| Show Industries d t ie Should I Combine To Fight Fig I High h Taxes Equity in taxation of or physical property consists consist in taxing every ery kind species and it item Hem m of such prop prop- property property dollar dol- dol dollar dol dollar the necessary rate per crt erty at n H II Smith Smith secretary lar of value says say Harry secretary of the gild Continent Oil and Gas association Thi is the ideal of the property tax results is Failure to secure ideal Heal traceable traceable t to two main n cau causes 1 I FJ to tn n i and state stat the t true value lu th of-th of the va-rious va various kinds md and it items ms of property 2 Failure to discover dis- dis discover dis discover cover and put on the tax roll many items of property particularly per per- personal personal property Industry should unite on the sub sub- subject sub subject says sap the National Petroleum News in commenting on Mr Ir Smiths discua ion of unequal taxation II All the oil men the cotton men the rail rail- railroads railroads I roads the farmers and the merchants should descend in a body on the rap rap- rapI rapacious rapacious rap I politicians and g give e them their instructions The cost of government must come down if there is to be any any- anything anything I Those who thing left for anybody own the property are arc the wasters and they should assert their mastery I Modern Modem taxation t is Ss a hodge podge I and a jumble Secretary Smith in- in I lIc-At lIc d chaotic of it iL it Some one should should go 50 into basic principles and start the revolution There isn't an industry or a business man 11 manor manor or a taxpayer payer that doesn't complain bitterly about taxes Everyone Would join M the cause except pt that growing army of job and md office holders who fatten upon the public The Small Town To Is Isi- Isi j- j Leading America Not long bag ago ngo the nation MUon was vas stir stir- stirred stirred stirred red red by the drift of population away I from farms and rural areas into the great at cities Young men attracted 1 by the high wages paid by industry and what appeared to be the superior social and economic advantages of urban uman life deserted the soil for the city In the Ute past quarter century rural America has made tremendous progress progress ress Better schools good g roads the automobile telephone and nd radio have created d a rural ci civilization greater gre than any in history Industries a attracted J b by such fact lct- factories ones ories as lack of labor difficulties low taxes and pleasant liv- liv Jiving liv living ing and working conditions were barred 1 from entry into the small smalltown smalltown town only because of lack of power Then rural electrification cation on a large scale ale was inaugurated And now according to authorities J the smaller towns are on the road to in- in in industrial leadership of America and the country countryside is staged d for the next scene of our industrial progress The drift of population has At present the only pronounced gain in industrial wage earners is taking place in the count country It is La safe safe- to say that many towns which arc are almost unknown toda today will willbe willbe willbe be the great industrial centers of th the future The industrial rev revolution lution of the eighteenth century apparently app doomed rural ruml now progress progress now the elec elec- electric revolution of the twentieth is re- re reversing re reversing the progress |
