ing the depression, what will the out­
come be during the next period o*
distress?
What will happen to those
who have been taught that the gov­
A good deal of bad economics is ernment will take care of them if
being
talked in these days about they can not provide for thcr. .Ives''
II. II. JEFF1UES, Publisher
__
Our dt tici, i ■
emergency measures
to prevent a Just think of it!
business boom, extended controls to greater today than at the very aby-
Published Friday of each week by the Pioneer Publishing Co., at Beaverton. check bank credit expansion, and In­ of the depression with
fcustne s
Or, -on. Entered as second-class matter at the poetoffice at Beaverton, Ore. creased Federal powers to restrain double the low level and tax rvceipU-
at the highest peak in history! It i:
commodity price advances.
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Theae discussions constitute a kind high time that the spending is- ue
___ $ .35c locking the stable door before the was squarely put up to the nation.
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of
the ultra-conservative»,
in
Advance. family horse has even been acquired. Many
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The truth is that we not only have think it is already too late.
Ent« rprise Bldg., Cor. Short St. and Tualatin Valley Highway. Phone 7503 no business boom, but we have not feel that the spending machine Is o
as yet definitely emerged from the large and has developed so much
Portland Office 407-408 Dekum Bldg., Phone AT. 6591
depression.
The expansion of bank “vote-power” that it can steninroller
Hillsboro Office—Room 3, Delta Bldg., Phone 1641
I do hot
credit loans so far in this recovery any attempt to control it.
period has been nonspeculative in agree with this opinion, but do be­
nature, and so moderate in volume as lieve that we must end this current
“ ward-bos -
to be almost minute. The exception­ "pork-barrelling” and
al^ rapid price advances have been ing” spree.
No Fairy-Tale Here
1 n commodities of
international
Two years ago in one of my week-
11 id e . . . .
The three economic problems which *y letters 1 told readers plainly where
really are of pressing urgency are Ote trail of government deficits al-
the reduction of unemployment, the ways ends.
People thought I had
balancing of the Federal budget, and f»one mad; but I want today to re-
SIM PLE
the restoration of harmony in labor olnle^ those same warnings.
There
are inly six steps ahead of us if we
relations.
A D D IT IO N
...
,
, ,
.
.
j „i
Of course we should foster every keep up our current pace:
It , popular tn some circles these days to use complicated al-
¡„
att„ mpt to find out how t'
First, continued deficits ultimately
tbi aic formulas o find out what is going on One reason, of course minimi2e buH,noag booms antl sluinp8,
head to fear of government ere lit
i ih'it nut everybody undeirtands them.
We don t know much but
K._, equally
________________
1
Second,
unsound public
credit j
of course ___
we ____,,
shall ..,„
ultim­
about mathematics, but we can still add three l’s together and at ately realize that these desired re­
means unwillingness to lend the
hast guess at the total. Here they are:
government money to pay its bills.
sults are to be attained through the
1 Department of Agriculture prtas releases issued in two days patient and persistent application of
Third, the Treasury is forced t o !
said
"Fruit Price« to Rise” ; “ Higher Hog Prices Expected This prudent policies, and not by the sud­
print paper
money to pay its j
Summei"; "Expect Wheat Prices to Continue at High Levels” ; "Cat­ den adoption of a scries of panaceas.
deficits.
tle Prices Expected to Average Above 1936“ and "Higher Spring
Fourth, the paper money fall« like
At present our volume o f industrial
Iam b Prices Forecast”.
a meteor in value a« prices shoot
production is about as large a« It
2. The Department of Commerce two days later reported that was just before the depression, but we
sky-high.
while exports of American farm products continued to drop, imports have now about seven million more
Fifth, the buying power of salaries,
of foreign vegetable food products, including wheat, were 25 per cent people in the population than we had
wages, saving« accounts, instnance
higher than inFebruary, 1930 a year earlier and that Imports of then, eo the per capita output is i policies, and bonds drop to practic­
edible animal products had risen 42 per cent in the same period.
smaller.
Our national income, our | ally nothing.
3. The same day the Department of Agriculture issued its fore­ railroad freight traffic, and our de -1 Sixth, the ruined, starving middle-
cast • The Associated Pie-«reported In a story from Berlin that Nazi partment store sales are all about 20
class take the reins of government
Germany is offering a subsidy of $400,000,000 a year to get a 30 per per cent lower than just before the l by force to bring order out of
cent lncreuse in farm production.
depression. New contruetion i« runn-1 chao«.
Why are farm prices higher?
Crop reduction.
Why are Im­ Ing about half of what it was 10
This Is no “big, bad wolf” story.
ports til! on the rite?
America doesn’t produce enough for itself. years ago.
through the
! All
.. down
,
, . history of time
Why Is Germany expanding it« farm production? Because It must
The chief reason why about 15 per heru is not one single nation that
pay prohibitive prices for things it buys and because it sees a chance cent or more of our workers are idle i ev®r spent, for long, more than it re-
to get a share of the great American market.
is that general business, including in-1 CPI.v"e< without destroying it« credit,
Maybe we should let millions of acres of our farm land stand idle dustry, agriculture .trade, and trane-1
I going _ into
m.10 lnf'at*orL and ending up
and buy from other nation«.
Or maybe we should use an algebraic portation, Is still 15 per cent or more in chaos!
formula to prove that 1 plus 1 doesn’t equal 3.
Copyright
1937.
below normal.
