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
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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
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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.
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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.
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