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——— 7 | Pe ; ; peter THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1924 By Bilky De Bex] PANSPEAITY IN PROSPECT FOR SV EY WORD! Nou. LISSEN DUKE® ITSA © FacT=I AIN'T. Got A DME! Cos em Tet You, WHAT NTIRE COUNTRY, MELLON of3 be eames Badin HIS 1S APPALLING TLL DO—--- | tae MY HORSE AGAINST aa saying that surely, it -- 3 to rt mean in the tin’ uel ‘Sasvostnon? SES Gt Postinued business and industria, ex: | heavy tax burdens for the states and x | ; WINNER “TAKES, pansion. The traffie-handled by the | municipalities. For the federal gov- REEL ECD railroads continues at almost ernment, he said, {t means that ‘so How's aD levels, and many roads are return-| Jong as high surtax rates are effec- tive the posseasors of large fortunes will continue to avoid the federal levy by investment in the tax. ex- ing to a dividend-paying basis after years cf financial difficulties and struggles to build up road and equip- ment to a basis of efficiency, The building and au jtive industries are prosperous arid in turn are big ictors in maintiming the country’s general prosperity. ‘| “While recovery of beg amendment limiting the’issue of’tax exempt obligations, but suggested a more immediate remedy in the form of changes in surtax rates, as pro- poked a year ago by. the treasury. “A reasonable tax rate will make elaborate, expensive | methods. of avo‘dance unprofitable,” said Mr. Mellon. “A reasonable rate of tax will make the administration of the tax laws more simple of accoimplish- ment. “There is, in addition to the in- tricacies of our income tax and the impessibility of a strict enforcement, # much more serious effect. of ex- cessive taxation, both income: and estate, on our industry and initia- (Contingea from Page One.) Z a memfce, saying that. surely, has been: slow it has been substan- tial, and today, due largely to chang- ing conditions in world crops and word markets, faces a new era. The maladjustment between agriculture and other industries has been re+ moyed, and.the farmer is nearly re- stored to his proper status in the aes se - economic system.” 4 er 4 But American commerce and {n- dustry must’ maintain an anchor to the windward in future world trade, aa ees E 7 the secretary said, for, as America aT has recovered, 80 now Europe is be- ; NOW THERE ARE NO P SHOW 1 PROMISED NOT TO v coming stabilized. Mr. Mellon gave} tive. To make a new venture, to, ; MCRE OF THESE SHARES WHET A COINCIDENCE! oe aE OF BREATHE A WORD ABOUT credit to. the Dawes reparation plan | start a new business, to build a 7 FOR SALE BY THE COMDaNY. 1 CON GET JUST 330 THE BEST GEOLOGIST IN THE = THIS NEW STONT, WALT, as providing a foundation of eco-| new building, to construct and not 1 LHAVE PICKED OD A Few SHARES ‘AT $10 EACH. STATE 7 DION'T HE SAY THAT BUT IT'S A WINNER. HE'S nomic recovery there. W) declar- | just sit.passive, means risk. Where + FROM INDIVIDDAL OWNERS— AS SOON 46 WE START THE. CONFORMATION OF THE NOT SUPPOSED TO TELL y ing improved conditions’ in Europe} that risk involves) capital, the prob- } THE LAST To BE HAD. A DRILLING THEY'LL ROCKS INDICATES THE, ANYBODY HIMSELF, BUT meant beneftis to the United States, BARBER INVESTED $ OOO t able rate of return must compensate TLL SQUEEZE YOON ey Mr. Melicn. d@gued that ‘cheaper pro- | for the risk. Yet the law Sc says IT, YOO LEAVE IT TOME. . 1 | duction and lower living standards to the man of large! income: ‘If you abroad would force closer calcul@-| jose on your venture, you will pay tion here in wor'd market selling. | 100 per cent of the loss; 4f you win, “Those countries (concerned with | the law will take 50 per cent of your the reparation question) ae io profit.’ " ready developed a new mental at- pres titude and outloo! the treasury Pi Sie dt iain pe stictaas the chief said, “and ‘something of the}. etary as one of the futile at- old time industrial vigor and thrift | tompts to check avotdance of the are,returning. The effect of a more high tax rates and yet not perialize prosperous Europe means the broad: | iegitimate transactions, He said ening of our markets and opportun- | there was “grave doubt’* as to ities; and a quickening of our ec-| tient of congress to impose a tax cit onomic development. The situation gifts at all, and that the manner in America looks more favorable for | Sryey'tjng" ana tnat the 2 ice sound find orderty economic develop-| naa placed on the Internal Revento ment that at any time since the! bureau the duty of passing judg: War. * ni Turning to the purely domestic ‘aan to det rnb ection Mac iseag : j question of a gestion, paley. mh ft” involved since the | 3 3 ff Mellon suggested ce : H ‘ Soenit teva tts power. to'des statute compelled the interpretation ‘ stroy, it seemed the advisable course DUMP TO 25. YOURE A LUCKY MAN, p PY ? z RICHEST ONDEVELOPED FIELD IN THE SOUTHWEST? IN THE SAME COUNTY { LAST YEAR AND Is Now | ‘ WORTH $250,000. / = OOo wm Bur | HAVEN'T $5000. 