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...sheepish as men who had gone to school with them pointed derisive fingers. The Lynchburg council had made a monkey of itself over arithmetic. The council was about to tax Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. of Virginia 3% of its gross revenue for doing business in the city, when a councilman suggested that the franchise tax be set at 1½% and the company be required to provide city officials with 40 free telephones. A 3% tax was calculated to yield $8,000. The annual charge for 40 telephones was $2,880. The council majority wanted whichever proposition would yield...
...delegate by moving to Lowell House this fall. Until the spring elections have given the commuters an official vote, Canter will support the commuter interests, not as another Council member, taking Hall's place, but merely as an ex-officio representative. Hall will still maintain his place as a Councilman...
...peaceful little Oraschin, terrible-tempered Town Councilman Wenzel Klimes called the autocratic local mayor "a Hitler." Last week the Mayor brought suit for slander. Ruled the judge: "To call an official 'a Hitler' is an objectionable expression, reflecting on the authority of the person attacked. Councilman Klimes, I sentence you to pay a fine of 30 crowns [$1.25] or to serve 24 hours in jail...
Harvard last week received another token of the esteem in which it is held by Cambridge, Mass. To curb the "foolish, rampaging, nitwit Harvard students who break out into a riot now and then," Councilman Charles H. Shea proposed in Council that the city buy six horses (at $200 each) for its police. Said he: "We need mounted police for the Harvard students. I don't know if they are Communists, Bolsheviks or nuts, but we should be ready to cope with them...
...Councilman J. Gordon Duffy thought it would take twelve horses. The rest of the Council decided that for 8,000 Harvardmen six horses would be plenty...