A Roadblock To Youthful Business An Editorial

We wrote in this column recently the opinion that taxes are doing more to discourage young men from engaging in business for themselves than other possible impediment.

Since then the same opinion was expressed by another business philosopher. He said that young men nowadays are just as ambitious to get out into the world and create businesses of their own as young men have always been. But that never before have so many difficulties beset their paths.

A young fellow starts out full of vim and vigor and ambition and fearing nothing, and the next thing he knows right across his business highway there looms a complete roadblock: taxes. And, he added, only by some miracle can he get by.

That completely backs up our opinion in the matter. And of all the taxes that say to ambitious young businessslsn-"3fotrndon hope all ye who enter hs1s"-1hs nsltt Social Security burdens are the most difficult and the most onerous.

We would like to have a photograph of the mental proc- esses of those who favor social security taxes for the selfemployed. Certainly, it seems to us, no person who even faintly understands what it all means, ever advocated such monstrosities.

A one-man business requires tremendous attention, activity, and undiverted interest in its details. And to tell him that in addition to all this and to the normal taxes he must attend to, he must make deductions from earnings, must make government reports, must accurately report on his every business move, you have burdened him beyond all righteousness and all intelligence. If he chooses to try and make a living and refuses to give half his time to tax matters, then the law itself is making a tax-dodger of him. It isn't fair, it isn't sensible, and it isn't American.

And to add to the list of those who may be so burdened many more millions of Americans, seems to prove the opinion expressed by Dorothy Thompson in a recent col. umn, that "we show the world a frightful spectacle of the deterioration of government."

Taking this nation farther and farther down the road to socialism is indeed a "frightful spectacle."

A Gor of Fir Worth Photogrophing

KltN DRYING and ST0RAGE

This is the first car of old growth Douglas Fir timbers shipped on a ten-car order. It was cut by the Umpqua Plywood Corporation at Myrtle Creek, Oregon, and sold by its associate concern, Clear Fir Sales Company, of Springfield, Oregon. The timbers are 24 x 24, and rau,ge Irom 42 to 54 feet in length.

The three men in the picture are, left to right: George Rittenhouse, sawmill superintendent Umpqua Plywood Corporation; R. J. Ness, Sales Manager, lumber division, of Clear Fir Sales Company, Springfield, Oregon; Bill DeWitt, plant manager sawmill division of Umpqua.

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