Show THE NON TAXPAYER IS NON ot a I 1 N northern ort hern california nave been given a 9 per cent reduction in natural gas rates wacl will total a saving er ct 2 a avar car commenting on this the san sail leco eco chronicle makes a telling observation it if it were not for certain increased taxes on tile the gas col hP anies the saving could have 64 been k 1000 more this particular illustration is important merely because it happens to id bd ba publicly arid officially certified practically the colsum era of gas gaa are so numerous s that uis particular tax passed on to them will amount to very little on oa any individual bill but the point la Is that it la 43 pissed passed on and that in the case of s a public utility tho the laws of 0 the state require it to ito be passed on in other cases the ha even more immutable laws 0 of economics pass it on so every consumer ot of gas or elec electricity trl Is a taxpayer oven even it if he never sees a tax collector or personally signs a tax check IW I W we are all taxpayers what ome ot of us lack 19 I 1 tax consciousness we think the man who signs he die checks pays uie tax and that t makes akes no 0 difference to ahe abe non taxpayer how high the taxes are if non taxpayer realized that he pad gleao taxes himself himi elf he ight care halt half tile ithe cost ot of moc moa ihan ban halt the cost coat of liquor a large part of 0 the cott cot ot of food shel leor file clothing and everything dge ise this is the tribute inexorably demanded demand cd by the tax collector Hs unseen shadow falls over every c commercial transaction whether it involves a nickel or a million dol lars ars and you the consumer the oater nater of food and the wearer bt bf clothing eventually pay the bill and in full no one unless it be a hermit who never leaves his cave n a remote hill is a non er el 0 with cities and towns in all sections ot of the country using every bit jf A available money to finance their port porton on ot of projects we are to wonder how the fed trea treasury miry is going to hold out to 0 o match the outlay cities counties and towns furnish the project materials and supervision while he government pays the workers one or the other of these two will eventually run out of money and have to cut down one of these days ind we wonder what is going to lappen happen then all work of a public nature Is being done nowadays as projects so it i you are olit out off 0 work of a private nature you ran can either get on oil or quit there Is absolutely no public work for those not on and on top of that those who are working on these projects are only employed tor for ten days a month leaving them tree free to compete tor for what private employment there may be for the other 20 days in each month the terms of the treaty which were tweed forced upon the german people by the allies at the close of the world war are a lot to blame tor for much of the trouble in central europe today anyone should know that you cant cut a dig aig nation up nto little ones and make them stay that way especially when the people in those little countries speak the same language have the same customs and the same ambitions people living on the rhine in the pree free city ot of danzig along the polish coredon Corn dor and in austria are practically all germans and chats what they want to be and will be 1 l the end about all tha opposition aller has had so tar far again uniting all german oo 00 speaking oe copla anko one nation is from chose nations who are really afraid at a greater germany 0 0 0 high school students and many t f the other young people of t the he boulger sot sat here who a are re not in school should profit by the good example set by b Y the rade grade g students it the gunj junor or junior prom last sat arday most of these young people had partners at the dance which Is factly opposite to what happens happen 3 n be groups older than they at most alcea anc |