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About Heppner herald. (Heppner, Or.) 1914-1924 | View Entire Issue (July 25, 1922)
Tuesday, July 25, IQ22 THE HEPPNER HERALD, HEPPNER. OREGON PAGE FIVE BILL WINDSOR TIRES OF ROCK CREEK HILLS Windsor Castle Ranch Uock Creek Hills July 14, 1922. Editor Herald: Another year has rolled "'round". It seems like Old Time is in a hurry for the Old Fellows to give up the play and clear the way and let bet ter (?) men have room. I remember when I was a small boy it seemed like a long, long, time between birthdays to me, but now I think a good man might stand on his head 12 months. I suppose it is the same with 'other old fellers. I am sending the where-withal to help keep the wheels of the Herald office turning. Please let the Her ald ramble out to this part of the public-domain. I am always glad to get the news of the county, state, United States and the world. I would like to see more letters in the Herald from the farmers and stock men of the county. Jar loose you old rough-handed chaps who have built 40 miles of barbed wire fence -without gloves and give us a letter, we will be glad to hear from you. Never mind about the good grammar. I suppose some of you are the same as myself never had a grammar in your hands. Well, it is fine to know good grammar, but it does not always buy the baby a new dress, or pay for the one that's worn out. I have mot some pretty foxy chaps in my time who knew but little about books, and I have met some well educated fel lows who acted mighty foolish to me for smart men. So jar loose you old chaps and come through with a let ter. Tell us where you are from and why you left tliero, and what you think of eastern Oregon as far as you have gone, no matter if you are from no-where and going to nothing, from everywhere and will soon be from here, drop us a letter anyhow. I am thinking pretty strong of changing my mcde of war-fare, am thinking of coming to the county seat and buying a farm of an acre of land build myself a cement bungalow, set out a few fruit and berry bushies, a few rows of cabbage-rosics and Irish perturnups, keep a few bee hives, a dozen chickens, perhaps a hog pen up or down the creek and dress up in a pair of pigeon-toed shoes and turn-up pants, a frock tailed coat, spotted shirt with a red necktie, a little Dude-hat on the back of my head and my hair pasted in the middle and talk politics, By Hec'k. I think I could live on the cream of Willow creek valey and work half the time. I am getting pretty tired of staying alone, nie-tenths of the time with nothing but stock, jack rabbits, coy otes, badgers and porcupines for com pany; fend drinking alkali water and talking in my sleep. Alias Your Tillicum, Bill Windsor. ritOHIBITIOX FACTS Reviewing the past fiscal year of Coinmisioner Haynes, administration Director Joseph A. Linville invites as Federal Prohibition Coinmisioner, public attention to the fact that only 2,6 2 7,uu3 gallons ot whiskey were withdrawn as compared with 9,696, 122 gallons the previous year, and 16.491.SU3 gallons of alcohol and and other distilled spirits withdrawn as compared with24,856,388 gallons withdrawn the previous year; that 1,216 cases were reported by general prohibition agents, taxes amounting to $17,102,234,24 were recommend ed, and fines and penalties amount ing to $2, 159, 410, 39 were imposed. Threo and a half million dollars worth of bonds were placed in suit, or proceedings begun. Reductions in rentals and disposition of seized property in the amount of $208,832, 50 were affected, and an additional saving of $156,900 otherwise affect ed. Under the narcotic laws 2,195 violations were exposed, resulting in 1,109 convictions and $64,083 in fines and penalties. Numerous changes in reorgan izations took place. Enforcement work has been vested in state di rectors and a mobile force of gen eral agents under eighteen division al chiefs directed from Washington created; a special group was design ated to prepare all criminal inform ations, indictments, injunctions libles and search warrants, and con centration of claim work, resulted in specialized clerks and expedit ion of work. One set of reports and accounts are now required -for dis tillery and bonded warehouses in stead of three as heretofore. With a view to reducing the numb er of permits, all applicants to oper ate as wholesale druggists are doubly checked, and reports of state in spectors are verified by re-iacpection i by division