Show GRASSROOTS Local Government Is as Extravagant as National rational By Wright A A. Patterson T WONDER if U In your our town where where- I lever fever ever it may be you au are experiencing expert expert- as I am in my town an anever ever increasing ever increasing tax burden that is bard hard to account for tor It is an Increased increased increased in In- creased burden that comes come either in the form of an increased tax rate an en increased valuation on real estate or a new form torm of taxes I recall the time not so long ago go 0 the town gathered 4 up op the garbage from the town townhomes townhomes homes bomes at al no DO cost eo to the home bome owners Then Theu the ell city officials found the they were overlooking nl a bet Some other town wa was waa charging lag ing a special tax tas for tor such ach a service sere lerv- ice tee and a tax tas of f 50 SO cents a ft mouth month for tor each home bome was waa added for lor that service to meet a need tar for Increased revenue Tb The n reed d dhas has bas passed but bat the tax tu Is U still un being belDe collected The town needed a new well from which to pump the towns town's water It needed the mone money with which to drill such ucb a well A supposedly temporary water tax lax was levied for the pur put p. p pose ae 11 The well w was WIS s Ion long Ions sine paid tor for but bat that tha tax tn Us Las net been een repealed re re- pealed A town sales lei tax was wai added to Ip the It states state's to sales at tax tas and It is still un being collected though the purpose for tor which M It was levied has baa passed Some Sean rt I 1 I lal tin sin h foamy touty 4 town fow mH fo ants rJ to 10 predate bt Ibe b inter n M r vt ui simply limply l jabs W Uki Ii list Kit id ant d Saes a rs bow boa ru tb tUFUI sub nth 11 will trill u it 4 v 1 too loo 10 e of 01 4 s bowl 01 Tilt This yur I 1 In f I W. W if om sit list II With nc e on I was nicked l dt for fore r 4 e nu J i on OH both Ib she county rod J town 0 tax ax bill bilk Because el of b I 1 Im En m bowling houdinI but bus f l salts r Jt it il It Is voting not 0 bolln bowling lb that h t ers of the h rat 1 solo tola- Non lion N and nd tt at tbt tb h sex n nIX county touny and nJ town elation f 1 for or 0 01 oils will Jo tit the h i voting 01 and N my 1 ro about boul lb boll tx tax 11 Inert incrust a ti We do a lot of complaining about the increased taxes of the federal government but we d do d' little or nothing noth noth- lug ing about these clo home to home to spend ers era They are proportionately as II bad badas badas as a. Washington Can we w. not find those who will find wa ways to save lave as well as a. wa ways to spend or do we try to find them f The tax tn burden national state tate county and town has bat gone cone far tar beyond the limit If U the tho police would give tickets ticket to 0 the speeding drivers the fines assessed aued would help belp to t. 1 pay th the cot cost of m my town home government govern govern- government ment a as a. well 11 a as stop top the speed pled tog ing If the fines collected could go 10 to p. p pay police pollee salaries It U might tit make a difference In IQ my mJ town towa and ud my mr county coant the total of 01 DeW homes borne bay bate nave add added 4 heavily beull to the total of tax ta Ron ilon but bat not DOt enough to t. satisfy the spenders spender In both town and county count governments 4 A few tew weeks week ago alO I J was WIS attending a noon noonday luncheon of one on of 01 the towns town u dubs clubs The speaker of 01 the day 41 was wa talking bout about Youth Service He UI illustrated with a brief story In la which a mother moth of 01 an adolescent ton son w was wa i le lecturing him on th the need peed for lor curbing his hII activities during his adolescent years vears The boy replied by expressing a wish Mother he said the one ono thing I 1 wish for tor more than anything else Is I. to get tet through the adolescent years and into the years of adult ery cry Just at that moment there broke into the tho room a bevy of high school students boys boy and girls of the senior class elu of ot the community high school The 1110 girls Iris all aU too scantily clad danced through the room leaving the tho imprint of lip Up stick Uck on the tops tope of several leveral bald beads heads and arrayed themselves on the stage where the they gave that man and bo boy audience an exhibition of tap dancing and high hleb kicking much to the edification of 01 both men and bo boys It was Will an answer to that adolescent adolescent adole cent boy boys wish We are prone to bewail the delinquency of 0 youth and then we wr encourage some ome of It b by such uch undraped display of the corna community's tom com daughters a as a. wa was waa given at that service club lun luncheon heon What is t. there In our high school chool curriculum that calls calli for such div din play Certainly It is I. not the tea enIng en- en Ing of 01 culture or feminine modesty Whatever It is I. is It would be well to discontinue the study and so 0 discontinue dis continue the encouragement nt of at least leut one form of 01 youth delinquency Lei Let us u. get cei back to grandmothers grandmother's o days 81 y and aDd way ways Ir IrIt It would seem eeN that chat old people never die dit they thoy Just u t drift drU Into and Ita stay on 10 tb the tenet relief rolls roU In Ila t 1934 the they numbered cumbered In 1 mi til the number Dumber h bad 1 d grown to |