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LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER
SATURDAY, MAY 6, 1916
THE FORUM
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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.
No
No
No
Delays
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Appraisers
Auditors
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as Soon as Title is Perfected
Grande Investment