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PAGE FOUR LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER SATURDAY, MAY 6, 1916 THE FORUM f - OBJECT TO KL'BBISH Fruifdale Doesn't Relish Being Rub bish Receptacle, at All. La Grande, May 6, (To the Editor of the Observer I La Grande a clean up week is commendable and we share in the pride o: Iju orantie i people in all laudable endeavor:!. But we object to the practice of dumping' rubbish in our lanes and hiehwavs in the Fruitdale neighbor- flood an is frequently the case. Plain ly, -we object to being the receptacle of La Grande s back yard. Loadx and Ioada of tin can, dis carded clothing-, decayed vetcetabk'8 and other i-ef use have been dumped in some of the lanes in our neighbor hood. This oir-fall is unsightly, and possibly laden with disease germs. There is a place provided for de positing rubbish, and why fthould our premises be defiled with this stuff 1mm town,? A SUBURBAN. HUMAN SIMILITUDE I) It AWN J. B. Stoddard Propounds .Gospel of Bonds as He Sees It iji Grande, Oregon May 6. (To the Editor) Since wiiting you th lust time about the deplorable condi lien of the rural population of La Grande I am disposed to tako a more clieertul view ot the situation. IrX, Because my glonimy effusion was used as a black border around (Senator Allinson's poetic and optimis tic greeting for has middle store in the middle of the middle block. no Then -we have assurances of a cannery to utilize our surplus products. .'ire The merchants of La Grande say they will buy home gown pro ducts in preference to shipping from ' Wiilla Walla or Portland and -will pay us our money whenever we need it. - 4th The people generally 'are di osed to lend a helping hand in the development of our local resources, fith The Gevernment has taken it in hnnd to organise and control the mar keting machinery to dispose of our fruit in the eastern and foreign mar kets, and last out . not least, lith We are to have our taxes ma terially reduced. Assuming that the troubles of the small farmer are in a fair way to be adjusted, I will proceed to the discus sion of one of the live questions in which people of Union County are in terested, Viz, Good Roads and the Bond Issue, which incidentally includ es the question of taxation. It Is hardly a debatable question as to whether we should hive good roads, lit is undoubtedly conceded hv all citizens that we should have them. The only difference is in the manner 01 getting them. Some say "pay as you go" on an annual millage tax. Others say "Bond the County for 1400,000,00" and the question is on the ballot to be-answered "yes" or "no". We have already had several com munications on this vital issue on both sides of the question but as I am for bonding I shall only consider the arguments of those wflw advocate the negative side. One writer ack nowledges himself to be a moss-grown hitching post, which ll considers a aafe anchor for the young people to tie to, to avert the shoals of debt and disaster. Another characterized the movement us a scheme of boosters and floaters. The next one hud been a victim of eight per cent and wunted it inscribed on his tomb-stone. Hitch ing posts ure good things but .they . don't serve any useful purpose when "we want to travel, and since this is an rge of steam, gasoline and electri city ull we huve to do is to close the throttle and apply the brakes when we want to stop. Instead of floaters living an opprobrious epithet it is : more in the nature of u compliment. A foBsil don't float much, it lays quietly in its lied for ugos. A flout ing population is the life of a nation. H if like the circulation of blood in the body. Jt makes the people cosmopolitan mid is (he worst foe to provincialism. Pioneering and migrution am the live brunches on the tree of civilizution. Society would stagnate and rot were it not for the "Jlortors; water in motion purifies itself. As to being a victim of eight per ent and considering it u proper c pituph, I wish, like yourself, NIr. Kei llor, w quote Dr. lupo. A curtain operator in linker county wua expa tiating nbout what it required to be a mccossful mining man. Dr. Tape replied that about tho only difference he could see between the successful unci the unsuccessful mining man, was that one "struck it" and tho other didn't. This holds true of promoters us well as mining men. Because Hot Ijakt didn't "pan out" is no reason why bonds ure a bad thing, lii-eat promoters and operators, in fact, ncnrly ull the great captains of in dustry, use other people's money un til "O P M" has become a hackneyed phrase. Jim Hill opened up on Em pire greater thin nn oriental despo tism, but ho did not use as his slogun, "pay as you go." Humrnan cemented together the greatest system of rail ways in the world and he used 0 P M to the limit. Field cabled the At ' lantic but ho dtvw on tho capital of two continents, Leaving out the ' largor affairs of the world and coming down to locttl matters as they concern us, we will ti-y to show the system of bonding is tl host method of fecuring funds to build roods. In any community you will find certain men and institutions whose func tion In society is to save money or to accumulate fund.'