The Blackwell Times-Record (Blackwell, Okla.), Vol. 31, No. 14, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 6, 1923 Page: 3 of 8
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TAX
The Mellon tax reduction conditioned well able to pay them, and should be ing its service of gratitude to those and their convention was similar to their physi
You can usually spot the man who
SPEAKING OF SIGNS
ELIOT’S INDICTMENT
new commodities for sale.
WORRYING
Discount
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PALACE
PALACE
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Blackwell
Blackwell
called on President Coolidge today. He
recalled my visit in September, and
Many people place great faith it
the opinions of Dr. Charles W. Eliot
most of them react, In
health, to the vice of
Worrying is a real and exceedingly
injurious, bad habit; a habit that is
acquired and grows on the victim.
warmakers, that make this world
a better place to live in.”
would be largely paid by the men of
great wealth, who if denied the tax
exempt securities investment, would
foot the bills
We believe that this is possible and
the Congress will take this position in
The Oklahoma Hornet has discover-
ed that the counterfeter is not the only
man who makes money dishonestly.
worry ?
A fit of anger, or a spell of worry,
envy or jealousy, which are forms of
The money paid will not
be dumped into the treacherous sands
of some obscure and unnavigable river
0. C. Bilings, L. D. Farmer and 4X
E. Dowis attended a meeting of the
Retailers’ Association in Welington,
Monday night.
deduction and adjustment of
who gave and those who receive—M. that of old friend
C. GARBER, Representative, 8th Con
gres.Monal District.
Out of Oklahoma’s population of $70,000000; the telegraph and tele-
2,028,283 only 69,381 filed income tax phone tax can save $30,000,000. With
returns for the year 1921. There were a 25% reduction on earned incomes,
556 corporate returns filed for that which is composed of wages, salaries
and professional sendees,
save $97,000,000. By a repeal of
various other nuisance taxes the tax | he has had it poured into
reduction would total an amount of . every quarter. f*
$200,000,000, leaving
$100,000,000.
vires prepared by the Treasury Depart- the President and the Cabinet at every
'lljf al>U pjel LI IJI1 i £ Vll My <•* Mt V11V | J vv W nvjZ'.
I pie- We can remove this tax and save y°u wiH give favorable consideration
in your forthcoming messge to agri-
cultural relief ” To which he joking-
ly replied, “I have been unable to give
m^ch consideration to anything else
we would since I have been here.”
There is no question but that what
i him from
Henry Wallace, sec-
surplus of, retary of Agriculture, told me that he
According to the fig-j had been having the matter up with
AN INTERVIEW WITH
THE PRESIDENT
can possibly be of practical assistance
in bringing peace to Europe if the
state of international morality there
is at the low ebb described by Dr.
Eliot. In the course of a recent let-
ter to a friend the distinguished edu-
cator had this to say:
“Do not all nations need desperately
more peace and good will both exter-
nally and internally? How can such
proceedings as those of France and
Ruhr, of Itaiy at Tripoli years ago,
at Corfu and in the Aegean now, and
next at Fiume, and of England and
France recently at Constantinople and
Lausanne breed anything but hate
and longing for revenge, and therefore
war? Such proceedings always have
.year. The per capita on the net in-
comes reported wa $94.57, but $2.0?
