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PA or, TWO THE GAZETTE-TIMES, HEPPNER. OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 1922. I G.TO-1ES: the other: We have THK BKrPNKR GAiCTTS. EtWntd 1HK HErPSRB TIMES. EstebliaM NriihT 1. 187. GmvHialrd February U, 111. rahiwhd evtrf Tfcurd? morning br Vawir bp4 Srr Cravfr4 nu etd t th Pcloftc ml Heppner. Or egon. Mrord-ciua matta. ADVERTISING BATF GIVEN ON AFPU-CATION SUBSCRIPTION KATES: One rw .1 ,,. Fu Month Three months Stogie copie - . $2.90 . 1.0 . M MORROW COLNTT OFFICIAL PAPER Fuujii AivWliBinc R tprM-fitli THE AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION COLUMBUS OF TODAY. By Richard Lloyd Jones. j Amundsen recently sailed from Seattle to become icelocked in the hope that he might drift across the north pole. What's the use, you wonder. Man has already been to the north pole and there wasn't anything there but : a lot of cold weather. It was a lone- i ly place. Why go again? Columbus w as jeered when he sailed against the whole world's un belief. He set out to find new seas. To his own amazement he found new shores. Even when he returned to tell his tale wise men declared the venture interesting but what's the use; the new found land was so far away no one would ever go there. Recently some mountain climbers seeking to set foot on the "roof of the world" ascended the unexplored altitudes of Alt. Everest. High up in the Himalayas they found vast pla teaus, rich in soil with forests and lakes and grasses such as are found in the north tier of American states. These were not little pocket spots in the mountains but a vast region that would measure out Minnesota end Montanas. But what's the use of if all? We say, we can't get there. Mile high precipices prevent. The legislature of New York came within two or three votes of refusing to grant the Delaware and Hudson company the right to build a rail road because it would scare the hor ses. But it was the railroad and not the horses that made possible this great nation of homogeneous people more than three thousand miles long. They jeered at Fulton's boat. "It moves!" they cried. To their amaze ment it moved up the river. When the first steel ship was launched foolish folks went down to see it sink. The crowd saw only th iron hull; thev knew iron sinks. The inventor saw the air in the iron hull; he knew the air would float. The world today is full of out of the way places which tomorrow will be as much a part of the busy world as the shores Columbus found. Aeroplanes will lift us into the Minnesotas and the Montanas of the Himalayas. Rich farms will be there, towns, colleges, cities like Billings and bt. Paul. Radio is an amusing toy. Won derful, we say. We wisely predict the time when it will carry music from a great operatic center to even the most isolated and humble cabin homes. We talk wisely of its educa tional powers. These are near en ough to be calculable. It is going to print news in the parlor. Radio is going to give all nations one tongue. Now scientists talk of sending heat waves that will modify inhospitable climates. These heat waves will make possible not merely Montanas but whole Australias where Amund sen is going and where Shackleton has been. It is a wonderful world we live in. The laboratory is the mighty mis sionary. And there is many a Col umbus serving a vaster future by beating pathways into the pathless regions of today. pav with? What's And each savs to the single tax ; scheme. We have a grange income ! tax plan for skinning the rich. We I have a constitutional amendment in- come tax scheme for skinning nearly j even body all to pay the tax-eater. In the past 10 years, the levies for ' government purposes in Oregon in- creased five and a half times in 1906 the average tax per $1000 of assess ed valuation was $17.50; last year, it was $A.5S. In the last 10 years 'in Portland, taxes have increased about 10 per cent. Hence the wail ing. Hence tne grange income tax measure for skinning the rich, the constitutional income tax measure for skinning nearly everyone alike, and the single tax measure for skin ning every body but the single taxers. As a community, we know that government is costing us too much. We are, as Benjamin Franklin re marked under somewhat similar cir cumstances, paying too much for our whistle. And as a community, all we are doing about it is trying to find some method of continuing to pay more than the sort of government we are getting is worth by skinning one another. Carrving our present heavy load of taxes, we are staggering toward bankruptcy. That is obvious. The adoption of any of the proposed mea sures will merely hasten our finan- lal ruin. Single tax, grange income tax, or constitutional income tax! Who that can close up his business even at a loss, and who has enough left to pay his fare out of the state will stay to endure the exactions pro posed by these measures? And who that is not looking for a comfortable seat by the fireside of the commod ious institutions we provide for de fectives will come to a state in which any of these measures are tolerated? If the problem of greater expendi ture than income that faces the com munity confronted the individual, how would he meet it? By contin uing the extravagances that caused it, and by squandering his assets to temporarily