La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959, July 21, 1932, City Edition, Image 4

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Newspaper Page TextLA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER, LA GRANDE, ORE. Thursday,' July 21, 1952 OUT OUR WAY . i A- By J. R. Williams (Incorporate!) An Independent Newipptf , none Main too BECAUSE IT'S BETTER AT FALK'S IT'S CHEAPER . . . NOT CHEAP! STARTING FRIDAY HAROLD la. F1NLAY . , Bualneaa Manager Page Four ... ! Published evenings, except Sunday, at 1710 8Htb street. La ,' Orande, Oregon. Inured at tne Poatofflce of La Orande, Oregon, aa Second Olaea Mall Hatter under act at March a, 1878. OmOIAL PAPER OP UNION COUNTY AND THI CITY OP LA ORANDE MEMBER OP ASSOCIATED PRESS ' Tbe AMOciated Press la exclusively entitled to use for publication of all news diepatcbes credited to It or not otherwise cordltedlf pub lished herein. All rights of republication ef special dispatches In Una paper and also the local news herein also are reserved. National Advertising Representative M 0. MOOENSEN CO, Ino. Ban Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland, Chicago, Detroit, New York Advance July Eveimtl: BUY THEM NOW AND SAVE! The lowest prices in years! Not often can you buy such beautiful All Wool Jilankets at the low prices we are featuring starting Friday. SUBSCRIPTION RATES lly Carrier Dally, one month In Advance .. - Dally, six months in Advance Dally, single copy , 7o -4.00 oo By Mall Dally, per month In advance Dally, per six mouths In advance . Dally, per year In advance COO -2.60 -5.00 ADVERTISING RATES Display, foreign, per column Inch Display, local, per column Inch -430 -4oe Time contract prices on application Fear the Lord, and serve him in truth ; for consider how great things he hath done for you. 1 Samuel 12:14. COST OF PROHIBITION A newspaper editor hates to admit the fallibility of the great American press, but as long ns editors are human they will make errors in judgment and will allow personal prejudices to influence what should be impartial opinions. The straggle to enforce the prohibition amendment has aroused more prejudice than any other public question or event, and, unfortunately, some newspaer editors have allowed prejudice to rob them of their ordinarily keen judg ment, and have written whole campaigns of propaganda de liberately ignoring or distorting the facts in the case. In recent months the wets have been concentrating their criticism upon the tremendous cost of prohibition. They found that sensible people would not listen to their arguments about personal liberty, state rights, increased crime, unem ployment, and debauched young people; so now they are taking advantage of hard times and high taxes to try to make the taxpayers believe that repeal of the prohibition amendment is the only relief. For instance, the Salem Capital Journal recently published ; an editorial lamenting the fact that "in the 12 years of pro hibition the government has lost approximately six billion dollars of taxation revenue which it would have had except for the dry law." That statement is based on the assertion that the government collected internal revenue taxes in 1910 totaling $483,250,854.47 on distilled' spirits, fermented liquors, and wines. ,',. But that editorial did not say that this half billion dollar annual loss of revenue was more than compensated from other sources. , World, Almanac figures show, that the total amount of internal revenue including liijuor taxes was '$3,850,150,078 in 1919. ...But in 1920 .the first year of pro- niDition tne total amount ot internal revenue jumped to $5,407,580,252. That half billion of liquor taxes was not even a drop in the bucket! In fact, the government took iii so much money during the first yeur of prohibition that the income tax rates were reduced in 1921. Yet the Salem editor raves on in this manner: "It is small wonder we cannot balance public budgets when what has always been a principal source of revenue in all government, including our own, is eliminated and an addi tional heavy cost of enforcement substituted." He would have us believe that a half-billion dollar liquor tax is a PRIN CIPAL SOURCE OF REVENUE when in that same year of 1919 the total internal revenue and income tax receipts amount to more than $8,500,000,000 ! Moreover, the 1919 liouor revenues wore iiihishmIIv liinh because of a special war tax then in effect. Back in 1914 the Federal income from liquor taxes was but 2 15,000,000, and that included ALL liquors. The highest revenue ever collected on beer alone was $126,280,000 under the war-time Q 1933 CV HCA SERVICE. 