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A»? Published every Sunday by the paILY CORPORATION Bulared _ at the Freeport, M. Y. Post une'vuuuummm. wkwn mTAMDS-Two cents per copy af sll news stands. ear, # months $8.40. Bit f \trad weeuy. JAMES K. STILES, Kditer and Publisher. PuBticatio® - OPMICE-36 _ West Desi Bt., Freeport, N. Y. General Office Machsoical / Plant, | Buerise | Highway, Rockvite Centre, N. Y. OPPICIAL NEWSPAPER for the County ot Namau ©PPICLAL NEWSPAPER for the publica- tion af Notices of Bankruptey in United Btates District Court, astern District of New York. OFICIAL NEWSPAPER for: the Village of Island Park for the publieation of all legal notices connected ito the muni- government NASSAU DAILY REVIEW is a mem- ber of The Associated Press. The As- sociated Press in exclusively entited to use for publication of all news dis- patches credited to it or not otherwise ¢redited in this newspaper and also the local news published therein. Saturday, September 20, 1930. A WASTEFUL SYSTEM In view of the generous support given the carnival of the Rock- ville Contre American Legion post it might be hoped that residents ,of the village would not beccalled upon to aid another affair of this kina for several months. But it is announced that plans are being made for another bene- fit affair to be conducted in Rock- ville Centre during October, Be- tween now and Christmas there are prospects of at least four or five separate drives for funds, The annual roll call of the American Red Cross will soon be started and the stamp sale of the Nassau County Public Health Com- mittee will begin the day the Red Cross roll call ends. The experience of Rockville Cen- tre is little different from that of other leading South Shore com- munities. 'The public hardly has time to catch its breath from one campaign before another begins. The plan of attack is very much the same in all campaigns, and to a large extent the same minority is depended upon to contribute the /bulk of the support. Business men, merchants and the banks are al- ways given the first opportunity to aid any cause for a charitable pur pose. For a season reputed to be \slow the success of the various charity bazrars and carnivals in Rockville Centre this year is some- thing for which the organizations that staged them should be thank- ful. And the public of the village may be sure that as long as they endorse this plan of contributing to char- ity, they will never lack the op portunity. The Review has given its sup- port to these affairs gladly. With out exception it endorses the pur- pose for which the funds have been raised and regrets only that the results have not been still larger It protests, however, against the wastefulness of a system by which continual appeals are made to a minority of the public and the ma« jority escape the responsibility of participating. On the opening night of the American Legion carnival The Re- view asked where the other 13,000 residents of the village were, es- timating that not over 500 resi- dents 'of the community attended. This was not an impertinent question. There is no reason why a limited, active group of people should bear the burden of sup porting half a dozen or more car- nivals and charitabl@affairs every year, while hundreds of others stay out of sight and out of reach, If these affairs nre justified at all, every resident of the community js oblignted to support them some measure, If Rockville Centre has the name of being m genérous com- munity, it owes that reputation to considerably less than half of its substantial population. A Community Chest campaign, in which the organizations which conduct annual drives or charity affairs were associated, should find some way of reaching every resi- dent of the community and spread out the burden of support. The Review will continue to sup- port these recurring projects for raising funds for charity, though they come every week, But it in- alsts that by lack of a co-operative movement, the various organiza- tions are making things harder for themgelves. It believes theysare going about the task in the wrong way and that m amail part of the public is good- naturediy and generously pulling them through, while the rest are glad of a chance not to be bother ed, although they would do what they could if an appeal were put up) to them in the right way. The Community Chest plan, set tp along lines most appropriate for the community, should take care of this phase of village life more aficiently and more equitably than It in being handled now. in are now tuning up) a new locomotive whistle which will shool its warning directly at the motorist, hut a more practierl and appropriate warning would be a «which playy \Hewer My God, to Thes.