La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959, April 08, 1912, Image 4

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Newspaper Page TextPAGEFOUH LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER, MONDAY, APRILM nrcade Theatre WOVE THOUSAND FEET OF HIGH CLASH PHOTOPLAYS. A BLOT OX THE ESCUTCH EON" Btograpb An excellent two reel picture of Browning's Interesting poem The story Is very famous and the situations are Intense. Two reels. "HER BOY" Yibwraiih i A very tragic picture of Ken tucky mountain folk. Miss Julia Swayne Gordon has the lead. The plot, how her son became arrested for murder, bow the old mother killed him with a , rifle bullet to keep htm from begig hung. The incident has happened more than once and Is typical of the mountain folk. A SURE FEATURE. KISS LANGDON WILL SING A PICTURED BALLAD. "HE II FACE" ......... Edison A pleasant and romantic com edy well acted and very lively. WELCOME. s an oreanic disease. He in after facts ! not Indulging In speculation. And he and bis associates have ., established that narasltes exist in cancer. K re- mains to be seen whether this para site is the cause of cancer and whelh' er the ravages that mark the presence nf tA nrzanism pan be stopped ard innnr ured. if success can be at alned In that direction another great Htriitn in medical science will have been taken. - THE OBSERVER BRUCE DENNJS tUtor Md Owner. 2terei at the postofflo at La Grande as second-class matter. SUBSCRIPTION BATES. Bally, singly copy Dally, per week .............. Dally, per month . . . . . ..15 ..5r SCIENCE IS WAKING PROGRESS AGAINST THE CANCER. Ten years ago the theory that can cer Is a germ disease was announce'! In an address before the academy of medicine In Paris. This was contrar" to the belief tlinl cancer was an or ganic affection, and the theory was flfrnnplv rntnlinlbrl 3,.lrtnna Una Knnn Investigating nnrl much hs been learn ? f''1';'' ,0 "'"'j0 the rflrVL 110 ,W,II (1 MR. KIDDLE'S CANDIDACY. About the worst thing that can be said about the candidacy of Ed Kiddle for joint senatorship, or union ana Wallowa counties, is, that he is not a chronic office seeker, comments the Union Scout editorially. It Is much more than probable that Ed Kiddle was urged to commit the offense with which he is charged. It is much mors than probabla that a bunch of clear headed btuiness men insisted on sir. Kiddle making the race. It Is certain that none of the bunch believed they could use him except for right things at right times. The fact that tne men wished for Mr. Kiddle to he Joint sen ator from the two counties, commends him to the Scout and shows that they are In 'favor, of having the lawmaking looked after by a good, square level headed man. There are three graces, or, disgraces, connected with Mr. Kid' die's candidacy. First, he is one of the best qualified men for- the office in the state. Second, he has been In the state a good long while and Is thor oughly conversant with Its needB. in every section, but more especially In the two counties he will represent. Third, he Is not a chronic office seek er. These things are worthy of Inves tigation. They are positive as well as negative. We want a man of the qualities set forth above, or, just the opposite. He Is either as good as w; can get or as poor as we can get. We want a man who thoroughly .under stands what he' Is to do, one that knows the district he Is to represent. also one who is not always out for some office; or 'we want one of dia metrical opposition. That Mr. Kiddle had a right to run no one will deny. That his fellow .citizens had a right to urge mm to run no one snouid deny. That office seeking Is out of his line no one will deny. There Is no use In mud slinging In this cam paign. The other aspirants have just as good a right to make; that race as Mr. Kiddle but no better. There Is no politics In the office since State ment No. 1 has eliminated the ingred ient. The advocates of Oregon demo cracy say to cut out all politics and be non-partisan. They can't do that little trick a bit faster than the Scout can. The Scout has become non-par tisan and wholly Independent, owing to tfie non-partisan soirit'orevalllns: In all democratic office holders. Prob ably the best thing to do Is to elect the right man for a job even thousrn he has been In the district long enough to get acquainted. Mr. Kiddle Is good enough for the Scout and will oe elected by a vote of all the people. He is a candidate before the primaries ust as the other aspirants are. That lie would not urged himself on the eople Is certain, but having once de ...., r Ireland, blshon of Oasory. Ferns and Leigblin, and bishop ot Down, Connor ana uromore. i as isi named bishopric he held until his pro motion a year ago to his present high position of archbishop of Armagh and pritmate of all Ireland.. Congratulations to: - ' , King Albert of Belgium,; 37 years old today. v - . Dr. Harry B. Hutching, president of the University of Michigan, 65 years old today. ' ' Dr. William Henry Welch, profes sor of Dathology at Johna Hopkins university and one of the most emi nent exponent of medicine' In- Amer ica, 62 years old today. v ; . . THIS DATE IN HISTORY. 