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Show H ran get but H won't uh the diahe after lha feeTt Thai threo-eyllebla word that designate living orniam that axtela "off or "on" tho effort of another cornea to mind. Though tho temptation to uaa It la strong, wi can lake H or leave It and r leave It berauee thaaa mmM folk may a how rtdM-ulou they make ttwiil. selves and may change lhair mind a. If they don't, wouldn't It knork their bnxnffiro appeal silly If several hundrad thouaand California taxpayer thou Id Jacida not to go to aa lhair parturee? Escaping Txi AUTTLK white back a prominent motion picture pic-ture producer, habitat Hollywood, let the world In on bis clever echeme of escaping taxe. He would, he said, live In California aa much of the time at ha could without becoming liable for taxes. Then ha would move here, there and else-where else-where with the same end In view. One after another, an-other, other figure In the industry chimed in with announcement of similar purpose tuggest-lng tuggest-lng tha Hollywood yea-man tradition.' All this was getting a bit thick. Then tha cup of resentment resent-ment waa mada over-full with tha announcement announce-ment Tuesday by a sUr with somewhat dwindling dwin-dling appeal that he, too, would do likewise. Now in taking a popular vote there would be vast majority registering their opinion that ' taxe ara too high, too da er, dlshearteningly high altogether. But there ara several hundred thousand other Californiant who must pay at tha same rate at these Jacks and queens of colossal and super -colossal celluloid entertainment entertain-ment They'll hava to stay home and taka it Somebody must alay homo to keep California'a climate in working order and Hollywood all tidy and neat agaiiut tha homecoming of the tax-evading tax-evading picture folk. That's why it seems Juat a little lowdown for aoma of these wealthy peopkt to run out on the people who llay on the Job and carry their part of the burden, even If it if Intolerable, painful and extortionate. Thia film crowd wants tha full protection of California's law, its incomparable highways over which to drive imported and cu-tom-built automobiles, police and fire service, ita food inspection, ita unitary system and public pub-lic health services and a hundred and one other things paid far by tax money. But it doesn't want to pay iu thara. It ia willing to take til tha gravy i ' , |