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TeI<pkone CENTRAL 3355 SUES4CRIPTION $2 PER YEAR SINGLE COPIES 5 CENTS% Alil communications and contributions intended for puibli- cation muet bear the name and address. of the author, flot necestarily for ,publication, but for our fiçs. Such material Must rcach tihe editor by Tuesday noon ta be in time for thc current issue. COMMUNITY CHESTS What can be acéompiished when the citizens, of a community, motivated by a high civic spirit and with eyes single only to the best'interests Of. ail the people, join hands in a public duty bas. again been demonstrated., by Winuetka, which has- furnjshed, so many outstanding examples OÉ the. value of coOperation ini village, aff airs. It is no occasion for surprise, therefore, that in, its. reçent Community Chest drive Winnetka reached its goal of $63,000. The cause for wonder. would have corne with failure,, for past experience preves that when Winnetka undertakes .an.y civic enterprise success is assured fromn the start. The resuits of the drive are not held up to public view with a purpose to flatter Winnetka people, but because they hold a lesson, of the Most vital imiportance to other municipalities.- It is revealed vividly ini the fact that in raising the fund more than 2,100 individual pledges were se- cured, indicating participation in the charity. by an unusually high percentage of families, and a remarkable absence of the "let -George -do -it" spirit. They indicate, too, a unity of purpose and * oyalty toe the public welfare that is highly com- mendable and frowi which other communities might weil profit. T1he key te sflcl desirable resu Its in village un- dertakings lies in coordination of civic pride and spirit and cooperation ini effort. When anything touching the interests of the village as a whole, be it church, charity, school or municipal, there is an immediate closing'of the ranks of different -groups, andS shoulder té, shouider they go.for-. ward to victory. In contrast te this- spirit -is that whic h stimulates opposition from one group when another spons ors aproject in which ail should be interested. It is almost invariably responsible for such ventures falling short of complete success and leaving an .after-feeling hfot at al conducivec vember 2, food dealers are now permitted to col- lect the tax as a direct item. The contention of the food dealers is that, in- asmuch as the consumer must pay the taxç in any case, it becomes a question oS ,which methbd, of because the margin of hmu profit s not suincient to stand the drain. This procedure is actuaily a protection for the -consumer. He knows exactly what he is paying and wiil assist in keeping the tax in the open exactly as it is, without camnou- flage. If the tax is permitted to remain -conicealed, there is a definite danger that future state ad- ministrations might attempt to increase it,,which> could be more easily accomplished if. the taxed were, in ignorance of the. tax." The gasoline tax affor»ds an illuminating ex- ample of the undercover: method of sales: taxt collection. While all motorists know that they are charged a tax on gasoline, few realize how much it is, because me mories: are notably short. But when lie drives up to a filing stationà and gets ten galions of gasoline, and forty cents is added to the.charge, hie is at once oonscious that he is paying a .4-cent tax. The value of this conscious- ness, lies in the fact that when it is proposed to increase t he gasoline tax to 'fi#e cents, hie will consider very carefullyr before endorsing it. Under the scheduie as workedout -by the foo'd dealers, consumera are actually to be charged less than the 1aw provides, anrd therefore the dealers will continue to absorb a portion of the tax. On sales of 25 cents there will be no tax. On pur- chases from 26 cents to 75 cents 1 cent wil be added as tax. From 76 cents to $1.25 the extra charge wiil be 2 cents. Above that figure a straight 2 percent will be collected. Few consumers, we think, will fail to see the justice to food merchant~s in the change, or the advantage to themselves iin knowing how mucli they pay and for what. Prom past experience they know that higli taxiation is a most difficuit thing to combat, and that. the difficulty s 'a terially increased when the approach to their pocketbooks is through a subterranean passage labeied "indirect tax." SAVE THE PAIRKS Citizens of New Trier Township villages who are interested in preserving to local park boards ownership and -control of their park systems should not deiay in joining in the plea to Gov. Henry Horner and the state legisiature for an amendment to the Chicago Park District act of ILS .i vbl ls Our park systems comprise properties far ton' valuable te lie surrendered to an alien systemn that has so often been imfmersed in scandai and. ,charged with politicai mismanagement. Mernbers of the freshman and junior classes in kidnaping are now receiving instruction fronv Prof. Julius Augustus Jones, familiariy known as "Babe," who is telling the judge and jury how Mr. Hackett, a Blue Isl.and gambler, was "snatched." *** Cook county G. O. P. harmony plans have. gone haywire, 'tis said. The various factions meet and talle things over, always. with stilettoes in their sleeves. Only hunger wiil bring sense to those boys. A four-mati scrap over NRA bhas ernbeliished the -news this week.. Senators Borah,' N.ye and Robinson were pitted against Gen. Johinson. Borah said'the recovery act is fostering trusts that' are squ eezing the life out of the smail business man and, mb- l)ing the consumer and'Ithe* farmer. Restoration and en- forcement of anti-trust laws is the. oniy salvation, -lie said. ' ~ Senator' Nye, spoke likewise, concluding 'that the codes rnake the consumer "a inere slave to the 'plunderbund'." Senator Robinson said: "That the President now exkercises too much power for the country's weifare, is aà,Il teo evident." Gen. John- son said they were a bunch of croakers who, :inr. stead of helping to work out suci problems "prefer to sit aside and conjecture evil." Tc which Senator Nye retorted: "Nero may rant and roar, but ail the bowbeating lie may resort to wilI flot destroy, thougli it may delay, knowledge of what NRA policy is doing to destroy small business. Those boastful individuals wlio are èxhibiting celiuloid imitations as the genuine claws of the Tamniany Tiger should exercise caution. Others have thought the Tiger dead oniy to discover that the big cat stili possessed plenty of -scratch-, ing power. American business menj, we think, are shrýewd enough to em brace any plan.tha t is to their bene- fit without being abused -and threateéned by a ýverbal mule-driver. -If General Johnson must talk, why dees not Washington furnish a rai. barrel for him to shout into and keep him off the radio? The ramn barrel has advantages. Its acoustics would permit him to hear his own voice arnplified, and few others need listen. Bea- sides whicb, only those with "radio voices" should attenipt to broadcast. Samuel Insuil has lost another round in his fight to remair. in, Greece, and bas been ordered to leave by Februar.y 14. Greece wants to seli olive oil to the U. S., and the U. S. wants Mr. InsuIll That's a combination of circuinsiances, Mr. Insull,. that is hard to beat. THE PHANXTo>ý RzpOlmT.