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Letter To Editor
‘The time has come’ for us to drop criticism of our Federal Government and devote a little time to our State and County affairs.
If true, as stated, that our Board of Supervisors is debarred from investigation and correction of inequality or neglect in assessment of personal property, the matter should be corrected at once. This property having been assessed at twice the rate of real estate in past? is the source of a large part of our tax income. For what reason should our Board of Supervisors, as manager of our fiscal affairs, be debarred from supervision of one of its principal sources of revenue?'Why do we go to expanse of an equalizaton Board every four years for real estate and ignore personal property which changes much oftener and is more difficult to value? Isn’t it a farce for our solo ns in Richmond to be yelling for States Rights, while denying the Counties any authority in local affairs?
With taxes direct and indirect taking the major part of our income, the least <we can do is to see that burden is fairly distributed. How can we expect hundreds of property owners, no matter how honest, each fixing the tax value of his own property without seeing of comparing it with that of others, to provide an equitable assessment?
What we need is comparative values, not necessarily intrinsic ones. The tax rate takes care of this. The only possible way to get a fair tax deal, which I am sure we all iwant, is for a single board or individual to compare and assess all property of moment.
(signed) D. LYLE MILLER
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