\~Obic ou THE Crts Por AGAINST ALIMONY pasa One might be inclined to smile at the crusade against alimony that has been Inunched in New! investigation he fould find that there is probably as much cause for it as for the average crusade which sets out to_ right a specific wrong. Man is pictured as the long-suf- fering party in all sepmration, di- vorce and alimony proceedings, which distorts the situation some- what in his favor. Alimony in its conception is wholly just, but like a great many good ideas it some- times works an injustice in execu- tion, Originally intended as a protec- tion for married women whose hus- {bands refused to support them, un- doubtedly the tables have been turned by unscrupulous women who purposely use it as an instrument for obtaining support without ful- filling the duties of a matrimonial arrangement. The evil is not something that can be corrected, by elimination, because there are instances where it is entirely just And it is a pretty big undertaking to decide what is just and>fair in this mat- ter. If men are tha-victims of ali- mony-hunters, they owe it large- ly to their own weakness and lack of discretion inpicking a life mate. By fur the greatest majority of| women would prefer to live with their husbands and make the best of any situation rather than leave] them for the sake of a few dollars) a week alimony. The few who do use it as the op- portunity for obtaining support re- ceive more consideration ofttimes than they are due from the courts, and if this is what the crusade seeks to correct none will wish it anything but success. TRUSTEES WITH ORDERS If the Lynbrook trustees have received \orders\ not to sign the! bill for the village's dues in the) Nassau County Village Officials As- sociation, of course they mustn't. We can't have any insubordinate trustees. If we were a village trustee no- body would tell us what to do, but then probably we could not be elected trustee for that very ren- son. Obedient trustees are essential to the factional scheme of municipal government. And the factional system of municipal government is the most damnable thing that a municipality was ever cursed with. It goes without saying that the public official who takes orders under such circumstances is not a very big man, no matter how high he may stand in the Citizons Party,) or the Peoples Party, or the Prog- ressive Party. | It is not a serious thing that the) trustees will not pay the village's dues in the Village Officials As- sociation, It is laughable. It is not even a reflection on Lynbrook. It is about what might be expected of a bunch of two-by-four poli- ticians invested with more author-| ity than civic understanding and possessed of keener personal pre- judices than moral responsibility. It is entirely logical, in view of the limited horizon that circum- scribes their conception of public ervice, that they should refuse to pay the dues of an organization of which the mayor, their arch enemy, is an outstanding leader, just as it was natural that they should vote against the widening of Merrick road because the mayor wanted to merge the police department with the county. We suppose that if he failed to approve new equipment for t.: fire department they would get even by votirig to abolish garbage and ash removal. A village trustee is n very big man, but it is the little things) that count with them. TAX EXPERT ADVO- CATES STRATTON PLAN The proposal made sometime ago by Mayor William R. Stratton of Malverne that a county educa- tional system be established rs a méans of equalizing school taxes is almost identical with the recom- mendation \of Dr, Ralph Theodore Compton, expert for the New York State Tax Commission, is his re- port on a study of the fiscal prob lems of rural sections, Dr. Compton's book, which has just been published at Albany, recommends that all the financial functions now exercised by school districts be given to the counties. The report shows that the cost of maintaining schools in the rural districts with only one teacher is often aa burdensome in proportion ak the cost of maintaing a modern xchool system fn one of the South Shore villages. Some of the districts caver only 20 farms and have us low as one pupil, Undet a county system he would merge many districts and provide better educational fagilitie for less cost. - Mayor Stratton's ides, as it ap- plied to Nassau County, war more a plan of equalising school tures| thin of reducing the cost. Ha proponed to itke the school taxa fized county charge and wee the funds to provide equal Pnciti or county a % be York City, but on reflection into consideration the fact distances anywhere in Nassau County would not be great enough to be a formidable obstacle in t way of the proposal. The two ideas have much . common and suggest a reform which many people believe is in- evitable, There are many lines of opposi- tion to be overcome before such a plan is popula®, but they will all be answered satisfactorily if the centralized county control of schools can produce more adequate facilities and a more efficient sys- tem at the same cost or for less. An effective argument against State