The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1923-10-08

MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
We all want low taxes, but we
would all be indignant if we got low
taxes at the price which would have
to be paid. The price would be the
c~urtailment of road improvements
necessitating our travelling over
rough, or muddy roads, and the eliml-
nation of much of our educational
program. AS a people, no matter
how much we roar about the expense,
we insist on getting out of the mud
onto good roads, and having our chill
dren educated in the best schools,
with modern buildings and modern
equipment. The roads and the schools
are two big items of taxation expens-
es, but they are two that the majority
of people won't have trimmed very
much.
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The three convicts in the Eddyville
prison who killed two guards and
then b~arricaded themselves in the
kitchen, holding the fort for three
days, came out of it just as might
have been expected-dead. 1t doesn't
matter whether you defy right after
you are within the prison walls, or
while you are outside, the result will
be the same-you will get the worst
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instead of facing about and trying to
lead decent lives, while they were en-
during punishment for former wrong
doing, were rebellious and willing to
commit murder rather than pay the
penalty for their wrongs. 1t is that
spirit on the part of many a boy that
starts him wrong and keeps him go
ing wrong. For the good of the indi-
vidual and for the good of the public.
restraints in the form of laws are i'm
posed, and it is always dangerous, and J
usually productive of trouble, to go
beyond these. The three sEddyville
prisoners are another object lesson.
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A great many farmers are not MAX
ing very large profits nowadays, but
no farmer who is slipping need sur
pose that he is the only victim of the
disturbed after the war condition.
The fact is there are a lot OF others.
Doing business n~owadays-no matter
what the line-is not necessarily one
glad, sweet song With all this talk
of profiteering from one enc of the
country to the other, it is probable
that profits as a Whole never were
so small in proportion to invested
capital as they are now, n there
are about as many financial wrecks
in the city as on the farm. Yakima
Republic.
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If the truth were known the Amer
lean people, as a whole, don partic-
ularly care whether Colonel Harvey
stays in England, or comeshome. The
colonel is able and polished, and all
that, but there is something about his
disposition that will never make him
a great public favorite.
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How the sex has fallen! How the !
feminine influence is degenerating i
the male! Fifty alleged men are to c
parade in their indies at a Chicago S
fashion show. The spectacle of a :
man in indies is about the saddest
thing in the world next to a water f
soaked cat.-Corvallis Gazette-Times. q
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1t would be just this country's luck n
to have to face a cranberry strike in O
time to spoil Thanksgiving.-Cincin- d
nati Enquirer. I
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PROFIT OF DEPARTMENT STORES +.
Publication by the Harvard school fe
Of business of elaborate statistics n
showing the cost Of doing business =
and the profits of department stores il
are further attestation of the falsity a,
Of the loose radical assertion that "
commercial middlemen are plumber ?
ng the public s.
The Harvard research shows that, D.
all expenses were met, includ- 81
salaries to owners, rentals or
buildings owned and interest on N
money owned as well as borrowed, tn
he large department stores in the It
United States averaged in 1922 a :.
,rofft Of only 3.04 per cent of net Of
while smaller stores averaged SO
ess than 1 per cent and specially as
hops 2K per cent.-Spokesman Re- =,
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