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Things To Think About 
Question of Forest Taxation 
I notice your reference to the Massa¬ 
chusetts forestry law on page 1289. That 
seems to be a step in the right direction 
and we have tried to get something like 
that in Maine, in fact have a law that 
covers about the same ground. It seems 
to the writer that even at that the tax 
usage discriminates against fruit pro¬ 
ducts. A farmer does not ordinarily pay 
tax on the products of his other farm 
land. His other crops are either sold or 
eaten, usually before this assessment is 
made, and so their crop escapes taxa¬ 
tion but in the case of the forest crop it 
is not only taxed the next year after it 
has grown but annually thereafter until 
sold, which seems at least unjust. 
In our State this is to some extent 
mitigated because this fact is recognized 
and the assessors being largely owners 
more or less of such property the valua¬ 
tion is kept rather moderate. In the 
increase of tax rates which has occurred 
in the past few years, which makes the 
annual tax in many cases 4 per cent or 
more this annual and accumulative tax 
is becoming a very serious hardship, and 
many owners are slaughtering their for¬ 
ests rather than bear this burden of 
taxation. At the present moderate valua¬ 
tion timber land must double in real 
value in about 10 years to return 6 per 
cent on the investment. 
It seems only fair to tax the land and 
let the crop go free same as any other 
crop. A sheep is taxed and is partly the 
product of the land but the wool which 
is the annual product of the sheep is not 
taxed, even though the farmer has sev¬ 
eral years crop in storage. 
I have no doubt this condition has 
come down from the time when the forest 
was primeval and already at its maxim 
growth and was a mine to be worked out 
as soon as possible. Now the conditions 
are different, it is a crop and should be 
treated like any other crop. We do not 
tax the product of a man’s day’s work. 
He can work a year and spend his money 
as fast as he gets it and escape taxes 
on it without it is enough so he pays 
an increase tax, but if he works on a 
tract of timber, or sets out trees, his ef¬ 
forts are taxed at once and accumulated. 
We certainly need. more liberal tax 
laws to regulate our forest products than 
either the Maine or Massachusetts laws 
provide. j. L. P. 
Those “Auto Hogs” Again 
After reading P. E. Twining’s article 
on page 1130, upon the subject of “auto 
hogs,” 1 feel that I must “take up the 
cudgels” in behalf of my fellow country¬ 
men and myself, because he certainly does 
give us Hudson River folk not only a 
“roast,” hut a “scorch.” And yet, in a 
measure, he is right—but “there’s a rea¬ 
son!” Only the general impression he 
conveys is not correct, and is decidedly 
unfair to us. 
I am quite in accord with what he says 
in laudation of Ohian hospitality—in cer¬ 
tain sections at any rate. I found the 
people of the Western Reserve to be tlie 
most kindly and hospitable I have ever 
ran across anywhere—-even surpassing 
the classic hospitality of the Southland, 
if that is possible. So perhaps it is un¬ 
fair to us, in the first place, when he 
would hold us up to so high a standard 
for judgment. On the whole, I believe 
our own people to be at heart right hos¬ 
pitable people. But did Mr. Twining 
come in contact with our own people —the 
descendants of the old Dutch settlers who 
sailed up this great and beautiful river 
more than 300 years ago? So many of 
these old “homesteads” have within the 
last 10 or 15 years passed into the pos¬ 
session of people who are so foreign to 
us in every particular that the spirit and 
tenor of our local social life has been alto¬ 
gether changed. And I admit that we 
ourselves have changed, and not for the 
better. This is the age of machinery, 
and Ave are becoming mechanical in spirit. 
I have not seen a gypsy caravan of horses 
in years—all autos. 
While I never cared to harbor gypsies, 
yet for years the ordinary camper was 
received with pleasure, and it was a pleas¬ 
ure to give him fruit, vegetables or any¬ 
thing we might have, to add to his com¬ 
fort and enjoyment. But. that time has 
passed, for the campers of today, in spite 
of signs and personal requests, leave 
strewn about tins, paper and broken glass 
that is a source of danger, as well as pre¬ 
senting a most disreputable appearance. 
