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About The gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925 | View Entire Issue (March 16, 1922)
I'Af.r, TWO THE GAZKTTlvTIMKS. IIEITNEK, OR KG ON, THURSDAY, MAKCII 1(5. 1022. The Gazette. Times Tr Hiprr G&u. KtaMiab4 March u, Tha l'tnor Tin;., fciab'.lab.ti V,vn.tr IN lbs. Couaolulaiail tebruar) la. 111. I'vtlifnn) .vary Thura.la morning bjr j ftnd ahltd al lha 'uU'lK' at Hepp- j ctat, iMaun a,a aH.-ona-t:&aa oiiiar. AJMa.HllM.Ml Mm G IV B I AI'I'LU A lltl.N Kl'bSCKirTlON RATfcS. On Yar a Monui. ItrH kluntha Slats' Diary By Ross FS(Jvhar Friijv Jane smiled at me today W cut don somewhere. The most LtiniliIHnininiIini1l!MIIIinilininilIIIItlIIllUllllllllllIl!HllIlIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIlli"llig popular item of attack is the reduc- tion of teachers" wascs, this, of r PTtttnitttttT' smtttmrtwsa biiiat lolea II.00 .; .ua in mvivi ' A f 1 ; ; 1 MUHHUW IUI.MV UI't'leUL FAPU1 THE AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION Rank Financial Fallacy Discusing President Harding s re commendation for a constitutional amendment, to do away with tax-exempt securities Mr. rord s newspa per, me Dearoorn Independent, edit orially suggests that a long step mignt be taken in that direction with out waiting for a constitutional amendment an dcloses: "ASny should any class of private or corporate property be exempt trom taxation f iomeone has to pay. Just as the general public has to make up revenue lost in rebates and free passes, so the rest of us are forced to pay a double share to make up for the exempts and delinquents." It should be remembered that the very existence of tax-exempt securi ties is forcing taxation in more un just directions. The cry is giong up to tax all forms of mercantile and banking credits, like money, notes, accounts, bank de posits, etc. The varius forms of taxing liquid credits have all proven failures and even the tax on banks to guarantee deposits has broken down. The days of rebates and free pass es are about over, and the exemption of any forms of bonds and stocks from taxation should go too. Taxation of one class of farm loan securities and exemption of others is a rank financial fallacy. The Manufacturer. ourse heine the lareest item of ex- s and I rote her a note m reilse jn tt,e conducting of the v witch I sed in it that ..-honk The thought also occurs to E when she looks at me I jIlanv that mere might be a reduction get so Rattled I dont no'0f expenses by eliminating some un- E necessary studies and activities. E These things are being discussed , freelv over the state, and touching r C. diffrence wether shejon mese matters the Gazette-Times E "looks or not. nf rnrvallk. savs: !E "We think there could be a mater ial savin? in school taxes if we would is skared it mite hurt his cut 0ut a lot of nonessentials that bisness but he says they! have crept into the curicula. The1 reiiow up on main imeh schools nowadavs are aping the colleges, and the grade schools are! aping the high schools. The extras! that they teach are all very well and j fine when vou can afford them, but loafing earlier and have more time ,hev 20 far bevond the reasons fori in witch to tend to it in. the establishment of free public : Sunday stayed for chirch today schools. Free public schools were! and it was to wet to play any thing i established for the purpose of abol-! 3 enny thing and she ntes back that she gesses it dussent make very much diffrence wether she looks or not. Saturday Pa wont mention names for he A. M. EDWARDS WELL DRILLER Lexington, Ore. Box 14 Uses up-to-date traction drilling outfit, equipped for all sizes of hole and depths. WRITE FOR CONTRACT AND TERMS SiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii IS st. witch is so lazy he gets up at 5 oclock in the mnrninir in ftritpr on " 1- - . .- 1 .- " as ne can gei sianea to Grants' Economic Forecast Grant as a president has been cen sured or patronized by writers who admit the importance of his milit ary services. It is said, and with truth, that he had no political ex perience but the real cause of the attacks is that he had a fault not common to the majority of the race, a serious handicap in the struggle for honors, but perhaps one that will be pardoned at the last accounting Grant was slow to believe evil of a friend, especially a comrade. He preferred to defy public feeling, to endure pen-and-ink denunciation, to be abused as credulous and stubborn rather than to credit anything said against one of his intimates. This was indiscreet, it got him in trouble, it reflected on his judgment. Still we may have known prudent and practical men, really on a moment's notice, to save themselves trouble by dropping a friend, who were less worthy of regard than the man whom Queen Victoria called" "the bullet- headed soldier." Ulysses S. Grant kflew a great deal about this country of ours. He had worked on the farm and in the tan nery. He had gone through West Point, fought in Mexico, crossed the Isthmus, served out West and lived near St. Louis, before the Civil war. When he spoke of agricultural or in dustrial conditions he spoke with force as one who knew what he had to say. in the year of his hrst inaugura tion President Grant said: "The ex tension of railroads in Europe and the East is bringing into competition with our agricultural products like products of other countries." What he said then is now being said in everj' agricultural couniy in the Lnion. The forecast of Grant did not re ceive the attention it merited. For years there were plenty of Southern agriculturists who dreamed that they would grow wealthy if they could frighten the freedman from the polls A number of Western men fancied that prosperity would sweep over the land if they smote the railroads hip and thigh. Nearly a decade after Grant's words there were so-called humorous paragraphs over the bare possibility of Chinese eggs in the American market. But today there is not a state which the shadow of Oriental com petition does not fall across the farm. Chinese eggs have been sold here. East Indian