HALSEY ENTERPRISE SUPPLEMENT
H A L S E Y , O R E C O N . A P R IL IO. 1924
I he Enterprise sees no oliejctioa to
■ law prohibiting the issuance of tax-
exempt bonds, for it would put the
burden of public works on the taxpay
er, as now, only in a new form as re
gards interest on debt.
We should
then pay the full interest on our
bonds, instead of placing them at a
lower rate and remitting enough taxes
to balance the difference.
But we
have no patience with the guff that
is being peddled about tax-exempt
l>onds attracting money away from
productive industry.
What becomes
of that money after it is paid for tax-
• xempt bonds?
Stito Income Tax
Twitters’ Institute
Tbs following appeared in last
The outstanding feature nt the
S uutlay’a Portland Journal :
teachers' institute Saturday was n
U. C. Chapm an, Portland, Or.*— talk -by Prof. J. B. Horner of the his
Dear s i r : Y our letter received,
tory department of O. A. C.
asking for a oentribution to help
He said that nature had left rec
repeal the state 'income’ tax law,
ords buried in earth and rock which
and I wish to assure you th a t I
w ill do a ll I can legitim ately to we are able at this late date to ex
hume and decipher, and tfiat some of
defeat your purpose.
these
records antedate anything in
I f I hail believed the state in
Petri
come tax law was detrim ental to any other part of the world.
Oregon or any taxpayer 1 would factions which have evidently been
not have worked last fa ll to have hidden for many thousands of years
the h ill sustained by the voters, show that this region was occupied
after it had been passed by the leg by human beings of high Intelligence,
islature, and afterwards referred to and, wonderful to tell, these humans
the people by a little handful of were cotemporaneous with the ele
tax-dodgers who contributed $2 6 ,. phant, the rhir.ocerous, the saber-
000 to defeat the b ill, and the Ore toothed tiger and many other species
Congressman Hawley has secured gon Voter, of which you are the who have, like men of that time, long
When Europe was but
the appropriation to dredge the Sius- publisher, iliew from the said fund been extinct.
law to a depth of twelve feet from ♦ 1130, yet I find no record of « scattering of islands, the present
mountain tops, the northern portion
Cushman down and thereafter main where you contributed one cent.
Do you believe it is a detrim ent , of this continent was hoary with age.
tain that depth.
to Oregon to have people come Instead of this being the “new world,”
here to btsv property and then re it is the oldest land known. Every
Senators McNary and Stanfield
fuse to buy when they find out animal known in the world has at
have promised to try to amend the
how high the taxes are? la it some time been at home in Oregon.
I ill giving United States government
any worse to have a man who is
Earlier races of men and animals
relief to starving German children so paying no taxes put his bonds
as to include near east suffers in the in his trun k and move across the passed away so long ago that the
American Indians had not even the
l<enet'action.
Hue?
slightest traditions regarding their
Mariners ami other propeitv existence.
It has been announced that Senator owner« are being sold out every
W. L. Jackson of the Albany Demo
McNary would stick to his work in day for la ie a . O.egon w ill not he
Washington this summer and not prosperoi s as long as farm ing is crat, formerly county sehool superin
( ome home and boost his campaign in the condition it is n >w, and the tendent. gave a talk setting forth the
Jor re-election.
It is claimed it his farmers and prottertv onunrs must opportunities which the teachers of
iavor that in federal appropriations ba relieved ol some of the burdens the state enjoy and exercise for leav
ing the jmprint of their work upon
and authorizations for the develop of taxation,
the future manhood and womanhood
ment of Oregon's resources and in
1 am w ith you in any campaign
of the state.
dustries during the seven years that to make Oiegnn prosperous, l>ut
The occasion was a literary treat,
he has been in the United States sen the repeal of the income tax law
but the most emphatic applause of
te.
»32.024,337 has been gained w ill not do it.
Too nianv property owners have the audience greeted the efforts of
largely through his preserverance and
influence by virtue of his powerful fnutnl out that th eir state taxes are the Harrisburg school board of six
positions upon major committees of lower this year to be fooled by wind and two stringed instruments,
*he senate, his standing with the ad any bugaboo of driving capital out with Miss Sibyl Gilbert at the piano.
ministration and the leaders In con of the slate. California raises ell Miss Helen Weber is the band leader
structive legislation; and, by reason state takes by a gross tax on cor
U, E . A rnold, the Lebanon
of th is prestige, he is in p osi. porations, and W ashington ta to poultry m an, hss added electria
vote on an income tax this sear, brooders for 8000 chinks to hie
tion to secure even greater service so where is the pone tax-dodger to
plant thia season. He hatchea 26,-
for Oregon in the future.
go?
Gaonna R a i . m it k k .
0(X) this year and keepa 6,000,
State Grange Master.
soma of which we are counting be
Two-thirds of Japan is forest, es
fore they are hatched.
A total of 21,573 cash bonuses au
timated to contain half as much tim-
**r as the whole United States. Japan thorized by the world war veterana', H . I*. W illi« , 8. P. station
has been practicing forestry for 400 state aid commission had been paid agent and telegrapher , on the
m orning shift, welcomed hie wife
ears and is buying lumber in this up to March 31.
and five children on the a rriv a l of
country, while growing it at home for
Mias Clarice Gourley returned Tues
future use.
an early train veaterday morning
day from a visit to Albany.
He ia looking for a residence.