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LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER, MONDAY, APRILM
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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. -
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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
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The stability o, '.eln In
The Huli'itaiit'..:; 'pen l;
Its reputation f0r progr?.
It large loaning capacity,
IU spirt of accommodation,
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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
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