La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959, October 23, 1916, Image 4

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Newspaper Page Text.MONDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1916. PAGE FOUR LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER THE OBSERVER CLARKE LETTER, Editor and Pub lisher; J. D. MEYERS and H. B. LEITER, Owners. Entered in the Postoffice at La Grande, Oregon, as second class matter. - SUBSCRIPTION RATES. By Carrier. Daily, single copy 6c I Daily, per week loc Daily, per month 66c Daily, per six months in advance $3.60 Daily, per year in advance . . , $7.00 By Mail Daily, by mail per year, in ad vance $4.00 Weekly Observer-Star, per year in advance $1.60 inont part in this campaign. It is custom to call up the'memory of great men and to speculate as to how they would vote and why. How would Lincoln vote? How would George Washington? Ben jumin Franklin? Grover Cleveland? ' Such speculation is futile. The answer is always partisan. I The great man would vote the same j wr.y, of course, as the small man who asks the question. . Advertising rates on application. All copy for display advertising must reach the office the day before the ad appears. Address all communications to THE OBSERVER. 1710 Sixth Street MONDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1910. BILL IS TAX DODGERS' HOPE (When the voter gets into the elec tion booth ' in November and begins voting on the initiative measures let him remember what one remarkable measure will do. It is called the "Full Rental Value Land Tax and Homemakers' Loan Fund Amend ment" on the ballot, although its pe titions were circulated, under another name. If adopted, every other form of property will be exempt from taxa tion and land alone will bear the bur den. Railroads and public service cor porations will no longer pay their share of the taxes. The small man must pay their share as well as his own. Also, after paying taxes to support all. governmental expenses, the land owner must pay a tax so that "loans" asliigh as $15110 may be made to per sons who have never saved anything for themselves. These loans are with out interest and with questionable se curity. Unless this measure is swamped under a flood of "No" votes, farm land and 'town real estate values will drop out of sight before their un fortunate owners can catch their breath. POLITICAL PROGNOSTICATIONS. . These are the days of political fore casters. You can find them on every corner. They are the same ones who will tell you, "I told you' so" after the election. About their chief value now is that they have the electoral vote of the states carefully tucked! away in their vest pockets, . ' i ADVERTISING AS AN ART. Advertising lias developed wonder fully the last few years. It is developing artistic as well as scientific phases. It is handled by high priced men, written by experts and artists. It is a tribute to this newspaper that so many artistic advertisements from the East appear in its columns. Its local advertisements are worthy of metropolitan newspapers. They are well designed and interesting. yVnd the best thing about it all, is that it pays to advertise. The news that James Whitcomb Riley left an estate of $200,000 may start a new crop of poets. EDITORIAL COMMENT STATE HIGHWAY FUNDS. Among other extinct animals is the one that grew the cheaper cuts. Chi cago Daily News. .. A de facto Government, it appears, is one that won't hurt you if you lend it money. New York Sun. .,, i Arbitration is like international law something that the other fellow ought scrupulously to respect. New York. World. Mme. Schwimmer says Ford has been badly advised. An honest con- i fession is good for the soul. Phila 1 delphia Inquirer. I State highway funds have been in- j "Hughes Finds Wilson Wanting." equitably distributed as the following what makes it worse is that Hughes table showing the funds expended in jB wanting the same thing. The the various counties up to Sept. 1, 1 Masses (New York) 191(5: Clatsop county .., ,$103,616.39 , if these union-labor leaders keep on Columbia county 118,515.62 ; netting everything they demand their ui.y . . iuo.ioo.ai occupations will be gone about New regulates and keeps manufacturing, retailing and final buying in motion. Railroads' Future Needs! (Railway Age' Gazette.) Railway officers , expect and en deavor to create increased .traffic from year year. They expect that soon er or later grades will have to be re duced, second track will have to be laid and various other improvements carried out in order adequately to take care of increasing business. It would seem the part of wisdom for the railways to have their mechanical departments