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About The gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 12, 1922)
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Ob!; Employment Office b Easten Oregon widi Connections in Portland The Byers Chop Mill (Formerly SCHEMPP'S MILL) STEAM ROLLED BARLEY AND WHEAT We handle Gasoline, Coal Oil and Lubricating Oil . ' You Find Prompt and Satisfactory Service Here MM OU have been walking in the sunny fields of prosperity. Life seems secure. Youth and strength are careless and forgetful You have spent money as you have earned it. Suddenly a flood of hard luck ft comes rolling toward you. Will you be overwhelmed by it 9 A BANK ACCOUNT IS A SAFETY ISLE. START ONE TODAY! Dalian deposited in this bank draw interest at 4 per .Mnt They art safe dol lars bai dollars. A small bank account serves at an incentive to tare, save, Sara If yon have only a imall sons pat aside, depoiit it with us today. All large fortunes had small begin nings. The biographies of aU rich men start with their first bank account. YOUR BANK CAN HELP YOU FARMERS & STOCKGROWERS NATIONAL BANK Heppner Oregon American and National League Pennant Winners In Battle Toss for First World Series Clash Ah-h-h, We MeetAgam!! ir X 1 1 r.M Huggins of the Yanks greets McGraw of the Giants. V iff BOB .... : a 1 I GIANTS J I I YANKS -aO' t . 3 ... 4v5 i v $ nefp uvr r 1 J . r bush h 'A ) I 'Pif -,. .K' - ! '."fef -- i 'r ill I- SIDERATION OF TAX Head of Senate Appropri ations Committee Fav-.. orable to Canada's Idea. SALES TAX FAVORED Says Present Depression Traced to Unjust Tax ation of Producers. By Francis E. Warren. Editor's Note. Francis E. Warren is chairman of the committee on ap propriations for the United States Senate. As the nation knows this means he must be a man of nnusal ability, of a wide knowlege, of keen appreciation of financial problems and. Biiunuona una an expert 01 econ omics. On him rests a responsibility that would stagger the average man and to him there looks 100,000,000 ci tizens for the wise distribution of the Tast sums to which they contribute. With congress in a turmoil over proposed Important changes in our revenue laws and being gwamped with oceans of advice from econo mistsreal and theoretical with un favorable business conditions, signs of depression, stagnation, passing of dividends, withdrawal of money from investment and failures here and there, the only clear ray of light is one that points out the why of the condition and that why seems to be the present methods of taxing in comes and excess profits, methods so drastic that in some cases they amount to practical confiscation. Figures, often tricky things at best. indicate that with $6,500,000,000 on deposit in this country distributed among 11,600,000 depositors that every depoititor should have $570 and every inhabitant 162, On the face of it this may seem a small sum for the average "free-born American" to show for a period of toil that may be many years yet taken in comparison with the average of only J1W per de positor in the world's figures of sav ing cry of war-times, "economy, thrift and conservatism." We Remain Sane. With savings depositors to the num ber of one-tenth of our population; with Liberty Bond holders estimated to number between fifteen and twenty millions less, of course, than there were during and immediately follow ing actual war times we may safely depend upon the stability of our cor poration and believe that our Tom Joneses and Bill Smiths and other stockholders are not holding a listen ing ear in the direction of the voices that preach radicalism, communism, or some other ism, by whatever name, that may propose departure from the safe and sane policies of our Govern ment. As fellow-stockholders, all of us are keenly alive to the fact that, in the interest of good business and the Poem by llnele Mm Dangers Past and Present I used to mourn about the trials of my ancestral pioneers, I've filled a million two-quart viala with briny, sympathetic tears. . . I've wept, be cause of tribulations through which our early settlers went, when I would hear the moist orations, about the old log-cabin gent. I've sobbed at bow he slew the weasels, and skinned his thumb an cut his toe an' Buffered forty kinds of measels from wadin' miles of heartless snow. ... O, each installment made me rivel, and each recital fetched the brine, and I would set around an' snivel, about them old kinfolks of mine. ... But times has changed, and I'm re flectin' along the lines of present dread. . . . I've saw some things I weren't expectin' that any hour could knock me dead I We've got the craiy benzine flivver We've got the bull-necked road-hog, too, We've got the germs that .eat our liver we've got the bug that starts the flul My days an nights is spent In terror, I'll never reach a hundred years I'll swaller down my bald-face error, a bout them happy pioneers! I've stud ied it from every angle I've turned the subjeck inside out, and I have learnt; beyond a wrangle, that I'm the one to weep about! smooth tunning of our corporate ma chinery, we must raise money for our expenses with the least possible dis turbance to business progress if we would attain the highest success. Much has been said and written about the tax scheme in Canada, which has without doubt brought into the Canadian treasury a huge sum, and apparently no burden has been felt by the taxpayers. Indeed? one writer referred to the levy aa "a pain less tax," and, if any tax can be truth fully called painless, the sales tax of Canada seems to justify the descrip tion. It became effective in May, 1920, and, in ita first year of opera tion, levying a rate of two centa on the dollar, yielded 150,000,000 in reve nue. A similar levy in our country would, it is estimated, yield about six hundred millions annually. Without doubt it would be fair to all; would put a premium upon economy, and yet could not be said to carry an extra imposition upon the luxuries and ex travagances of those who do not want to be economical. The distribution, in other words, would be univrsal; the collection would be economical; chances for dishonesty, and evasion would be minimized. Congress Hesitates. "But regardless of the fact that our own country has already had consid erable experience with sales taxes as imposed