Only last, week a man told me he was 
going by my place a day or two before, 
and there were several autos stopped 
there, and the men of the party were 
coming out of my cornfield with arms full 
and bags full—and a great part of it be¬ 
ing immature, it was thrown down in the 
road. Upon going into the barber shop I 
told this to a neighbor in there, speaking 
of it as a “cheeky” affair. “Cheeky?” 
said one of our local doctors who was oc¬ 
cupying one of the chairs, “that’s no com¬ 
parison to a bunch that was in my place 
a short time ago. They had been in an 
auto mix-up and four or five were cut up 
considerably, and my wife was assisting 
me in dressing their wounds, and after¬ 
wards, upon going upstairs for some pur¬ 
pose, she heard a noise in the bathroom, 
and upon opening the door found an unin¬ 
jured member of the party in the bath¬ 
tub getting a free bath!” This was not 
a band of gypsies. I wonder if you can 
guess their nationality? Yes, that’s 
right! 
So, friend Twining, do you wonder that 
we no longer rush out with open arms to 
welcome every would-be camper who stops 
at our farm? jiarvey losee. 
Dutchess Co., N. Y T . 
The Laboring Man 
This morning I went into Rochester to 
the State Employment Bureau after 
some help. On the street I picked up a 
man and his wife who looked as though 
they wanted work. There were about 
100 waiting at the employment office, 
and I presume that out of that hundred 
there were not more than 10 that wanted 
a job. I asked a policeman standing by 
about the crowd. He said: “They are 
here every morning looking for a job 
that pays big wages and nothing to do. 
They go to the Salvation Army or an¬ 
other place that hands out food and get 
something to eat, and are back the next 
morning looking for a job and hoping 
they won’t get one.” I asked a good 
husky fellow if he wanted a job, and he 
asked what kind of work, and when I 
told him trimming celery, he said: “Isn’t 
that kind of baekaching work?” I said 
that I supposed he was looking for a job 
of bottoming chairs at 70e an hour. The 
policeman said : “We ought to do as they 
do down in Pennsylvania. If they don’t 
work they give them a job. pounding 
stone, and when they have pounded so 
much they give them something to eat. 
but if they don’t pound they don’t eat.” 
He says we are too good to them, and I 
absolutely know that we are. I think 
most of them ought to be put on a boat 
and sent back to the country they came 
from. " w . B. 
Farm Prices 200 Years Ago 
The present high cost of labor and 
comparatively, low price for farm produce 
give an especial interest to the entries 
in a pre-revolutionary farm account book. 
I have one, found in a dusty and dusky 
corner of an unused attic. It is long anil 
narrow, with a warped and water- 
stained parchment cover and yellow 
pages, much frayed at the edges. It ap¬ 
pears to have been in use in the family 
for almost or quite 100 years. The earliest 
decipherable date is that of 1731, and 
the latest, 1827, though there are pages 
with the dates obliterated. The hand¬ 
writing and style of spelling vary, and 
in the records themselves we can easily 
parallel the drop from “war time” to 
“after-the-war” prices. Most of the rec¬ 
ords are accounts with individuals to 
whom the writer sold produce or for 
whom he worked. Some would seem to 
have been with the fanner’s own hired 
man, and at first the farmhouse would 
seem to have served more or less as a 
wayside inn, for there are several pages 
of entries such as these: 
“Date of 1731, To one meals’ victuls, 
0 - 1 - 0 .” 
This entry caused me much puzzlement. 
It occurs a good many times, and is 
spelled “one mels vitls!” The charge 
varies from sixpence to one shilling. All 
the entries in 1700 are of course given in 
pounds, shillings and pence. 