*
*
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*
Our greatest present national need
Ix>w cost merchandisers are the farmers’ friend, as well as the i« to become currently self-support­
Dr. Herman Wexler
consumers’.
ing once more, aa a nation, as com­
Announces
According to uuthoritutive figures, 73 per cent out of every dol­ munities, as families, and as Individ­
Meanwhile we «hold be work­ the removal of his office and clinic
lar spent in «uch stores goes to manufacturers and producer«. Thir­ uals.
teen cents goes for wages. Only three cents is retained by the «tore, ing out mean« to remain self-sup­ to 23rd and Marshall st. . . just op­
porting after we become »elf-sup­ posite the Good Samaritan hospital
the balance going for advertising, rent, taxes and other costs.
After that we might well To all who call at his office during
Thus, mass production and distribution give the consumer better porting.
values but not at the expense of the producer. Efficiency and ellm worry about how to avoid over-pros­ the month o f April he will be glad to
perity.— U. S. News.
ination of needless overhead does the trick.
give them a common sense diet and
suggestions on how to control their
daily routine and life . . . . free of
S. P. Pays Huge
charge.
Office, AT.water 6868. Resi­
State Tax Bill
dence, BR. 5253.
“ No
Business Boom
• •
National Music Week
M A Y îi-i>
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iVitlay, April 30, 1937
BEAVERTON ENTERPRISE, Beaverton, Oregon
Paare 2
“ Every Child Should Study Music”
M ARK
D A N IE L S
TEACHER of SINGING
Specialized work In diction as an
integral part of vocal expression
504 MaegljrTlchnor Bldg.
Studio phone:
Residence phone
BE. 27IA
BE. #660
Julia Catón
K U TER
Accredited Teacher of
VOICE
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Res. TK. 1026
L A N C E T T A R. ST E E L E
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PIANO
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Private and Class Instruction
Clas«es Beginning Sept. 8th
8219 S. W. Hume St.
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Multnomah Oregon
Betnard Barron
Instructor of Cello
Member Portland
Symphony Orchestra
Conductor of
Reed College Orchestra
7719 S E. 28th
SE. 3601
Accordion
Teacher
Ellis Layne
Teacher of
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Treasury are steadily multiplying
the public debt
Brought down to a
you-and-nie basis, the federal gov­
ernment debt amounts to $275 pet-
capita.
The family of five spoken
of above, therefore, owe the govern­
ment $1375 right now.
The Interest
on this alone 1« $30 a year per fam­
ily!
Of course, some o f these public
obligation« have taken the place of
private credit and the net gain in the
debt which all citizens owe may not
have Increased as much as the fig­
ures indicate. However a big portion
of the public debt ha« nothing else
behind it but perpetual operating
costs.
Millions are being squandered
and wasted on useless and unneces­
sary "project«”.
If it doe« nothing
else but eliminate wa«te the Presi­
dent’s message will give us a big
start toward a balanced budget.
Not Hewing to Line
Basically the "New Deal’s” theory
of public spending to offset private
retrenchment In a depression period,
and then pay o ff the debt in good
times with money received through
increased tax revenues from better
business, i« generally sound.
I say
"generally" because the theory is
sound only if the projects on which
the government spends Its money are
useful and needed.
Furthermore,
if the government can not hew to its
plan of paying off its depression-
accumiiulatcd debt in good times, the
program is nothing more than a raid
on the public treasury.
Today we
are already 6 per cent above "nor­
mal” In a period of prosperity accord­
ing to my Babsonchart.
Yet our
federal «pending is even larger than
at the pit of the depremion!
If we can not so much as balance
our budget .let alone pay off the
$19,HU0.(Hi0.0txt of debt pyramided dur-
ON
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Southern Pacific enriched the cof­
fers of «tate, county, school and city
this year, by payment of $1,107,770.70
in taxes, representing the total 1936
tax payment on the company’s prop­
erties in Oregon, according to J. A.
Ormundy, general passenger agent in
Portland.
Southern Pacific’« tax payment is
2.85 per cent of all taxes levied in the
state and is 6.55 per cent of all taxes
levied In counties through which it
operates a railroad, except Multno­
mah.
The taxes represent an aver­
age of $726.19 taxqs per mile of main
track operated by the Southern Pa­
cific Company during 1936, Ormandy
said.
V ISIT B E A U T IF U L
Actual pkotopapk of Sash IuiFayette-,,lO0r 4-Door Sedan with trunk
•FOR AS HTTII AS SI OR $2 A »ONTM U T tA
you con get out of the “All Three* d o ss. A
check-up recently m ade in ten rep resen ta­
tive cities shows that the N ash laFaye tte-
“ 40 0" 4-Door Sed an with trunk D EllVERSfoc
just a FEW dollars more than the similarly
equipped 4-Door sedans of the “AR Three**
smalt c a n . In m any places« the SLIGH T
difference in p rice amounts to just $1 c 42
a month extra on your time paym ents.
• • •
Y es, p e o p le are
am azed when thev
check DELIVERED
prices. The Nash I.a-
Fnye*te-“ 4iW’—much
bigger than any of
the “ alt three” small
cars —1) I l VERS for
just a V EW dollars
more.
You g e t a m ore
powerful motor,
mut h larger hydrau­
lic brake*, stronger
steel b o d y , wi der
seais. more headroom
and legn orn. A car
a n y b o d y c a n be
PROUD of. And the
difference In price?
Just a few dollars—
that’s all.
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