1663- April 8. Drury Lane theatre, London, first opened. 1681 Gabriel Dreullettes, one of the early missionaries among the Canadian Indians, died In Que bec. Born in France In 1593. 1784 Gordon Hall, the first American missionary to India, born In Tolland, Mass. Died of cholera in Bombay, March 20, 1826. 1795 Marriage of George IV of Eng land and Caroline of Brunswick. 1S26 Duel between Henry Clay and John Randolph. 1830 Omnibus first used as a public conveyance in New York. 1855 The system of registered letters first Introduced in the United States postal service. 1861 Beginning of the last great In surrection In Poland. 1885 The Grenadiers reached Winni peg to suppress the Northwest rebellion. -'.. 1911 Minnesota 2-cent rate law held void by the federal court at St. , Paul. GOOD ROADS AGAIN. Athena. April 1st. 1912. (Editor La Grande, Observer, La Grande, Ore.) Dear Sir: The Governor, having evi dently abandoned the state-wide Road Bills as formulated - by tthe State-wide Committee, now comes with his Harmony Committee Bills as published In the Portland Oregonian On reading the published bills we note many cnanges from the first blls offered. In the Compromise bills th committees concede the justice of county supervisions over the location of roads, and the supervision of the expenditures of the money within the county. This Compromise Committee have reduced the bond issue from 320,- 000,000 to $10,000,0000 with some mi- j nor. cnanges as to the apportion makes the net cost per mile over V. 000. Now let us consider what this oame amount of $400,000 will do under thy county unit plan without state nut Let us assume that Union county au thorizes a bond Issue of $400,000 ni 5 percent interest, not to exceed $40,000 in any one year to be sold. If all are sold and used during the 10 year per lod this interest would be $110,000, ex pended by the county under county supervision: With a competent super intendent we can build 115 miles of macadamized roada as the - couuty should build these roads at a cost uf not to exceed $3,500 per mile. ? This $400,000 bond issue judicially expended would cover the principal roads of the valley and connect up Elgin. Cove. Union and Hot Lake with La Grande with macadamized roads and have money to expend on roads in the more remote parts ot the county Surely the county unit plan is far preferable to the state aid plan. . This places the county in position to go on with the road work if tney wisn and- to discontinue' the expense if the majority of the people bo wish. My idea is at this time we are not ready to engage in the extensive road build Ing contemplated by these. State Aid Road Bills: they should be voted dovu and a comprehensive county unit road law enacted without the necessary ex- pence of state highway commissions or state highway commissioner. East ern Oregon Is to sparsely settled and there are so many miles of roads to cover, that the elaborate plan contem plated by the State Aid Road Bills will work a great hardship to many counties. We are Hot ready for tnis and cannot afford it. None of those bills offered by the "Governor's" com mittees are as good good bills as those passed at the last session of the legislature and vetoed by the "Govern or." ' ::"V.'" C. A. Barret;. . EflTOrt TELLS Til EXPLAINS TAXES IN UNION COUN TY OF LATE. Member of State Tax Commission Por. trays Taxes as He Sees Them. Salem, April 8. (Eo Editor Observ er) A tax has been defined as "an In voluntary contribution by the citizens ments to the counties, with the plan of a country for the support of Gov- now to reserve 1-3 of all the motleys ! ernment." A better definition is: "That aid which the citizen contrlb: ed tn support the jverm theory and to : encourago errovt to find a cure for a malady generally reenrded as ineitr- . able. The Intent, outgiving Is the re sult, of experiments nt the Rockefel ler Institute for medical re--enreh In New. Voile, wnlrh has already made Important contributions to knowledge mat nromoles (lie healing f trie ineien. The laboratory or the Ttockefeiler Institute have been working bnsiiv In cancer rwnreb. At the outset "the pcleiittsis were Inclined to ding to (lie belief that the disuse l nr'-i'in'e There are Interesting results from ov perlnienfK. Health? fowl Inoculated w'i a Pit rule from well dcveloivd rnnrer .growth have rancht, the dl? enfie, which has been carried' hv nnr- ntv'ton transferred from one Hmii.