Page Six
Tuesday, January 8, 1924
THE HEPPNER HERALD, HEPPNER, QRSGQtf
I-MM"I-M-r-M-I"I"I"M"M-I'
LOCAL NEWS
Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Barr are
spending the week end in Portland
on a short vacation trip.
Mr. and Mrs. Dean Goodman have
returned from Portland where they
spent the holiday season with rela
tives. , 1
Mrs. Blanch Humraell, one ot the
teachers in Hardraan schools, re
turned from Portland Sunday even
ing where she spend the holidays.
Watch for the good things to eat
in Case's window Saturday morning,
January 12. Ladles of the Method
ist Community church. It
C. F. Armstrong, of Portland, a
former Condon resident, was here
during the week looking over sheep
and cattle that are being offered as
security for federal bank loans.
Archdeacon M. McLean Goldie
was here Sunday and conducted serv-
WHEAT ASSOCIATION
REPLIES TO DEALERS
v.
J. ROBINSOX, ASSOCIATION
HEAD, TAKES ISSUE
Compares Wheat Prices With Those
of Organized Manufacturing
Concerns
Joes at Episcopal church in the
morning. In the evening he held
services at Cecil.
Mr. and Mrs. John Patterson l,eft
this morning for Pasadena, Califor
nia, where they will spend a couple
of weelcs visiting their son, Ben Pat
terson. i , I ; j
It. L. Bongo and Mrs. Eph Eskel
son went to Walla Walla' Saturday
to attend the funeral of theii nephew
Cecil Windsor, which was held there
Sunday. i
H. L. McAllHter, wpll known citi
zen of Lexington, was in town Mon
day on a short business trip. His
brother, Kay McA lister, who is in
a Portland sanitarium, is reported
improving,
County Agent Morse drove to Ir
rigon late Saturday evening to at
tend a meeting of the Irrigon Farm
Bureau. He was accompanied by
Messrs. Jackiimn, Potter and Lingren
of O. A. C.
Bert Sigsbee says he has no trou
ble keeping warm these cold days, be
cause he is so busy with pictures,
photos and mtovies that he has no
time to look at the thermometer.
Marriage licenses were issued Sat
urday to William Hobart Hjelm, 26,
of Lexington, and Doris Frank, 19,
of lone, and Archie B. Cochran, 28,
of lone, and Ellen Bergstrom, 28,
or Elghtmile.
Maurice Frye, who recently open
ed a new electrical store here and
who is specializing somewhat in
radio sets, entertains all who call at
his place almost every evening with
high class concerts from all parts
of the country. He recently re
ceived a fine program from Pitts
burg, Pennsylvania, which came in
practically letter perfect.
Judge Campbell left for Portland
Monday morning expecting to be
joined at lone by Commission David
son and later at Portland by Com
missioner Ilpnge, when the three ex
pected to Interview the state high-
Last week the Herald published
the brief submitted to the Portland
Chamber of Commerce by the Port
land grain dealers and exporters rel
ative to the proposed plan of gov
ernment fiuh.qiilv fnr linnrillnp' tho I
i,.f u,.rai ,., i . ... 'iilan Price represents
..ui u"i"ua "wfcjjf uypuomg me
proposed measure.
W. J. Robinson of Spokane, pres
ident of the Northwest Wheat Grow
ers Associated, has prepared the fol
lowing reply to the brief and has re
quested itg publication here:
The Merchants' Exchange,
Portland, Ore.
Gentlemen: The Or(egonian of
December 21st carries a news arti
cle Indicating that the Merchants'
Exchange is opposed to the export
commission plan for raising the do
mestic prlcje of wheat. This article
gives extracts from the brief you
have presented to the Portland
Chamber of Commerce, outlining
your stand on this plan.
It states that your discussion cen
ter around two questions: first, the
possibility of guaranteeing the pro
ducer a profitable price; and second,
the relative benefits of marketing un- I
der the competitive system and un-i
der the co-operative system. Your ;
first point might well be brought in-;
to the discussion but I fail to see
why we should bring up the question I
of co-operative marketing in a dis
cussion on the export commission
plan for relieving the desperate sit-1
uation In which agriculture finds
itself. i
The export commission would not special 8vernmeiital machinery does
be in any way dependent on co-oner- I not ln alter lta economic
ative marketing and the success ot EtatU3 We somietiraes overlook the
I wheat in purchasing back In the
I country would, however, be based on
'the export price plus the bounty
I which he is to receive from the ex
port commission. The farmer would
get this price less the tax which is
tot be assessed against the wheat ln
order to raise this bounty. The re
sult would be a corresponding raise
in the price to the farmer of the
wheat that goes into domestic con
sumption as well as the whjeat that
goes into export.
