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WEALTHY ESCAPE
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Billions in Tax Exemption
Have Benefitted the Rich
•jjjr and Burdened the Poor
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Workers Are at End of Bur
den-Bearing Line, So
Must Pay the Great
er Amount
Washington.—Sixteen billion dol
lars' worth of tax free securities have
been issued in the last few years.
That is an estimate of tax experts
and statisticians who are engaged in
the hopeful undertaking of trying to
raise money for running the govern
ment both by levying taxes and ex
empting securities and still keep the
secret hidden from the people. But
the hard truth is that the government
has got to function and its function
ing must be paid for out of taxes. No
matter how much blather may be
bellowed by the tax experts and the
"stop-it-now-hell's-let-loose" exhort
ers for tax reform, the fact stands out
boldly that this tremendous volume
of securities has already escaped tax
ation, and their holders cannot be
reached by the tax collector. No ex
tended argument is necessary to prove
that these security holders are not
wage-eai-ners.
Without leveling an accusing finger
at any particular class of patriots
it is a safe conjecture that these se
curities are held by persons, corpora
tions and institutions able to pay
taxes without giving up any of the
necessaries of life or even foregoing
any of their normal comforts. The
soundness of this conjecture is shown
in the annual decline of federal in
come-tax payments since 1910. In
that year receipts from income taxes
from individuals were $992,972,985
A falling off in these returns to
$781,372,058 is noted for 1917. In
1918 they were cut nearly in half,
being $892,247,329. This is a drop
from 191(5 to 1918 of $600,725,616 in a
form of taxes which were originally
levied with the object of placing the
burden of taxation upon those best
able to bear it.
No account is taken by the tax ex
perts-of the natural increase in in
come taxes accruing through fortunes
made in war profiteering. It is likely
that these figures were too astounding
to include in their estimates because
of the possible effect upon those who
have to pay the war taxes out of
their blood.
Nor do the tax experts consider the
relation between the decline in in
dividual income taxes and the increase
in tax-exempt securities. In view of
the issuing of these tax-exempt securi
ties at a time when the ratio of in
dividual income taxes was being in
creased, and great fortunes were be
ing piled up by war contracts, it is
a reasonable presumption that the se
curities exempt from taxation wei
issued with the object of permitting
persons of large means to invest in
A REAL FLESH BUILDER
Argo-Phoaphate contains phosphates such
an physicians all over tbf world are presorib
in« to build up all run-down, anemic con
ditions and changing thin, anemic women
with toneless tissue!-,, flabby flesh into the
most beautiful, rosy-cheeked and plump, round
formed women imaginable.
NOTICE:- I)r. Frederick Jacobson Hays
Aivo-Phosphato builds up all run-down con
ditions in a few days wonderfully. a6
Eye Strain
Causes
Fatigue
O y o u e v e e e i e n e r
v ous and depressed after
a hard day's work?
That condition may be due
to the condition of your eyes.
Come in and let us test your
eyes. A well-fitted pair of
glasses may add consider
ably to your efficiency and
comfort.
SCHIPPER
JEWELRY AND OPTICAL CO.
156 High St. \y
Edgar K. Wagner:
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tjl*em and at the same time to escape
their just payment of the war debt.
No matter what may be done in
the future regulating or prohibiting
the issuance of tax-exempt securities,
the taxes which should have been paid
by the holders of the securities already
exempt have been shifted, and will
continue to be shifted, from those who
are best able to pay to those who are
least able to pay.
Stated- in plain terms, sixteen bil
lions of tax-exempt securities are
taxes lifted from the rich and put
upon the poor. The poor must pay
them, for they are at the end of the
burden-hearinu
line.
NEW MAGAZINE
''or Canadian Workers Will
Be Issued Monthly
Ottawa, Ontario.—Born—The Cana
dian Congress Journal, official maga
zine of the Trades and Labor Congress
of Canada. The publication is the
climax of resolutions adopted at the
Winnipeg convention of the congress
last August, which acted upon a re
commendation of the executive counicl
that "the time has arrived when the
congress should have an official jour
rial which could be placed in the hands
of our membership and furnish them
with necessary information to combat,
anti-union propaganda and also to ac
quaint them with developmehts tak
ing place in other countries of benefit
to the workers."
The policy of the official magazine
will at all times be controlled by the
executive council of the congress and
will harmonzie with the policies and
declarations of the annual conventions
of that body. It will be the endeavor
of the council to make the Journal
the medium through which the work
ers' legislative desires shall be given
the greatest possible publicity. The
congress primarily is interested in se
uring legislation in harmony with its
platform of principles decided annual
ly in convention. Its legislative activ
ities are dictated entirely by the need
of immediate improvement in the liv
ing and working conditions-of all wl
labor.