. They are not in a position to use this capital or have not the power or ability ilo so, therefore they lend it to other ndio perform this function In flocioty. ; Now, if these accumula tion! were not utilized, money would go out of circulation, labor would be idle and we would have hard times generally. A question in economics can readily be proven by using a similitude in nature. The blood flows to the heart and is pumped back again (through the arte.ies. All the wMer flows to the ocean, and by evaporation and the prevailing winds is redistributed over tre continents. There are some deserts caused from lack of water. There is high water, there are floods and droughts, but this is owing to the tearons and the prevailing winds, bur through it all there is a perfsct balance maintained in all the works ef nature. And this principle of equi librium applies with equal force to human affairs. Applying this simi litude to .finance and industry, we find that money flows to certain cen-. icrs and atubcenters. When it is ac cumulated it is necessary "to redis- r;l ute it to prevent droughts, fami- ines and deserts in the affairs of miTi. Those charged with the cus tody of accumulated or trust funds have not the power undar their char- leis to utilize these funds directly, so they resort to loans, discounts and the purchase of bonds. Mow are these funds created and whom do they belong to ? Besides the state ami nation, we have for the creation of funds life and fire insur ance companies, fraternal and bene ficial lodges, crust companies and sav ing banks, and other kinds of socie ties have loan associations. Kor the sake of argument 1st us assume that Union county is a com plete financial institution in itself, the ;amc as a nation or- the whole world. 'the men who belong to fraternal or- dcrr pay their dues into the lodges, members and custom :rs pay their premiums on policiei of fire and i veti' s'pw and obsolete method of lifo inmimncp. thie khvk mnWo tWir ' developing the (resources of a new deposits in banks and in post offices, coin-try. We are not isolated, we The question is, what is the best ' are not unc ourselves alone, as a outer growth ot a world-wide civiliza tion, dating back to the intellectual awaking of Europe after the dark ages. We must keep abreast of the time; in fact we must be in advance as the new shoot on the tree is the most vigorous growth and the top most bough. " ' J Jo you suppose that by this "pay as you go" policy we would see a continent conquered and developed in the ordinary life time of one genera tion of men, A continent belted witfli eight transcontinental lines of rail way, with cities, -wealth and popula tion that rivals thoBe of other times, that was a thousand years in the building? No. It is by using the ac cumulations of other times and other peoples, of which we i-.ire a part, flhat we extend the growth of that cmli way to utilize . these accumulations and the best way to put the money into circulation. Why not lend it to ourselves in a political capacity as a ! county? We need not burn our pro perty in order to get the benefit of lire insurance, now need we die to get the use of life insurance premiums, and it is the same with money paid intn lodges, savings banks and trust companies or any other depository. The money can be used and still be held in reserve to meet the purposes for which it was intended.- lit will continue to employ labor and make a mark.it far the product of farm and factory. Applying this to the nation or the world at large it is the same in principle. Pros-, pority simply means keeping the mo ney in circulation. ,We exhort men and children to save money. What for? To lay idle in the vault while business and industry languishes? One of the lodges, the Woodmen of the World, invests its savings in bonas and thereby derives a profit i ram ine premiums paid in by its membere. Others invest . their trust funde themselves and emnlov their capital for public purposes. The trouble with us is that we have the individualistic idea in our minds so strong that we lose sight of the many I . - i .i : , i. .'