-. to 'another. rr. 7'oin. who snnnrv'-es the experiments dons not zn so far to assert polUvdv that, .parrey . fa tint that he can to secure the election. "THIS IS MY 50TH .BIRTHDAY.? Archbishop of Armngh: : Most Rev. John Baptist C'rozier, D. D., archbishop of Armngh niul primate i of all Ireland (church of Ireland!. "M was born April, S, 1S-I2. . lie was odu- ; rated nt Tr'nity colleue, Tni'iUn. and j ordained to the church in 187(5. He j began his career as vicar of Holy wood : county Down, where he remained from jlSSO to 1R!7. in issr, lie berime diap- ; lain ro tne msnop or nown. and a ! year Inter he was appointed chaplain to the archbishop -or Armagh. In "ISM ho hoeame chaplain to the lord jlleutennnt of Ireland. The oilier hon ors nnd offices bestowed upon him prior to his elevation to the archbish opric ''ere thime of canon of St. Pat rick's national cathedral. Honorary Secretory of 'the General Synod of tin 111 a state fund to be used by the Stats Highway Commission, one-half of 'his fund to be expended In the First Con gressional District and one-half in the Second Congressional District, when w-heer and how they see fit. This I take to mean a state highway across the state. Eastern Oregon run ovue-rr utes to the management, support and defense of his government." Taxation, If rightly applied, is not an evil, it Is rather a blessing. All good citizens recognize Its necessity and its merit, and if not pressed bo but little if any benefit from this. The yond the limits of a reasonable tribute Working $2i5,000 00 Capita! of Over Inspiies Crn'Vou 7; ' tntlon, ... ; The stability o, '.eln In The Huli'itaiit'..:; 'pen l; Its reputation f0r progr?. It large loaning capacity, IU spirt of accommodation, have alt raced customers whose doposlts aggregate over $700,- 000.00. Promote your Interests by allying yourself as a depositor with tbis strong and euccessf,i Institution. L a Grande National Bank LA GRANDE, OREGON SnSSftre ' ' 1 10.00.00 ioeEkHS. ' ' 115,000.00 RESOURCES . . . 1,000,000.00 United States Depository same objections in modified form will apply to these Compromise Commit;...! mils that did to tho State-wide Com mittee Dills, in as much as ttbe Stii'e Highway Commission and State High way Commissioner is created mi l the expense incidental to said commission' $10,000, Is to be set aside each year j for (bo expense of the Slnto Highway' u.!tmi.miipr , ami .-assistants. This means that in the 10 years in wli'd) the road building ' period is ronton pii.Ud that the taxpayers will haye ecitribmrd $100,000 to defray t:Vp, ex pense of n useless and uniwcesavy HH-hway Commissioner. The .:.r.;le will cot no better roads through the sta.fe aid than they would throng': i!;e. rounty unit plan and based on same amount of money expended wi'l In tho end get less than half as many miles of rond for this money, L'uilei the state aid plan more that! otie-hnl! of the counties of the slate will not, be able to lake advantage of this law nnd therefore forfeit the money p portioned. These counties will be paying taxes to the state to be distrib uted to the few more wealthy counties to build roads with and theconst ruc tion of a state highway across the state to gratify .;i few pleasure .seek ers, create: state bonds to please the money loaliers, and create a market, for road machinery, Let us see yh,tt we are to get out of it ami wlint the cost will be. Umatilla county will pay into the fund approximately $500,000. and will receive from the fund abent $200,000; in addition the countv will have to raise an equal amount or $:t00 00O to enlltlo the county to draw out. the state apportionment on which there would be an Interest charge during the period of $66,000. mnklng tho total amount appropriated $7G6, 000. This we must do to get bad; -'iiu.iwu, tne state will apportion co Umatilla county. Union countv -v.il contribute to this fund approximately .su,uoii, and will got about $200,000 out of the fund. Ttils. would necessi tate Union county raising an on.ual amount of $200,000, to enable the coun. ty to get the state appropriation. On this amount the Interest charges lor the period at six percent would oe $66,000, making In all $5ri,000 thlv county will have taxed Itself in order to get ); ;; r.