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Marble and Granite
Works
PENDLETON, OREGON
Fine Monument and Cemetery Work
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should get my prices and estimates before
placing their orders
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With Two Big Offices
PENDLETON AND PORTLAND
Is prepared to handle the business of
Eastern Oregon better than ever before
Our Specialties
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The Byers Chop Mill
(Formerly SCHEMPP'S MILL)
STEAM ROLLED BARLEY AND WHEAT
We handle Gasoline, Coal Oil and
Lubricating Oil . '
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sunny fields of prosperity. Life
seems secure. Youth and
strength are careless and forgetful You
have spent money as you have earned it.
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comes rolling toward you.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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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woman. Inquire this office.
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SIZE PRICE SIZE PRICK
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30x3'2s.s 15.80 33x4'2 31.55
32x3'2 19.35 34x4', 32.40
31x4 23.10 35x4'2 33.20
32x4 24.50 33x5 38.95
33x4 24.70 35x5 . 39.95
34x4 25.35 37x5 42.10
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WM. M. KIRK, Proprietor
Prompt and efficient service at all times, both
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or Phone Main 664.
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COUNTRY TRIPS -:- GENERAL HAULING
HOUSE CLEANING
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Calls, among other
things, for a good
Broom
We have just received
a large shipment of
excellent brooms, at
remarkably low prices
quality considered.
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