HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, JUNE 16, 1932.
PAGE THREE
SAVING FACE
A friend was telling me about
Big Business in China.
No man ever is discharged there,
he said. If it becomes necessary to
remove an employee the boss ar
ranges to have a friend tip him off.
The next morning the doomed man
appears in the boss1 office.
"My uncle in the most remote
province of the Chung River is very
ill," he explains. "It is necessary
that I should go to attend him."
The boss assumes an expression
of distress. "Why, to reach the
Chung River and minister to your
uncle and then return will require
more than two years," he protests.
"Nevertheless, I must go."
"Noble fellow," says the boss, em
bracing him. "Do your duty, and
though your journey keep you
away for years, have no fear. Your
place will be kept open for you."
The next morning and every
morning thereafter the two men
meet on the street, but there is no
embarassment, no sense of inferior
ity on the part of the ex-employee.
Face has been saved.
I remember one of the first men
for whom I worked in New York,
and one of the wisest I have ever
known. He called me in one day
and said: "I want you to think up
some way by which X can be
prompted to resign."
I was astonished.
"After he resigns," my boss con
tinued, "I think I can help him to
And a more congenial place. But
he's no good where he is.
"I always try to be very careful in
these cases," he explained. "I don't
want it written on my tombstone
that I ever dealt a blow to a man's
self-confidence."
This employer was almost as wise
as the Chinese. As our civilization
and our business grow older we all
shall learn some of the mature
wisdom of these older people. They
know there are things in life more
important than efficiency and pro
duction and quotas and charts.
They know that the human soul
is more Important, and that all the
operations of life should be con
ducted so as to increase its dignity
and self respect
Said Mencius, the ancient China
man: "The people are of the high
est importance; the gods come sec
ond: the sovereign is of lesser
weight"
Trying Out the Sales Tax
By CALEB JOHNSON.
SONS
A great man's son usually has a
hard time to gain recognition on
his own merits. What made me
think of that is the appearance in
the news of three sons of former
presidents.
"Jimmy" Garfield is to be chair
man of the Resolutions Committee
at the Republican National Conven
tion. Richard Cleveland will make
the nominating speech in the Dem
ocratic National Convention for
Governor Ritchie of Maryland.
And Archie Roosevelt is leading
the fight to limit Government aid to
veterans to those who actually suf
fered disability in the service. Ar
chie has a right to take that posi-
tion, as he is himself a war cas
ualty. Abraham Lincoln's son, Robert
was president of the Pullman com
pany and a successful business
man. General Grant's son Freder
ick had himself a distinguished mil
itary record. Mr. Taft's son Char
les is a successful and distinguish
ed lawyer. And "Young Teddy"
Roosevelt, as Governor General of
the Philippines, is making a repu
tation on his own.
All of these, and other famous
men's sons, had a hard time over
coming the Idea that they were
trading on their fathers' reputa
tions. TELEVISION
Several hundred people sat In a
London theater and saw the fa
mous Derby race reflected on a
screen as It was run, on June 1. The
figures were not much more than
silhouettes, but it was actual tele
vision. So far nobody can say positively
when television in anything like a
perfected form will be available to
everybody with a radio set. Per
haps never. Many engineers think
the cost will always be too high
for the private home, but they ad
mit It may become possible to throw
clear-cut images, as clear as the
average motion picture, on a screen
in a theater while a football game
or a horse-race or what not is ac
tually going on.
A lot of bright young men are
wnrklno- on television, trying to dis
cover new means of accomplishing
it- Some of them will surely hit it,
in time.
COLOR
Human nature Is peculiar and
nowhere more so than in exhibi
tions of popular misbeliefs and
prejudices.
Just now, for example, motorists
refuse to buy yellow gasoline be
cause of a wide-spread belief that
s It "gums up the motor." Now, pure
gasoline comes from the still with
a slight yellow tinge. To make it
"water-white" It has to be bleached
with sulphuric acid. That adds to
the cost, but the motoring public
pays It rather-than buy.it yellow.
