The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1947-10-16
SENECA LAKE

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Seneca Lake, Oct. 15-We all have
a rich Uncle Sam. He lives in Wash
ington and nearly every year we
get a real nice letter from him ask
! ing us to send him a little donation,
although he calls it income tax. If
you don't get it in in time he has
| a friend, called Internal Revenue
Collector that he will send for it.
So you feel that would be too much
| trouble, so just send it in.
Uncle Sam says he has a lot of
folks across the pond that he
has been feeding for several years
and they have got used to being fed
and just won't work and he was
afraid if he quit they would starve
| to death. He didn't tell me their
names-just called them foreigners,
heathens or something. Then he said
right now he had a bunch of Sen
atorS there that want to go home
and they won't leave without he
paid them, paid their ways home
and gave them wages while at home,
but said guessed he would do it,
as he could keep them as cheap at
home as in Washington, and he
would have them out of the way for
the summer.
So it looks like he has a much
| to worry about as we do. And he
says, we can't spend any money TAX
ing a vacation, but if we do, we will
have to foot the bill our own selves,
so if we take a vacation, we are
on our own.
! We notice we have several fox
running around, they have run all
the stray house cats out, caught all
! the snakes, road runners, pack rats,
moleS and other things that rob the
quail nests, so it looks like we will
have some quail and rabbits to shoot
at, if the bold city slickers don't
beat us to it like they mostly do
every year; these city dudes will
park right by the side of mo
Hunting" sign and unload their dogs
and guns (cannonS), and never stop
to ask the land owner if they can
hunt; yes, they come to rabbit hunt,
| but they shoot all the quail, and say
rabbits are scarce, but from all the
shooting they do, one would think
the community was alive with rab-
bits.
l see in the papers where some
big shots say, if the rancher and the
farmer would put in more time at
work and do less squaking they
would get along better. l did a lot
of thinking about this. And it may
be they are right, for lots of days
we spend twenty minutes at the din
ner table and then some nights we
quit and sleep three hours out of the
four hours left, then we knocked
off shaving three times week, and
only shave on Sundays, this would
save more time to help to feed these
ungrateful heathenS across the
water.
So we decided if we cut all the
corners and worked more, we might
scrape up something to take days
vacation at one of the many fairs,
ONE day at least. When we get our
Uncle Sam paid off and all our
other taxes, and our many other
bills that must be payed, if we still
expect to remain citizens, we find
there is not much left in the pot.
Then who knocks at the door but
some of the many organizations that
collect money, and they ask that you
give until it hurts, and it hurts be-
fore we put our hand in our pockets
to count the left over small change.
Yes it costs plenty for just the priv
ilege to breathe, and there is talk
now of nose meters; will the Lord
stand for charge on the privilege
to breathe the God given air."
The Sick List
Charles (Sod) Bates of Cumber-
land route who is in the Bethesda
hospital, at GAINESVILLE, is reported as
doing very well at this time. He was
operated on, and the gall bladder
drained. Several more stones were
taken and one was very large, which
his wife, Nora, is keeping as souv-
enir. There is no report on when
he will be released home.
Charles Layman of Cambridge
route, who it was reported had