(.'nn u tu ue uenveu in mass. It is claimed that hogs, cattle, irrain und produce will be of no more value on account of bonds for good roads tnun they are now. There are a thousand and one things that men need and use that don't add to the value of anything, but if ull counties. enterprises and transportation lines would take the same position as those opposed to bonding thetre would be no price at all for hogs, or cattle. or anything else. Ill ancient times when they built the pyramids of Egypt, the Appian Way and the aqueducts of Rome, they did not do as we do, but would send out their legions and capture the peo ple of some semi-barbarous country for slaves to do the work, and thie kings of such captives would drug at the chariot wheels of the conquurers -wnose ransom would the general coffers fill". W have adopted a more refined and humane method of se curing men and means to do our work. The bugaboo they make of bonds is about the only evil any one can make of it. The benefits that flow are so numerous that no bugaboo can be made largo enough to scare those who understand the question. They always picture Shylock ns a monster to be shunned becuuse he demanded his pound of flesh from off tho mer chant's heart, but Portia changed the whole situation when she expounded the law, so we need not be afraid ns we will alwnys have our Portia to save tis from the bugaboo of bonds Bonding a county is no new thing evtn out west. Weber county of wi.it. h Ogtlen is the county seat, bond ed itself twenty-two yeaTS ngo for the purpose of making hard surface roads twenty feet wide oven tlhtrougli the rocky canyon. A large number of Oregon counties huve bonded for road building. Some of them secured money from the Woodmen of the Work!, a cuss of neighbors lending to th mselves their own money. Some say bonds will never be paid. It is true that bonds in the ultimate will never be paid, any more than the last insurance policy will be paid. A growing -thing takes no account of death, and the ultimate never comes any more than to-morrow arrives. Suppose that if such a thing were possible, that tho quostitm on the bal lot to be voted for M;y l'Jth were a follows: Shall the streets of I.u Grande be chunged to mud. dust mid Srog ponds, the side-walks to ram.-.hnckled boards Bbe wwers to water ditches, the fire department to a bucket brijado and nil other thinirs reduced to the condi tions of ten years ago, money i aid on improvements ronmditti and tho un paid balances cancelled? Haw many voted do you suppose would bo polled to reduce La Grande to such a condition, yet in going out into the valley far a load of hay just stK-h a question wut presented to me. . FIRST VIEW OF RUSSIAN SOIJ)IERS IN FRANCE. I ; : ( asfwt-' - - - " H beauty but for strength. First . the useful and then the ornamental, and they are turning out physical giants.. And their school tax; I understand, is considerably lower than in La Grande. A hearty invitation is extended the La Grande school hoard to visit the Enterprise school recess time. Respectfully, L. GARRICK.. MAXIM IS BLAMED 'Battle Cry of Peace" Says Mr. East man of Trust Origin On each end of the hard surfaced pavement in Boothe Lane ths gumbo mud was nearly axle deep wfoile on the pavement the wagon chuttled alonp. without an effort. I wasted mere time and horse flesh on that trip than would be necessary to pay my share of the interest on the bonds for at least a year. The "pay as you go" system is a Here is the nroof ti nt Rn lers reached Prance at least two we (lies east of Paris, eks before th a news of the arrival of The two views show the Russians d 'm l Marseilles was permitted .by frilling in Paris harracks while Frenc wre Lciiati lu ue nuinp nun lie hou photographs were taken durintr the f i irst part of April. They show detach ments of 10,000 Russians, who reach ed Toulon from Dalnv and VlnHivnat ok. They were taken to Paris where t I-i Granda May 6. (To the Editor) Have you seen the moving pictur '.T.attle Cry of Peace" that was play id in La Grande some weeks age? Evdry true citizen should road Henry Ford's article "Humanity and San ity? in the Literary D'g"?t for April :!, 1916 at page 1256. Who was bnck nf the "Battle Cry of Peact" i but Henry Maxim and his 10.000.t)Ut munition corporation organised for the purpose ot selling nvinv.ion sup- rilies to the j'-veinment and to th w.i, ;ng nations .fter that m-ivinir pbt'ire, 1 heard, d.