Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1923-12-14

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- per cent eg an husines failures
are advertisers, hvdstfees.
released aaa Governor small's onc
hundred million dollar h0nd issue fer
/ hart feads In action Illinois viii have
/ reads. even II il has 10 pay increased
TAXATION far the next generation.
/ Prominent advocates 81 the new
hnni road system Tor iliineis, how
ever. claim that The raads will not cost
/ the public anything. fhaN claim that
1 the automobile license fee and other
taxes on automobiles viii mefc than
nay the bill and have a good margin
/ left.
II looks like they should be right
whether they are or nat. Illinois
receives annually a vast sum tn auln
| licenses. and If this IS spent ilai-
oiously there Is 10 reason why the
most eptomisiic predictions If the
advocates Of good reads should not
be realized.
Route No. Q, from tott boulevard.
IN Gibson City. to the emf of the
hard road east WAS open last week.
Gibson City aud Elliott are nov een-
neeted by hard foads, ny lice, II, Il
Is expected that the entire i.el miles
% road contracted for will be opened,
The Twin City .fypogfaphlcal Union
| il credited with having been the first
organization 20 buy health bond
FROM the Antl.fuleeulods League,
The sale vas recorded one evening
| last week af meeting of the Typo
etanhieal lluinu No Ai4
The bonds, which are sold To aid
IN the. eradication OF tuberculosis, are
| issued IN several denominations.
The sale Of chnelnaa seals through
the American Red CfosR continues 10
draw the unfalline attention accorded
IL in previous years, Already th0us
ands of letters are going through the
postoifiees Of the land bearing Christ
mas seals II h one Of the chafta-
bic movements that has never failed
to awaken the sympathy Of the public
at Christmas Time.
Henry Ford and Company, has been
sued for Sii 100000 hy h. s. IIuif.
| his former engineer. who claims this
i amount II due him on royalties for tho
sale of a magnetic device which iintt
claims he invented,
Iuif Is said 10 ailegc IN the cont
| plant that he WAS 20 receive S2,aO on
each sale Of his invention The Ford
Motor company declares that the in
yenlion was purchased outright Tor
the sum iof $4,000 ften thousandl
which sum Is not in contention. The
company elaims that there was no
royalty agreement,
On September II, 1924, General
John ] pershing will be 81 yeafs old.
He will then be subject TO the retire.
ment rule affecting army officers.
Secretary Weeks, will, however, ask
Congress TO permit General PershinR
to continue In the capacity Of the
Nations leading military commander.
| According To a nress dispatch Con-
gresa will be asked 10 "nullifs" the
rule enforcing retirement Of army
officers. Obviously IL viii not do to
repeal the law for there are SOME
army officers that should retire at the
age Of "a II not sooner
| No doubt notification Of this rule
| In the case Of General PefRhing would
meet with the approval Of the mill
/ tafy as we'll az civic forces of the
| land; yet there are many who believe
! that notification of any law for ex-
pedience Is dangerous precedent
|
In the meantime the 18th amend
ment continues 10 be nnllifed aud the
/ law enforcement bodies are p0Wefess
except to throw o scare into the liquor
camp nov and then. by an arrest, a
small fine and a thirty days sentence.
The American people have the an.
/ happy faculty Of advocating nnllihea-
/ ton Of law they do not need for
| the time being. Whatever suits the
| immediate purpose Is considered eN-
pedient, whether IL is in conformity 20
/ law or not.
But Congress may legitimately
make m exception IN the ease Of Cen
/ eral persbing with multiplying the law.