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1 < E A S T E R N O R E G O N R E V IE W F R ID A Y , J U L Y J4, 1950 SEWING CIRCLE PATTERNS INFLATION HABTT ctnr&Ké-eftw cotoftMo PAGE THREE Two Ways Open for Government Button-on Cape Tops Sun Dress To H alt U. S. Inflation Habit Shirtwaister Is Neat and Cool / h it it the tecond rtf tu n arliclei on inflation, how it w orkt anti i l l f u t u r e at prepared by the I am ily l.to n o m ia llureau of N orth w eitern N ational Life Inturance tom pan y. T here are v»rily two ways in which a governm ent can stop the in flatio n ary habit of spending more than it tak es in: (1) collect more, and (2 ) spend less. Collect more? Taxes now collected by o u r fed eral, state and local governments already take This is p re tty generally thought we can carry, and still continue the greatest Job of producing people’s goods that has been known in all history. (Spend Iraaf O ur government can not spend less, until there Is a halt to the growing pressures for It to spend still more In the late-lamented pyramid club craze, the great mass of “joiners” paid In, from the bottom layer, the money passed out to the winners on top. a fo u rth o f o u r n atio n al income. to be about as heavy a ta x load as Two Tax Forms • Aspen, once the boom town of silver and gold miners, is fast becoming one of the culture centers of "culture - conscious" Colorado. Set in a mag nificent section of t h e Rocky mountains, it of fers tourists the natural facilities of mountain streams and lakes, skiing, and other outdoor sports. Above summer visitors e n j o y a ride. Special guided pack - trips into the high country are a favorite summer activity. Fishing for t h e elusive rainbow trout is another popular sport. The stream (right) is t h e famous Roaring Fork river where gold was panned in the oO's. i'C S T "*" ' ... V Í ■■ eekly ictur stor 7 But not to be outdone by other western towns, Aspen has scheduled an eleven-week program fea turing the theme "Great Bools, Great Men, and Great Music" as an add ed attraction for tourists. During the weeks, June 26 to S e p t e m b e r 10, great books and g r e a t men will be discussed daily by outstanding au t h o r i t i e s , interspersed with a series of concerts by the Denver symphony orchestra. 0 A group of tourists (above) loaf on the sun- deck when not hearing lectures or concerts by such artists as Lauritz Mclchoir and Helen Traubcl. The Saarinen tent (right) was designed especially for Aspen mu sical and cultural events, by the Finnish architect, Eero Saarinen. Inside, it is an acoustically amphitheater. perfect The tent was first used for the suc cessful Goethe bicenten nial celebration at Aspen last summer. Just as surely, the general public pays in, from th. bottom layers of Uncle Sam’s vast system of tax "pyramid clubs,” most of the dol lars paid out to the groups of re The above chart prepared by cipients at the top of the various the Fam ily Economica Bureau pyramids. of Northwestern National Life Uncle Sam’s tax pyramids have Insurance company shows clear two different forms: ly why your dollar has shrunk Type 1: The public, from the bot to 57 cents’ worth. tom layer, pays In its contributions directly, as income taxes, property “shot” of stimulation and a tem taxes, automobile licenses, gasoline porary feeling of new vigor to taxes, cigarette taxes, etc., to the our system. layer of tax collectors next above, Therefore, like the victim of the which passes them up to the Treas ury, which passes them on up to drug habit, the nation with the in flation habit has periods of feverish the recipients. Type 2: The public, from the bot over-stimulation and activity, fol tom layer of a taller pyramid, pays lowed by sinking spells of increas in Its contributions in the cost of ing severity. To pull out of such fits business taxes which are added to of depression, still larger doses of all the other costs of goods the pub the same inflation drug are taken, lic buys. For business pays its tax until final crack-up. To break either habit Is h a r d - es, like all its other expenses, from prices received for goods—the only even painful for a time. It becomes possible source, in the long run. In more difficult and more painful the this type of pyramid the retailers, longer the habit runs on. wholesalers and manufacturers form Unlike a number of foreign na several additional layers which pick tions, we have not yet reached the tax money out of the prices paid, the point of no return. In spite and pass it up to the layer of tax of all the punishment it has collector. From here up the pyra taken, our free American pro mid operates the same as type one. ductive system still has a strong Uncle Sam’s tax “ pyramid heart-beat. clubs” are not in themselves in How can we begin the cure. In flationary, for