-e state's apportionment ?t - ;: the county All :' ;inp the county wni have to do In order to save anything out of money paid Into the state fund. This amount received back from the stato fund md an equal amount contributed by the county locally will, under tthe most "nservatlve state hlghwny commlu- m's plans of $5,000 per mile, build 'v eight- 'Hes of macadam rond. "' t'"5 ' ty under the proposed ild tmm. w'.i'ch in relation to all citizens, compara tively few will bailt at Its payment. Through lttho management, support and defense of the Government .U maintained, and the safety aiid. enjoy ment of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness is secured. By Its use, untold advantages and enjoyment have bevii conferred upon all t!u ije pie; by belter schools, county build ings, city buildings, streets, road.i, bridges, light water, etc.- it .it, a wholesome method of requiring tli? selfish individual to contribute to tiiL rcliof and support of the unfortunate; tne poor, tne deaf, the blind, the sick, etc, In the scheme of distribution, luxation is the most effectual, agency yet devised; but it must be remember ed, that, while most, people are willing to pay their fair share for these ben efits, nnd the unwilling are rightly compelled to do so,- yet there is a point beyond which it is neither sai'o nor just to go, because (he people will become restless, unpatriotic and re bellious. Excessivo taxation may re duce a large number of self-supporters to actual want and beggary. U appears that the people of Union coun ty, Oregon, chaffing under the heaw tax for the year 1912, believe that th-j tax levy Is greater than it ought to be. Among other efforts to reach a solu tion of the question a Taxpayers League has been organized. It is al together proper that the people keep informed On these matters, and they ought to be alert and active to the end that people's money Is not need'.css'y squandered. Perhaps through the ef forts of the league, valuable sugges tions will be offered or a plan pro posed which will give the taxpayers some relief. The remedy, If found, w!" either be at the source, that Is. with hit . ..... ; - where au thority Is give,. ;u iuy the tax, cr .n the levy, that It shall not be g;- -. - than enough to raise the tax; or economy shall be observed In the worMng of the system. , ; All the people are Interested In the matter of taxation, because all the people are affected by it. No Ques tion is of greater Importance and no question Is so generally discussed. Taxation Is as old as Government, and la as necessary to tbe life of a Govern ment as la food to tbe life ot a poo pie, , No Utopian dream can picture 5 Government without taxation. It doei not, It cannot exist this side of Heav en and when we ge tbore some sort of a tribute will likely be required. Since it la necessary for governments to ex-L act tribute Iron her, citizens to meet the varying requirements for the pub lie good; the question to be consid ered is: How? in what manner shall tbe tax be raised T What meiina can be adopted that each taxpayer may be called upon to contribute bis equita ble portion, and no more, and that the burden shall fall upon blm as lightly as poBslbleT Many sohemes have been tried, for the most part, in the long run, not altogether acceptable ' and states have from time to time changed their system in an endeavor to ge: ; more satisfactory plan. The burden of taxation rests heavily upon tin shoulders of the honest taxpayer and of them whose property is easily dis coverable. ' The most potent rea3on for this Is, that under our present sys tem the tax does not bear with eaual weight upon those most able to pay it. The assessor la by law required to assess all property at its true cash value. . . Nolwltbstanding tbis provls- j ion of law, no assessor of Union coun ty has ever come very near getting cash values. It is true that In some instances he may have come nearer doing so than in others (such inequal ities always occur) yet taken ..as a whole, cash' values have not yet bean obtained. There are always a " large number of applications for state loan 6 on file in the office of the state treas urer, where the assessed valuation o" the lands offered the state as secur ity for the loans, will not amount to even 33 percent of the appraised val uation, and to which appraised valua tion the applicant has made oath. It is