aid for poor districts is found in the fact that reliance upon out- side help only aggravates the sit- uation which made it necessary in the first instance. If a realign- ment and rearrangement of financ- ing and districting public educa- tion can be worked out to advant- age within the counties, it is bet- ter than to have the State support districts which cannot support themselves. In Nassau County || 25 Years Ago (From Review's Bound Files) ____-4 4 25 YEARS AGO The Oyster Bay Guardian won- ders why Jones, one of the town officers, is allowed to serve out his full term. \Because he can't claim any commutation for good behavior,\ - answers: the - South Side Observer, The Board of Supervisors met mt Mineola _ on . Monday and awarded to Smith Cox of Free- port & contract to supply the county with 50 tons of pea coal at $4.14 per ton, for use at the county court house and Jail, During the past week a num- ber of complaints have been re- ceived by members of the Board of Supervisors In regard to the speeding of automobiles on Nas- sau County highways, especially over the roads to be used during the automobile races on Septem- ber 23 and October 14. Bayside is going to have a bank of its own. If this keeps up there will soon be a separate bank for every \illage on Long Island, says the South Side Observer. 10 YEARS AGO John M. Harringion, president of the South Side Democratic Club, read the report of the Na- tional Democratic Committee at the r seting held at the Wide Awake |-| Engine Company fire house in Freeport Thursday night. The Lewis H. Ross Company of Baldwin has ordered ® new motor truck for its lumber busi- ness. Twelve new houses have been erected, or are being erected in Merrick Square, the section di- rectly north of the railroad track. This is the beginning of what is predicted as Merrick's greatest era cf expansion, Miss Doris Rogers Hulse and Wilbur P. Baldwin were married in Brooklyn last Thursday by the Rev, John Heritage, associate pastor of All Saints' Episcopal Church. 5 YEARS AGO Approximately 350 pupils have enrolled in the new Holy Re- deemer Parochial school In Free- port. Craigle Manor Inn, one of the oldest landmarks in Baldwin, is being razed. 'The one time old Quaker House stands mt Milburn avenue and Church street. Accord- ing to tradition, the old section of the building is more than 200 years old. When the steamship Mexico was wrecked near Jones' Inlet January 2, 1837, bodies of the dead were conveyed to Crai- gle Manor The J. C. Zook Organization, Inc, is offering a large group of homes in the \Kings Estates\ at Baldwin for the- rare prine of $5,250, William H. Reynolds, founder and former mayor of | Long Beach, and a former state sen- mtor, will lecture Saturday eve- ming at Castle's Theatre in Long Beach on the subject, \Florida vs, Long Island.\ The lecture will be {lustrated with lantern slides. a- | Did You Ever Stop L— To Think? By EDSON R. WAITE.--4 That . progressive . wide-awake a | I l Property Tax Burden Must Be Shifted) to Income, Expert Reports to Statel Jl TAX burden of this country must be shifted from property to Income. This is the conclusion of Dr. Ralph |'Theodore Compton, research invest- gator for the New York State Tax Commission, in his special report to the State Tax Commission on the fiscal problems of rural decline, which has just been published. Dr. Compton was engaged by the State Tax Commission almost two years ago to make m study of the methods of financing the costs of government In the economically decad- ent rural areas of New York State His report, comprises all phases of his studies, makes a book of more than 250 pages, but his summary brief and to the point. * \There has been m tendency in [this country to view property as a [source of revenue, he asys. \Prop- erty taxes probably contribute nearly half of the combined federal, state and local revenues of the United |States Yet the ownership of property is not fnecessarfly evidence of tax-paying ability. Taxes must be paid out of Income. and when they are levied upon from some other source, 'There is probably a tendency on the part of the general public to under-estimate property tax burdens. 'Two per cent does not seem to be a high rate; yet if property on which it is levied is earning 10 per cent. on the assessed valuation, such a tax amounts to 20 per cent. of the Income \An income tax of 20 per cent. levied on receivers of small incomes would be viewed as outrageous.