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Show MARCH AND TAXES The trouble with marriage, as the month of March reminds re-minds us, is, a fellow can't support a wife and the government on one income. Uncle Sam sets the dead line for income taxes the,' 15th inst. This comes just when one was having a breathing spell after finally paying our property and car taxes. Taxes are high and perhaps some of the money is inefficiently spent, hut the money is not all wasted nor stolen. It may ba some comfort to reflect that not all tax money is thrown at the birds by political officerholders. Not so many years back rural roads ran in stream beds and city streets were paved with cobblestones or not at all. Few cities were policed well ; fire protection was a joke; sewage sew-age systems were tho gutters. Planks on the sidewalks teeter-tottered ; street lamp-1 blew out in time of storm; high schools were not so high. Who dreamed of public playgrounds play-grounds and swimming pools? Packed food and drugs were anything the label writers wanted to call them. Who tried to prevent typhoid? Not the doctors they tried to cure it. Who was interested in the hazards of childbirth? Ilosiptals, if any, were inadequate. Small communities had none. Where could you go to study home economics, save the family sink? Everybody did about as he pleased, just so he didn't steal the courthouse or massacre his neighbor. |