TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT. JUNE 24. 1920
To Round Up Tax Dodgen.
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The following statement is issued
by Corrector oi Internal Revenue,
Milton A. Miller.
"In this, as in every other section
of the country, there will be con-
ducted duriug the next two months
an extensive tax drive for the coliec-
tion of delinquent sales and other
miscellaneous taxes, such as the so­
called luxury tax, the soft drink tax,
the admission tax the manufacturer's
tax, the tax on jewelry and works of
art, and tire tax on toilet .articles and
proprietary medicines. Reports of
laxity on the part of dealers and oth­
er poisons responsible tor the return
and collection of these taxes have
reached the Bureau of Internal Rev­
enue from many sources.
"Io remedy this condition, a large
force of revenue officers will be put in
the held, and it is expected to result
in the collection of millions of dol­
lars in delinquent taxes.
"Information from the Sales Tax
Unit of the Bureau of Internal Rev­
enue is that many dealers in soft
drinks and ice cream either are keep­
ing no record of the amount of tax
collections from such sales, or i hat
the record Is insufficient or incorrect.
“Special attention will be directed
to the collection of this tax as well
as to the tax on toilet articles and
proprietary medicines. Through the
failure of retailers to collect in full
the tax of 1 cent for each 25 cents
or fraction thereof of the amount for
which toilet articles and proprietary
medicines are sold, it is estimated
the government is losing several mil­
lion dollars annually. The tax is col­
lected by means of stamps ranging
from 1 to 40 cents, which the law
I provides shall be affixed by the deal­
er, and cancelled.
, "It is the intention to conduct as
thorough and effective a campaign
as possible in such a way as to bring
to justice willful violators, and cause
no embarrassment to merchants and
business men who honestly are en­
deavoring to comply with the Re­
venue laws.”
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Official Counts on Amendments
Ths votes on the several amend­
ments and laws approved at the pri-j
mary election and canvassed by the
secretary of state follow:
Extending eminent domain over
roads and ways—Yes 100,256, no 35,
655.
Four per cent road limitation—Yes
93,392, no 46,084.
Captial punishment—Yes 81,756,
no 64,589.
Crook and Curry bonding act—Yes
72,378, no 36,699.
Successor to governor—Yes 78,241
no, 56,946.
Higher educational tax—Yes 102,
722, no, 46,577.
Soldiers’ sailors' and marines' edu­
cation aid—Yes 91,294, no 50,482.
Elementary school tax—Yes 110,
263, no, 39,593.
Blind School measure—Yes 115,
333, no, 30,739.
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gainst trust and profiteels, Mr. Wil­ was the natural conequence of the
son himself knows that the last Con­ government’s policy of throwing
gress has had to use main force in open our markets to the enormouc
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strangling the wholesale squander­ new demands of the belligerent coun­
Portland and the State Chamber.
ing practices of the Wilson adminis­ tries for munitions and other war
tration, and any who don’t know it material, food supplies and necessi-
Whether they will it or not, cities
are not yet aware that the war is ties.
do not live for themselves alone.
"The drainage of our markets
over and that this is 1920.
'They exist and prosper, or wane and
What the Sixty-sixth Congress caused a sudden rise in prices which
retrogress, chiefly by virtue of the
has done is a record of high achieve­ has steadily increased and started an
Contiguous territory iluu feeds them,
ment In the face of presidental obsti­ era of Jumbo profit-making still ram­
and without which they would have
nacy and Democratic sycophancy. For pant. Our government became even
no cause for being. Recognition oi
I what it has failed to do, Mr. Wilson a greater customer than the people
this truth is often delayed in arrival,
i and his paity representation in the themselves and by its premptory re­
to the injury both ot the city, ab
I House and Senate are are the ones quirement caused a still further rise
Mr.
