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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
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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,"
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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.
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MAN
COM
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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