Show desert dust by johnston i in white salmon washington the other day delegates to the mid 1 columbia chamber of commerce dei de i aided that a uniform sales tax tor oregon idaho and washington Is the best method of lifting the tax burden from the real property that should do the job every poor devil that eats or wears anything then can help the tax for the boys that own the real j property as any sales tax will be pushed on to the consumer we are warned at present not to drink any french wine we are also warned not to use french perfumes and we might say a great many of these people that advocate this boycott has never been caught with any french wine in their cellars and smell like anything else but the lilacs of france but anyway we are supposed to absorb all the dago red we can handle that Is as long as italy continues to pay this beer you heard so much about by xmas well you did not get it we will have to be satisfied with our homemade home made brand made from canned malt blow files and small injections of rice and corn meal like the home spun clothes our forefathers wore not much for taste but hell for stout prohibition has cost the united states in the past 12 years yet we meet people every day that still contend that we are getting somewhere with it even our president until a few months ago thought it was a noble experiment since that time we have been unable to tell what he Is thinking about rates on livestock from provo utah to pueblo colo have been raised on the D R G W it Is only a matter of time until the growers of livestock can just drive their stock to the railroad pay the difference between the freight and what the livestock Is worth and go on about their business these defaulting nations have got herbert hoover up on his toes this gives him a chance to appoint another commission that Is if congress 1 will let him no doubt he will call it the war debt commission but the serial number will be walter F brown postmaster general explained to a congressional committee that he bought two expensive limousines with public money because the first one was not tall enough to permit him to wear his top hat in it on formal occasions now these cars only cost each it seems absurd to allow such trifling matters to get in the newspapers A stranger stepped oft the train the other day in a little desert town As he was carrying two large suit cases a native said going to stay with us a while mister yes replied the stranger 1 I have come out in this country to see it I 1 can make an honest living well said the native 1 I dont see any reason why you should not succeed you certainly have no competition around here place not thy confidence so much even in a friend as to put a weapon in his hand which he may in turn upon thyself A new machine that will stretch across miles of space for secrets of the earths weather believed hidden on the sun went into action recently the hazard ot ocean liners colliding at night Is reduced by a new funnel rising 68 feet above the top deck and brightly flood lighted is a new chemical which has been found useful at the university of michigan or use in tor heating substances where a temperature range from to degrees desired |