\ Must Reduce Government Costs The study made by Dr. Compton was prompted by the need for some method of enabling the poorer rural districts to meet the costs of govern- ment which have become excessively burdensome. The city and suburban residents talk of \burdensome taxes because they run into large figures, but their taxes are trivial In proportion to the taxes pald by some of the poorer up- state countles. \Studies of farm Incomes in some of the declining agricultural regions of New York State Indicate that \Crusade | Launched With ‘proprrty which does not provide its! owner with income they must be paid | i property In these regions does not yield any Income to the owner above the ordinary farm wages. There are many farms that do not pay more than 4 per cent. on assessed valua- tions. In some towns the combined property taxes are considerably more than 4 per cent. of assessed valuations. Where this is the case the taxes are confiscatory, Obylously land that yields no Income cannot have m value except insofar as that value is creat- ed by the demand of ignorant buyers. Where taxes take the entire income from the land It may be expected that those taxes will eventually become delinquent. As lands become delin- quent the tax rates on the remain- Ing lands must be increased.\ Roads And School Chief Expense The report points out that the two great burdens of taxation are roads and schools. \In the State of New York there are pvarly 10,000 separate govern- mental units (school districts) ad- ministering the public function of education. These units also. collect [their own taxes and they may assess [their own property. \There are about 1,000 units (the [towns, countles and State) building rural highways. 'These units also mssess and collect taxes. \Many of the school districts are so small they bave only one pupll. While it may be that some towns maintain very efficient highway de- partments, the majority of them ap- pear fo be very Inefficient.\ (This report should not be taken as applying to Nassau County in any respect. Nassau is the second richest county in the State and does not have the problems of the sparsely settled upstate countles. Nor does the at- raignment of towns necessarily ap- bly to such wealthy towns as the three of Nassau County, which more nearly resemble citles than towns,) One conclusion reached by Dr. Compton is that towns should be 'mbolished and the functions of gov- ernment centralized in the counties. \It is also recommended that all of the financial functions now exercised by the school districts be given to the counties,\ he writes. \These reforms would result in the distribution of the costs of govern- ment over wider areas and, conse- on Alimony-Hunters | New Magazine| A new erusade, dedicated to the remedying of the alimony evil, has been launched tif New York City with promises of support from prominent attorneys and many individuals who to be unjust alimony demands. The crusade will be pressed forward by means of a magazine, \Alimony edited by Paul P. Travers. 'The magazine will be devoted to hard luck stories from men who find alimony is ® millstone mhout their neck and a discusion of the legal injustice of many alimony jadgments. In many cases been very generous in granting of alimony. At times they don't reem to care how they spend a marrled man's money, Repecially is this true in New York City. Now- lave suffered from what they believe|adays, the married man' lives in a; constant fear because he is never sure at what hour of the day a sum- mone demands 'his personal nppear- ance in court. \His better half, the woman that promised him love, honor and obed- lence, is there with a tale of long and patient suffering. mentaily and phys- wae dor the mun who his witt quently, over larger numbers of peo- ple.\ While it is claimed that ellmina- tion of some of the excessive machin- ery of government would mean con- siderable saving, it would not be suf- ficlent to relieve the cost of taxes to theextent that relief is seen as neces- sary. Direct Tax Eliminated } One move that was aimed primar-) My to help the farmers was the) enactment of a state gasoline tax law] and the dropping of a direct state tax! on property. Consequently farmers! particularly felt some relief, starting last year, in the amount of State taxes they pald. In addition all of the upstate coun- tles collected large sums of money from the gasoline tax distribution (which is assailed by the wealthy countles as being unfair). countles received from the State sev- eral times the amount of taxes they paid This money was available for roads that the countlescould not have built themselves. State taxes, however, source of heavy taxation and school taxes mre what cost the local taxpayer heaviest. If consider- able road building is done at the ex- vense of the State. or with money from the State, and the direct State tax abolished, it can be seen that a very strategie move to benefit the farmerhas been made, Hls school taxes, however, remain a problem. It has been suggested that some of the activities of the local governments should be transferred to the State. Rural tax burdens can be| reduced by the Increase of the pres ent State ald distributions State Ald Makeshift \However such extensions are not without danger,\ states Dr. Compton, \as further increase of State ald to localitles, particularly to school dis- tricts, may beexpected to further en- trench certain of the factors now contributing to the high cost of gov- ernment, Moreover, further state ald may even aggravate the very condi- tons that Itis intended to relieve.