Tuesday, December 27, 1921
THE HEPPNER HERALD, HEPPNER, OREGON
PAGE THREE
And a Happy
New Year
KtanntimtHuitmtium
A Happy New Year will be just as pleasant a remem
brance as a Merry Christmas, and now you will want to make
some resolutions that will give you even a better feeling a year
from now than you have at present.
Just resolve that whatever you need in the line of first
class hardware, stoves, etc., during the year 1D22, you can
find them inthis store, and our personal service is getting1 bet
ter as each year passes by.
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Peoples Hdw. Co.
WE AIM TO PLEASE AXD OUR AIM IS TRUE !
The Eats That are
TREATS
We make it our business to sell meats for eats that are real
treats. And we don't comply with the! food laws because it is
compulsory we do it because we want, and expect to get good
service and fair treatment from merchants and professional
men with whom we deal, and because we know it is our busi
ness to sell only the best.
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 li'ke to see your meat order.
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 this place. We
take all the care possible in getting every garment so il) looks
like new.
For the holiday season, you will want your clothes to
look like new and it is our ambition to make them look like
you would want them tblook, so bring them in and let us
show you what ambition coupled up with knowledge along the
cleaning and pressing line will do.
Lloyd Hutchinson
Where they
Clean
lothes
lean
THE HEPPNER HERALD, ONLY $2.00 A YEAR
HOSIERY
New line just received at
CASH VARIETY STORE
Where you get
BIG VALUES FOR LITTLE MONEY
Where Your
Taxes Go
How Uncle Sam Spends
Your Money in Conduct
ing Your Business
By EDWARD G. LOWRY
Aothor "Wuhlnfftm Oofa-Upa." "Bank and
Financial Sratctna," ate. Contributor Political
and Eeonomie Artielai to limiting ParfodJcala
and a Writer of Boeogntsed Authority on th
National Gorarnmaat'i Busineaa Method.
Coprngbt, Wcatarn Newapancr Union
V.
MAGNITUDE OF BILLIONS
I have been throwing the incredible
figures at your head. Neither you nor
anybody else has the faintest concep
tion of what one billion dollars really
Is. We speak familiarly of billions as
a commonplace, but most of us live
our lives in terms of hundreds.
I have shown you that every one
of us, man, woman and child, in this
country, paid last year $53.77 each
toward the support of the government.
Of course, every person does not pay
exactly $53.77. A great many pay
more and some pay less ; but those
who pay the most try to take It out
of those who pay the least by increas
ing the prices of what they have to
sell, or of services rendered or work
performed, so that it averages out at
$53.77. Some pay more than their
share, others pay less. This is railed
an Incident of taxation. The whole
point is that we all pay ; that we pay
now more than we ever paid before;
and there is no present prospect of our
paying Jess for some year??.
In this way we have all paid our
share in the World war. The net cost
of that enterprise to date has been
$24,100,000,000, or, including our loans
to foreign governments, which have
not been repaid, $33,455,000,000. These
are official treasury figures. Do not
let your eyes run over them lightly.
Thirty-three billion four hundred and
fifty-five million dollars is an almost
Incomprehensible sum. The cost of
running the national government is
now around $5,000,000,000 a year. The
experts say that for the next two or
three years the cost of the government
will not descend below about $4,000,
000,000 a year.
I want you clearly to understand the
immensity, the magnitude, the over
whelming size of such sums. We
chatter about billions nowadays with
out in the least knowing what Is a
billion. Let me try to bring It home
to you. It is now, roughly speaking,
1020 years since the birth of Christ.
We do not know precisely and accu
rately at what hour and on whnt day
Christ was born. But under the Gre
gorian calendar, according to which
we now reckon time, we have a'
record of the days since January first
of the year one, Anno Domini. From
the beginning of the year one to Jan
uary 1, 1021, there elapsed about 701,
267 days, or, to reduce it further,
16,830,408 hours, which being reduced
again, means 1,009,824,480 minutes.
I will ask you to remember that the
whole history of the modern world
from the first second of the year one
to the last, second of the year 1920
has been compressed Into 1,009,824,480
minutes.
Now let us Ruppose that with the
permission of the Roman authorities
the United States had established a
disbursing officer at Jerusalem on the
first day of the year one with Instruc
tions to pay out $5 a minute day and
night, Sundays and holidays Included,
right down through the centuries to
New Year's day, 1921.
Suppose he had been given $5,086.
005.706 to start him on his long spell
of spending. That Is one estimate of
the sum that It cost to run this gov
ernment In 1920. On the morning of
January 1, 1921, this mythical disburs
ing olliccr, giving money away at the
nite of S5 a minute, would have spent
only $5,049,122,400, and would still
he one of the richest men In the
world, fnr he would have left on
hnnd $;.,!(;.NS.,!W, of t ho original sum.
