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The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-01-04
NAME HARRIS ACTING
MAYOR AT SOMERS PIT.
Concluded from Page !

\ Ices dppOlHleu ny Jlle new pTeSIu
| ing officer. The appointments were
read by City Clerk James Clifford
Scull, and are as follows:
! Highway Brown. Miller, McCur
dy.
Lighting Miller, Monroe, Nc.
| Curdy.
/ Finance-Monroe, Miller, Brown.
Building-McCurdy, Pratt, Wells.
Fire-Pratt, Brown, Monroe.
Ordinance Wells, Miller, Pratt.
License Brown, Mecurdy, Mon
roe.
A communication was read from
G. p. Robinson, city treasurer last
year. asking that Council not CON
slider him for the office in 1927.
Walter A. Smith was named by the
Council for a three year term to
fill this office.
Babcock and Champion were
named again as solicitors for the
year. William H. COLLISION. of
Ocean City, was named city engi-
neer for 1927. II. was a re-appoint-
ment. Andrew J. Somers was nam.
ed Building Inspector for the term
of one year.
On resolution introduced by
Councilman Brown and seconded
by Councilman Pratt, the salary of
janitor was made $500 for the
year 1927. Joseph Townsend was
named janitor by Council
Councilmen Pratt and McCurdy
were named members of the Board
OF Estimates to represent Council.
and meet with the members from
the Board of Education.
A resolution passed that $780,
900 temporary bond be issued TO
carry current expenses until June
Charles Chamberlain, veteran
member of the Point Board of Ed
ucatlon, was renamed as a mem
Der Of that body for a term of s
years. The appointment was made
by acting-Mayor Harris.
Mr.. Harris also named Edward
Drake as a member of the Board
OIL Health to succeed Walter A.
Smith, named city treasurer.
George Coll was named a mem
Der OF the Sinking fund commission
by Mr. Harris, to succeed Gil N.
Robinson, whose term had expired
The elections of Christopher
Spitz as assistant foreman of Fire
Co. No. l; David F. Smith as as.
sistant foreman of Fire Co. No. 2,
We're confirmed. The terms are for
one year. Chief Haines reported
that 50 calls We're responded to in
1926. and that fire loss in the Point
was only $4,000:
Streets and highways in the
Point are slated for extensive i'm
provements this year, according to
the amount named in the 1927 bud
get. Ten thousand dollars has
been named for this item, against
$1,000 last year. Until the amount
of school money needed has been
learned, the amount of the budget
! will not be known, although il is
expected to be larger than last
year by $4,000 or more. 1t will be
brought up for public hearing on
Friday night. Jan. IA.
The issuance of money for libra
ry purposes assures the Point of a
library this year.
! Increases in the budget, as it
now stands, are as follows:
1927 1926
Administrative and
Executive .....$ 5000 S 2,200
Assessments and
Collections Taxes $500 1000
Atlantic City Hos
pltdi luU UUU
City Engineer 49,. 5000 1000
Collection of Gar
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The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-01-04

About $4,000 tons of free nj
gen from the air, which takesl
place of 100000 tons Of Chill
nitrate, is now fixed for fertilia
in Germany annually by the Hs
process.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-01-04

Knockers aim high, always
ting at the man on top.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-01-04

Excessive talk dissipates both
energy and courage
The Coconino sun., 1927-05-06
DON'T KID YOURSELF AS TO TAXES

"The idea that most of the people pay no taxes
is one Of the great deusions of modern democ-
racy,' says Professor William B. Munro, chairman
of the division Of history, government and econ-
omics at Harvard Everywhere in political dis
cussions, we hear talk about taxpayers and nom
taxpayers, but a moments reflection will convince
anyone that there is no basis for any such dis
tinction. 8
Taxes fall upon the entire citizenship, and
mainly on the ultimate consumer. The man who
thinks he pays no taxes is deluding himself. He
grumbes about the high cost of living, when one
of the big items in this burden is the high cost of
government.
"Of itself: a government. earns no income
Every penny that it gets must come from some
body who has produced or saveditl That is a per-
fectly obvious and simple economic fact, yet most
people overlook it entirely
What our people most need is to have an ele-
mentary lesson i'm economics hammered into their
heads, namely, the plain and simple truth that the
cost of government falls on the entire population
and not upon the propertied element in it"
We might add that taxes enter into everything
from britches to meat. If taxes are high the
hasn't any recourse and charges it into
the cost of your britches and meat. The cost of
living is what the people themselves make it..
The Coconino sun., 1927-05-06
WHITNEY ALMOST RIGHT
Tucson Starr

