La Grande evening observer., February 19, 1917, Image 4

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1917,
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LA' GRANDE EVENING -OBSERVER.
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Iii one way the Cerinan U-boat warfare is a success.
Jt is holding American ships in port and the result of the
threat is to accomplish a virtual blockade of the Atlantic
coast. What the United States can lo to avoid this, short
of actual Avar with Gcnnanv remains to be seen. But it
must be admitted that the economic effects upon this
country, since it is producing a tie-up of freight in rail
road terminals is serious.
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The manufacturer of news paper are coming off
Dr. Gregory Tells
Why Men Drink
New York, Feb. 19- (United Press)
"Men drink," said Dr. Menas P.
Gregory, one of the alienists who de-1
clared Ilarry Thaw insane, "to escape j
the realities of life. And the only way
Th
re's
a Hat Style
to cure the drink habit is to divert
the drinking impulse to another chr, .
nel. A man can and will get drunk on v
altruism, mysticism just as much ns j
on whisky if you can turn his im-1 Jfr
pulse in that direction. All a drinl. '
cure can do is unpoison the system, i
It can't cure the impulse to drink, j V
Alcohol has done much to develop the j ju
social instinct in man, but it has out-,
grown its use in that regard and we !
should now have countrywide prohibi-
for Every Man at
"Lii'iu ' nam ii lv
Save The Babies
The baby's bottle should be boiled
and filled with sterile water after us
ing; also boiled ten minutes before
using. Boil the milk before using in
summer. It kills germs. Milk should
be boiled in separate feeding bottles
after it is prepared. It is easier to
fix the entire day's supply at once.
How to pasteurise milk for the baby
will be told tomorrow.
Drop in today and we will show you the Hat
for your head Something new Don't take
chances. Buy your new hat at this store.
The new styles at the old prices $1.50 to $5.00
news paper
their high horse now that the government is threatening
criminal prosecution. e like to see this prosecu
tion stalled. The manufacturers now wish to compromise
and to reduce prices to a figure that will save the pub
lishers of the United States 50,000,000. Xo compromise
should be made. If the anti-trust laws have been vio
lated, someone should be sent to jail. We don't believe
in conmroniisinir with criminals. There is too much of
that in this country.
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Right now is a pretty good time for the farmer to
take inventory and order the supplies he will need this
spring and summer. It's mighty unhandy to have to send
to town in the busy season for some missing bit of farm
equipment. . . .. . .
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Henry Kord has bought a steam yacht. lie will find
running this more expensive than running a Ford ea7
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Spring ploughing will soon be here. The deep plough
er will get the crops.
Taxing Success is the Latest
Proposal Before Congress
Taxing Success War Taxes Opposition of Business
Hiding Behind Preparedness Extrava
gance Uncurbed.
Preacher Takes Up Cudgel For
England's Unmarried Women
BY J. W. PEG LEU
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
London, Feb. 1. (Ily Muil) "Eng
land has a surplus of moro than a
million unmarried women. The flow
er of the empire's manhood are crip
pled or dead.
.111.1..... .. ..... .
vrnui lire you single men guuig 10 j
do about it?" Around this blunt ques- j
tion, with its complex moral ibsuos, ! suggest n solution for that, but, I dare
Jttuv. a. J. waldron has built a vnude- i not
ville pluy, acting the leading role him
self. Waldron is the only Hritish
clergyman who has tackled the great
jiost-war problem of repopulation.
Standing toe-to-toe with Uie issues,
Waldron deals in plain words and
leaves his audience wondering wheth
er the old social order cannot stand a
drastic revision for the national good.
'In his dressing room Waldron lit a
cigarette and poured himself a glass
of whisky.
"Forty-three per cent of the British
clergymen, young, lusty and of high
mental standard are unmarried," he
said. "What will they do to restore
the national vigor?
"Hut they couldn't wipe out the sur
plus of unmarried women. I could
Pendleton Theater Deal.