1HC. TZl $200,000 in fines! The surplus;-! was divided - among the counties. . , In spite of such' incontrovertible facts the editor of The Dalles Chranicle, in a recent expression of editorial prejudice, stated that, "If the repeal carries (ill the November election) the state prohibition enforcement branch will cease to func-j tion at a considerable saving to uregon taxpayers. How can the taxpayers save anything when they are not even now spending a cent? The Chronicle editor must be sadly ignorant of the facts, for we would not like to accuse him of deliberate falsehood. It is such misleading propaganda that is leading perfectly honest citizens into mistaken opinions on prohibition. The great majority of people would like to see prohibition strictly enforced. There is now some danger of its being repealed because propoganda has led many to believe it can not be enforced except at exhorbitant cost. The truth is that the cost of enforcement is an almost insignificant factor. Other Papers Say: distribution of working hours." . He had no master plan to meet I business Ills, he said. There must be ttcrii-vuiiiiucist,; uy hluob wiiu hi re means, there should be careful at- in the months from now until No vember? r i . ' . -"Princess Alice" has said nothing about the coming campaign and what ; part. If any, she will take in it. But ! then, you can never tell j They were gossiping around Repub lican headquarters In Chicago before the Republican convention that she j wasn't even coming out. Down with i the whooping cough, you heard. But whlld they were talking she suddenly appeared in the lobby of the Congress hotel, looking nothing ; like an ill woman at all. And she hadn't been there but a few hours 1 before rumoro were afloat that Alice i was out to put the skids under! Charlie Curtis for re nomination as vice president. j True, there was nothing on the I surface to confirm that rumor. But ; as she buzzed about, pausing h?re for '. a chat with Pat Hurley, there for a! talk with Ogclen Mills, and elsewhere for a few words with other influential friends, speculative eyes followed her. I What's in the back of her head, - DOlltlCflllV RnMltiliP- nn'v nhn bnnui "uwu" b. " u , . , 'land only the coming months will re- tuc.is- wugitw yv,u Mw..vo.w.wh vi VCttl. create, ne suggesiea, as neips to Busi ness; , ' i i i -. , . ; ; Further requirements, he said, in cluded lower costs In all fields. This Mrs. (inun Heady 1 '' As to the course of "her one-time social precedence rival there can be FEDERAL HKIJKP MONEY ', Conirre.HS has voted 300.000.000 out of the federal treasury to be turned I implies readjustment of prices in no doubt. Dolly Gann is going to get over 10 tne states lor tne reitet or many lines, t ne ma.cn.tea, stressing : jn thus coming campaign In a big way the destitute and the unemployed. particularly the evils of maintaining ; Full responsibility lor tho disburse- lne coeJ; Qf government . at. "pre-df-ment or theue funds will be placed on'i preaslon.. ,evete. -tho shoulders of tha governors of the,'r ' ' r Touring editors and publishers from the shoulders of the governors of the suites, who must account to the red erai government and to state audit ors. .. . ... . - No announcement has been made as to the amount which Oregon, will re ceive. The tenns'of the appropriation Din nave left the way wide open loroivmnto games favoritism. The distribution w'U'bel ' mario on certtflcntta of neccajlty fil ed by the governor who must certify therein as to the resources of the j state and ' Its political subdivisions t and as to the private contributions' received. Uikm the ability of the gov-J ernor of a stat to make a showing of poverty for his state and upon the and stay there. "Brother. , Charlie: .wlU. work no harder for himself than will his sister. Dolly already has given evidence of various parts of the United States and i that. -. She lias established hereelf as Canada continued to attend to the a veteran campaigner. . , . business of the forty-seventh annual She's all set for some intensive convention of the association before icampalgnlng this summer in behalf traveling on to Los Angeles and the of the Republican ticket. It Is only necessary lor her to hear the call from Republican headquarters , and she Is ready to hit the trail. In Washington She I.Oces To Speak "I'd be 'delighted to come and talk to your clubs. Just let the national committee know you want me." Every Blanket Made in the West From Western Wool by Portland Woolen Mills No Down Payment Necessary! 