Louis B. Whitney, chairman of the
democratic committee, in his letter to
Governor Hunt and others, is only
voicing. the sentiment expressed by
tn Star two weeks ago-orly Mr..
Whitney pleads from the other side
of the fence-that unless the legisla-
tive deadlock is ended, the democratic
party is riding fast for disastrous
crash on political rocks.
Mr.. Whitney demands compromise
or an election-bunk!
The people have expressed their
sentiment by sending to the legislature
a majority elected by a far greater
plurality than the trivial 800 or 400
votes that pushed the governor back
into his executive chair
If Governor Hunt really wishes to
serve Arizona he would have signed
the road bill; if Mr.. Whitney really
wanted to preserve party solidity he
would ask the administrative forces
to pass the bill over the veto.
Mr.. Whitney is cog in the Hunt
machine. His plea for compromise is
only yelp from Huntism.
The majority's answer ought to be,
Nothing doing, we'll fight it out if
it takes all summer
More power to the majority!
The Coconino sun., 1927-05-06
CALIFORNIAN IDEA OF
EXPENDITURES
(Arizona Republican,

The California legislature, we see,
appropriated a measly s$25 900 to pay
the. expenses of its Colorado river
commission. We, on the other hand,
provided much larger sum for our
river commission, though the legisla-
ture in a moment of frugality turned
down a request from a certain quar-
ter for an appropriation of 100000.
Others of us could not see why any
such sum, or one even remotely ap-
preaching it, might be legitimately
devoted to the purposes of the COM
mission. But out at the state house
the theory prevails that there should
always be plenty of money for ex-
penses so that there may be sure to
be enough. There's nothing like hav-
ing plenty on hand. If it cannot be
spent for one thing, it can be spent
for another 1t does not make any
difference to the taxpayers how it is
spent; their interest in it passes, or
ought to pass, when they have paid
their taxes. It is gone from them for
ever. For any practical purpose, the
final destination of it is immaterial.
1t would impose no loss on them
whether it was poured into one rat
hole rather than another.
The Coconino sun., 1927-05-06
HISTE, BossY AND MOVE OVER

In rising to enquire, the Miami Silver Belt,
whose editor said under oath he was a aNJeffer-
sonian democrat while manipulating the disas-
trous Hunt Cameron campaign, enquiries" as fol-
lows:
I'm all of the debate on the highway bills
in various recent sessions of the state legis-
lature regular, recessed and special the adj
vocates of the establishment of highway
commission never once reverted to the fact
that such proposal had been twice rejected
by vote of the people, They studiousy
avoided mention of that fact. The same was
true of the members sent out during the re-
cess to try in public speeches to arouse popu-
lar support for the measure
Rather odd isn't it, that he names every prom
inent paper in the state being for the Legislative
bill and against the Hunt bill which the people
voted down. The editorial must have been writ
ten for the edificaton of his circle of readers who
have not been away from their home town much
and never read any other paper.
In brief the people of the state absolutely
refused tc vote for a bill that carried ten
million dollar bond issue for the present
highway department to spend.
Arizona is getting SO closely connected up that
the Jackpot political system does not work as
good as it did in early days. It used to be possible
tosstart political lie in one section to suit local
conditions deny it in another part of the state,
demand proof in another section and wind up the
grand political muddle by having friends fighting
friends with splendid political results.
It was easy to milk poor old boSSy Arizona a
few years ago, but today the silver belt cattle
must take their chances with the white faces and
other mixers.
In other words the taxpayers are extremely
tired of being allowed the privilege of using the
SKINNED milk returned to them by the political
cream collectors.
The Coconino sun., 1927-05-06
RIDING TO A FALL
(Kingman Miner)

