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About The Gate city journal. (Nyssa, Or.) 1910-1937 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 29, 1926)
EVERY FORWARD LOOKING CITIZEN SHOULD FIGHT FOR OREGON AND IIS DEVELOPMENT By BRUCE DENNIS, Author of the Dennis Resolution. When the people of Oregon enacted a state income tax in 1923 they did so because they believed it was just and right. They believed it would reduce taxes. At that time they had plenty of theory and few facts to guide them. They repealed that law in 1924 be cause it was a proved hard times breed er. It cost the people of Oregon the staggering total of $40,000,000 to learn that economic conditions absolutely be yond their control are such in Oregon that a state income tax drives out in dustries, keeps others from coming in, reduces payrolls, mnkes it harder to obtain farm loans and strikes at every home in country, village town and city. • * * But our state is again in turmoil be cause a determined effort is being made to force practically this same law up on the state this year. Our people are being asked to ignore plain fundamental economic facts. They are being asked to enact a law on a “guess” that it will bring good times now, when painstaking, honest inves tigation proved that the former tax did drive out industries, capital, jobs, and millons of taxable wealth from Oregon, and a new state income tax will do it again. Oregon is full of meritorious projects that should be dev eloped. Big public improvements are necessary to open up our state, to bring the farms closer to their markets and cities closer to their bases of supplies. Wealth untold lies idle in natural resources awaiting the magic touch of dev elopment capital to bring it to the tax rolls, to create new payrolls, new activities and better livelihood for our people. . Since the last income tax law was repealed millions of dollars have been loaned in Oregon by outside financial con cerns, at low rates, on long time, and with repayment priveleges never known to Oregon before. If a new in come tax law is enacted, and this discrimination aimed directly at these investors, rates will go up, much of the unloaned funds will be withdrawn, and our people will aguin face the enescapable fact Oregon needs capital, but capital does not need Oregon. UK IE FLY TOLD IF WE CANT SAVE YOU BEAL MONEY, WB DONT EXPECT YOUK BUSINESS The latest monarch to tumble is King Cotton. Add similies: As reversible as a Teapot Dome decis ion. Krishnamurti is the first messiah to have a lady press agent. WHERE FOLKS LIKE T o TRADE Few are so deaf as to be unable to hear whispers of The Right Treatment, in both Service and Merchantdise, is one scandal. of the principal attractions of this store. Here are values—care bought, rightly priced. Their quality and our service will The fellow who really has inside information usually; fully make you feel at home here. But whether you come to buy or to keeps it inside. look around our every endeavor will be to make You Feel At Home. All the world’s a diamond and everybody wants to be a Babe Ruth. W E CAN LINOLEUM A FEW MORE ROOMS AT THE PRICES Airplane regulations also might be classified under QUOTED BELOW, To Be Exact About Four Average Rooms. the heading of blue sky laws. Nearly every house wife has one or more rooms that needs More schools for salesmen are being established. The floor covering, possibly some of you have felt that you could not trouble is they sell us too much stuff now. afford it, Mercer is going to make the price of yard linoleum fit the size of any pocketbook, no m atter how flat it is. Our price No W'onder the Sesqui is a financial failure. Pennsyl for this Week End will be 64 Vie a square yard, $1.29 a running vania folks spent all their money on the primary. yard, and getting down to brass tacks you can linoleum a room Labor leaders were as welcome in aristocratic Detroit 9x12 for ........................................... $-7.74 pulpits as a certain Carpenter would be if he should 12x12 for ............................ - .............. 10.32 return. 12rl6 for .................................- ........ 13.76 Oyster men will enter upon a national advertising campaign, believing that their product has been dumb Give us your measurments early as our stock is limited. Just think of it.—A room spick and span for a little more than as an oyster too long. the price of a few coats of paint. Folks used 17 per cent more chewing gum last year, J>ut were still able to devote the usual amount of time to chewing the rag. Tammany might learn a political trick or two from a Many customers have been disappointed in their inability to town in Chile, where in a recent election 291 per cent of take advantage of our week end specials, on account of the late the qualified electors voted. delivery of their newspaper. We are going to remedy this con A fraud order has been issued ai^iinst manufacturers tingency in the future, and wish to inform you that any specials | of an alleged “hair remover.” But alleged hail restorers offered you for any week end holds good at our store until the following edition of the Journal, which gives you almost u solid appear to be immune from government interference. Government experts are working out means of de week to take advantage of the savings offered. termining “the chemical composition and nutritive value I of sausages.” Thus science may solve another age-old mystery. Mustaches for freshmen are barred at Columbia Uni versity this year. When we went to school a freshman FOR THIS WEEK-END who could raise a mustache was a social celebrity. it will pay you to look in at our Store windows for genuine It begins to appear as if Broker Browning’s dear little bargains. We are going to put in a window full of a various as “Peaches” is not one of the cling variety. sortment of merchandise, consisting of HAND PAINTED CHINA CUT GLASS, GRANITE WARE, ALUMINUM, ETC. Many of The Polish government has announced that after ihis the articles in this window are sold regularly in any store for : all moving pictures showing intensive love making will double our