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Wages Are Unchanged
Timberworkers* Union
Calls Upon Workers
in Woods to
Organize
Seattle, Wash. -The lumber indus
try is on the upgrade, says a special
bulletin of the International Union o
Timberworkers. Large foreign orders
and a greatly delayed building pro
gram in this country will consume
more lumber than will be manufactur
ed for the next five years at least
The present price of lumber cannot
be charged to high wages paid to the
workers because there has been no
increase in wages. On the contrary
wages in some instances have been
cut. The lumber lords have a vit
tual monopoly of standing timber and
unless the workers in the industry
arouse themselves to the necessity of
thorough organization they will be at
the mercy of the timber monopoly
Investigation by the officers of the
international union, continues the bul
letin, shows that on 12 important
lumber items the average wholesale
price, f. o. b. mills, was $36.91. This
investigation also shows that since
August 1, 1921, the average increase
in price on the same 12 items is
$8.35, or an increase of 29 per cent.
Reports from the East and South show
corresponding increases, with a large
number of mills and camps in opera
tion, and with every indication that
they will all be running before many
weeks have passed.
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CONGRESS* AID SOUGHT
IORSIIFFERINi MJNERS
Washington. Appropriation ot
$500,000 is asked by resolution intro
duced in the house by Representative
Thomas, of Kentucky, for the relief
of suffering coal miners and their
families in Kentucky, West Virginia,
Alabama, Ohio and Pennsylvania, who,
because of unemployment, are in need
of immediate relief. Should the ap
propriation be made, the president of
the United States is authorized and
directed to expend the money through
such agencies as he may designate.
Instructor at The Cincinnati Cullage
of Embalming
I! Funeral Director
BETTER SERVICE 228 Heaton Street BETTER EQUIPMENT
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MOVE ALWAYS IS WESTWARD
How Center of Population Shifts—Lo
cated in Indiana for the Last
Thirty Years.
For 30 years the center of popula
tion In the United States has re
mained within the borders of the state
of Indiana.
The census of lf20 gives Spencer as
the town nearest tlie center of popula
tion. The exact point is 8 3 miles
southeast of Spencer, in the extreme
southeast corner of Owen county.
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According to the 1910 census the
enter of population was in the city
of Bloomington.
Following are the locations of popu
lation centers for the various census
es, with the distance of westward
movement in each decade:
1790—Twenty-three uiiles east of
Baltimore.
1800—Eighteen miles west of Balti
more 40.6 miles.
1S10—Forty miles northwest of
Washington 36.9 miles.
1820—Sixteen miles north of Wood'
stock, Va. 50.5 miles.
1830— Nineteen miles southwest of
Mooretield,
W. Va. (then a part of
Virginia) 40.4 miles.
1840—Sixteen miles west of Clarks
burg, W. Va. (then Virginia) 55.6
miles.
1850—Twenty-three miles southeast
of Parkersburg, W. Va. (then Virgin
ia) 54.8 miles.
1860—Twenty miles south of Chllll
coilie, O. 80.0 miles.
1870—Forty-eight miles east of Cin
cinnati 44.1 miles.
1880—Eight miles west
of
I'incin
nati 58.1 miles.
1890---Twenty miles west of Colum
bus, ind. 48.6 miles.
1900- Six miles southeast of Colum
bus, Ind. 14.6 miles.
1910—In the city of Blooiniugton,
Ind. 39 miles.
LARGEST KNOWN FOSSIL BONE
Discovery Made in Northern New
Mexico Is Interesting for More
Than One Reason.
The largest shoulder blade of any
animal on record, ancient or modern
has been discovered iu San Juan basin
in northern New Mexico by John B.
Ueeside, Jr., of the United States
geological survey. This scapula bone
is part of an immense extinct dinosaur
estimated to be over one hundred feet
long and markedly larger than any
previously known to have existed.
Charles 10. Uilinore of the National
museum in Washington has assembled
the collection of pieces of this fossil
scapula and has found that the total
length of the bone is more than five
feet, nearly as tall as a man. This is
five times the length of the shoulder
Made of a cow of today.
The large fossil was found in the
part of the earth that was deposited
and formed in the Upper Cretaceous
era, and this Indicates to the geologist
that the dinosaurs lived at a later
geologic time than they had previously
supposed. This fact has created more
stir in geological circles than the
size of the fossil.
Dinosaurs were large reptiles with
long necks, little heads and brains,
and long tails. Their bodies lool
somewhat like that of an oversized
elephant with hind legs longer thau
fore leg,s. They dominated the earth
in the days when the limestone beds
were laid, but for some reason dis
appeared from the earth to give place
to smaller and livelier animals.