“To one pot sydor, 0-0-6.” This also 
is of frequent occurrence. 
“To keeping hors one night, 0-0-8. To 
one night’s login, 0-0-3. To pasturin old 
maor one night and two days, 0-1-0. For 
lickors, 0-0-8. To keeping the white 
maor one night, 0-0-6. For one quart rum, 
0-2-0. For keeping the hors one week, 
0-5-0. For one pale ots. 0-0-8. For 
three nights’ login, 0-0-9. For one galon 
sydor, 0-1-6.” 
Prices soon became higher, for in 1742 
we find: 
“For plowing one day, 1-0-0. For my 
boyes and teme, 0-18-0. For one bushel 
of rye, 0-12-0. For 10 pounds of pork, 
0-11-0 For five pounds of candles, 0- 
10-0. For one lod of wod. 0-10-0. For 
hoing one day, 0-7-0. For 43% pounds 
of beef, 1-9-0.” 
It seems as if there must have been a 
grain famine in 1748 and 1749, for the 
following amazing prices occur: 
“To a bushel of corn, 1-0-0. To one 
bushel and half of gran, 2-5-0. To two 
pounds and half of flax, 0-15-0. To three 
days and a half with my team, 10-0-0. 
To planting one day, 1-0-0. To one 
bushel ears of corn, 0-10-0. To one 
bushel of grain. 1-10-0. To three bushels 
of oats, 1-16-0.” 
Compare these figures with those of: 
“1757. Ben Darling. Dr: To three 
bushl ears of corn, 0-3-0. To two 
bushels of wheat, 0-8-0. To four days 
worek, 0-8-0. To won lod of wod, 0-8-0. 
To won turkey, 0-3-0. To two bushels 
and half of aples. 0-2-5. To won bushel 
of grain, 0-3-9. To sider, 0-2-0.” 
The entries for early in the eighteen 
hundreds are better written and spelled, 
but of less interest. Records are kept 
in dollars and cents. Potatoes now ap¬ 
pear to take the place of “ry” flax and 
“taller,” and sell at from 25 to 37% 
cents per bushel. 
In 1827 rye is 62% cents a bushel. 
One day’s work is usually set down at 
50 cents, wood chopping at 75 cents. 
Those later entries are much less legible 
than early ones, as the ink has faded 
badly, but it is fascinating to pore over 
these century-old recordsi of life and 
conditions so like, yet so unlike, those of 
today in the “land of steady habits.” 
GRANDMOTHER ROSE. 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
DOMESTIC. — Rioting occurred at 
Niles, O., Nov. 1, between the Ku Ivlux 
and an anti-klan organization. A num¬ 
ber of persons were injured. 
The notorious Ashley gang of outlaws 
is believed to have been exterminated 
Nov. 1 in St. Louis Co., Fla., in a battle 
with officers. Those killed were: John 
Ashley, 35, leader of the gang, wanted on 
charges of murder, bank robbery, high¬ 
way robbery and piracy; Shorty Lynn, 
about 30, escaped convict, sought on 
charges of murder and bank robbery; 
Hanford Mobley, 20, wanted on charges 
of bank robbery and highway robbery; 
Bob Middleton, 25, escaped convict, and 
sought on charges of bank robbery. 
Ten passengers were killed and two 
score injured, some seriously, Nov. 2, ac 
Chicago, when a Chicago, Milwaukee & 
St. Paul Railroad freight train, backing 
into the yards, wrecked a crowded street 
car crossing the tracks. Most of the vic¬ 
tims were neighbors returning from a Hal¬ 
lowe’en party, and many wore masquer¬ 
ade costumes. It is said that the crossing 
watchman did not lower the gates. 
Four persons were badly injured, ap¬ 
parently 30 were less seriously hurt, suf¬ 
fering from cuts and bruises, and about 
220 were shaken up Nov. 1 when the 
Great Northern Glacier Park Limited, 
No. 4, left the track about one mile south 
of Gardner, N. D. 
