Show 7 I 11 r. r J t r ti ideas from other editors From the Cedar Springs Clipper Cedar Springs Michigan l A printers printer's printers printer's print print- ers er's devil is a term common to newspaper offices but what about snakes Last week a blow snake wiggled Its way the foot length of The Clipper print shop from back bacle door to front unconcerned and unafraid But not so The Clipper staff stafi Agnes Behrendt linotype operator anc and Susie Anderson office assistant climbed screaming atop nearest chairs while Bob Spicer and Oscar Os car Goller printers cheered The Clipper editor was in Butterworth Butterworth Butter Butter- worth hospital the advertising ex ex ex- in in Detroit or they probably probably ably would have bave been suspended t- t from the ceiling a as al Mr Blow w Y Snake took over P mss ms's t From The Derington Advertiser Advertiser- 1 Times Kansas The ii I Sixteenth Amendment to the Constitution Con Con- t. t which became effective effectives s il In 1913 and gave gave the federal government gov I the power to lay a direct tax on the Incomes of ot the people us was the seed from which the socialistic social welfare state idea grew in inthis J t. t i this country Actually not one of ot ofa ofus a us bas has a constitutional right remaining re reo p 7 to one penny of ot our In In In- come The unlimited power to tax the incomes of ot the people reversed the basic baste concept of ot government on which our republic Is founded It I 1 made government master of ot the people rather than their servant Most of ot us us still startled by the tho tremendous chunks of ot our Income that went to pay federal taxes last year begin to agree with the idea that the only way to prevent con con- taxation Is ts to now limit by Constitutional amendment the Income taxing power of ot government govern govern- ment This is the only way we can hope to preserve representative government and a free econom economy Relief will never come from tax collectors but only through changes forced by taxpayers e eFrom From the S Somerset merse American Somerset Pa John L. L Lewis has bas called upon congress congress to develop new uses for coaL The bead head of t the United Mine Workers points out that gasoline may be made out of ot coal and that for the national defence defense de fence it should be The question arises should congress confess con gress fess be the agency through which coal is converted into gasoline That which is done by the government government gov is done uneconomically uneconomical often wastefully That which Is done by private corporations Is ts done more efficiently and at les less cost The Pittsburgh Consolidated Coal company h has s done a great deal toward to to- ward vard the d development of ot new uses for or coal and has probably done a better Job than the government would ba have ve done |