-.ztns of peopl remark that the cut look for America was dark and that we just had to have more battleships, sultliers and guns. Strange to say a lot of people did not even stop to con sider that possibly big corporations might be behind that picture. Whisn .the government-owned ar mor plate bill was introduced in Con gress what did the big corporation Senators threaten? They said "That it' the bill was reported favorably the armor plate corporation - would raise the price $200 a ton." What does this mean, that the mon opolistic corporations of the United .states sfoall dicitate to our great gov ernment what the government shall pay for supplies needed by it? If Congress should pass bills absolute ly prohibiting private corporations from manufacturing war munitions and that hereafter the government would make all its own supplies from its own government owned plants there would be no more "Battle Cry of Peace" pictures and howls for war and preparedness. Did you every itop to consider that it is the "busi ness" heads of our nation that are clamoring for preparedness and did you ever take into consideration tihat the bigest preparedness talkersy are the big corporations that are dealing in war munitions? These cor porations want a fight for prepared ness so the government will appro priate large sums of money for war. munitions so these corporations can. . make the sales and thereby build up big fortunes. (iovernment experts say we are the best fortified nation on the globe. considering our position between two' large oceans. We don't have to take- hey drilled for some time before the Evpnina. rVhcartrarl A f .... zation which has its roots in Europe. ;ing in a strange town for some, weeks The old adage used to be. "there is nothing sure but death and taxes," but the new version of this old adage is "there is nothing sure but bonds and taxes" because bonds have come to stay, as they are the foundation of all governments, economic and finan cial institutions, 'and civilization it self would be a failure without them. J. B. STODDARD ENTERPRISE SCHOOLS PRAISED. La Grander Sojourns in Sister Town and Muses Thereon. Enterprise, 4 (To Editor LOAN MONEY at 7 and 8 Per Cent I La the mind naturally turns to home and home comforts, not the lekst of which is the Observer at supper time, with me latest war news and local items. This town is very much alive just now. , Everybody seems awfully hap py and it seems that a saw mill is at the bottom of it all and has set the whole town a-humming and a-buzz-ing. Although they have a range of most magnificent mountains here really wonderful in beauty and gran deur yet the question never is, Have you seen our mountains? .but, Have you seen the mill ? That mountain is not built yet that could out-class a sawmill from a fi- cl marines look on. It is undertood that on their arrival in Toulon the g overnment said they were Serbian r efugees. The Russians uniforms were made ifor them in Paris, and uni- forms for 300,000 more are believe tne corporation newspapers for our d to have been made. I !,! i j ,i ; ; line ju.ii i ci w iiu it in woui icu iv .' . ... by Brigadier-General Erasmus Weav- ,, jj . . . . . ... . er and General Nelson A. Miles. The fi.nd.F ilt JfJa congressional Record is full of. real K. . "" ""- farts on tho lEaiioo neeas explaining, viz: the nearer the mountain top approaches the sun, the source of heat, the longer it takes to melt the snow thereon. Does this prove the fci-uth of some modern phil osophy that hell lies below the sur face of the earth? Nothing in this town seems to- be more -worthy of praise than the pub lic school facilities for the physical development of the children. Every conceivable appliance for the child's amusement and the development of the muscles is seen on the grounds here. It is not grass and flowers that they are cultivating here; it is boys ana gins seeiung not only lor As American citizens we should load mare and on more subjects, and not take the picture shows for our medium of education rt the exclusion of our great dalies, magazines and. looks. E. W. EASTMAN, La Grande Oregon. Senator Cummings Somewhere (be tween the armed camp of William of' Germany and the open dovecot of Wil liam of Nebraska there must be an hon orable abiding place for a great na tion which is prepared to head- the world toward peace. 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