Show THE OLD AND THE NEW nearly two years vears have tolled swiftly by since heber T hall took the oath of office and became mayor of roosevelt and in those two years vears heber hall has distinguished himself as a man of fair play a plodder who keeps plodding until he sets what hes after a man with convictions who sticks to them a leader of first rank during durina his beien he and his colleagues have tripled the supply of artesian water for the city of roosevelt mayor hall has sponsored and fur furthered therea other water projects and has never up his fight for more water he has been behind law enforcement and hard and long ions to secure funds for a city jail which was promised this fall the promise was not fulfilled and mayor hall is working to have a city jail bail built to punish those who destroy destray the peace in and around roosevelt and ron the time comes when mayor halls time is up and a new man must occupy the chair beine vacated by him the name of paul wilkins was mentioned first when it was learned that mayor hall did not theose to run azain and it was paul wilkins whose name headed the ticket of both political panties in roosevelt the citizens and the peoples he was roo sevel ts unanimous choice no competition was even suga suggested ested paul wilkins assumes duties of mayor with an excellent record behind him he has served in the city council for the last four years was the early carry over man from dr Whit mores to ito heber halls and now after carefully ob observing servine the ways and means of two excellent mayors paul himself is ready to take the lob job over into his competent hands we expect hie bie things and we can realize them if we support our new mayor to the best of our ability the greatest menace to ito prosperity that is facing this country today is the apparently uncontrollable amoun amounting tinz of taxes the average man looks upon a tax that is leviel on the other fellow as one that touch him hence he be interested As a result of tones jones indifference toward the taxes beine laid on the back of smith smith cant be expected to L yet very much excited over the fact that a fresh batch of taxes is beine cooked up for jones and so it goes the tax eater one of these fine filie days is boine to wake up and find that lie he has killed the goose that has laid the eolden becs baus 4 within the last few months several persons have suffered the loss of an arm in automobile accidents in a peculiar manner in each instance the injured person was riding with ilis his arm li dangine outside the car which was sideswiped side swiped by a car or truck track the same accident has occurred so frequently the past year that it should constitute a warning against the obviously dangerous practice our guess is that thai mussolini will take what he wants of ethiopia and no one will stop him the controlled press dress of italy will present the thine in such a way that it will appear that the italian army won out against great odds in the minds of the italian people mussolini will be aa arreater cater reater dictator than ever and thus the principle enelse elc se for the war will have been served I 1 note by my lay daily where a chicago chicag girl eirl has been asleep for AI years years the disease I 1 believe is called lethargic arp ic encephalitis I 1 know of so some me towns that I 1 believe have the same disease we have heard a neat deal about the fOra forgotten otten man and much ranting about L rivine the little man a break tins this seems to be the mere brothin othine fr of politicians the little farmer may sell only two bales of cotton and the little farmer fanner may sell only five bushels of potatoes the bis grower sets the breaks bir BiT potato browers want government control so as to let bizeel prices for thet their c great production but three or on four million little farmers will execrate a control that threatens him with a thousand dollar fine or a jeaa ini in jail henreetta Heu Henr ryetta vetta okla freet lance Z |