MEDFORD MAn, TRIBUNE. MEDKOKl). OREGON. FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 14. 10Pfi.
PAGE FIVE
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John L. Nealon Takes Final
Fling at Townsend Plan
To the Editor:
If you leel like affording us. the
space, we would appreciate the
chance to reply to Mr. Crews just
once more, but we hereby promise
this will be the last, for we find that
we can't raise hay and regulate the
monetary system at the same time.
Mr. Crews has presented us with
some very impressive figures, almost
as startling as some we saw In "chain
letters" about a year ago.
We wish to thank Mr. Crews for
pointing out the difference between a
"transaction tax" and a "sales tax"
"transaction tax paid by the seller."
It seems as though wo have heard of
this Idea before. We wonder if Mr.
Crews really believes a transaction
tax Ib paid by the seller at no cost
to the buyer?
As It Is much more convincing to
let your opponent prove your point,
we would like to take you back to
the matter of the California sales
tax. You and your colleague, Mr,
New Deal, seem to think the sum of
forty-eight million dollars ($48,000.
000) Is really very Insignificant. No
doubt It Is to you. but lets take a
look at what It meant to the people
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who paid It. As previously stated.
a 2i per cent sales tax In California
raised aproxlmately S48.000.000 in
1934. According to your own figures
and argument, a sales tax won't raise
more than 5 per cent of what your
3 per rent transaction tax will. It
should be obvious to anyone that If
you are going to raise 20 times as
much money under one system of
collection as under another, the peo
ple you expect to collect from will
have to pay 20 times as much. The
census report of 1930 showed the en-
the population of California to be 5,
677.251. We will grant tnat the in
crease since would bring It up to six
million. This means that this $48,
000,000 paid out of the pockets of
the people of California equaled a
per capita cost of 98. If you don't
care to accept Uncle Sam's census re
ports, look around you a little and
we think you can readily sec that
there are not more than one person
out of four who is gainfully employed
or otherwise capable of supporting
himself end family. It should be
very plain to see that the cost to the
average "bread winner" In California
was $33 per year. The census report
of 1930 showed aproxlmately 600,000
people In California 60 years of age
and over. As we have pointed out,
the $48,000,000, divided equally be
tween these 600,000 people would give
each a monthly allowance of $6.65.
If It cost the man of average- In
come In California $33 per year to
provide an allowance of ' $6.65 per
month, how are you going to provide
$200 per month without Increasing
the per capita cost of $8 to approxi
mately $240 per year to $960 to the
head of the average family?
What difference does it make
whether you raise $100 by a transac
tlon tax, sales tax. or property tax; It
Is still $100, isn't It? Or does It make
any difference from which end of the
lemon you extract the Juice; the
lemon will be minus just whatever
you take from It. wont It?
We are sorry to correct you, Mr.
Crews, but our statement in our first
letter was: That there Is one person
eligible, by age, in the United States,
to a pension of $200 a month under
the Townsend plan to every four per
sons gainfully occupied, and that the
average Income of the four persons Is
approximately $1,000 per year. Doesn't
this mean that these four persons
would have to shoulder a load of $2,
400 among them? If you will get a
World's Almanac for 1933 and turn
to page 330 and page 875, you may
verify this statement.
' You state. "That the total aggre-
. gate value of all business transactions
In this country wojjld equal $600,
000,000.000 a year. According to re
cent estimates, the total Income of
: the nation will reach $60,000,000,000
1 for 1935. By this It would be evident
' that ftiirh dollar ctt Inrnmi would
participate In ten transactions during
the year (your statistician. Mr. Owen,
estimates 23). Through the manipu
lation of your transaction tax it
would be nicked for 3 cent on each
transaction, ultimately coming out
with 80 cents of purchasing power In
stead of the original 100 cents.
Or we might take aa an example
the shoes you are wearing. From the
time the steer Is sold on the range
until your shoes are banded you from
your retail dealer there are at least
ten transactions consummated, each
adding 3 per cent to the cost of the
shoes, eventually increasing the cost
to a little over 10 per cent. There
fore, when a working man buys a
pair of shoes for $6 he gets $5 worth
of shoes and contributes .$1 to the
Townsend pension fund.
This wouia noia true with practi
cally, every article of merchandise an
urban dweller would buy. If he spent
the average of $1,500 per year, he
would be forced to contribute $300
per year toward your pension fund.
We have at hand a life insurance
rate book showing that a young man
25 years of age could take this same
$300 and purchase $10,000 of 25-year
endowment Insurance, thereby insur
ing to a great extent his own Independence.
Which do you think would be oet-
ter for the morale of the country
to have the young men loafing around
mochlng from the old folks' pension
or have them husltlng and saving for
themselves?
We feel sure that you people be
lieve In equality and fairness.
We would like to cite you to an
example of two families we could
point out to you at any time..
One man has a wife, no children,
somewhere In their forties, with a
combined salary of about $3,000 a
year. His father and mother are both
living and past 60 years of age. The
same with his wife. Four old folks
eligible under your plan to a total
of $800 per month or a total of six
people with $1,050 per month at their
disposal.
The other case Is a man also In his
forties supporting, besides himself, d
wife and five children on $65 per
month. Neither he nor his wife have
any near relatives eligible to your
pension.
Do you believe that after his living
costs have been increased 20 per cent
by the manipulation of your transac
tion tax that he and his family will
be on any equality whatsoever with
the other family? Do you think his
wife and family would appreciate your
plan?
