prospect for this
season.
Someone has it figured out that
Americans have got self-govern
ment down to where there are a
hundred and seventy-five thousand
government units that now absorb
twelve billion five hundred million
dollars annually. It costs about
$2 a vote down here in Swan to hold
a primary election.
Just how a horse can lie down by
a barbed wire fence to roll, flop
over and get up on the other side
of the fence without being slashed
by the barbs is something of a
trick. A 3-year-old did that in the
pasture Sunday and came to meet
me when I went out to lead her
back thru the gate.
Those who had visions of the
short strip of highway out of Am
elia, about the only thing the south
west ever benefited from a legisla
tive act, being extended thru the
ranch country to the west have
been sadly let down. Of the $1,
500,000 to be spent on highways
the southwest doesn’t get a smell.
But we were not included in the
gas tax exemption.
Those who are busy tearing the
country to pieces never run out of
ideas. One of the latest is to sub
stitute for the actual date upon
which national and state holidays
fall the Monday following, thus
giving at that particular time three
successive days cessation from
business. Don’t know whether the
cows would hold over that long
without being milked.
The southwest furnished the
cowboy-artist who has been award
ed the job of drawing the rodeo
scene for the Union Pacific railroad
to adorn the front of a folder the
railroad is issuing. The “lucky
dog” is Hugh Thomas James, from
our neighboring ranch. Hugh left
the ranch some two years ago and
took up the study of commercial
art at a large institute in Minne
apolis and he developed a talent
that has been recognized by one of
the most exacting advertisers in
the country. The railroad offered
a prize of $25 for an idea depicting
a rodeo scene and an additional $75
for the completed drawing. Among
a number of contestant’s Hugh’s
offering has been accepted. He is
now in Omaha after some months
spent at home since being injured
in a railroad wreck in January.
Hugh grew up amid Holt county
ranch scenes and with his talent for
drawing is eminently fitted to por
tray the bronic-riding stuff.
MEEK AND VICINITY
Mr. and Mrs. James Spindler
came up from Omaha Thursday to
attend the graduation of the Spind
ler twins, Leone and Lera, and also
for a few' days visit with her folks.
They returned home Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Herman Wright
and Miss Nellie Hinman of Calif
ornia, were guests at the John A.
Robertson home Wednesday and
Thursday.
Mrs. Nellie Stevenson of Valen
tine and Mrs. Dude Harrison and
son, Billy of Crawford, came down
and spent the w’eek-end at the Or
ville Harrison home. Mrs. Harri
son and son went on to Spencer
for Memorial day, also making a
business trip to Butte, returning to
the Orville Harrison home Monday.
They left for their homes Tuesday.
Mrs. Stevenson is a sister of Mr.
Harrison.
Supper guests at. the Roy Spind
ler home Saturday were Mr. and
Mrs. James Spindler, Mr. and Mrs.
A. L. Borg and Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Griffith and Cecil.
Mr. and Mrs. Dave Hansen, Mr.
and Mrs. Adolph Hansen «and son,
Wayne, and Mr. and Mrs. Paul
Modica and sons, Donald and Dar
rel, and daughter, Jean, drove from
Sioux Falls, S. D., for a visit at the
Eric Borg and Dan Hansen homes.
They also called at the Frank Grif
fith home Monday.
A son was born to Mr. and Mrs.
Elmer Devall May 31. Mother and
babe are doing nicely, and Elmer is
expected to recover. Mrs. Devall
was formerly Dorothy Harrison.
Guests at Frank Griffith’s Sun
day were Mr. and Mrs. James
Spindler of Omaha, Mr. and Mrs.
R. D. Spindler, Leone and Leroy,
Mable and Lucille Jones and Wal
ter Devall.
Guests at the Dan Hansen home
Monday were Mr. and Mrs. Dave
Hansen, Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Han
sen and son Wayne, Mr. and Mrs.
Paul Modica and sons Darrel and
Donald and daughter Jean of Sioux
Falls, S. D., Mr. and Mrs. Eric Borg
and Marvel, Mr. and Mrs. Virgil
Hubby, * Mr. and Mrs. William
Hubby and Mr. and Mrs. Howard
Rouse, Lawrence, Lloyd and Del
bert.
Miss Maude Rouse of O’Neill,
spent Saturday night at the How
ard Rouse home. .
Walter Rouse of Inman, is help
ing Henry Walters a few days.
Memorial Day services at Pad
dock Union were largely attended,
the church being filled to capacity.
The children did fine with their
readings and songs, and the young
people also did well with the sing
ing. Rev. May of the O’Neill Meth
odist church gave a very good ad
dress. A beautiful new flag was
purchased this year.
Laverne Borg called at the Grif
fith home Tuesday afternoon.
Miss Christina Kaczor came out
from O’Neill Monday and is visiting
at the home of her brother, Will,
and family.
Miss Muriel Graham has been
helping Mrs. Gus Karel the past
week.
Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Hull and
children of Sioux City, Iowa, were
guests Sunday at the home of Mrs.
Ella Hull.
INMAN NEWS
Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Rouse and
family drove to Wayne Friday to
'get their daughter Lelia who has
attended the State Normal school
there the past term.
Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Brown and
daughters, Musetta and Wilma,
drove to Wausa Monday where they
visited at the home of Rev. Mertie
E. Clute.
Miss Martha Mae Janousek and
little brother of O'Neill, are spend
ing the week with Mrs. L. Kopecky.
Lewis Kopecky, who submitted
to an operation for acute append
icitis at the hospital in O'Neill last
week is recovering rapidly. His
many friends will be glad when he
can return home again.
