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In the Day's News Br FRANK JENKINS I suppose you've read about the nonpartisan taxpayers' re volt that got going up in the state of Washington some three weeks ago. It got its start at a service club meet ing, where the members listened to a rousing speech on government and taxes. Some of them got together afterward and decided to do something about it. So they drafted a form let ter and started out to get sig natures. The movement snow balled and at last accounts some 10,000 letters had land ed on the desks of state legis lators at Olympia, where the Washington legislature is in session, and Governor Rossel lini says he has received 1,348 of them. The letters are in the form of a petition to the Washing ton legislature to adopt a no-new-services, no- new- taxes program to check the rise of taxes. IS IT good? Or is it bad? It could be a little of both. But it does dramatize the im portant fact that if SERVICES provided by government are to go on expanding TAXES WILL HAVE TO GO ON RIS ING. There's no other way out of It. Services cost money. When government pays for them, it has to reach into the pockets of the taxpayers to get the money. There is nowhere else for it to come from. There is no such thing as something for nothing. SOMETHING else the tax payer should ponder: When government reaches into his pocket and takes out a dollar, that dollar is no long er there for the taxpayer to spend.- BUT LET'S get back to FORM letters. As a, means of letting the governing authorities know how people feel about what is going on, they are better than nothing. But they have their shortcomings. They are open to the suspicion that somebody has something up his sleeve and is trying to put something over on somebody. PERSONAL letters much better. Small Worlds Around Us By Lynn M. Watkins are LET'S PUT it this way: If you feel strongly about something, that is going on in government, sit down and write a letter about it to your senators and your congress man if it is a national matter. If it is a state matter, write to your state senators and your state representatives. Or to your governor. Don't worry that it will be thrown in the waste basket. If it is a sincere, honest let ter, expressing a sincere, hon est personal opinion, it will GET READ. IF MORE people Maybe hundreds of them Maybe MILLIONS of them Would write such letters to the officials who represent them in governmental mat ters GOVERNMENT COULD BE BROUGHT BACK CLOS ER TO THE PEOPLE. Pat's Patrol Never Varies Pat the mongrel dog lived a life of ease. The only thing he really had to do was move out from under the family car, where he usually slept, when his master left at 7:30 a.m., for work. The minute the kitchen door opened he was wide awake, readily accepting the pat from his master on the top of his head. As soon as the car backed out and zoom ed away Tat stretched and leisurely sauntered out into the front yard with a deep, lingering yawn. It worried Pat not at all that his breeding and ancestry could only be guessed at. He was medium sized; dirty, pasty off-white with a sort of yel lowish overtone. His tail was long, carried proudly over his back. His face was kind, with gentle eyes. He had a nice home, plently to eat, and not a thing in the world to worry about. He was about six years old. Begins Journey After a session of stretching, scratching and rolling over in the cool grass of the front yard, he trotted off down the street. No one knows how many years Pat has had his estab lished patrol. When it was at last noticed by his human friends that he always left at 8, some remembered he had been repeating the same rou tine for at least four years. He left every morning, seven days a week, rain' snow or sleet notwithstanding. His trip was always delib erate. He stopped at various garbage cans, knowing exact ly which family would be like ly to discard some tidbit pleas ing to a dog's taste. The next stop was at Mrs. A's house who later remembered t h i dog had been coming at just the same time for years. He would always tap gently on the kitchen door. She gave him a light snack. He walked away to an outdoor fish pond where the water always tasted good. By now he was in the small business district. He trotted past the butcher shop with hardly a glance, except if the day was Saturday. On Satur-j day the butcher's boy always handed out a bone. A few blocks beyond Pat met five friends five dogs, who were always there. Neighbors remembered the "meeting" had been going on for at least three years. Prob ably each dog was also on its own patrol and met there by arrangement. The dogs "visit ed," or sat and watched the traffic. Then by some pre-arranged signal all the dogs started, off, going off in six directions. Pat trotted on, making a few "calls," but heading home ward. He always arrived there at ten o'clock. He had travel ed 38 blocks. He has been making this daily patrol for several years without missing a single day. Neither has he ever varied his route or chang ed his time schedule. Youth at Play Strangled by Noose Portland -(UPD- A 13-year-old boy was accidentally kill ed Sunday in his home when he strangled after he had ap parently tide a noose around his neck while playing with his brother, police said. The boy, Michael E. Wheel er, was dead on arrival at Providence hospital. Sherif's deputies said the boy either lost consciousness vhen applying pressure to the knot or slipped on the steps where he was playing and pulled the knot tight. The rope was suspended from a staircase bannister. The brother, Robert, 11, told police that he and his brother often played games with ropes. The victim was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Wheeler. Historical Dies Removed by Thief Portland (UPD - Two price less dies used to mint Beaver gold coins 110 years ago in Oregon City were stolen from a showcase at the headquart ers of the Oregon Historical Society in Portland Auditor ium late Friday or early Sat urday. Two other of the irre placeable dies were locked in a safe and were not taken. Police said the burglar also had taken $5 and $10 gold coins valued at thousands of dollars from the showcase but unwittingly dropped them on a fire escape when leaving. Thomas Vaughan, society director, said the dies, proba bly would prove worthless to the burglar but they are of "great historical interest and value" to the society and to the people of Oregon. 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