Pendleton, Ore., Vert. 19.- (Special)
E. L. Cooper has purchased the in
terests of J. P.. Welch in the Temple
theater.
"Where Therefs a Will,
There's aWay."
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There's no tusk too great to undertake if you
linvc the will. If you will to save money, you
can do it. You uon't necessarily have to be
"short" to save just bank a part of your earn
ings at this bank, each week or month you will
be surprised at the rapidity of its increase. Then
you arc ready to tackle the larger things in life.
Show your will, and determination to win, by
starting an account with us today. And Stay
With It!
MA KH OIUl HANK YOUR HANK
La Grande National Ban!
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(The Rache Review, New York.)
Congress is about to make a levy on the business brains
and energy of the country, so that the enormous extrava
gance with which government is conducted will be paid for
Ly a few, and the great body of voters upon whom the
Congressmen depend lor reflection, will not be touched.
They have also opened the way so that no matter how
much they may increase their expenditures, the same
single class of people will pay for them.
In the bill which is proposed, there is an intimation
that in this country business profits of 8 per cent, are
sufficient, after $5,000 has been earned. This intimation
is conveyed in the provisions under which all concerns,
after a flat exemption of thp first .$5,000 in the profits of
corporations and partnerships,, are allowed to earn 8 per
cent per annum on the capital invested, without taxation.
Ah amounts earned over that are to be taxed. The rate
at first is to be 8 per cent peij annum. But this percentage
is liable to be increased next year, and the vear after that,
until it would not be improbable to have business men p;;v-
ing in ene-half of all thev make in these so-called excess
profits.
This seems to be a favorite Democratic method of estab
lishing a bag, to be filled by the competent people o,f the
country only, and to which a greedy, tax-consuming Con
gress may go for a larger and large amount of plunder.
From this hold-up, the agricultural classes are ex
empted; also the professional classes. Labor, of course,
is exempt.
The Income Tax is a glaring example of this sort of class
discrimination. Less than 4-100 of all the people pay it.
At first the entering wedge was a one per cent. Now a
law has recently been passed which is retroactive, doub
ling the amount of the levy. This year, for instance, two
per cent will be collected on the incomes of 1916, instead
of the former one per cent. Further increase is at the
mercy of reckless extravagant politicians.
War Taxes.
As for this Revenue bill, it is not such an impossible
thing to imagine that the 8 per cent, now levied will be
almost at once increased. At the. present writing, when
the country is on the verge of serious developments, the
significance of this becomes doubly important. Here is
an arranged siphon to draw from our most successful peo
ple, and those only, the funds to pay, lot us say, for the
e. lenses of a war.
In Europe, the war budget is supplied by heavy tax on
excess profits, but exeess there applies only to niunition
niakeis and others reaping special benefit from the war,
land the "excess profits" there mean only those which,
I after deducting ordinary profits as established before the
war, are lei t over.
This Excess Profits Tax bill is being carried through
and will be promptly passed, if possible. The people
who make the nation's business seem to have no way of
using the great power which they might exercise if they
were properly organized.
Opposition of Business.
! l.i' Mil is outrageous and lnueiensioie, and business
men should rise all over the country against it. The
United S'ates Chamber of Commerce is the proper orga
nization (i ac If thev would send out a referendum,
would be demonstrated what disapproval business men
give to tl. is unjust and dishonest scheme. Hut ii may be
! late for this. Here is where labor organizations have
tl e fetter of the Chamber of Commerce. Their officers
are anthori'vd to ;ict ipiickly in the interest of labor, and
Ihey do it. The Merchants' Association here is receiving
inanv 'otters from ii ' dligent business men expressing
strong disapproval o' proposed tax. One of them savs
he believes hnt the people at Washington consider -il!
business to exemplified in its pro, it-making bv 'be C
S. Steel Corporation, the Bethlehem Steel Co. at. t the
Standard Oil Co. Another writes: "It seems to us that
this sort of special tax is vicious, if not wholly unconsti
tutional. It strikes at the source of American business
energy and acumen, intending to drag all business, regard
less of the hazards involved, to the same general level."
