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The Sewickley Valley's Home-News Weekly
Vol. XXXII.   No. 15.
SEWICKLEY, PA., FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1935
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Over in Harrisburg just now, tax
measures are going through tho mill of
committee hearings preliminary to de-
hate on tho legislative floors. Taxes of
all kinds are boing mulled ovor, and the
ones that seem to rouso the least vociferous objection from lobbies or from
constituents back home, will probably
bo tho taxos that will bo put in force
very promptly, and unexpectedly to
thoso who have not been watching.
Attorney W. T.t Corbett, president of
the Bollovuo Board of Trade, returned
from Harrisburg Wednesday and told
the Sewickley Valloy Board of Trade
that ovoning somo of tho tax measures
that may likely be onacted; gasoline
tax that'll mako you pay a total of 60
conts overy time you buy ten gallons
of gas; tobacco taxes, bearing heavily
on tho littlo man rather than the big
one.    Mr. Oorbott roprosented tho in
terests of the Pittsburgh univcrsiios
and schools, however, and saw a serious
threat to some of their activities in a
proposed, amusement tax—ono cent tax
on every ten cents of admission price
to anything—scliool basketball game,
church supper or entertainment, anything at all whoro admission is charged.
No exceptions aro made for charitable
causes, or children's shows, or anything
else; and that tax, if enacted, would be
a hampering factor in many community undertakings, hero in Sewickley
as elsewhere. Ho recommended that we
all lot our legislators hear our objections, quickly and loudly.
Motor clubs and many othor organizations aro also urging upon our legislators not only thc justice but the wisdom of refusing to divert gasoline taxos
and highway funds from highway work
to direct relief or other purposos.   As
Henry M. Scharf, president of tho
Pennsylvania Hotel Association, recently stated it:
"Motor vehicle funds, put to work
improving and extending our highways,
will afford widespread genuine relief
for the needy through creation of gainful jobs. Not only will highway construction put thousands at work, but
it also will provide stimulation to trade
and industry generally through tho demand for road building matorials, supplies and equipment and through tho
workingman's purchases of food, clothing and othor necessities of life.
"But if highway funds, which aro
collected originally for highway extension and improvement, aro spent for
purposes entirely unrelated to roads,
littlo hope remains for any future highway construction work and therefore
equally little hope of ever solving tho
unemployment relief problem. The last
spocial session of the Legislature 'borrowed' some $9,000,000 from the motor
fund to pay for relief. It is now the
obligation of the Legislature to definitely assure that public that this money
will bo repaid immediately and in full
and, further, that there will be no
futuro divors-on of highway funds for
any purpose but road development.
"Tho wOrkingman of Pennsylvania
today wants a job, not a handout. Road
construction, so badly needed in this
State, particularly on the main highways, will go a long way toward solving
tho problom of putting him back on
a job and, as well, will bring business
into Pennsylvania. But if wo spond our
highway money for objects foreign to
highways, wo shall soon faco tho appalling prospect of added unemployment
and decay of tho highway system."
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