II am looking forward to running
again." said Gov. Hunt, during a
recent visit to Douglas 81 was think
ink of retiring but they have made so
much trouble for me / think will run
again." Continuing, the pompous old
fellow said: II am making last in
spection of the roads before the legis-
lature takes them. They say they
want to take the state highway de-
partment out of politics. What they
want to do is to take it out of good,
clean politics and put 1t in their own
dirty politics"
After reading the findings of the
legislative commission it is hard to
believe that there was anything clean
about the governors operation of the
state highway commission. And it is
possible that the findings of the Mari
copa county grand jury may throw
still more light orr his "clean
methods" Every fair minded man or
woman in the state must realize that
the legislature was in the right in its
efforts to take out of the hands of an
inefficient governor and his cohorts
department so important to the
people as the state highway depart
ment. No one cares If Hunt wants
to run for governor again, because
with the knowledge that the people
have of his methods it would be
impossible for him to get two hollars"
of the feed trough, even though every
use possible was made of the state
road funds. The gang that surrounds
the governor will be too we'll known
when another election rolls around
to have them get far. Had use been
made of the knowledge had of the
state affairs last year Gov. Hunt
would now be has-been. Democrats
were too afraid that they would dis
rupt the party to attack him as he
attacks his opponents. They had
plenty of material, but it was not
used. Now no one cares whether the
party is wrecked or not, they will
throw Hunt and his associates in the
discard. A little backbone in Yuma
county would have done the trick last
fall, and that county will suffer
because of lack of the necessary stiff
ness of the spine of its public men.
The Coconino sun., 1927-05-06

of 100000, would lead the way to-
wards some constructive work on de-
velopment of the Colorado river.
Five members of the commission,
led by III. S. McCluskey, are now visit
ing the California legislature, and in
tend to meet with the Nevada legisla-
ture before returning.
Such trips will tend to reduce the
appropriation, but to the ordinary lay
man they can be productive of little
good.
The title of the bill appropriating
the 100000 provided for exploitation
work in the entertainment of the best
plans to construct a dam, with the CEN
tral idea of the beneficial use of the
water rather than from it's power
aspects.
It is a practical certainty that if
Arizona cannot offer the next con-
gress constructive plan for the de-
velopment of the Colorado river, that
is superior to the Boulder dam pro-
ject, that the latter will be adopted.
The Coconino sun., 1927-05-06
THE INVISIBLE SLAVES

China has four times as many people as the
United States, but the United States has the
equivalent of ten times the number of effective
workers found in China
In an article in the Atlantic Monthly, Thomas
T. Read lays down the principle that the only way
to have material things is to work. Then he sub
jects this principle to further subdivision as fol-
lows:
First, work must be done to avoid repetition, as
piping water from the spring instead of continu-
ously carrying it.
Second, work must be anayzed to do away with
false motion.
His third and last conclusion is that the worker
must be multiplied by machinery
The comparative output of work per person in
various countries varies as. follows:
China, 1; India, Ia I; Russian, 1-3 France,
8 Ia; Germany, II Great Britain, 18; Canada, 20;
United States, 30
Although the average wage is high in America,
the average cost of work is low. 1t takes the
European workman approximately 10 times as
long to make an automobile as it takes the work
man in our country because of the highly eff
cieht machinery and vast quantity of power which
are=the invisible slaves of our workmen.
The Coconino sun., 1927-05-06
PROSTITUTING THE
REFERENDUM
(Dunbar's Weekly

N10ADd1 . w CEAlHy
The poor old Silver Belt, Mr.. Van
Dykes Hunt and Cameron democratic
organ, makes itself more ridiculous
in each succeeding issue. Its latest
bit of absurdity is as follows
James III. Kerby is paying the
price as a public official for refusing
to become a. political satellite of the
copper companies Of this state, and
permit them to run his office and
dictate his official actions"
The Belt is perturbed because the
legislature repealed tile motor ve-
hicle certificate of title law and, when
the governor vetoed the repeal, passed
it over his veto.
It was under Secretary Kerby's
administration of the certificate of
title law that something more than
100000 was collected from the
people of the state for which they re-
ceived little or nothing. OF the more
than 100000 collected but $4,000
was turned into the state treasury,
the administration of the law eating
up the difference. Under Mr. Ker-
by's administration of the law it took
something like. 100000 to collect
$1O5,O
A peculiar aspect Of the law, and
the law was drawn by Mr.. Kerby HIM
self and introduced during the closing
hours Of the seventh legislature at
his request, is that unlike the fees
collected by other state officials which
are required to be turned into the
state treasury and all money expend-
ed in collecting the fees or administer
ing the law drawn from the treasury
by warrant of the auditor issued upon
presentation of duly authenticated
claims, this measure permitted the
secretary of state to pay all claims
and expenses directly from the. money
collected and the remainder turned
into the treasury. The secretary even
takes his extra salary of $4,000 per
annum from the funds collected before
turning the money into the state
With these facts before them the
legislature became satisfied that the
seventh had passed the measure
without fully considering it had
passed it upon faith and their
faith had been misplaced-and that
IL Was It's uuIy dS 4Sp1SSCHIdLAsE0
Of the people and guardians of their
rights and interests to repeal it, and
repeal it they did.
The real reason that Mr.. Kerby
drew the law and had it introduced
was that he might have his salary
raised from $500 to $4,000 per year,
It IS doubtful if there would have
been any great criticism had the
seventh or any other Legislature
raised from $4,000 to $500 per year.
or the salary of any other state off
cial, but when an official works out
scheme that entails an expense
of more than 100000 on the people in
order that he may receive an increase
in pay of $1,000 per year they feel
that it is. without Justification.
1t is reportd that referendum
will be filed against the repeal of
the certificate of title law. If this
is done it will mean that the law
remains IN effect until the people are
given opportunity to vote upon it at
the next general election, which will
be in November 1928. There can be
no doubt what the people will do with
The Coconino sun., 1927-05-06
REMARKS OF THE GANG