The mansion on “Seven Acres,” the es¬ 
tate of former Governor F. C. Smith, at 
St. Albans, Vt., was destroyed by fire 
Nov. 4. The house was estimated to he 
worth .$250,000. Valuable curios collect¬ 
ed »by the former Governor and Mrs. 
Smith during many years of travel were 
saved. Two firemen were injured when 
a wall fell. 
One hundred persons, who lay claim to 
thousands of acres in Atlantic Co., N. J., 
by virtue of a royal grant made in 1695, 
attempted to advance their claims by 
squatting on a tract of 150 acres at Fstel- 
ville. They chopped down trees, trimmed 
one for use as a flagpole, and ran up an 
American flag. Included in the lands to 
which they claim ownership are Absecon 
and the Brigantine Islands. A court de¬ 
cision four weeks ago awarded Mrs. Anna 
Winston the land on which the claimants 
squatted. The property was left to her 
by her father, the late Anderson Bour¬ 
geois. On her complaint, State police 
ordered the invaders to leave, which they 
did after they had hauled down their flag. 
Charles C. Frazier of Pleasantville led 
the invaders, who are known as the “Mar- 
tin-Ad:ams-Steelman heirs.” 
THE ELECTIONS. — Early returns 
showed a heavy plurality for President 
Coolidge, with an indicated electoral vote 
of 379. Gov. Smith was re-elected in New 
York State, with a Republican majority 
in the Legislature. La Follette made a 
poor showing. Iowa, South Dakota, North 
Dakota and Nebraska going for Coolidge. 
He only carried his own State, Wiscon¬ 
sin. Senators elected were 16 Repub¬ 
licans, 10 Democrats and one Farmer- 
Labor, Magnus Johnson of Minnesota. 
In this State Republicans won the Sen¬ 
ate, and retained the Assembly. New 
Jersey elected a woman to Congress, the 
first woman sent to the House of Repre¬ 
sentatives by any State east of the Mis¬ 
sissippi, Mrs. Mary T. Norton of Jersey 
City, prominent in the Democratic party- 
Mrs. Miriam A. (“Ma”) Ferguson, Dem¬ 
ocrat and anti-Ku Kluxer, whose hus¬ 
band, former Governor, was impeached 
by the Legislature four years ago, was 
elevated to the governorship by the citi¬ 
zens of Texas. “Ma” Ferguson’s candi¬ 
dacy had the announced purpose of vin¬ 
dicating her husband. She is the first 
woman to become Chief Executive of a 
State in the history of this Republic. For 
this distinction, however, she was tied 
by Mrs. Nellie Gf. Ross, Democrat, elect¬ 
ed Governor of Wyoming. The Cool¬ 
idge landslide has netted the Republicans 
a gain of five, possibly six, seats in the 
United States Senate, and gives the party 
undisputed control of the upper branch of 
Congress. The Republicans now are as¬ 
sured of 54 seats in the Senate; the Dem¬ 
ocrats have 43 ; Farmer-Labor one. There 
is one vacancy in Connecticut. The gains 
are in Colorado, Kentucky, Massachu¬ 
setts, Minnesota and Oklahoma. The vote 
recorded Nov. 4 was the largest in the 
history of the nation. The estimate is 
that Coolidge has received about 18,000,- 
000 votes; Davis, 8,000,000, and La Fol¬ 
lette 4.000.000. This indicated total of 
about 30,000,000 is 4,000,000 in excess of 
the record of 1920. The vote for La Fol- 
let is approximately the same as that cast 
for Theodore Roosevelt in 1912 before the 
women voted. 
Poet: “Just hear those trees in the 
orchard sighing in the breeze!” Plumber: 
“Huh! I guess maybe you’d be sighin’, 
too, if you was as full of green apples as 
them trees is.”—Everybody’s Magazine. 
