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"ff had our wits about u8, wc would quit talking abgqt the high cost of living. It is the high cost of taxation which is making us groggy.',

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Yes, if we had our wits about us, and the facts before us, we would 6nd no ground for disagreement with the above stated opinion of the Democratic Dallas News editor. The cost of living isn't really very high. But the cost of taxation is as high as Mt. Everest. ***

Of courpe commodity prices difrer in different locations, but the relationship between actual cost and taxation are about the same everywhere. So the figures recently published by the New York Journal American are a sound basis for discussion. That paper took many ordinary articles of trade and figured the tax the consumer pays on each. !f*{.

Just as a sample, New YorkerF were paying 2l cents a quart for milk. The Journal found that only 13 cents of this was for the milk, while taxation took the other 8 cents the housewife paid. If she only had to pay the 13 cents for the milk she would think the price entirely reasonable. But with the taxes added, the high cost of milk became staggering.

When a New Yorker ,r"-0"*" 15 cents for a loaf of bread, the price of the bread is really only 10 cents. The other 5 cents, 50 per cent of the retail price, is taxes. Ten cents for bread would be fine. It's the tax nickel that brings about the high cost ot*"o;rr daily bread.',

Perhaps we might interest the Lord in this serious matter by changing tlre age-old prayer and saying-"Give us this day our daily bread-or-if that isn't possible, Lord, please relieve us of the high taxes." ***

When a New Yorker lays down 70 cents for a piece of meat at the market, 50 cents is the price of the meat; the other 20 cents is taxes. If he pays $15 for a railroad ticket, $2.25 of that sum is for the tax collector. An $18 auto tire is $15 for the tire and $g for taxes. A $21 lawn mower is $14 for the machine and $7 for taxes. A $9 pair of shoes is really a pair of $6 shoes and a $3 tax. If a New Yorker pays $10,0@ for a house, the house costs a very reasonable $7,000, while the tax bitl is 93,000. If he doesn't own a house but rents a room for $OO a month, $+O is for the room and $20 for the taxqs.

Reviewing rome of thece facts and figurcs as prerented by the Ncw York papcr, the Dallar News ofrers a few remarks of its own, such as: "TheEe tar(ct, you realize, are paid by the rich and the poor. The baby drinkr taxes, cats taxer, sleeps on taxeE, cuts hie tecth on taxcs, and bathes in taxes. The reason we are becoming ao conscious of all this is that Mr. Rooeevelt is dead. As long as he was alive we borrowed money to meet the extravaganzas of his imagination. But now that he is dead we arc taxing as Rosevelt nevcr did or dared to do.,, rl**

"Who is the richest man in the United Statec today?', continues the News editorial. "The tax experts will tell you that he is Harry Truman. He gets tax-free services and tax-free perguisites not p€rtnitted to any other citizen of the land. No king in Europe could ever match our Harry. Not even Solomon in all hig glory could take unto himself wings and fy to the ends of the earth for a vacation in the sun, or plow the mighty deep in a foating palacc such as no Oriental despot ever dreamed of. George Washington was accused of aping the monarchs of Europe, but his little establishment when he was President marks him as a mere country squire in comparison with His TAXATIONAL Majesty, Harry the First. ,f**

"Remember, whenever you try to do with tax money what the individual ought to do for himself, he gets less, and you pay more. Free wigs for British baldheads are the costliest wigs in the world. Free teeth for Britistr gumsters are teeth, of course, but they would be better teeth and fit better if he paid for them himself directly to the dentist of his own choice. Britain rolls up taxation to take about 40 per cent of all that everybody makes. That means that there is too little to eat, too few digging coal, and too many co'unting figures in taxation offices all over the country.

"And we foolish Americans," concludes the Dallas News, "are following in the British path. WE CALL IT WELFARE. WE CALL IT PROGRESS. WE CALL IT LIBERALISM. BUT THE THREE DOLLARS OF TAXES IN YOUR NINE DOLLAR SHOES JUST MEANS THAT YOU ARE PUNISHING YOUR FEET FOR THE SINS OF YOUR HEAD."

I read just a few days ago the words of a man of competent authority who declared that "more than half of the people of the world are hungry." Think that over. Roll it over on your tongue. More than one half of the people of this world are hungry. And they are not all in