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Page two THE GAZETTE-TIMES, HEITXER, OREGON, THURSDAY, JAX. 19, lQ-J THE GAZETTE TIMES .'"S ttle ' m admitting its present emty stomik. She told him she did-i its factories and nearly a billion dol- ' plight. Other states should follow dent slap me there. & she diddent. lars paid in wages each year, there 7h. H.prn.r;.i.E.ubii.h suit in the campaign for LESS NEED j is no lack of cash with which to pur- Th. H.rrr,.r T.m.i. icubiithad FOR TAX REVENUE RATHER! The oldest pupil in the physiology chase the product of the farm; the November U. Unl. ....... . . ... .,. . ni-. .kia Kn- . .. .. ConcKin)id F.hrurT it. mi i I ha. .MUKt Kt t.M. t. ne "-'" " ,Mt question is, snau tnat money remain Manu acture r. j mamty mat is. numanity as emooa-: jn ttle state t0 oe respent at the doors iea n girls was tar more interest- jof the manufacturer or shall it no : l .1 ... 4.. C , PuMtah! vry Thurtiiay morning by nd nird ftt the roatoffV at Happ r, trron aa wconit-clMi mattr. Homey Philosophy for 1922 !? ADYkRTIMir. RATE f. IV H OH APPI l ATIOI l'B8CRIPTION RATES: Tr... DM Htx Monttia Thr Month!. RlKl Copies V... lln,. a....t.A n a 1 .r n,nhnn lie 5UUUC1UV sauAC iv anil iiiv.iiiivii A cycle of seven years has just! when he heard the teacher remark: tended. Look back at it. reader, and, "People who drink too much coffee 'appraise that cycle if you can. War, get what is known as coffee-heart, i.eo ! pestilence, famine and a grand finale and men who use too much tobacco ll of hard times. Let us start a new; get tobacco-heart. irvrle of seven vears. with the deter- The oldest rucil frantically waved umtow corMTT official tafkb minationi each of us, t0 do our part is hand. to make the world and our neighbor! "Well, what is it, Herbert," the forget the horrorstricken seven years teacher asked, pleased by this un that went before. Tie rulers and usual show of interest. nnlitiViaiw have been busv makino "What 1 want to know is this," . . . ! u .-u . U . npw mans et us make a man otinciucii imisi uui our own, better than all the others because we have placed Utopia upon it. THE AMCANPRL! ASSOCIATION J Washington Leads the Way. The West Coast Lumbermen's As sociation and other organizations af filiated with tht timber interests have just published a brief entitled "State Taxation and the Lumber Industry." It was addressed to the State of Washington Tax Investigation Com mittee and presented at a public hearing held in Seattle, November 16, 1921. Taxes have risen to such a point i.i Washington that it has been nec essary for the state fc take action in order to find means of reducing the oerhead and, as a tcfult, the 1921 laws empowered the governor to seek "expert" assistance to solve the prob lem. As a result, the governor se cured a representative committee of men of affairs in various business ac tivities of the state rather than call ing for the advice of so-called "tax experts." The lumber industry's brief of the situation shows, that during the 30 If "Blocs" Are Bad the Farm ers Will Cure Them. if a fellow eats lots of sweets will he get a sweet heart?" Ladies Home journal. Absolutely. It was when they started school for the seamen on the U. S. S. Mis souri. A young ensign, assigned to There is great excitemertt in the j"' ' "Vw . " f";. big city papers over the agricultural ' of , sentence? and waited "bloc in Congress It seems that it inevitable reply: "Subject is a most terrible thing for Senators elected to represent farming states to really represent their constituents, regardless of politics. Yet, if these same representatives of farming states went to Washing ton and thereafter gave their atten tion and their votes to the financial and manufacuring interests there would be no outcry at all. Every American knows that for more than half a century aye, for a century the financial interests have been well looked after in Con gress. When Wall Street decided to make into laws, such important bills as the great financiers and cap tains of industrty demanded. It is true that off and on certain progress ives of both parties sometimes led by a Roosevelt or a Bryan protested against all the good things of legis lation going to one class of business men and none to the class of business represented by the farmer and the small tradesman. But they were smiled upon indulgently or sneered at, and the "bloc" in Congress went on voting for Big Business the same as ever. It was inevitable that other "blocs" would spring up. If the great farming-stock raising industry could get nothing from the government, it was natural that it would take the very steps that were plainly successful for other interests. The agricultural "bloc" has been the result. They say "like cures like." If the "bloc" that has represented high fi nance for a century was a bad thing, perhaps the new "bloc" which so much distresses the Eastern newspa pers and politicians and big guns gen erally will cure the whole "bloc" business. Anyway, the country folks at last have something to trade with, and trade on. that & I replyed & sed it was strate & narraw. When I seen I had hirt nnnn a rprtain policy, manv Demo- yearsof statehood, tax levies have in-; cratic and Republican Congressmen creased 1214.55 per cent; assessable forgot their politics to unite for, and weaitn &o. percent; popuiauun 279.75 percent. During the same period per capita tax for all purposes in the state has increased from $15. 