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SETTING T11E STAGE FOR ANOTHER
SALES TAN PHONEY!
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Friday, Feb. 10, 193
SOUTHERN OREGON MINER
With state legislators desperately thumbing
through dog-eared card indexes listing ways to ex­
tract more and more taxes from the public, it is but
a matter of time until Oregonians again are laced
with a pseudo life-and-death plea for adoption ot a
sh I os tax
Last time it was asked, the sales tax was the one
resource that could keep the state s schools open. The
children would suffer, voters were told, by having
their classrooms closed and teachers were warned
not to expect pay checks unless the measure passed.
Oregonians answered the tearful wail by snowing
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under the measure worse than on the two previous
occasions when they had rejected a sales tax.
Yet Oregon’s schools remained open for business ent. They wrongly believe that to be good parents
after the ballots w’ere counted, and teachers continued they must be lavish with their offspring. They have
to get their salaries.
overlooked the benefits of mental and physical com­
The trouble with a sales tax, in the minds of most panionship. which is more bother.
voters and taxpayers, is not with the theory of the
Some folks are so used to pressing a button for
penny-gathering scheme but with the way it has been lights and meals that they are impatient to expend
presented. As drafted before, the sales would ‘even­ planned effort toward guiding their children. And it
tually” (so the ballot title inferred) equalize the tax is that type of parent who awakens suddenly to find
burden between real property owners and all taxpay­ himself cursed by near-adult sons and daughters
ers. But the fine print always provided that the tax who have not yet learned the simple rules of honesty.
would be an additional tithe and would not repeal
Charity is not the only virtue that should start
taxes already being levied.
at home.
The only way a sales tax can and should be voted
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by Oregonians would be through a measure drafted
YELLOW-BELLIED WELCHERS!
to definitely transfer the tax burden FROM property
A teapot tempest has been raging for a week be­
TO sales.
cause
some administration critics claim President
Only when a sales tax dollar cancels a dollar of said American
frontiers were in France and along the
real estate taxes will arguments made on behalf of Rhine.
the sales tax theory actually apply.
Mr. Roosevelt, with characteristic clearness, flatly
Taxes on gasoline have worked out fairly well. tabbed
the statement as a lie.
Motorists complain very little at paying a 25 per cent
The
puzzling thing about the whole affair is, how­
sales tax on gasoline because their license plates now
ever, th^ manner in which the essence of his talk with
cost but $5 a year instead of $15 to $35.
Almost every citizen would rather pungle up a few a senate military affairs committee could immediately
cents at frequent intervals than get cracked for diffi­ be made a public controversy when all members pres-
cult dollars once a year. But Oregon taxpayers are 1
New York world's fair. England is
smart enough to know that a sales tax law without
spending $2,500,000 which is top- i
id by France's $3.500.000 That |
a rider cancelling an equal amount of existing taxes
i kind of money should make quite
is just another weight being thrown onto an already
| a showing.
too-heavy burden.
By MINER STAFF WRITER ;
OF ALL THINGS! li
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I AST year marked three 50-year
anniversaries for ex-Kaiser
Wilhelm, which fact was brought
Well, we’ve got to hand it to our competitor across to attention by his 80th birthday
the street—he can spread it on thicker than a 1939 anniversary a few days ago. His
grandfather died, and about three
model John Deere stern-wheeler.
months later his father passed
“Fifteen per certt more news service than a group away, then he ascended the throne,
in 1888.
of successful newspapers” claims the Daily Twiddlings, , all Nineteen
hundred thirty-eight
and we’ve got to acknowledge that’s quite a feat. And j also marked a 20-year period in
life. In 1918 he hurriedly lam­
pictures? They’re nearly as thick as house ads in the I his
med for Holland, but his observ­
daily.
ance of that anniversary hasn't
Guess The Miner will have to keep plugging along been recorded. 1 i 1
at being the best daily on Friday, and the best w’eekly Claimant to the speed talking
of the Americas,
the other six days. Not the biggest, y’unnerstan’—but i championship
Rene Cañizares, a Cuban radio
then we won’t fall the hardest, either!