make similar prepara tions for the future. Increased ton nage will require heavier locomotives, higher capacity cars will be demand ed, and for both cars and locomotives improved shop facilities will be es sential if they are to return adequate service. - The mechanical department should be in a position to study not only the present operating conditions, but the probable conditions of several years from now. Flotsam and , Jetsam .. Ballade of Lost Ideals. Aye, let them fly on rainbow wings A-down the path of memory. Full many a score of lovely things Fly from the distant Long Ago, Brought back when Fancy's summons brings . Them rushing swiftly to and fro. Although securely tucked away, Come lost ideals of yesterday From the graveyard grass of the Long Ago i Therefrom hopes, loves, and suffer ings, . - And all that made life sad or gay ' (That the heart weeps, that the heart sings, That the checks flush with joy or woe) Fare forth upon their travelings At rosy dawn, at even-glow. Although securely tucked away, , Come lost ideals of yesterday From the graveyard grass of the Long Ago. Hood River county Sherman county 44,920.29 . Multnomah county 1,112.53 Washington county 22,158.71 Douglas county 38,000.00 Josephine county 6,648.12 Crook county 10,000.00 Lane county 5,000.00 Polk county 5,000.00 Yamhill and Tillamook ' counties 1,859.60 Coos county 405.49 Clackamas county 916.81 , Less than one half of the 1916 al lotments have yet been expended. Be sides the above amounts there were expenditures by the bridge depart ment about $18,000, the benefit of which was distributed largely over the counties of the Willamette valley. The state highway fund is con tributed by all the people. We will admit that it should be spent on state highways. But some of it should be spent on a transcontinental highway in Eastern Oregon. The county judges and commission ers are active and should be in look ing after the rights of Union and Wallowa counties. 53,297.18 , Year's. New York Telegraph. In the Republican preserves there is more joy over one Progressive that rcpenteth than over ninety and nine regulars who never strayed off the ranch. Chicago Daily News. Well, if we aren't exactly prepared to resist an armed invasion, we've got n buncn or rnilroad-worKers 'wno ought to be able to bluff tho foe out of the country. iBinghnmton Press. Latin politeness is proverbial, but a ren t these Mexican commissioners exceeding the limit when they persist in likening Wooclrow Wilawn to ven ustidno Carranza? New York Her ald. Ah Memory, unravellings . , Like thse, make our world old am gray. Cease, cease thy painful wanderings. Thou bnngest hurt. In mercy go. Put back thy poignant darts and stings. ; We must forget what he loved so. Although securely tucked away, Come lost ideals of yesterday , ). From the graveyard grass of the Long Ago. ; ENVOI ' t r Prince, we must e'er repine, although We weary, jaded, heartsick grow. ' Although securely tucked away, Come lost ideals of yesterday From the graveyard grass of the Long Ago. William VanWyck, in Los Angeles Graphic. HOV WOULD THEY VOTE? Abraham Lincoln, in tho minds of some people, is playing quite a prom- The study of Europcun geopraphy this fall is largely a mntter of opin ion. Kansas City Star. . How would you like to be a Balkan king who had guessed wrong on the war? Kansas City Star. That eight-hour law is a snowball with all the potentialities of an aval anche. Wall Street Journal. Advertising. (Railway Ago Gazette.) Advertising is the pendulum thst A "NEST EGG" Misfortune is liable to overtake you m money matters. Then it is that a pood sized "Nest Egg" in the Bank comes in "powerful handy." Over and over again have we seen comforting relief come to those who had accumulated a fund in this bank. Tf you haven't started an account, now is the time to do it. In seasons of prosperity, place a part of your income in our bank. Some day this fund may carry you over a rough and rocky road. Ja (Jrctnde National gank Picked Up By The Stroller Something to IPlease Every Customer all That's ... Desirable in Style and Quality, V: ' All in Our ' " ; "Finest In The Gity" Showing of Women's and Misses' Ready-to-Wear Apparel for Autumn & Winter Suits . . $15 to $60 ; Dresses $10 to $35 " -Coats 7.50 to $55 : Skirts . . $5 to $20 Corsets on New Lines for The New Season's Modes . The new Fashions call for a corset ne r and somewhat different from the one you have been wearing. The chic and ch arm of your new Autumn wardrobe depend directly upon the style and fit of your corset. See our new Pall lines of .vfs.Jli S "Henderson" Front and Back Lace Corsets, "Nemo", Self Reducing Corsets Every new style is represented every