Red, pink, blue green, any other
color of gasoline except yellow, is
readily accepted. But because some
rvWnrint tnH nnnther. who told an
other, that yellow "gas" was bad
for the valves, filling station ioikb
will have nothing to do with It be
cause they can't sell it.
COLDS
Colds are caused by germs. If
there was any douDts or mat, me
proof seems to be at hand. A med
ii nnmmiuinn which has been
studying colds has found several
places where nobody nas a com un
less some outside visitor brings it
In.
One of those places Is the island
of Spitsbergen, in the Artie ocean.
Minora nrhn umrli there sleep in
damp, stuffy underground quarters
and are exposed in tneir worn iu
In which
they sweat profusely. Everybody
knows there Is no surer way to
"catch cold" than to live and work
under such conditions. But they
never have colds!
Nevertheless, as long as we live
where we are exposed to cold in
fctions, it is just as well to take
precautions against them.
PORK
It looks as if people were begin
ning to realize that it is bad busi
ness to spend the taxpayers' money
for unnecessary things just to help
a local Congressman get re-elected.
One of the big "pork-barrel" items
of Governmental expenditures for
years has been the building of ex
pensive Post Office buildings in
towns that didn't need them.
Two towns, that I know of, and
perhaps others, have notified their
representatives In Washington that
they don't want $70,000 Post Offices.
One of them is Rawlins, Wyoming,
and the other is Tuxedo, New York.
Cowboys and millionaires are in
agreement for once.
Coquille A considerable increase
in the growing of root crops is in
dicated In Curry county this year
as an attempt on the part of farm
ers to reduce the cost of feeding
dairy cows and sheep, says R. M.
Knox, assistant county agent.
Among the varieties being used are
the Bortfleld turnip, introduced a
few years ago by the Astoria
branch experiment station, and
which has been rapidly gaining in
favor, especially among the coast
farmers.
Dallas Ordinary hydrated lime
has given good control of the spit
tle bug In the strawberry planting
on the farm of Joe Brogan of the
Oak Grove community, according
to a report received at the office of
Ceunty Agent J. R. Beck. The lime
was simply thrown into the crown
of the plants where the spittle bugs
were working, Mr. Brogan said. A
duster is usually used.
Wanted Combining by the acre.
You pull the machine or I will. De
pression prices. Write Cecil Sar
gent, lone, Ore. 13-17p
I think it Is as certain as any
thing in the future can be that
eventually the United States will
adopt a general sales tax, as a
means of raising national revenue.
I am sure that will come about as
soon as the majority of people un
derstand exactly what is meant by
a sales tax, and when they have
had an opportunity to observe the
operation of the sales tax in the
state of Mississippi. .
Mississippi has gone boldly ahead
and adopted a sales tax, which
went into effect the first day of May
this year. After a month's exper
ience everybody In Mississippi at
least everybody who can make his
voice heard seems to like the sales
tax. That goes even for those who
were bitterly opposed to It
Mississippi's sales tax is expect
ed to yield about $4,000,000 a year.
The state was up against a treas
ury deficit of $12,000,000, Inherited
from former administrations which
made appropriations In excess of
tax revenues. Something had to
be done. It was generally agreed
that real estate could not stand any
higher taxes. I don't know what
intelligent- member of the Missis
sippi legislature it was who first
brought in the idea of a sales tax,
but whoever he was, he ought to
have a medal for getting a new idea
through the heads of legislator!
For, after all, the main objection
to the sales tax is that it is some
thing new and being new, members
of Congress and of legislatures are
afraid of it for fear that In some
way it might injure them politically
to be for It People, generally, are
conservative. They distrust change.
But they are not nearly as conser
vative as a good many politicians
think they are:
The theory of the sales tax Is not
so .muoh that everybody pays it, as
that everybody knows that he is
paying it. There is no tax, of any
kind imaginable, that is not paid,
in the long run, by the ultimate
consumer. That is something poli
ticians, or some of them, under
stand, but which they think the av
erage man in the street does not
understand. It is one of the most
prevalent delusions among law
makers that they can make people
think they are not paying taxes
when they are. And there is no
way of concealing from the man
who pays a tax of two percent when
he buys a radio, or a bicycle, or a
Panama hat, the fact that he him
self is paying the tax. Every time
one buys a pack of cigarettes or
playing cards now he is reminded
of the tax he pays, when he breaks
the revenue stamps.