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SEE THE WINDOW DISPLAY COME IN AND EXAMINE THE BLANKETS lour years ago, she has become one tator, who recently returned fiom w uto must, puwenui drawing cards exile in Argentina. ana lorccrui spwncers the Republican speaking bureau has "on lta roiter. f .7 WAR CLOUDS IN - J ; SOUTH AMERICA (Continued from Page One)' waya connecting Sao Paulo with Southern Minos Geraes. - RED AND WHITE STORES ENJOY PICNIC SUNDAY ; Tho Red and White stores of Eastern- Oregon and Eastern Washing ton held their third annual picnic Sunday,. July 17. This was held at Mcacham lake with about 300 in at- ronennce. Mm?" day was spent in City, Ore.: George Bamhavt, La Grande, and Lester Klngsley, La Grande. ; i ; Three baseball games were played, a cracker-eating contest and an egg race was held, also potato race, girls' races, shoe race, three-legged race and girls' ball throwing contest, with suitable prizes given the winners. SPANIARDS VLAS ACTION VALENCIA, Spain. July 21 (P) Fruit growers of Alicante announced today they had under consideration measures to be submitted to the gov- to onset trade barriers lly Herbert tMummcr WASH T MPiTfiW With n DrwuifoK (M11,r,., , Vv wifi,.a.M th. campaigning for the presidency onjShe loves stump speaking and likes amount of money which each state 1 the Democratic ticket Just where will 1 to be around where political gossip will receive depends. It has been estimated that on the hnsis of population Oregon should re ceive 92,300.000. but It does not ap pear that population Is going to be the measuring stick. When we get rlcht down to the fncts in the case. Oregon Is able to take care of her own dependents. But Iso long as our politicians have opened the ttoora of the federal trtaury. wo presume that Oregon, like all other j states, will go after her share. Oregon with abundant crops of grain and fruit, with herds of live- i9, Tet vets, la, p,omise a billion lollar ",,m,al i-ndantV1 TL't levenue from legalized beer! taking caro of her poor. Each com mit let us get back to the Salem editors reference to the "'i1'";, th;',a h,M btT" """l 10 "nrlrli'ti.tttnl 1, .,,,.. i. e 1 i, V V 1 afu-r Its own. It could continue additional heavy cost of enforcement." He says: "The to do so. bureau of prohibition has spent in these 12 vears for enforce- " it must io remembered mnl!lra ninnnn( i - i K"- -, , , '"' -'""-- that this M00.000.000 appropriation ment ?108,000,000 from which must be deducted fiO,t)00,000 i to the state hi not a Kut but a iui. Ill fines, penalties. Seizures, etc.. lonvino- n iwr mot ,,f (Uncle. Sam will charno 3 per cent In- ;hb,uuu,uuu tor this one bureau." The average cost, accord ing to his own figures, is thus S-1.000.Q00 per year. Is that tiny sum deserving of the blame for an unbalanced budget when the veterans' bureau spent more than $700,000,000 last year, and when the taxpayers had to put up more than f 145,000,000 to take care of the post office deficit? Tho uverage yearly cost of prohibition enforcement, figured on the above basis, is loss than FOl'K CENTS I'lvU CAPITA! What a. terrible burden upon the taxpayer! (The total costs of government average more than $100 nor canita.) 5 But we Will hold our patience a little loniror and pnntidpi- 'l'"t "ml ,lon''"y nmna(ri. should il v.i , 4 ; , . lJ:l"l"-1- ""'M ' aim UHUMUei jK Biow i prosvntlm; Us estimate of me next statement ol this remarkably prejudiced editorial :; ri-iipr money. Albany Domocmt "These figures do not include the cost of prohibition enforce- H('r"'"' mum or uie loss ol license taxes to the states, counties, cities, and other divisions of government, which probablv far exceed those of the federal government." ' "Probably" they do, but ACTUALLY they do NOT! As far as loss of license taxes is concerned, all the revenue lost from that source is not even noticeable when compared with that now raised in other ways. When men stopped buving booze they began to buy gasoline. (The average laborer could not save up enough money to