Wilson
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the
Brother-
sorbed with its purely selfish and
responsible, and it is a responsibility in prices. I make this survey simply
Hoods
Individual designs, and of the neg­
they can not talk them selves out of. to bring out the fact that the gov­
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lected and undeveloped territory be­
President Wilson wrote a cam­ Mr. Wilson and his "rubber-stamps" ernment Itself through its own choice
yond. ill the organization of the paign handbill last week and began ' in both House and Senate have them of possible policies is primarily re­
Oregon state chamber of commerce, its circulation by sending It to the selves, blocked action on every pro- sponsible for the outrageous increase
wherein Portland took an actively heads of the railroad unions. Like 1 position the President in- his com­ in the cost of living and the scanda­
efficient part more than a year ago. circus advertising, it was a good munication to the brotherhoods.com- lous profit making. All the greater,
and In which the city is yet concern­ handbill tor the kind of folks Bar- plains of. and the President can not therefore, is the duty of the govern­
ed with unabated interest, the met- | i num said were born every minute. i puss the buck on any of them-—high ment to lay bare the causes of ex­
ropolls of this state gave encourag­ But Mr. Wilson knows, the leaders ! cost of living, tax legislation, the cessive prices and restore profit-mak­
ing proof that Its days of self-suffi­ of his party know, the members of railway pioblem. the merchant mar­ ing to normal proportions. The new
cient insulation are dead and dune the railway unions know, and the ine, or possibly most Important of orgy of profiteering at the expense of
with.
| vast majority of the people who read i all. peace.
both the government and the people
Quite candidly Portland will admit 1 the "dodge" know it to be the cheap­
has continued unchecked until this
self-interest in the accomplishments est sort of political ballyhoo. And Senator Walsh on The Cost of Living hour. Conditions have grown worse.
and projects of the state chamber. none but the gullible patrons of the
It seems that a band of robbers In­
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But It is the interest ot one partner freak section of the Democratic cir­
The present adminstration is fests the land. As this atrocious ma­
among others, ot a stockholder in cus will pretend to believe there charged with the responsibility for terialism Increases the government,
a community corporation that em­ was any truth or any sincerity in high prices and unbridled profiteer­ outside of a few weak and insignifi­
braces eveiy county within the state, what the President wrote to the rail­ ing thoughout the country by Senator cant threats .has not even attempted
and it is without ulterior Intent. way brotherhood.
David I. Walsh, of Masschusetts, a solution."
Portland is sensible ot the advan’-
In the particular handbill herein Deomcrat.
ages to be derived from prosperous referred too. President Wilson said
A Paris cablegram says that an in­
"The greatest advance in prices in
and progressive conditions through­ that In nine months the Congress America." he stated in recent speech ventory of American war stock shows
out Oregon, but there is an essence which adjourned last Saturday had in the Sentate, "has been caused by that 50.000 cases of Infanta under­
of altruism us well as practicality In "taken no important remedial action our own government's policy during wear, baby socks and baby bonnets
1U tardy determination to locate in­ with respect to the problem of the the World's war. a policy to which I have turned up. Maybe they were
dustries elsewhere than within its cost of living.” This demagogical refer not fot the purpose of crltlsm sent over to fit out some of those in­
own boundaries and to sit In coun­ attempt to shift from the shoulders but to uncover as far as possible the fant republics we are now advised
sel as an equal advisor, no mote, up­ of himself and his admlstratlon onto causes of abnormal living conditions we went to war to create and sup­
on the matter ot making th) most ot the shoulder of Congress responsib­ under which we are now suffering." port.
the state's abundant wealth of oppor­ ility for the high cost of living la
"A brief review of the movement
George Rothwell Brown, writing
tunity. The prideful ch-i’lengs of made when Mr. Wilson's knows, and toward hlghei prices and this trend ' in the Washington Post .says: "Pri-
Dumas’ three guardamen. "One for the leaders of his party know the to the unprecedented, scandalous con- maries and state conventions now
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---- all tor each!" might well niost poeple know the chief cause of tinuation of profiteering will assist having been substantially concluded,
• be the motto of the state chamber. I the high coat of living are the Wilson us In appreciating the government's the administration leaders of the
for it typifies the spirit of the or- administration's policies of extrava- responsibility for t exe baneful re- Democratic party, by careful caleu-
I «»nee. currency Inflation, and dalll- suits," continued 8
>r Walsh. "At I latIons and tabulations, have reached
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utter U disregard
of existing the begtanigyt the
menfctyas up- >.the conclusion that the regular or­
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oatnpaign for fonda
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powers to enforce existing law» a- ward tendency in
coats of living ganlsation will he able to control the
Whatthe Editors Say
fray the natural expenses of the
stale chamber in its expansion work,
of which the city of Portland is to
i bear two-tlfths of the burden of a
three year prvgamme. Doubtless the
economic soundness of the argument
will afford the drive, even in these
| relucant times, assurance of its goal.