per capita for the entire population
The per capita income tax for South
Dakota is 82 cents; Kansas, $1.78;
Lutah, $1-88, but then the above is not
hi fair representation, because the bulk
•f our income taxes are indirect. While ment for the Senate Finance Commit meeting and at every opportunity, so
tee, the soldiers’ bouns measure will that they now looked upon him as a
Representatives
year period, an average of slightly from all sections of the country have
more than $80,060,000 per year. The
been teling Coolidge about the farm
conditions in their districts, and where
ever cattle, hogs and wheat are the
chief products the story of hard times
is just about the same. With his
down east Yankee precaution Coolidge
sent out special investigators to study
from an impartial standpoint the
agricultural conditions over the coun-
l.oma were improving. I said
“Crop prospects are good, but fam
conditions re still bad." He inquired,
“How can that be?" I replied “Under
past and present conditions good crops
do not mean good times. We hope
A WOLDR RECORD IN HOGS
The Chamber of Commerce, in co-
operation with the Farm Bureau sup-
I potted by merchants, bankers, ami
| fanners, down in Denton County Tex-
as, set out last spring to beat the 1922
Indiana record of 3,040 pounds of
pork from one litter of pigs in six
months. When all the 'litters were
i weighed in, seventeen were found t*
! average 2,369 pounds, and the top 12
' averaged 2,589 pounds. The 120 pig»
! in the twelve litters averaged 259 Ibs-
i Two worlds records were made and
stand as such. The top litter made
an average weight of 333.2 per head,
which is 8.3 pounds above the average
of the Texas litter which holds the re-
cord for total weight of 3.898 pound"
One gilt of this litter made a record
of 364.5 pounds, when officially
i weighed on the 180th day, or three
days less than six calendar months.
This litter was of Pure bred Poland
China breeding, and was fed by J. M.
Marton of Denton, Texas. He wee
1150.00 in special prizes offered by bu-
siness men to any one who would ex-
ceed the 1922 world’s record.
The cost of the litter from the time
the dam was bred until the pigs went
to market was $183.89, and selling at
1 $8 00 the return was $266.56 making
' a profit of $82.67. ,
! The ration consisted of six parti
f ground corn and one part shorts soak
1 ed in skimmed milk, with tankage.
A goal was hung up by the faun
bureau. The business men offered
■nducements to reach it, farmer feed-
ers worked, and the goal was achieved.
Cooperation von. The moral is ob-
vious.
for the relief of agriculture. It is a
hard proposition to solve, and keep
within legal limits and sound business
Price fixing is entirely
out of the queston.
While we were talking with the
President, Senator Harreld said to
him, “M{. Preident, the eighth con
gressionl distirct of Oklahoma has less
percentage of illiteracy than any other
district in the Unite! States, even tho
As we understand it Ford’s stand on
the Presidential question is simple.
.rue than a hard days labor, for the He will refuse it unless he accepts it
mind has a strong influence on the --x------
health of the body. You can usually spot the man whe
lake it easy’ mentally, no^matter drinks coffee out of a saucer because
if your problem is a hard one. Whev usually he spots himself.
the pressure gets too much for you,
drop the problem for a while and re-
turn to it later.
Forget it! It’s hard to ro but you
can learn to do it, just as you learned
to read and write.
Hurry is worry. Start early enough
to do what is before you without the
strain and uncertainty of hurry and
rush, if at all possible. You will not I
be fagged out and can do better workj
all long the line.
Don’t TUsh home in the evening af-■
The Largest Laundry in , ter work; take your time and you will1
-------I have the eat a better dinner and sleep more
u soundly.
Above all for the sake of physicial,
a denial of a soldiers bonus has required to do so. Tax exempt securi
I created a furore in political circles and ties should be abolished, so that the in-
I an apparent dilemma difficult of solu- vestors therein would be required to in
I tion. Mellon is against the boons and vest their money in improvements
[ for a tax reduction. He wants to which would help to develop the coun-
| teilldoze the country into an adpotion ‘ryand create additional property val-
| of his views. It is very natural, for ues for taxation. The country is
I the East pays most of the direct in-' more concerned in a reduction of taxes
1 come taxes, and would have to pay on the small tax payer, who is least
s most of the bonus. Mellon wants to able to pay, removing the burden of
1 club the West into line- He says our taxation as much as possible from the asked be if farm conditions in Okla
surplus annual revenue now amounts common people.
to something over $300,000,000, we can 1 We can do this, and yet have a suf
> reduce income taxes in that amount by ficient surpus revenue to pay an ade
a re pea' of the laws requiring their ( piate compensation to the service boys
: collection, but we cannot have this re ( Moving pictures are a common neces-
, auction of ta.\es and a soldiers bonus sity, and patronized by al of the peo-
^at the same time,
I told the President that I did not
believe there was a congressional dis-
tr.ct in the I nited States where the worry, often cause more physical fatl
citizenship was more typically re
presentathe of America’s ideal agricui
tural, city, town, village or country
In company with Senator Harrelu I lite, and in the language of W. W.