buy an auto before the days of prohibition.) In addition to the Federal income of $2-15,000,000 from liquor taxes in 101 I, the state and local governments received an additional i?SO,000,000. Now those liquor taxes are lost, and the states last year collected $194,683,410 in gasoline taxes instead! It would take the wettest of "wringing wets" to find cause for tears in that situation. that other Roosevelt Alice Long- and maneuvering are the thickest. worth, daughter or T. R be found comparatively unknown, nationally, CHILE ( Rl SIM'S PLOT SANTIAGO. Chile. Julv 21 im 1 nlnvino , 1 ernment Tho government announced today It' throwing contests, etc., and suitable :ga'nst sPnnlsn frult ln France, Eng' n Lu rasiure lormer prizes were awarded for the winner1 w"11' owiies. President Onrlos Ibanez ta nower nf rh ,,f.( t . I , Thafa tho way Dolly greets ;em. I and arrested three or Ibanez' Mend! charge of the entertainment consist- I T"ere were 31 convictions ror bank wiiHuij w itiw. i oi tne lonowmg: William Boewer 'uuuc'j 1,1 muiium in ine year ena- A heavy guard was thrown around 1 Walla Walla, Wash.: Carl Womack! M. resulting ln sen- the ranch home or the rormer die- Pasco. Wash;: Lee Revnolds. Tsl,i 1 tences tntnllnn. inn vnr i tcrest and the return or the money la ! guaranteed after 19:15 Uy deducting tho allotments Irom the amounts or redenil road money allocated to the suites. St-aloii which are prodigal now In their claims ror rellel money will be jwying the fiddler years hence af ter the depression Is over. This :IOO.OOO,000 appropriation will be required for such misgoverned cities as Chicago and New York, where extravagance, mismanagement and wilful Maladministration or funds have bankrupted treasuries but states such as Oregon, which are financially You Get S Glasses of Firm, Sparkling Jelly from 5 Cupsjfamt dulce Cups cfuqar. .... and a CSox of J One recipe for all fruit and berries SPEAS Calls On Editors To Lead The Waii ' To Better Times SAN FRANCISCO. July 31 Ml Al frtN4 P. sitxm Jr.. cnlhxl upou Amerl mn ncvr.rjtH'rrncn Tiir-wlny to Una tho way to buMntxs Improvement, stnrtlnt; with n nvntU.'m of eco nomic conditions im Uiey exist, mui vrtveetUiiK with the wiw-kiiir out of a plan to meet these conditions, j "The more (illicitly we can brln 'oursel-ca into nn ftiial-Hl9 of wonomio t facta, ami to action biued upon the;i. jthe morn quickly we shall pet rid of this lack of confidence which haa ibc-.vt uV the Oeueral MoUvn head But what about the cost of enforcement to the states? J, '"n"1 llieie was never a weaker argument presented. Twenty-two ! hen-. The message, m mui by watt states have never appropriated a single dollar for the en- L Mreiamt of lo Angeim. forcement of national prohibition. In 1930 there were onlv ,sl,,,n envU,lon, ot vw ten states that spent money for enforcement, and in tho.e lnnrurrlt states the fines collected were more than enough to cover I noticed, and when there would be the expense. The taxpavers do not put up a cent ! I-ast year ""invei living condition and Oregon spent $50,000 for enforcement, and collected about wTmet; TZlZi That's all there is to it. Simple, isn't it? There is no book of compli cated recipes. You use one rec ipe for all fruits or berries. This cup-for-cup method never fails, because Pen-Jel adds just the rightamountof purefruitpectin to insure proper consistency. Use even the ripest, fully flav ored fruits. You just can't have a failure this easy way. You can spend more time, more worry, : ormore money, yet not improve on your Pcn-Jel jelly. The same success maybe had with dried, or canned fruits... even bottled juices ... as with fresh, fully ripened fruits. Try Pen-Jel today... and you'll never make jelly without it again. Makes the Jelly Jell I ykj 'Ilj "R8 ' ir Playing I -y Clyde ,n WZ!df$ri The whole nation Is Jolniin: Mickey Mouse ln Qj&l !'"' WHAT "MOOSE HUNT" j Wllr H,LAR,TY IS JUST AR0UND THE CORNER IN -i- CVca)ffi l , """.vwood s scrcamlne. Kitlre on pell- awvim 10 lf .Ics- The hn,,,,,,,,, ,,, ' ,m STT : xyT;,HV mnm- i""-k-""r"-' iHmt. MaiH. I M-heinhig spoUhhulcrsI . with WARRE,iii0SfhV M WILLIAM riteKNJl I dynamic star of "The Mouthpiece" as I vkjtXt-i I I a philandering political boss. V. ?W5t$my-&teyPt $ ? I I5ETTE DAVIS as his smart secretary who thought women s place In politics was in the boss" arm?. GUY KIHHKE the dummy candidate-who was too dumb to be crooked.