Paying out tit the rat(! of $5 ti minute
fur more than 1900 years, he would
not have kept puce with the cost of
upkeep of this government for the one
single year 1920.
Suppose this Imnglnnry government
spender had been authorized to pay
out at the rate of $23 a minute through
the centuries. He would not have
finished, on Jnnuury 1, 021, paying
for our share of the cost of the World
war by some $784,036,960. He would
have that much left over after paying
out $23.22.5,963.040. He would have been
paying out nearly 40 cents every sec
ond the clock ticked for more than 19
centuries without being able to d's
charge our share of the World war
cost.
Do you ever bother your head about
these bushels and bushels of dollars
that you contribute to the support of
the government? You earned them.
You know whether they came fasily or
not. Do you know where 'they go
after they leive you. how they are
spent, whether wisely or foolishly?
It's nil your money, contributed for the
proper and economic conduct of your
eusiness. -j here Is no such thing si
government money. The government
never earned a cent.
You own the government and you
support It, and It Is merely adminis
tered by men of your se'ectlon. I
have always been puzzler ..bout why
you do not take an active and eager
Interest In what becomes of your
money that jm pay In taxes.
But lat't- go on and gef down to
eaws.
Here's Hopin'
Thank You
Here's hopin you had a Merry Christmas and we're hopin
just as religiously that your New Year will bo so happy you
can look back over tho year just passing and try to forgot it.
We are going to stay right hero and furnish our patrons
with the same high grade groceries we have done heretofore,
and we are hoping that every customer has been move than sat
isfied with the treatment accorded them. If wo can do any
thing to niako you happy, call on us.
Phelps Grocery
Company
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PROFESSIONAL CARDS
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DR. R. J. VAUGHAN
DENTIST
Permanently located In Odd
fellow's Building
HEPPNER. OREGON
DR. A. D. McMURDO
PHYSICIAN ami SURGEON
Telephone 122
Office Patterson's Drug Store
HEPPNER, OREGON
F. A. McMENAMIN
LAWYER
Office Phone Main 643
Residence rhone Main 666
Roberts Building
HEPPNER, OREGON
S. E. NOTSON
ATTORN' EY-AT-LAW
Office in Court House
HEPPNER, OREGON
SAM E. VAN VACTOR
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
First National Bank BIdg.
HEPPNER, OREGON
WATERS & ANDERSON
FIKK IXSlllANCK
Successors to
C. C. Patterson
HEPPNER, OREGON
DeLUXE ROOMS
Summer Rates
75c & $1.00
Over Case Furniture Co.
WOODSON & SWEEK
ATTORN EYS-AT-L AW
Masonic Building
HEPPNBR, OREGON
GLIMPSING FASCINATIONS
OF THE MODERN BLOUSE
FT
U u ' Aj j
B;M. 'tum
fAl) some power the glttie
gle us," to find words to con
vey the glories of the modern
blouse, borrowing the language of an
old English chronicle of the early Six
teenth century, we would describe the
modern blouse as "S'ome of cloth,
silk, velvet, taffeta mid such like.
. . . Some short, reaching to the
glrdlestead or waist, some to the
knees. Then they are guarded with
velvet guards, or else faced with cost
ly lace, either of gold or silver; some
embroidered with pearl." All this,
and more Is true of the blouse of to
day. -An ideal fashion has come to m
tflHt of keeping the skirt and suit coot
classically simple, rewrvlng wealth of
color, of embellishment, of eitraordl.
nnry handicraft for the under blouse.
Thus the woman of fashion goes de
murely on her way, conservatlye In
drs to a degree, to all outward ap
pearance, when en route to mattnm,
afternoon tea or club. Howerer, ar
rid at bar destination, behold ere.
eiHiiou! I' 10111 under her tailored
coat emerges a gorgeous affair of
heads, of embroidery and brocade.
The peasant note Is Introduced In
accented form. Manufacturers ar
employing direct tho women of Vlen.
tin 11 rid Bulgarian countries to embroid
er for them.
The tunic blouse Is the latest dovel.
opment. This reaches to the knees
ami helow. It can scarcely be Iden,
tilled from a one -piece dress, and It
is worn over a simple slip.
The georgette blouse matched In
color to the skirt Is alwaya practical,
and Indispensable to the carefully
sHecfed wardrobe. Our I'lustrallons
show such a one with clever trimming
variations In the way of Van Dyka
points outlined with beads. This sort
of blouse is Invariably worn over m
plain self-colored camisole.
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