As long as there is any consider
able body of people who think that
they do not pay taxes, that the
governments revenue is derived
only from the rich, there will be
large bodies and groups of people
trying to get money from the gov
ernment on the theory that it comes
out of somebody else's pockets.
When any sort of a tax is so dis
tributed that everybody pays it and
knows that he is paying it, then
there is a much better chance that
everybody will take an Intelligent
interest in how the tax money Is
spent by legislatures and Congress.
That is one of the soundest argu
ments in favor of the sales tax.
The best argument of all in favor
of the sales tax, however, is that it
is the one tax which is automatic
ally distributed among the people
In precise proportion to their abll
ity to pay it. If there were a sales
tax of two percent, let us say, on
every article of commerce, then the
man who spends $500 a year would
pay $10 in taxes, and the man who
spends $5,000 would pay $100 in
taxes, and so on. The man who
spent nothing would nay no sales
tax; the multi-millionaire who spent
half a million dollars a year would
pay $10,000 in sales taxes, if the
rate were uniform on all commodities.
Every scheme of sales taxes ex
empts from the tax certain classes
of commodities, however, such as
necessary food and low-priced
clothing, so that people of low in
comes pay proportionately less than
those of high incomes.
The principal outcry- against the
sales tax everywhere has come from
retail merchants who, in the ab
sence of any exact knowledge of
the subject assume that they will
have to absorb the tax, that It can
not be passed on to the consumer.
In Mississippi, retail merchants
contended that the measure would
drive them into bankruptcy, but
when the tax went into effect It
turned out that the old adage that
the consumer always pays" still
holds good.
On the second day of May, the
day the tax went into effect, mer
chants announced new prices with
the two percent sales tax added and
had no difficulty in passing on the
tax burden. Every mercantile es
tablishment in the slate,-from the
smallest soft drink stand to the
largest department store, reports
after a month's trial the public has
taken kindly to the new tax and is
paying it gracefully and y, ithout
serious protest
This is eminently proper," says
Governor Conner. "The measure
was intended as a tax on consum
ers, and I am confident that the
merchants, after giving it a fair
trial, will have no complaint to offer.
"In the first place, it is not a tax
on earnings, but a tax on spend-
ings, and the people, realizing the
measure is absolutely essential to
balance the state's budget and put
us on our financial feet again, will
pay it cheerfully.
"Mississippi is merely leading the
way. I believe other states are go
ing to find that the retail sales tax
is the only way out and that ex
perience will prove it is in reality
the only suitable form of taxation.
"Our state was forced to adopt
it as an emergency measure. We
have but two things to tax in this
state, property and business. The
property tax system has broken
down because of economic condi
tions among the farmers, and we
had to take the sales tax, whether
we wanted it or not."
The general basis of the sales tax
in Mississippi is 2 per cent, varying
on only a few classes of business.
It includes all business and profes
sions, exempting only insurance
companies, building and loan asso
ciations, state and national banks,
mutual savings banks, religious,
charitable, scientific and education
al institutions, fraternal societies
and hospitals.
Business men are required to
keep accurate books reflecting their
gross income, preserving all records
relating thereto, subject to inspec
tion at all times.
Deductions are allowed from
gross sales as follows:
1 Sale price of goods taken in ex
change for new goods.
2 Credit sales by retailers and
wholesalers may be reported as
collected.
3 Taxes collected on gasoline and
tobacco.
4 Gross receipts from sale of ag
ricultural products when sold in
the original state or condition of
preparation for sale.
5 Sale of fertilizers, seeds, boxes
and crates used in preparing ag
ricultural products for market
6 Sales of schoolbooks when sold
under state contract
7 Sale of cotton, seed cotton, lint
cotton and baled cotton.
