La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959, August 15, 1912, Image 2

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Newspaper Page TextPAGE EIGHT rrrrrrr i LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER. THURSDAY, AUGUST 15. 1912. JSGE TWO jCassfed: I Advertising B0 JUENT Three furnished house keeping rooms., Phone Red 251. i 7-18-tf HWLSTED Men wlia teams to haul Call BHfH 7-29-it 3GB RENT Eight room modern close In. Also housekeeping Inautre at 1417. Phone fed 762. 7-29W8-29 OHR SAAJE One-half Interest In wall wUbltehed business, and a mono ' Baker. 1600.00. Call and let us avptaJn It to you. Tucker & War- " i 3Mi..tiiJu2J Fine family horse, bar- MMtsatd rubber tire runabout. E. 90S SALE New milch Jersey caw. fe at the beat. E. C. TUCKEY. M-tt ITliTTED Twentr laborers for street -am. Warren Construction Co., Boem 6, Foley Bldg. 7-31-tf CJCBt RENT Furnished housekeeping wuss, either two or three rom salt. 1311 N. avenue. Phone Black m.V 8-3-tf tCCX SALE J5 00 will bur a nice vtagle buggy and harness. On easy payments. Halsten Furniture store. 8-2-tf .308 SALE OR TRADE QUICK Pair jcod young horses, cash or time. Till take wood, or hauling. W..R. Xhrattt. TBLOO takes neat, clean, complete out 8t for three housekeeping rooms. In fading almost new Axmlnster rug, jsed bed, springs, mattress, stove, fakes, etc. Oood clean bouse for Tsnt $8.00. 2017 Washington. 1 l-10-tf JKCTTED Pastry cook at Home Res teorant 8-12-4tp JOStKENT Two housekeeping rooms toralshed. 1306 O street Pbone JfflCk E62. 8-12-6t JEEUDER WANTED 12 Inch prefer tskC Must be In good shape and etarp-. Address A. Klees & Son, Jfcnrmervllle, Ore. 8-14-2t HU&T White Ivory hair brush, be ams 804 Main and 1620 Sixth. Fin t please leave at Dr. Underwood's 0ce and receive reward. 8-12-tt iaeU3E FOR RENT New six room aasdern bungalow. Inquire at Ob- ver. Pbone Black 163Z. s-s-etp -Ladles' gold watch on Adams ua between Oak street and Ifefswe restaurant on Depot street IWtr leave at Palace restaurant mr phone Main 15. 8-9-tf Notice. Aryone caught hunting or trespas tdnr on our land will be prosecuted. rttH&er Brothers. 8-6-tf ' nonce. 3Tr wife. Ruby Macey, having left aw aed and board without Just cause 3 vST pay no more bills contracted by TW trom this date. Aug. Sth, 1912. , FRED MACEY, 8-5-tOte Dtmnld Brian will be seen In a new iwmical comedy called "The Marriage awtet" Vacuum eocsE CLEAJtirre CPH0L8TER15O PIEMTIRB REPAIRING MATTRESS MAKING ICBWITURE PACKING. L. P. RFLLINGER, PBONE RED 172 THOROUGHBRED 1 f lYMOTH ROCKS Tat! aa4 tCeHiciwI Matinf PIDIty Matin fee sale. Per Prfeee Or Met4 e D.B.STODDARD La Gnmde, Ore ' ft' FKOFLSSIOXAL DIKECTBI a PHT8ICIa!9AXP SCBGEOSg B. M.K.HALL Physician and Sur geon. Cor. Adams Ave and Depoi it Pbone, Main 23. H. UPTON. Pn. O. M. D. Physltlaa ' and Surgeon. Special attention U Eye. Ear, Nose and Throat. Offlct ui La liraude National Bank Bullo lng. Pnoner: Office Mala 2; Re dence Mala 81 4. MOLITOR, M. D Physician at Surgeon. Corner Adams Ave. am . Depot St. Phones: Office, Main 68 Residence, 89. jK. H. L. UNDERWOOD Diseases v the eye a specialty. R. DORA J. UNDERWOOD Diseases of women and children. Offices Adams avenue, over Wright Drug Co. ,EO. W. ZIMMERMAN Osteopath Physician. Over Lilly's Hardwar. store. Phone Main 63. Successor to Dr. F. E. Moore. VETERINARY. jK. P. A CHARLTON. Veterinary Sur geon. Office at Hill's Drug store, La Grande. Residence Pbone, Red 701; Office Phone, Black 1361; In dependent Phone 63;" Both Phones at Resllence. ATTORNEYS AT LAW JOCHRAN At COCHRAN Attorneys Chaa. E. Cochran and Geo. T. Coch ran. La Grande National Bank Building, La Grande, Oregon. H. CRAWFORD ROBT. S. EAK1N CRAWFORD ft E AKIN Attorneys at law. Practices in all the courts of the state and United States. Of nee In La Grande National Bank Building. La Grande. Oregon. GREEN & SMALL Attorneys. R. J. Green and Chas. E. small. Kooma 14-16-16 Somnier bldg. (Over Silver thorn's drug store). La Grande, Oregon. 