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Show THE LOV DOWN from HICKORY GROVE Some time hack I was ex-pcundin' ex-pcundin' on a sales tax, and why we should have one, and an old "Tall corn" editor 'rose up and says, "what is left to tax" A boy just out of high school and making 75 bucks a week at some war work, don't know what to do with that much dinero. Putting a 10 per cent tax on his spending would not crimp his style or slow him down. But folks who do not now get such inflated wages would find a new 10 per cent tax upsetting that is what the old Hawkeye editor told me. But if we sit around on a stump and wait until the 75 buck jobs j are finished and Sambo don't get some of it in taxes now, then, sure as shootin', whoever is left is gonna get a double dose, and instead of being just upsetting and annoying, it is gonna be painful and tough. We better have our extra tax misery now, while we can have company. Lots of the debt is from the war, but lots of it is from tink-1 ering with Socialism but call- ing it uplift. But we gotta dig up for both maybe it will sober so-ber us up. We been listening to the barkers and come home with a brass watch. Every day you read about another an-other convention, in your town or elsewhere, and in the same paper you see where you should stay home on account- of crowded crowd-ed trains. And unless you have important business, it is okay and proper to stay at home, so that the railroads can move the guns, and 1,000 other things the soldiers and sailors and leathernecks leather-necks have gotta have if we are to keep Tojo and Adolph at arm's length. A convention of beauticians being held in ' Chicago, or elsewhere, else-where, where the beautifiers must travel a thousand or 2 thousand miles, is a 100 per cent loss except ex-cept to the "lady intriguers." "Lady intriguers" is our name here around Hickory for the beauty beau-ty shoppe folks that make mama and the girls imagine they are getting something for their ma. zuma that will give 'em appeal, but which instead of doing so, is working vice versa. You take a fresh and glistening permanent on mama who is hurrying home via a side street and carrying her hat, and you see what I mean by vice versa. Give the old "Iron Horse" half a chance, and he will do a skookum job. There is gonna be plenty of time for a convention, with new clothes and a spree later on. Yours with the low down, JO SERRA. |