it when they have opportunity to ex-
press their opinion. They demon
strated what they thought of Kerby
prepared motor vehicle laws when
they buried his motor vehicle code
under an avalanche of ballots at the
last election. But with a referendum
filed against the certificate of title
repeal it will mean that the people
will be put to the bother and expense
of securing generally considered
worthless certificates of title for their
motor vehicles for the next eighteen
months, and for that period of time
Mr.. Kerby will be drawing $4,000 per
year instead of $4,000 as is provided
by the state constitution.
If a referendum is filed against
the certificate of title repeal no
greater prostitution Of the referen-
dunn provision of our state could be
made.
The Coconino sun., 1927-05-06
MISPLACED AVOCATIONs

Down. in Tucson the city council has concluded
that rooster has no more rights than boiler
factory within the residential limits, or friendly
neighbor who keeps several dogs, moWs his lawn
at $50 and races his auto motor at Z promptly
Sunday morning. Keeping pigs, horses, goats,
chickens and young sawmills where folks have
beenfoolish enough to try to build peaceful homes,
raise gardens and live upon their legitimate bus-
ness efforts down town, does seem as though it
was double-shootng the turn, as it were. 1t is
though tlessness, but most aggrayating.
The Coconino sun., 1927-05-06
TOOK A GLIMPSE AT GLENN CANYON

Secretary Works Colorado river committee,
chaperoned by Los Angeles water department and
press agents, came, glanced hurriedy in the direc-
ton of the Glenn Canyon damste reaffirmed
their predigested opinion that it too far from
Boulder Canyon and gleefuy went on through to
Utah FROM general appearances the committees
junketing trip was made to discover additional
data, if possible, derogatory to the Glenn Canyon
site.
Their investigation was most perfunctory Only
two of the committee felt it necessary to leave the
comfortable autos furnished by the city of Los
Angeles, except to eat
The state of Arizona has a strenuous job on its
hands to prevent the passage Of the Swing
johnson BILL
The Coconino sun., 1927-05-06
Heredifv in the child

"What's de name of dis infant !H
demanded the colored parson, who
was officiating at the christening Of
Mirandy's latest offspring.
s'Her name am Opium Bryant" J" was
the firm reply.
The parson protested: Opium amt
no fit name for gal!'
well, it fits dis gal" said Mirandy.
sFor dey say opium comes from
wild poppy, and dis chile's poppy
suah am wild"
The Coconino sun., 1927-05-06

From reports of recent murder trials in the
Hollywood country, theer are really too many col
lapsible self-made widows. AS a matter of fact,
dog, auto and marriage licenses should be made
interchangeable in accordance with the makeup
of the population. Why shoot dog because he
hasn't a license on his collar
The Coconino sun., 1927-05-06
Make 4 Note Of This

A young couple seated in the front
row of a Broadway. theatre were
much pleased with one Of the musi-
cal numbers played by the orchestra
during one of the intermissions. The
husband requested the nearest musi-
clan, an elderly German flutist, tip
give him the name of the compost
ton, as his wife wished to try it out
on her piano.
The musician did not know, but
later asked the leader Coming back
all smiles, he said: $50 pleased fot
to be able to oblidge the lady-dot
is number dree in der green book.
The Coconino sun., 1927-05-06

An American magazine containing brief ar
ticle about Kerensky has been excluded from
Russia Evidently the reds are only in favor of
freedom of the press when they are putting it over
on the other fellow
The Coconino sun., 1927-05-06
CoNFERRING, NOT DOING

douglas 'Dispatch)
1t was hoped that the Colorado river
commission bill passed by the eighth
legislature, carrying an appropriation
The Coconino sun., 1927-05-06