9 FRATERNAL OR- $ DERS. k. F. ft A M. La Granfte Lodge No. 41, A. F. ft A. M. Holds regular meetings 'first and third Saturdays at ::30 p. m. Cordial welcome tt all Masons N. MOLITOR. W. M. A C. WILLIAMS, Secretary S P. O. E. La Grande Lodge No. 43) 'meets each Thursday evening at o'clock In Elk's club, corner of De pot street and Washington avenue. Visiting brothers cordially Invited to attend. T. J. SCROGGINS, E. R. H. E. COOLIDGE, Rec. Sec VOODMEN OF THE WORLD La Grande Lodge No. 169 W. O. W. meets every first and third Fri days at I. O. O. F. ball. All visit ing members welcome. D( FITZGERALD. C. C. J. H. KENNET. Clerk. tODERN WOODMEN OF AMERICA La Grande Camp No. 7703 meets on the firls and third Thursday even ings of each month in the K. of P. hall. V kiting neighbors welcome. W. A. DUNN. V. C. W. F. LANDRUM. Clerk. ROYAL NEIGHBORS Meets every second and fourth rlday every month. All vlslttb- members cor dially Invited. CORA FITZGERALD, Oracle. LILLY C. KIMMLE. Recorder REBEKAHS Crystal Lodge No. 60 meets every Tuesday evening In the I. O. 0. F. hall. All visiting mem bers are Invited to attend. LEAH E. COOLIDGE. N. 0. MISS ANNA ALEXANDER, Sec. L. O. O. M., La Grande Lodge Ma 850, Loyal Order of Moose, holds regular meetings every second aJfl fourth Mondays at 7:10 p. m. In I O. O. F. hall. Visiting brothers cor dially Invited to attend. R. J. GREEN. W. D B. L. LEAVITT, Sec'y. a. L. RICHARDSON, M. D. I. W. LOUOHLIN. M. D. Drs. Richardson ft LoughliD, Physicians and Surgeons Phone Office Black 1362. Dr. Richardson's Res. Mala M. Or. Lounhlln's Res. Ma'n 767 CNIOHTS OF PTTHIAS Red Cross Ia4m fATs 4 tmjftji AVAW MMsAt night In Castle hall, (old TIV, hall ) ft Pythian welcome to all Tlsltlnj Knights. H. W RILEY. C. C. . L. LINCOLN," M. of R. ft 8. O. B. 8. Rope Chapter No. 18. O. E. 8. holds stated smmunkatirtjf ( second aad forth WednesHaf Wtrnd extensions It could get the money each month. Visiting members cor-or. and has offered stock locally At dially iBTtted. a uniform price so as to get all the MRS. MARIE JACKSON. W. M . MAST ft- WftRNICK, Bee. EHNET TALKS UK (OXTKIBUTOU TO CO-OPERATIVE WORK. WRITES. White Salmon Orchardlst Discusses Local Telephone System. La Grande, Oregon, Aug. 14, 1912. ( Editor of the La Grande Observer, La Grande, Oregon.) Dear Sir: While storing here very briefly to compare orchard conditions with those of White Salmon, Wash., where I am anterested as an apple growr. : noted last night the contribu on or. our front page, from .Mr. Fleming of I'lgin. 1 am interested In co-opprv tlon to the extent to havlas; made n exhaustive study of ft from original sources, expending hundreds of dol lars In thn mere collection or mater- ii.li,. Having also written a re.icrr of. several hundned pages on it wit ch the Wisconsin board of public works Is to publish this fall. I am perhaps suf- flclently acquainted with the niaremi, rinciplcs and limitations of co-opera tion to comment on that leU?r. And to make matters perfectly clsar, 1 should add that, while for obvious rea tons I necessarily met your local tele phone officials yesterday, I have not had the slightest previous acquaint ance, newr saw them before and pos sibly never shall again. Co-operation, In a nut shell, Is a pro gram for promoting community wel fare, by cutting the cost of public ser vice to the minimum necessary to lraintaiii them In prime efficiency. Like all communistic enterprises. It Involves risks and cumbersome ma chinery that are only warranted where the current prices or rates of such services are Inequitable and glaringly above that necessary cost of produc tion which no organization can defy and live. Co-operative telephone com panies, first promoted by a Mr. Pow ell of Clinton, New York, upon the ex piration of the Bell patents, sprang up some twenty years ago and flourished for a time. Hut Ignorant management and insufficient charges bankrupted scores of them, hundreds of others flat failures sold out to larger com panies, and today the popularity of this form of co-operation Is on the wane. This Is not guesswork, It s ab solute certain fact. So then the telephone business, re quiring large Investments in expensive machinery of fairly rapid