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Show LABOR AND SUPPLY BUREAU SERVICE Wanted Lady stenographer; throo drivers at $3.50 per day and board; boiler tenders and hands In sugar factory, Lowiston, $3. GO per day; carpenters and helpers, 40 to CO cents nnd hour; men on street work, $3.00 for eight hours; applo pickers and packers near Logan, pay by tho box; man with team. Men wanted to dig, top and haul 18 ncrcs of beets on contract. iFor Sale Teams, horses, cows, machinery, wagons, hay, vegetables und fruits. Tho bureau has been asked to explain ex-plain tho provisions of tho second Liberty loan, Its relationship to the first loan, and Just what tho purchase- of a bond means to tho purchaser. pur-chaser. Briefly, ns wo understand the matter, It Is about ns follows: Tho first war loan, that of last June, was for two billion dollars and bear 3 1-2 per cent interest. Tho second loan, for which subscriptions will close Oct. 27, next, will bo for three billion dollars and will bear 4 per cent Interest. In tho first ln-stanco ln-stanco tho government confined Its-self Its-self to accepting only tho amount nskod for two billion dollars but In the present caso It reserves tho right to accept subscriptions in ox-cess ox-cess of tho stipulated amount. Holders of bonds In tho first loan aro privileged to exchango tho same, dollar for dollar, for tho now four per cent bonds, and a Blmllar privilege privi-lege Is now offered for convorslon of thcBO present four per cents Into any future war loan at a higher rato of Interest. Tho first Liberty loan, together with Interest on same, was made ox-ompt ox-ompt from all taxation, oxcept ostato or inhoritanco taxes. This renders them free from not only tho normal tax but from any so-callod "supcr-pk "supcr-pk tax" on largo Incomes. Tho second J' loan, Ufo tho first, will bo oxompt ! from tho normal Income tax of 4 per 1 cent, but holders will havo to pay tho federal surtax on income from tho B bonds a tax which runs from 1 per I cent on incomes of $5000 to $7,500 I up to 50 per cont on incomes oxcod-H oxcod-H lng a million. This tax, of course, I will not attach to tho ordinary hold-1 hold-1 cr but only to thoso whoso Interest i amounts to $5000 or over. In this l It Is bolleved that tho oxtra Interest of ono-half of ono per cent will, toll to-ll gothcr with tholr feeling of loyalty, H lnduco tho b't buyers to Invest llb-m llb-m orally, am" .' " bo tho means of in-ej in-ej duelni' .i t numbers of small pur-M pur-M chaser , that tho masses of tho poo- plo will stand bohlnd tho government I in Its nppcal for assistance. 1 Tho English pcoplo subscribed will-I will-I Ingly to tho second war loan of $2,-I $2,-I 800,000,000 of 101G, to ono of $4,-i $4,-i 700,000,000 of 1017. Theso loans i woro subject to a normal incomo tax JH of somo 2G per cent, ns well as super-H super-H tax on great amounts. I Wo Americans accumulated tho 9 high Incomes and groat fortunes of H tho first two and a half years of tho H war without tho exhausting oxpcrl-M oxpcrl-M enco of participation In it. Now that in wo havo Joined tho war, It Is pro-Si pro-Si eminently our Interest as well as our duty to seo that tho conflict Is fln-H fln-H nncrd nnd fought to nn early finish. m You can buy bonds by paying two M per cent upon application, 18 per m cont Nov. 15, 10 per cent Dec. II, H nnd 10 per cont Jnn. 1G. Donomlna-H Donomlna-H tlons of tho bonds nro $50 or any I! multiplo of $G0. Thoy maturo in fc twenty-flvo years, but aro redeomablo W nt tho option of tho secretary of tho H trensury In ton years. They pay 4 IE1 per cent, payablo somi-annunlly. on H Novomber 1G nnd May 15 of each Hj year. H In purchasing a $50 bond, tho first jm (Continued on Page Six.) LAnOU AND SUPPLY BUREAU. (Continued from Pago Ono.) payment Is ono dollnr, then on Nov. 15, $9; Dec. 15, $20, and on Jan. 15 a final payment of $20. This makes It posslblo for farmora to subscrlbo and pay for their bond3 after marketing tholr crops. Tho government has tho power of taxation, and In tho evont that the necessary amount Is not roallzed on loans to It, tho only recourso will be to ralso tho money by taxation. And taxes do not pay Interest. Offlco In Commorclnl-Boostors' rooms. Phono 5G. |