England, speaking for the city of Enid,
i meant every word of it. —M. C.
GARBER, Me nber of Congress.
“Live and let live.” is the large-
lettered motto sign of a drug store in
Lone Wolf, Oklahoma- When I look-
ed at it, I said to myself, “I wouldn’t
be afraid of medicine coming from a
store with such a sign. It ought to
he an insurance against fatalities "
At Elk City they have a laundry,
with a sign—
the World for its Size-’ 7 ’
distinction of being one of its patrons
during my recent Get-Together Week
there.
Going along an Elk City street, and troubles. Don’t indulge in self
headed for the post office, I saw a pity ; when you feel this coming on
loud-speaking sign. It was in the get out in the open, take a walk, or
window of a shoe repair shop and on get in some game that will set the
a small card. “If the tongues of your blood to circulating and your mind will
shoes could talk, they would say, ‘Save lie that much better off to solve the
my sole!” | problems.
A Weatherford drug firm blazons
out, on far road-sides: “In business for
your health.” What else could it ex-
ist for? Yet people are taking leaa
'ind less drugs and more and more the
v-e may not mak. out any return or
pay any tax direct, yet if we attend cost $242,000,000 for the first three nut on the subject
* moving picture show, or send a tele
graph or telephone message, or in
Alulge in soft drinks, or purchase drugs $>100,000,000 per year surplus revenues
or jewelry , et cetera, a tax is added to
the regular charge, and we pay it. The
large business enterprises of the coun-
try required to pay an income tax sim-
ply add it to the cost of the goods, and
3ve pay it Sears Roebuck, Marshal!
Field, International Harvester Coni- regard to the Mellon proposal. It will
kany, and the Moline Plow Company, remove the taxes a far a possible
imd all the other merchandizing and ( from those least able to pay, and levy
manufacturing concerns simply add them upon those who are able to pay,
•the tax to the cost of the goods, like. but who will be unable to pass them ] message, and that would mean legi:
they do the freight charges, and we along. This is nothing more than lative considertion
pay it. There is a class, howeves,1 right. Taxes should be levied on the as Senator Capper told me, outside
that is somewhat different. The men property and paid in the degree tha>
lof great wealth who are not engaged the property enjoys the protection of j freight rates there is but little addi-
in manufacturing or merchandizing the government, modified of course to tionaliy that can be done at this time
"but who simply invest their money in
(stocks or Ioans are hit the hardest. It
ps more difficult for them to pass the
,tax along especially since the govern
ment Is loaning money through its
karious agencies. This class of mer
have been calling in their investsents.
and investing thier money in tax ex- ' burden but a financial relief to every
empt securities, the investment of community.
which now totals about $10,060,000, -j
some extent by its earnings.
We believe that the country not on
ly demands a tax reduction, but reduc
tion of freight rates; stabilization of, experience,
prices for agricultural products, and
an adequate compensation for the ser-
vice boys. The latter will not be a
I saw a versity. His comments, therefore, on
fine drug store in Oklahoma City, affairs in Europe are timely. They
try . If they give him the existing [ down town on Grand avenue, with (cannot fail to raise the question in the
facts the basic industry should get, some show cases near the front full of reader’s mind how the United States
some consideration in the President’s ladies silk hose!
A laundry in one town desired to ap-
But yet after all, peal to men that the drudgery' of fami ■
ly washing be turned over to them
during the hot weather. This was
their sign on a large bill-board:
“Don’t abuse your wife!
Let us do the dirty work!”
Send in any unique, good sign motto
that you happen to see. Let’s have
some more talk on signs, a bit later on
—(Copyrighted)
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Switzer, H. I. The Blackwell Times-Record (Blackwell, Okla.), Vol. 31, No. 14, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 6, 1923, newspaper, December 6, 1923; Blackwell, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1588918/m1/3/?q=coaster: accessed June 11, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.