Mr. and Mrs. John Anspach spent
the week-end in Emmet with their
daughter, Mrs. John Conard and
family.
Mr. and Mrs. Lorin Doughty and
daughters, Mary and Mildred, of
Norfolk, spent the week-end here
at the L. R. Tompkins home.
Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Hare and
children of Lincoln, spent Sunday
and Monday here with her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Coleman.
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Hansen of
Creighton, were here Sunday visit
ing at the home of her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. F. E. Keyes.
Miss Lucille Stevens returned
from Wayne Wednesday. She had
been a student at the Wayne teach
ers college the past year.
Mr. and Mrs. Cleve Roe and
daughter, Hazel, of West Point,
came Saturday for a few days visit
with relatives.
Judge and Mrs. C. J. Malone of
O’Neill, and Miss Florence Malone
of Omaha, were visitors at the
home of Mrs. Mary M. Hancock
Sunday.
Dorlin Lockman, Eighth grade
teacher in the Inman schools has
accepted a position at the Barnhart
Market in O’Neill for the summer.
Mr. and Mrs. Merle Sparks and
son of Newport, were week-end
visitors here among relatives. They
returned home Monday accompan
ied by Mrs. Dave Morsbough and
son Harland, who will visit rela
tives there for a few days.
Mr. and Mrs. F. N. Johnson and
son, Erwin, Hylda Brittell and
Rena Morsbough were here from
Omaha Sunday visiting among rel
atives.
Lowell Fraka, who is stationed in
a CCC camp at Vulentine, was home
over the week-end.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Conard and
daughter Marva were up from
Neligh Sunday visiting relatives.
Miss Lois Moor, who taught at
North Bend the past year, arrived
home this week for a visit with her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Moor.
Mr. and Mrs. Sam Noring and
family of Spencer, were here Sun
day visiting his mother, Mrs. Eva
Noring and other relatives.
Mrs. Elizabeth Coleman returned
home from Ironclad, Minn., Friday,
where she had been during the ill
ness and death of her mother.
Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Conard spent
Sunday at Redbird at the home of
his brother, George Conard.
PLEASANT DALE
Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Coleman
and family of Phoenix, and Mrs.
Vera Hickman attended the gradu
ating exercises in O’Neill Thursday
evening.
Mr. and Mrs. Sylas Coy and
children visited relatives in Stuart
Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Young and
daughters, Ollie and Marie, were
dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Leon
Beckwith Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Dean Beckwith
plan to stay at the Fred Beckwith
home this month.
Park Young of Central City, ar
rived here Sunday afternoon for a
short visit with the E. R. Young
family and other relatives.
Quite a number enjoyed the
school picnic in the Andrew John
son district Saturday. However a
nice shower broke up the picnic
early.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Seger and
son, Gerald, came up from Sutton
Sunday and are guests at the Gus
Seger home.
Mrs. Guy Beckwith and children
spent Sunday with her mother, Mrs.
Vera Hickman. Arlene Beckwith
remained for a longer visit.
Mr. and Mrs. Gus Seger received
word from Norfolk of the arrival
of a granddaughter at the home
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CAT FISH 5 lbs. Each 30c
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of Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Keeney
Saturday, May 22. Mrs. Keeney
was formerly Elizabeth Seger.
Fred Schnardt and Wayne John
son who have been working for
Fred Beckwith left for Wyoming
the first of the week to work.
EMMET ITEMS
Miss Lucille Lowery, only daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. John Lowery
of Emmet, became the bride of
Merle McKinney of Townsend,
Mont., at a ceremony performed by
the Rev. Mr. Longneeker at the
Methodist church in Hamilton,
Mont., Saturday evening, May 22,
at 8:30 o’cldck. The bride wore a
tailored suit of gray with a pink
blouse. They were attended by
Francis Sargent and Mary Jean
Miles of Darby, Mont. Mrs. Mc
Kinney lived all her life in Holt
county, first at Chambers and then
at Emmet, until she went to Mon
tana two years ago. She is a
graduate of the Atkinson high
school with the class of 1935. Mr.
McKinney is employed in a gold
mine at Townsend, where they will
make their home.
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. ‘Dude’ Maring
of North Platte, stopped in Emmet
Monday for a short visit with
friends. They were on their way to
Atkinson where they will be guests
of his father, John Maring.
Mrs. Anthony W'elsh who has
been ill in the Atkinson hospital the
past ten days, is somewhat im
proved. •
The Ladies Aid of the Methodist
church met at the home of Mrs.Guy
Beckwith Wednesday, May 26. Mrs.
John Key was assistant hostess.
B. W. Wagner of Burwell was in
Emmet Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Cecil McMillan
v'ere O’Neill callers Tuesday.
Dick O’Connell and sister, Mrs.
Sam Mecollo and baby daughter,
returned to Omaha Saturday after
a few days visit with relatives.
J. B. Ryan of O’Neill, was in Em
met Tuesday afternoon and he and
Guy Cole went to Atkinson to the
livestock sale.
Mrs. John Bonenberger, Mrs.
Clyde Allen and Mrs. Clarence Farr
w'ere guests at the Wm. Wolfe
home at O’Neill Friday. They also
attended a picnic at the Wolfe
school. Hugh Stanley Allen, who
had spent several days with his
grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Wolfe,
returned home with his mother.
Casper Winkler and mother, Mrs.
Joe Winkler, Sr., were callers in
O’Neill Friday.
Mrs. Bob Fox of O’Neill, wa3
calling on relatives and friends in
Emmet Thursday.
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