14 to $53.33; while per capita wealth as determined bv equalized assess ment rolls has increased by $13.04. The per capita debt for bonds and warrants outstanding in the state is $127.64; interest $5.89. This is the staggering tax burden under which individuals and indus try operate in Washington. As the bulk of the capital for the develop ment of Washington industries comes from outside the state, it is apparent to all that the headlong tax increase must be stopped and that furthermore, drastic measures must be adopted to reduce the tax burden if Washineon expects to secure in vestment of the funds needed for the development of its industries. The state has discounted the fu ture and assumed burdens of govern mental development that would not be needed bv a state with many times the copulation and invested capital. The lumber industrv of Washing ton in 1920 produced $119,939,176.32 worth of lumber; emploved 63.071 men: and furnished 201.482 carloads of loes or raw material. In other words, it was the preat employing and tax paving industry of the state and was the very life of business. The tax load on timber has become so rreat that the accumulation of each vear's taxes on the capital in vestment has alreadv mounted to a point where it is beeinnine to equal the value of the timber itself. After analyzing various methods proposed for raisine money by "new methods of taxation" and for finding new sources of wealth to tax, the brief shows the folly of hoping to remedy the situation by merely en larging the tax levying power of the government. It shows that there is nothing wrong with our system of a general property tax as adopted in state and nation. It does show, however, that there are too many tax levying bodies and too much waste in the adminis tration and expenditure of public funds due to lack of any uniform system of checking expenditures or deciding on the necessity of expendi tures before they are made. The brief points out that business was compelled to pass through the period of readjustment following the war and cut down overhead. Every tax payer in the state was compelled to do the same. Up to the present time, there has been little indication of cuts in government overhead or curtailment of any work due to di minished ability of taxpayer to pay. If public sentiment can finally force a return of governmental ex penses to those of the year 1916 the gross tax exactions will be reduced from $72,665,820.11 of 1920 to the $37,446,785.05 of 1916, or a reduc tion of $35,199,335.16. It is clear that a drive should be made for "less need of revenue rather than for more revenue." It has been the general experience that merely finding new sources of revenue to tax, simply adds to taxes already imposed. Up to the present time new revenue has simply meant more money to spend. If Washing ton simply uncovei'3 additional sources of revenue to tax and does not provide a way for corresponding decrease in the present tax exactions, no relief will be obtained. It would be well to add that the condition pointed out in the State of Washington by the lumbermen's brief exists in other states and that the fight for tax reduction n,ust be unre lenting. Let our law makers seek to "discover" ways of reducing taxes rather than to inaugurate new meth ods of taxation. Washington is courageously point and predicate.' But it was not forthcoming, in stead a veteran gob shook his head sadly and replied : "Solitary confinement on oreau and water." The American Legion Weekly. Great American Landmarks. He was showing the fair guest the sights in Springfield, 111. And is that dirty little snacic tne place where Lincoln lived?" she inquired. "Heavens, no! he repuea. wny do you ask?" For answer she pointed to a smau tin sign that flapped on the wall. It read: Union Leader. School teacher (to little boy) : "If a farmer raises 3,700 bushels of . . , . r tf" CA ma K.icl,- wneat ana sens u iui m.ju ysi m- el, what will he get?" Little Boy: "An automobile." Christian Advocate. I 01 MAN COM E EAST IS ADVISED Mflss. Executive Claims His State Offers a Surprise to Farmers. This brings us to the importance of cheap food in the development of an industrial community. Food to be cheap must be produced cheaply, transported cheaply, and marketed cheaply. The rise of any of these units is instantly felt by the other two and, of course, by the consumer. Cheap Transportation. Two of the requirements, cheap production and cheap marketing Massachusetts has enjoyed in rela tion to its neighbors and even to those western states whose very ex istence is agriculture. The third unit