Got a "Winter" Mark.
Paul, iti the first grade of school
brought home an exercise paper
which the teacher had marked with
a big cross from corner to corner
and demanded to know what the mar
meant. His mother explained that it
meant that the work was all wrong
The next day he brought home an
other paper, in great elation.
"1 got a better mark today," he
said. "1 was marked 'winter.' Lots
of other kids were marked 'winter
too.*'
His mother examined the paper, on
which the teacher, by way of variety
had inscribed a big cipher.
"Why, that's as bad as yesterday
the mother explained. 'That's zero
Why did you say you were marked
'winter'?"
"Well, winter Is zero, Isn't It?" re
sponded the youngster.—Exchange.
Machine Gun Back in 1778?
A controversy as to who first in
vented
machine
guns Is one of the
war's aftermaths in France.
Lyon puts forth the claim ol' a
M.. du Perron, who, in 1775, is said
to have submitted to the young King
Louis XVI, a military "orgue" which
worked on a crank system and could
tire twenty-four bullets almost simul
taneously, and consequently could an
nihilate a whole regiment in a few
minutes," according to a contemporary
record.
The new weapon appeared to be so
murderous that the king and his minis
ters rejected it, and its inventor was
held up as an enemy of humanity
The powers hostile to France tried to
secure the invention, but M. du Per
ron refused their offers from patriotic
motives and died in poverty.
Mushroom Grows Under Snow.
Mountain mushrooms are said by
the French Academy of Sciences to be
"the world's crowning gastronomic
delight." Professor Constantine, bot
anist, told the savants he had discov
ered a small mushroom which grow
under the snow, while hunting edel
weiss in the Alps at 7,000 feet alt!
tude. Several high-class restaurants
are starting Alpine expeditions.
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HITS AT INJUNCTIONS
Boston.—Amendment of the state
constitution to prevent "the growing
abuse of injunctions in labor disputes
is proposed by the State Federation of
Labor. The amendment declares that
"no restraining order or injunction
shall be issued by any court in any
case involving a dispute over hours
wages of conditions under which
working men and women are employ
ed."
THE BUTLER COUNTY PRESS
CREDIT CONTROL
HITS ALL
Washington.—Speaking in the sen
ate Senator Robert M. La Follttte, of
Wisconsin, declared: "During the pe
riod of high prices and apparent pros
perity the small properties which the
people have acquired by their indus
try and thrift are mortgaged on the
basis of their inflated value of the
dollar in order to provide them with
the working capital which they need
carry on and expand their enter
ises. Such mortgages are placet!
upon the farms, the small factories
and the stores of the tradesmen. In
the meantime prices inevitably- ad
vance faster than wages and several
times as fast as salaries. A point
is thus soon reached where the
amount of commodities which can bt
purchased by the people appreciably
declines and there is no longer a mar
ket for the full output of industry
Then comes deflation. Loans on
farms, factories, stores and homes are
foreclosed, and those who control the
credit of the nation come into posses
sion or control of the properties which
had been given as security for the
loans. Thus the financiers become the
residuary legatees of the nation's dis
tress. In ten years
the
mortgages
upon the farms of this country have
more than doubled."
COMPLETE VICTORY
Won By Ladies' Garment
Workers' Union
Washington.—-According to a tele
gram from President Benjamin K
Schlesinger to the officers of the
American Federation of Labor, the In
ternational Ladies' Garment Workers
Union has won a complete victory
over the manufacturers' association
The shops will be run strictly unde
the conditions, rates of pay and hour
of labor which) prevailed before the
lockuot November 14, and the manu
facturers will live up to all the terms
of the trade agreement until its expir
ation June 1, 1922, abandoning thei
demands for the piecework system
lengthening of the hours of labor from
44 to I!) a week, and a reduction of
wage- The settlement
nf
the lockout
MEN'S WORK
SHOES
Brown and black blucher
shoes with solid leather
soles regular $4.00 and
$5.00 values
Ladies' Black Kid Oxford.
with military heel
$2
50
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was ratified by all the unions involved,
the members of which will return to
ork at once.
Negotiations will be begun imme
diately between representatives of the
union and the manufacturers' associa
tion to formulate a trade agreement
for 1923-1923.
