Tuesday, December 20, 1921
THE HEPPNER HERALD, HEPPNER, OREGON
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Something Useful For
CHRISTMAS?
Look In Our Window To Find It
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Ever-Ready Razors for Him
Aluminum Kitchen Ware for Her
Thermos Bottles.Flashlights, Poket and Kitchen
Cutlery, Work Basket and Manicure scissors.
Many Other Useful Gifts Inside
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Where Your
Taxes Go
How Uncle Sam Spends
Your Money in Conduct
ing Your Business
By EDWARD G. LOWRY
Author "Washtaa-tnr, Closs-Ups." "Binta and
Financial Systems." stc. Contributor Political
and Economic Articles to Loading Periodicals
and a Writer of Recognised Authority on the
National Government's Business Methods
Copyright, V enusru hwappr Uuioo
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Peoples liclw.. Co.
WE AIM TO rLEASE AND OI K AIM IS TRI E!
PROFESSIOXAt, CARDS
DR. R. J. VAUGHAN
DEXTIST
Permanently located in Odd
fellow's Building
HEPPNER, OREGON
DR. A. D. McMURDO
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON
Telephone 122
The Eats That are
TREATS
We make it our business to soil meats for eats that are real
treats And we don't comply with thJ food laws because it is
compulsory we do it because we want, and expect to get good
, nA t-oir treatment, from merchants and protessional
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men with whom we deal, and because we know
ness to sell only the best.
it is our busi-
For breakfast, lunch, or dinner we can supply your wants, no
matter how elaborate or how conservative. We have arrang
ed to fill all orders and would lfke to see your meat older.
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Central Market
The Model
In The Fashion Plate
Has nothing on the lady or gentleman who is wearing
clothes that have been cleaned and pressed in tins p ace We
take all the care possible in getting every garment so id looks
like new.
THE BURDEN OF TAXES
Rofore the, Wiir the government of
the United States spent about one bil
lion dollars a year for all purposes,
including interest on the public debt.
In the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920,
the first full fiscal year after fighting
stopped, the government spent in
round figures six billion four hundred
million dollars. In the fiscal year 1921,
that is, up to June 30, 1921, it spent
$5,11 5,927,089.30, and in the fiscal year
of 1922, which will end on June oU,
1922, it will upend more than four bil
lion dollars, says Secretary Mellon of
the Treasury Department.
These figures include interest on the
public debt which amounts to about
one billion dollars, but include noth
ing for sinking fund or other debt re
demption. Including both interest and
sinking fund, the government will
spend more than four times as much
the fiscal year 1922 as it spent yearly
before the war.
These expenditures and these heavy
charges are a part of the prictf of vic
tory. Your whole present problem is
to curtail them. It concerns you to
know iust bow these immense sums
were slathered and how much you paid
and are paying toward them, for of
course we, the tax payers, the men and
women with jobs, the men and women
who have what the census calls gain
ful occupations, paid every cent of It.
It was our money until the govern
ment took it.
Let us examine the fiscal year 1920.
I have not the detailed account for
1921, but it was slightly less than the
year previous, as the year ending June
30, 1922, will be a slightly less burden
on us than the year preceding. Ac
cording to a careful analysis made by
the late Dr. E. H. Rosa, of the United
States bureau of standards, a govern
ment scientist who was deeply and In-
telligently interested in the subject,
every man, woman and child in this
rmintrv contributes an average of
fifty-three dollars in taxes to the sup
nm-t of the national government. Ac
tually it is nearer fifty-four than fifty
three dollars, but I am taking the
smaller sum for the sake of the round
number. That is, the average family
of five persons pays .$205 a year out
of its earnings to the federal govern
ment alone, in addition to what is
paid for state, county and city taxes,
The estimated average. yearly income
of a family of five Is something more
than $700. But before any of that $700
is spent $2G5 must be turned over to
the ceneral government to run the
business of the United States.