Let us compare the wheat indus
try if carried on under this plan,
with the steel industry as it is being
carried on under a protective tariff.
The American made bar steel sells
in the United, States at $2.40. Eng
lish bars sell at $1.61. The Amer-
the English
price plus a duty of 27 plus 20fi
freight to New Yor'k plus 16c1 as an
offset to inland freights. Yet in the
face of this disparity between the
domestic price and the export price
our steel manufacturers are export
ing at the rate of $400,000,000 an
nually. The wheat growers are only ask
ing permission to operate on equal
terms with the steel industry and all
other protected industries. In order
that we may so operate, the govern
ment must set for us the necessary
machinery and enact the necessary
legislation just as it has done for
the steel industry.
If the wheat industry was well
controlled or combined as the steel
industry, it would be able to take
advantage of the present tariff by
selling wheat for domestic consump
tion at the foreign price plus the do
mestic tariff plus the freight from
the importing country plus an allow
ance for interior freights. The sur
plus would then be sold in the
world's competitive markets.
If this practice is just and good
economics in the steel industry, it
should be equally good economics in
the wheat Industry. The fact that it
may require special legislation or I
movement.
Your discussion goes quite exten
sively into co-operation versus com
petition. You seem to fear that the
success of the export commission
plan would promote co-operation and
retard competition and speculation.
You have a right to use every prop
er means to protect your personal
Interests but I am compelled! to take
issue with you in this case. At least
our most noted co-operators the ones
who am sometimes accused of co
operating for compensation, bitterly
oppose the export commission plan
on the ground that it will kill the
co-operative movement. It is rather
surprising to see the hundred per
cent dyed in the wool co-operators
allied with the patron saint3 of so
called competitive marketing in op
position to an export commission
plan that promises to place the farm
er on a parity with other individuals.
The wheat farmer wants a living
wage and a decent price for his
wheat and he doesn't care if he has
to kill both co-operation and specu
lation or competition to get it.
I sincerely hope you will give the
export commission idea thorough
study before getting too firmly en
trenched on the wrong side and I
am sure that if you thoroughly ana
lyze it, you wills join hands with the
farmers in putting over the only plan
on which) they have so far been able
to agree. I would like very much to
discuss the question further with
you, especially other phases of it,
either by mall or In person.
Sincerely,
(Signed) WALTER J. ROBINSON
President, Northwest Wheat
Growers, Associated.
erty or rent, though the amount is
$5,000 or less, will be required to
use the larger form, 1046. The use
of Form 1040 is required also ln all
cases where the net income was in
excess of $5,000, regardless of
whether from salary, business, pro
fession, or other taxable sources.
It being impossible to determine at
this time which form is desired, cop
ies of both forms will be sent tax
payers who filed Individual .return
for the year 1922, and may be ob
tained also at the offices of collec
tors of internal revenue and branch
offices upon written request.
Broadly spea'king, gross income fo
all income received by the taxpayer
during the year from salary or wag
es, business, profession or vocation,
dealing in property, interest, rent or
dividends, or from, the transaction of
any business carried on for prefit.
Net income is gross income, less cer
tain specified deductions for busi
ness expenses, bad debts, taxes, etc.
The exemptions are $1,000 for
single persons, $2,500 for married
couples (living together) whose net
income: for 1923 was $5,000 or less,
and $2,000 for married couples
whose net income was in excess of
$5, 00. An additional credit of
$400 is allowed for each person (oth
er than husband or wife) dependent
upon the taxpayer for chief support
if such person is under 18 years of
age or Incapable of self-support be
cause physically or mentally defec
tive. The normal tax Is 4 per cent oh
the first $4,000 of net income in ex
cess of the exemptions and credits
and 8 per cent on the remaining net
Income.
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INCOME TAX IX NUTSHELL
m-rniurntlvo mrWi i " i'"i3 or oiner aruu-
dent on whether or not the p',-. clal barriers to trade mieht be and
commission plan is put into effect. I Probab'y would b clas8od aa 8Pe"
This statement might be modified by ! clal leelslatlon and uneconomic, if
Hi aniro,Hn i,o h i . we "Oi Deen operating unuer
price of wheat and the more deshem for so long that we havf gotten
perate the agricultural conditions
the more likely the farmers are to
venture into co-operation and to,
blame competition for their difficul
ties. The export commission plan. Is
not Inaugurated to boost co-operation
and should not ln any way up
set any efficient method of train
handling.
