THE DAILY GAZETTE -TIMES
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Corner Third street, and 232 Second
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For A Beautiful City.
thority of the unwritten law and
sometimes get hung should en
tice their victims on a hunting
trip and shoot them for deer.
This is more respectable and es
cape is certain.
If you can hit the tip of your
nose with the end of your index
finger right along then you are
sane. If you can't it is a sign of
being unbalanced. Try it Al
bany Democrat.
The only difficulty with this is
that if you do try it, it is abso
lute proof that you are insane.
Some have been kind enough to express appreciation of the
Gazette-Times; others have voiced objection to certain expressions.
Commendation is sometimes the source of inspiration, and criticism
civen in the right spirit is ever an excellent guide. Praise and
blame are equally good and neither should be withheld. However,
the G.-T. is not working primarily for one or the other and is neith
er puffed up when commended nor unduly cast down when reviled,
The intent at this office is good: there is no quarrel with indi
viduals and criticism is aimed only at conditions. This .paper
aspires to be an apostle of discontent; discontent with that which
is generally unsatisfactory, that which is not as good as it might
be. It is the common expression that "few of us do as well as we
know how to do," and the fact in this expression accounts for the
neglect of officials, the "slip-shod" in public work, the civic ugli
ness and dirt, the laxity of personal and civic morality, and count
less other failures, not only in Corvallis, but in every other city.
Most know how to do, but unless continually prodded, few will do.
While the prodding is being done there is more or less resentment,
but once the end is accomplished, those who object most strenuous
ly to the urgings or. criticisms are the people who have the warmest
praise for the forces that bring, about desired conditions.
The Gazette-Times is in love with Corvallis it has faith in the
people who live here, and in the city's possibilities. It desires to
see Corvallis the most charming in appearance, the cleanest, bright
est and best managed little city in the est, and has confidence
that it can be made this. Already we have water incomparable and
an efficient sewer system that only needs extension. We have
residences uniformly good, some of which require only the proper
paint to make them attractive. Corvallis has streets that need
little grading, and only comparatively insignificant attention to
make them smooth; sprinkling at a cost of scarcely more than 10 to
25 cents a week to the individual would preserve the residence
streets and throughout the summer save the residences and fcliage
from the unsightly, distasteful dust; a little care would keep down
the weeds at the sides of the streets. This city has more sidewalks
than nine-tenths of the towns this size. They are wooden, 'tis
true, but many eastern and western towns this size have naught
but the gravel walks away from the business districts. However,
plank walks are being replaced withcement rapidly, and it only re
quires that the remaining wooden walks shall be kept in good con
dition. A clean Main street would help and the removal of all
obstructions of every sort from side streets, especially in the busi
ness district where there is constant unwarranted violation, is a
necessity, if we are to be as we should be. Flowers bloom here
with little care, and lawns grow surprisingly beautiful in the short
est length of time. Barns and chicken pens can be placed at the
rear of properties and screened with beautiful shrubbery or a hedge.
All of the changes mentioned can be accomplished with little
expenditure other than effort at spare times. . To secure these
changes necessary to make Corvallis a little city of which any and
every citizen shall be inordinately proud, the Gazette-Times pro
poses to prod and gauge and kick and criticise and hammer, not
captiously, not in a mean and vicious spirit, but only that all shall
do as well as they know. Perhaps mistakes will be made and
doubtless more than one, official and civilian, will find in this paper
that which will disturb his mental equilibrium and if this fails
to be the case, we shall feel that the campaign is a failure. Let's
make Corvallis what Corvallis is entitled to be a college town
without a peer in America. x .
BREAKS PAVING TRUST.
Bitulithic and asphalt pave
ments at "not more than $2 a
square yard, and still lower in
the not far distant future," is
the cheering news officially
given out yesterday by Mayor !
Simon of. Portland. . Both com
panies, which have been the
head and front of the hitherto
unbreakable "trust" in Portland,
have capitulated, and the ad
ministration has won a notable
victory. As to Hassam, it is
facing a crisis; the managers are
perfectly willing to lay their
material for $1.75 a square yard,
if they can get any streets. In
other words, they are in a des
perate fight with competitors,
and their brand is still untested.
Both bitulithic and asphalt
have been costing the property
owners of that city all the way
irom . a).io to 4U asquare
yard, so it will be seen at a
glance by the most casual
observer that Mayor Simon and
the administration have achieved
a remarkable victory in forcing
the prices! down to "not more
than $2." Hassam has been
costing $1.90 a square yard, but
its managers have signified a
willingness to reduce this, if the
Council will order streets paved
with this material by resolution,
as ha? been done for asphalt and
bitulithic. The facts are, how
ever, that Hassam is not in
favor, although some of it has
been laid.
When Mayor Simon started
out to break up the trust prices
he ordered the city engineer to
make up estimates for hard-
surface streets at the actual cost
of the work, adding only a fair
profit for the contractor. It was
then announced that the Execu
tive .Board .would award no
more contracts for hard-surface
pavements unless the bids should
come within the Engineer's esti
mate. This the Board has full
power to do. Seeing that the
Mayor had "the upper hand,"
the trust magnates, who have
heretofore virtually laughed at .
all efforts to regulate their
business and bring reduced
prices, held conferences with
the Mayor and have now come
to terms.
