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Show Did You Ever Stop to Think By Edson R. Waite . Faith in the home city should be in the heart of every citizen, and a spirit of loyalty to home industries must be shown by actions as well as words. The averse American citizen is not the ignoramus some people think him. He is watching- closely the further fur-ther tpxation and increase in the public debt, which is put over under the guise of improvement of this or that industry by a paternal government of whose assessments for services rendered he has a surfeit. ; Much attention must be given to still better roads. ; They always seem to be doing something unusual in ', California. My old friend, James Barrett, ' managing 1 director of the Oklahoma Biltmore Hotel, tells me that 3 the California state legislature recently passed a bill taxing gasoline pumps at the rate of one dollar per year, l, Jim sa.ys that he hopes they won't put a tax on the famous fa-mous California sunshine. , ' E From different sources come indications that might, to i the unitiated appear to be a change of heart on the part 'r of Congress towards disabled veterans. I The merchants who advertise continuously in home .-. newspapers are the ones who can fill every need of the most particular people. t' Q The sales tax seems to be a hobby of many of our na-n na-n tional law-makers. What a lot of explaining they will 1 have to do when they return home! s ' The mosquito is a pest. You can"t get too many mos- e quito cranks, in a community. n o As an advertisement for a city, a lifeless appearance has the undertaker beat a city block. |