You state that the export commis
sion or bounty plan Is literally price
fixing and you sem to base this con
clusion on the phase of the plan
which provides for bringing wheat
back to its prewar relative purchas
ing power. You state "The purchas
ing power of the prewar value of
the commodity is presumably a
known fixed quantity." The purchas-
used to them
Keeping in mind the steel indus
try together with its tariff and pian
of operation, consider the following
quotation from your brief and see
how ridiculous it sounds: "The plan
proposes class legislation. It con
templates an Indirect tax upon the
public at large of 23t per bushel up
on each bushel of wheat produced,
through an increase of price to the
domestic consumer. This amounts
to a subsidy for the benefit of the
people producing less than 127c of
the total value of the country's prin
cipal farm crops."
For the sake of argument, sup
pose we concede it Is class legisla
tion. I ask you if it is class legisla-
way commission today relative tong power of wheat depends on two ' tlon 1 allow the steel industry to
the completion of the Oregon-Wash
Ington highway between Jones hill
and Pilot Rock. They expected to be
Joined by the Umatilla county offi
cials on the samo project.
Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Curran re
turned Saturday evening from a
pleasant holiday trip spent at White
Salmon and Portland. At the for
mer place they visited her sister and
at Portland they visited their daugh
ter, Miss Helen, who is taking the
nurses' course at St. Vincent's hos
I'ltal. At Portland Mr. Curran took a
rhruice ou the automobile being of
fcp il by the American Legion In
whl'h 13 wiw the winning ticket.
Mr Cu I ran's ticket was No. 11. So
lie r and yet so far, sighed Mike.
things: the price of the wheat and
the prlco of the commodities to be
purchased by wheat.
If we take 100 as Indicative of
the 1913 average price level of both
the farm products and other com
modities, we can then compare the
purchasing power of wheat at that
time with the purchasing pow(er of
wheat at the present time. Depart
ment ofAgrlculture figures indicate
that at the present time the average
wholesale price level Is 154 of tho
1913 level. With wholesale Drlcea
1 sell steel under a protective policy
that enables them to charge the do
mestic consumer 79 i more than is
charged the foreign consumer. Is
this an "Indirect tax upon the pub
lic at large"? Does this "amount to
a subsidy for the benefit of the peo
ple producing" steel?
I am sure you will admit that agri
culture Is entitled to the privileges
that are granted other industries.
Agriculture has now devised a plan
by which it may take advantage of
thse privileges and lt is asking for
on this high level and wheat prices ! your a3slstance ln Puttln thia Pla
XiV vs-Ovnrliuiil Breaks All
Monthly ami Y curly Record..
Announcement by President John
N. Willys of the Willys Overland Co.
if ti e productlou of more than 200.
000 curs on December 15th capped
the climax of the most remarkable
mt that Willys overland has had, a
yjp-r renlete with sensational suc
cw Hint has returned this organisa
tion to Its place far in the forefront
amo'ig the leaders of the motor car
industry.
Willys-Overland created the first
of I's series of unusual announce
men's la 1923 with the appearance
of Its new Willys-Knight Coupe
Sedan at the New York show.
Tle now product was a novelty ln
automobile manufacture not a
eoupe, not a sedan, not a coach
but a distinctly original and indi
vidual creation la motor car design;
tho first of a series of refreshing de
partures which marked Willys Over
land's career for the past tw,e4ve
Months.
Subacrlbo for the- Herald, only $2
a yeur.
dowu to the prewar basis, lt Is evi
dent that the purchasing power of
wheat Is only about 6 5 of Its pre
war value. Such an uumi'tural and
uneconomic condition should not be i
permitted to continue If any posslblo I
way can be found to avoid it.
It should not he concluded, how-1
ever, that bringing wheat back to !
its prewar purchasing power In-1
volves placing wheat ou a definite :
fixed prlco basis. This would be 1m-1
possible unless the price of all other;
commodities also remains stationary.