European financiers are now proposing a
European union of some sort to oppose us in world
trade. OfAcourse they wouldn't frame up on us
If we werein the League of Nations and had any
ideas of our own.
The Coconino sun., 1927-05-06

In England they refer to the women between
I'll and 30 as the flapper vote. Over here in Amer.
lea they don't begin to be flappers any more until
after thirty.
The Coconino sun., 1927-05-06

Prohibition agents raided a wealthy. lawyers
estate in the east and found $4,000 worth of
liquorS The tip was given by a discharged butler.
The neral Of this is-dont tell your butler every
thing
The Coconino sun., 1927-05-06

The department Of agriculture predicts cheaper
apple pie because of the supply of fruit, but we
seriously doubt whether we will ever get back to
the good old days when you got one-fourth cut
for nickel.
The Coconino sun., 1927-05-06

An English Judge awarded sixty cents damages
as the value Of wife to her husband Now we
wonder whether the judge is a bachelor, or a mar
ried man. We are sure he is not widower.
The Coconino sun., 1927-05-06

Growers in Florida are asking the president to
increase the tariff on tomatoes and other vege-
tables. The high tariff men are no longer con-
fined to New England and Pennsylvania.
The Coconino sun., 1927-05-06

Every once in a while dissatisfied wife MUIR
ders her husband, but we are thankful to note
that the event is still rare enough to get to the
front pages of the newspapers.
The Coconino sun., 1927-05-06

A North Dakota woman has resigned her posi-
tion as teacher she had held for fifty years. It's
getting so nowadays that women can't be depended
upon to stick to anything.
The Coconino sun., 1927-05-06

Whenever you get to worrying about the inter-
national situation, just stop and console yourself
that it won't be many months now until the roast
ing ear season will come around again.
The Coconino sun., 1927-05-06

1t is said that more than half of the stockings
manufactured in the United States last year were
made Of cotton. If this is true, then what we want
to know is, who wore EN-?
The Coconino sun., 1927-05-06

We are certainly living in a fast age. A four
year-old Pennsylvania boy shot and killed his
mother the other day because she wouldn't let him
play with matches.
The Coconino sun., 1927-05-06

. correspondent to the New York World wants
to know what is wrong with our schools. Maybe
too many of the professors are busy trying to
find way to wipe out the European debt.
The Coconino sun., 1927-05-06

The taxes in Great Britain are SO heavy that
the average Englshman must work one day in
each five for the government, according to esti-
mates When Coolidge and Mellon get out of q
job here John Bull ought to hire EN-.
The Coconino sun., 1927-05-06

.sWorldlinesssis said to have caused the split in
Mrs. McPherson's church, says a headline in ar
exchange Well, wasn't it Eve who started the
same sort of trouble?
The Coconino sun., 1927-05-06

It is announced that $4,000 American apart
ments are to be built in Berlin and a low rental
guaranteed. If low rent is guaranteed they
won't be anything like American apartments.
The Coconino sun., 1927-05-06

Excavators at Jerusalem have dug up stone
ball shot by Roman catapult Who knows?
Maybe thousand years hence some explorer from
Mars win dig up a baseball which was knocked
out Of the park by Babe Ruth
The Coconino sun., 1927-05-06

Foot experts say that President Coolidge has q
fine pair of pedal extremities Well we never
though he acted like fellow whose feet hurt him.
The Coconino sun., 1927-05-06
Road to Success

Girls it certainly pays to adverI
tise.
An Oklahoma girl advertised for 4
husband and landed him in q shorl
lime. The ad cost So, the wedding
.ost her So. total for ADVERTISING
and tn ewedding being only SO, The
husband lived less than year ancl
left her a life insurance policy fol-
S11, 900.
And yet there are a lot of fellows
sitting around on soap boxes wht
say it does not pay to advertise.
The Coconino sun., 1927-05-06

/ The more we read about China the more thank
full we are that we belong in the United States.
The Coconino sun., 1927-05-06

De luxe airplanes with buffets and bars will be
put on between London and Paris. Our idea OF no
place to take q drink is in an aeroplane
The Coconino sun., 1927-05-06

Just because Glendale wants cannery Ernie
Douglas Of the Mesa Tribune demands that Mesa
have cannary too.
The Coconino sun., 1927-05-06

Fish poles end fish hooks will be in demand
around here next summer. Pure snow-water fish,
too