price. Come in and take your choice at f 1 _ have to pay a tax of twenty-five per cent of the profits Values up to $2.50 THE COMING WEEK 4 « /C What is this, another blow at Hollywood? Now the wire manufacturers of Europe are forming a big combination. The wire pullers have already been Get The Habit—Trade A t Home— Home to Yoy Should Spell N-Y-S-S-A together several times at Geneva. Mr. Fokker, the flying expert, now has a plan for the construction of flying offices. These would come in handy if you wanted to get to the golf links or the base ball park in a hurry. Hardware On the Corner and on the Square. Furniture The Queen of Roumania, buying gowns in Paris foi her American trip, is described as “slender, bobbed hair Nyssa, Oregon Phone 25 ed and chic.” That’s the way most of the queens in Amer-. ica look too. It used to be that a senator’s troubles were over when There is said to be an acute water shortage in New he was elected. But nowadays he has to put on another York City and we are surprised to find that they would campaign to get seated. show concern over anything like that. Edward P. Costigan, member of the Tariff Commis The government of Panama has imperted 500 rifles sion, says that the flexible provisions of the*tariff law for official use. Ought are costing us money in Europe. That ought to make it do something about this? not the disarmament conference popular with the free traders. That distinguished foreigner who said a few weeks Only two persons w’ere killed in the air mail last year ago that New York was the saddest town he ever saw, in 2,256,000 miles of flying. Evidently it is getting to lie safer to fly than to walk. should have waited until the world series was over A Real Home Store Customers Disappointed WEEK-END SPECIALS A This is no time for prattle. It is high time for speaking, straight thinking and recognition of the economic fact that Oregon’s farms, her industries, her citizens desperately need capital, and that the place we can get it is from outside the state. plain hard and only We can drive capital out, but we cannot force it to crime in unless we make it advantageous for it to do so. Oregon, ninth state in area, is relatively insignificant economically. 119,000,000 of America’s 120,000,000 people reside outside of Oregon. Let us remember the industrial city of Detroit has over 100,000 more people than the state of Oregon, with its 9f>,000 square miles. Let us remember that 782,- 256 people here didn’t make enough to file income tax returns, and that only 311 people in the entire state hnd earnings in excess of $10,000; that of Oregon’s 5000 cor porations only 1073 made enough profit to file taxable reports, that 478 made less than $5,000 and only 183 over $20,000, including all public utilities, lumber mills, flour mills, factories, railroads, and other industries. We have 55,157 farms, one to every 15 persons, 2500 industries, one to each 330 persons. W hat would .one industrial center like Detroit mean to oar farm s, our home owners, our workers, our state? Ojregon wants them, Oregon wants cnpital and wants to go ahead. Oregon wants to avert economic disaster, and instead wants to of fer capital, new people, new industry, opportunity to help us grow. That is what the Dennis Resolution is for. It guaran tees that no state income tax can be enacted to discrimin ate against development and progress before 1940. It guarantees to every Oregon family that the state will not tax its accumulations when the bread winner dies. As n prosperity making measure it deserves the support of every forwi* 1 looking citizen. » • • Vote 306 X YES—Dennis Resolution. Vote 329 X NO —Offset Income Tax Bill. Vote 335 X NO —Grange Income Tax Bill. Paid A dvertisem ent G reater Oregon Aes’n. J. O. Elrod, Chairm an M. S. Hlreeh H. J. FrnnJi Ira P. Powers J. It. Yeon R. L. Macleay G. G. Guild J. H. B ureard W. S. Bal»on Executive Committee. 419 O reson Blrim, Portlnnd, Ore. TEACHERS! We have Report Cards for use in rural schools at 25c per dozen Typewriting Paper, 8 1-2x11 at $1.00 for 500 sheets All Stationerg Supplies Gate City Journal NYSSA, OREGON MERCER’S Pictures Of Malheur Will Tell Advantages Now is the time for Malheur county to get busy on publicity. Every commercial club in the state and other public organizations have been asked by the Portland Chamber | to semi pictures of their district for | use in Oregon publicity during the > coming year. Pictures of scenery, j homes, farms, industries and recre- I ational points are uiged, with re-i quest particularly being made for! attractive farm homes and scenes.! Great results can be obtained if this district sends representative photo- graghs to Herbert Cuthhort, mana ger of the Portland Chamber of Commerce. The Oregon pictures are placed in publications through out the country, many of them m* tional in circulation. WHAT THE HUNTER DON’T KNOW IN PHEASANT HUNTS It’s one thing to kill a pheasant and quite another to put it on the table, fried a golden brown. Such is the conclusion of a number of Nyssa housewives who during the op en season, are getting an even more intimate knowledgs of the birds than are the hunters who do the shooting. There’s the skinning—and a num ber of other little m atters which must he attended to before Mr. (or Mrs.) Pheasant is ready for the knife and fork. Oh yes, and the fry ing; have you tried to keep that schoolgirl complexion when the face is bent over a hot stove? It has a tendency to assume the hue of the well known garden vegetable, the beat. There’s a whole lot the hunt- ] or doesn’t know in pheasant h un ts.! Is’nt that the truth, gentlemen? A Federal Hospital ship complete ly equipped nnd having aboard a competent physician wil soon provide medical set vices for Alnsknns tn isolated communities. The Gate City Journal Solicits Your i! This Paper Advocates and Practices the Gos pel of TRADE AT HOME and will appreciate cooperation on the part of printing buyers Check over your needs and order now before the fall rush of business It will be nur policy to carry a large paper stork of staple items. 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