avert the inevitable bankruptcy? Hardly. He would be gin pruning, and would continue cut ting and economizing. He would discharge incompetents, and make the employes he kept earn their pay. He would require and would get full value for his money. He would do all the things the community is not doing. When we stop and think that we know we are being taxed to death and that we are doing nothing to pre vent the inevitable funeral, we must admit that the community is an odd sort. Portland Spectator. on bv government and thereby adds jye Qfi Qf money is w ithdrawn from private en- .'rpnses. S. Creates social unrest. The committee proposed a consti tutional amendment prohibiting is suance of tax exempt securities, de- clarir.e that they permit establish ment of a privileged class of wealthy investors who enjoy all of the ben efits of public expenditures but who pay no share of them, and that the added burden of taxation is thrown on those with small incomes. The committee reported that at the close of 1921 there were at least $15,000,- 000,000 of tax exempt securities in existence and that during the last year $1,000,000,000 worth of tax ex empt securities were issued, with in dications that the amount this year will be about the same. The State Income Tax. On top of a federal income tax a state income tax is to supply the tax eaters more "revenue." A state income tax means a new machnie established in the state with a lengthening chain wound around the taxpayer's neck. It means a new department of state government with inquisitorial powers over the personal affairs of the citizen and the .system to be ev tended. An army of officials, with experts to overhaul your books and investi gate your investments, will be added to the state and county governments. If you, dear fellow citizen, like more of this sort of thing, more fat salary drawers, vote for it and and it will be fastened on you forever. They will tell you it is to cinch the big fellow but nine times out of every ten he will find a way to es cape or shunt it onto the little fellow to pay. The Manufacturer. Railroad Strike Contentions As nearly as we can figure it out here is a plain and impartial state ment of flpe contentions of the rail roads and the strikers: 1 The letting repair work to out side contractors. 2 Protested rules embraced in wage board decisions. 3 The recent reduction in wages ordered by the wage board. 4 Establishment of a national ad justment board. After a satisfactory adjustment of these four matters has been made the strikers demand reinstatement of all strikers without impairment of their seniority rights. The railroads agreed to the first and fourth propositions, and to a re hearing on the wage scales, but could not agree to restore the strikers to their seniority positions as against men who stayed on the job. The strikers insist on return of se niority rights before they will call off the strike. This leaves responsibility for the strike solely upon the leaders of the strikers. The stage is simply being set to try and force government operation of the railroads. If radical labor leaders could force such a situation they feel it would be easier to secure their demands than from private management which cannot fall back on the taxpayers to cover deficits as the McAdoo railroad administration did. The public has not forgotten the bill it paid and is still paying for the two years our railroads were under political control. The cunning campaign that is now being waged to nationalize the rail roads has no support from the aver age citizen who is not in favor of radical leadership which incites men to refuse to obey court orders and government rulings. Let the people think. The Manufacturer. Two Essentials of Develop ment If voting and tax paying are not to be made a mockery, The Manufac turer believes that every adult citi zen who is not a public charge should pay some form of a state tax. It should be made a matter of hon or that men and women who get all the advantages and protection of government and make a living in a commonwealth should pay some thing. what better certificate of citizen ship or proof of registration to entitle one to vote at an election that im poses taxes or issues bonds than the fact that you have a tax receipt? Another essential of development affects industrial conditions reduc tion of unemployment to a minimum a system that would leave no ex cuse for tramps or idleness. Lvery county in place of a poor farm should have a tract of wild land being cleared and subdued, with a place for the unemployed to eat, sleep and work and not be robbed. It is foolish and criminal to allow hundreds of men and women in each county to go unemployed when they j might be earning a living and be creating valuable productive prop erty and getting homes. Bills Initiated by Fraud. Useless laws and spite bills in Or egon are to involve the state in liti gation. Four suits are to be started attack ing the legality of procedure in put ting certain bills on the November ballot. The bill to make private and sec tarian schools unlawful, the two in come tax bills and the fishing bill are under fire. It will be charged that many of the names to the petitions were ob tained through fraud and misrepre sentation. The two income tax bills were in itiated on claims made by petition circulars that they were bills to re duce taxes. The only way to reduce taxes is by retrenchment and economy and abol ishing useless offices, not by new tax systems Mr. and Mrs. W. Chandler nd ton tr- nvtii it Willow Creek ranch on Sunday from Lebanon, Oregon, and will spend their vacation with Mr. and Mr. A. Hen nksen. Mr. and Mrs. Chandler are de lighted with Hamilton ranch and its iur- roundinfts where Mr. and Mrs. A. H. en tertained their guests for several days while introducing them to the beauties of that scenic place. Wheat hauling has begun around Cecil and W. G. Palmateer of Windynook was the first man in with wheat. Herman Havecost was a close second with Dwight Misner's Ford truck laden with wheat from his Daybreak ranch. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Krebs accompanied by Miss Georgia Summer and several other friends spent several days dur ing the past week in the mountains and returned home on Friday with a good supply of huckleberries. Shaver and Nord, well drillers of lone, have succeeded in getting a fin flow of water in the well which they have dug for T. n . May on bis Lone Star ranch near Cecil. Misses Alma Alters and Norma Fred rick of Heppner made a short stay in Cecil on Saturday, before leaving for Seaside where they will visit (or some time. David Hynd who nas been visiting the "Mayor" left for his home in Sand Hol low on Friday accompanied by his niece Miss Violet Hynd of Butterby Flata. Mr. and Mrs. Sommerfeldt and daugh ter Miss Margaret of Portland spent sev eral days at The Last Camp leaving on Saturday for Seattle. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Hynd and Mr, and Mrs. T. H. Lowe were callers on Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Miller of Highview ranch on Sunday. Cecil dust has been laid low by a heavy rain which fell Friday nignt All harvesting and hay making stopped for a while. Mrs. M. Ingram of Heppner arrived at Willow Creek ranch on Friday and will assist Mrs. A. Henriksen during the busy season. John Krebs of The Last Camp left on Saturday for a well-earned holiday which he will spend in the mountains. R. E. Duncan of Busy Bee ranch was a busy man in Condon with his honey truck on Tuesday and Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Warfield of lone were viaiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Streetar on Tuesday. Miss Malinda May of Lome Star ranch and Miss Agnes UeFaddeo of Four Mile were callers in Cecil on Monday. Miss Ester Logan who has been visit ing in lone returned to her home in Four Mile on Tuesday. J. W. Osborn and H. J. Streeter and son Noel were taking in the sights of Arlington on Tuesday. Miss Elmer Rufuncr left on Friday on the local to spend her vacation with her parents at Hlllsboro. Alvin and Geo. Shane of Arlington were looking up their old pals around Cecil on Monday. T. H. Lowe and John Krebs were busi ness callers in Arlington on Saturday. Mrs. Mary Halferty of Shady Dell was visiting in Cecil on Wednesday. Homer Nash from The Dalles was a Cecil visitor on Tuesday. J. W. Osborn honored Morgan with a visit on Friday. wtniii!ii(iiHf!ti!!!it!t!!!i!lH1!IHI!!ni!!lllfl!!ll!M!Il!n!t!!!r,',,,,",,"',"",,,, iHiiilitiiiililiiiuiitiiiiliUiiUiliHiiiiiiiiiii ; Central Market j 1 FRESH AND CURED MEATS 1 Fish In Season S3 H Take home a bucket of our lard. It 1 is a Heppner product and is as good as the best. rs 10 They are GOOD! Successful Graduates ARE THE BEST RECOMMENDATION OF 0. A. C. This institution offers a thorough, practical, and standard edu cation at a cost within reach of the high school graduate. It offers training for collegiate degrees in : Agriculture Mines Commerce Pharmacy Engineering and Mechanic Vocational Education Arts Chemical Engineering Forestry Military Science and Tactics Home Economics It offers training also in : The School of Music, Physical Education, Industrial Journalism. FALL TERM OPENS SEPTEMBER 18 For circulars of information and illustrated booklet write to The Registrar, Oregon Agricultural College, Corvallis, Oregon P Accessory to Our Own Rob bery. The community whether it is township, a city, a county, or a state is an odd sort. Here it is in its state capacity, wailing bitterly over its frightfully heavy taxes, and try ing bv three different initiative mea sures to find some way of providing for them and giving not one mo ment's thought to a means of light ening the tax burden. As a commun ity, we are tearfully and excitedly asking one another: How are we go ing to pay? Where are we going to ( Hta MQTOH CARS J Shows Peril of Issuing Tax Exempt Securities. Eight reasons why issuance of tax exempt securities should be stopped were advanced by the congressional ways and means committee in its recent resolution recommending pas sage of legislation prohibiting the issuance of such securities. As the committee sees it, tax ex emption does all of the following things: 1. Causes great loss or revenue by permitting large portion of prop erty to escape taxation. 2. Violates ability principle of tax ation md discriminates trnfaHy be tween taxpayers. 3. Impedes private finan:ipg. 4. Discourages investment in new enterprises. 5. Encourages extravagances of governmental agencies. 6. Grants a private subsidy to cer tain interests. 7. 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