WIRELESS HELPS
I'AR.MERS
Washington. The first national
market report to be breadcast by wire
less anywhere in the world was sent
out by the United States department
of agriculture from the radio station
of the bureau of standards a little
more thar\ a year ago. Now reports
on the national markets are dispatch
ed daily by the department from wire
less stations of the post office de
partment, at Cincinnati, Omaha, Wash
ington, North Platte, Nebr., Rock
Springs, Wyo., Klko, Nev. These re
ports are received hy hundreds of ama
teur wireless operators. National
market reports are also received by
state bureaus of markets and agricul
tural colleges, supplanted with local
market reports, and relayed by wire
less telegraphy and telephone to fann
ers, shipping associations and other
agricultural interests.
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OLNEROITS
An
old manufacturer mi his death
bed, in makiiiv, his will, murmured to
his lawyer: "And to each of my em
ployes who have been with me 20
years or more 1 bequeath £2000."
"Holy smoke, what generosity!" the
lawyer exclaimed. "No, not at all,"
said the sick man, "you see, tione of
them have been with me over a year
but it will look good in the papers
won't ii?''—Liverpool
"o:d
Post.
ributed by Wtn. Limerick, Ham­
ilton, ()hio.
Baa Pa Ks
COST THEM $35 000,000
New York.—Employers who locked
out.
the
members of the Ladies' Gar
ment: Workers' Union last Novemlie
and broke their trade agreement with
the union h-ive lost $3.r,000,000 by
their folly,
s.iy
with the
The union, having broken
is stronger than ever.
LADIES' TAN OXFORDS
BLACK KID
OXFORDS
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those who are familiar
li.-iilaent-makine
industry
tlu- lockout
Tan Oxford with military
heel, regular $5.00 value.
INVESTIGATION
Do You Know That After March 1st This
Store Will be Closed Forever
We aie done. Y\ e me going out oi business iorever. We have only lour weeks to seii our stock and every
thing must be sold by March 1st. Now, if you want Real Bargains in Shoes do not miss this sale
CHILDREN'S
SHOFS
Black Kid and I'atcnt Leather
Button Shoes, solid leather
$1.
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Of Meddlers in Mexico Ask
ed For
Washington. Investigation into
the activities of American interests to
prevent recognition by the United
States of the Mexican government has
been asked in a house resolution re
ferred to the committee on foreign
affairs. Accompanying the resolution
was a statement that "there has been
for a long period carried on an active
propaganda- in the United States by
the national association for the pro
tection of American rights in Mexico
ind the association of American own
ers of land in Mexico particularly di
rected against article 27 of the Mex
ican constitution, regulating control of
mineral resources. It. is rather a
striking coincidence that each of these
concerns has its office at 32 Broad
way, New York. The chief opposi
tion to Mexican recognition and to
article 27 has been urged by power­
Dry Cleaning
Special Low Prices
Ladies' Jacket Suit $1.00
Ladies' Lon- ('oat, unlined $1.00
Ladies' Lonu, Coats, lined one-half way $1.25
Ladies' Lont» Coats, lined entirely $1.50
Gents' Suit $1.00
Overcoats $1.00
LADIES' HIGH
SHOES
!!ruwn and black lace
s: "OS
with Louis heels.
Kegular $5.00 and $(.00
values
Black Blucher
Black :111d Brown Silk Hose
LITTLE GENTS' SHOES
Shoes
all siy.es
Men's Shoes
Our Regular $5.00, $6.00 and $7.00 Shoes
Brown Lace Rlucher
Tan Calf English
Black Calf Blucher
Black Kid Blucher
Brown Calf English
THE PEOPLES C) SHOE STORE
218 High Street Opposite Court House
with
solid leather soles and heels.
Regular $'150 value—
$1 .98
LADIES' SILK
HOSIERY
Men! Do not miss this sale. These are i eai shoes. Every pair
Goodyear welt soles. They are all solid leather shoes
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ful American "oil interests holding
possession in the Mexican oil fields.
The office of one of these groups in
also at 32 Broadway. Much of the
unsatisfactory character of relation*
between the United States and Mexico
can be traced to the unofficial inter^
meddling of corporations interested
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WHEAT GROWERS ON STIUKK:/
Washington. Wheat growers in
this country are on strike, but no in-?
junction or industrial court suggest
tion is heard.
The department of agriculture re
ports that winter wheat was sown*
this fall on a smaller area by half
million acres than a year ago.
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Washington—The senate has auth^
orized the federal trade commission
to probe prices in the house furnish
ing industry. An attempt was made
to include grain and cotton exchanges,
but the motion was withdrawn when
Senator Wadsworth announced he
would block the original proposal if
the amendment passed.
The Hilz Bros. Co.
First Step Over the Bridge or Phone No. 4
Store open every evening until 9 p. m. We insure
your garments against fire and theft without
extra cost to you
LADIES' FELT
SLIPPERS
l,:idie'
I'VIt Slippers
all colors
$1
.00
BUST GO!