deprecation, U one of the last businesses adapted to co-operation. And there's a strong presumption against the waste of du plicating plants where an expensive system Is already established, unless existing rates are excessive, prohibi tive, or extortionate. But Is this the case in Union and Wallowa counties today? With this question In mind and be lng something of an acountant my self, I've made a little independent Investigation, which although natur ally not exhaustive tends to establish the following: (1) That the value of plant shown by your home company represents ac tual Investment made as economically as the conditions of extension would permit. (2- That all of the capital so In vested has been paid in by the se curity holders out of their own funds and not out of surplus earnings. (3) That the set charges for the depreciation of plant will not exceed the actual necessary cost of renewals as tlny have to be made. (4) That operating and malnte nance expenses are only such as will keep the plant in that efficient condl nance expenses are only such as will keep tine plant In that efficient condi tion which alone the subscribers would stand for. (5) That the rates are surprising ly le.ss than In the east and central west for like distances and where slm liar conditions as to volume of traffic prevail. 6 That those who put up the owir which has developed this sya tern have never received more wan eight per cent, per annum on their niony, and on a considerable part of It not even that (7) That the company has consist ently followed the "public be pleased" policy, hu made all Improvements capital It could. What then Is at the bottom of the agitation for a co-operative system? As Mr. Fleming's headstrong letter spills more Ink than It sheds light on this question, I have ascertained the following as the most plausible com plaint, namely: That while there was cut-throat competition between the Doll and Home companies, free switch ing prices between distant exchanges were allowed which made the business a luslng venture for both companies certainly for the home company, which could not recoup Itself out of Interstate long distance business. It signifies nothing that It paid all bills and kept out of bankruptcy. The plain fact is that nowhere near enough could bo laid aside to keep up the plant whien the ravages of time began to accumulate, and had things gone on that way bankruptcy would have b;n noue the less Inevitable, even though several years delayed. Is it any wonder, then, that your homo company readjusted Its cross country rates so as to charge each portion of the service more nearly what It cost? Not unless, to beautiful ly Illustrate Carl Marks' dogma about the "non-productiveness of capital, 'J think tnls valley 8hould dellber ately suck the blood of a company, which, Judging either by costs, opera tive rates or quality of service, nas treated you pralseworthlly. And now what are the chances for the permanent success of this co-operative venture? This Is of most In terest to me because, as an advocate of co-operation under certain condi tions. I do not want to see It discredit ed by failure where there is no excuse for "putting it on." I believe it to be a foi gotten Incident in very few years and here am the reasons: In the first place, the present agi tation Is based on falsehooa, wnetner (Vllberate or not makes no difference. The estimates both of construction, oprating and upkeep, which have been given out and talked up are a snare and a delusion, "a false holding out,' for which It is hard to hold responsi ble men guiltless. There would not be many hundred farmers forced to pay in more to protect ineir original subscription before the rest tooK time ly warning that the 'phone business also bows to that old rule, "You can t eat your cake and have It." Co-oper ative or not, expenses will camp on your trail, and holding heads In the sand only makes your last state worse than your first. Like many assess ment life Insurance companies in times past, a project so conceived and so conducted flourishes for a season, but when the