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i I I PAGE SIX THE GAZETTE-TIMES, HErPXER, OREGON, THURSDAY, JTNE 13, 1918. Km SALE Light team of horses weight about 1150 pounds. Inquire this office. 4t. FOR SALE Two, good, heavy, gentle work mules. Five head of good work horses and mares, three of which are good leaders. Inquire Frank Anderson, Heppner. 4-tf TYPHOID a no more necessar? than Smallpox. Army experience has demonstntMl imiv annuel mincujous eltt Oct, and Baralesett,cfAiut&pl)oi4 Vaccination. Be Taocinated NOW by rout payalcian, ma and Twir family. It is aaore vital than bouse insurance. Ask your physician, druggist, or tend for "Have youhad Typhoid?" telling of Typhoid Vaccine, mules from use, and danger from Typhoid Carriers. THE CUTTEl LABOCATMY, BIUUY, CAU ttoauciaa v.cciNti sbsmss wants a. a. aov. ucsasl Notice of Chnrch Meftuijc. Notice is hereby given that there will be a meeting of the members o the First Christian Church; of Liaing ton, Oregon, at their meeting place it. the City of Lexington, Oregon, on Saturday, the i'L'nd day of. June 1918, at the hour of 2 o'clock P. M of said day; said meeting bciug callet for the DUrDOPe of arlnniinir oHiVlo. of incorporation for said church, and . i. . . . iui i iic iransaciion 01 any other os lurtner business that may properly come oetore said meeting. JAMES A. POINTER. Clerk. FOR" SALE Studebaker car. sev en passenger, Model "35", perfect mechanical condition. Terms $450. 1200 cash and note for balance. In quire at this office. tf. Experts Say "ZEROLENE IS BETTER' because it holds better compression, gives better protection to the moving parts and deposits less car bon. Zerolene is the correct oil for mlt typ a of automobile engines the correct oil for your automo bile. Get our Lubrication Chart ihow inf the correct consistency for your car. STANDARD OIL COMPANY (California) Tht T'-Httd type tmgiac. Bos. trated here, like all snraW can. boaffon njrnea, refoires mm oil that holds its lubricating qaalfttra at cylinder heat, burns clcaa isi the cyUndera and ton eat with a naust Zerolene IIt these repair, mentt perfectly, becias im no rmctty rmAnmd from Mfecfaaf pssfatsssii nil mplwlt-U cnxAa, ,HOtEM The Standard Oil for Motor Cars G. W. MILHOLLAND SPECIAL AGENT HEPPNER, OREGON a FITH the Deering Combined Harvester you cn . hrvest your crop for one-hlf the ex Dense vou can nv ntW wav . 1 wo men is all that is necessary to s 1 . . .1 J put your wneat in the sack. The machine cleans the grain in perfect manner, takes out and saves all weed seed and leaves straw in bunches to be easily taken care of. Can furnish them with or without an engine. Will have to have your order early in order to insure getting the machine. The factory is lim ited to a definite number of machines and when that number is reached there will be no more for anyone. Give Us Your Order Now GILLIAM & BISBEE - m m -nna.waiinnailaaaaa j, i, ,l, ft f t, , ,t, ,f, j, ,,, t . L. MONTERESTElil il MARBLE AND GRANITE WORKS PENDLETON, OREGON FINE MONUMENT AND CEMETERY WORK All parties interested in getting work in my line should get my prices and estimates before placing their orders ALL WORK GUARANTEED WAR PROFITEER PUBLIC NUISANCE No Extortion to Be Tolerated, bu Liberal Disposition Toward Business Needed. Shrinkage of Values Would Cur tail Capacity to Provide Sinews of War. "Conscription of Men, Conscription of Money," Analyzed. By OTTO H. KAHN Much is being said about the plau sioie sounding contention that be cause a certain portion of the young- manhood of the nation has been eon- scripted, therefore money must also be cooscrlpn-u. Why, that Is the very Hung the government has been doing: It has conscripted a portion a rela tively small portion of the men of the nation. It has conscripted a portion a large portion of the Incomes of the nation. Capital and business pay mora than four-fifths of our total war taxa tlon directly and a large share of the remaining fifth Indirectly. If the government went too far In conscripting men the country would be crippled. If It went too far In con scripting Incomes and earnings the country would likewise be crippled. Results of Conscription of Capital. I would ask those who would im further and conscript not only Incomes. but capital, to answer the riddle, not only In what equitable and practicable manner they would do It, but what the naUon would gain by It? It Is true that a few years aeo a capital levy was made In Germany, but the percentage of that levy was so small as to actually amount to no more than an additional income tax and that at a time when the regular income tax In J',,- was very moderate ajs measured by the present standards of income taxation. Only a trifling fraction of a man's property Is held In cash. If they con script a certain percentage of his pos sessions in stocks anil bnrwt.2 nf would the government do with them? Keep tlieru? That would not answer Its purpose, because the government wnnts cash, not securities. Sell them? Who is to buy them when every one's funds would be depleted? If they conscript a certain percent age of a man's real estate or mine or farm or factory, how Is that to be ex pressed and converted Into cash? Are conscripted assets to be used as a basis for the Issue of Federal lie serve bank notes? That would mean gross Inflation, with all its attendant evils, dangers and deceptions. Would they repudiate a percentage of the national debt? Repudiation Is no less dishonorable In a people than In an individual, and the penalty for failure to respect the sanctity of obli gations is no different. The Thrifty Would Be Penalized. The fact Is that the government would gain nothing In the process of capital conscription and the country would be thrown Into chaos for the time being. The man who has saved would be penalized, he who lias wasted would be favored. Thrift and construc tive effort, resulting in the needful and iructirymg accumulation of capital would be arrested and lastingly dls couraged. I can understand the crude notion of the man who would divide all posses slons equally. There would be mighty little coming o any one by such distri bution, and It is, of course, an utterly impossible thing to do, but it Is an un derstandable notion. But by the con fiscation of capital for government use neither the government nor any Indi vidual would be benefited. A vigorously progressive Income tax Is both economically and socially sound. A capital tax Is wholly uusound and economically destructive. It may nevertheless become neces