\ In his summary Dr. Compton says) that town governments should be abolished, and if this is politically im~ possible provision should be made for alum] abolition by the various coun- He also suggests that school dis- tricts be abolished. In reference to the suggestion that town governments be abolished, !t! might be «stated that this plan has been advanced before and has always! been bitterly opposed. - In Nassau County, or in the Town\ of Hempsterd, some of the provisions Dr. Compton suggests have already been put into effect, Tax coilectora| have been eliminated by the estab- lishment of a receiver of taxes mt the Town Hall, who collects road taxes, cept those of incorporated villages Formerly this work was done by num- erous collectors for the various agen- cles. A big saving was made possible by this reform some years ago, This was a special Nassau County {nothing new The poorer\ | are not the {most something or other-and all for school taxes and all other taxes trade among South Shore mer- act, however, and does net apply to the rural upstate counties, of standard- | of Bra-itheir beads. Bince Cotmbus day has mul A smguentt d am | Purts and e \the another buid. Our Children By Angelo Patri That Dirty Child Could you dig a ditch, build a city, make a batch of mud pies, mend your automobile in spotless array? It may be spotless when you begin but I doubt that it will remain that way. Work, activity, will leave traces on any uniform, A day's dirt will never burt a child. If be has a bath every night, and he ought to have, and a sponging off every morning, and he ought to have that also, he is clean. The dirt he gathers during the day will not burt him half as much as your constant washing and changing will do Dress him in overalls and let it go for the day. Why not? Why should a child be dressed in clothing that he must regard beyond all else? Play! is his highly important business. If he does not play with undivided spir-| it he plays badly. The child whose play has been thwarted grows up to be a poor worker. As he plays he will work. ' Then as be is unclean he will bs unclean?\ Not at all. I tell you hie ja not dirty. The trices of his scuvity that mark his dress are not dir Dirt is material out of place and 1 tend that these traces are. in and therefore not dirt When a boy or girl reach stage of adolescence he be; think about his appearance clothes are carefully ( fully put on, proudly wore [have boceme an expression strong force and they have a ing to the child. Younger have no such feeling and clothes coverings save in clu} who seem to be born with fine raiment. They never are dirty. Indeed: they. worry th: thers becalise they think so ( their clothes, Of course there are occas dressing up, Parties and hu |stons and dress parades mus vided for generously. Party must be gay and colorful by | make them so costly that come an anxiety One na lovely costumes out of 1« {material and they answer « pose. Little children. sho} wear anything that cous {that 1t cannot be. replaced straining the budget Dress the child for and the simpler the d Don't wory about one doy [a bath will remove. And 1 the nelghbors. Set the they will fall in line a lis i a (Copyright. 193) The Bell Syndicate 1 I’A Washington Dayibapkfl By Herbert WASHINGTON-The \baby con- gressman\-Fred A. Hartley, Jr., of New Jersey-Is out to be returned to the house of representatives for a second term-and, incldentally, to keep clean his record of never having been defeated for public office Representative Hartley was elected to represent the eighth district of New Jersey in the house four months be- fore he had reached the age of 26. and is believed the youngest man ever sent to congress. For his second term he is opposed) by Paul Moore, a Democrat, and the man from whom Hartley wrested the eighth district seat in 1928, Indications are that the contest will be close, 'This particular district bas the reputation of sending a Re- publican to congress in presidential years and a Democrat In by-elections Used To It But to the \baby congressman\ closely-contested political battles nre Practically all his vic- tories have been won by narrow mar- gins He was elected. clty. commissioner of his home town, Kearny, by only 200 votes. His re-election to this post was by 400. He gained a berth on the Republican county committee with only 13 votes to spare And his seat in congress was declared his only after a recount Hartiey admits that he gets a big kick out of running for congress. In 1928, despite the fact that he was a _I May Be Wrong, Local read Art Eggleston Boys and girls of Nassau today, in- cluding the older ones-fat forties, slim sixtles, senile seventles - are learning their Two P's just the same as their progenitors did their Three R's not many decades ago