It would be paltry proof of Portland's
sincerity of interest were the city
campaign to fail of capturing ts ob­
jective, to the last dollar. Oregon­
ian.
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Tillamook County Beaches
Located KM) miles due west of Portland be­
tween Xeali kah-nie Mountain and Netarts
Bay. These beaches include Garibaldi
Beach resorts, Xeah-kah-nie, Manzanita
and- Bay Ocean.
Newport (Oregon’s old favorite
resort)
On Yaquina Bay—Large Natatorium--
A tn pie Hotel accomtnodationand camping
facil ties.
Crater Lake
(Opens July 1st)
One of the natural wonders of the world
A Lake in the heart ot an extinct volcano.
Other Attractive Outing Places
Detrot (Breitenbush Hot Springs—Mt. Jefferson County.
McCredie Hot Springs
Josep.’iine County Caves (Oregon’s Marble Halls)
Shasla Mountain Resorts
Columbia River Beaches
Mt. Rainer National Park
Yelbwstone National Park
Glacier National Park
The Following Pupils Successfully
Passed the 8th Grade Examinations
Held in May and. June:
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Oren W. Leach, Tillamook, Dist. 3.
Orville Fowler, Alvin Batchelar,
Meltha Dingess, Lewis Johnson: Bea­
ver.
Pearl Davis, Gerald Eggleston,
Charlie Burmester, Hilda Steele, Les­
lie Babcock, Floyd Reddaway: Ne­
halem.
Maudie Armstrong, Merle Jensen.
Inez Hester, Lcn Pierce: Hebo.
Hannah Zuercher, Florence Kopie- j
ske: Barnsdale.
Edwina Baker, Marie Strueby,,
I Wells B. Foote, Lewis Alexander: j
Garibaldi.
Alfred Parsons: Neskowin.
Gertrude Brandt, Clara Ward, Lois
Tooley. Leonard and Thelma Smith:
Sandlake.
Judson and John Carey Moore,
Leola Todd, Violet Hatlieid. Paul W.
Light, Wayne Backburn, Lester Oral
Ray, Leslie Coughran: Cloverdale.
Katherine McClintock, Leo Sohler,
Dorothy Jensen, Joseph Ross. Clyde
Alley, Reginald Smith: Wheeler.
Charles Edmunds: Pacific City.
Mary Jane Painton: Rockaway.
Ernest Gienger, Homer Blum, Le­
na Berli. Ernest Dodge, Evelyn Zen-
ger, Florence Stranahan, Velina Dan­
iels. Doris Knight, Victor Mathews,
Beatrice Sheldon, Geraldine Carlile,
Eva Drake, Ora Gillock, Frances Gist.
Erma Chilcott: Tillamook.
Esther Mills: Twin Rocks.
Walter Earl: Tillamook, Diet. 23.
Wendell Lommen: Mohler.
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George Armentrout, Alvin Shulson,
Leonard Wallace. Leonard Simmons:
Hemlock.
Luwella Hollett, Crystal Bedortha.
Walter Hollett: Blaine.
Loycel Jolly. Anna McClew: Bay
City.
Elsie Shultz: Bay City, Dist. 38.
Bernice Blum. Thelma Large: Till­
amook, Dist. 33.
Who Wants Mocking Birds!
We are in receipt of the following
post card front W. G. Looney. 208
Dixon St., Shawnee. Okla: “I have
heard mocking-birds are in great de­
mand there at a high price. What
would they be worth apiece safely
delivered there, money up on contract
in advance? I would like an agent
there with an add in a paper to sell
them. For safety I might have to
bring them. I have a home and fam­
ily and am a resident here for the
past 17 years and well known to
Shawnee's five banks, whose names
you have on the banker's register.
If you won’t act please pass this to
some responsible suitable person who
wil.”
Canada has turned In a bill again-
Germany for the cost of the war.
thia country were to do that Ger-
say would have to bo disposed of at
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Nev Summer booklet contains general Information
different Oregon resorts; Summer Excursion fares; Hotd
Camp rates.
Inquire ot local agent for further particulars.
SOUTHERN PACIFIC LINES
JOHN M. SCOTT,
General Passentrer Agetk
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