sary In the case of some of the belliger ent countries to resort to this expedi ent, but ! tan conceive of no situation likely to arise which would make It necessary or advisable In this country. More than ever would such a ta be harmful In times of war and post-bel-' lum reconstruction, when beyond al-1 most all other things It Is essential to' stimulate production and promote' thrift, and when everything which tend to have the opposite effect should bo' rigorously rejected as detrimental to' the nation's strength and well-being. I There Is an astonishing lot of hazv thinking on the subject of the uses of capital In the hands of its owners. The rich man can spend only a rela tively small sum of money unprotluc tlvely or selfishly. The money that It Is In his power actually to waste Is ex ceedingly limited. The bulk of what be has must be spent and used for productive purposes. Just us would be the case If It were spent by the gov ernment, with this difference, however, that, generally speaking, the Individual Is more painstaking and discriminating In the use of his funds and at the same time bolder, more imaginative, enter prising and constructive than the gov ernment with its necessarily bureau cratle and routine regime poss'bly could be. Money in the hands of the Individual Is continuously and fever Ishly on the search for opportunliies- 1. e., for creative and productive use. In the hands of the government It Is apt to lose a good deal of Its fructify Ing energy and ceaseless striving anil to sink instead into placid and sonino- lent repose. There need not be and there should not be any conflict between profits and patriotism. I am utterly onnosed to those who would utilize their coun try's war as a means to enrich them selves. The "war profiteer," as the terra Is generally understood, is a pub lic nuisance and an Ignominy. Extor tionate profits must not be tolerated but, on the other hand, there should be a reasonably liberal disposition to ward business and a willingness to see It make substantial earnings. For, taxation presupposes earnings. Our credit structure Is based upon values, and values are largely deter mined by earnings. Shrinkage of values necessarily affects our canacltv to provide the government with tht sinews of war. The Conscription of Men. Reverting now to the subject of the conscription of men, I know I speak the sentiment of all those beyond the years of young manhood when I say that there is not one of us worthy nf the name of a man who would not willingly go to fight if the country needed or wanted us to fight. But the country does not want or call Its en tire manhood to fight. It does not even call anywhere near its entire young manhood. It has called or in tends to calj in the immediate future perhaps 25 per cent, of its men be tween twenty and thirty years of age, which means probably about 4 per cent, of Its total male population of all nges. Cut It has called from Incomes, business profits and other imposts fall ing principally on the well to do, ap proximately ninety per cent, of our war taxation, not to mention the con tributions to the Ited Cross, the J. M. C. A. and other war relief activities. Let me add in passing that the chil dren of the well to do have been taken for the war In proportionately greater numbers than the children of the Door because those young men who are need ed at home to support dependents or to maintain essential war industries are exempted from the draft. Our Laws Favor Sens of the Poor, The draft exemption regulations dls- criminate not, as In former wars, In favor of the rich man's son, but In favor of the poor woman's son. I realize but too well that the burden of the abnormally high cost of living caused largely by the war, weighs heav ily Indeed upon wage earners and still more upon men and women with mod erate salaries. I yield to no one In mj desire to see everything done that li practicable to have that burden light ened. But excessive taxation on capital will not accomplish that; on the con trary, It will tend to intensify the trou ble. Taxation must be sound and wise and scientific and ennnot be laid In a haphazard way or on Impulse or ac cording to considerations of politics, otherwise the whole country will suffer. History has shown over and over again that the laws of economics cannot be defied with Impunity and that the re sulting penalty falls upon all sections and classes. The question of the Individual Is not the one that counts. The question Is not what sacrifices capital should and would be willing t bear If called upon, but what taxes It Is to the public ad vantage to Impose. I do not say nil this to plead for a reduction of the taxation on wealth or In order to urge that no additional taxes be Imposed on wealth If need be. There Is no limit to the burden which ' In time of stress and strain those must be willing to bear who can afford It ex-' cept only that limit which Is Imposed by the consideration that taxation must not reach a point where the business' activity of the country becomes crip pled and Its economic equilibrium la thrown out of gear, because that would harm every element of 'the common wealth and diminish the war-making capacity of the nation. j Lend Your Pennies to the Government! That is the spirit which will help America win the war. That is the THRIFT spirit. There is a place for the pennies put them in Thrift and War Savings Stamps. This store is cooperating with the Government in food convervation. SAVE WHEAT-We have the substitutes. Sam Hughes Co. 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Kerr of the Oregon Agri cultural College has been aHked bv the Government to continue his series of war-and-foot talks In different sec tions of the country, "No need to ask," said he, "for whatever interests are entrusted to our charge we shall simply wire the government tnat we shall care for them. No one clalmn in aoa the war will be won in a year or in five years, and we must go on build ing up resources and morale to back up the boys now gathering at the front." Don't let him get like this Dr. Daniels' Antiseptic Dusting and Healing Powder FIXES GALLS, SORES AND CUTS U8U only SOo large can, at our Agent. Aak for Dr. Danieli' Hone Bosk iti Frw HUMPHREYS DRUG CO Agents for Dr. Dan iel'8 Horse, Cow & dog remedies. WITH FREE BOOKS For Sale. Complete Case threshing outfit. In good repair and ready to run. Con- slsts of engine, separator, derrick, table, cook house, etc., all complete. Inquire of W. B. TUCKER, Lexing ton, Ore.