Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 129, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1919 — PLENTY OF ROOM UP FRONT. [ARTICLE]

PLENTY OF ROOM UP FRONT.

What do we care for a little extra tax an eats, drinks, smlokes, apparel, admissions, automobiles, etc., etc. If the manufacturers can’t absorb it we can pay it. He can’t come any closer to keeping us out of spending money than he came to keeping us out of war. It wouldn’t be so bad if only luxuries were taxed but necessities are included. Now I hear there’s to be a fresh air tax based on chest expansion. And a man told me his mind was overtaxed. Ain’t that the limit? There’s no itellin’ where they’ll stop. Of course, they can’t fight out a peace plan without plenty of money to threaten with, but I can’t see why any live, inventive, fertile law-fearin’ mind could become overtaxed. There may be some sluggish, stagnant, cobwebbed, non-producing brains that only give up an idea now and then that might be classed as luxuries. If you’ve got the sleeping sickness, get behind something; not to hide, but to help settle this dust question, work the j>ayed road or hatch a swimming pool, etc., etc. The first thing to get behind is the wheel of one of those fine cars I’m Showing. It’s a throne with a guide wheel, and a sure cure for overworked and over-taxed brains. Hugh Kirk.