| announcer, has been clocked at
2600 words in 15 minutes. His clos­
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est rival, Peter Grant, another
radio speaker, has been timed at
the same rate but the Cuban main­
“AS THE TWIG IS BENT—”
tains that 2600 words in Spanish
Following the parental embarrassment in Medford j is faster than the same number in
English on account of the more
resulting from wholesale apprehension and jailing of I intricate
Anyway,
juvenile vandals, comes news from Grants Pass that that is 2.8 pronunciation.
plus words per second.
a rate to maintain for 15
a similar “crime wave” has been uncovered there. Quite
minutes.
Youngsters in nearly all communities seem to have
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A fall of from 42 million to 35
suddenly become a serious problem.
population
faces
the
And somehow the notion lurks in the minds of million
French nation if her birth rate
many that nothing is wrong with our youth that and death rate continue at 1935
couldn’t be cured by the laying on of hands. Or wil­ figures.
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lows, if the hands are tender.
Last month London celebrated
first importation of British
The Miner is inclined to agree with Moore Ham­ the
empire-grown tea 100 years ago.
ilton of the Medford News (twice a father himself) Too late to furnish the ingredient
a famous tea party held in Bos­
in that youngsters have been coddled and glorified of
ton harbor about 1773. The Brit­
too much by parents who have forgotten to think on ish industry has developed until
they have an investment of 500
their responsibilities.
million dollars and employ 2,000,-
Many mothers and fathers have “streamlined” their 000 men raising tea.
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notion of what constitutes being a conscientious par- A compulsory
90-day summer
school vacatin is the object of a
proposed measure ’ before
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the Cali-
fornia legislature. Object: To give
a longer vacation season, and the
JN superior funeral direction there
families with youngsters in school
must be those priceless elements
will be able to stay longer at the
hotels and resorts. Looks like they
of sympathy, understanding, con-
are starting in on each other for a
sideration and knowledge, Here you
tourist crop.
are assured of just such elements.
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Some proponents claim that
"postalization" or zoning of rail­
way fares will pull the railroads
Funeral Service Since 1897
out of the financial dumps. They
had better look out—Uncle Sam
has been running the postoffice
department that way a long time
now and it’s still costing him
about $20,000,000 a year.
(Formerly Stock’s Funeral
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Parlor)
Afghan, Germany, Tran, Latvia
We Never Close—Phone 32
and Liberia are the only nations
not represented by exhibits at the
MAKING THE GRASS GROW GREEN!
LITWILLER
FUNERAL HOME
First Baptist Church
Charles E. Dunham, Pastor
Church school meet« at 9:45
a. m., C. N. Gillmore, superintend-
ent.
Morning worship at 11 o’clock
“The Glory of the Cross” is the
subject of the pastor’s sermon.
Young People’s union will meet
at 6:30 p. m.
Evening service at 7:30 o’clock.
The pastor will preach, his sub­
ject being "Keeping the Unity of
the Spirit."
Prayer and conference meeting,
7:30 p. m. Wednesday.
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• Business visitors from Medford
Tuesday included Louis Jenkins
and Rollo Pierson.
In Line With
Our Policy of
SERVICE
And believing that by
closing Saturday af­
ternoons we have
caused some of our
customers some incon­
venience in the past
we have decided to re­
main
OPEN SATURDAY
AFTERNOONS
BEGINNING
FEB. 11, 1939
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ent at the discussion of foreign affairs were ple^
to secrecy.
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Surely the President is entitled to talk things <
with an advisory committee and, lor obvious r< m
recognized the world over, extract a pledge of ki |<
from members. Breaking that confidence has i <‘ ku
in a storm of insults and insinuations from clirtl
nations and has launched an avalanche of beside-
point argument in the American press.
Apparently some anti-administration memberi
the conference just couldn't contain themselves,
opportunity to break into print was too great for sri
selfish politicians.
Why should a democratic nation go to the bol
of electing a President if he is to be given no anti
ity for leadership?
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