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Show M M HOOVEIUZE ON POLITICAL H.N'APft As tho Individual has to economize to meet war time conditions, so that local governments should retrench to meet excess of war time taxes. Tho Sonoma, California, Index Trlbunn makes the verysenslblo suggestion, sug-gestion, when it aBks, "Why Not Hoovcrlzo On Political Snaps?" It says many political Job holders and commissions uso press camouflage camou-flage to show that they are rendering render-ing wonderful services to earn fat salaries. ' i It shows how big hearted citizens who were anxious for the betterment ot nil things human have been worked work-ed by crafty machine politicians. They loaded the tld ship of state to the gunwales with officials and soft berths born of political greod to be paid out of taxpayers pocketn. Thus a lot of excess political baggage bag-gage was vamped on the ptople who are now going to unload . senseless snaps and experimentlve functions. "Let us cut away alt pretext, all hollow political timber, dismantle Its connection with the state treasury, and save the people's bard-earned money. "In no better way can we relieve the financial stress of the war's necessities ne-cessities than by obliterating the unnecessary 'In state affairs. The man of the hour in the business busi-ness of the state will be the man who has tho Initiative and theeour-' age to do this really great work, "We predict that he will be a man of big business, not a lawyer, not a poseur trying to make a mil- lenlum dawn in a day, but a man sound in his business methods, tol- i erant and Just." |