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NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
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VOLUME 5. NuMBER 51 
In his address before the Municipal 
club of Beverly Farms, one evening: last 
week, Hon. W. W. Coolidge, of 
Salem, in the course of his remarks 
touched briefly on the question of tax- 
ation and cited many ways in which the 
poll-tax payer was indirectly and un- 
equally taxed, and right here this brings 
to mind the query, “‘ What is there more 
unequal and more inequitable than this 
matter of taxation in devising ways and 
means for revenue?’’ 
The problem of just and equitable as- 
sessment is most complex and not easy 
of solution. One inequality which it is 
the purpose of this article to point out, 
and the only one, is in taxation for main- 
tainance of streets and highways. It 
does not seem that the man, however 
wealthy he may be, who owns no vehicle 
and consequently neither uses or wear 
out the highway, should be taxed the 
same as his neighbor possess_d of equal 
wealth but owning horses and vehicles, 
and who is constantly using the highways, 
and to a limited extent wearing them out, 
so that the maintenance department is 
kept busy in repairs. Then there is the 
poor widow with her little home; she, 
too, owns no horse; she never rides. The 
little she walks upon the street would 
take her a century to cause it to require 
repairs. Yet she is taxed prop prtionally 
with these others and perhaps with a 
hundred-fold more hardship. 
What is the solution? An old saying 
is “‘let those who dance pay the fiddler. ’’ 
Tax the vehicles. Let all vehicles used 
in transportation of persons or property, 
upon the streets and highways be licensed 
and pay a fee for their privilege; a 
graduated tax on horse or motor vehicles 
according to their capacity. Such an or- 
dinance would seem to be simplicity it- 
self. The city of Chicago having re- 
ceived authority from the legislature is 
just upon the eve of putting this plan into 
operation and, it is estimated, will raise a 
revenue from this source of over 
$700,000, annually, all of which can be 
appropriately devoted to keeping the 
streets in good condition. Such a tax, it 
is claimed, will not be an easy one to 
evade as it applies to personal property 
that is useless when concealed, and is 
easily collectible because the penalty for 
evasion of the tax might be more than 
the tax that is exacted. 
This plan seems to be just and equitable 
and the experiment is one that should be 
watched with much interest. 
The sentiment contained in John 
Howard Paine’s immortal song, “‘ Home, 
Sweet Home,’’ is never more apparent 
than in this Christmas season, when all 
eyes turn lovingly and longingly to the 
dear old spots around which cluster 
memories of happy childhood. Then 
there is an ardent desire to revisit fam- 
iliar scenes to renew youthful joys as far 
as time and change will permit. 
Old and young, the man and woman 
immersed in the cares of the workaday 
world, the boy and girl at school, all en- 
deavor to go home to celebrate the holi- 
day season. ‘There amid the green of 
the holly, the red of the berry, and 
about the festive board they know they 
can give themselves up to unrestrained 
mirth and happiness. 
Newspaper Philosophy. 
The way people take a paper and pay 
for it carries joy to the publisher's heart, 
but the way some people take it and 
don’t pay for it often makes him wonder 
how they can derive any pleasure from 
reading a paper that is not worth (?) pay- 
ing for. 
The business man who gives hishome 
printing office the go-by and gets cheap 
stati nery from a travelling fakir ought 
not to expect the home paper to try to 
boom his business. “Treat your home 
office right and the paper will help your 
business, otherwise—nit. 
Perhaps you don’t like some of the 
news you find inthe paper. We don’t 
like it all ourselves, but there are several 
hundreds of people who pay for the 
paper and each wants a little of hiskind of 
news, hence there must be a variety, like 
a hotel bill of fare.-— Union ( Neb. ) Ledger. 
Testimonial of Appreciation Pre- 
sented to F. K. Hooper. 
At the adjourned Town meeting in 
Manchester last spring a vote was passed 
instructing the selectmen to “‘ cause to be 
engrossed and suitably framed’’ the 
thanks of the town to Franklin K. 
Hooper for his long and very efficient 
term of service, gratuitously rendered, as 
moderator. These instructions have 
been carried out and this week the select- 
men presented Mr. Hooper with the 
testimonial printed below, beautifully in- 
scribed with pen on white parchment, 
in a frame of black oak. 
The testimonial is on exhibition in 
Cheever’s window, and will remain 
there for a few days, so that the citizens 
of the town, from whom it comes, might 
see it. The testimonial is as follows: 
‘TESTIMONIAL 
Or APPRECIATION PRESENTED TO 
[sEAL] 
FRANKLIN K. HOOPER 
BY THE 
Cirizens OF MANCHESTER, Massa 
CHUSETTS. 
In compliance with a vote of the 
town passed at the adjourned annual 
meeting, April sixteenth, nineteen 
hundred and seven,—‘“That the se- 
lectmen cause to be engrossed and 
suitably framed, the thanks of the 
town to Mr. Franklin K. Hooper for 
his long and valuable services, gratuit- 
ously rendered, covering a period of 
more than fifteen years as moderator 
of our Town Meetings,’’ —the under- 
signed respectively submit the follow- 
ing as the expression of the united 
voice of the people: 
Chosen by his fellow townsmen_ in 
early manhood to fill a position re- 
quiring the highest executive ability, 
he brought to his task an honest  pur- 
pose with inflexible will restrained and 
softened by an unfailing courtesy. If 
tempted at times to allow his feelings 
to gain the ascendency, his better 
nature soon triumphed and _ impartial- 
ity with even-handed justice followed. 
‘The words of an honored Senator of 
this Commonwealth should be in- 
scribed in letters of gold, upon the 
walls of every Town hall in the 
land—‘“* Public Office is a Trust, not 
a Perquisite.’” “The town honors by 
this act not the recipient alone, but it 
also stimulates to high endeavor all 
worthy and aspiring young men to 
deserve the recognition of their s:v2 | 
communities by faithful and meritori- 
ous service. 
Given under our hand this 20th 
day of November, A. D., 1907. 
Frep K. Swerr Selectmen » 
Epwarp S. KNIGHT of 
WALTER R. BELL j Manchester 