Naturally, you will contend that his
wages will be Increased, but don't
forget that the men's wages will be
increased too. who produce his com
modities of life, therefore raising his
living costs proportionately to any
wage Increase.
You ask us for a plan. Although
we have none to offer, we will say
that there Is a man In the While
House who we believe that. If not
constantly annoyed by peddlers of
panaceas and advocates of boot-strap
legislation, will work out some plan
whereby all really needy old ptople
and others worthy of consideration
will be amply taken care of. How
ever, it won't be any plan that will
take from 25 per cent to 50 per cent
of the people's money to provide a
penison of from $100 to $200 per
month.
Weeds grow rapidly but any worth
while or lasting reform will take time
and probably never reach a state of
perfection. Wo don't want any mush
room proposition that will fall of its
own weight within a short time, leav
ing all of us worse off.
What does It gaiu a drowning man
to pull others that might help him
down, too?
It would be very unchrlstianltke to
not be willing to reach down and give
a hand to those In need and less
fortunate than ourselves, but we do
not believe it wise to glorify poverty,
at least not to such an extent as to
encourage absolute shlftlessness as
we sincerely believe would be the
case under your proposed plan.
JOHN L. NEALON.
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SEATTLE COW TAKES
SEATTLE. Feb. 14 (AP) Carna
tion Ormsby Butter King, milch cow
owned near nen;, was acclaimed the
new world's champion today when
the Holstein-Frieslan association of
America approved her year's record of
33.606.8 pounds of milk ( 1,403 02
pounds of butterfat the equivalent
of 1752.S pounds of butter.)
She broke the 1923 record of the
Canadian cow, Dekol Plus Slgls Dixie,
who produced 1364 pounds of butter
fat, and the 1920 record of Se?ls
Pletertje Prospect, whoroduced 37.
381 pounds of milk.
High School News
by
STUDENT REPORTERS
11 Kthel Moore.
A literary contest Is Qne of the
Interesting features being sponsored
by the Crater magazine staff. Prises
will be offered for t'ue best poem
or prose selection sent In- First prize
Is a free picture In the Crater and
a free Crater; the second priee 1b a
free Crater.
The aenlor edition of the Crater
magazine will be Issued on May 29.
MlMi Mlgnon Phlpp. editor, states
that plana for the publication we
already under way.
"This edition will be slightly
larger than the mid-year edition
and will have several added attrnc
tione." said Mlsa Phipps,
A snapshot contest is also being
sponsored in order to obtain some
interesting snaps for publication.
The two prizes offered are free Craters.
,H Ted I.tmlley.
A special assembly was called at
the high school February 13 for the
purpose of paying tribute, to Abra
ham Lincoln.
The assembly opened with the
band playing the school song after
which Mr. Wilson Walt led the stu
dent body in the oath of allegiance.
Miss Floy Young, music teacher at
the high schcol. then led the sing
ing of "America.' Billy Wilson, a
student, gave the Gettysburg ad
dress and the assembly ended by
singing the school song.
By Bert Oaiiglierty.
On Monday. February 1 , In the
boys' gymnasium, the sophomore
class held an election of class offi
cers. The results were :
President, Ruth Oarlock: secre
tary, Josephine Bullis; treasurer,
Kenneth Raymond; yell leader, Cath
erine Conroy.
Vice-president was not voted on
as Billy Holloway. elected In the
fall, Is still a sophomore. The only
close contest was the election ot
yell leader.
The meeting was advised by Mr.
C. D. Thompson, an Instructor. Betty
Fowler was temporary secretary.
By Roy Hensley.
Morn In? classes in bays physical
education, under direction of Mr.
Kirtley, are now engaged In learning
the fundamentals of wrestling.
The object of this training Isn't
to Increase the present crop of pro
fessional wrestlers but to teach the
boys some of the science of the
game. During the time that wrestl
ing Is tnken up In the classes each
boy will be taught approximately
five holds and how to break them.
Boxing will probably be taken
soon to further increase the boys'
knowledge of how to defend and
protect themselves.
By Ethel Mucker.
Yesterday in room 8 the H. E. C.
A. members sponsored a luncheon,
at which Dr. Jensen was guest
speaker. The topic of his speech was
his Journey through Italy.
The teachers and mem tier who
attended enjoyed his speech very
much and are looking forward to
his return.
Dr. Jensen enjoyed apeaktng to
the high school students and after
his speech an opportunity was given
to the teachers and students to ask
questions concerning the talk.
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HELD EMBEZZLER
LA GRANDE, Feb. 14. (AP) Guy I.
Patten of Elgin was released on 95000
bond when he was brought before
United States Commissioner L. Den
ham here today charged, with embez
zlement of $2109 while he was receiv
er for the defunct Stockgrowers and
Farmers National Bank of Wallowa.
Patten was arrested this morning by
Deputy U. 8. Marshal Dan Markcl of
Portland and George Rogers, state po
lice of Enterprise.
Patten was for several years assist
ant cashier of the First National Bank
of Elgin and operated a pool hall
there before his appointment as re
ceiver of the Wallowa bank. He has
lived In the Grande Ronde valley all
his life.
Patten Indicated that he Intended
to "fix It up." saying that he was
trying to help others.
Use Mall in Mine want ads
Pear Market
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fancy, tl.80r2.59, average i2.17.
NEW YIRK, Feb. 13. ( AP-UEDA)
Pear auction market. Two cars ar
rived; 1 Oregon car. 2 Washington
unloaded; 4 cars on track.
Orecon D'An.ious: 740 boxes extra!
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