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Newspaper
Indiana Evening Gazette
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1932
Page
3
Indiana Evening Gazette presents a clipped editorial page from Blairaville, Fa. outlining local civic concerns and community voices. The piece reflects an era’s editorial stance with opinion snippets, letters, and brief comment on public affairs.
A critical view argues the public payroll wields unchecked political power, inflating salaries and taxes. It warns that government at all levels has strayed beyond peacetime income, risking financial disaster unless payrolls are restrained and spending aligned with taxpayers’ ability to pay.
At a regular meeting the Tax-Justice League of Pennsylvania formed a committee to contact the Superintendent of Public Instruction about tax collection for public schools. The group met Dr James N Rule in Harrisburg and found him open to constructive suggestions to ease real estate burdens through a shift of school funding toward the state. The superintendent is drafting a plan for the 1938 Legislature along lines urged by the League, offering potential relief to taxpayers. Local real estate owners may see adjustments as more states fund school costs.
The piece warns delinquent taxes point to a looming crisis that could force a government reorganization. It argues payrolls have crippled taxpayers and governments locally, statewide, and nationally and calls for united taxpayer action to avoid bankruptcy and restore peaceful costs of government.
The Louisiana Legislature considers an income tax bill with individual rates from 1 to 10 percent and a corporate rate of 4 percent. Exemptions include $1,000 for single filers, $2,000 for married filers, and $300 for dependents, with May 23 reporting from Baton Rouge.
A French inventor creates a life buoy for passenger ships that fires from a rack by electric shock and, upon water contact, releases a flare to illuminate a wide surrounding area. An English inventor adds a safety valve for household water pipes allowing expansion to prevent bursting in freezing conditions.
From the Gazette files for 1802 a three story desel building by ACH Cunningham, a ry goods merchant, nears completion on Philadelphia street. A reporter toured the site with the gentlemanly proprietor noting its neat design and planned upper dwelling floors and a large ground floor store. Nearby Sutton Bros. & Bell shipped six Marlin stump pullers to Oneida for an American Indian reservation, while the Lowry schoolhouse Sunday School in White Township secured a 114 volume library by subscription, with Miss Sadie Lowry as librarian.
Twenty years ago items note obituaries for James J. Rogers of Seward and John McQuown of Punxsutawney, marriages of Nell and Mae Mahon and Wilson and Householder, highway survey progress under Prof A M Wonder, and a Memorial Day house party at Joseph Johison's Blairsville home with thirty guests. Ten years ago references list deaths in 1922 and a planned $60,000 Indiana county service station deal involving Consumers' Service Company and Kin ter Flotel property in Blairsville.
Carleton Beals roves Central America in Banana Gold to expose poverty under venal politics and American influence. He interviews Sandino, criticizes imperialism, and paints railroads as banana trains and hotels as mosquito hells. Published by Lippincott at $3.00.
Weekly Health Talk cites a 53 year old, active for seven months, who collapsed after three tennis sets following a spring surge of activity. Dr Theodore B Appel warns that adults over forty five should avoid assuming they are as young as twenty and choose age appropriate sports with controlled enthusiasm to prevent injury.
In the old Roman calendar June was a favorable month for marriages and a full moon aided success. In Tibet most women marry, with elopements sometimes allowing the bride to choose her husband, while parents often arrange weddings without consulting their daughters.
A writer counsels older readers to select age appropriate sports and avoid overexertion while embracing moderation. The piece notes golf risks, spring health upsides, and urges restraint to prevent winter deficiencies from being masked. A Paris item describes a future talking clock in exchanges, using a synchronized drum and sound film to announce the correct time.
A compilation of remarks from figures including Samuel L. Vauclain Baldwin Locomotive Works, Joseph Paul-Boncour, General Shigeru Monjo, Ex-King Alfonso of Spain, and Dorothy Mackall. The comments touch on work, disarmament, Manchuria, European history, and inevitable mistakes.
Barbs note three holdup men stole 25000 from an Ohio bank recently. Bond records between a broker and Jimmy Walker in New York are missing, a mystery deemed unsurprising. Congressional money knowledge is debated as Samuel Vauclain, Baldwin locomotive chairman, comments on a two billion dollar deficit and a land of Clover. A Kansas man reportedly discovers a new method to identify pig weeds.
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