Wanted Hay And Oats
Wanted Five to ten carloads of good
cheet hay and two carloads of oats '
F. O. B. cars, any station on C. & E
road. Write price to me. R. N. War
nock, Liveryman, Toledo, Oregon.
7-29-lt-d-2t-w
Bids Wanted
For painting, plumbing, wiring, furn
ace, chimney and plastering house.
All bids separate. Hand to J. R. N..
Bell by next Saturday night, Aug. 14-
AN UNSATISFACTORY SESSION
This last special session of
Congress has, we think, been a
serious disappointment to the
thinking peopb of the United
States. It has seemed more like
a company of merchants taking
stock and putting aside the rem
nants for a bargain sale than the
work of grave senators and rep
resentatives working in the
people's interest, on great
questions. The general principles of a
protective tariff as understood in
this country are designed, first,
of course, to raise revenue, and
in doing that, to guard the in
terests, not of a few manufac
tures or a few sheep raisers, but
the consumers, who are more di
rectly interested. And instead
of proceeding like statesmen, to
weigh this matter item by item,
from the first, . many of the
people's representatives, in both
houses, have seemed to be act
ing as attorneys to guard cer
tain interests. A strong analy
tical argument has not been
heard during the nearly five
months' session. .
Of course, congressmen are
expected, while serving .the
whole country, to look especially
after the interests of their con
stituents. But they are national
representatives, and while justi
fied in trying to protect their
constituents against oppressive
foreign competition, they have
no right, in addition, to work a
hardship upon their own country
men. Right there has been the
trouble.
Manufacturers have grown
eloquent in beseeching that ' the
standard of American- labor
shall not be lowered, and the
same men have weeded out their
American laborers and imported
from southern Europe the very
cheapest order of white laborers
to take their places. And when
we consider the difference in the
cost of living here and abroad
we doubt if the ordinary factory
hand in the United States can
save as much as does the worker
at the same task in England!
When created with right
motives and conducted along
just lines industrial corporations
are good for a country, vfiut it
is the duty of the government to
stand between the people' and
corporations when they begin to
exact unjust triute. Goodwin's
Weekly. " " '..
These people who - kill by au-
What the Leading Dry Goods
Journals Say :
Those merchants whose foresight guided them
to purchase Cotton and Wool Fabrics early in the
Spring will find themselves fully justified in their
action and be in a position to offer their customers
merchandise at a saving cf from 15 to 25 per cent,
of the advanced prices, and it is up to them to ad
vise their patrons of these market conditions.
It's Time to Buy Blankets
Our Annual
AUGUST BLANKET
EVENT
Begins on
SATURDAY
We sell more Blankets in August than during any. other month of the year. Seems strange, doesn't it, that people
should fill cold weather needs in mid-summer ? Must be a reason there is and a mighty good one, too.
During the month of August we sell good Fresh, Sweet, Warm,
Full Sized Blankets at the Lowest Prices of the year.
We buy Blankets ahead of season stacks and stacks of them when manufacturers most need orders to keep
their help at work, and we secure big price concessions by so doing. In turn we are able to offer our customers
extraordinary price inducements to buy Blankets for Fall and Winter in mid-Summer.
Here's how richly we reward you for buying Blankets now:
50 pairs Cotton Blankets, 76 inches
long, 56 inches wide. Pink and blue .
borders . . . -50c pair
100 pairs white, tan and gray Cotton
Blankets, 76 by 56 inches: . . .75c pair
100 pairs white, tan and gray Cotton
Blankets, 10-4 size. . . .$1.00. pair
50 pairs white, ' tan and
Blankets', full 12-4 size. . .
gray Cotton
$1.25 pair
50 pairs good heavy,
11-4 and 12-4 sizes. . ,
fleecy Blankets,
. . .$1.50 pair
50 pairs heavy Fleece Blankets, extra
fullsize, in tan, white and
gray.. $1.75 pair
12 pairs only, heavy gray Wool Mixed
Blankets: 10-4 size $2.50 pair
Early Shipment Famous
NORTH STAR
White
WOOL BLANKETS
10 pairs fine white all wool North .Star
Blankets, full size for double
beds, silk bound edges, in
colors pink or blue borders. $6.00 pair
10 pairs fine North Star white wool
Blankets, soft and fleecy, yet
very firm weave, bound edg
es, full size $7.50 pair
10 pairs extra large size all wool, white
North Star Blankets, made
from finest Australian wool,
silk binding, full weight,
pink or blue borders $9.50 pair
.'.LMMWM.Ua
ROCK RIVER COTTON BATTS
FOR
COMFORTERS
PEERLESS'
8 oz. Cotton Batt . . . ; . . . .12c each '
AMERICAN
14 oz. Cotton Batt, 20c each
EAGLE
16 oz. Cotton Batt, 25c each
ROYAL
3 lb. Cotton Batt, 75c each
APOLLO
3 lb. Cotton Batt, $1.00 each
J. M. NOLAN S SON'S
Early Purchases
Our purchase of these 400 odd pairs
of Cotton and WoolJ Blankets was
made as early as March last,3 and
bought at old prices. We wouldf ad
vise your early buying, as later ship
ments will be at advanced prices, add
. ed to which selections will not be
nearly as liberal. To those preparing
student rooms, this will be an excep
tional opportunity.
New Models
"NEMO AND ROYAL""
WORCESTER CORSETS
BROADHEAD
DRESS GOODS
Have Arrived
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