crucial test comes, "at the last It goeth down to destruction." In the second place, any large and well equipped system would eat Into so much money that some subscribers would have to put in more than oth ers could or would In order to raise it all. And when some have more at stake than others, "the one man one vote' system Is doomed. Of all "Rock dale principles" this will find far the least sympathy in America. This isn't theory It Is ancient history in thou sands of communities. That's what I said, thousands. But this isn't all; for at the same time there will Inevit ably spring up the demand for a rea sonable return on investment, to be paid In cash instead of discounts In service rates. The concern would then be a "profit seeker," just like your home company, only with more risk takers as members. And would they be content with less than eight per cent on their money? Judging by their past purchase of home stock, sold on the same terms to all comers, It 1b safe to answer "No." Let him that is without human nature among you, a man who saves for the pure joy of It alone, cast the first stone. In the third place, it is a bad omen for any enterprise that It nas to be launched Into an atmosphere of ht-alr pumping and truth twisting at the very start There could be no butter evidence of this than Mr. Fleming's letter. It is all shifty, vague insinu ation. There is no plain argument, no straight-out, definite accusation It doesn't "show cause," If it shows any thing it only shows spleen. Wha. does all that talk about poor service, money-grasping heartlessness, etc., mean when you boil It all down? Isn't It true that within the last twelvemonth a delegation came over here from En terprise prepared to prove ro'jbery and found honest treatment instead, and said ao? (All honor to 'etc I take off my hat to men like that). What reliance anyway can be placed in one who, to further his ends, will bandy gossip (without making the slightest effort to verify It) like thnb about the Bell company's owning 51 per cent of the home stock? (Though (Continued on pa Eight) Midsummer E AG AT THE UNION RACE TRACK August21,22,23,24 FAST RUNNING AND FAST TROTTING. 4 Days Of Exciting Races 4 THE BEST HORSES OF THE NORTHWEST CIR CUIT WILL BE IN THE RACES. THE GREATEST RACING EVENT OF THE NORTHWEST. Purses From $100 Up AT UNION 4 DAYS 4 PROGRESSIVES ATTENTION! We do not care whether you are a progressive or a stand-patter politically, if you intend to be a pro gressive financially, you must be very careful in your land dealings. Nine-tenths of the land titles in Un ion county are defective in some way. Buying a bad title means lawsuits and unnecessary expense. De mand an abstract to the property you are going to purchase. This will show up all defects and irregu larities, then let the other fellow stand the expense of correcting the title. THE ABSTRACT & TITLE GO, La Grande, Oregon C. M. LOCKWOOD, OFFICE IN Secretary & Mgr. Foley Block TT7V We business men ir.gM- (111- fr, JL C rrV Aim accoim in a good bank means more than mere storing of money wnen you nave snown your banker that you can handle your business and yourself sat isfactorily it also means that your credit Is good for financial aid In your enterprise. It means too, that with your credit good at your bank, the consequent reputation brings you In more trade, better business bargains and increased social and politi cal prestige. Accounts of companies and Individuals solicited, en consistent with conservative banking. United States National Bank La Grande, Oregon Capital $100,000.00; Surplus $10,500; Deposits $300,000.00 OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS K. E. TTEST H. E. COOLI9GK FBAXK C05LKT VOL KILLII Ju I. HILL J. C. HIKKT t. j. scBoeerjr c. t. bicoit t. u CAYnriM s MOW JSMh fft Always stand well at your bank keep your engagements and show your desire to be consid ered a man who can be trusted. We are all pulling together for the common good, and yon may rest assured that we will help you, through thick and thin, if you show you are on the square. Every facility gi- (l ' "