A tariff on a commodity does, not fix
the price of that commodity. It does,
however, determine the soiling price
of that commodity as compared with
the selling price of that same com
modity if no tariff is evied. In the
same way a bounty on exported
wheat would not fix tho price of
wheat, but would, of course, ral-ae
the domestic price of wheat the
amount of the bounty above the out
side world's price of wheat. This
bounty on exports would set exactly
the same as a tariff on Imports. The
price would still vary with the
world's price but the- purchasing
power of wheat would m'te nearly
approximate Its prewar rU.
handled
! is and
,t on for-
r the for-
'"( r this
over. You are vitally interested in
the welfare of agriculture and cer
tainly should not attempt by any un
warranted arguments to thwart this
J WHO? Single persons who jv
J had net income of $1,000 or J
more or gross income of $5,- J
J. 000 or more, and married
'J. couples who had net income J
J of $2,000 or more or gross J
J Income of $5,000 or more
J must file returns. J
.J. WHEN? The filing period is 4(
J from January 1 to March 15, J
1924. .J
.J. WHERE? Collector of inter- .J.
J. nal revenue for the district
J in which the person lives or I
j has his principal' place of
4 'business. 5
.J. HOW? Instructions on Form
jJ 1040A and Form 1040; also
j the law and regulations. f
.J- WHAT? Four per cent nor-
J. mal tax on the first $4,000 4:
J of net Income in excess of !
the personal exemption and 4.
i credits for dependents. Eight j
J per cent normal tax on bal- J
J ance of net income. Surtax J ,
J from 1 per cent to 50 per JJ
J cent on net incomes over $6,-
J. 000 for the year 1923. J
j ! j j j ,
TIPS FOR TAXPAYERS j
January 1, 1924, marks the be-'
ginning of' the period for filing in
come-tax returns for the year 1923.
The period ends at midnight of
March 15, 1924. Heavy penalties
are provided by the revenue act fof
failure or willful refusal toxmake a
return and pay the tax on time.
Form 1040A, heretofore used fori
reporting net Income of $5,000 and
less, from whatever source derived,
has been revised in the interests of
the largest class of taxpayers wage
earners and salaried persons. Re
duced from six pages to a single
sheet, Form 1040A is to be used for
reporting net Incomes of $5,000 and
less derived chiefly from salaries and
wages. Persons any part of whose'
Income is dplved from a business
or profession, farming, sale of prop-!
Cold Weather Comforts
When the weather is cold and stormy, what is better
than a comfortable club-room, a cue at billiards, a
hand at whist, a good cigar or a delicious hot drink?
mi
Star
THEATRE
Show Starts at 7:30
Tuesday and Wednesday, Jan. 8 and g
' Helene Chadwick and Clair Windsor
m
"BROTHERS UNDER THE SKIN"
A comedy drama of modern marriage, by Peter B. Kyne. You
will enjoy this. f
Also
Round 12 of "FIGHTING BLOOD"
In which Gale fails to attain the title of heavyweight champion
but wins the prize.
(NOTF This is the bust of the first series of "FIGHTIXG
BLOOD." ..The second series will be starting the latter part
of February. Remembet each round is a complete story it
is not a serial. The second series is better than the first.
Watch for it.)
Thursday, January io
"The Valley of Lost Souls"
A story of the Canadian; Northwest Mounted Police,
Also
Two Reel Comedy "DON'T MONKEY"
Friday, January II
MARIAM SWAYNE
in
"Counterfeit Love"
A stcry of Southern pride and poverty and counterfeiters,
with some good horse races thrown in for good measure.
Also
Last Episode of "HAUNTED VALLEY"
And PATHE NEWS WEEKLY (We have
been assured that this subject will not be omit
ted again). i
t
Saturday, January 12
Milton Sills and . Anna Q. Nillson
"THE ISLE OF LOST SHIPS"
A most unusual story of the Sea. Be sure to see it, it's dif
ferent. Also
PATHE REVIEW Screen Magazine
Sunday and Monday, Jan. 13 and 14
Patsy Ruth Miller and Cullen Landis
in
"Remembrance"
A drama of life in many Amierican homes, by Rupert Hughes.
The best of Hughes' productions.
COMEDY "THE WATCH DOG"
All these
Pastimes and Creature Comforts
may be found at
Curran & Barr's
PASTIME
The House of Welcome and Good Cheer
4-.h.H-'I'1'H"!tH--M
The wly-at would sti!
through the regular ct
the exporter would sell
elga markets ou the hai
elgn price. Ills quota!'-
Klks' Building
Ilcppner, Ore.
Sigsbee Studio
Is now open and prepared to take
first-class Photographs
G. G, SIGSBEE
PHOTOGRAPHER
Located oa Main Street Opposite Star Theatre, Heppner
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