Personality and persistency - these Two P's. Disparaging persons say Pluck and Priggishness, Dear readers we'll not speak of endurance contests, so read on. But as 'Death comes to all men\ so must time bring to a close these contests whereby someone is named the sake of dear charity. All of which makes us think that the buxom | woman with the Cornucopia has blind- ed eyes rather than the one with the sword and scales. We were talking the other day to Mucuous Membrane, as well known perhaps as any menace-disguised by popularity-hereabouts, He didn't exactly agree to the prediction that Nassau soon will be running short of ways in which to make Miss Charity take the blame for electing most something or other He will, nonetheless, after the Volta Social Club has concluded Its fund-raising campaign for a clubhouse wite. It's not the Vollas fault that they are going to be last-or nearly, the last-to name a most popular something or other, Their cause is| doubtless as, admirable as were the others. Of To Am Early Start The end will come because there won't be any more tinknown quan- titles, welghod by the Two P's here- abouts. 'The Two P's skid toward ob- livion began early last May when a} queen was elected to stimulate lig- chants and at the same time to aid South Nassau Communities hospital Pollowed the Freeport merchants' | work the aging game and mortgage off their Maple . You can't blame The Legtonaires made possible for Rockville Centre folk learn who are ther most popular and Tiremen. While all this vote-casting was go- Ing on the Voltas had the idea of a carnival packed away in the back of I while oth- to a fas- rabid acd was week! some- to the 7 What C. Plummer --- - stalwart . organization - Rep [party leaders spurned him bees his youth. But he entered the mary as an Independent and w nomination by 714 votes \In my first campaign.\ h \people told me repeatedly thi [they agreed with my: platton jcould not vole to send a \kid gress,\ To meet such opposition he 1 ! as his campaign slogan \Tt took a 26-year-old boy » the spirlt of America to Pris have a 26-year-old hoy carry ); of the eighth congréssionai A Washington.\ I Veterans' Friend Tt worked. He won the nom Entering the general election ho his campaign on national Issi» vote was tabulated and he w shy. He demanded a recoun 136,000 ballots were counted wa he had an official majority of 14 | _ He was given . his certitl election, hired an airplans to Washington to file it |_ Hartley's interest In. come far lias been concentrated on 1 world war velerans He would be known as one of the best 1 they have in congress. To thi though he is regular In his Nt o Heanism, he voted. to aversrid« 1 ident Hoover's veto of the compensation act He is the father of three two boys and a girl - My uus to marry when he was only | But- | Anattr=BMY cast their ny» [lists of unnamed somethin« jer. Anyway they've. come {made their stand They no . uncover the most. pop and the most popular mail fore their carnival Is over Prople of Nassau! Can the ery to arms? Here is perho last chance, this year, to wi' names on pretty pink slips to body who today treads your potential something 6f othe The second of the Two i' Persistency, remember? 'ic alstency with which the Imarching out over the end imaginary dock to the vote-vote\ of the Ple-eyed Tp @-________ | THE NaTioN's P RESS OUR MERCHANT MAKIN Although American ships s less than 40 per cent of (r trade, this figure seem» | orable when It Is renlued tha! years before the World Wo ure was only eight per co the encouragement of !! White met, which provides (/ struction loans through th board and subsidies through in« tracts, the merchant muris Lined for much further grow! Under a program formulsi« Post office Department, !\ mail routes have been v and, these will require the lus reconditioning of alxty-eigh* a cost of 275 milion dolla; construction of these. ships their terminal faciiities, wii already begun and which is Uinue for five years, masinls - ment by iiving work to myer sand men The assistance which the / States government la giving ! builders is by no means uniqu merchant marines of Euryc> tloma have been built up by subsidies and bounties far m: «rous than anything avail} Prance, Germany, Taly and / not only provide bounties construction of ships but is pensate ship owners for ail « cial cargo they carry. The growth of America's me~ marine not only gratifie« . nav pride, even in this inland negion also facilitates the carrying of and freight and makes nsalla>) large number of whips for use i; of another Ruropean war in » the verssls of other nations mit be withdnemn from their reguls~ vise. The experiences of the last s whowed that a nation le at n serious . disadrintage Moines Register! TRIPOLI, Italian Worth A rebels who surreno Rallan euiborities. before nect nary will have whatever smienc» hanging over them eurpended. o: a when., yolud,. aap wn emeoubtivg decrve 1 whe govensirs D *