transportation, has become more and more important to the marketing and distribution of foodstuffs, and there lies the advantage to Massa chusetts with its four million citi zens. If Massachusetts can produce and market its agriculture as cheap Iv as communities outside its borders and then add to that a reduction in rates through shortage of haul it is a simple problem to solve to arrive at the decision that Massachusetts can undersell its rivals outside its bor ders or enter an active competition with a greater margin of profit than vill be gained by those bearing the overhead of a large freight or ex press cost. An investigation by Dr. Arthur W. Gilbert, our commissioner of agri culture, gave birth to a report which says in part "If a man can purchase good farm land in New England at $15 per acre, while his western cousin must pay $150; if by expending reasonable energy and a comparatively small sum for fertilization, he can get as much or more out of the land as the westerner can; if, for example, he can get his fruits to the finest market in the world a day after they are gathered, as against a week, letting his fruit ripen on the tree or the bush instead of in the freight car; and, if he can get it to the consumer for about one-fourth the freight charges paid by his western cousin, what must he conclude? Re-Building Agriculture. "It is especially important from every point of view that Massachu setts and New England agriculture should be immediately rebuilt. With in 300 miles of Boston are nearly New Agricultural Boom Will Enrich Those Who Till Bay State Soil. 25,000,000 people, about one-fourth of the population of the United States. Massachusetts at present is. not able to grow food enough to feed the people of Boston alone. j The Cape Cod strawberry grow-: ers formed an association in 1915 and they now have about one hun dred members. These men pool their orders in the purchase of fer tilizers, baskets, etc., and by proper sorting and other modern marketing methods receive about ten cents per box more than they formerly receiv ed for their berries. This has en couraged a much larger planting and leads to a flourishing industry. "Only one variety of the berry is grown. It is called tcno, ana seems peculiarly adapted to Cape condi tions. The berries are brought to the railroad station, where the agent takes charge of them, giving each man a ticket or a slip by which rec ord of his shipment is kept. If the berries are to be shipped very far special iced cars are used. The cost of the ice has been much reduced through the association's work. For merly the growers had to pay thirty- five cents a crate for having the ber ries carted from the station in Bos ton to the market district. This cost has been reduced to eight cents a crate, in itself a material saving. Grower's Associations. "The Cape Cod Cranberry Grow ers' Association, the onion and to bacco growers of the Connecticut Valley, the apple growers in the Con cord section of the state, are carry ing on the same type of cooperative effort. This brings an adequate fi nancial return, which stimulates the industry into a rapid growth. The work of the State Agricultural Col lege and the State Department of Agriculture in developing markets and reducing the cost of marketing has been a large factor in this rapid growth of Massachusetts farming. New and improved varieties are be ing produced at the Experiment Sta tion of the Massachusetts Agricultur al College and the most recent meth ods of culture and fertilization taught at the College and other agricultural schools of the state. Agricultural Club Work. "The most significant development and the one which gives great prom ise is the growth of the boys' and girls' agricultural club work of the state. At present over 100,000 boys and girls are engaged in such work, large numbers of whom keep accur ate records and write a report of their work at the end of the year." 1922 ECONOMY 1922 Economize by having your old dress, suit coat, blouse and gloves Cleaned and Repaired. LLOYD HUTCHINSON Where fLEAN Thpv I LOTHES. ;iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiP'''''"''""""""""""""""l"lllllll""""""m FAIR TREATMENT COMBINED WITH BEST PRINTING1 By Chari.es H. Cox, Governor of Massachusetts. Editor's Note. Massachusetts years ago dropped, apparently, from the race for farm production and its young men left the soil held to be worn out for the rich and cheap land of the west. The lands in the west are no longer cheap and modern Slat's Diary. By ROSS FARQUHAR Friday Jane got mad at me today jam science has discovered that the because I sed she reminded me of i eastern sou is not useless while econ- the rode they tawlr about om. experts have pointed the ad in Sunda skool and ,vantages of a neighboring market to chirch & she sed hows ; m0 faction. That is why the govern- or, Charles H. Cox, is anxious to tell the world that the farm lands of th: old state are once more to come into her feelings I give her(,e;r own and every acre worked the 3 sticks of