8 Amounts received from life in
surance policies and annuity
contracts up to the amount of
premiums paid thereon.
9 $1,200 each year, to be deducted
from total gross Income and or
gross proceeds of sale.
A feature of the sales tax is that
it makes practically every person
engaged in business a tax collector
serving for the state without com
pensation, keeping a record and
making monthly returns without
being even allowed postage on the
remittance.
All businesses collecting more
than $10 a month must make
monthly reports. Smaller concerns
report quarterly.
Some classes of manufacturing
concerns are also included, soft
drink establishments being requir
ed to pay 1 per cent, and cotton
seed oil mills and ice factories one
quarter of one per cent
The danger in the sales tax as in
any other new form of taxation is,
of course, likelihood that it will en
courage tax spenders to new ex
travagances. If adopted merely as
an added burden upon the tax pay
ing public, it will fail of its purpose.
If adopted by states as means of re
ducing the burdensome taxes which
fall upon owners of real estate, it
certainly is to be highly commend
ed. And, as I pointed out In the
beginning, one of the great things
to be hoped for from the sales tax
is, that, by making everybody who
spends a dollar tax conscious, it
may in time make everybody who
spends money for anything realize
that he is a part of the state, and
that it is his money which the law
makers are appropriating.
For Rent 402 acres summer
grazing land known as South Jones
prairie, Mrs. Henry Jones, 399 E.
16th St. N., Portland, Ore. 6tf .
Geographical Portfolio
To Go to South America
As a part of the Junior Red Cross
work in which trrey have taken an
active interest pupils of the Davis
school near lone under the tutelage
of Miss Audrey Beymer of this
city, recently completed a new geo
graphical portfolio which will be
sent to South America, in an ex
change with pupils of a school
there. The portfolio neatly por
trays products, industries and ac
tivities and descriptive articles by
the children. Taken from the work
is the following poem by David
Cantwell, sixth grade pupil:
I've seen fires in many places,
But never such awful sights
As the tired and weary faces
Of the men that have to fight
The forest fire, the raging beast.
That burns the trees so fair,
Takes many men to make it cease
But the ruins, we can't repair.
80 head of pigs to sell at $1 each
if taken at once. Frank Swaggart,
Lena, Ore. 6-tf.
TAX FREE
TIR
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the tax becomes effective.
Here's a chance for local motorists to save money on THE leading
tire. Buy now ! Don't take chances on blowouts, accidents, delay
and trouble on old, worn, dangerous tires. Buy new Goodycars
now save the tax.
HEPPNER GARAGE
Vaughn 6 Goodman Heppner, Oregon
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FORD TRUCK WEEK JUNE 18 to 25 INCLUSIVE
MacMarr stores, inc. we Deliver
Tomatoes
Fancy solid pack, large 2
size.
8 tins 98c
PER CASE .. $2.79
PEAS
Fancy No. 3 sieve. Just de
licious, 8 Tins ... 95c
PRICES EFFECTIVE FRI.-SAT.-MON., June 17-18-20
Pure lard in celophane cartons
Fresh stock.
CORN MEAL 9-lb. Sk. 29c
Eastern white or yellow
MAYONNAISE Qt. 49c
Best Foods always best
BAKING POWDER S l.09 $l.65
LARD
4 lbs 39c
Calumet the double acting baking powder
SOAP
HARMONY LAUNDRY, THE BEST
IN THE WEST. LARGE BARS.
IT FLOATS.
20 bars 75c
Candy Bars
SHORTENING
Fresh itock always.
Note the saving-.
4 Lbs 35c
MILK
Maximum or Federal brand.
Tall tins.
PER
TIN ...
6c
COFFEE
MAC MARR Strictly fresh roasted
and ground.
3 lbs 89c
AIRWAY, .. 3 LBS. 59c
Fresh bars from our own sunshine Large I
factory and JUST IMAGINE.... J Bars.. IVC
SYRUP f;ib: 65c :l.25
Maximum cane and maple
PACAKE FLOUR 53c
Mac Marr quality