Show r 1 r w wJ J Released by Western Newspaper Union SHOULD BE DIRECT NOT INDIRECT TAX WHEN WE TAX business we tax production and distribution When we tax production and distribution we tax the consumer This is is the hidden tax we hear about Taxes are a part of the cost of production and distribution They are a part of the cost of a product That additional cost is added to the selling price of the product or prevents prevents prevents pre pre- vents a lowering of the price if economies economies economies econ econ- of production would otherwise lower it If production business bus business production and distri distribution dis dis- tri did did ution-did did not pass on to the consumer the increased cost occasioned occasioned occasioned occa occa- by taxes business would soon be bankrupt and the consumer would lose by a loss of jobs We Ve are all a a. part of American I business and all are dependent on its continued operation All of us are concerned directly or indirectly with production and distribution When the politicians tax business directly they tax all of us indirectly indirectly indirectly in in- directly as much or more than any direct tax would have amounted to Politicians looking to their personal personal personal per per- future future future-a a continuance of their jobs jobs attempt attempt to mislead the massof mass massof massof of Americans by boasting of their intention to take from business the money needed to pay for the extravagances extravagances extravagances of government and they succeed in putting over such a misleading misleading misleading mis mis- leading idea Men well versed in in finance and industry well qualified to speak on the subject tell us that before we weare weare weare are through with the present world holocaust the federal government will be facing an indebtedness of a sum so great that it is impossible to conceive what it means In the face of such a prospect congress does not attempt any economies in the normal operations operations operations opera opera- of the government Despite the fact that more than thana a m million men are now in the armed forces of the nation that industries engaged in providing implements of preparedness for ourselves and war materials for England are providing providing providing provid provid- ing work at high wages for millions of men and seeking more help our relief costs do not come down We are still spending billions for relief The politician is not nt willing to sayto say sayto sayto to those who prefer the meager meager meager-liv living liv- liv ing a government dole provides to working for a better living that they must either work or starve The receivers receivers receivers re re- of relief vote and the politician politician politician poli poli- will not jeopardize that vote We Ve must prepare for defense We must have battleships airplanes tanks merchant ships all the implements implements implements im im- needed for war But we must also prepare for the future and it will be a dark future if we weare weare weare are to face a national indebtedness indebted indebted- ness of Congress should economize in every practical and possible way and it should levy an honest tax and collect it in an honest way so each individual may know what he pays a a direct instead of an indirect tax PIONEER SPIRIT STILL ALIVE ORANGE CALIF is a little city of people typical of the Golden state sta te It was founded by pioneers who stopped there when it was but buta a crossing place of trails Many of its first generation of settlers are still living They knew it when the spot on which the city stands andall and andall all the surrounding country was a sandy desert Their children see it itI I today as a modern small American city enjoying all the advantages I America offers and surrounded I by well-kept well prosperous farms ranches and orange groves I But the younger element clement is not permitted to forget its pioneer origin I witnessed the parade that is apart a apart apart part of each annual harvest festival The outstanding features of that parade were the covered wagons of the pioneers the prospector and his burro the cart of the pioneer peddler peddler peddler ped ped- and handyman handyman every every possible display of the hardships and simple pleasures of the pioneer as the foundation on which the city was built Interspersed with these were the brightly uniformed bands many of them from the various county high schools each led by step high ping girl majorettes and with modern modern modern mod mod- ern floats representative of city industries industries industries in in- and institutions But it was the evidences of the pioneer days that appealed to the people and caught and held the crowds These displays represented the spirit that is back not of Orange only but of all the towns and small cities of the West Nest That pioneer pioneer pioneer pio pio- neer spirit is not dead and will not die It is the American spirit OUR DEBT THEY TELL lELL US that to maintain a democracy it is essential that the citizens be informed One of the things we should like to be accurately accurately accurately informed about is is what we owe nationally including the liabilities liabilities liabilities ties of the numerous corporations corporations corporations corpora corpora- and administrations we have financed and whose debts we have guaranteed HOW MUCH would a real growl from the Russian bear frighten the Nazi wolf |