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BEAVERTON ENTERPRISE FRIDAY, JU LY 18, 1947 BEAVERTON ENTERPRISE Babson Discusses Stock Market BABSON PARK, Mass., July 11. Most of the stock market barometers forecast higher prices. This is due to the large amount of money in circulation, abound ing credit, good dividends, high farm income, no unemployment and general prosperity. Yet, there is an underlying lack of confi dence which makes large inves tors hesitant. est slump in history. O a r G reat A m e ric a Tm forests s«oMeneaigi Taxes and Labor During the debate on the Tax Bill, President Truman and his Published Friday o t each week by the friends tried to show that the °ioneer Publishing Co., at Beaverton, reduction in dollars which would Oregon. Entered as second-class mat go to this 2 per cent would be ter ot the postoffice, Beaverton, Ore out of proportion to the reduc gon. L OV> * TO FORMT - WB uOit fW/Cf d i l u i t i À l i i C K X I AS A N I P tion in dollars which would go TiWBEW TO / N i c e r 5 D /S F A S E AN D W /N D ...... MOAC TUAN A B i U IO n O /B K discouraged attitude has a serious FEET OF WOOD - ( gUOO«/' FOB 6 0 0 , OOO HOMES ) - OESTHO/ED AN M U Ally J to the rest of the population. Subxriptien Payable in Advance Whot Is the Trouble?., This is notwithstanding the fact <&VPW MOTH KIU< On« Y.of ... .............. ................ $2.00 The simple fact is that too that the upper bracket people OArt E L M . P i n e — THE HEAI l OCH COOFEX KILLS .. many businessmen are discour would get a tax cut of only 15 HtMLCXK AMD QA* - aged and tired. Most of these per cent, compared with a tax TH E S A W F L V K i l l * P I K - TWE 6 f> *UCe B EE T L E KILL* I corporation officials have enough cut of 30 per cent which the ■SPRUCE - H f f a I money and do not need to work. great mass of taxpayers would -THE W EEVH F> THE MOST They reall hold their positions SEPiOOS E n E a AVOF WHITE PlME receive. Yet, higher bracket peo P i 6 4 4 4 4 (1 — THE BUDWORUA tflu -1 because they want to be of ser ple are the ones who have the S P «U < E vice and thus far have "enjoyed needed brains, inventive genius, the game." Now they are unfor organization ability and "drive” tunately reaching a time when which makes industry tick. they wonder if their work and Industrial leaders were there worry is worthwhile, as these fore much disappointed when the men are an important factor in President vetoil the Tax Bill. the development of business this They furthermore were again dis couraged attitude has a serious Danger signs ahead indicate backfire. Let me tell you why. appointed when President Tru man vetoed the Labor Bill, even hazardous going for veterans 01 Statistics show that 2 per cent although Congress passed it over others who incur^heavy debts to of the population of the U. S. Is buy farm lands of low productiv responsible for 90 per cent of the his veto. Why? Because when ity, according to information de new building, new businesses, they went to their offices next morning, with new plans to Motor Vehicle Toxes veloped at the recent national new inventions, and enterprise spend money for improvements farm land price conference in in general. It is hard to make Totaled for 1946 Washington, D. C. A digest of the people believe this fact and la and extensions, more serious strikes were threatened. Thou confidence findings has Just been bor leaders scorn it; but it nev Oregon’s motor vehicle use reviewed by the agricultural ec ertheless is true. Kill off even sands of men evn left the coal taxes, induing the federal ex mines in retaliation of Congress. onomics section of the O. S. C. one per cent of the population cise taxes, amounted to $71.59 As coal is vital to all industry, Extension service. —if this 1 per cent were the busi business leaders once more asked per registered vehicle in 1946, A horticultural puzzle that has The conference urged lending ness drivers of the country—the officials of the Oregon State Mo themselves:— Why bother?” baffled plant breeders for more agencies, farm organizations and nation would go into the great- tor Association disclosed today. than C O years has been solved at Free Enterprise state and federal agencies to cau Motor vehicle taxes paid in tion farmers against incurring Capitalism, so-called, has many the Oregon State College agricul Oregon last year totaled $33,662,- One of the important factors ture experiment station whre heavy debts to buy land at prices faults. It seems unfair that one 045.15. Of this amount, $18,814,- in the present unusual farm in not justified by long term in boy should he born with a mil George F. Waldo, federal horti- come stiuation that has a very come prospects. lion dollars, while another boy culturalist, has discovered and re 506.81 was paid in state gasoline The College economist? concur uncertain outlook is that of for equally worthy should inherit produced the kind of plant cross taxes, $10,130,000 was paid in in the conclusions of the confer eign trade. The United States only debts. Monopolies of any that resulted in the original lo federal excise taxes, and $4,717,- 538.34 was paid in vehicle and ence which are based on a study has been exporting in 1946 and kind are wrong; business leaders ganberry. driver fees. 1947 more than twice as much as Ever since the loganberry was have abused their power in many of current farm land prices, For the nation as a whole, trends in the farm debt situation, it imported. Foreign trade author ways. The fact that labor organ-1 originated by Judge Logan in and the long-term outlook for ities say that in the long-run this izations have copied the same 1880 by crossing the red rasp America’s 34 million motor