by the Acts of 1917 and 1913 the administration of which haa been satisfactory and successful, there seems to be a hesitancy on the part of Congress to do away with the oner ous, annoying lines of taxes so diffi cult and expensive to collect and to adopt instead even on trial some sort of sales-tax plan. Chambers of commerce, business and commercial organizations of all sorts throughout the entire country, and many individuals generally, have advocated the proposition as the most intelligent, fairest, and least oppres sive of all forms of taxation. The In dorsement of many others would no doubt follow if more thought were given by the masa of taxpayers to the fact that the men of modest incomes are really finally paying the big sur taxes of the rich for it is a fact that the more the letter's incomes are taxed the more is added to the price of the product from which such in comes are derived. A sort of endless chain affair, and veritably a chain that has us all bound tight! How much better would be more universal distribution of the burden for we must have taxes, and incomes must be taxed. How much better it would be to have a simple, workable plan that would not cause hindrance in investments, withdrawal and with holding of capital from industrial channels, and the Incidental tightness and tenseness that make living condi tions more or less unsatisfactory to everybody. Let's Try This. If it should appear that there is justification for hesitancy on the part of Congress to try forthwith a gener al sale's-tax plan similar to that which Canada has adopted, which taxes the sales of middlemen as well as manu facturers, why not try the plan pro posed by Senator Smoot, to levy a manufacturers' and producers' tax of three per cent on goods sold for con sumption or use without further pro cess of manufacture? - Or, if not that plan, why not try a modified . general consumption or "turnover" tax plan, levying a half of one per cent, or even a quarter of one per cent, or such rate as may be estimated to produce the required amount of revenue, not to be applica ble to foodstuffs and products, but to apply to expenditures. tmtltettes I tfkVa LL PROFITEERING We are told that we are facing a coal shortage. But the shortage of coal is not a reason for the increase of the price of coal. To Increase the price of coal would make it possible for the rich to have coal, but it would make it im possible for the poor to purchase it. This country needs so many tons of coal. The rich and the poor alike need the coal. The shortage of coal should not cause the price to be increased. An increased price will prevent s just distribution of coal. The only legal and just thing that can possibly be done is to distrib ute the amount of coal we have among all the people at the same rate that they would have been charg ed for the coal had there been s suffi cient quantity. The profiteer who takes advantage of the situation and raises the price of coal is an enemy of the people. Coal is a necessity. And any man who takes advantage of the poor man's necessity or of the rich man's necessity to extract from him an ex cessive price for that necessity is at heart a thief. Whatever law there is that can reach him should be put into operation. There is a just profit that belongs to every man for his labor, his talent, his brain; but there has never existed lvMA MATTHEWS DtD. LLD. and there will never exist a condition which entities any man to exessive profits, to usury, or extortionate de mands for service or for goods. The profiteer has existed too long in this country. He has gone un molested and has escaped the judg ments of law. But now the people are growing weary, restlesB, and revenge ful. The time has come for the gov ernment to arrest every man who takes advantage of an emergency to practice extortion. This is certainly true of the hour in which we are now living. The government talked about seiz ing the coal mines. The government everything else that the profiteer is ought to seize not only the mines, but trying to use for the purpose of ex torting from the people an unjust and unreasonable profit. The profiteer should not be al lowed to do business. Let the government say to all pro fiteers: "Every time you raise the price unjustly, the government will take from you the right and the li cense to do business." This is the only way by which the suffering public can be quieted and put at ease. This is the, only way by which the government can restore confidence in its sovereignty, in its power, and in its justice. HAMP ii 6h,what a WoNPtRfuc j Aou stop that CavW and set j nUI 1L T V MAN-Aro meVto Be ooi (inose oitneq washed nod J rtfBBT v7 TOOT8ALI COACH. VpOOiMlSEO TOUR AWTHEeL- SWEET r --v "-E M' ' & THE tPEA'. I GueSS I'LL TAKE A LOOK ANO SEE l SHE If SHE HAS HER JINP ON HER WORK! V-T ( HE LOVE? AE - H6 ) Jl V LOVES 'NOT - A ' m v Sill HE LOVE J rllL .TVVV'v MCf .rffl HOME HOWLS HAME NOU Sent us a moms howl? IP NOT-vgMt NOt? HERE? Out FROM A.S.fOPlKA "Cay1, who LEFT THif fA OS Soap , Oh TMf-f Looltf I NftARLf BROice AVf AltCK.1 j The proof of any tax plan is in the working thereof and in the working only. Hence my belief in giving the aies-tax theories a test. Each stockholder In our vast cor poration knows that simplicity In managing our affairs, the elimination of red tape and of complex regula tions that can be understood only by experts and about which even ex perts disagree, so that regulations have to be further regulated would mean mora success in our business; in other words, more prosperity in way of "dividends" for all. So it is up to us to strive toward a time when thrift and production may receive every encouragement from our board of directors; when useless extravagance may be in the same de gree discouraged. If we work together conscientiously toward that end, we shall surely again sea normal times reduction of prices, and the sort of prosperity to which we are entitled. We can be just aa patriotic in peace times aa we were in war times. And now, as much as In the daya of war.: is the time when tha United States of America, Incorporated, "needa a friend." 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A white enamel broom holder free with each Phelps Grocery Company PHONE 53 ings it is to be seen that we citizens of U, 8. A. did heed the warning, guid