Milford chronicle., 1926-01-22
BILLBOARD TAXATION
(From state News

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the Legislature.
But another recommendation made
by Engineer Buck says: Planting OF
trees and shrubbery to transform
State highways into avenues Of
beauty" and in our humble opin-
ion if we are to plant trees and
shrubbery along our highways to
make them beautiful, we should
prohibit the erection Of unsightly
bilIboards altogether, instead of IL
censing or taxing them. But If we
have not yet reached the point
where public sentiment demands
their removal, it is at least a step in
the right direction to tax them.
Se@
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER
(By National Editorial AssOciation)
Especial to Chroniclel
Washington, January 2O-Short-
age of political issues has been to
the advantage of the country for the
Congress is giving serious consider
alton to its duties. The political and
social life of Washington is at its
height. It is difficult to draw a line
as to where the political circle ends
and the social life begins. In the
National Capital the two are so fire.
quently intertwined that partici-
pants seldom know if they are in
vited for their personal charm or
because of their political power. 1t
is an established fact that more leg
islation is transacted in the drawing
rooms than in committee chambers.
The President is giving a number
of state dinners and the members
of the Cabinet are also entertaining.
1t requires tact on the part of social
secretaries to steer people promi-
nent in public life clear Of social
pitfalls. The society register or the
official blue book of Washington is
more frequently thumbed these days
than the telephone book Of real
estate salesman.
The men designated as whips" of
the Senate and House have a tre-
mendous responsibility on their
hands of getting out the vote when
measures are closely contested. The
whips" are not at all hesitant about
telling the tardy and Indifferent leg
islators just what they think. In
other words, the whip Of the House
occupies a role similar to that of a
truant officer to the wayward school
boy. Some senators and congress-
men feel that with an efficient Sec
retary they can hoodwink their con-
stituents by pretending they are
present in Washington on official
business. Sometimes this works very
we'll but as rule it has its draw
backs for the political opponents
are ever on the lookout.
Now that the furry over the right
of Gerald Nye to seat in the Sen
ate has been settled the backwash
remains. In the debate over the
power of the Governor to appoint
Mr.. Nye, reference was made to the
proposition as a whole. 1t brought
some bitterness to the surface as
several other Senators were holding
their places on gubernatorial war
rant and not by the express wish of
the voters. In these days of direct
primaries it is one thing to obtain
an appointment through political
methods but another matter to get
the votes at elections.
Usually a governor, looking to
higher posts at the gift of the peo-
pie of the commonwealth, will name
a Senator to succeed to a vacancy,
who in exchange for the great ia
vor, will agree not to oppose the
donor in the primaries. Sometimes a
short term makes the incumbent
to retain the position even
to the extent Of locking horns with
the sponsor. AS one-third of the
Senate membership will be changed
at the fall elections, both parties are
out to gain control Of the Upper
Chambers.
Not day passes with somebody
out the much mooted ques-
ton Of trusts and trust-busting."
Somehow the hue and cry in Con-
gress falls fiat this season for the
public takes the agitation for what
It is worth. Then, too, the Federal
government is not backward in mo-
certain industrial fields
30 that officials, if they are consis-
.ent, are obliged to wink one eye and
,lose the other.
The Department of Commerce has
much to say about foreign rubber
.rusts subsidized by their govern
nents; certain groups talk of an
aluminium combination in restraint
If trade; the farmers are at odds
)Ver methods Of marketing their
products and the relation of the
government thereto. The price and
,upplv of coal does not seem to con-