They say that such a distribution of profits of the govern
ment will check distribution of profits among the workers
emploved.
This is the third direct tax, which adds the largest
burden to the smallest percentage of the people the In
come tax being the second, and the Special Corporation
tax the first. The other two tax movements have met
with so little opposition from the people bearing the bur
den that the appetites of the politicians have been whetted
to a remarkable degree. The country is losing all thought
of reasonable equality in taxation, and the politicians are
deliberately leading us into an era of settled class discrim
ination, exempting the great body of citizens from bearing
any of the burden. Nine-tenths of the voters who should
be responsible for the imposition of any tax have no part
in it, and insistence upon such a thing as administrative
economy is never thought of under these circumstances.
(To be continued tomorrow.) '.
Mrs. Oliver Writes of the Finley Pictures.
To the Public: Having seen the Finley pictures and
heard his lecture, I am asked by thJe committee of the
Neighborhood Club in charge to write something of the
nature of this entertainment. . ,
I suggest that when vou see these pictures you let imagi
nation captivate you, while you join Mr. Finley in a stroll
among Nature's finest ornaments, the feathered tribes.
Whether you take this journey for the purpose of educa
tion or entertainment, you will" be equally satisfied.
Scenes will be thrown on the screen that will make you
wonder where instinct ends and reason begins. Tf you are
fond of the dramatic, no stronger picture will be seen
than that of the mother bird protecting her babies when
the Came Warden approaches her, wishing to take one of
the little ones in his hand. You will s"" ' mnt'uiee and
bird quarrels. If you are a member of the Hunt Club, you
will be delighted to see the game birds in their haunts and
showing their habits.
The animal pictures are equally interesting.
One of the interesting features is the work done by
the second machine, showing Mr. Finlev at work. Some
of these scenes prove that curiosity not only belongs to
feminine humanity, but to the people of the woods as well,
for instance, the scene of Bruin rising on his haunches
to investigate the cause of the clicking of the machine.
Air. Finley is sent here by the state, under the auspices
of the Neighborhood Club, and you cannot afford to miss
seeing these pictures.
MRS. TURNER OLIVER.
THE WHA T-yO U-MA. V
COLUMJV
BY G. M.
Is Your Name
In This List?
Jelly
Jelly is a nervous,
that falls all over
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ffr in Tj flrfinAa sffirn f 1, 1.
is, exciteable foodjendin February 16, 1917:
itself whenever it1 - i t
trie, to CO anywhere without its glans. lick) E. Uallona, J. H. I arbor Joseph
It's nil right as lonp as t s ts sU ! Ri..tt Rr0A v i. T?
and keeps its lid on, but the minute ! ft t l.A'. 3oi?
vou turn it oose in r, ,i; ,f I ""'j . "v. u r.merson, J. B.
iuiwrencc Hill, G. W. Houston, Scott
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limn and wobbly. Nine times out of i i .. ' . 03 HartsufT,
head off on the edpe of the bowl. , ,: l?neJ?hn?m' If uls Lov,ch-
...,.,, .im.-, r. layior, f. M.
Thomas, C. A. Trawv svv i
a I Writrht, B. Younp.
1-ndies Miss Ruth Allen, Mrs. Clin-
and timid. Don't make it ride on -oiir ni ' 'rS' Uvmas rlunkitt.
knife. It will wreck r. self, sure "'.nil, ,,'S lettere wi;l l,e scnt to the
enn't do a thins with wri-vl-r.! ' , ,. wwer oltico iNiavch 2, 1017, if not
llvive nlea.se s:iv
But jelly s all riht if you under
stand it. It s just fruit without
lwickbone; and it has its limitations
Jelly has to be managed. It is weak
you cant do a thir.rr with wm
jelly. N'ot a thintr.
Tut your jelly aboard a spooi w litre
it can lie down and bo comfort.' .! and
it will go anywhere.
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