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SABBATH PATMOT1SM.
Justly may the G. A. R. Memorial
Day Committee register a protest
against the present non-obssrvanct
of Memorial Day, May 30th.
In a timely article from the "Na
tional Tribune" attention is directed
to the growing tendency of the
American people to substitute foi
this National Sabbath of Patriotism,
a day of sports, recreation and
leisure.
' This same protest has elsewhere
been voiced in the lack of a proper
observance of Thanksgiving Day,
when prayers of thanksgiving are
too often drowned out by the cheers
of football games.
This reversion to the holiday spirit
on Memorial Day can be traced in a
large measure to the thinning ranks
of the veterans of the Civil War, whoJ
but a few short years ago were con
stant reminders of the sacredness
of the occasion.
Memorial Day was- established by
the Grand Army of the Republic,
May 30, 1868, for the purpose of
commemorating the ideals of the
dead of the Union Army, a day that
has been laid in such tender respect
that forty of the greatest states of
the Union. have gravely incorporated
it into their laws not for a day of
"sports," but that the people might
pause and think of their mighty dead.
Possibly with the return these days
of our heroes from the World War,
more respect and tfHe observance of
jhi? Memorial Day may be in evi-
f to-?
THOl'GHTLKSS TAXATION".
It is as easy to develop a spirit of
recklessness in taxation as it is in
spending money. In the latter case
the reckless spender pays the price
of his own extravagance.
Spending tax money is now a
mania and it is time to look toward
more economic taxation methods
and also spending of taxes.
There is entirely too much feeling
that Congress can plaster on taxes
and that there is nothing left to do
but pay.
It is easily possible to tax an in
dustry and those dependent on it,
clear out of business. Take for ex
ample the c::tra five per cent excise
ax on candy and confectionary.
To the thoughtless legislator, it is
i simple thing to raise a large sum
by a special tax on candy makers.
As candy manufacturers cannot
stand any such tax out of their
profits, it musl be added to selling
price or taken out of quality.
If the former, consumption is cut,
thus adverserly affecting western
sugar beet growing and manufacture
and reducing amount the consumers
of this country get for their money.
If manufacturers try to absorb the
tax by making an inferior product
at the former price, the people pay
in quality and the sugar industry
suffers.
This is a good illustration of
special or class taxation and there
is altogether too much of it in this
country today. It is high time to
start on getting back to the true
American principle of equal taxation
for all, not only . in candy manu
facture but other lines of industry.
The candy industry is the 35th
largest in the United States. It
employs hundreds and hundreds of
thousands of people, mostly women.
It supplies a food product which is
the great joy and pleasure of child
hood and is a wholesome, nourish
ing food, supplying the system with
aence. ror our suiuici uuys ui iu-- acc.at!ai rpnll;rpmPnt Ic
day can more clearly sympathize L . t Qr . wden ,his or
uifn onH cnrmw fnr thai hrfttnprc ' . .
other great industry with a Special
with and sorrow for their brothers
of the day of '61, who received
little from the Government on their
return. Those soldiers of our fath
ers were greeted with no triumphal
arches, no pensions commensurate
with the perils endured, no waiting
jobs, no soft berths, Those armies
passed in review in ragged regi
mentals, an army of tramps in ap
pearance, bound tor nome or wnat,
remained of the home. The fires
were dead in the forge, the farms
had grown to weeds, the tools were
rusty, the boys were too old to return
again to their interrupted schooling.
There were no vocational schools,
no schools for blinded soldiers. The
shell shocked and injured went on
in that condition or died in insane
asylums.
Let's try to modify some of the
"sporting program for next Memor
ial Day and pause for a few moments
at least, in true sympathy and respect
for our heroes. Oregon Voter.
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Fifteen million, five hundred thou
sand women will vote in the next
presidential election. Iowa is the
last state to grant presidential suf
frage, the eighth state in the last
three months, Indiana, Maine,
Minnesota, Missouri, Wisconsin,
Tennessee and Vermont. Only one
state remains west of the Mississippi, :
New Mexico, where women may EE
not vote for president. Women j
have a considerable form of suffrage j
in 29 states, equal suffrage in fifteen,
presidential suffrage in twelve and
primary suffrage in two. The num-jj
ber of states in which women have
presidential suffrage have a total
electorial vote of 302. The Penn-j j
sylvania House has passed a resolu- j
tion to submit suffrage to the voters
of the state in 1921. The Florida j
legislature has defeated suffrage.