grain may com pete with the crops of our own mea dows. The coolie can work on dis tant sugar plantations. Cotton from far away lands may be sent into our harbors. In the South more than in any other section this dread is felt. Within the last month the most anx ious expressions have sounded from the rice swamps of the South. It is felt by practically all the agricultural organizations below Mason's and Dixon's line that the Chinaman their competitor, and that low duties have offered him a chance he is not slow to take. This fear is not manufactured by Republicans. It arises from well known facts, it is based on logical reasoning, it is spreading from plant ation to plantation. From Baltimore to St. Augustine, from Charleston to Galveston, it is understood that what Grant predicted fifty-three years anv w av. 1 gess it was a good ser mon but I got to wandering how a deef and dum man wood tell a blind news boy witch kind of shoe strings he wanted and diddent get much out of the sermon. Monday I was a reading in the ourt house News where a woman was give the control ot ner child the judge. All I got to say is that ma dont need no judge to give her Control of her child. Or pa neither. Tuesday Pa was late to supper because he stopped a long wile to watch sum men building a house. Ma says they are all ways to kinds of fokes around when a house is a getting built. Them witch has bis- ness there and them witch hassent anv bisness no wheres. Joe Luce went and pawned his Pajamas & when pa ast him why he done it he sed he had tuk a job as nite watch man and woodent need them no more now. Wednesday Mrs. Gillem rote to a Co. and sent 25 cents to find out how to avoid Falling arches and they rote back and sed for her to Step out of the Way when they begun to Fall. Thursday Jake has got a unkel out in the country witch is eighty 8 yrs. old and has never got to ride in a ottomobeel nor eat a sandwitch I gess mebby that is the reason he is eighty 8 yrs. old. Spring has arrived- -maybe. Hints to Stock Buyers Anyone tempted to speculate in oil stocks would do well to observe the following precautions: Speculation in the stock of an en terprise that has not had the approv al of. a competent geologist is so risky that there is practically no chance of success. Become financially interested only in a company that controls a traca sufficiently large to contain several , wells and which is not unduly nar-1 row. : Unless interested in wild-cats, see ' that there are producing wells on at ! least three sides of the area to be; drilled, and as close as possible there to preferably within a few hundred yards. Select a company with sufficiently high capitalization to pay for drill ing several wells, providing there is no doubt of the company's intention to drill a number of wells. Avoid companies with excessive capitalization. Other things being equal, the lower the capitalization, the higher the shares will go if oil is struck. Do not buy a share of stock in any company until assured that the offi cers of the company are honest and capable men, and that not over one- third of the capitalization will be used for promotion. Do not speculate in oil at all un less you can well afford to lose the money expended. Attention of ex-service men is called to the fact that May 25th is the last day on which the filing of or iginal applications for aid under the state bonus act can be made. There may be many ex-service men yet in the county who would like some time to receive help under this act, and they will be shut out unless they make their applications prior to May 25. isning illiteracy, mere is no oinerj excuse for them. They are necessary . in a democratic form of government. 1 "But when grade schools and high ; schools take on the extras, dress; making, house keeping, cooking, vo-' cal and instrumental music, carpen-j try, painting, printing and the Lora only knows what, they are going be-1 yond the limit that the taxpayer should be expected to pay for. Those things are the function of the col leges and we have no right to ask the taxpayer to carry on that kind of work in the grade schools. "We know very well what the ans wer to that is and we know very well that criticism of the "progressive ness"'of the public schools is not popular. Neither are taxes." Frank Sloan of Stanfield would like to have a place in the state sen ate and will .contest for the place against Colon R. Eberhard of La Grande. We do not have any inform ation as to just what following Mr. Sloan may have in his home coun ty but we are of the opinion that Mr. Eberhard is a leader in the race so far as Morrow county is concerned. Mr. and Mrs. Waldon Rhea, of Westland, arrived in Pendleton yes terday, en route home after a visit in Portland. Miss Irene Rhea, who is a teacher in the public schools of Pilot Rock, and her sister, Mary Louise, who has been visiting in Pilot Rock, spent the day here with Mr. and Mrs. Rhea. East Oregon-ian. Shoe Repair Work E. N. Gonty Shoe store is now prepared to take care of all shoe repair work. There is a good man on the job. Bring your shoe troubles to Gonty. Adv Oxfords Ladies' and Grown Girls' Oxfords Price $4.00 to $6.00 Misses' Oxfords, Brown and Black Pnc? $2.75 to $4.00 I am now prepared to take care of all repairing. A good man is on the job. I have received my certificate in PRACTIPEDICS the science of giving foot comfort. E. N. Gonty Spring Suits Spring woolens now in and you will enjoy looking theni over. $25.00 $35.00 AND UP LLOYD HUTCHINSON Vh0ro JSLEAN ttmittiiiiililliiiiiimni'ii"1 niimmiinmmmittttmtt FAIR TREATMENT COMBINED WITH BEST PRINTING 5Sla .SMfl affix's a bubs We are now showing many latest patterns in French and Domestic Ginghams Devonshires Percales For Spring and Summer Dresses Good time now to make your selections Sam Hughes Company Reducing School Taxes In the general discussion of the subject of reducing taxes, the pub ic school system of the state ot Or egon is coming in for its share. There seems to be many and varied ideas, but it is realized that it is necessary V , insure! 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