chuingjmeans one more unit of productive gum frum my pack, she j nes5 t0 counterbalance the commer threw back her hed St; siump that followed the recon then walked off. so lstruction period that followed the gess sne s mau cnun xiar, aiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiMiiitii'i A. M. EDWARDS i ' WELL DRILLER Lexington, Ore. E Box 14 Uses up-to-date traction drilling outfit, equipped for 5 all sizes of hole and depths. WRITE FOR CONTRACT AND TERMS SlIlllllllIllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllIIIIIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllT ii "zzi!Zzzzzzz: " irr.. -Ziznj that I will hafta by her 25c wirth of choklets. if She gets to xpensive I will quit her & get me ooor eirl witch has good judgemint. Saturday ma went to a milinary stoar tonite & got soar at pa because me & him laffed when she wanted to try on a pritty hat witch wassent no hat but insted was the lamp snaue. Sunday The minister was at are house for dinner & he sed they war sent nothing that perduces so much peace of mind as good homes & good wifes & nice childern like are house is. pa wispered to me & sed that was trew that he all ways was a get ting a peace of mind, he ment ma's mind. Monday Pa went to wirk today & got let out. he ast the boss wassent his wirk satisfacktry & the boss sed Yes sir it is. Pa sed Then what is the reeson I get canned, the boss up & sed Yure wirk is all d k only they issent enuff of it. Tuesday got in bad agen with the teecher today. I was climeing up the rane water spout she hollered up at me & sed I woodent do that Slats. & I sed to her I gess you woodent because you cuddent. She waited till I come down & tuk me in & kep me after skool. Wednesday Jake got a licking thisevning. so I went with pa S ma to see a nother new baby witch is in town. He was a cute little thing. She was lieing on the bed a hollering and kicking real hard & I sed to his ma what is it doing & she laffed & smiled & sed He is doing the dinner dance. It is a boy or else a girl but they havvent give a .iame to her yet Thursday I forgot to wash my hans and face this morning & when I started to set down ma slapped me, pa sed Shame on you Emmy you shuddent ought to slap the boy on a Young man come east. Over half a century ago a great man gave the opposite advice. The world of opportunity seemed to rest beyond the Mississippi and the rich lands of the prairie states waited only the drive of the plow to enrich whosoever cared to labor. The young men went, went by thousands from Massachusetts alone, and many of them did find opportunity. As the reports of the wonders of the son came back east from fertile Iowa, from prodigious Kansas, and even further west, the farms of the old Bay State fell more and more into the class of "has been," the youth whose strength and ambition was needed to draw the best from the earth had gone on, the hired labor that replaced it was indirlerent and careless. The production fell lower and lower, the soil each year seemed more stubborn and unyielding. The farms that bloomed in beauty and richness in the days following the Revolution passed on into poorly nlanted. coorlv worked areas that were a drug on the market and Mass achusetts became more and more a manufacturing state. During the late war the labor de mands from factories forced upward the wage scale until the farm lands occupied were drained of every sort of labor and agriculture in Massa chusetts was almost a lost art. Near ly 4,000,000 people lived within its borders and those 4,000,000 depend ed and still do depend to a large ex tent on produce raised without the borders. Less than 5 per cent of the population are engaged in farming industries. Wealth from the state's fisheries continues to pour in.. The annual fish stock received each year at the docks runs from 250,000,000 to 300,000,000 pounds. With nearly three billions of dollars invested in Now the holiday excitement is over, and are already back to normal living. We beg to call your atten tion to our store where you will always find a Complete Stock of Staple Groceries at prices in keeping with good quality. Your co-operation has made the past year possible, and we bespeak good things for 1922. Sincerely, Phelps Grocery Company Phone 53 I ... , . BmramjufflEUfflus 1921 Was a good year with this store. We enjoyed a fine trade all because of the very liberal patronage of the home folks. We look for ward to 1922 with pleasurable anticipation. At this store you will, as in the past, find dependable merchandise at right prices, and will be met with courte ous treatment. Sam Hughes Company p ONLY "QUALITY PRINTING" PRODUCED AT THE O.-T. S A F E T Y & iiiii s E R V I C E Time Flies Every man has about the same time in which to make his success so many years, so many hours a day in the days of the year. Can you afford to post pone opening a Savings Account and building up a small fortune for yourself from a few dollars saved regularly and the interest your money will earn? Fir National Bank HEPPNER, OREGON