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Show Reed Hart Gets New Church Position Ki".-J L. Hart, former Preston Mxth ward bishop ami now- a resident resi-dent of Mont polier. was sustained ;:nd set apart as ward clerk to Bishop Eugene Site;. herd of the .Montpelier Fourth ward of .Mont- :'li;'r s'.;".i;e Ifst Stttnlay e"ening. Mr Ikirt was the foroier bishop of the Preston Sixth ward and was active in the stake's Church Security Se-curity program. While serving as bishop he made a complete picture history of the ward and received notice for it as it was the first o its kind in the entire church. Mr. Hart moved to Montpelier last spring. People And Things By R SUBTERFUGE AND DECEPTION The naive age-thafs when we our teens. Webster says that fe' iv one must show "unnf-ed "unnf-ed s mplieity.be artless, and be tltht " Some of the politicians S intake some naive state Its concerning what they hnvo done intend to do, or what should beidued to enjoy seeing a magi-elan magi-elan or slight-of-hand artist go trough his routine pull.ng rabbits Iut of his hat, making objects dts- ear and manipulating card ,aster than the eye could see. Tllese men were past masters m subterfuge and deception. Many oi the political office seekers remmo one of these men. Subterfuge as applied to politics is a device or plan for evading an issue. One of the biggest manipulation In subterfuge was performed by the 1939 legislature in transferrini; all income derived from certain excise taxes from the support of public schools to the state general hind. In this way the support of ex Hill (he schools was switched to mone raised from property taxes. The income war; transferred ("oni the Chain Store Tax, Min.: 'cense Tax, Beer Tax and 2G per I font, of the liquor profits. The i-riRiiiul argument used to set most of those laws, passed was that the i : ney vair.ed would he used for 'ho ftuppor! of the reboots. Few rnplo object to taxes for the schools, one nf the fundamental nstitu'irns of on- democracy. The Republican high command ,t parentis- foresaw that the property prop-erty tax v: facing to more than double it increase;! from V per -1000 viilnr-Hon to per $10(10 The onus or the di favor from the people was the.eby t.'7-ked onto the rchools instead of onto the the politicians who spend most of the state's tax money. The argument tlial a certain tax will be used for the support of some worthycause like schools or relief is an old and familiar practice. prac-tice. After the tax law is enacted it is never repealed and people soon come to accept it without too much grumbling. CONTROLS 95 PER CENT The present Republican administration admin-istration is making great assertions to the effect that the governor and lieutenant governor are the only Republican elective officials and that the other six elective officials are emocrats. The governor and his cohorts say that the bad condition condi-tion of state government is due to this. Yet, the governor had a Republican Repub-lican legislature which could and did pass any law it desired. He controls directly, and indirectly through his commissioners and so-called so-called "non-partisan" and "merit system," boards and commissions, over 95 per cent of the state employees em-ployees and over 95 per cent oi the appropriations are expended by these employees under the governor. gov-ernor. Out of over 3000 state employees em-ployees less than 150 are employed in Democratic departments. The above argument put out by the governor and his political henchmen hench-men is another example of subterfuge subter-fuge and deception. It is an attempt at-tempt to fool the people. Without doubt the people of this state will see through such a smoke screen and voice their opinions on election elec-tion day. ANOTHER SNEAKER The 1939 legislature slipped in another sneaker when they levied one mill per gallon additional tax on gas and told everyone that 'it was to pay off the bonds which were to be issued to purchase the Twin Falls-Jerome toll bridge. The price of gasoline in most places was raised one cent, which was the method used by the gas companies com-panies to pass the one mill levy onto the consumer. After due in vestigation we find that to date only a little over half of the money mon-ey raised in this way has been applied ap-plied on the purchase of the bridge. The vipious part of this law (chap. 223, 1939) is section 10 which allows the gasoline companies compan-ies to collect this tax and then deduct it from any income tax they have to pay. Supposing one of the gasoline corporations would collect $1000 gas tax in a year from the one mill levy. Then let us suppose the corporation owes the state $3500 income tax. When they go to pay their income tax the state vax collector allows them 'credit for the $1000 payment and all the income in-come tax the gas company has to pay is $2500. This is the most vicious vi-cious piecB of subterfuge put over by the legislature. It is a law that is designed to benefit the big corporation. The ordinary person per-son must go in and lay every cent of his income tax on the line. He gets no credit for anything. Remember Re-member those legislators who are running for re-election and ask them about this law they enacted against the common people of Idaho. Ida-ho. , , |