Paragould soliphone., 1922-12-04

Greece and every other European capital It will make statesmen wary hereafter of tying themselves to kings and starting wars. | FEDERAL TAX EVASION From current business review we learn that 'the stocks the big corporations recently declared stock dividends have dropped the recipients these dividends have been turning them into cash and buying taxexempt bonds effort to prepare for the defutse of new taxes that is anticipated |aNa Here is food for good deal of thought. These hundreds of millions of dollars distributed in the form of tock dividends represented surplus profits which had paid corporation income taxes the government. immediately eceiving them, the stockholders, it appears, hastening to make sure that they will never have to pay personal income taxes on them The tax-free bonds with which the market is flooded afford and inviting refuge. People not for enough derive their incomes from such bonds left bear the of the without which there could be safe bonds and profitable business
 Surely some means should be found to prevent all such dodging, which, though legal and technically usfable, is clearly unfair the of people. Be it observed, however that this scurryng of easy money shelter largely in expectation levies The heavier taxes Congress levies the more lodging there will be. One dollar of every six lis said to be taken by the government now. People will not pay much more than that. Congress may yet have general taxpayers rebellion on it's hands.
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 Never, perhaps there more difficulty in ob- taning a jury there has been Marion Ill., in the trial of the five coal miners accused of murder in connection with the famous "Herrin massacre. r. The citizens eligible for jury duty nearly all miners farmers. First miners called The prosecution would not take chance them because openly or secretly they regarded the indictment of fellow miners attack their union and were considered interesting in defending the union than seeing strict justice done Then farmers called They almost all disqualified in the eyes of the defense because of their prejudice against the miners union.
 It might be supposed that the problem could be solved easily enough by getting business profes- sonal men for the jury. But such men either dodge Jury duty pretext other, are under sus- picion because of their sympathy prejudice Inn partial desire to justice done seems almost totally lacking in Williamson county Perhaps that is whey Williamson county has mas sacres Neither that community any other that finds itself disgraced redeem itself except through the efforts of citizens enough to face the truth and do right regardless of personal consequences.
 
 theater-goer New York the other night was overheard remarking that Jack Barrymores Hamlet" suffered because the English transl laton wasn't near so sgood the original German. Thia is confusing. takeyan't we told by German savant during the war Ix @shakespeare belonged to Germany, because any kX 46vth so much genius must be German? IM M. gfSick Romanof grand duke has been elected Czar ofRussa by the old nobility. But Nick Lenine grand 
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 The average citizen is willing to do anything for his country except pay taxes to support it. Ships state call for careful handling, in these tmes yet some voters to think most anybody will do for navigator.
 The American Idea of how much European terri tory should be restored to Turkey s enough for a national cemetery.
 An American banker who has just returned to this country said carry the future of Europe in his hand Here's hoping he doesn't get careless and misay the darhed thing
 Hambone, of the Commercial Appeal very truth fully muses, Politics will mix wid 'ligon eff you'll let de politics do de MIXIN."
 Horse sense to disappear from the highways along with the horses
 It appears that France would cheerfully ratify that fve-power disarmament treaty if America would ratify certain three power treaty pedging aid to France in of foreign attack.
 As Patrick Henry might have said if he had been Russian AS for me, give iiie liberty and give me death."
 Political music nowadays sounds like jazz except that it isn't funny.
 The new British premier is said to be great chess player We'll, it's his move.
 The fashionable color this season in the financial