4 ONLY HAVE $3300. SORE YOULL STRIKE OIL ? oo 23 to lay dewn a program for levying | taxabi taxes that would permit commerce blictty provisions of the - © ustry to expand rather than Deve: tol we knew we could jump direct from [ rounded by precipitous snow capped | ander Chirikov, the first navigators reed its Hfeblood. He reiterated ent law should be repealed, the see- R f L ie | Ni G A DVEN T U RES Sumner. strait to Chatham strait | peags, to explore this coast, nearly 200 his views, those Which caused the Bertone Leepatp Pgs they were F. ar f uh ary Bor falgnt oF lank peat “We were ehtranced by the sight }7“°™ (continued Tomorrow.) bitter political battled of the last #es-| penalizing publication by poeta 1 4 Christiana sound, past Cape. Decis- | BUt on the following day we were to cial of congress, a cae atten pers of the income tax returns were : A fe Abn ty 2 ee yn to recommen: ions an eae ; 4 Pacitic | 8¢¢ #t under different circumstances | ¢.444 things to tat and home-made| 110! fi enacted alongside of them. IF THE WORLD | FLIERS ries oiics eee SN irs | cme seem oeiocrmee| tn co Sito ws | Manteno nation. But when he tried to cut | ad picked a more sheltered spot for | given by the women of First Congre-| Previous secretaries of the itiear? UAnecessary violation of the right of F across this neck of Imnd the clouds |!8 capital. A storm came up that | gationad church, Friday, December 6.| sury, eee under another political! privacy which should be insured to 1,1 (Continued from Page One.) Crowd Greets Them. were speeding along. entirely alone | dropped down so low that we were | P27ly Abt capi our wpe ase ihe fled 84. for ge eg F ‘ued the con-| #1 citizens in the’ spirtt of the Firth ‘lowed Smith past the Indian town| “Word from Prince Rupert had|@bove the tortuous channel! of the| fuyced almost to the tree tops and | *% sales sii oe aaa Ada rs une class: tinged on pata Teacrtiitl 1 Metlakahtla, made famous by |beenswired to Ketchikan that we | inside passage. had to turn back and take the long | ¢xped! -! ~3 2 ther Duncan, a missionary who| were on our way, and as We came| “So long as our engines kept run-| way. = es voted his entire life to educating | along under the clouds, flying low | ning we were prefectly safe; but we| “It was. while we were turnin, | ‘a protecting the Indians. Without | over the narrow channel between | knew that in the mirrorlike waters | that Hank lind I nearly floundered ¢ ther Duncan's help they would] Gravina and Bevillagigedo islands, | below us were submerged rocks on|on rocks. We happened to get into 1,ive been killed off by disease and | we came within a hundred yards of | which many a ship had ripped open | the ‘wash’ from the Chicago. If you appeal that congress should not e white man’s liquor long, long | the cannery piers that run out into | her hull in ‘98. That was in the days| have never been in a plane when it launch on any new program that 0. There are few white men in the] the waters of Clarence strait from| before these water had been well| has dropped into the ‘wash’ of an- would) cail for additional: outlays of r north who have been more loved | this little Alaskan city that clings | charted.and when every old hulk on| other plané, in your wildest imagi- the Pacific coast was mustered into | nation you will never be able to con- ? s service to transport the gold mad | jure up a picture of what it 1s Nke ; z hordes who came from the far cor-|and what a shiver it sends down ners of the garth to ship from San | your spine. The propeller wash from Francisco and Seattle. to Skagway] another machine is like a horizontal and then’to ‘mush’ over the ice of | cyclone. It shakees’ and flips your @hiikoot pass and flogt dewn on rafts | ship about ina series of crazy man- through the boiling water of Miles] euvers. We were only twenty feet canon, and White Horse ‘rapids to] off the ground at the time, so we thé gold fields of the Kondike. couldn't dive dowsi out of it without ‘Both in Seattle and Prince Ru-| smashing up on the rocky coast. of pert we met many men who had fol- | Kuiu. islind. We managed to get lowed the lure of gold. And as we | out of it by swinging to one side. flew up this route of Alaska in our | But it was a close thing. mind's eye we could see that gold} “Kcrt thirty miles now we flew argosy in tip days of '93, éach ship | without seeing anyland, and as that black wi appropriately clad peo- |} was the longest we had been over ple from New York, London, Paris, | the oven sea since the start of the South Africa, Australia and Mexico;| world fight we got a bit of a kick card sharps, farmers, bunco steerers, | ut of It old prospectors from the Gret Harte Sitka a Gorgeous Sight. .cerymen and aul} “At 1:10' Prince Rupert time or her for Paizo time, with the air per- Another Narrew Escape. | fect'y clear and calm, we flew over “This flight from Prince Rupert to| the harbor of Sitka, with its charm: Sitka, a distance of approximately | ing (ld world Rossian church, the 300 miles, took us from 9:20 a. m.