WORLD (.'OKS BOLSHEVIK. jEE
The New York World, loyally EE
democrc, is foaming at the mouth
because of some of the actions of EE
Postmaster General Burleson, who
has been such a burden to the news- z
paper publishers. Now if the World
would lose sight of purely news- EE
paper interests for a while and con-
sider the burdens which have been EE
placed upon bankers by Skelton c
Williams, upon railroads by McAdoo,
upon merchants by the food adminis-
tration, ect., etc., perhaps the coun-
try would feel that the World is
really desirious of promoting the
welfare of all the people. And if the
World cculd lay aside its intense :
partisanship long enough to charge j
responsibility to the real source of
authority, the president, there would
be some evidence of sincerity. So
long as the World continues to sup-
port an administration which perse- 311
THOSK FARM COSTS.
We rather think that Secretary of
Agriculture Huston has the right
of it when he says that there are no
figures on which to base definite con
clusions as to the cost of raising
crops, stock, or produce.
How can you decide what, for ex
ample, is a legitimate cost to raise a
bushel of potatoes?
We spent an hour figuring the
other evening and discovered that if
you figured your time at 30 cents an
hour, day laborer's wages, it costs
about $2.35 for a good husky city
gardener to grow a bushel of potato
es in his back yard.
We can present detailed figures if !
desired.
But a big corporation that prepares j
the seed bed with tractors, that
plants with machinery, that cultivates '
with motors, that harvests with more j
machinery, that grades and packs'
with machinery, and that has its own
storage houses and trucks for trans
portation, can probably grow potato- j
es for dimes where yours would cost '
you dollars. j
Somewhere between is the average
American potato field on the farm. I
But just exactly whereabouts no
man knows. I
What is going to be the basis for)
a just estimate? j
It you force the average farmer j
to compete, either with corporate :
capital and management, or oriental i
truck growers you drive him out of;
business; and if you take the cost
sheet of the one-horse farmer for1
your price basis you rob the con-j
sumer.
Probably every farm in the coun-j
try can prove that it costs it a dis
tinctly different price to produce any ;
given thing it does produce, than !
any otner tarm would snow.
Some men have capital and know
how to make it work for them.
Some are worth a tractor in them
selves. Most farmers are like most other
businessmen and workers, just
fairly capable, industrious and long
headed.
But where secure your cost
figuers?
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POOR BUSINESS TO WAIT.
Farm products have a greater pur
chasing power today than ever be
fore in the country's history.
This may explain why rural dis
tricts of the country are rapidly get
ing under way with building and
construction work.
It is obvious, since building and
construction work have such art im
portant bearing at this tune on
stimulating general business, the
farmer may serve both his own and
national interest by at once making
needed improvements on his property-Many
farmers have been unable
to get materials and labor for barns,
silos, houses and other improve
ments during the war.
The farmer who at once avails ot
the labor supply and gets his im
provement work under way, in the
long run, may prove to be the
orudent business man, for there is
tax which it can obviously not stand.
It is the height of folly m these
times to handicap any industry by
killing taxation, when employment
is needed as the one sure counter
active in Bolshevism. The Manu-i
facturer,
Julius H. Barnes, newly appointed
U. S. wheat administrator, says the
five-cent loaf of bread not only will
not come back this year, but it prob
ably will never come back. When
a'.ked if there wai any chance or the
five-cent loaf returning, he said:
"Flour is 45 per cent of the cost of
the completed loaf, so you see it
would take a considerable fall in the
price of wheat to bring down bread
even one cent a loaf. When you talk
of cutting the price of bread in two,
you see you would have to reduce
wheat to 25 per cent of its present
figure. That seems out of the ques- reason to believe that farmers who
tion. I see little hopes of getting the delay in the hope ot materially re-five-cent
loaf of bread hack if wapesiduced construction costs will have
" " o
and other expenses are to stay where
they are. I am not even convinced
it would be desirable, if all the other
living levels would have to follow it.
been deprived of the use of the im
provements and in the end be forced
to pay approximately the building
prices now prevailing.
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Specials
At Minor's This Week
NEW MINA TAYLOR DRESSES Those dresses are made in the new
est styles and from fast-color ginghams and come in a variety of mater
ials, styles and qualities. $3.00 to $7.50
MISSES' AND CHILDREN'S DRESSES-Xew lines and styles in
Dandyline and and Mina Taylor qualities. For the busy mother these
dresses are wonderful helps. Not the usual factory lines but as neat,
distinctive and well made as though you made them yourself.
PAUL JONES MIDDIES This, "too, is a distinctive line of these popu
lar garments. Plain white and with Navy blue wool collars. Others,
too, in khaki, white with colored collars and plain white, for the girls
from 8 years and up.
House Dress Special-Broken lines and sizes, but big
value. Choice $1.39.
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There are a million of our boys still "over there"
there to stick it out to the finish.
AND HOW ABOUT US? Remember we are their partners in the big contract that
we have given our promise one that will not be fulfilled until we have paid our bills.
IF THE VICTORY LIBERTY LOAN FAILS, SO WILL WE IN OUR PROMISE!
Buy to your full limit of cash and installments and don't delay.
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