The actual amount that each one of
us paid was $53.77. We paid It through
the medium of internal revenue taxes
and customs duties on imported ar
ticles divided as follows:
Per
Capita
Income and excess profit $37.20
Cigars and tobacco 2.77
Transportation and other utili
ties 2.72
Autos, candy, furs, jewelry, etc. 2.52
Beverages 1-86
Special taxes on capital stock,
etc
Estate Inheritance
Stamps on legal papers, etc 79
Admissions to amusements, etc. .77
Insurance and miscellaneous... .23
Office Patterson's Drug Store
HEPPNER. OREGON
F. A. McMENAMIN
LAWYER
Office Phone Main 643
Residence Phone Main 665
Roberts Building
HEPPNER, OREGON
E. NOTSON
ATTORXEY-AT-LAW
Office in Court House
HEPPNER, OREGON
SAM E. VAN VACTOR
ATTORXEY-AT-LAW
First National Bank Bldg.
HEPPNER, OREGON
WATERS & ANDERSON
FIRE 1XSURANCE
Successors to
C. C. Patterson
HEPPNER, OREGON
DeLUXE ROOMS
Summer Rates
75c & $1.00
Over Case Furniture Co.
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Protection For YOUR
iavings
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WOODSON & SWEEK
ATTORXEYS-AT-LAW
Masonic Building
HEPPNE-R, OREGON
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Our savings depositors enjoy the pro
tection of the Federal Reserve System, of
which the First National Bank is a member
a Government institution with its billions
of assets and its strict United Stales Govern
ment supervision.
As a depositor here, you know that your
savings are safe guarded by the resources of
the First National Bank, back of which is the
protection of the Federal Reserve.
Satisfy yourself first of all that your
savings arc safe.
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First National Bank ot
Heppner
A Member of the Federal Reserve
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For the holiday season, you will want your clothes to
l00k llke new and it is our ambition to make them look like
you would want them tb look, so bring the,,, in and let
show you what ambition coupled up with knowledge along the.
cleaning and pressing line will do.
Lloyd Hutchinson
Clean
lothes
lean
THE HEPPNER HERALD
ONLY $2.00 A YEAR
1921.
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NOTICE OF STOCKHOLDERS
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Notice is hereby given thai it
ner. Oregon, on inc . .
, .U 112' (Januarr llh'
in January, ls-. ft ,
1922), between the hours of 10 A.
M. and 4 P. M. of said date for the
purpose of electing directors and for
the transac'ion of such business as
may legally come before the meeting.
W. P. MAHONET,
Cashier.
Dated this 10th day of December,
Heppner Herald Want Ads bring
home the bacon.
Total $r)3.77
The tnxnaver is next of kin to the
treasury. At any rate he is the firsc
nerson notified when the treasury
needs money, and lit always has to dig
down into his jeans for whatever is
needed. Tiixpaying, even more than
chiiritv. begins at home. The boy's
best friend is Ids mother, but the tax
payer's only friend Is himself. The
nnlv tbhiL' that can be done for him Is
to disclose as vividly as possible how
much his government Is costing and
let him decide what he will do about
It. It nil comes down to this : The
more money the government spends
through defective organization or ex
travagance, the less you have to spend
or save.
So much for the cost of the national
business we support. We are all mi
nority stockholders. The concern nas
no other source of revenue than our
contributions. It doesn't make any
money. In times like these, when al
most everybody feels that he gets too
little for what he sells and has to pay
too much for what he buys, It seems
to me the least we can do Is to take
an active anil Intelligent Interest In
this great common enterprise of ours
and make sure that It Is well organ
ized; that It doesn't waste or spend
extravagantly; that the employees are
paid an adequate wage ami nave
proper working conditions; that their
morale Is kept high and their enthu
siasm In our Interest unabated ; In fine,
that as a business it shall be conduct
ed as efficiently and economically and
on as modern scientific principles s
any large private business.
Js It?
That Is a question you must answer
for yourself after I have acquainted
you with the actual situation and con
dition.
You will find that Xmas
present suitable at a 1 5
to 25 per cent reduction
below 1920 prices
Yours for a Merry Xmas
WM. HAYLOR
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