| city that was made the’ first capital : until 1410. Next to the thrill of sud-}}f Alaska in 1804. by Alexander ‘ Gays after insertion. No republica- denly coming upon the Alaskan city | Baranof, head of the Russian Amer- i teal wal be made when the cee of Ketchikan, with its picturesque | tean company. . rege! eee affect the. sense location and wds waving to us,| “It was a gorgeous sight. Sitka is Pur Nas the flight .w: comparatively un-| one of the most picturesquely situ- A . eventful until it 11 a. m,, when | ated towns 'that we saw on. our flight we were flying over the’ water to| around the globe, A fringe of small i the right of P ules island. | islands covered with evergreen trees EE DREAMS of a suepeyaageing tye re By flying ov ow neck of} fies ucrcss the mouth of the: harbor that will take him out with his pals—make him Must bL accompani: cash cand only a mile wide on Kulu island’ and on the other three sides it is sur- healthy, strong pata echoed worth- cheok ep Dastent of the ., i — 5 Note the foregoing while things outdoors. about counting the ‘words . Tato per word for the Casper Delis ~ The bicycle is the heritage of every red-blooded THPURS CLOSING HOUR. youngster—give yours one this Christmas. You : Went Ads to be classified properly » can make no finer investmertt in clean, wholesome Ottice before 10, Want Ads roeens i after 10 to 12 a. m, (will be insert 3 man-making. ci @ head ‘Too t ment house, tamil spat 101 5 cal iW. bee a POSITIONS WANTED — I WANT work, steady fob as janitor anytime. Am deaf and dumb but can work. Have wife and two i Wal babies. 278 West B, Lieutenants Wade (eft) and Ogden (right) leaving Picton, N. toffi t N. §., postoffice Se peers nee urea oreerparpeesserrueed t with pects : : rar WAITRESS wants: work. ¢ Call at 1 ie, Pacific and Atlantic 162 N. Durbin. han this old priest, who was virtu. | to the side of , mountain. b ate ‘ x beta REWARD ifor any person frit ly an uncrowned king among the| ‘The wharves, all built on piling, i f i ‘ B- 128, “Tribune. chat her Meee ro Mo ep ae poeberediaal Par eeogerd Nira i HT l ee. ee ae since the days of the gold rush to | !=dians and Chinese salmon packers : | re SH VEER Ii! | MIDDLE aged woman would dike ho. ¥londike in "98 there 1 from the canneries, all waving fran- ye ; $$$ position as housekeeper for sirigle : Pai vig or su off the water, in fact 0 close ed sre Se Ses pt sa or man Tuna north of nts: | cr geet the, water, fe #Net wo clone MAKE THIS CHRISTMAS A HAPPY ONE Hox Bad6, ‘Tribune . Jack coud throw kisses for the ik: ae Zk” cui ‘throw "kinte forthe WITH A BICYCLE FROM Pianos Puan ; | kan waters, just off ¢ Fox, we | could even the grins on the hid s, Phonographs, Etc. | of, Annette island and , “Although: the thunde® of our me ° Ore AATEC Slide teamibone, or: wilt rst important. to tors made it Impossible for us to |* TT rade for most anything. Box Ice chest,’ fee Uncle a empire | hear a sound, we could tell from the SECOND, AND" WOLCO pecceliad 5) Pel cba 2S es of the north was sarcastically called | steam spurting wp fram them that only fifty-seven years ago when Sec- | every cannery and steamer whistle hes one ad eee ing Pte retary of State Seward bought] in Ketchikan was screeching out a tor, quicte ee - E ‘k sale. 1211 EB. Second, ba Alaska from Russia for $7,200 000 come A FULL LINE OF CLA SY aulciean ane { tut when we ached Sitka, A as. Over the Gold Rush Trail. 8 BIK S FOR Cc HRISTM AS a ballin kas ans told us that enough fish had A moment later and the wooden At the en. packed in ice at Ketchikan | streets, canneries, totem poles, fish: a aie | . For Rent—MisceNaneous né to pay. Uncle.@am for Alas ng fleet, and Indian village of |When Lieat. Leigh Wade lost his plane through an aécident near the | ( ASPE : ope ten tae ‘ ny times over, Ketchikan {x the | Ketchikan were a mere memory, «lend of the world fMeht, army officials ruslied another one to him at In: | O F a 1 f pice where they ‘ent what they can | sort of phantom city somewhere be-'dlan Harbor. ‘The picture shows workmen at Langley field, Wa busy oy bo OR RENT—Sowing machines, $8 and can*what they can’t.” hind us in the mist. Once’more we Wade's relief ship, another Douglas cruiser. (Pacific and Atlantic Photo) 229 EAST FIRST ST, cies. "Brooke, 74 “tet rd om N ! <acnedeiamne vi Wit