Show FROM SHEEP TO WOLF It Is reported that hIgher hither gas taxes are arc being sought ought In about half of or the 41 states tales whose legislatures meet this year l 7 ThIs Is ono one on problem that should hould find the oil all Industry and the tho motorist In perfect accord The gas ras tax has ha unquestionably un- un unquestionably un unquestionably questionably been a good tood thing thine In that It has bas helped build but highways highways but B a good thing thins can be b done to death And that Is I exactly what Is 1 happening to tb the gas gns tax lax Government Government expenses are constantly on n the rIse rl e Property-owners Property seCUrity security ity lly owners owner busInesses e builders all builder all are 1110 ar staggering beneath a weIght of or taxes As a result re many legislators get ct the bright I idea ld a that another cent on the gas gns tax will raise revenue without at atthe atthe atthe the same time causIng public revolt This may babe e ha e been true truo In the past but the revolt r TOlt has bus come corn A tax which amounts to twenty or thirty per par cent centor c or of the price of ot a product Is almost con COD con pry and In addition an Increasing g gl l of ba tho the gas cas tax 1 FP Ses poses other other than roads The Thel l motor motorist st once a sheep Is 1 rapidly turn turn- turnIng turo-Ine turo Ing Into a v wolf Tolf o It wi with th his bis eye on the leg leg- v who bo are arc advocating higher gas taxes Drastic action Is necessary before AS one writer says say You will hear some somo galoot s-aloot of or an officeholder tolling toiling ho bow he has baa reduced taxes meaning that he has hns stolen so much from the gasoline tax fund that the general prop prop- property property property erty taxes v were ero not needed that car |