pharmacists. Manuf;.ctur- ' ers and wholesale dealers are requir- j ed to give a monthly accountability j of all drugs received, manufactured nnH Rnbl TPm-p-ei-v-m-onf nan.ti'nuc. I ' '0W terable permit forms effectually prevent fraudulent withdrawals. To expedite prosecutions, all cases are reported monthly to the central office, . then to the Department of of justice for supervision and pre paration for speedy trial. The service utilizes submarine chasers, speedy motor boats and airplanes. Where Your Taxes Go How Uncle Sam Spends Your Money in Conduct ing Your Business By EDWARD G. LOWRY Author "Wsah'nfrton Ctoae-Upii," "Banks and Financial Systems." etc. Contributor 1'olitieal and Economic Articles to Leadi-.y Periodicals and a Writer of Recognized Authority oo tbs National Government's Business Methods. wtriKe Not 7iew Weapon. That strikes lire nut of recent origin.! hut that tliey have, for ninny centuries.: troubled the employer of labor, is said to be interestingly established by a reeord recently discovered In certain ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic tablets These tablets were found In the exca vation of seme ruins at Thebes, mid east a strong light upon the labor eon dithms of the city .'i.tMIII years ago. He tails are given of many Interesting phases of a' strike when n large mini j her of workmen notified their employ ers they would discontinue work nil less their back pay were promptly giv en them and a new wage scale ar f 1 : 'i M 1 ' I ! 1 1 MM ' ! ! ' I M!'r ' I i It Costs You Money Every day you delay in placing your goods before the public is costing you money. 'True, everyone may know you're in business know where your store is, but they do not have the time to run to your store to find out about the new things you are showing, about the special bargain.- you are offering and the hundred and. one other things that make your i-torc an interesting place to visit. Many people may be going past your store ecry dav to buv something you could sell them at a iower'price than they are paying-' and why? The other fellow invited them to Luy that's all. You didn't. HEPPNER HERALD Copyright. Western Newspaper Union XXVII. THIS WAS YOUR MONEY Consider for a moment, if you will, some further figures. This is your money I am tn Iking about. For every fiscal year from 1-806 to 1803, inclusive, there was a surplus of receipts over expenditures. During this period of 28 years the surplus of receipts over expenditures totaled $1, 923.L'05,013.41. For the fiscal years 1804 to 1S00, in clusive, the expenditures exceeded the receipts .in the aggregate of $283,0--,-001.14. For the fiscal years 1000 to 1004, Inclusive, the surplus of receipts over expenditures aggregated $310, 310,U!.i.04. For 1005 the expenditures exceeded the receipts by $78,77(5, (322.30. For the years 1010 to 1014, inclus ive, the receipts exceeded the expendi tures by $140,024,404.27. For 1015 the expenditures exceeded the receipts by $33,488,031.53. For 1910 the re ceipts exceeded the expenditures by $55,171,553.59, nnd for 1017 there wus a deficit of $29,724,804.73. From 1 Stiff to 1017, inclusive, the re ceipts exceeded the expenditures for each year with the exception of 1804, 1805, 1890, 1897, 1898, 1800, 1905, 1008, 1909, 1015 nnd 1917. The total amount by which the expenditures exceeded the receipts for these 11 years just named, is $443,700,744.70. For the 5' fiscal years, 1800 to 1917, inclusive, the receipts exceeded the expenditures in 41 years, the total of such excess for that period being $2,501,453,184.10. For the fiscal years 18(10 to 1010, the revenues were ruisod through an in direct system of taxation. Beginning with the fiscal year ending June 30, 1910, the receipts from direct methods of taxation have usually grown each fiscal year, ns will be seen by the fol lowing table : 1910 Corporation tax 20,1151, "SO. 97 1911 Corporation tax 3.'l,51ti,7ti.5!) 19112 Corporation tax LS,."N3,Si:t.73 1913 Corporation tax 3."j,(KMi,299.K4 1914 Corporation excise tax. lo.tiri.077. 22 1914 Corporation income tax 32,-I'.',6.iiti2.67 1914 Individual income tax.. SS.