they add no new time? There is no easy answer. No paper money or checkbook dol miracle cure for inflation. lars to our total supply. After all, the pyramid club compari "Cure" Outlined son Is just a graphic illustration Because our country is a democ of how our tax system works as racy, the cure for our ruinous in it collects dollars from the pub flation habit depends on the Am eri lic on the bottom and pays the can people themselves. I t depends same dollars out from the top. on their aroused intelligence— on But the heavier the “ contribu their hard, straight thinking—on tions” collected through the various their willingness to dig beneath the tax pyramids', the less leeway is pleasant slogans and attractive left for the public to finance new de labels used by all political parties mands on government, whether for and all pressure groups. security benefits of highway build The vital steps in curing our in ing, jet planes or atomic research. flation habit boil down to three: Because our government does not 1. Cut down government spending, even now receive enough contribu by the strictest economy, so that it tions from its tax pyramids to meet is less than government income. all the demands made on it. it there 2. In time of high national income fore has to pour out new, borrowed like the present, reduce the vast checkbook dollars to pay some of its expenses each year. This Is quantity of borrowed dollars out standing by paying off on our in where we get our present continuous creeping inflation—Inflation that re flationary government debt. 3. Encourage greater production lentlessly chisels down the value of of needed goods in every possible all the dollars the people have left way. after making their tax pyramid con tributions. This means not only the | As a nation, however, we are at paycheck and pension dollars the present doing the exact opposite of 1 all three steps in the cure: people have to live on today, but We are ignoring Inflationary also all the dollars being stored up government spending, or ac for the people’s future living— for tually demanding still more. We their “ security” . Because Uncle Sam is spending are steadily increasing our gov several billion dollars more each ernment debt. We are permit year than he collects through his ting the production of needed various tax pyramids, out money goods to be discouraged or supply inflates still further on bor handicapped in many ways, or rowed dollars, and the value of all halted outright. our dollars Is gradually thinning Meanwhile, inflation blurs the dan down. gerous realities with happy dream- pictures of more paper dollars for Point of No Return But Uncle Sam finds it hard to everybody. That is why institutions entrusted stop this destructive inflation habit in the face of growing demands for with the people’s savings, and there fore with the people’s hopes for him to spend even more. These demands come largely from future security, are beginning to so-called "pressure groups", who raise their voices in warning. In so want for their members still larger doing, of course, they w ill risk be "contributions” , which are sooner ing accused of meddling in politics, or later collected from the general although the inflation danger ob public on the bottom layer of each serves no party lines. It is, however, tax pyramid, or sucked out of the a risk they must run. Our inflation can still be halted. value of everybody's savings by in But it will only be halted if enough flation. But before any citizen complains people realize, in time, what infla about pressure group activities, let tion is doing to us all. him ask himself whether he, too, In conclusion it is well for Am er has not been guilty. icans to remember the reason why the dollar has shrunk to 57 cents As long as there Is some re worth of purchasing power. Since serve of vitality left in Its vic 1939 the total number of dollars tim , the drug addict’s hypo ! in circulation in the United States dermic needle can continue to has more than trebled, from 33 bil- stimulate. As long as there Is , lion to nearly 109 billion, while our any considerable reserve of vaiue left In the people’s savings industrial production of goods to i buy has less than doubled. and III the dollar Itself, Inflation The result: cheaper money, each can continue to create new , dollar’s proportionate worth in greenbacks and new government goods has fallen until it now takes checkbook dollars that look like 1.78 to buy as much as one dollar new “ purchasing power” . As j would buy In 1939. they are spent they give another Politicians Push Pork Barrel Projects • The Four Season Club tennis court (above) is the scene of a hot tennis game between tour ists. Even in midsummer it's almost always cool enough for tennis. 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