South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-12-18
TODAY'S TALK
BOOKS. BOOKS. BOOKS!
- Coz Matthew Adams


home. for instance. without books-there : some
thing lacking in such home-something that
might transform beauty and rebuild IT,
Imagine an ignorant mankind and you have
picture Of chaos.
II is fully as necessary that the mind be fed as
the body. And books food to the mind, to st-
mulate it, TO shape it. to build and make it big and
useful In the largest degree.
How wonderful when you realize that all you
have to do IS to step across your rorm take from
one OF your book shelves a book-and there read
what wa= enacted thousands OF years ago, and
right down through the steps Of time to the day
In which you live. Also to read of what every kind
of people thought and wrote ages ago.
And these books today small in price that
has for not owning reading
the best. For there opened, free to ALL great
public Libraries where anyone may go for reading
and information.
Every bit of information or knowledge you gain
at once becomes a part of the background you
daily construct for broader thinking and greater
appreciation.
The world is at the feet Of him who reads and
thinks-and knows.
The mere reading Of a brief history OF the world
is enough stimulate a sufficiently 20 change
the entire course Of his nfe.
a college cass1nate once told that his read
ing of Les Miserabes" by Victor Hugo had placed
life before him In entirely
book to me is far more precious than mere
money.
AS the new year looms before you, why not
a resolution to associate more with books? Select
a dozen or so that viii give you variety of read
irg-and go through each one carefully, thinking
Is you read.
Books transform nobodies into somebodies!
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advocated and the governors pet certain
y merits the dsapproval OF the entire body of pec
pie Of the state.
The governors project if enacted into law,
calls for an increase of approximately 10 percent,
at prevailing prices in the cost Of gasoline. Such
a tax affects not only those who use gasoline for
pleasure vehicles. but those to whom the automo-
bile is a means OF earning living. There thous
ands OF and stationary engines operated by
gasoline in this state There thousands of homes
in which gasoline is used for cooking purposes
where natural or artificial gas is not available. In
every such such a tax have but one effect
to increase the cost OF living.
There is the specious appeal in the gasoline tax
proposition that those who the state highways
should be made to the burden for the con-
struction and maintenance of these highways.
Hence the appeal for the abolition of the present
direct tax for support of the state highway system,
and the saddling of this burden on those who
the highways. The proposal apparently takes for
granted that all gasoline consumption is for the
operation of motor vehicles on the states high
ways II far in advance Of the present that it
assumes the passing ANNA, drawn vehicles It is
so far behind the present that it does not recog-
nize that motor operated machinery. particularly
on farms very rapidly taking the place of methods
centuries old. Every argument in the tax.
with the exception that it would tap most fruit
fun source Of revenue. is most specious and incon
sistent, and the tax itself would be the clearest
kind OF class legislation.
If Gov. McCray and his advirers would get down
TO business and mar out a program Of economy in
administering affairs of the if they would
demand from the next legislature that means be
found for lowering the present taxation burden.
they would be doing a real service, service that
would make the present administration stand out
for having given real service