-i.a.fCi.S;) 1915 Emergency revenue 52,0119, 12ti. 29 191,7 Corporation Income tax 39,lr5..'i9o.77 19UV-Individual income tax.. 41,04f.,li;i.o9 1916 Emergency revenue ' 84,278,302.13 1916 Corporation income tax rti,M:t,ti:77.!i8 1916 Individual income tax.. 67,943.594.63 1917 Kmertrency revenue 95, 297, 653. SH 1917 Corporation income tax 179,572,SK7.S6 1917 Individual income tax.. Io0,108, 340.11) 1918 Income and excess prof its tax 2,838,999,894.28 1919 Income and excess prof its tax 2,596,008,702.70 The number of corporations mak ing income tax returns showing tax able income, aggregated 52,498 in the calendar year 1909, and that number increased to 232,070 for the calendar year 1917. The number of individuals making personal income lax returns aggregated 357,598 for the calendar year 1013, and that number increased to 3,472,800 for the calendar year 1017. For the fiscal year I'.HK) the total ordinary receipts aggregated .$003,589, 480.84, of which $300,711,033.05 came from customs duties, $240,212,043.59 came from Internal revenue, and the balance was received from the sale of public lands und other miscellaneous Items; whereas, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1919, I lie total re ceipts from customs amounted to $184, 457,807.3!), while the internal revenue, Including Income taxes and corpora tion and excess profits taxes, amounted to $3,830,050,012.05. So you will see that until 1910 the money you paid toward the support of the government was slipped away from you so easily that you hardly knew anything about it. You did not know that you were paying taxes to the national government. Indirect taxation is the most se ductive form of raising public rev enue. You never came In contact Willi the federal gn eminent except when yon bought a postage stump. Hut now you know it eery time you buy a drink at n soda fountain, or a Imtlle of medi cine, or mud a teleram, or make a long-distance telephone call, or per form any one of a score of other nor mal activities of daily life. Some, thing must be put In the kitty for the government. Its normal rakeolf runs into the billions. You pay it and the government spends It. 1 i lit all that part of the party Is about over now. The oysters have been eaten and put In the bill. They must be paid for. It is perfectly clear thut In the future by far the greater part of the revenue reoi'red for con ducting the public business must come from direct taxes. It Is also clear that the ordinary expenses for run ning the government will In future probably exceed four billion dollars a year. That Ik a lot of money to take out of your pockets, and mine. Hadn't we better see what is done with It, and whether we can save any of It? Om gress, which Is very far-sighted, and able, when Its own tdiln l,s concerned, to distinguish a hawk from a band caw at a very great distance, is be ginning to take notb-e. EMPEROR VISITS FRANCE fly A 4 t,'"ff , V M. Sarnuilt, French minister of colonies, and the emperor of Annum, snapped ns the monarch left the boat at Marseilles. The two proceeded to gether to l'nris where the ruler was given a princely greeting. The emper or heads the district sometimes known as Cochin China. He was accompanied by his young son. The Soil Does Not Exhaust. hr. Curtis F. Marbut of fie I'nited .States IVpartment of Agriculture has sailed on a three-months' trip to Eu rope, and his special mission will be tn determine why it Is that the soil in some parts of Europe which has been worked since the Christian era. has not been exhausted. He will bring home samples of the soils of va rious countries visited and analyses will be made In the endeavor to ar rive at the secret. In Italy and Greece the soil has been tilled for centuries and has never been fer tilized, and has never had the advan tage of live stock raising. Brahmin Avoid Friday. Amongst the I'.riibmlns of India no business in ever btut) ou a Friday. look Before You Leap. A novice was braving the Dart mouth ski-jump. He shot down the incline, lurched weakly at the take oif, landed face downward below and finished the slide, nose first, plowing Into the snow smother. "You lumped too late, Joe !" yelled an enthusiast. 'Nil w" from the smother below "1 jumped too soon. Should have learned more about the game first." Every-ho-lv's M.-mazlne. - ' -i ftA iioltiff! s U ), VJ' R Ua ! iiiiimufiiiuuuiini mm!HrMiMrruiifi(frrtjnntiiiiiitaifiiiiOtinniuiiutiiiuirmiiittniiiin tii I Faithful Service ! iiiiinimmiiiiiMniM The men active in the man agement of the First National Bank realize that everything they do for patrons bears directly upon the reputation of their Bank, also upon its continued progress. First National Bank Heppner Ore. (M KM BE HERALD WANT ADS BRING HOME THE BACON Hunt & JL JL ars Economy Sure Seal Selfsealing Masons -Wide and Narrow Tops- Regular Masons Phelps Grace Company ry
