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THE GAZETTE-TIMES, HEPPNER. OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 1922.
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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.
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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
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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. Increases rate of interest re
quired for all enterprises not carried
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