doubtful if any real property can be found in the county that the owner would sell for 50 percent above tho assessed value. Public corporation property Is assessed by the stateBoard. iBeports are required of the compan ies, which comprise every detail of the operating business, together with a list of all property owned, leased, or operated by them. . Many condi tions have tq be considered, property is reported which does not come un der the authority of the Board to asi sess, and which must be eliminated, and turned over to the local assessors for appraisement. The average net income of the companies for a period. of five years Is considered, and upon the capitalization of such Income is based the valuation of the property of the company. : This method has re sulted in a valuation of more than 100 percent greater than any assess ment of, any railroad property ever obtained by the. Assessor of Union Comity before the creation of the Tax O.mmissjon in 1909, The State Board made its first assessment roll in 1910, but advised with the local assessors in 1909. The values annearinu' muni the assessment roll made- by the Hoard and certified to the different counties are exclusive of a lare;.: amount of railroad property, wliic). the local assessors value and place l upon their toll independent of the Hoard. The greatest value per m'.li of road ever reached by tho Assessor of Union County for the main line of the O.-W. It. &., N. Company was $10.- iiieluding rolling slock, but thi-.s certified to Union county was a lift, too high., The valuations of Wnl tlon property lh Union County for i following years were ' For the year 1907: Railroads . , . , ; ; Rolling Stock Telegraph & Telephone... $. 76.06J 7,290 Total For.the year 1908 Railroads Rolling Stock Telegraph ft Telephone 7l,05j 771,535 84,61 36.010 Total Por the year 1909 Railroads .. . . Rolling Stock... i.i..... Telegraph ft Telephone 892,085 2.880,70 250,650 34,67! 3,165,968 Total ......... .... Por the year 1910 Railroads , $3,415,U6 Sleeping Cars 20 9J Express Companies ....... ; Telegraph Company ; . ... . . Telephone Company ...... it . . m Refrigerator. Cars ;.'.,' ;. ... i. Oil Car Companies . ... . , fj . , Heat Light ft Power Co.'s. 51 aim Total ..$3,555,894 Por the year 1911 ... Railroad Companies ........ $3,189,581 Sleeping Car Companies..,. 2o!6(M Heat, Light ft Power Co.'s. . 73,154 Express Companies . 21,205 Telegraph Companies ,. Vi,ii Telephone Companies . ....... 84,903 Refrigerator Car Companies. ,M Oil Line Companies ; - 471 Total .,,$3,384,478 The state levy last year was 1.6 mllU, this year It Is 3.4 mills exclusive of the Normal school, which Is one twenty, fifth .of a mill. The state tax, which Is $3,028,190, is three dollars and fort? cents on each $1000 worth of prop erty assessed. -. Union . County's pro portion of the state tax for 1911 wa .024106 per cent; for the year 1912 It Is .023361 per cent. Next year the state levy will be less than for toll year; J. B. EATON .;, Member of State Tax Commission. 000, Mtuie was somewhat ri'tiuecd by tlv County Board. The value plated iilinh this same line or road by the Stale Board - is $82,000 per , mile. Each i.ouiiiy through which the road run 5 is entitled to so much of this valua tion, as the ratio of 't he assessed val uation of the property in each county is to the full valuation. By this ap portionment Union county gets a much greater valuation than ever be fore. The assessors of the several counties In placing the valuation upon Railroad property did the best they could, all values were arbitrary and more or less guess work. The valua tion of the same line of Railroad property in the different counties ranged from $12,000 per mile to $44.- uuu per mile, including rolling stock xuo v,u.uimssion s minings are based upon full reports, an advantage which me assessors aid not have. The val uation of corporation property certi fied to Union County for the year 191 1 was not $200,000 less than for the year ism, oui uie valuation of corporation "roperty including railroad property he year 19U was reduced $171,. i. :re was a reduction in the valuation of railroad property for th same period of $225,685 for the reason that the ratio of the assessed valua tion ot the property of Union Countv to the full valuation warranted such a reduction. Last year the amount French Dry Cleaning Saves Clothes And MONEY Few people realize the'possiblli- ' ties of our French Dry Clean- - lug Process both as the work and as a source of economy. 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