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Show g PREVENTS .ssmssasas 1-KNOCKS 4 -WEAR 2-rRICT10N 5-CARBON 1 3-C0RR0S10N 6-SLUDGE 1 your car myys&-fJ&f1' I FEWER REPAIRS j MORE MILEAGE It costs no more I Travelers Gil Co. ! I West ( So Tumple - 21st So t 9Ui tot WASTE IS UNPATRIOTIC PRESERVE with PAINT The Paint Pot Preservation Headquarters Dial 7-2291 "Makes the World Brighter" ORNAMENTAL IRON PORCH RAILING Granite Welding & Wire Works 2021 South 11th East Dial 6-8345 WANTED TO BUY Private party par-ty will pay cash for used sewing sew-ing machine. Call evenings or Sunday 7-1392. BUY ONLY GOOD COAL Dial 7-1523 "LOBB'S on the JOB-SUGAR JOB-SUGAR HOUSE COAL CO. 2191 Highland Drive ' - - How the Proposed Chain Store License Tax Would Affect YOU You will have a chance to vote on this tax at the November election. It will be No. 2 on the ballot. You will want to think about it and talk it over with your family and friends for UNLESS IT IS DEFEATED it will have serious effects on your pocketbook. What is it a!l about? farm and range products. They buy millions of . i , , . , , : j , . dollars worth of these products every year. If A small but highly organized group of competi- r . , , c , . . the chain stores are taxed out of business, you tors has been trying tor a long time to cripple . ' , . ,, , TT ,, , . rr-, i will lose an important and profitable market for and eventually destroy Utah s chain stores. They r r r ,.i u i j your farm and range products. It will take don t like the way chain stores keep prices down. J f k So they wrote a tax bill and lobbied it through money ou o your poc e the last session of the legislature. But more than Hefe are tfae provisions of this -death tax OB 54,000 Utah voters protested-and signed a peti- chain stofes Notice how drastjC) h(Jw one.sided tion to put it before the public at the next general and lmfair thev are: election, this coming November 3rd. Because chain stores help you in one way or an- other, you have a real stake in this issue. And ... nif T 1 J 1 C TAV U till f you, with other Utah voters, can decide what the WHY IHIdlAAWUULU outcome shall be. DESTROY CHAIN STORES It would be an extra tax on YOU! Here's why: Briefly, the tax would compel 123 chain ; stores, out of a total of some 6000 stores The chain stores like J. C. Penney, Sears in Utah to pay a yearly license of as Roebuck, Montgomery Ward and Safeway, for much as $500 each and would compel example save you money. You know that. these stores to pay as much as $5000 Chain store prices average at least 10 less evel7 year for every new store opened ,.., , or for any store moving to a new loca- and these low prices also tend to keep prices in . .,, . . , . . , , , tion. All this would be tn addition to other stores lower than they otherwise would be. the yearly average of $6517 p,,,. If the chain stores are saddled with extra taxes, store they already are paying, they will have to raise their prices or close their Many of the stores just couldn't afford to doors. Thus all prices will go up and you will pay an extra $500 a year without raising actually be paying the tax in higher prices for the their prices. None of the stores could things you buy. P055!" PY a tax of for the ' ' privilege or moving to a new location This is no time for extra taxes that do not aid or for opening a new store. This $5000 America's war effort. This proposed chain store yearly tax would freeze chain stores in tax would benefit only a group of selfish com- their present locations. But without free- petitors who want to get chain stores out of dom to move' as conditions change, any , store sooner or later would wither and the way. die If yOU have a farm or livestock Within a few years, if this tax is not de- 1 feated by Utah voters, there would be no Heres another way the tax would fall on you: low-price chain stores in the state. Utah's chain stores are a good market for Utah NO. 2 IS A TAX ON YOU Vote AGAINST No. 2 (The Chain Store Death Tax) This political advertisement was paid for entirely with contributions from citizens, including stockholders and employees of chain stores whose savings and jobs are threatened with destruction. destruc-tion. Contributions from individual citizens will be welcomed. United Citizens Against Higher Prices, Continental Bank Building, Salt Lake City. Rena Maycock Badger, Secretary. iHire but the work is easy, f or Lfl ' Pl Y-7 I use my full staff of rc Servants " Th shortage of domestic help doesn't bother us. You see, our family is fortunate. We happen to have a full staff of Electrical Appliances. And what a joy these Electric fiervants have been and will continue to be to us as we cook electrically, protect food electrically, heat water electrically, wash and iron electrically, clean electrically and so on all electrically!" jrUTAH POWER & LIGHT CO Reddy Kilowatt Power the world's finest electric Jf50t J service produced for you by American business men Py 'wMBONDi ,ht iind f f0Uer 'ba "rt'" 9 f tb na'("' |