ve farm commodity prices, farm country must import more than wrong methods is no excuse for berry with a blackberry, other hicles paid $5,000 a minute in it exports or it will not get paid the sins of capital. “ Two blacks plant breeders have tried to pro special federal, state and local costs, and net farm income. for loans and exports. do not make a white,”— nor do duce similar cross without suc taxes last year, the Motor Asso U. S. exports of farm products two wrongs make a right. cess because the inheritance ciation reported. Uncle Sam took in 1946 were twice as great as President Truman should, how characters (chromosomes) of the a heavy share of the country’s prewar in volume and four times ever, honestly explain and recog two species would not permit the money. in value. Only 42 per cent of the nize that there is a difference in kind of cross that Logan ob total value was represented by people and that the few nautral tained. He was never able to ex exports to continental Europe leaders should he encouraged plain how he happened to get it. United Kingdom and Eire, al and not persecuted as at pre Waldo’s success in reproducing tfO/rnviiJ f a i though these countries took 61 sent. The idea that everyone is the cross revealed that the logan per cent of the wheat and flour. equal in ability, as first empha berry resulted from an abnormal Ruilding • Repairing In value, Canada and other sized by the leaders of the crossing in which the pollen North anil Central American French Revolution and as now grains of the raspberry, which Cement Work countries took 26 per cent of the preached by the New Dealers, are supposed to have only half total agricultural exports, South Socialists and Communists, is the numlier of chromosomes as a America 12 per cent, Asia 14 fundamentally unsound and every regular raspberry cell had by Free Estimates per cent, Africa 5 per cent, and reader knows it. It may require chance the full number, 14. This Australia and Oceana 1 per cenf. a great depression to get people produced the typical loganberry Phone Beaverton 2377 o i m m e r s Just how much longer the once more to think honestly and Hybrid—and a mighty good one country will maintain the 1946-47 correctly; unless before then the at that. Rte 3, Box 388 Beaverton rate of exjiorts is a big question importance of the Two Per-cent ' A Cu i u / a v ' in the farm outlook. The econom is frankly recognized. * V ' - - f j . .. ists point out that sound loans What About Vacation? r c s i r v a t i o m s Br 0113 on farm land are based on an Logan & Page H I IK u n s ò li It Is in view of the above that appraisal of the normal earning the stock market has reached a capacity of the farm over a long L U M B E R Y ARD ALSO— The O P E N S U N D A Y 1 • 10 stalemate. It goes up a few butcher, the baker and the candle period of years. Garage points and then down a few stick maker an lose. Old John points, with small volume of Barleycorn robs every till. He Corner First and Tucker Streets transactions. These transactions takes our money out of town to Beaverton are mostly by professional spec settle our drink bill and Main W ELDIN G— OF A LL KINDS ulators sitting in the offices of Street holds the bag. Complete Automotive Service brokers. The real worthwhile in- NOW DRY—28 millions now NEON SALES AND SERVICE Specialists In Re-Boring dustralists, merchants, bankers live in dry territory. Some vote and Motor Re-Building and professional men are tired dry to keep home dollars home 9914 S. W. Pacific Highway and discouraged. Perhaps a good for the home folks. Dollars that j Phone - Beaverton - 2981 vacation this summer may do can buy eass and fuel and build them. Let us hope that they will houses and i>e laid away for the take it and come back renewed rainy day. And what sense are in spirit and once ngain willing the public schools if the grades When You Buy A to buy stocks. are to drink up tlreir earnings Automatic H e a t. .. J and spew their lives away. It is said that out of every ten who can take it or leave it alone, three must go down to the drunk and ard’s grave. WET FOOD—Rags poverty, family break up, crime, insanity, A M ER IC A N -CHINESE prostitution, venereal disease. D IN N ERS This is the brood that liquor Fine Food - Ample Forking hatches. No wonder that 28 mil lions choose to live in the dry. 2 mi. North of Tigard STEI* AHEAD—You are the 11130 S. W. Barbur Blvd. man who hud faith to believe | j our ot 55th Ave. that Christ died for your sins. Registered Land Surveyor Dancing After 9 WILLIAMS You said Y’ ES, the sins of my Phone Scholls 8361 Rt. 1, Box 705, Beaverton, Ore. lifetime are blotted out by the blood of Christ. God honored 5 Miles West ot Progress your faith and set your name in HEATING the Book of Eternal life. 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Nethenun, Publisher è # » *™ sw raa Ten inches of snow equals in If you are grateful for the beauties and restful solitude water content, on the averagt approximately one inch of rain Which you enjoy on your week end vacation, show your appre ciation by being sure these things are preserved. Be sure your fire is out, and your camp àrea clean for the next person. “Keep Oregon Green.” Cut Flowers Potted Plants From our own green Houses Daily Service to Portland and Hillsboro Beaverton Florists On Lombard, just S. of Allen Phone 2965 O. S. C. Warns of Inflation Hazard Plant Breeder Solves Mystery Of Loganberry Geo. C. Ludwig CHICKEN « w STfA K Grocer Robbed ART NEON SIGN CO. Phone CH. 3711 LAND S U R V E Y I N G T A I- PING Terrace BUY BY C H O I C E . . . N O T Construction Layout i PAUL D. BOUTWELL BY C H A N C E ! 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