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Show i rage 4 4i I" r rc y I WHY YOU HEAR SQUAWKING So far as we have been able to observe kinds of taxes : good taxes and bad taxes. nere taxes are those that are levied upon 0lfierk and bad taxes are those that make us pay. Likewise, there is wise expenditure of nuhii ern05eJ, foolish expenditure of such funds. Wise expenditure promotes our idea of a public (and may afford us an opportunity for a little profit side) and foolish expenditures are those which soO Good I can judge, do not directly put cash, or benefit s kets. ln If you will thoroughly understand the distinct we make in regard to taxes and expenditures you able to understand a great deal of the squawking-hear ina roundabout. A INEXCUSABLE DELAY The 'House Ways and Means Committee for a which will be a mystery to consumers apparently dod think that repeal of the wartime excise taxes is an imm need. In any event, it resisted all attempts to give priori? their repeal, and.it now looks as if there will be no S before July 1. To assure action at all, it may be necessary for ap' many more people to make their views on these taxes hj to their Congressmen. Continuance of the taxes, now that) war has long been over, amounts to a breach of faith. were strictly emergency measures, designed as mrf reduce production of items as to raise reve They prevent full production and employment in the r industries which they affect. Retailers have testified thdy are a strong barrier to sales in many lines. Andt have jacked up the cost of living another notch for ml J of consumers. These taxes apply to such things as baby oil, cosme: costume jewelry, furs, transportation tickets, long disir telephone calls, and so on. Thus, they are not luxury tc in any reasonable meaning of the term. Most of the goods services they hit are regarded as necessities and sei cessities in a country with high living standards. Congress, should have repealed these taxes Refusal to act is inexcusable. . non-milita- ry i Tho Low Down From On Hickory Grove A . You know, sometimes you figure your congressman is not the guy you thought him to be when you voted him in. He acts pretty odd -- at times supports all kinds of fancy plans, dishes up big Govt, mazuma for plowing under too many eggs, too much corn. He okays cash for reclaiming more farm acres alongside the very acres that are already producing too much corn, too much wheat. Well folks, I agree with you the guy must have a deficiency of starch in his vertebrae but at that I am not writing him off as a complete fizzle and failure. With a helping hand he might be salvaged, and here is. how keep readin be patient. A fellow here at Hickory , he sells automobiles says, citizens, lets get any hand-owe can from the Govt. If we dont get it, some other place will get it, he says. Well now, right there" is how and where tough sleddin creeps in on Mr. Congressman. If the people back home voters are looking for a Govt, ante, you see where that puts Senor Congressman. If every commercial club in oiir U.S.A. would tell its startSecretary to lay-oing a campaign for more matching"' money for 'an-- " other swimming pool, airport,, or what have you, it could work wonders. Like not ..shootin the piano player who is not so hot, but is maybe doing his best, our Congressman is all we have he needs encouragement. Yours with the low down, ' JO SERRA. ut ff X the Beam The V' century and a half is not long in the history of nations and it is hard for Americans to realize, at A weekly newspaper published in times, that the United States is the interests of the residents of comparatively youthful, scarcely Davis County, at Layton, Utah. yet touching anywhere near matter at Entered as second-clas- s Act of under the e Just one hundred sixty-onyears Layton, Utah, 1879. March 8, ago, on April 30, 1789, George oftook the of oath Washington Published By fice in New York and became the INLAND PRINTING CO. first President of the United Phone: Kaysville 10 States. The life of the young republic was a matter of misgivings OP THE- MEMBER,abroad and there was considerable concern in the late colonies lest the UTA1I STATE KttSS ASSOCIATION people refuse to support the newly NATIONAL EDITORIAL establishd union. jburiUAL QlfliGM? miWmtmmmim - ASSOCIATION The vast natural resources available, together with the industry Natl. Advertising Representative and application of our early set- Newspaper Advertising Service. - 222 No. Michigan Ave. tlers, combined to make possible economic the greatest development Chicago, 111. that the world has seen. Some part Subscription: $1.00 Per Year of our growth can be attributed, no Payable in Advance. doubt, to the wise decision of the In combination with young nation to have free trade The Weekly Reflex, $3.00 per year. between the several states. Albert W. Epperson Editor Manager THE COUNTRY PRESS SAYS Richard O. Anderson AMERICA, ALABAMA, News Editor Just as the night V. Woolsey J. follows the day, so government aid Display Advertising Manager to the individual is followed by Ernest R. Little government control of the Classified Advertising Manager Indecision Can Ruin Your Life CORA GASWICK, San Jose, Calif., is connected f real estate company, so naturally her mind runs to. some business for herself in this line. The result was that went out and borrowed some money to build two houses, sounds all to the good for houses were milch in demand and the terrible shortage was in full force. . DIXIE-AMERICA- N:: WALDEN, NEW YORK, CITIZEN HERALD: The average hid- oppose anything like a national poden tax bill of 43 million taxpayers lice force. . . receiving $5,000 or less per year, DENVILLE, NEW JERSEY, is over $500. HERALD: High prices to farmBesides these hidden taxes, of ers low prices to consumers may course, we have the visible ones sound wonderful. But whos going that we see as we pay. Is it any to make up the difference? You wonder that your dollar doesnt do will, not once but many times over, because youll have to pay not only much for you any more? POMEROY, OHIO,' SENTINEL: the difference in the cost of the The suggestion that a national food, but. for a gigantic government organization to run the syspolice ..force be created to work on tem. Arent you carrying enough criminal cases now under the jurgovernment employees on your local of state and isdiction police is back now? blasted by J. Edgar Hoover, director of the FBI. DE LEON, TEXAS, FREE Whenever the Government of PRESS: An awakening to the imthe United States operates a po- portance of local government will lice force, under orders from a result in more citizens rencentral agency in Washington, the dering service asbusy members of city, machinery would be available for county and local school governing dictator to stifle the bodies just for the sake of doing any would-b- e liberties of the people of the coun- their part toward bulwarking detry. For that reason, we certainly mocracy at its foundation. That is, it was all to the good except that the loans she secured swamped her. She didnt see her way clear unless those houses were finished quickly and a ready turn over made. Builders were hard to keep on the job; carpenters, too, were in demand. But along came a piece of good luck: two months after the houses were completed, in midsummer, she sold one of them. The second one however failed to bring a purchaser. She inserted the cleverest advertisem she knew how to write. To no purpose. it . u thoughtX She talked about that house wherever she might get around about it to a possible would-b- e owner-picame to look, they passed on out to either discuss or i n The latter proved to be what they did. J Came fall, winter. Christmas was at hand. The seCJL5 still was her own. She became worried. In fact, she f much that she was unable to sleep, lost her appetite, j suffered. Also she found that she was floundering hj . sions. She had never quite decided whether she wante this one, or sell it. One day, she decided that to rent it was th thing to do; the next day, she made up her she should take what profit she could get and r Then one night, she made up her mind definitely she would rent it in two weeks or she would move into j Now her mind cleared; she knew what she would u She wasnt worried. ) On Christmas night came a telephone call. Someon j to see her house. This time when she showed that wasnt worried. Her mind was clear and her selling The papers were drawn, the sale was made. . e . . . ( |