Show iii t r l lt ft t Released by bv Western Newspaper Union A JV SYSTEM THAT CAN PROVIDE GREATER JOY OF LIVING WHAT CHANGES BUT a few short years have wrought in our Ameri American Amer Amer- i lean ican methods of work and play am and living living A trip by auto from Chicago V to Sturgeon Bay Door county Wisconsin Wiscon f sin and return demonstrated man many I fy of these changes most of them a as asa a result of the invention of the internal internal in in- combustion engine fronk from fron Horses have disappeared the countryside Over a period o of k 10 days das I saw but two on the road and not more than a dozen f in i the tin barnyards barnards and pastures Horses Horse have been replaced by the automobile auto mobile and tractor as a means o of transportation for the farm family and nd power for the cultivation and anc I J. I harvesting of farm crops f My little t trip ip was made during r the the height of of the grain harvesting season but I saw only one threshing i t machine They have ave been replaced b by the tra tractor drawn combine Tl The c e ej 4 Y j i t great stacks of straw that were forit formerly for for- it r merly a part of each farm picture f marking the scene of threshing operations op op- a are no more The combine combine corns com corn s T bine leaves it ii scattered over the thc field to be plowed under and to help t enrich th the soil to some extent to i. i for the production of another crop A tractor not the faithful old ro Dobbin of former years supplied the motive moti power Automobiles busses and trucks have replaced the lowly local passenger passenger pas pas- of trains and way freights former years Many Marly of the towns n through which I traveled were lake ports to which lake boats for the transportation tion of freight and and passengers passengers pas pas- are no longer daily semiweekly semiweekly semi semi- weekly or or- weekly or-weekly weekly visitors All that thatis thatis is left of water transportation are the great ore coal and grain carth carriers carriers car car- t c th the e only evidence of which is isa isa 4 a smoke line far out on the horizon The feed stores livery stables and and blacksmith shops have given place to the garage and gas station The old ice house of the country home at which I was a visitor had given place to the electric tor The work of the farm and home was done by electric or motor-driven motor power You but pushed a button for lights instead of the filling and cleaning of lamps i of yesteryear L A visit to the market place is no longer a matter of a days day's travel roads in a horse- horse rough dirt 3 C over er drawn wagon but Is now made in a afew i few minutes over concrete as smooth as a floor with a few cents f worth of gasoline in an automobile engine to supply the motive power i k America city tows town and farm is ison ison on gas-driven gas wheels and the thes s change has come about in an Incredibly incredibly incredibly In in- credibly short period of time The fir first automobile 1 I ever saw was a capable of some 12 t crude machine miles miles an hour when it would opera operate op op- ed at the Worlds World's erase erate era e at all displayed Columbian exposition in 1893 The 7 first one I ever rode in was a single I cylinder gas buggy with carriage wheels a dashboard instead of a windshield coal oil lamps a crank I with which to start it if you ou could e and that was less than 40 years ago These represent but a small part of the progress America has made since the opening of the presenta present a century They represent the rapid I upward trend of the American standard of living made possible by bythe bythe bythe the American system of free com com- petition It is a system that creates creates creates cre cre- cre- cre ates more opportunities for enjoyment enjoyment enjoyment enjoy enjoy- r ment of living less work and decreasing decreasing der de de- r creasing hours of work at higher wage standards more jobs and an ever-decreasing ever cost of the pleasures pleasures pleasures pleas pleas- ures and conveniences we enjoy It Is a system we cannot afford toJ to J sacrifice r THE TAX TAR COLLECTOR s 's GETS YOU ALL RIGHT YOU MAY NOT SEE the tax collector col col- C lector with a bill in his hand atc at atthe c th the thc front door but you may be sure he vill will sneak around the back and come in wi with the groceries He collects from every dollar you spend 1 He is represented in 53 different 11 ways to a total of one cent on cachi each cach Is i loaf of bread you buy From each dollar you spend he het t collects a fraction over 19 cents I c These are the hidden taxes our representatives in congress hope we will not know about or object to With them is not included any item AL for which the tax collector directly do not presents you a bill bill- They U Ui i J cover the taxes you pay on your youri ftfe i home your farm your personal property the license for your automobile automobile automobile auto auto- mobile or your income taxes It does docs mean that for every hun bun hundred hundred dred dyed dollars you spent during 1 1940 40 you paid the tax collector more than 19 You will pay much more of the theS S same kind of taxes for many manyx x years of the future Your family owes a a mortgage its portion of the national debt of more than 2000 on which you must pay Interest and in addition your share of the local ii of the cost of operation state and national government Se I JOBS sr AN EVIDENCE of returning prosperity prosperity prosperity pros pros- is the increasing number of ol graduating college students who are arc arenow now going Into jobs instead of into the bread lines i |