figure is provided for and every age looked after from the rounded, slim, young girl to the dear old grandmother who requires tile utmost in comjfort as well, as style. , ... ... One of our experienced salesladies will help you find the models which best suits your individual requirements. There are new, low, medium, and high bust corsets of the very best coutil, batiste and fancy brocades including the popular front-lace models. Henderson Corsets Nemo Corsets $1 to $4 $3.75 to $5 Philomath has come to the front with a poet in Ed L. Sharp. He turns out breezy stuff like the following: WINTER. "Ere long the wintry winds will blow, from northland bringing rain lard. We'll gather at the cross-road and heat, prepare again for rain and sleet. The winds with leaves are playing jest, the sun sinks early in the west, all nature rests in calm re pose, when winter zephyr round us blows. But winter, we will welcome you, we've weary grown of skies so blue. For then we'll rest from labor hard, once more our ribs will take on aid. Well' gather nt the cross-road store, affairs of state discuss once more. While busy mother knits and smoke and roas again of by gone scenes and till our hide on prune I ! and beans. From memory, summer' J i heat we'll blot, no more the festive 1 1 fly we'll swat. For summer worry t ' J spins we'll sit and sn Jjour shins. We'll talk us brings, with bedbugs, fleas and brags us im'k'pt. stints. Iitif. winfer j.caim repose and rest Irom worry, work and woes. Dull rare from us 1 1 will fly aloof, when raindrop, patter l l I l on the root. !lov do you like it? George A. Seihinl, of the Union Re publican, paid a very pleasant fra ternal visit to the hditor of the Ob server Saturday. We wonder if the "25 years ago so ciety column" is very popular among tho ladies. Capital and Surplus , Deposits .$ 2.10,000 ....$1,000,000 uospiie mo cnons or inc countv : assessors of Oregon for sc feral years l ; to levy their just share of taxes upon ho railro:;ns, the Oregon ba lot this year includes a measure which would relieve the railways from paying all but about 10 per cent of their present taxes. This measure is the "Full Rental Value Iand Tax and Homemakers' Assessment of Railroad Property Would Ito Radically Changed by the Measure. Loan Fund Amendment," the radical single tax measuie which heads tht initiative part of the ballot. The railroads are now paying tares on $102,000,000. The single tax bill provides for taxes to be levied upon land alone. As only $14,000,000 of tho railroads' taxable property is repre sented by land, this measure, if ever made operative, would automatically take $88,000,000 from the list of tax able railroad property in Oregon. The terminal yard improvements, station buildings and rolling stock of every class would simply go scot free when the assessor came around. I Taxes would be levied on the rights of way, the most priceless possession of the railways, on the same basis as the pasture land adjoining the tracks. If the schools, colleges, highways and all the public works now support ed by the state are to be maintained, then the farm land owner and small home-owner, under this single tax scheme, would be forced to pay the share of the state taxes now paid by the railroads. Altogether, $2,'i0,000,000 worth of his trousers, and when the elevator let go of him and turned him out a finished product, he (was decidedly au natural, his trousers having been torn from their accustomed place ard he was left with nothing on but a pair of galluses and a shirt. Mr. Webo did not lose his presence of mind and was quick to grasp the situation and a barrel which he entered until one of the crew went to town for another pair of trousers. It might have been worse and Mr. Webb's many .mends ere congratulating him on his narrow-escape. J? riv 4? $"" 4 443f I At ivl. L. Lhurch 1 omorrow e. property would be wiped off the tax i "I rolls by this plan, for stocks of goods of big department stores and every form of property but bind are held to be tax free by the single tax bill. This measure, the "Full Rental Value I Ijind Tax and Homemakers' Loan : Fund Amendment" is the first initia-1 tive measure. Its numbers are 303 and H07 no. Accident at the Flouring Mill. (Union Republican) .lames Webb, t)ie genial proprietor of the Cozy theatre, who has been hustling grain at the warehouse of the mill recently, was caught in th- grain Tuesday and jerked hither and Night Hear Oswald West Ex -Governor of Oregon CI IAS. E. SPEXCE, Master State Gran; WALTER :. PIERCE. President State Taxpayers' League. ROBERT E. SMITH, Secretary State Tax Pavel's' League On TAX LIMITATION and RURAL CREDITS MEETING OPEN TO PUBLIC. LADIES ESPECIALLY INVITED.